JD Edwards on Oracle Cloud:Path to Digital Transformation
Choice and Control for JD Edwards Customers
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MARCH 2017

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Table of Contents
Disclaimer

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Introduction: On the Road to Digital Transformation

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Cloud Enables Digital Transformation

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Digital Transformation Enabled by a Strong ERP Platform: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 2
Oracle Cloud Choices for JD Edwards Customers – Cloud Service Layers Defined2

Oracle Cloud Service Layers – Choices and Benefits

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Optimizing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle IaaS

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Use Case: New JD Edwards Functionality/Technology Evaluation

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Use Case: Rapid Provisioning of New Environments

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Use Case: Rapid Replication of Existing Environments

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Extending JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle PaaS

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Complementing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle SaaS

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Cloud Deployment Choices

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Call to Action

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Next Steps

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Introduction: On the Road to Digital Transformation
Businesses are experiencing fundamental changes. These changes range from different ways to engage withcustomers to new business processes and models, changes in culture, and, most importantly, for the purposes ofthis discussion, the adoption of transformative technologies. Digital business transformation can be defined as theapplication of technology to build new business models, processes, software, and systems that result in more
profitable revenue, greater competitive advantage, and higher efficiency. These benefits present a significant
incentive for rethinking how to run your business – and that is exactly what is happening.
From mining and manufacturing to services and retail, business leaders are reimagining the definition of thepossible. The right technology can unite and optimize every segment of the value chain, transforming current
processes, unveiling new and more efficient ways of doing business, and keeping employees and customers happy.
The right technology will make your ERP ready for the digital economy, and the cloud with its various offerings is asignificant part of the technology from which you can choose.
Driving digital business transformation in a company is an important part of your strategic business plan. Line ofbusiness leaders are looking to transform their business processes and achieve tangible business outcomes. Theirbusinesses need agility and speed. To achieve this outcome, they need to collaborate with IT leaders, who canprovide them with a technology platform to create the environment and resources to achieve the agility,
connectedness, and real-time information access that are characteristics of digital business. IT’s job is to ensure
security, scalability, and future-proofing.
Transformative technologies encompass most of the major technology trends of the last few years, including
mobility, internet of things (IoT), connected devices, big data, analytic tools and applications, cognitive computing,virtual and augmented reality, as well as social and collaboration tools.

Cloud Enables Digital Transformation
This white paper discusses the different ways in which cloud technologies can provide you with an enabling platform
for digital business while maximizing your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne investment. Specifically, this white paper
gives you an understanding of the services and benefits of your cloud choices and how to drive business value by:» Optimizing your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solution with Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
» Extending JD Edwards EnterpriseOne functionality with Oracle’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings.
» Complementing your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle’s Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings.
You have many choices when it comes to cloud adoption, and these choices give you control over how to manage
digital transformation for your enterprise. These choices may involve both on-premise and cloud options. Oracle
Cloud is the deployment platform that enables you to realize the benefits of these cloud services from Oracle. Oracle
Cloud is a public cloud that you can use to deploy JD Edwards EnterpriseOne instances. At the same time, you cancontinue to run some of your applications on-premise. For example, you may choose to deploy your JD Edwards
system on Oracle Cloud and use PaaS along with IaaS. It is also possible to use some PaaS services while keeping
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on-premise. This hybrid approach can take many different forms based on yourbusiness strategy on the path to digital transformation. Hybrid deployment allows you to manage different cloud
solutions while maximizing your current investment in the JD Edwards system.
Building your business on the right foundation of tools, technologies, and services helps you transform yourbusiness with minimized risk and cost. Solutions from Oracle Cloud Services and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne canhelp you build a holistic, scalable platform for your ERP that tightly integrates connectivity, security, automation, andanalytics for true digital business transformation.

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Digital Transformation Enabled by a Strong ERP Platform: JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is, and continues to be, the core solution for your business. You have invested
significant resources into JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to achieve tight integration of business processes andseamless flow of data throughout the system. As one of the key solutions supporting your business, JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne consists of the applications that manage your administrative and transaction support processes, suchas finance, HR, asset management, or manufacturing. These applications enable you to maintain financial andbusiness control and protect your sensitive information.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne itself enables you to innovate for digital business by adopting mobility, IoT, and real-timebusiness reporting and analytics over large data volumes. In addition, Cloud adoption expands the platform andapplication choices that you have at your disposal. All these gains have been accomplished based on the open,
extensible architecture of your ERP system, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.
It is clear that JD Edwards EnterpriseOne remains indispensable to your business. Therefore, any innovation ismeasured by how well it supports and enhances JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, both in its core functions and its
extensions that support digital innovation. The following sections discuss the choices and opportunities that Oracle’s
cloud offerings provide for customers to facilitate digital business.

Oracle Cloud Choices for JD Edwards Customers – Cloud Service Layers DefinedOracle’s cloud strategy is to bring leading infrastructure, technology, business applications, and information tocustomers and partners anywhere in the world through Oracle Cloud. This strategy includes offerings in three cloudservice layers as well as the ability to choose different cloud implementation types.
All of Oracle’s cloud service layers can provide value to JD Edwards customers depending on their business andtechnology goals. You can choose different cloud service layers individually or in combination with others. These are
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and SaaS (Software as a Service).
IaaS consists of a comprehensive set of integrated, subscription-based infrastructure services that enablebusinesses to run any workload in an enterprise-grade cloud. These infrastructure services are comprised ofcompute services (hardware), storage services, and network services.
PaaS is a comprehensive portfolio of integrated platform services on which you can run and extend your JD
Edwards EnterpriseOne system. It includes, for example, database cloud services as well as middleware services,and enables developers, IT professionals, and business users to develop, test, and deploy applications.
Oracle also offers an expanding set of SaaS applications that work in conjunction with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne tocomplement your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne business processes. Users can subscribe to these enterpriseapplications that are deployed on Oracle Cloud. Details and benefits of each layer are discussed in the following
section.

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Figure 1. JD Edwards and Oracle’s Cloud Service Layers

Oracle Cloud Service Layers – Choices and Benefits
Before considering in more detail the choices and benefits of Oracle cloud services, it is important to state that JD
Edwards EnterpriseOne customers can take advantage of cloud capabilities at any of the cloud service layers
discussed in this paper and also continue to reap the return on investment on their existing product license,
customizations, configurations, processes, training, and data. In other words, you can combine your existing onpremise solution with cloud services at every layer. This approach can have many permutations based on yourrequirements. You have choice and control over how to use cloud services at any layer to enable your digitalbusiness.

Optimizing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle IaaS
You can choose Oracle IaaS as the only cloud service layer to support your JD Edwards solution. In this case, you
run JD Edwards on Oracle’s IaaS, but continue to manage your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne database andapplications. Oracle Cloud provides compute services, storage, and network services. Compute services (hardware)
have elastic capacity to accommodate changes in business needs and can be provisioned on dedicated or on multitenant resources. Storage services provide secure and scalable storage capacity, as well as storage archive, andshared file storage. Network services provide secure and fast connections from your data center to Oracle Cloud.
The benefits of deploying JD Edwards on Oracle Cloud include:» Rapid deployment: Get a fully functional system deployed in hours, rather than weeks.
» Greater business agility: Speed up your time to market and decrease the time required to develop new lines ofbusiness and integrate new acquisitions into your company.
» Better use of resources: Free up your limited IT resources to focus on improving your business, rather thanmanaging the hardware or other infrastructure on a day-to-day basis.
» Lower capital expenses: Purchase subscription services to flexibly meet your expected demand and pay as you
go and for what you use (measured service).
As you evaluate what type of cloud deployment makes sense for your business, you can use these expected
benefits as your decision criteria with the understanding that in your specific situation some of these criteria may be
more important than others. For example, you can realize benefits by modernizing your data center through an
Oracle Cloud deployment with Database Cloud Service.
A key point to note for JD Edwards customers is that whether you deploy JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on-premise oron Oracle Cloud, the licensing model is the same. If you already own a JD Edwards license, you do not incur any
additional costs for your applications. The only additional service you pay for is the Oracle Cloud subscription for
IaaS services: compute, storage, and network.

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Oracle Cloud Marketplace enables you to deploy a JD Edwards instance on Oracle Cloud using IaaS. The twoavailable cloud deployments address various use cases.
Use Case: New JD Edwards Functionality/Technology Evaluation
The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Trial Edition offering gives you the option to evaluate current JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne releases with the latest Application and Tools/Technology starting with Applications and Tools
release 9.2. For example, you can see how some of the newer modules work, for example, Advanced Job
Forecasting and Outbound Inventory Management. You can also explore transformative technologies, such as
mobile applications, UX One role-based content and foundation, IoT, and One View Reporting, that arepreconfigured, thus allowing you to immediately focus on how these technologies could benefit your business. You
can do so by quickly deploying the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Trial Edition as an all-in-one demo environment from
Oracle Cloud Marketplace when you are ready for evaluation activities, such as gap analysis and proof of concept.
You can use the Trial Edition environment to run executive demos, train users, and generally achieve cultural buy-inwith very little cost to your business. Deploying the Trial Edition eliminates the need to build your own sandbox
environment.
Use Case: Rapid Provisioning of New Environments
You can deploy JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to Oracle IaaS not only as a demo environment, as described above but
also as patch-current development, test, and production environments for application releases 9.1 and 9.2. Whether
you are in the process of upgrading or working on a net new implementation, you get fully functional andupgradeable environments that you can manage and control. Cloud deployment is an opportunity for data center
modernization. By migrating your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne environments to Oracle Cloud, you inherit the best andlatest hardware, operating system, database, and web middleware infrastructure, while at the same time shedding
the need to procure, install, and manage these resources in your own datacenter.
Starting with release 9.2, JD Edwards provides a streamlined, efficient, automated deployment methodology andprocess using JD Edwards One-Click Provisioning.

Figure 2. JD Edwards Provisioning Console

The deployment methodology comprises the following five steps:» Plan: Collecting and storing decisions about topology, server sizes and names, IP addresses, IDs/passwords andmore.

4 | JD EDWARDS ON ORACLE CLOUD: PATH TO DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION» Provision: Establishing the target topology of virtual resources, such as compute, storage, and network cloudservices, Database Cloud Services and other platform services as needed.
» Deploy: Installation of the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne servers, such as HTML server, Enterprise Server, anddatabase server into the Cloud resources.
» Configure: Ensuring that all the servers work together and updating the post-deployment settings on the servers.
» Healthcheck: Validation of servers, network and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne functionality.
You use the JD Edwards One-Click Provisioning console to configure your Oracle Cloud account details and createa deployment plan for JD Edwards on Oracle Cloud. This process is highly automated allowing you deploy acomplete JD Edwards EnterpriseOne instance quickly by filling in forms, clicking a button, and signing in.
It is important to note that depending on your cloud deployment choice, you can use JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on
Oracle Cloud for custom development. Customizations enable you to tailor business processes to your industry,geography, and company. If you have built customizations in the past to support your specific business processes,
you are able to continue building and maintaining customizations in a cloud deployment. Oracle provides tools for
migrating your data and business configurations to your cloud instances.
When you deploy a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne instance on Oracle Cloud with One-Click Provisioning, you continue
to maintain control of your JD Edwards database and application management.
Use Case: Rapid Replication of Existing Environments
You can use the One-Click Provisioning process to rapidly provision JD Edwards EnterpriseOne instances that are
similar to instances you have provisioned before. After you have planned and deployed a JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne system using One-Click Provisioning, you can save that system definition and use it to replicate thatenvironment when you need to get an acquired company, new lines of business, or new regions operational quickly.
Cloud deployment thus enables you to focus on the business aspects of your acquisitions or expansions.
You can also use this feature to easily create test environments with an exact replica of your production setup
saving time that would previously have been consumed by manual setup and error correction. In this situation, cloud
deployment enables you to focus on testing rather than system configuration.

Extending JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle PaaS
Oracle PaaS comprises a large number of integrated cloud services supporting application management, data
management, IT operations management, integrations, mobility, visual analytics, and content and process. PaaS
services can be used to extend JD Edwards EnterpriseOne functionality. Quick provisioning of PaaS components
allows you to rapidly implement transformative technologies, such as mobility and IoT.
You can use many of these Oracle PaaS solutions whether you run your JD Edwards system on-premise or in thecloud. As an example, if you use JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Internet of Things (IoT) Orchestrator to capture andprocess device data for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne transactions, you can use Oracle’s IoT Cloud Service for device
management, event processing, protocol translation, streaming data analysis, and more.
Other PaaS options include Mobile Cloud Service that delivers a comprehensive mobile platform to manage,
monitor, and secure your mobile applications. Or you can use Integration Cloud Service to integrate cloud and onpremise applications. The bottom line is that you can use these and other cloud services whether you deploy yourJD Edwards system on Oracle Cloud or whether you choose to keep your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne instance onpremise.
When you deploy a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne production or development/test environment on Oracle Cloud, youhave the option to use Oracle’s Database Cloud Service (DBCS) as the database server. Cloud technologies make5 | JD EDWARDS ON ORACLE CLOUD: PATH TO DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONit very easy to “lift and shift” your on-premise data to the cloud. Even when you move your data to Oracle DBCS, youcontinue to maintain control over your application management.
If you choose to subscribe to cloud platform services, you reap similar benefits as you would with an IaaS
deployment including the advantage of reduced operational issues, increased agility, and faster time to market. You
retain control over the management of your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne system while using Oracle PaaS. Adopting
platform cloud services, such as Mobile Cloud Service, IoT Cloud Service supports business functionality
modernization by powering the digital transformation of your business processes to enable you to stay competitive.

Complementing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle SaaSYou can also choose to complement your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solution with Oracle SaaS applications toprovide additional application functionality where it provides value to your business. Oracle SaaS applications offer
best-in-class functional capabilities to extend your core JD Edwards ERP system, and embrace innovation throughrapid deployment of Oracle Cloud solutions while maximizing your investment in JD Edwards.
Some opportunities for extending JD Edwards applications with Oracle SaaS solutions are provided by Oracle
Transportation Management Cloud, Global Trade Management Cloud, Procurement Cloud, Project Portfolio
Management Cloud, Product Lifecycle Management Cloud, as well as CX Cloud and HCM Cloud. These Oracle
SaaS applications all offer functionality that complement and extend JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications without
overlap.

Cloud Deployment Choices
When considering cloud deployment, you can choose from different types of clouds in different combinations. Yourbusiness requirements are what drive your cloud deployment decisions. In addition to the cloud service layers thatcomprise the Oracle Cloud portfolio, you can choose from and combine the following types of cloud on which to
deploy your JD Edwards system:» Public cloud» Oracle Cloud Machine» Private cloud
A combination of cloud deployments in a hybrid approach is a common option. Regardless of which cloud type you
choose from Oracle’s portfolio, each can include all three cloud layer choices of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
Some key factors to evaluate your cloud deployment requirements are:
» Data residency and sovereignty requirements» Regulatory compliance» Security» Storage needs» Computing capacity needs and fluctuation
Oracle Cloud is Oracle’s public cloud providing a virtualized environment with shared physical resources accessible
over a public network such as the internet. On a subscription basis, you get a unified environment providing flexible
cloud infrastructure, a powerful standards-based platform, and a series of business applications. Oracle Cloud ishighly scalable, which enables you to be responsive to fluctuation in usage. It is reliable due to the redundancies
built into the system. Oracle Cloud offers data security and integration across all layers. You can choose to have
Oracle Managed Cloud Services or a partner manage your cloud deployment, or you can manage it yourself.

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Oracle Cloud Machine is an Oracle offering that enables you to bring a complete public cloud instance into your data
center while meeting the business and regulatory requirements behind your corporate firewall.
Oracle also offers a private cloud choice for companies that have stringent requirements for data security andcompliance that do not allow transactions outside the corporate firewall. It is also a way to leverage existing IT
investments and keep cloud applications in-house. A private cloud offers similar benefits as the public cloud, suchas scalability, elasticity, integration, and a platform for innovation.
With all these choices, you have the option to deploy your systems to different cloud types or to deploy them bothon-premise and to the cloud in a hybrid approach. Again, the specific deployment combination depends on yourbusiness requirements and your decision on how to best utilize the benefits of on-premise and cloud deployment. As
an example, you may choose to deploy your production environment on-premise, but run your development/testenvironment on Oracle Cloud.
You can leverage Oracle Managed Cloud Services or an Oracle partner’s service to manage your applications.
Either way, the choice is yours depending on what technology and deployment model best fits your businessstrategy.

Call to Action
The future of your business largely depends on how you address the opportunities offered by digital transformation
technologies. Cloud is the technology that enables digital transformation by making the implementation oftechnologies, such as mobility and IoT, easier and faster.
There is no right or wrong answer when it comes to cloud adoption. Oracle provides you with a large array ofchoices of cloud service layers as well as cloud deployment options. The choices you make hinge on how you wantto control the systems and technology that enable your business objectives. For example, if you need to maintainyour business data in a specific location, you can keep your data center on-premise or in a private cloud. If yourneed for computing capacity fluctuates significantly throughout your business cycle, a subscription to cloudcomputing services will help you pay only for the capacity you need instead of having to maintain unused capacity
on your own hardware. If you want to maintain control over the mobile applications used in your business, you can
use mobile cloud service to manage and secure these applications.
By considering these and other factors, you can develop your own cloud strategy with the right balance of cloud andon-premise deployments that enables you to protect your assets and shed your liabilities. Each deployment model
has its benefits, but these should always align with your business objectives. Nobody can make that decision foryou, but the power to make these choices is, in fact, your competitive advantage. Oracle and JD Edwards offer you
many cloud choices and the resources to discern where the technology and deployment models best fit yourstrategy.

Next Steps
Explore your cloud options with JD Edwards on these sites:» JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on Oracle.com» JD Edwards and Oracle Cloud (JD Edwards Resource Library)» Oracle Cloud Marketplace» Oracle Cloud Solutions
Download the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Trial Edition from Oracle Cloud Marketplace and explore current JD
Edwards EnterpriseOne features: bit.ly/JDE92Trial

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