How to Eliminate Manual Tasks in JD Edwards with OCI

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[...0.2s]Then you start, you start building on where orchestrations, you know, an example. We had one customer years ago, they automated their general entries and it was taking, you know, [...0.8s] basically two people 40 hours a month to just get the journal entries in through the JD ever system. Defeated into corporate [...1.1s] with orchestration on that.Then all they were dealing with was exceptions and that error rate went down to maybe one a month as opposed to, you know, hundreds of them [...1.1s] at a time, you know, over the course of a month. So not only did it save them time, but it increased the accuracy, the consistency and so forth. And also the time to turn it around was fast.Are your JD Edwards users bogged down with tedious manual tasks that drain productivity? What if your business could automate these processes seamlessly using advanced AI and cloud infrastructure?Today, I'm joined by Frank Jordan, an expert in JD Edwards technology, to reveal how you can integrate JD Edwards Enterprise 1 orchestrations with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Services.You'll hear real world success stories, learn how businesses are eliminating manual data entry, and discover actionable strategies for automating your critical business processes. Don't miss this episode, it is your key to transforming your automation strategy and boosting efficiency dramatically. [...4.4s]Welcome to not your Grandpa's JD Edwards, the podcast dedicated to practical innovation in the JD Edwards ecosystem.I'm Nate Bushfield, and today I'm thrilled to welcome Frank Jordan, Director of JD Edwards Technology at ERP Suites. Today, he'll guide us through leveraging Oracle Cloud infrastructure to supercharge your orchestrations and drive significant business outcomes. Frank, how are you doing today? I'm fine, mate.How are you? [...1.1s] Pretty good. It's been raining all week here in Cincinnati. I just want to see the sun. Is that too much to ask? I guess it is. I'm in central Indiana, so I just wait for the weather to change. No big deal. Yeah, just wait 20 minutes. [...1.2s] It's gonna be 90 [...0.5s] before it was in the 50s and 40s.Very true. Your patients had a great game last night too, which is fantastic to watch. It's a lot of fun watching Tyrese Holly Burton be out there, I really will say. But [...0.7s] anyways, for our listeners out there that haven't seen one of your presentations yet, can you tell us a little background of yourself and how you got into the world?JD Edwards? [...1.7s] So I am actually one of those grandpa's. I'm JDS [...1.5s] started with, [...0.7s] basically used to work with mainframes as 400 system 36, and also PC lands started with JD Edwards back in late 95 when it was the beta release [...0.8s] b 7.1. 4 that we don't talk about, [...0.4s] um, but went live with B 7. 3 one, um, kind of had fun with that because as a customer, [...0.5s] it was CD No. 4. So we were kind of like the fourth rented or distributed CD on that.But [...0.9s] again was a customer [...0.5s] basically up until, um, mid 1999, became a consultant [...0.7s] business partner, and then started with JD Edwards in 2000. The rest through that is a CNC [...1.1s] as, um you know, basically [...0.9s] CNC on TV Edwards that people solved in Oracle.And in [...0.4s] fourth quarter 2,012, um, [...0.6s] work with [...1.0s] earpiece weeds actually did an assessment on one of the customers. And [...0.6s] like what I saw, and I've been with the earpiece weeds now [...1.4s] for [...1.4s] the last what, 13 years, so [...0.6s] we're having a lot of fun.It's awesome. I honestly, I'm one of those people that I forgot that they were on CDs back in the day [...0.8s] since we were not something really see anyone look. [...2.0s]Wow, [...0.5s] times have really changed since back then, that's for sure. I couldn't even tell you the last time I held a CD in my hand [...0.8s] and I, I'm a movie guy, big movie buff, and I just [...0.8s] haven't seen the CD in years.It's for my age to say, we used to have [...1.0s] cards, holloweth cards, and I mean, they used to use some clothing, but I used to have 8 inch floppy disks [...0.9s] and [...0.8s] whole whopping less than a megabyte.Oh, yeah, cheese, the size, the size of those things were giant and yet no space to actually put anything on there. But I guess it really has changed. Yeah I mean, my phone can hold up to what 128 gigabytes now, which is [...0.8s] smaller than a floppy disk.So that's doesn't make any sense, but happy, happy that innovation is continued. But [...0.4s] Frank, let's start with the challenges. Why do so many JD, [...0.6s] JD Edwards users continue to struggle with repetitive manual processes in an era of automation?Well, I mean, like I said, over the years what I've watched and we progressed [...1.0s] among various things, so, you know, [...0.6s] the traditional menu and [...0.5s] point and click and all that.Yeah you know, the Earp systems have made that much, much easier [...0.4s] from the days of having to do it by hand or writing things down [...0.6s] and, you know, passing paper along and all that, you know.So Jade Edwards of courses of all [...0.6s] its origins are world back on the S400 back in the late 80s, and then one world [...0.6s] back then the 96. 97 [...1.1s] marked into enterprise one. But the, um, the big thing about it is, you know, there's still a lot of process. It took, people took clicks and so forth.Then Oracle with the introduction [...0.9s] what they used to call IoT [...0.5s] orchestrations and that's been now 10 years that was a way of having a robotic process.And the [...0.8s] JDA was, has had a lot of forward thinking [...0.4s] type of architecture. You know, again, Cathedral Network Computing CNC [...0.7s] basically allowed you to separate the technology from the applications.So the orchestration has taken that a step further in that it helps separate the user interface [...0.7s] from the application logic and so forth. So by doing that, you can build, you know, whatever channel you want, you can use the web, you can use a mobile device, you can have talk to other systems.By doing that now you automate a lot more. So that's where orchestrations have been so critical. It's another layer of the foundation to be able to expose JD Edwardson [...0.4s] as [...1.4s] AJ spawn of likes to say, it lets you access that gold of that decision state that you have out there. So, um yeah, again, the biggest thing with orchestrations has always been where do I start. We, we have the same deal with AI.It's like, there's so many options, yeah, and what we talk about is just start simple, do something.If you have a clipboard and you're writing things down, that's a potential to automate, [...0.4s] and then, you know, AI is gonna take that, that even a step further with more intelligence again that you're layering on top.Yeah, I've had a lot of different people on this podcast talking about AI and similar conversation of [...0.7s] just gotta get it started, something like, it doesn't matter what it is, the first step is always the most important step.It might not be the most important for your business, but that first step will open up you or open up your company to a world of possibilities.And just taking the first step will get you over that little hump of maybe it's your little scared of what it could accomplish or something like that.But the end of the day, [...0.5s] it's gonna help your business. It's gonna increase productivity and for one of the examples, um, mostly efficiency, I will say, but [...0.9s] cutting out those clicks, [...0.8s] getting, getting the opportunities with automation, with AI, anything like that.It's definitely is world changing views, and I'm sure it's come a long way since the disc of JD Edwards.Sure, [...0.7s] this is still insane me. You think about it when you look at the automation, [...0.5s] um you know, what it's giving you is [...0.6s] to be focused more. You're trying to remove that Monday, that 80%, that 90% that you have to do.You know it's just like even [...0.8s] we're getting to the point, we'll have personas that can handle some of our email for us, and [...0.5s] I'll have our, our virtual selves, and that's not that far out in the future.Um, but [...0.6s] you think about what you can do with that, you know, again, if I'm not having to deal with, oh, this job parent, I, and I gotta go figure it out and what happened or why is this data not right.Yeah, then you start, you start building on where orchestrations, [...0.5s] you know, an example, we had one customer years ago, they automated their general entries and it was taking, you know, [...0.7s] basically two people 40 hours a month to just get the journal entries in through the JD ever system defeated into corporate, [...0.5s] um, with orchestration on that.Then all they were dealing with was exceptions. And that error rate went down to maybe one a month as opposed to, you know, hundreds of them [...1.0s] at a time, you know, over the course of a month. So not only did it save them time, but it increased the accuracy, the consistency and so forth.And also the time to turn it around was faster because they were literally taking these things in spreadsheets and sending them in. So, you know, that was one example said over 10 years ago that [...1.0s] just made a business more productive. And that's just one small example.Yeah, exactly taking out the human air side of things which we were all human. We all have mistakes and stuff like that. But [...0.5s] nice automation, it can really cut through a lot of that stuff.I will say there are some crazy softwares out there too that are making like AI people that can have these conversations.So I might be out of a job here soon. Who's to say they might have a virtual Nate that has podcasts and stuff like that. So hopefully we're far from that, but [...1.7s] I'm sure we'll get there.Yeah, it just presents new opportunity with each one of these waves. [...1.0s] I would say I'm actually busier now just in the technologies and all that because there's so much more behind the scenes.It's different. It's a lot different. Now we can automate a lot the C&C [...0.9s] pieces that we do as far as like applying software updates, building the packages, having the promotions, all that stuff. It can be integrated in through orchestration [...0.5s] with the your like service.Now as far as helped us software and ticketing and all those types of things. So yeah, we don't have to do that, but those were more manual task anyways. So by getting that automation there, you know, it's freed up for a lot of other fire in type opportunities.Yeah. So we talked about, [...0.9s] sorry, we talked about a lot of the different examples of manual tasks that could be automated, but what signs indicate it's time for a company to explore automation through OCI services?Well, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI, you know, they, [...0.5s] the cloud, they're like Amazon or [...0.7s] Google [...0.6s] and your Microsoft Azure and so forth.So we work with all the clouds, but strategically for us as the earpiece suites, you know, we kind of set our sides to partner with Oracle, [...0.6s] um, t t, leverage the OCIS services there and also other AI services.Of course, in the big [...0.9s] a gorilla is the Chatee Petit Open AI [...0.4s] and so forth. But [...0.4s] work with Oracle, we're doing it where it's a little bit more focused on the business side [...0.5s] and type those type of things.So it just becomes another like a hybrid cloud solution. You don't have to. Yeah, I made this in one of the presentations, but, you know, people think you have to be on OC icloud in the sense that your JD Edwards system has to live there.Certainly doesn't [...0.8s] we run the gauntlet. It basically you can have be hosted on your own. You could be [...0.7s] what we call on premise, you could be in a private cloud, like in our earpiece with status centers. You could be over in AWS [...0.8s] or OCI. Basically it's just communication between those clouds.So [...0.5s] the advantage of the OCI services is that Oracle is building and they continue to build just like the other providers, but they're adding new services, new solutions [...1.1s] for [...0.4s] you to be able to, um, [...0.5s] automate any another example just on if you are in Oracle Cloud, [...0.7s] you can have orchestrations that can literally you can set it up to add service. It can provision new servers in the Oracle cloud.We do some things where we [...0.7s] provision trial editions, you know, a miniature JD Edwards that she just [...0.9s] work produces that image like twice a year and we can load those up.And basically we're calling OCI services [...0.4s] in order to [...0.5s] provision that you put it in, like, in our case would be in the East Coast and so forth.And so you, again, we're rapidly automating and that now what they bought added to these hundred 50+ services they have available, [...0.5s] again, they have artificial intelligence APIs as well. So it's not just the operational site.Oracle cloud infrastructure, you know, that they continuously are, are beeping up and adding new opportunities, new systems that are [...0.5s] Legos like building blocks. You just keep building and adding more on as you go along.So it's very powerful and that, that story [...0.6s] we've been fortunate to be working with Oracle even in some beta stages, you know, getting access to certain software and, and [...0.5s] getting in a little bit on the ground floor to [...0.8s] be able to come up with some different solutions for the customers.Yeah. And honestly, it's been great for us to be able to work with work. Why even myself, I've gotten a little bit of a look inside of some new technology that they're trying to roll out or beta test as he brought up. And they have so many great ideas. They have so many great, [...1.1s] I don't know.I, I guess applications is the right word to say, um, in terms of some of these things that they're adding on to JD Edwards. And they really are [...0.5s] for the customer and the fact that we [...0.5s] get to get in on the ground floor will only help it tailor it more towards the customer.And that's one of the, my favorite things about Oracle is they're not afraid to show people that are, yeah, we're close with them, we're partners with them, so it's not like they're breaking any trust or anything like that.So [...0.6s] it is, it is nice to see that they're actually open to have people on the outside come in, look at the products, see what they can change, see what we can do.But [...0.5s] to go back a little bit and talk about the manual inefficiencies and [...0.8s] how would those manual inefficiencies impact like user morale and overall business performance?Sure. Well, again, um, number of customers, you know, have run JD Edwards for [...0.5s] years, decades even. Um. So, you know, [...0.5s] the enterprise 1. 9. 2 release [...0.7s] is been really good with what they call the continuous delivery where they're innovating on the same one.So the impact of upgrades and all that is much less [...0.8s] than it used to be. Um, the ability just to take like the yearly are 24, they release 24 or release 25 and so forth. It's made it [...0.5s] easier for customers to introduce new feature functionality both at a tools level and an app level. Um.So by doing that though [...0.6s] they get the feedback, of course, customer enhancements, the [...0.4s] question user groups, [...0.5s] the special interest groups and so forth like that put in [...0.8s] enhancements that they want.So by [...0.6s] taking advantage of the new software features and so forth, you know, you try to, again, either through orchestrations or maybe even just on how an application does something. Yeah, it gets kind of old if you're doing the same thing every day, eight hours a day.Like I'm and just king this and I have to check it and walk through it and you're doing hundreds of thousands of those [...0.6s] where the automation can help with that is, again, [...0.6s] it does that front work, so to speak, or that repetitive work.And then you're dealing with the exceptions or you're focusing on [...0.5s] the value add type situations on top of that, that's, that's where these systems [...0.6s] really can help, you know, the business.And, you know, JD Edwards keeps expanding [...0.9s] where orchestrations was more at a unit level individual processes, [...0.7s] now they're moving into enterprise automation and you're adding [...0.7s] AI on top of that as well. So you're getting a bigger and bigger piece where these processes are interrelated.So it's a whole flow at your [...0.6s] nailing down. So, you know, again, you're not just impacting one person's job, you're maybe impacting an entire business unit or, you know, entire business divisions in an entire company [...0.8s] exactly.And one person's problem might be widespread across, across the company. Like there [...0.5s] could be repeated [...0.7s] orchestrations that [...1.0s] could be used for just one, one person, one specific thing, or that orchestration could be widespread, could be put into a lot of different [...0.7s] departments, different [...0.4s] sides of the business, different industries. And that's what's really great about orchestrations.Like a lot of people have the same problem, [...0.5s] so it's not hard to replicate something like that.And it's very simple. It can be very easy for a lot of these companies to [...0.5s] say, all right, here's one issue here, but [...0.8s] this other departments having the same issue, this other department, this, you know, list goes on.But it can be that simple of one thing is the actual issue, the over like the root issue [...0.6s] and you can fix it with one simple orchestration. [...1.3s] But anyways, [...0.5s] once the company identifies these issues, what's next, what's the next step?Well, like I said before, it's a little, it's at beginning taking those baby steps.So, you know, a lot of times, like, our consulting teams and all that, you can have a reimagining or process transformations things of that, where [...0.8s] let's say you're on [...1.0s] an older release of [...0.5s] 9 dot 2 as far as an update, you, maybe you're still running [...0.4s] the [...1.0s] pre release 22, and you're on tools 9. 2. 5 in your 32 bit.Yeah, so there's opportunities there where you could just do that, what we call technical upgrade.But you could also blend it a little bit with some application winds out of that and get some small quick wins. Um, [...0.5s] so, you know, by identifying that, it's giving you that business case to [...0.5s] update the software.Usually again, there's also, um, [...1.1s] company, especially if you're a public company, you, you have to have security patches, you have to have the software in a supported level and so forth.So these are good good times not to do just the technical upgrade, but say, well, we've done this process for the last 20 years this way. Maybe there's a different way now to, to make that more efficient. And once you do that, um, then the idea start flowing.And again, it's that first step, you know, it's just like, you, you gotta learn to crawl before you can walk, before you can run is [...0.6s] prediction on that. Um, but once you have that, [...0.4s] yeah, it's surprising the rate and the rapidness.Again, another customer example, one of the things they did to [...0.6s] get past what we call, you know, digital transformation.They said a criteria that [...0.7s] the ideas had to be [...0.9s] prototype proof concept and to be able actually be implemented [...0.6s] in 30 days or less. So you didn't have these giant projects that held everybody back, or you just couldn't be justified. You would do these quick wins that you could just do in days or weeks.So that's, that's been another really powerful piece of [...0.6s] JDR. JDR was worth the introduction of the user to find objects or udos, udios [...0.9s] different ways.But again, it's a software based, data based type construct that you're building it, so you're not having to [...0.6s] have the developer code it. We have to do package bills and all that. It's a very quick and dynamic way of, of getting that site, those processes done.Yeah, and [...1.2s] it's funny that you bring up udeos. I, I've always said udeo. I, I don't know if that's the right way to say it, but I always have, but that's funny ways.It's neither here nor there, but the, the crawl walk run. That's something that we've talked about on this podcast before, talking about quick wins starting to learn how to crawl, [...0.5s] but to begin [...0.4s] connecting JD Edwards orchestrations with OCI services. What should companies do to practically begin this? [...1.3s]Sure. The, the biggest thing is that the older tools releases do have the ability to call other rest APIs.So, you know, they can go out to the internet and grab what it is with [...0.6s] OCI though the authentication piece. Again, this comes down to [...0.6s] OCI security [...0.8s] and tools 9. 2. 8. 2, which was, um, [...1.2s] basically last year. Thank you for [...0.5s] when, um, nineteen [...1.3s] 8. 2, and then 9. 2, 9.0, which is released 25. They put in an enhancement for what they call the OCI API key, so that essentially allows you to set up an OCI, [...0.7s] a user with access to buried services.So you're leveraging E1 security to be able to ask [...0.8s] to certain orchestrations or applications, etc. But then on the OCI site to call those services and to use various OCI services like the object storage and or say a document understanding. There is security on that side as well. Um.So this API key that wants it set up is a very secure, you know, encrypted method. You can't just put in your name and password or anything like that.The APIs are being called from the orchestration [...0.5s] so that, um you know, it's, it's really locked down, and then you are opening it back up to specifics of what you wanna do.So, you know, the first thing someone has to do is get through the prerequisites of if I wanna use the OCI, I've got to be on, [...0.6s] yeah, at least as far as the tools are gonna be on the 9. 2, 8.2 or later. We actually have some that are on the application side of 9 dot two. They're all the way back, you know, maybe u n 2 or u n 3 which is 2,018. They've still done the 64 bit migration cause you have to do that [...0.5s] or Release 22 and above.But, yeah, once you meet those prerequisites, you prefer to get the apps updated as well, because then, you know, we got that synergy between tools and applications.But once you've got that in place, [...0.5s] now again, you've opened up that door to all the rich OCI feature sets, [...0.7s] the agents, the [...1.4s] again vision documents and etc, that, that are available out there.Yeah, obviously you have to have the right infrastructure to be able to begin a journey like this, and especially like orchestrations is a little bit different than like actual like AI side of things.Definitely. But [...1.0s] got to make sure that your infrastructure is there, is ready for the next step, or you could break things. And nobody likes anything broken.And JD Edwards, I know that to be true, we're having some, [...0.8s] you were talking earlier about how you're having issues with a certain customer being down. Um, obviously it probably wasn't that specifically, but things can break.So to have the right infrastructure, that's always the first step. But could you break down the essentials, our listeners who might not or who might be new, so [...0.5s] OCI iteration, [...1.1s] damn the.So again, the prerequisites that I'm talking about if you're going to an OCI service and no different if you're going to another [...0.8s] AI service as well.But, you know, you're gonna be in that cloud, so you're going to have, you know, some way of [...0.7s] accessing those services, you know, they you, there's some that you can test for free, but, you know, you get into volume, get into production.It is a service, it's a paid service that you're initiating there. So you will have to have what's called [...0.5s] an Oracle tenant in OCI. Um, that tenant is then, you know, your container of [...0.5s] your users that you're setting up for OCI integrations, um, and anything else that you're running it within Oracle cloud infrastructure.Yeah, again, you have the JD Edwards prerequisites to be able to communicate with it. And that's what I referenced the release 24, the Tools 9. 2. 8. 2, etc. Um, but, yeah, it's not, [...0.4s] yeah, you just can't call the API, you have to have an [...0.5s] actual account. It's very secure.So [...0.7s] you got those pieces in place. Again, that's what the power [...0.4s] of orchestration is. I can have solutions for mobile sites, mobile [...0.6s] areas, you know, the OCI just happens to be a nice way to consolidate that. Um.Let's say if you had certain data, you could put, um, your very private business data, maybe you wanna store that in an autonomous database there. So that's just, or your company only. There's, you know, there's nothing exposed out, there's nothing shared.Those type of situations. It's giving that flexibility, you know, to [...0.4s] design your solution [...0.5s] depending on what those business dates are going to be and then expand and scale [...0.5s] as you need to.Yeah, exactly. But alright, without further ado, we're gonna dive into some real world examples. Could you share some success stories about orchestrations integrating with OCI AI services?Yeah. So like I said, some of them that we do today are just regular, what I call just the regular OCI for provisioning and the infrastructure and so forth.The orchestrations can do that and automate [...0.6s] quite a bit of it. Um, they also have like if you were doing, [...0.6s] if we were a saint season, we were installing you into Oracle Cloud, we might basically [...0.4s] just have a system where it can go in and through what they call Terraform scripts. It provisions all the servers. It's [...0.6s] the [...0.4s] actual names called 1 click is.And like I said, the trial editions are a different subset of that where it's just an all in one on one instance. But [...0.8s] you could do that then with the OCI services.So what we're [...0.4s] doing now and doing more of [...0.6s] Oracle's JD Edwards direction is that [...0.8s] OC, the AI services cannot be [...1.2s] part of as far as coming from Oracle development. They cannot include the services in the software.So that's why they, they've done [...0.5s] putting this foundation in for the orchestration to be able to connect to whatever the customer choices are by allowing us to get to the OCI AI services. You know, what we've done there is now it's opened up that whole world.So they, the prime example is like the document understanding which we demoed at AI Week. Um, [...0.6s] you, what we had work will give you some really nice examples, but those are the demo examples.They're very, very specific use cases. What we did was take it a step further, we're in this particular case and then we'll go, we'll talk about it, but [...0.5s] the, you know, we could use those services and we tailored and trained a model to be able to do that.So, and I'll talk about that here in a little bit, but, um you know, that's [...0.9s] really [...0.4s] right now. We've had some that we've had at the, [...1.5s] some of the quest events and we've had [...0.8s] customers speaking there on certain services that we started working with, you know, the [...0.6s] other areas.And I'm not on the application site, so I'm the guy that makes the plumbing electrical work, [...0.5s] but [...0.6s] yeah, the bottom line is [...0.5s] you can take advantage of various services like the machine learning to identify trends and so forth.So we've had it looking at forecast and look at the data [...0.6s] and then provide something where instead of having a user sitting down doing all that analysis, you've got them in machine learning, identifying it.And then they're, they're getting to, to handle any exceptions or something that might look a little out of bounds, [...0.4s] uh, again, making them more productive [...1.4s] way to downplay what you do for sure, but you know what? I'll allow the electrical and plumbing there. [...1.1s] We all like, we all like our lights, and we all like to flush and get water. [...1.5s] But, yeah, I can't imagine what life would be like without that, honestly.Um, but to go back to what we were talking about a little bit earlier, you mentioned document understanding and OCI vision, how exactly are these services streamlining, stream lining, sorry, daily operations with JD [...0.7s] users.Well, like starting the OCI division, of course, Oracle has a lot of recognition already for [...0.9s] different types of object. So you can give it a photo, you can give a jpad, [...0.7s] whatever and it can be used to identify with confidence levels what it seem.Well, again, with the vision and same machine learning together, you could be looking at quality control.You know, that's kind of one of the [...0.6s] primary use case where the parts are coming along and it's scanning and looking at it and says, whoops, look this this is, [...0.5s] this component, here is missing something. Um.So then it could fly that and you basically JD Edwards would know when it was [...0.6s] putting together maybe the work order or so forth, [...0.4s] um, to be able to go in and say, well, we need to either look at this or reject this and so forth.So you get a lot of good pieces of that document understanding. On the other hand, [...0.5s] um, that's where we kind of focus the initial efforts. So, you know, again, that in that particular case, [...0.7s] it's reading text, word documents, pdfs, [...0.8s] repeating it, different types [...0.5s] of documents there.Again, depending on what it is, you may have to custom, have custom models that you train [...0.5s] more specifically for that. Oracle AI makes that really nice to do that. It's not as difficult, [...0.5s] um, and it may have been like 3, 4 years ago. Um, don't have to have data scientist to, to do that part.But in our case, we'll talk about what I demoed, um, at AI Week, [...0.6s] was we just had custom forms.So the forms would be able to do either suppliers or vendors and, or adding an employee. And it would take all that information depending on which one it was. It would come back to the orchestration with the fields that got plucked out of that document.And [...0.4s] you [...0.4s] again, a person didn't have to type all that in. This could be something coming from a vendor to, yeah, they send them the forum, they fill it out instead of someone had to key it all in. Um yeah, basically the Dockman are standing against the fields and then it can, it can notify.Hey, I've added this for you if you just wanna take a look at it. So that's been one of the, uh, [...0.7s] deep use cases [...0.5s] of, you know, removing some of that, [...0.6s] that again manual data entry.Yeah, exactly. And it cuts out, it cuts out the need for somebody to go through a work order or go through one of those documents and really [...0.5s] nitpick and see every single little thing that could take somebody.Yes, it might only take an hour or two or something like that to really go through document like that, but it does it in what five minutes or less ish.I might be underselling it at this point. When we did the, yeah, we did the demo. I mean, obviously that was a simple form of about 20 fields or so, but [...1.0s] it did that in well under 30 seconds. So see it, I was under selling it, I was under selling it, man. But again, more complex situations and all that you can, you can have more, but, yeah, you basically was different ones.And so by reading through it, it could do the [...0.8s] traditional address book ad and put in the various fields that it needed to. So, um, and, yeah, it's neat to see it. You can also, [...0.6s] you know, automate. It depends on, again, it's the use case.How often do you do that stuff? How much time would it save somebody? What are the error rates that have occurred in that process?And you have, we got it wrong [...0.5s] where maybe [...1.5s] someone was [...1.2s] classified as a vendor, but they were supplier [...1.0s] that much. So [...0.8s] again, that's, that's where the, the area helped with [...0.8s] get analyzing or looking at some of those trends [...0.8s] exactly. Then thank you for sharing that.Honestly, it's always great to look beyond, [...0.6s] obviously, everyone. Well, some of the people that are listening to this know what document understanding is. They know what OCI vision is, but it's hard to come up with your own use cases if you've never really utilized it.So it is great to hear an actual use case from somebody who has been around that a lot. I will say and correct me if I'm wrong. I assume you've seen this a lot so far ever since it really has been rolled out, right?Yeah I mean, orchestrations [...0.6s] again started, we started that out when it was IoT and [...1.2s] kind of [...1.4s] basically the paradigm change that. Hey, this is a great in an automation and integration tool.Like I said, it just, [...0.6s] yeah, the, it's been building and building and again, that's just another level where AI now can cooperate with that. And like I said, we're just assembling various services together [...0.6s] to accomplish certain goals and tasks.Yeah, it's been a lot of fun. I mean uh, it's been a long journey. [...1.6s] Learn again. Every day I Learned something new. So that's, that's also what keeps it. Maybe it's not your grandpa's JDE. Like like, like I said, [...0.9s] it definitely is a little different. I have a lot of war stories. [...1.2s] It's a lot different than what it was back in the 90s. That's for sure.Oh, we'll have to have you back on and talk about some of these war stories and what ended up happening in terms of how you fix them or something like that.I mean, just hearing about the use cases is something that it's invaluable, something that every customer would loves to hear, cause they might have seen that, they might have heard about it, they might have been going through it themselves.So it's always great to talk about use cases just in case it can help out somebody that is having that issue. But if today's episode has resonated and you're ready to eliminate manual task and significantly boost efficiency, now is the time to act.Visit ERP suites. Com or connect directly with Frank Jordan and his team. Whether you're looking for a quick automation wins or aiming for comprehensive digital transformation, ERP Suites has expertise and experience to help you achieve real measurable business outcomes.But that's a wrap on today's insightful episode of not your Grandpa's JD Edwards. Huge thanks to Frank Jordan. I know you've been insanely busy, so it's great to have you on here to share your valuable insights.And if you've enjoyed today's discussion, subscribe, leave us a review, and share this episode with anyone who's ready to move beyond outdated manual processes. Until next time, keep automating, keep innovating, keep pushing JD Edwards forward. Catch you later. [...3.9s]