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notes Service Industry Solutions

PeopleSoft provides commercial support solution for service industries. These modules support to
the tracking of time and labour, payroll processing, project management and billing, expense and
receivables processing. A procurement module is also available with purchasing management,
inventory management, payables and expense processing and asset management.

Industry Solutions

The Industry specific solutions are also provided by PeopleSoft. It has 11 distinct business units,
which provides software solutions to the industries. The business units are, federal government,
Healthcare, Higher education, Public sector, Retail, Service industries, Transportation, Utilities,
Financial services, communications etc.

Technology

PeopleSoft continuously adds and refine latest technology to optimize their information system.
The technologies like self-service application, web client applications, multi-tier transaction
processing, OLAP, workflow alongwith several tools to maintain and tailor the application.
Tools are also helpful for reporting, customization and workflow.
7.6 J.D. edward World solution company

On March 17, 1977 J.D.Edwards was formed, by the Jack Thompson, Dan Gregery and Ed – Mc
Vaney.

In early years J.D. Edwards designed software for small and medium size computers.
In 1980’s it focused on IBM system/38.
As the company began to out grow, its headquarter in Denver, opened branch offices in Dallas
and Newport Beach, California, Houston, San Francisco and Bakenfield. And then internationally
expanded its Europe headquarters in Brussels and Belgium.

technology

As the business grew company adapted new technology and instead of going for small computer
application; it started to design enterprise wise software. J.D.Edward is a leading provider
of integrated software for distribution, human resource, finance, manufacturing, and SCM.
These softwares are operated in multiple computing environments and also JAVA and HTML
enabled.

products

ActivEra is a product, which is customer centric and allows companies to change enterprise
software after implementation if their business requires.
The company also provides the products such as Oneworld and JD Edwards SCOREX
products.

oneworld

Oneworld provides a solution by integrating with legacy, best of breed and third party products.
Oneworld supports the industry standards such as CORBA, ODBC and other packaged
integration solutions.

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