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Practical writing on ERP and EPM programs, cybersecurity, and what it actually takes to get a transformation live — no vendor spin. Plus the events where you can talk to us in person.

Illustration of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne under the line "proven, flexible, built for the way you work", set in a ring of six labeled callouts: industry-built, deployment flexibility, lower total cost of ownership, continuous innovation, modern user experience, and connected ecosystem. Below, a composite industrial scene runs from a robotic arm and a worker in a hard hat with a tablet, through freight trucks, shipping containers, and a forklift, past tower cranes over a building under construction, to farmland at sunset. In the foreground a person in a suit reads a JD Edwards dashboard showing financial performance, year-over-year performance at 87 percent of goals, on-time delivery at 96 percent, inventory turnover, production efficiency, and active projects.ERP
Featured·July 25, 2026

Why JD Edwards? The case for Oracle’s most underrated ERP platform

SAP and Dynamics dominate the conversation. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne quietly runs manufacturing, construction, distribution, and asset-intensive operations at a lower total cost — and Oracle is still investing in it.

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Split illustration divided by a cracking stone wall lettered "the data barrier — legacy limits, new possibilities". The dark left half, headed "relational database era", lists schema rigidity, siloed data, complex queries, context blind, and AI incompatible beside an entity-relationship diagram of customer, orders, order_line, product, and supplier tables, a long SQL join on a monitor, and stacks of paper and spreadsheet binders. The lit right half, headed "the next era", lists knowledge graphs, semantic layer, vector databases, context aware, and AI native above a glowing supplier knowledge graph linking product, quality, capacity, risk, performance, trade conditions, financial health, and location, with a panel ranking the top suppliers matching context and a strip reading real-time insights, continuous planning, faster decisions, strategic advantage.AI & Analytics
July 25, 2026·20 min

The great data barrier: why the relational database era is ending and what comes next

Relational databases were built to record transactions, not to hold meaning. The chaos tax organizations pay forcing AI onto rigid schemas is the real case for knowledge graphs, vector search, and context-aware architecture.

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Boardroom illustration contrasting two ways of managing performance. On the left, a panel headed "from traditional" lists annual budgets, spreadsheet silos, periodic reporting, limited visibility, and reactivity, with an arrow down to a stack of paper binders. In the center, a glowing cycle connects strategy, real-time insights, performance monitoring, agile decisions, drive results, and continuous planning. On the right, a panel headed "to intelligent EPM" lists continuous planning, a single source of truth, real-time analytics, end-to-end visibility, and proactive agility, with an arrow down to a live dashboard of financial performance, cash flow, KPIs, and scenario analysis.EPM
July 25, 2026·19 min

Beyond budgeting: how enterprise performance management is redefining the way organizations think about the future

The annual budget is obsolete before it is approved. Enterprise performance management replaces the ritual with continuous planning, integrated financial and operational data, and rolling forecasts that connect strategy to execution.

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Illustration of an ERP implementation journey: a six-step lifecycle band reading plan, blueprint, build, test, deploy, optimize, leading along a lit road to a summit flag marked "go-live and beyond". Below, a project team works over an ERP blueprint on a boardroom table, beside a checklist of project success factors and a panel headed "real transformation, real results".ERP
July 25, 2026·19 min

From blueprint to go-live: mastering the ERP implementation journey

A practitioner’s guide to the project management realities that decide an ERP program — governance, methodology, scope, resources, vendors, training, cutover, and the first 90 days after go-live.

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Iceberg infographic. Above the waterline, labeled "what you see": software licenses, hardware and infrastructure, implementation services. Below it, labeled "what it really costs": cost overruns, schedule delays, lost productivity, resource drain, change management, unrealized benefits, and opportunity cost. To the left, a boardroom of executives watches a rising ERP investment chart.ERP
July 25, 2026·17 min

The hidden business cost of ERP implementation: what no one tells the C-suite

Software, hardware, and implementation services are 30 to 40 percent of what an ERP program costs. The rest — lost productivity, change management, data quality, customization debt, and support — is where business cases quietly come apart.

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Photo-illustration of a car with its hood raised on a glowing ERP engine block, with callouts for integration, business processes, data migration, testing and validation, customization, change management, and infrastructure and security, beside a delivery lifecycle flow from planning through deployment and support.ERP
July 25, 2026·18 min

Under the hood: the technical realities of ERP implementation

The problems that keep IT leaders awake at night are rarely the software. They are data migration, integration debt, customization, sizing, and testing — the layers under the hood where programs actually break.

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A consultant in a striped shirt draws on a tablet with a stylus beneath a translucent risk management gauge running from low through medium to high, flanked by icons for targets, budget, people, and reporting.Cybersecurity
April 22, 2026·6 min

What a virtual CISO actually does in the first 90 days

Hiring a vCISO is not buying a report. It is putting an accountable security leader in your meetings. Here is what that looks like in the first quarter.

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Events

Where you can talk to us in person

The user group conferences we attend and, as they are scheduled, our own sessions. No product demos. Announcements and past appearances are published on our LinkedIn page.

Conference

INFOCUS — the JD Edwards conference

The independent JD Edwards user conference: Oracle roadmap sessions, release updates, and education across financials, manufacturing and distribution, HCM, system administration, and capital asset management.

Date
See the INFOCUS site for current dates
Location
Quest Oracle Community
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