- Flexible hardware and software environment helps respond more quickly and effectively to changing demands
- Simplified implementation through a comprehensive suite of modular, pre-integrated applications, optional advanced security features and attractively-priced and pre-sized configuration building blocks
- Lower hardware and software infrastructure costs with IBM offerings through leadership performance and advanced virtualization technology
In today’s business environment, responsiveness—to market shifts and expanding client needs—is the key imperative to stay one step ahead of competition. Changes are coming at such a pace that in order to capitalize on new market opportunities, you need to rapidly convert older, static business processes into an integrated and flexible on demand business environment. Costly regulation and convoluted government contracting rules make responding to customer requirements more difficult, just at a time when greater efficiency is needed in business operations to contain costs. To make this transformation as painless as possible, clients are increasingly seeking modular ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) business applications which are tightly integrated with a computing infrastructure that can affordably meet the demands of today’s business environment, while enabling the flexibility to change and grow as needed.
Bringing the ERP application environment together with the computing infrastructure, the IBM System p5™ Solution Edition Express for Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is an affordable and flexible ERP solution designed to provide a more integrated and tuned environment for small and medium-sized enterprises facing these challenges. Solution components are provided separately from IBM and Oracle as follows:
- IBM contributes: IBM System p5 Express servers together with IBM System Storage™ data storage offerings in attractively-priced and pre-sized configurations provide a flexible and affordable infrastructure tuned for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.
- Oracle contributes: Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, a comprehensive suite of modular, pre-integrated business software solutions designed for flexible deployment and ease of administration.
The IBM System p5 Solution Edition for Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne supports the following standard and optional solution components*:
- Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, a comprehensive suite of modular business applications, can help integrate all aspects of a business—including customer relationship management, enterprise asset management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, and supplier relationship management
- IBM System p5 and IBM System Storage offerings, which provide a flexible and affordable infrastructure with configurations tuned for Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications in both consolidated and distributed environments
- Pre-sized System p5 configurations recommended by the IBM Oracle International Competency Center which:
- Include new affordable Solution Edition Express configurations for System p™ 510, 520Q, 550 and 560Q
- Simplify selection, implementation, and capacity planning
- Choice of database offering including IBM DB2® Universal Database™ 8.1 or 8.2 and Oracle Database 9i or 10g provides the flexibility to satisfy a wide range of requirements
- Choice of web server platform including IBM WebSphere® Application Server and Oracle Application Server.
- AIX 5L™, IBM’s industrial strength UNIX® operating system
- Optional IBM Advanced POWER™ Virtualization (Recommended if 3-tier architecture is implemented in a single node)
- Optional IBM High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing (HACMP™) software which can be used for a more highly available operating environment for System p5 deployments with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
- Optional IBM Tivoli® Access Manager for System p, a simple-to-use, powerful security system that helps secure and protect client’s critical information, resources and applications. It securely locks down business-critical applications, files and operating platforms to help prevent unauthorized access.
- Additional optional IBM and Oracle security software for system and data access protection, user access provisioning and single sign-on to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and other IT environments
This hardware and software solution provides numerous benefits for clients:
- Flexible deployment with adaptable IBM infrastructure and modular, integrated design of Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
- Designed to reduce cost and effort required for planning and implementation in order to accelerate time to value
- Lower hardware and software acquisition cost through better processor performance and higher server utilization
- Better service level delivery to end users through configuration tuning, Oracle and IBM expertise, and advanced reliability and availability features
- Designed to enable successful implementations with validated configurations and optional services
* Oracle components are not available from IBM
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