If you’ve been listening to JD Edwards conversations lately, you’ve heard a recurring question: are you running JD Edwards like its 2005 or 2025? Your business functions in a world where automation, AI and cloud technologies are integrated with cornerstone business processes to tackle new complexities as well as age-old operational barriers. With Oracle’s Continuous Innovation model, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne delivers a steady flow of innovation annually in quarterly increments. These updates include new features and customer-led enhancements that help you simplify and adapt in a new era of digital enterprises.
Here’s where it gets better: you can choose to adopt new innovation at your pace, and you can choose to accelerate your business transformation at your pace. To change how your business works and delivers in 2025, the first step is to use JD Edwards with all its prowess and capabilities in 2025.
JD Edwards innovation in 2025
Enterprise Automation: When process automation ushered in enterprise automation last year, we were thrilled about the new possibilities for JD Edwards customers. It meant you could not only streamline the quality of your data, but you could leverage the data that resides in your EnterpriseOne system to create business process models to identify your biggest opportunities and bottlenecks – because in 2025, we know your business simply cannot afford to ignore either of them.
JD Edwards and Oracle AI: Feeling left out in the AI marathon? Don’t be. While AI is not the answer to all your business challenges, you can benefit by integrating JD Edwards with Oracle AI to achieve higher efficiencies and productivity. Get acquainted with the JD Edwards AI enablement strategy and take advantage of Oracle’s investments in intelligence capabilities.
JD Edwards Sustainability Framework: If you’ve been struggling with spreadsheets to define or understand your environmental footprint, that aspect is built into your EnterpriseOne systems too now with the JD Edwards Sustainability Framework. The environmental part of ESG that deals with environmental risks and natural resource management is often given the most emphasis – and the framework assists you with just that.
What’s new in Release 26?
In October, we announced the availability of Release 26. Here’s a highlight of a few features and enhancements in Release 26 that are a great example of how EnterpriseOne is constantly equipped to meet your business’ everyday needs:
Supply Chain Management: You asked, and we delivered it! You can now enable tolerance checks for foreign amounts, which improves the accuracy of the voucher match process. It also removes inaccuracies caused by changes in exchange rates that impact tolerance checking.
With the enhanced delegation process of purchase order approval, you can ensure that purchase order approval workflows are not disrupted, and tasks are handled efficiently, even when the original approver is unavailable.
Procurement: Think flexibility, think PO Approval progressive web application. This feature allows you to approve or reject purchase orders from your smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop.
Financials: You can now get a consolidated view of your financial transactions. A new report in the EnterpriseOne Accounts Receivable system allows you to print customer details including invoices and receipts, simplifying the process of verifying payments, discounts, chargebacks, and write-offs.
Localizations: New regulations are being released for Brazil’s upcoming tax system, set to launch next year. It’s been an iterative process with changes announced frequently. EnterpriseOne has the base changes out now for you to leverage and have them validated before they become mandatory.
Digital Transformation: The Enterprise Automation Dashboard is much like a cockpit, empowering you to view everything that’s happening in your business, or even just one particular business process.
EnterpriseOne Widgets have been very popular with JDE customers. They evolve the concept of One View Watchlists and allow the source of data to come from an orchestration output. Release 26 introduces the ability to create a single widget that users can personalize by supplying input – like selecting a business unit – rather than building multiple widgets for each scenario.
Orchestrator has become a very powerful tool in the JD Edwards toolbox with customers running thousands of orchestrations every day. The dependence on them has increased, which means you need the ability to troubleshoot them and debug them better. This release includes a series of enhancements that will improve your ability to troubleshoot orchestrations, whether they have file inputs or form requests. If you’re new to Orchestrator, Oracle’s Paul Houtkooper and co-host Chandra Wobschall introduce you to essential Orchestrator resources and components in episode 69 and episode 70 of The JDE Connection podcast.
System Administration: The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Scheduler is enhanced to open the door for automation and more innovation in the future. It now has a web interface that enables system administrators to control, configure, maintain, and monitor scheduled jobs. If you haven’t used the Scheduler in a while, you can use it now to define jobs on a business day of the month, specify operating hours for processing jobs, and more.
If your enterprise uses Microsoft SQL Server as your database, you can now take advantage of its clustering capabilities with Always On failover cluster instance and Always On availability groups to achieve better business continuity and system availability. This ensures high availability of the database with graceful database failover during planned maintenance.
UDOs have grown and evolved rapidly. The JDE digital platform, extensibility, and no code/low code capabilities are all built around the UDO framework. As we continue to focus on UDOs, Release 26 delivered security performance enhancements to change the way UDO security records are loaded and referenced in your runtime system.
It’s the little things that can make a big difference. You can now store longer media object URLs, which makes a real difference if your enterprise uses external file storage such as Microsoft SharePoint and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage.
Security: For stronger security, you can now use the 4096-bit certificates for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
To get a closer look at all Release 26 features, tutorials, quick tours and more learning aids, visit LearnJDE.com. Or tune into episode 80 of The JDE Connection!