JDEaaS or E1aaS–how can it be? JD Edwards as a service

No technical details in this post, more strategy.  I want to comment on the ability for JD Edwards to go to the cloud and become a service.  This is going to benefit clients to use resources to sell more widgets, not build more packages!

Do you want to take away the hassles of managing JD Edwards on a day to day basis.  Stop worrying about performance, security, DR and more?  Do you wish you could be provisioned with a URL that you can give to all your users and everyone is in a better place?

We are doing this for people now, it’s the new normal.

The journey to the cloud can be super complex, you start to worry about security, high availability, data sovereignty and more – but you do not have too.  You can decide to take on one system at a time.  This can be JD Edwards.  You can get a fully managed service with SLA’s that suit your business with a simple PUPM charging method.

We can put you in a tier 1 cloud provider (AWS) and completely manage JD Edwards for you – where ever you are in the world.  We can have distributed backups all around the world in secure locations if this is important to you.  I would not rely on a private cloud, as the extensibility and richness of services is always going to be limiting your design.  The reason you want to go to the cloud is to remove constraints. 

We can recreate your entire environment with a cloud formation to have you up and running in minutes / hours after the worst disaster.  We can architect this to be highly available and disaster recoverable (automatically).  We can architect scale up and scale down of compute resources to save you money and give you the horsepower when you need it.  We have predefined cloud templates that give you a lot of this power today.

The solution will be more secure than what you currently have, as there will be 0 database access to anyone, there are firewalls between everything and we can arrange so that only your traffic gets through to your resources.

We can offer automated testing and also provide you with dashboards of performance and usage – unparalleled insight into the usage and performance of your ERP.  Automated testing is going to become more and more important when SaaS vendors will continually provide you with updates (tools releases and upgrades), as they’ll tell you what is wrong in the lower environments. Don’t worry about all the technical messages though, we’ll handle this.

We’ve been on the forefront of AWS migrations and continue to do this more and more for our clients.

The constant innovation in AWS allows us to solve problems quicker and easier than ever before for our clients.

Some managed service providers are including tools releases, quarterly patching and upgrades in the service - this comes at a cost though.