JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Reviews

Recently, we helped one of our clients to implement centralized procurement using the solution. Our clients used to handle their procurement activities separately for individual countries. Now, they have centralized procurement. We do not implement the solution for our clients. We do small projects like improvements to the existing systems.

The solution’s Accounts Payable and Procurement modules are the most stable and quite useful compared to other finance modules. For modules related to finance, we are quite satisfied with the AP, General Accounting, Procurement, Sales, and Inventory modules.

During our procurement centralization project, we noticed that the EDI interface is slightly complicated. Certain fields are insignificant, but we have to enter information into those fields because the system would not proceed further without those inputs. So, the EDI interface should be improved. The Fixed Asset module is not desirable because it is complicated.

Though the solution has a lot of good features, I do not like the dashboard. If VA tools can be integrated into the solution, it will be helpful for key decision-makers in the organization, like CFOs and CIOs. Currently, these decision-makers rely on a separate VA tool to obtain information.

I have been using JD Edwards since 2007.

The stability of the solution has been a challenge. I would rate stability a seven out of ten.

The scalability of the product is not great. Some users are more comfortable with SAP as compared to JD Edwards. Our clients are generally medium-sized enterprises. I rate the scalability a five out of ten.

The technical support is good. Oracle responds to the queries we post. They are quite knowledgeable. Support has not been a challenge for us.

Positive

In my previous organization, I used Tally. JD Edwards is a much more vast and better tool when compared to Tally. The best part about JD Edwards is that it is an integrated system. All the modules are interrelated. The transactions are interfaced with the finance system, which serves as a reporting mechanism.

If a client asks us to create a new report, our developer takes more time to create the report. If there were any tools available within JD Edwards, it could have helped the developer to code faster.

Since I have been working with the solution for around 15 years, I find the initial setup and configuration simple and straightforward. We need basic experience and domain knowledge to easily understand the configuration and setups. I rate the initial setup a nine out of ten.

The deployment of the solution does not take much time. It is manageable. The CNC administrator team manages the deployment. Deployment is not a challenge.

I am a subject matter expert for finance. People looking to start using JD Edwards should look at the chart of accounts and other basic setups in the finance modules to get an overview of the solution. I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Our primary use case is for accounting, budgeting, project costs, and all cost-related financial purposes.

I have found their budgeting and financial inquiries are easy to work with. It is easy to inquire about any account in our company. They are good with financial and accounting platforms.

From my perspective sometimes it is glitchy.  We have to close the application and restart the computer. It does not submit the inquiry as requested. 

I have been working with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne for the past nine months.

I have found the stability matches our current expectations.

We are having a few issues with scalability bringing other individuals into the same purchase order. This is something that needs to be improved.

It is straightforward. I learned it in a week to ten days and I am doing the purchasing orders as well.

I would rate JD Edwards EnterpriseOne a nine out of ten.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is an ERP solution for our customer's business processes comprising of manufacturing, financials, procurement, inventory, et cetera.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne has improved within all the solutions and there have been a lot of investments by Oracle in these solutions. Most of the functionalities, and business requirements, are available for the system in the solution and there have been enhancements to the processes, UI, and tools, which have been done on a regular basis.

The inbuilt BI user experience and enhanced UI analytics, are very good. These are key features I love about the solution. It is more user-friendly with functionalities continually updating and there's less technical dependency. Rather than hiring a technical person to explain everything or doing the development for you, anyone can do it on their own without any technical help, such as the end-users.

I have been using JD Edwards EnterpriseOne for approximately 18 years.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is highly stable.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is best suited for small and medium business enterprises. There are multiple features in the solution that customers look for and this is why it has been a good solution for the past 30 to 35 years in the market.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is a scalable solution.

If there's any problem, such as a bug in the system, you have the solution on the knowledge garden, on the Oracle website.

I am an engineer for the last 18 years and I have not seen any other solution from the market that is better. I have seen some comparable solutions, that might be on par with the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. However, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is being rated as the tier one ERP in the industry for SMBs.

The initial setup of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is straightforward. However, it could improve.

I rate the setup of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne a three out of five.

The maintenance of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is very low. There can be support after the implementation, but I've seen a lot of customers using the solution without the support. They are able to maintain the solution on their own.

My advice to others is JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is excellent. It has multiple features and business processes of the industry, especially the manufacturing industry, out of the box. There are fewer customizations required. It can meet, 90 to 95 percent of the standard business processes' out-of-box functionality. It is a very good solution from a business point of view.

I rate JD Edwards EnterpriseOne a nine out of ten.

The most valuable feature is customization through E1 tools because Oracle JDE is neither prepared nor updated in time for Latin America localizations.

Financial reports are clearer and better aligned with business expectations.

I would like to see the following:

• Improvements in GL, AP, AR and sales and supply chain
• A standard solution for the deployment server to automate, assemble, build, and deploy packages by schedule. We need to develop or look for third party solutions. The same goes for E1 Pages.
• An easier setup

We have used this solution for five years.

We did have some stability issues. We currently use IBM WebSphere 7.1 and it sometimes does not look like it is 100% compatible.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

I would give technical support a rating of 7/10.

We used to work with JDE World Software Version A7.3. We changed because the business required more advanced technology functions like mobility and financial reporting.

The setup was absolutely straightforward. It was mostly on the end-user paradigm from using the Word software (green screen) to a web-based application.

Find a way to manage licenses wisely. Negotiate it as best as you can with your provider because it is very expensive.

We evaluated SAP and Oracle EBS.

Evaluate the known issues, implement the most stable tool releases, and keep your ASUs/ESUs up-to-date.

We use JD Edwards EnterpriseOne as a standard financial ERP package but we mainly for finance and accounting reporting.

I have been using JD Edwards EnterpriseOne for six months.

The solution was stable.

We did not have any problems with the scalability of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.

We had a large number of people using the solution in many countries.

I have previously used SAP.

There were implementation issues, which were more related to the customization and setting up the country-specific parameters. When the system was set up correctly, passed the UAT, and we were weeks in production it seems to be very stable.

The solution could be easier to implement. However, the complexity was in our internal processes meeting our country's requirements. Every country has a slightly different process, taxation, and rules. That was the difficult part, not the solution itself. I expect our experience would have been more or less the same with any ERP, such as SAP, Navision, or Dynamics.

We had our own team of five consultants who did the deployments.

There is an annual license for this solution.

I have evaluated other ERP solutions such as SAP, Navision, and Dynamics.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate JD Edwards EnterpriseOne a seven out of ten.

The most valuable feature is the scope of functionality that JD Edwards covers. You could start small with something like financials and HR payroll, and you can expand it to be used for asset maintenance, distribution, manufacturing. It also comes with a development tool set so that you can add onto it fairly easily.

It's quite cost-effective in comparison with other ERPs. The rest of them are all expensive.

They could enhance the reporting tools. We've been looking for a joint venture billing solution, which is actually on the road map, so it's coming.

It's very stable. It's been around for 30 years or so. EnterpriseOne came out in the mid-90s, so that makes it over 20 years old, but they continually add new features and functionality all the time.

It's also very good. It runs on different platforms, so you can pick and choose which hardware system you would like for whatever scale of company you are. I used to work for a very large oil company that ran it for about 15,000 people. I know that there's companies larger than that, as well.

I personally haven't used it recently, but folks on my team have, and the answer is always, "It depends." If it's a fairly straightforward answer, they're very good at pointing you to wherever the technical documentation is so that you can look it up yourself again next time. If it's complex, or there's some debate on whether the item is a bug or functioning as designed, it does take quite some time to get through that, and from a customer perspective, sometimes you have to be pretty persistent.

A lot of it is the partnership. Lots of vendors are willing to sell you a product, but then aren't there when something goes wrong. It really needs to be a relationship for the long term when you're looking for the solution, as well as meeting all of the functional requirements that you have.

I would rate it a 9, because it's the best in the ERPs, as far as I'm concerned, but it's never perfect, so it will never be a 10.

Definitely give JD Edwards a chance, and make sure you talk to other JD Edwards customers before you make your decision.

The most valuable feature for us is its robustness, especially coming from the system we had before because it can do so many more things. For example, we can drill down into the data a lot more. That's a huge advantage for us.

I'm coming out of the Canadian office, and the overall system is hosted out of our US office, which is considerably larger. The Canadian office is a small operation, but we have a system that a company of our size should not be able to afford. We're getting a lot more toys, bells, whistles and stuff like that that we would not otherwise be able to afford. It's helped us tremendously that JD Edwards allows remote access from a location away from where it's hosted.

It's got a steep learning curve. There's a lot of terminology, a lot of extra setup stuff that seems a little complicated and a little bit of extra work that doesn't always seem very necessary. For somebody who understands it a little better, they're going to know why all that extra work was there, but I'm not.

There seemed to be screen after screen of data and attributes. I guess they all have a purpose, but we haven't found what that is because we don't necessarily mine the data or back any of it out. We just don't feel like it's worth the effort right now.

It's rock solid. We've had no issues with instability.

It's been able to scale for our needs and we've had no issues with scaling.

We were previously using Microsoft Dynamics GP and it was not as robust. It was a great place to put data into but a little hard to get data out of. It's much easier to get data out with JD Edwards.

The initial setup took about six to eight months, so it was accelerated. It was essentially all my time for about six or eight months, but it came in on time, on budget, etc., so obviously a lot of thanks to our US office for all their help in getting it done. They've used it for many, many years, so it was just adding a new branch into the software and getting us up to speed. It could have been complex, but because our US office was already using it, it was much simpler.

It's forced us to adhere to business processes, where we were a little loose with our previous ERP. It's a little bit more rigid, and in my opinion, that's not a bad thing. It might seem scary at first, but it's not so bad. Not a lot of other advice to give, but it was a good project for us and it's helped our business. It's great from that perspective.

EnterpriseOne's integration could be improved.

I've been using EnterpriseOne for more than twenty years.

EnterpriseOne is stable and can be customized according to customer requirements. 

EnterpriseOne is scalable for large enterprises.

EnterpriseOne is cost-effective for large enterprises.

I wouldn't recommend EnterpriseOne for small enterprises because the cost-benefit doesn't work out. But for large enterprises, it's a very good and cost-effective solution that's competitive with other products like SAP. I would rate EnterpriseOne nine out of ten.