Bangkok--22 Oct--PC & Associates Consulting Oracle today announced the general availability of the double byte version of Oracle’s JD Edwards World A9.1. Oracle has delivered more than 1,250 enhancements in JD Edwards World A9.1 to enable operational excellence, improve customers’ upgrade processes and help reduce the cost and complexity of integrations. The benefits from this latest release will now be accessible to organizations relying on double byte languages including simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese and Japanese. Considered the “Renaissance Release,” JD Edwards World A9.1 is another example of Oracle’s ongoing commitment to “Applications Unlimited,” Oracle’s pledge to continue to enhance and develop current applications. Oracle also worked with IBM while developing this latest release to optimize the performance on the IBM System i business computing platform. “With this latest release, we committed to delivering the quality and innovation that customers have come to expect from Oracle’s JD Edwards World products,” said Ian Morris, Senior Director — Applications Solutions, Oracle Asia Pacific. “The response and excitement we have received from customers on the new features, functionality and upgrade capabilities in JD Edwards World A9.1 has been remarkable. With this latest announcement of double byte capabilities, user feedback has continued to be very positive. Users have indicated that Oracle is achieving its goal of giving companies valuable, user-friendly solutions to address the complexities and expense of operating in today’s global and highly competitive markets.” JD Edwards World A9.1 Delivers New Competitive AdvantagesImproving Global Operational Excellence As part of the new release, Oracle has delivered Service and Warranty Management, a new module that provides functionality for managing, defining and executing service and warranty contracts, allowing customers to record service contracts, accept returns of materials for repair, execute repair orders and seamlessly bill or expense repair costs to the customer. Now, service is fully integrated with other JD Edwards World applications, which facilitates planning and provides an automated process for tracking service request status. This latest release also includes enhancements to JD Edwards World Quality Management System to help customers identify areas where failures occur, reduce the costs of unused materials and increase customer satisfaction by improving overall product quality. Improved Upgradeability through Technology Advancements When completing a software upgrade, companies often face challenges ranging from retrofitting custom code to testing and training. With JD Edwards World A9.1, Oracle has significantly simplified the upgrade and retrofitting process with new tools. Customers can create a report that compares their current source code to the new release, helping to predict what custom code can be eliminated and what may need to be retrofitted. Another new tool compares the configuration settings of the customer’s existing release with the new release. Because data cleanup is important for efficient operations as well as upgrades, this release also includes new tools to archive data and identify versions of reports that are no longer needed. The JD Edwards World web interface now supports a Java deployment to help ease installation, improve performance and create a unified look and feel. Also, a new Dynamic Build feature, embedded in the Java software, allows custom panels to be automatically converted to display in a web browser. Enabling Reduced Cost and Complexity of Integration To improve integration and create a truly flexible, adaptable IT infrastructure, Oracle’s JD Edwards A9.1 is service-enabled, helping to improve extensibility and performance for customers who desire to adopt a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) as an integration strategy. As a result, customers are equipped to leverage legacy investments more fully, lower the cost of IT maintenance and operations and respond more quickly to dynamic conditions. Also, with JD Edwards World A9.1, customers gain more control and support for importing and exporting data between JD Edwards World and the multiple spreadsheets that exist within an organization.General Availability JD Edwards World A9.1 double byte version is currently available for traditional deployment and on demand via Oracle On Demand.