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Oracle plans for JD Edwards software;

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Oracle .pdf documents to view: Oracle Customer Commitment / Oracle FAQ's / Oracle Lifetime Support Policy

Lifetime Support - our view is that the service levels from Oracle will reduce on old releases as the client base upgrades to newer releases and Oracle consultants focus on current releases

2008?

Oracle Fusion application modules to be released in phases

2007

World A9.1 released with optional HTML user interface

2006 Q4

EnterpriseOne 8.12 released with significant functional and new module enhancements

2005

March - Oracle announces its country management teams for the expanded company across the World

February - Oracle drop the name PeopleSoft from JD Edwards software and name the products JD Edwards World and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

EnterpriseOne could be developed to releases 8.12 and 8.13 before Oracle Fusion becomes available to upgrade to

18th January - Oracle announced: Management, Sales and Consulting restructure - each country will have one combined Oracle company and management team for a consistent interface with the combined customer base.

Support - World and EnterpriseOne will be supported until February 2013 but no longer. EnterpriseOne XE and ERP 8 support will now end in February 2007.

The four current products will move to one new one - Project Fusion is the internal Oracle project to deliver the new single product. This will be will be available in 2008/09 with full upgrade tools from all four current products from specific releases. Fusion is Java based and fully internet enabled with HTML and Dynamic HTML (DHTML). Some components of the new product should be seen in 2006.

The follow on product will replace Oracle e-Business, PeopleSoft Enterprise, PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne and PeopleSoft World.

There are 8000 engineers retained to support the four current products and to develop the new product. 90% of the JD Edwards/PeopleSoft development and support staff are to be retained.

Before the new Project Fusion delivers the new product existing produces will have new releases:

Oracle e-Business will have a new release.

World - no Cum release details given at this time and the Cum16 release is not on the product road maps now - tools will be available to move to Fusion.

EnterpriseOne - will move ahead from 8.10 to 8.11 to 8.12 - tools will be available to move to Fusion.

Enterprise - will move ahead from 8.9 to 9.0 - tools will be available to move to Fusion.

MS SQL Server and AS/400 databases - products for these databases will continue to be supported per the above.

14th January, Oracle announced approximately 40% 5,000 of the PeopleSoft employees are to be made redundant. (0% of the product development and support staff are to be retained.

2004 and prior

13th December 2004, Oracle Takeover PeopleSoft.

On 13th December 2004 Oracle and PeopleSoft agree to merge the companies. More information to follow as the product road maps and future strategy are announced.

The Oracle offer expired in 19th November 2004 and over 60% of the PeopleSoft shareholders voted in favour of the takeover. One of the key elements of the Oracle future strategy is to make the Oracle e-Business applications one product family with upgrade paths from PeopleSoft products.

With Oracle gaining the majority required the takeover offer has been extended to 31st December 2004 and the Oracle board have requested talks with the PeopleSoft board as soon as possible.

Speed of Product Enhancement: At the Connect Europe on 4th October 2004 PeopleSoft claimed that they have put more new functionality into EnterpriseOne and World than JD Edwards had done in the 5 years prior to the merger.

PeopleSoft and JD Edwards Merger 2003:

PeopleSoft and JD Edwards have now merged into the one company, PeopleSoft. The company's combined revenues are in the region of $3.0bn.

The combined companies have 11,000 customers, 12,000 employees, and are represented in 150 countries.

The merger made PeopleSoft the World's second largest supplier for Enterprise Software Solutions, after SAP.

Customers:

PeopleSoft - 5,000 with a high percentage in the US JD Edwards - 5,000 and c3000 are still on the PeopleSoft World product which run on the IBM 'i' Series exclusively.

Markets:

PeopleSoft - main focus is on Services, Government and Universities with Finance, HR and CRM products.

JD Edwards - main focus is on Distribution, Manufacturing and Asset Management.

The combined product portfolio addresses needs in 23 industries and are market leaders in at least 12 of these industries.

The vision for large multi-national Distribution and Manufacturing companies is that Enterprise One will be used for Distribution and Manufacturing and Enterprise used for finance consolidation and reporting, but only if EnterpriseOne finance does not address all requirements. The Enterprise One and Enterprise product sets will be linked together with PeopleSoft tools.

The PeopleSoft Product Portfolio:

PeopleSoft Enterprise - this is PeopleSoft post merger product which uses either Oracle or MS SQL. The growth of PeopleSoft has been through acquisition and the product set from various sources is combined with the PeopleSoft toolset.

PeopleSoft Enterprise One - this is the previous OneWorld product the latest version of which was to be named J D Edwards ERP9. This has now been revised to PeopleSoft Enterprise One. JD Edwards developed most of their products in house, with the exception of the Numetrix APS products and You Centric CRM product. The result is that the PeopleSoft Enterprise One and PeopleSoft World product sets are more integrated than the PeopleSoft Enterprise product sets. Enterprise One 8.9 was released in September 2003 and Enterprise One 8.10 was released on 21st June 2004.

From Enterprise One 8.11 'Fat Client' access not be available.

PeopleSoft World - this is the previous World Software product, the latest version of which is JD Edwards A7.3 cum 15, running exclusively on the AS/400 / IBM 'I' Series.

All three products now have the PeopleSoft name and there is no JD Edwards reference in the user interface.

PeopleSoft Product Enhancements:

PeopleSoft World A7.3 cum 15 Enhancements, released in April 2004.

Budgeting and Planning, Global Consolidation, Enterprise Score Card, Supplier Rating System, Manufacturing Scorecard.

PeopleSoft World A7.3 cum 16 is to be released in Q2 2005.

EnterpriseOne with the IBM Websphere web browser is currently used in 600+ of the 5,000 customer base and the use in growing rapidly.

Enterprise One 8.12 Enhancements - General Release in late 2006.

Enterprise One 8.11 Enhancements - General Release from the end of 2004.

Financial Planning & Budgeting, Global Considerations, Demand Flow, License Plating for Palliated product with nesting capability, e-Recruit, Sarbox Compliance Management, Lot Processing enhancements, Demand Driven Manufacturing, CRM built in and re written in EnterpriseOne code, Bar Coding and retro adjustments, Homebuilder Management, Pay when Paid for Contract Billing, Sales &Operations Planning, Configurator new interface and WO generation and order promising for final configured product and Blend Management for Wine industry.

Enterprise One 8.10 Enhancements - went General Release from 21st June 2004.

Financial Planning & Budgeting, Cash Management, Service Automation (people resource), Strategic Resourcing, Procurement, Sales & Marketing Support, Global Considerations, Customer Self Service, Buyer Workspace, Kanban, Supplier Self Service, Engineer to Order Manufacturing multi site, equipment Cost Analysis, Capital Asset Management, Real Estate Forecasting, HCM Foundation, EPM and EnterpriseOne to APS interface enhancements

Enterprise One 8.9 Enhancements - went General Release from 19th September 2003

Pricing / Promotions, Engineer to Order, Product Variants - e.g. Style / Colour and Size, Globalisation, Lot Control, Margin Driven Pricing, Supplier Relationship Management Integration, Demand Forecasting, Engineer to Order Manufacturing single site, Pricing and Promotions, Dual Units of Measure, Product variants (including Style, Colour, Size), Order to Cash, Cross Docking.

Enterprise World Enhancements - these will be statutory requirements plus some functional enhancements that user groups have demanded.

There have been over 800 enhancements to World software since 2000 and the product is now web enabled.

A7.3 cum 15 is now available containing 150 - 200 enhancements and A7.3 Cum 16 is planned for 2005.

A8.1 cum 5 is now available but there are very few customers running A8.1.

A7.3 Cum 10 base to Enterprise One 8.9 migration was available from Q1 2004.

The company aims to unify it's pricing policy for the future. This is likely to be based on company size in $ turnover rather than the user count.

Net Change: for more details of implementing new versions and functionality then contact us.

Grouping of Modules:

The J.D. Edwards Finance (ERP) modules have been grouped into four families - Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Project Management and Performance Management.

The J.D. Edwards Manufacturing, APS, Sales Order Management and Logistics modules are to be grouped together under the Supply Chain Management (SCM) banner. With the introduction of Demand Driven Manufacturing in EnterpriseOne, PeopleSoft claim to be the market leader in manufacturing.

EnterpriseCA are probably the most experienced independent implementers of manufacturing systems in Europe.

PeopleSoft and IBM:

Both companies have in October 2004 entered into a partnership and all current and future releases of PeopleSoft have IBM Websphere (Middleware) as the default user interface.

Support:

PeopleSoft have 24 hour / 7 days a week support for the maintenance of their standard product.

Enterprise One (ERP8 onwards) - support is set to 4 years from purchase date for patches and fix support + 1 year for upgrade scripts and + 1 for tax, fiscal and regulatory additions = 6 years total.

One World XE and prior releases ends on 28th February 2004 but there are still 1300 customers on these versions that run out of support very soon.

Serious consideration must be given by those customers to upgrade to current release to protest their investment.

World - has indefinite support.

One World Co-existence support also ends on 28th February 2005 and from Enterprise One 8.9 there has been no co existence option

Reporting:

PeopleSoft Report Writer (uses Crystal) and J D Edwards ERW has been scrapped and Crystal is the PeopleSoft Report Writing Tool now, excluding the PeopleSoft World product.

Resources:

Development centres to be retained in Denver and Pleasanton but consolidation is ongoing in:

Head Office - HR, Sales and Marketing, Finance

Country Level - HR, Sales and Marketing, Finance, Consulting

Sales changes became effective form the fiscal year, 1st January 2004

Business Intelligence (BI)

PeopleSoft EPM - Enterprise Performance Management

New common product for all three product lines in development, including Global Consolidation and Industry Specific reporting functions

Customer Relationship Management

150 customers of JD Edwards have the ex You Centric product

Now links to Sales Order Management, Configurator and Service Management

2003 Q1 - CRM 2 released with Service management link

2003 Q4 - Enterprise One 8.9 and CRM Integration

Summary:

Customers with World will eventually move to Enterprise or Enterprise One or to a competitors product unless World continues long term under the ownership of PeopleSoft or another company.

The control and management of the increased PeopleSoft organisation is with the PeopleSoft management based in the Pleasanton CA, US office and the Denver offices are satellite operations to the Pleasanton HQ.

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NOTE: The views expressed here are purely the individual opinions of EnterpriseCA staff and should not be taken as an accurate statement of company policy of either EnterpriseCA, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft or Oracle. They are purely intended as a guide and as discussion points and should be treated as such.