Oracle Releases Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97

Logistics Insight Asia - New Products, 12/3/2008

Latest tools deliver significant architectural enhancements.

As another milestone for Oracle's "Applications Unlimited" program, Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97. This latest release provides an open platform for customers to choose hardware, operating systems and database technologies based on their unique IT strategies and business requirements. Relying on JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97, customers may also adopt current advancements in Oracle(r) Enterprise Linux and many components of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97 continues the evolution of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne toward a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and provides customers with expanded functionality, performance and usability enhancements. Enabling customers to achieve a lower total cost of ownership, these latest tools provide streamlined system management, faster performance for client browsers and improved reporting based on XML standards.

Enhancements Expand Functionality, Improve Usability

Relying on customer insight and feedback, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97 incorporates numerous security, development tools, platform support and usability enhancements including:

· Streamlined System Management: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97 introduces Server Manager, a centralized web console for the monitoring and management of all JD Edwards EnterpriseOne server components. Server Manager increases visibility into system operations for improved updating, configuring, patching and monitoring activities.

· Web Client Performance and Usability Improvements: To give users significant performance and usability improvements, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97 provides simplified menu navigation, use of browser tabs, easier import/export of data on JDE EnterpriseOne application forms and delivers support for the Firefox browser.

· Increased Support for SOA: With this latest tools release, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications are enabled to operate in an SOA natively, without dependency on third-party products. Design tools, wizards and reference implementations are provided to help customers and partners leverage these new integration capabilities.

· Improved Embedded Reporting: Deepening the embedded use of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97 users can launch a complete run-publish-distribute cycle from a single user interaction, output multiple objects such as invoices from a single batch of data and gain the ability to produce reports in multiple formats including Adobe PDF, HTML, RTF, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint, XML and eText.

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