JD Edwards Apps in a Box - Update
- by Hartmut Wiese
Summary and clarification
JD Edwards Apps in a box is a Partner offering to the
customer. We as Oracle have a huge interest in getting a successful
offering to the market and we help the Partner building their offering.
We provide components like JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and the Hardware.
The Business Partner adds the installation services and position this
as a solution to the market for a single price. As you know JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne can run on multiple hardware platforms.
Linux/X-86 version
As you all know we do have JD Edwards VM Templates
available from Oracle for the X-86 architecture. Each Partner should or
is already able to install JD Edwards EnterpriseOne using these images
from our software delivery cloud. We built a master bill of material
for a X3-2 Hardware configuration now. It has been uploaded on the
Community Workspace now. This is a SUGGESTION and limited to 50 Users
MAX. However I strongly recommend you to do a sizing as usual and verify
the configuration for each opportunity individually.
T4-1/X3-2 version
Oracle is not providing similar images for the T4-1 SPARC / SOLARIS architecture.
There is an Optimized Solution Team inside Oracle who
has created an Optimized Solution for JD Edwards some time ago. They
created a whitepaper which is still available to download.
This whitepaper was used as a starting point however we
decided to build a new version of it using the latest Software and
Hardware available. This has now been finalized and we are happy to
provide this to our partners. This image is more a service we provide
for each partner which they can reuse and extend based on their
individual offerings. It is not an official supported Oracle Product
and cannot be used to deploy to customers immediately.
You cannot resell “JDE in a box”. You can use these
images to save time while building your own Go-to-Market offering. You
might want to add functionality like Mobility. It is also not complete
as also the Deployment Server needs to be configured individually at
the customer site.
We will create some documentation about:
what this images contains (and what not)?
what final installation activities needs to be provided by each VAD/Partner in this process?
I will send an email to the community once we are ready to share it. You find these assets than in the Community Workspace.
The Business Model with Oracle Hardware
For those who have not done any Hardware business with
Oracle yet: Usually a HW reseller orders the hardware through a Value
Add Distributors (VAD) and not from Oracle directly. Each Partner needs
to have Hardware Resell rights to do so. The VAD is assembling the
boxes according to the needs of each customer. It is easily possible
for them to prepare the boxes with the images we/you provide. However
the final configuration is something a reseller/implementer needs to do
at the customer site.
This process is not the same in the EMEA region.
Sometimes a VAD are taking the order but they do not see the Hardware
at all. In those cases a VAD cannot provide any help with the
pre-loading of any images and the reseller/implementer needs to do
that. In some countries we do not have VADs at all.
