FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
J.D. Edwards Announces Comprehensive E-Business Capabilities with Debut of ActivEra Solutions
E-Business Framework Provides Seamlessly Integrated Solutions for Leveraging Information Assets to Compete in the New Economy
DENVER, Colo. and SICILY, ITALY, Feb. 7, 2000 ? J.D. Edwards & Company (NASDAQ: JDEC), a leading supplier of e-business software solutions that deliver speed and agility, today announced ActivEra? Solutions powered by OneWorld?, a collection of e-business suites that leverage digital assets to activate transactions and facilitate information sharing throughout the virtual enterprise, enabling companies to achieve competitive advantage and speed time to market. J.D. Edwards ActivEra Solutions are the most comprehensive end-to-end e-business offering available today, allowing both brick and mortar and dot.com enterprises to continuously adapt solutions in response to a dynamic marketplace, and put their ideas into action to capitalize on emerging opportunities.
J.D. Edwards' ActivEra Solutions, described below, provide organizations with a standards-based, interoperable and highly customizable infrastructure to support their business initiatives. The leading-edge capabilities, ranging from e-procurement and back-end infrastructure to Web-based sales force automation and customer relationship management, are linked seamlessly to empower an enterprise to leverage information assets in the most agile environment for e-business available today.
?Companies that are striving to succeed in this e-business age and create long-term value must focus on leveraging digital assets to build collaborative business practices,? said Doug Massingill, president and CEO of J.D. Edwards. ?ActivEra Solutions are powering the New Economy, giving our customers the capabilities to synchronize and collaborate across their virtual supply chains, participate in trading communities and turn innovative ideas into competitive advantage. This is the future of e-business and enterprise software.?
About J.D. Edwards ActivEra Solutions
J.D. Edwards ActivEra Solutions are comprised of J.D. Edwards' network-centric, object-oriented, multinational OneWorld software package combined with market-leading partner technology to provide customers with the flexibility to quickly adapt business processes to meet market demands.
<.b>Active Supply Chain
Active Supply Chain is the first comprehensive Internet-designed solution for automating digital planning, execution, collaboration and optimization within a virtualized trading community. The solution allows for the sharing of real-time, accurate and appropriate content for the purposes of optimizing organizations' supply/demand networks.
Active Supply Chain supports supply chain planning and execution at the strategic, tactical and operational levels including design, procurement, distribution, and logistics applications. The solution provides self-service applications for vendors and customers, and warehouse and transportation applications, all of which are synchronized through the use of J.D. Edwards' sophisticated messaging capabilities.
<.b>Active Customer Relationship Management
Active CRM, drawing on integrated supply chain execution, delivers Internet-based capabilities to manage all phases of the customer life-cycle through marketing, sales, and service. J.D. Edwards has partnered with industry-leading companies such as Siebel Systems and IBM to broaden the scope of these effective solutions. With a flexible architecture built for change, Active CRM can adapt quickly to capitalize on new opportunities and build a competitive advantage.
Featuring self-service functionality, and storefront and mobile solutions, Active CRM is the only Web-based collaborative solution that provides a 360-degree view of the customer relationship.
<.b>Active Enterprise
The Active Enterprise component of J.D. Edwards' ActivEra Solutions provides the agile back-office technology required to conduct e-business in the global economy. It manages and automates critical processes for day-to-day financials, human resources and payroll, capital asset and project management to provide the strong back-end of the agile ActivEra framework.
Active Enterprise supports employee self-service and seamless integration of these business critical functionalities.
<.b>Active Procurement
Active Procurement offers a mature, business-to-business Internet-based exchange that enables rapid return on investment by automating and streamlining many business processes to increase shareholder value and maximize working capital.
Active Procurement is a virtualized environment composed of J.D. Edwards E-Procurement powered by Ariba©, includes supplier self-service and is integrated with payroll, contract and service billing.
The solution is also comprised of travel, time and expense management functionality, powered by Extensity, and integrated with J.D. Edwards OneWorld applications.
<.b>Active Marketplace
Active Marketplace is J.D. Edwards' solution for extending the power of ActivEra Solutions to partners and customers through trading communities that link buyers and sellers in an on-line marketplace. The ease of integration with disparate sources of critical information delivers one of the most imposing advantages available to leverage alliances in the Digital Economy.
Active Marketplace extends J.D. Edwards OneWorld with the TRADEX Commerce Center platform, a leading solution that helps companies manage the demands of high-volume, multi-buyer/multi-seller business-to-business trading communities.
<.b>Active Knowledge Management
Active Knowledge Management empowers users within an organization and its trading community ? partners, customers, and suppliers ? with intelligent information that enables accurate real-time decision making.
Active Knowledge Management provides Web-based search, management and delivery features as well as anytime, anywhere access to crucial business data. The solution offers Business Intelligence, Content Management and Intellectual Capital applications that gather data from document repositories, intranets, data warehouses, supply chains, and the Internet and delivers it to employees, partners and customers.
<.b>Active Foundation
Active Foundation is where J.D. Edwards' unique network-centric, component-based architecture separates business functionality from the underlying operating systems, communications and database technologies, enabling organizations to embrace new technologies without rethinking or reengineering existing information flow. J.D. Edwards Active Foundation supports industry standards. The company also works with leading integration partners to empower organizations to manage enterprise application integration.
Active Foundation comprises the integrated OneWorld toolset, advanced middleware, re-usable business objects, advanced graphical user interface, and platform neutrality to deliver the stability and flexibility necessary to deal with ever-changing business needs.
About J.D. Edwards
J.D. Edwards provides Idea to Action? software for managing the virtual enterprise and supply chain. The Company's integrated applications deliver agile E-Business solutions that give customers control over their front office, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics/distribution, human resources and finance processes for the consumer products, industrial and services industries. J.D. Edwards enables Idea to Action with ActivEra?, a collection of tools and technologies that extend J.D. Edwards' OneWorld? and WorldSoftware? enterprise business software and its active supply-chain planning and execution solutions. ActivEra allows customers to change their software quickly and easily during and after implementation. The Company's solutions operate in multiple computing environments, including Windows NT©, UNIX© and OS/400©, and are Java? and HTML enabled.
Founded in 1977, J.D. Edwards is headquartered in Denver and posted fiscal 1999 revenues of $944.2 million. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the Company at 1-800-727-5333 or via the Internet at www.jdedwards.com.
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