The GL Company Introduces ERP Infinity
July 2006
Breakthrough Solution from The GL
Company Turns JD Edwards Data into a
Real-Time OLAP Database—Creating the
Most Flexible ERP System on the Market
Today
The leader in the Accounting
Intelligence market, 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
Really Real Time® 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.
“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.”
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 Really Real Time®
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.
For more information about ERP
Infinity, visit
www.ErpInfinity.com.
