So you’ve got JD Edwards up and running for your business. What’s the logical next step in the optimization equation? Having a tool to monitor it. That’s where ERP Suites Clarity comes in. Monitoring tools like Clarity are a good option for several reasons, including identifying bottlenecks, enhancing user experience and ensuring safety. In this blog, we’re going to cover how Clarity works – and how it can set you and your business up for a serious workplace advantage.
Capabilities and Advantages
A refresher: Clarity is an integrated 24/7 monitoring tool that provides a cost-effective and nimble solution for keeping an eye on your JD Edwards system and making sure everything is in ship-shape condition. When you choose Clarity, you’re choosing optimized performance, enhanced experience, and strengthened security, packaged in our proprietary configuration with customizable modules that make your job easier than ever.
So how does Clarity do its proverbial thing?
Preventing Downtime
As one of our CNCs put it, Clarity operates like a clear map that helps you find what you’re looking for – instead of searching across the whole of JD Edwards with a magnifying glass for any issues, Clarity helps you zoom out and see the whole system, and pinpoints the various problem locations for you, too.
When you don’t have to spend precious time painstakingly searching for the issues that are plaguing your JDE, you can devote more time to fixing the problem and then proactively approaching other aspects of JDE.
Pinpointing Issues
Clarity can identify a multitude of contributing factors that are resulting in less-than-optimal performance.
Applications
A manufacturing client has JDE handle a variety of their needs, from shipping and inventory and beyond. With such a highly specialized field, it’s likely the customer might need some custom applications that are tailored to suit their specific business needs. If on a given day the custom app takes too long to load, Clarity can tag that app from its dashboard as an issue, without the need for time-consuming problem-chasing. From there, you can assess the issue and determine how to move forward.
UBEs/Custom Reports
Clarity has eyes on UBEs and reports and can track if they’re running slower than usual. If a custom report is determined to be running slowly, the client is able to go back to the developers and request assistance. Clarity can generate a report showing that the reports or UBEs are taking on average X amount of time when it’s only uploading X amount of data, and given those conflicting numbers, these reports can help you assess what warrants a second look and closer inspection.
Jobs
Say a certain job runs 50 times a day, but is only required to run X times per day. Clarity can give you all those details on the execution of the job – how many times a day it’s running, how many rows of data it’s adding, how long it’s running. You’re able to see what the contributing factors are that lead to this excess, and able to make adjustments to rectify that.
Saving Money
No matter what you task JD Edwards with to handle your business, it needs to run as smoothly as possible. By utilizing a monitoring tool like Clarity, you’re saving yourself some dough in advance. Take your servers, for example. Clarity can send you a heads-up that a server is working overtime, and some processes are moving at a snail’s pace.
Thanks to Clarity, you were alerted to the issue and its location before things went too off the rails, and before sales were lost, or the website glitched, or late-night emergency IT calls were placed. Because of that advance warning and issue accuracy, your team is now able to focus on other priorities.
Choosing Clarity
At the end of the day, using Clarity is all about what you save: money, and manpower. This digital watchdog keeps an eye on your JD Edwards 24/7, catching problems before they become catastrophes, and helping you keep your business lean and efficient. Clarity is the back-end superhero you want to have on board. Reach out to learn about getting Clarity started today.
