23rd April 2007 Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle's JD Edwards World A9.1, delivering more than 1,250 enhancements. The substantial new release is designed to enable operational excellence, improve customers' upgrade processes and help reduce the cost and complexity of integrations. Oracle also worked with IBM while developing this latest release to optimize the performance on the IBM System i business computing platform.
As part of the new release, Oracle has delivered Service and Warranty Management, a new module that provides functionality for managing, defining and executing service and warranty contracts, allowing customers to record service contracts, accept returns of materials for repair, execute repair orders and seamlessly bill or expense repair costs to the customer. Now, service is fully integrated with other JD Edwards World applications, which facilitates planning and provides an automated process for tracking service request status. This latest release also includes enhancements to JD Edwards World Quality Management System to help customers identify areas where failures occur, reduce the costs of unused materials and increase customer satisfaction by improving overall product quality.
JD Edwards World A9.1, Oracle says it has significantly simplified the upgrade and retrofitting process with new tools. Customers can create a report that compares their current source code to the new release, helping to predict what custom code can be eliminated and what may need to be retrofitted. The JD Edwards World web interface now supports a Java deployment to ease installation, improve performance and create a unified look and feel. Also, a new Dynamic Build feature, embedded in the Java software, allows custom panels to be automatically converted to display in a web browser.
JD Edwards World A9.1 is currently available for traditional deployment and on demand via Oracle On Demand. The double byte version of JD Edwards World A9.1 is planned to be available in the next calendar year.