Top 10 Benefits of Moving JD Edwards from On-Premise to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
It’s no longer a question of why cloud. Rather, the question is how cloud – and who will take you there?
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What is Cloud?
To keep it simple, imagine Cloud as Data Centers (spread across the world) with Advanced Technologies which can offer you services and reduce your hassles of managing infrastructure. This allows you to focus on what you are good at, running your business. Deep diving in cloud, there are PaaS and SaaS offerings as well, which further reduces your workload of managing platforms and software. Cloud allows you to digitally transform your business and deliver value to your customers. For this article, we will focus mainly on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), which will be utilized while migrating your JD Edwards from on-premise to Cloud.
Who is using Cloud?
Most of the digital technologies you are accessing on a daily basis, are likely to be hosted on cloud. Almost all social networking websites and applications: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp use cloud computing. Movie streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon Prime use cloud. Your banking services are most likely using cloud solutions as well. Cloud is not only used by big enterprises but also by small businesses. Cloud computing has solutions to almost all of your digital problems! In next decade or less, almost every business would be operating primarily from the cloud.
Let’s get started with understanding the benefits of migrating JD Edwards to Cloud and what is all the hype about.
10 Benefits of Moving JD Edwards from On-Premise to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
1. Reduced Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO)
JDE customers have experienced 30-40% TCO savings when migrating to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. How does this happen? Well, cloud not only provides you facility to provision infrastructure resources, but also empowers you with ability to keep track of budgets and not overspend. OCI billing is mainly based on OCPU rather than CPU and RAM, this helps you save money. OCI also offers FREE inbound data and upto 10 TB per month outbound data is FREE. Oracle also offers you a monthly flex model, where additional discounts are provided. When it comes to savings, another important aspect is planning your architecture correctly. A lot of times I come across setups where we could easily save a lot of amount by reducing unnecessary backups or by scheduling automated shutdown of certain instances during non-working hours. Your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect should be able to build strategies depending upon your requirements to further reduce usage and costs.
2. Better Security
A few customers during one of the sessions at Innovation Week voted that they had security concerns when asked what makes them re-think on moving to cloud. To start with, provisions like IPSec VPN and Fast Connect, you can be assured that your data never travels over public Internet. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure allows you to run your mission-critical workloads with complete control and confidence. In addition, there are various security measures in place such as data encryption for data at rest as well as in-transition, customer isolation, configurable security policies, detailed logs, support for third-party software solutions and much more. If you’re still not convinced, here is OCI IaaS security guide for elaborate details.
3. Mobility and Flexibility
One of the many reasons why JD Edwards customers move to cloud is because it provides flexibility. Mobility solutions can be implemented with ease and users, especially working on-field and not from office premises, can easily connect remotely. After COVID-19 pandemic, work cultures are adopting work from home models and what better solution than moving to cloud.
4. Scalability
Traditional approach for handling unexpected growth was to procure and store additional resources, servers, licenses, etc. You don’t have to worry about this anymore. You can easily scale your compute instances horizontally and vertically at ease. OCI also provisions auto scaling features which reduces your headache to handle such issues manually. You can even use scalability feature selectively to significantly reduce your downtime or Go-Live cut over period, for e.g. in case of an upgrade. Simply boost your compute instances with more OCPUs and watch those conversions complete in few hours rather than a day.
5. Better Performance
In addition to scaling feature mentioned above, you can even select right type of performance for your volumes. OCI block volume allows you to choose between Lower Cost, Balanced and High Performance block volumes. This way you can not only save on additional expenses but also optimize performance of your JD Edwards.
6. Backups
Gone are the days for taking backups on tapes. With state-of-the-art technologies, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides you option to take backups at a click of a button. You can use Volume Groups to combine list of volumes, and backup all of them at once. What’s more? You can set custom backup policies to automate daily, weekly, monthly, yearly – incremental or full backups. Leverage Standard Object Storage and Archive Object Storage to store your backups. You can even use File Storage option to create mount targets and use snapshot feature to take point-in-time backups. CLI scripts can be used for addressing complex backup requirements. Wait, there’s more, Oracle ADW and Oracle VM DB systems also allow automated backups and various other features. You can even set retention policies for all these various backups and reduce your hassles of backup maintenance.
7. Disaster Recovery
OCI provides Infrastructure as a Service across the globe. Right now (May 2020), OCI data centers are setup at 20 different geographical locations worldwide. This makes it a perfect candidate for hosting your JD Edwards DR solution. With the recent of launch of data center at Hyderabad, OCI now has 2 regions in India alone. We can surely see a lot of Indian businesses, running JD Edwards or not, move to Oracle Cloud in recent future.
8. Improved Colloboration
Oracle Content and Cloud Experience provides JD Edwards option to integrate and enables not only streamlining internal team collaboration, sharing large files, etc. but also collaborating with external suppliers, vendors and partners.
9. Monitoring & Alerts
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure allows metric based monitoring, active and passive, for your resources. This combined with Alarms feature can trigger emails to your team in case any utilization thresholds are crossed. Easy options to suppress constant triggers, while your team investigates issue or takes corrective actions. You can use aggregation features to reduce false alarms during sudden spikes. No more custom products, scripts or additional setups required for monitoring and alerting.
10. Digital Transformation
Imagine the combined power of above benefits, along with access to constantly evolving technologies and products. OCI is the perfect choice for your business when you plan to move your JD Edwards to cloud. I would like to sum this article up by quoting The Agile Elephant’s definition: “Digital transformation is the process of shifting your organisation from a legacy approach to new ways of working and thinking using digital, social, mobile and emerging technologies. It involves a change in leadership, different thinking, the encouragement of innovation and new business models, incorporating digitization of assets and an increased use of technology to improve the experience of your organisation’s employees, customers, suppliers, partners and stakeholders.”
Bonus: 11. Environment Friendly
Before you go, there’s one last benefit too. When your business moves to cloud, you give back to the environment as well. A NRDC report says that “a typical large-scale cloud provider achieves approximately 65% server utilization rates versus 15% on-premises”. So, show some love to the environment.
Not moved to cloud yet?
Businesses move to cloud based on any three of the above reasons. But, when we add all ten, it can’t get any easier to decide. I can assist you in your journey of moving your business to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Reach out to me using contact form or drop a comment below in case of any questions.
