JDA Software Announces Expanded Product Roadmap

JDA has announced the release of its latest product roadmap, with a focus on enabling the customer-driven value chain – allowing companies to respond to deliver improved visibility and productivity to users.

Since its acquisition of i2 Technologies, JDA has been focused on bringing together the two companies’ manufacturing, supply chain, merchandising and transportation solutions. The result is a product roadmap that supports the integration and ongoing innovation of those solutions to provide customers with integrated solutions offering that spans the entire supply chain, from raw materials to the end consumer.

The convergence of the two solutions offerings will not come at the expense of customers. The company intends to continue supporting all products and will offer customers the opportunity to move to new solutions on their own timelines – within a normal upgrade cycle, for example.

JDA’s product management group conducted the solution integration process with an approach that went beyond a replacement strategy. Instead, the group focused on creating superior solutions that are supersets of the combined product functionality. The product roadmap objectives include:

• Enabling the consumer-driven supply chain to help companies realize one view of demand, use customer insight to drive timely decisions and enable integrated decision making across planning, optimization and execution

• Rapidly responding to market realities by enabling companies to sense and profitably react to real-time conditions, shape demand to match supply and proactively monitor operations with recommended actions

• Improving visibility and productivity through the use of dashboards, workflows and guided analytics, as well as combining master-data management with easy-to-use solutions that increase planner productivity

JDA, www.jda.com