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Technology Stocks : J.D. Edwards debut! (JDEC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: WBC who wrote (164)	10/14/1998 7:21:00 PM
From: WEBNATURAL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 583

Is this an in or out of the box selection process? You got to be paying top dollar with J.D.Edwards.The time frame for full installation can be into the years from some plant's perspective. Have you gotten a firm schedule from JDEC and merged it with your own data input. Were the other's time frames only their time or a full installation (yours and theirs? I get an apples and oranges with a knife for pealing missing( maybe a few other ingredients, too). Turnkey job? The manufacturing process does not always fit the package. The installers of this system learn your as part of the 'cost' of having them stay until it is 'up'. Trips to their training location, your location, other locations included? What other company or companies have given imput to their experiences as to the implementation of this or another system? The company(JDEC) could use the business. Is the cost 1/65th of sales more or less? These are comments from a user. Get a list from JDEC as well. Always do your own final D.D.! Hope this helped....

To: WBC who wrote (164)	10/16/1998 10:39:00 PM
From: Senor VS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 583

Hi Did you look at MRP products(like OnQ and MFG/PRO) from QAD Inc. ? FYI, QAD's URL is qad.com Regards Ravi

To: WBC who wrote (164)	10/28/1998 9:45:00 PM
From: Ivan Garcia	Respond to of 583

Hey WBC. I have been in the ERPx software business for some years now and I could give you my two cents worth from the presales and project management side of things because I have done both. Not from an investors view. Depends on what kind of mfg. company you are (ei: process, make to stock vs make to order, etc. etc) , what is the complexity of your distribution operation more specifically in pricing methodologies, and what is your corporate culture like? What is your timeline, how many sites or will you do a pilot project and then duplicate it to others? What is a deciding event (ei: Y2K, sale of company, new markets or products)? Another important factor is the technology: Client Server or Host based. (Platform independant ei: IBM, Digital/Compaq, HP. NT, Unix, or RPG?) Give me some idea and maybe I can help you from a neutral standpoint. Competitively I have studied many. I have worked for one and now am a business partner representing another but still give consulting on the first. By the way you have not mentioned JBA, Infinium, or QDA. Those are other more economical packages with good mfg. functionality. Also their consulting rates are not as high as the top 5 (ei:SAP, Oracle, JDE, BAAN, PeopleSoft.) Hope this helps. Let me know who you decide to go with. Ivan