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The GL Company Introduces ERP Infinity
Breakthrough Solution from The GL Company Turns JD Edwards Data into a Real-Time OLAP Database-Creating a Flexible ERP System on the Market Today -- The GL Company announces a revolutionary new capability of its Really Real Time Technology designed to help users of JD Edwards World and EnterpriseOne software get the most from their ERP investments. Using the new Configurator Module with the GL Inquiry Suite, users can turn JD Edwards data into a real-time OLAP database. The GL Company calls the resulting capability "ERP Infinity" because over 2,000 dimensions can be quickly consolidated and drilled down upon, enabling infinite ways to analyze the JD Edwards data. "The introduction of ERP Infinity is the most significant advancement in our customer product portfolio since the GL Inquiry Suite was first developed. In essence, JD Edwards users can now upgrade to an incrementally more powerful ERP solution without installing a new ERP system," said Nick Gomersall, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, The GL Company. "ERP Infinity eliminates the cumbersome and time-consuming need to move or duplicate JD Edwards data to analyze it. ERP Infinity is fast, it's real time and because all JD Edwards master fields can be used as filters or data columns, there are literally no limits to the number of dimensions that can be used to measure your business."
Patrick Thompson Jr., Sr. VP CIO of The Shaw Group remarks, "After a successful global implementation of the Really Real Time General Ledger and Job Cost modules, we decided to buy Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Tax and Executive Console. The GL Company is unique in that it has been able to build a business application based on the concepts of On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) technology which links directly into our JD Edwards relational database, real time, without the need to move/stage the data to another database. What's most impressive though, is the speed within which inquiries come back. Paper reports, which were taking hours to run, can now be online inquires that run in seconds." The ERP Infinity capability offers the most flexible ERP system on the market-helping JD Edwards users avoid the inherent problems with viewing and analyzing data directly from JD Edwards or via a Business Intelligence (BI) tool. While JD Edwards provides a highly integrated and well-designed ERP database, as with all ERP systems designed to handle transactions, it is difficult to build summary information in a timely manner. To try to solve this, some JD Edwards users duplicate the data into a data warehouse or transfer the summary balances into an OLAP database where a BI tool can help summarize and analyze the data. However, BI imposes a limit on the number of dimensions that can be analyzed. Also, gaining full function from a BI tool often involves the expense of consultants and other complexities such as Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) tools. With ERP Infinity all such complexities are eliminated: JD Edwards itself is the data warehouse, and users can view and analyze ERP data in ways that were never possible before. To transform the GL Inquiry Suite to ERP Infinity, users simply add one new module to their existing suite: the new Configurator Module. There is no disruption to the business, and the Configurator, like the other GL Inquiry modules, keeps the underlying business processes and respects JD Edwards security. The GL Inquiry Suite, currently deployed in a growing number of businesses in North America, Europe, and Australasia, is based on the principles of Accounting Intelligence - a discipline that delivers real-time visibility of financial information to business users and helps accountants accelerate the month-end close and other processes. The GL Company offers a growing list of modules for the GL Inquiry Suite, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Job Cost, Fixed Assets, Advanced Cost Accounting, Tax, and Budgeting. The more modules in use, the wider the range of ERP Infinity capabilities-up to the truly infinite when all of the GL Inquiry modules are deployed. For more information about ERP Infinity, visit its Web site.
Patrick Thompson Jr., Sr. VP CIO of The Shaw Group remarks, "After a successful global implementation of the Really Real Time General Ledger and Job Cost modules, we decided to buy Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Tax and Executive Console. The GL Company is unique in that it has been able to build a business application based on the concepts of On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) technology which links directly into our JD Edwards relational database, real time, without the need to move/stage the data to another database. What's most impressive though, is the speed within which inquiries come back. Paper reports, which were taking hours to run, can now be online inquires that run in seconds." The ERP Infinity capability offers the most flexible ERP system on the market-helping JD Edwards users avoid the inherent problems with viewing and analyzing data directly from JD Edwards or via a Business Intelligence (BI) tool. While JD Edwards provides a highly integrated and well-designed ERP database, as with all ERP systems designed to handle transactions, it is difficult to build summary information in a timely manner. To try to solve this, some JD Edwards users duplicate the data into a data warehouse or transfer the summary balances into an OLAP database where a BI tool can help summarize and analyze the data. However, BI imposes a limit on the number of dimensions that can be analyzed. Also, gaining full function from a BI tool often involves the expense of consultants and other complexities such as Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) tools. With ERP Infinity all such complexities are eliminated: JD Edwards itself is the data warehouse, and users can view and analyze ERP data in ways that were never possible before. To transform the GL Inquiry Suite to ERP Infinity, users simply add one new module to their existing suite: the new Configurator Module. There is no disruption to the business, and the Configurator, like the other GL Inquiry modules, keeps the underlying business processes and respects JD Edwards security. The GL Inquiry Suite, currently deployed in a growing number of businesses in North America, Europe, and Australasia, is based on the principles of Accounting Intelligence - a discipline that delivers real-time visibility of financial information to business users and helps accountants accelerate the month-end close and other processes. The GL Company offers a growing list of modules for the GL Inquiry Suite, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Job Cost, Fixed Assets, Advanced Cost Accounting, Tax, and Budgeting. The more modules in use, the wider the range of ERP Infinity capabilities-up to the truly infinite when all of the GL Inquiry modules are deployed. For more information about ERP Infinity, visit its Web site.