JDEC Senior Vice President Michael Schmitt to Address How Organizations Can Achieve
ROI and Speed Time to Market in the New Economy
DENVER, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael Schmitt, senior vice president of J.D. Edwards & Co. (Nasdaq: JDEC) will present a session on conducting e-business beyond the year 2000 at five upcoming conferences, including the Credit Suisse First Boston Enterprise Software Tour; the J.D. Edwards Numetrix user conference; Supply Chain Expo, the Enterprise Solutions Showcase, and the Supply Chain Advantage event in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Schmitt's presentation entitled "Beyond Y2K: Business Will Never Be The Same," will unveil how the marketplace will change in the new millennium as a result of collaborative and changing business practices.
Schmitt will present the session at Credit Suisse First Boston Enterprise Software Tour taking place in San Francisco on September 15. The J.D. Edwards/Numetrix user conference is in Atlanta on September 21, the Supply Chain Expo in Baltimore on September 22, the Enterprise Solutions Showcase in Cincinnati on September 23, and the Supply Chain Advantage event in Sao Paulo on September 29.
At the conferences, Schmitt will address the following issues:
-- Barriers to requirements for successful e-business models include reach
and visibility, richness and personalization, and velocity and
collaboration.
-- Companies need to maintain flexibility in their business model in order
to respond to changing business practices, market conditions and
quickly capitalize on new revenue opportunities.
-- In order to remain competitive in the new millennium businesses must
collaborate effectively with suppliers, customers, and partners.
Synchronizing a company's IT system with trading partners will yield
the highest ROI.
-- In the Information Economy, an organization's competitive advantage
will rely on its ideas, and its ability to put those ideas into action.
With its agile, open, collaborative e-business solution, J.D. Edwards
is extending its Idea to Action value proposition throughout the
extended enterprise.
"Collaboration and the speed of the Internet is changing the face of business in the new millennium. In order to capitalize on new revenue opportunities in this Information Economy, companies must be prepared to react quickly to changing business models and market circumstances and create a collaborative network with trading communities," said Schmitt. "J.D. Edwards' ActivEra E-Business solution allows our customers and partners to be innovators, to rapidly implement their ideas, and to enable, manage and optimize all of their business relationships." (For more details visit: www.jdedwards.com/e-business.)
Media interested in attending these sessions or arranging interviews should contact Andrea Faville at 650-463-8628 or afaville@ca.webergroup.com
About J.D. Edwards
J.D. Edwards provides Idea to Action(TM) software for managing the enterprise and supply chain. The Company's integrated applications give customers control over their front office, manufacturing, logistics/distribution, human resources and finance processes for the consumer products, industrial and services industries. J.D. Edwards enables Idea to Action with ActivEra(TM), a collection of tools and technologies that extend the J.D. Edwards SCOREX and AIMX supply chain solutions, and OneWorld(TM) and WorldSoftware(TM) enterprise business software. ActivEra allows customers to change their enterprise software quickly and easily during and after implementation.
The Company's solutions operate in multiple computing environments, including Windows NT(R), UNIX(R) and OS/400(R), and are Java(TM) and HTML enabled. Founded in 1977, J.D. Edwards is headquartered in Denver and posted fiscal 1998 revenues of $934 million. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the Company at 800-727-5333, in Canada at 416-979-7700, or via the Internet at www.jdedwards.com.
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