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Overview
Cognizant provides high end consulting services to Fortune 1000 companies. It offers end-to-end solutions – including functional expertise in incorporating best practices, implementation services, and maintenance and enhancement services. Cognizant also leverages its strengths in its industry verticals of Manufacturing & Logistics, Automotive, New Technology, Insurance, Healthcare, Retail, Banking, Hospitality Services and Telecom by offering domain expertise along with JD Edwards expertise to add significant value in all its engagements.

The JD Edwards practice in Cognizant is a team of core consultants, with deep functional and technical expertise, and is part of the Oracle practice comprising consultants with varied backgrounds in configuration, business mapping, development, report writing, and interface development. The practice provides end-to-end services to Fortune 1000 companies, and has executed varied assignments with over 50 clients across sectors. The practice brings to the table a rich and well-versed pool of technical and functional resources and is an Oracle Certified Partner.

The JD Edwards Practice has developed a strong expertise in Enterprise One and World, with a core experience in Manufacturing & Supply Chain management, Customer Relationship Management, Financial Management, and Human Capital Management suite of products.
 
JD Edwards Services Overview
 
Package Implementation & Roll-out
Cognizant provides an analysis of the client's ERP requirements and collaborates to enable processes needed to achieve the organizational objectives. Using our expertise, we help our clients gain the desired benefits from their implementations. Cognizant's team of functional and technical experts can help the client manage end-to-end JD Edwards solutions. Cognizant's expertise includes managing transitions from legacy systems or multiple application environments to fully integrated JD Edwards solutions. Backed by robust implementation methodology and tools, the Cognizant team collaboratively undertakes project planning, requirements gathering, gap analysis, conference room pilots, system design, configuration, customization, interface creation, report writing, data conversion, testing, training and rollout.
 
Application Upgrades
Cognizant offers upgrading services to help our clients upgrade from prior versions of JD Edwards to current versions. Cognizant assists with both code and data migration and application testing. Cognizant's knowledge of multiple versions helps in maximizing the functionality and efficiency of the applications.

Cognizant's SMART Upgrade Methodology ensures fast, smooth and cost-effective upgrades, helping our clients lower the cost of customizations while staying up-to-date with the latest application functionality.
 
Application Value Management Services
Cognizant has significant expertise in supporting existing JD Edwards systems in production. Cognizant assists its clients in monitoring existing batch processes, security administration, and database administration and also provide on-call support. Cognizant also offers services to support the JD Edwards Custom applications, Reports, Master Business Functions, and other event rule based objects.
 
Business Process Re-Engineering Services 
Cognizant provides redesign of business processes to achieve improvements in critical measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service and speed. BPR involves the total creative rethinking of one or more of a company's key business processes.
 
Development Services 
The Cognizant JD Edwards development team provides both onshore and offshore development to its clients. This involves customizations, modifications, fixing bugs and creating reports for both World and Enterprise One.
 
Integration
To deliver true value to the organization, the JD Edwards system has to be integrated with many other systems, both internal and external. These other systems can be on various hardware platforms and may use various operating systems, databases, GUIs, middleware and other software technologies that may interact with the JD Edwards system in a variety of ways. The competency centers that Cognizant has in various technical areas help in integrating JD Edwards systems with external systems .
 
Quality Assurance
Using our domain expertise and world-class, dedicated testing facilities, Cognizant delivers cost-effective quality assurance solutions for planning, supporting, conducting and providing independent, reliable and efficient evaluations and assessments for various attributes and capabilities of JD Edwards for verification, validation and reliability estimation. Cognizant provides premium quality assurance solutions to its clients for Package, Regression, Functional and Performance Testing.
 
Transaction Process Outsourcing
Cognizant understands that outsourcing of major transactions and master maintenance is more profitable and also eases administrative and management burdens. Through this offering, Cognizant ensures the speed, accuracy and efficiency of dataentry.
 
Application Portfolio Analysis
Cognizant offers portfolio analysis services that evaluate and provide an answer to the business and financial needs of the customers using a mix Enterprise Applications in the most optimal manner. Through this analysis, optimization of IT processes and their alignment with the business strategy is easier and more efficient.
 
RFID Solutions
Radio frequency identification (RFID) promises great benefits to its users by increasing operational efficiency and supply chain visibility and offering new possibilities of predictive and perceptive automation. Cognizant offers a framework to visualize, strategize, pilot and implement the innovations using RFID and integrates those with both World and Enterprise One.
 
Documentation
Documentation makes the customer comfortable with the phases, procedures and standards followed during a project. Cognizant provides various documentation based on configuration, system design and processes involved in JD Edwards implementation/support/upgrade.
 
Competency
Cognizant's JD Edwards practice provides implementation, upgrade and application value management solutions across various modules of Manufacturing and Supply Chain management, Customer Relationship Management, Financial Management, and Human Capital Management on various versions of JD Edwards Enterprise One and World. This is further augmented by Cognizant's proven 4th generation onsite-offshore delivery model, methodologies specifically designed for JD Edwards solutions and CMMi Level 5 processes.
 
JD Edwards Value Delivery
Bringing Excellence, Rigor and Passion to your ERP Roll-Out
 
Case Studies
EnterpriseOne Integration: Global Manufacturing Company more
 
World Soft Upgrade & Maintenance: Retail Company more
 
Deployment Solution: Supply Chain Solutions Provider more
 
EnterpriseOne Implementation: Bio-technology Company more
 
EnterpriseOne Implementation: Technology Company more
 
Upgrade Experience: Media Company more
 


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