As we type this it is Wednesday morning here in San Francisco and we are heading into day three of the Oracle OpenWorld conference.

Mark has just been interviewed by Oracle PR talking about our joint JDE customer Bendon.  We expect Oracle to publish a video clip of the interview in a couple months and will feature it here on the Jireh Blog when they have.

Yesterday (Tuesday here in San Francisco) Mark spent a lot of time in the conference demo grounds meeting Oracle people and checking out the latest in JDE and related software, and building our relationships with Oracle.

Gavin took a different approach yesterday and spent a lot of time in conference sessions about JDE and about Fusion Applications.  These sessions provided valuable information on the options the newer releases offer our customers whether they be running JDE on its own (as we expect most JDE customers will operate for some years) or start to supplement JDE with Fusion Applications (which opens up some interesting possibilities - particularly around embedded decision support, embedded reporting and collaboration). Update: Gavin also attended a customer panel of three customers sharing their recent experiences upgrading to JDE EnterpriseOne 9.0 - there were some valuable insights shared.

If you would like to meet up at OpenWorld to discuss how Jireh can help you with your JDE system, or if you have a particular question you would like us to investigate at the conference, please contact us on Twitter (@JirehJDE) or directly:

• Mark Elley, Managing Director, +64 (27) 672 5126, mark.elley@jireh.net.nz
• Gavin Knight, Business Consulting Director, +64 (21) 428 059, gavin.knight@jireh.net.nz