ERP Suites gives customers trustworthy advice using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

As a trusted technology provider and advisor, ERP Suites prides itself in helping its customers implement the ‘hard technologies’ and to ‘Realize IT,’ as the company’s tagline says.

Moving JD Edwards to a cloud environment brings many challenges. Consolidating data from disparate sources to have access to one single source of truth to monitor business performance can prove costly.

Another leading challenge the company faced was cybersecurity. Customers usually do not have the resources to prevent or maintain infrastructure after an attack. Having a stable and secure infrastructure, with the ability to integrate added security features, was of utmost importance. ERP Suites considered a new approach to building a modern data platform.

When completing research on potential cloud providers, ERP Suites built a cloud cost calculator for its customers. The company found  that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) was not only more cost-effective, but the constant investments Oracle makes in its cloud environment would further enable ERP Suites to deliver on its standing as a trustworthy technology partner in the industry.

To maximize the full potential of JD Edwards, ERP Suites leaders decided to migrate to OCI because they knew that the implementation process would deliver a seamless transition. Additionally, Oracle Autonomous Database on OCI makes it easy to create, deploy, and manage a data warehouse with automated tuning, scaling, and patching. Self-encryption with autonomous cloud database enhances data security.

Finally, by using Oracle Analytics Cloud in combination with Oracle Autonomous Database, the company could take advantage of predictive analytics to get integral insights into customers, resulting in cost savings and efficiency gains across the business.

Moving JD Edwards to OCI was a seamless transition. Having access to one-click provisioning specific to JD Edwards was the key to enabling this.

Working with one specific customer, ERP Suites was able to use Oracle Autonomous Database for analytics and data warehousing to consolidate data coming from various reporting sources and set up a data lake, delivering ‘single-source-of-truth’ reporting. This resulted in significant ROI because the customer was able to eliminate multiple data integration and analytical tools it was using.

Additionally, ERP Suites also took advantage of the easy-to-use data visualization in Oracle Analytics Cloud to gain new visibility into the customer’s warranty tracking to improve customer satisfaction. Using the analytical tools also helped ERP Suites identify blind spots within the supply chain and reduce bottlenecks. Additionally, using predictive analytics capabilities aided in strategic planning and a long-term growth model.

By adopting Oracle’s modern OCI data and analytics platform, the team at ERP Suites also found that it was easier to source and attract talent within customers’ technology teams, and to focus on valued-added business intelligence and data modeling instead of  lengthy training on legacy processes and tools.

As a foundational part of its security stance, ERP Suites developed a security-as-code approach. It established network security groups locked access as part of the initial provisioning.  Additionally, all external traffic traveled through a web application firewall, providing a first line of defense from external threats.