iSP3 Solution Providers Inc. Selected as a Reseller for CAM Performance Plus
Partnership to Enhance Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) for JD Edwards Software

Vancouver, BC, Canada: iSP3 Solution Providers Inc announced today that they have been selected as the exclusive Canadian partner and reseller for the most comprehensive enhancement suite for JD Edwards ERP, CAM Performance Plus by Asset Management Solutions.

With this strategic partnership iSP3 will be providing our resource based and asset intensive customers with the ability to streamline their maintenance activities and design best in class maintenance programs. This comprehensive solution delivers rich new capabilities and improves the user experience for everything maintenance, and more. This includes a simpler and more intuitive work order lifecycle, enhanced PM’s, workforce scheduling, Google like search capabilities for your Item Master, attachment printing for work order packages, mobile applications and much more.

This Oracle Validated Integration solution has been designed in the native JD Edwards toolset for a seamless user experience, without the need for costly integration. Our implementation approach is designed to phase this modular solution into your organization to deliver immediate value, in the shortest amount of time.

“This suite of EAM solutions for EnterpriseOne will improve maintenance efficiency, asset uptime and performance for our asset intensive customers,” said William Liu, Senior Partner. “Effective maintenance management is a real home run for customers in the Energy, Lumber, Construction and Mining industries as well as public sectors with extensive lists of assets. Most importantly, this solution delivers measurable value to our customers, and our value consultants can help our customers build a compelling business case. We have chosen this solution because of the careful attention to details that will bring the greatest operational efficiencies for our clients.”

About iSP3 Solution Providers Inc
With over 20 years in the ERP industry, iSP3 delivers quality consulting services and solutions to the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, World and Cloud customer base. We are an Oracle award winning partner with deep expertise and Oracle certifications in all JDE Core Applications as well as Technical CNC and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Whether you require assistance with implementations, upgrades, migrations, or technical and functional services, our team’s deep knowledge and experience in asset intensive industries and ERP are here for you.

About Asset Management Solutions (AMS)
Asset Management Solutions (AMS) was founded with a primary focus in utilizing technology to provide comprehensive JD Edwards asset and maintenance management solutions to our clients. AMS serves a wide variety of industries, including refineries, mining, construction, utility, energy, manufacturing, agricultural, and pulp and paper.

Learn more about CAM Performance Plus

Contact:
William Liu
Senior Partner, iSP3 Solution Providers Inc.
wliu@isp3.ca | www.isp3.ca

Supplier Discount Automation

This process increases savings and optimizes spend. It’s beneficial for those who are making at least a million dollars in vendor payments each year, with half of those payments eligible for a discount. Release 22 helps facilitate and translate significant savings. It maintains the Supplier Catalog by reacting to market conditions as they change with mass updates of base prices and effective dates. The Item Number filter simplifies the supplier catalog search. When creating Purchase Orders, you can automate the capture of basket, order, and volume discounts for efficient and accurate price calculations. The role-based pages provide a dashboard to focus on order activity and PO Approval Mobile Applications are handy for approving or rejecting purchase orders. You can also review order history and associated discounts to optimize future purchasing decisions.

More Efficient Requirements Planning

This helps with streamlining your CRP, MPS, DRP, or MRP processes. The Visual Bill of Material and Where-Used diagram allow for better data accuracy while the Copy Bill of Material by Branch makes it easier to add new manufacturing facilities. Capacity and Production Planning is automated and simplified. You can freeze work orders to eliminate unwanted action recommendations. Planning Summary provides planners and buyers visibility to urgent action messages and the Planning Console provides an interactive, supply/demand interface reducing time to action.

Automating Processes with Orchestrator

Orchestrator is all about rethinking how you do business. It optimizes human work, automates tedious tasks, and builds value. It all starts with creating a process, which you can record and capture the steps of the process by simply using the application. Orchestrator is for both technical and nontechnical users and when deploying the process, it allows the creation, sharing, automation, and securing of user defined objects. When you launch a process, the Scheduler provides an easy user interface that defines and activates scheduled automations. The simplest way to alert and act are via One View Watchlists and you can automate messages and workflows. There is still human interaction with orchestrations as you monitor processes and debug exceptions as well as build error-handling and notifications into the process.

Extending the User Experience Without Customizations

To optimize productivity, JD Edwards is trying to limit the need for customizations. Reducing customizations empowers you to adapt JD Edwards to your needs while at the same time not being bothered with the overhead created by doing customizations. With Release 22, you can implement what you need without having to write code or worry about how a customization carries forward with application and tools updates. E1 Page provides access to the most used tasks and E1 Search removes the need to access multiple applications. When looking at EnterpriseOne from a UI perspective, Form Personalization enables the remove fields for a streamlined application. Utilizing Form Extensibility facilitates the capture of additional information while Query retrieves data for a specific user or process. In order to meet market and industry needs, Logic Extension can help provide new business rules with specific requirements.

Transform to Continuous Adoption

With all the cumulative values and feature functionality enhancements, it can come across as a large effort for customers to get from where they currently are to be able to take advantage of the innovation and get value out of JD Edwards. However, this is where continuous adoption comes in. Customers that have 24/7 businesses can't afford for their users to be kicked off the system every time you have to deploy a package for EnterpriseOne. Continuous adoption eliminates that need. Coupled with continuous innovation and the reduction of customizations, customers can get to Release 22 quite easily. A Simplified Upgrade to 9.2 reduces the time and effort of a past upgrade and One Click provides a code current target. Update Manager streamlines patch evaluation, impact, insight, and automation. Object Usage Tracking monitors utilization. Compare Tools accelerates retrofitting while Assertion Framework reduces testing efforts. Most importantly, Zero Downtime deploys innovation without impacting availability.

If you’re interested to discover more ways that you can take advantage of the latest Release 22 updates, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Why The Name Change?

There is a 77% adoption rate for EnterpriseOne 9.2 and so Release 22 is more representative of the modernization that JD Edwards continues to deliver to customers. It’s to provide customers with a greater awareness of the 700+ product features delivered in EnterpriseOne to support their digital transformation journeys. It’s reminiscent to how car manufacturers unveil their latest model; each year, JD Edwards will be unveiling the next release, labelled as the subsequent year. Release 22 is good for the year 2022. Next years' update will be Release 23 for the year 2023.

Release 22 represents the continuous innovation and code line of release 9.2. It encapsulates the Application Updates (Apps Update 6), the Tools 9.2.6 Updates (Tools 9.2.6.1, Tools 9.2.6.2 etc), as well as Trial Edition and One Click provision.

Release 22 Is Digital ERP

Digital ERP is where you see things like Orchestrator helping you connect your system, enabling you to do things like Mobile or Internet of Things, it enhances your collaboration, helps you automate and validate your business processes, helps you eliminate manual tasks, and takes advantage of robotic process automation as well as cloud. It’s all about automation, optimization, and transformation. With Release 22 you’re increasing the value of your software investment, with enhanced visibility and actionable insights while at the same time creating improved customer engagement and enabling employees to make faster, more intelligent business decisions. You’re enabling your organization to become connected, customer centric teams with access to real-time digital intelligence and lowering your total cost of ownership.

Make The Move To 64-Bit

If you are already on 9.2, you don’t really need to do anything except to continue leveraging the existing update processes. Release 22 is cumulative and includes all new apps and tools features for EnterpriseOne. If you are on an older release of 9.2, or have only applied tools updates, the process of updating 9.2 has not changed with the announcement of Release 22. Updating just the tools release is possible however it’s recommended that customers update both apps and tools for Release 22. New application and tools features continue to be delivered as ESUs and maintenance packs. It’s important to note that this name change does not impact Oracle's Lifetime Support Policy for EnterpriseOne 9.2 so you are still covered until at least 2032. Apps Update 6 is supported with tools 9.2.5 but it's highly recommended that you make the move to 64-bit and Tools Update 6.

If on an older release of JD Edwards, you need to be on 64-bit. We’d be happy to set up a call to go over your plans and offer advice on how to set yourself up to take advantage of this opportunity and secure your JD Edwards investment by exploring modernization.

If you’d like to learn more about Release 22, make sure to check out LearnJDE.com.

We like to make certain that all JD Edwards customers are getting the most out of their ERP investment and so throughout this year, our own remote workforce has been hard at work guaranteeing just that.

The iSP3 Orchestrator Library
Our team has been working with our customers to develop an Orchestrator Library. Coupled with our development services to customize them for you, we’ve been able to ensure they are executed correctly resulting in planned and strategic Orchestrations.

Does your company do Meter Readings? Now we have a series of Orchestrations in our library that will allow you to process your meter readings by validating CSV input, updating readings in JDE, and logging errors for your reporting.

We can also help you to automate your exchange rate updates to multiple currencies with an easily managed Orchestration! From a source currency to multiple others, updated daily.

Our Orchestrator Library is sure to get your business a step ahead in 2021.

Managed Services
In 2020, our managed services gave clients the time and space to focus on what really mattered.  One customer; Saint John Energy, has been utilizing our services for several years as their JD Edwards CNC Managed Support provider. Michael Purcell, Supervisor Information Systems, noted that “We have been very pleased with them in providing Server support and monitoring, as well as the trouble ticket support. Saint John Energy did go out for RFP after iSP3’s first contract was up as a due diligent exercise and after reviewing the proposals again selected iSP3 again for our support.”

As you think about stalled projects that might be starting up again in the new year or inclement projects that cannot wait any longer, our team would be happy to offer a hand with daily, periodic or as needed technical and functional duties.

Amalgamation & 20th Anniversary
As of August 2020, our team became one with TeamCain Solutions Inc fully amalgamating into iSP³.  We appreciate your support of the TeamCain brand during the transition.  There is great value in bringing together the experience from both companies and while we couldn't meet up this year to celebrate our accomplishments, we are all looking forward to celebrating iSP³’s 20^th Anniversary in 2021. Our remotely connected team works incredibly hard for our clients and we would not be who we are without you.

Stay Connected
If you would like to stay connected to us for JD Edwards news and updates, please make sure to follow our company page on LinkedIn (click to follow). This is where you will find links to information about JD Edwards product updates, webinars, blogs and are able to network with other customers.  We invite you to join our community.

We hope you, your team and your families have a safe and happy holiday season and we look forward to what the new year will bring.