You have all these great investments into infrastructure and software. Let’s draw a mental picture. Infrastructure represents bridges and tunnels. Software stands for masses of land. But you do not really want all those islands to be indigenous. You want all your pockets of data and applications talk to each other, or at least have capable, reliable translators along side. Everything comes in Excel nowadays. And Oracle did a great job to integrate JD Edwards with Excel. Information is now seamlessly flowing in and out of Excel to and out of your JD Edwards system. Do you wish sometimes that everything would be that easy? As soon as your data leaves…
