Software As A Service (SAAS) for JD Edwards

With SaaS, software, applications and all of the associated data are hosted remotely by Syntax on a subscription basis, translating into the following key benefits for your business:

• Reduced Costs and Investment Protection
• Faster Implementation
• No Infrastructure
• Access to Most Current Technology and Upgrades
• Backup and Data Recovery
• Focused IT for Business
• Mobile and Accessible via the Internet
• Scalable and Customizable

Fees vary based on your needs. For as low as $250 per user/month, Syntax’s JD Edwards SaaS offering includes:

• Fully Hosted Solution in the Cloud
• Managed Services (Infrastructure + CNC)
• Implementation Services Including
• Technical Consulting
• Application Consulting
• Development
• Project Management
• SaaS Software Licenses
• Technical Support

Yes. SaaS is the most economical way to take your business to the next level with the implementation of Oracle ERP software. For many companies, spending capital on the technologies required to run their business limits their ability to stay current and be competitive. The traditional application delivery model has many components that are expensive, complex and require several full time resources to maintain.

A Software as a Service agreement is subscription-based, structured on a monthly cost-per-user basis. SaaS provides an alternative to making a large capital investment in owning and operating your own software, hardware and infrastructure.

Each SaaS solution is unique and customized to the needs of your business. Costs are determined by the number of users on the system. The cost per user is made up of the following components:

• The specific software functionality that is licensed
• Technology requirements (servers, storage, OS license, DB license, networking and datacenter infrastructure).
• Support needs (technical support for your usage of the data center, OS, database, server, storage, and network).

As your company expands, your needs are bound to increase. The on-demand scalability of a SaaS license model is designed to quickly accommodate the growth of your company. The cost of adding new users could be as low as $40 per user/month.

Technically and functionally, there is no difference. The full power of any ERP application is available with either solution, without restriction. The user experience is the same. The only difference is that SaaS is a subscription-based model vs. an owned solution, which is a purchase model. It’s like leasing a car vs. buying one. Sometimes a lease can be cleaner and easier.

Syntax has the ERP expertise to help you formulate the best SaaS plan based on your business’s needs and growth projections. The attribution of all costs is completely transparent. This will ensure your monthly fees are always as expected. Since SaaS is perfectly scalable, if your company’s growth rate exceeds expectations, (GREAT NEWS!) and additional users, storage, or other data needs are required, we can adjust the SaaS agreement to account for those needs in a cost-effective manner.

You do not need to buy any hardware with SaaS. That’s one of the benefits of the license model. You’ll get access to the latest equipment like robust, redundant, and high availability servers in a private cloud environment. SaaS allows you to leverage strong and secure system architecture and pay only for what you use. You get all the benefits of the latest technology without the high cost.

Your SaaS solution is 100% supported. There is no need to hire a technology genius or IT team. You will of course need someone to administer the use of the system, but no investment in technology resources is required.

The Syntax enterprise cloud is the fastest, most reliable cloud specifically engineered for JD Edwards, by JD Edwards subject matter experts. The key benefits include:

• Investment Protection – Highly Available System Architecture
• Subscription-based license model (JDE SaaS)
• On-demand scalability
• 24×7 support
• Risk Mitigation – Employee Attrition, Inferior technology, IT Budget Overrun
• Syntax is an Oracle Sell Partner and an IBM Premier Business partner with a 45+ year history providing technology solutions to businesses of all sizes. We deliver the best combination of hardware, software, cloud & hosting solutions to meet the needs of our customers.

Over 250 Oracle JD Edwards customers have trusted us to help them get the most value out of their ERP software on an ongoing basis.

Our growing cloud and managed services division is led by our team of IT experts who excel at developing comprehensive solutions to make our clients’ businesses more efficient and more productive.

Syntax’s SaaS offering utilizes Oracle Accelerate and the SyntaxExpress Accelerate Implementation Methodology to provide SaaS customers with a rapid start up without sacrificing any of the powerful functionality and flexibility of Oracle ERP. Syntax is one of only a few companies in North America certified by Oracle to offer the SaaS model for Oracle.

The “on-demand” scalability of the SaaS license model is quick to activate. New functionality and users can be turned on as needed to accommodate local and multi-national expansion. Like flipping a switch – we remove the complexity and long lead-time from any deployment project.

Yes, because SaaS is subscription-based. Your business does not need to hire, train, and staff an entire IT department. Your company does not need to build or support a data center. Those are significant up-front expenses you’ll avoid while running the ERP software you need to succeed.

You can even roll your implementation charges into the monthly costs per user for a true zero-capital solution.

The SaaS license model provides the cleanest approach to severance from an IT perspective. The transfer of ownership is seamless. Software licenses are assignable and there are no components to rip out of a physical data center. There’s no need to extract users and their data from any system.

Without the need to maintain a data center and server infrastructure, your IT team can focus on more mission critical assignments. You can put your IT department to work on more strategic initiatives that can help grow your business, instead of maintaining your network and data center environments. If downsizing is your objective, a SaaS solution is a viable option.

Every SaaS solution is customized for your business. By working with Syntax you’ll get access to North America’s foremost ERP experts to help define and implement the right software with the necessary modifications you need to get the most of your ERP system. We specialize in customizing software for our clients and have successfully deployed numerous personalized solutions for clients in various  industries.

Yes. You can extract your company data out of the Syntax SaaS license. It’s no different from owning the software or hosting your data on premise.

Absolutely. If your company has been off of maintenance for more than 2 years, you have the option to relicense your ERP software as if you were a new customer. There can be many benefits.

SaaS is the most cost-effective way for you to relicense your software and get the benefit of an upgrade – and get back on support. By signing up for SaaS with Syntax, you are effectively renting your software, and earning all the benefits of the upgraded software and Syntax’s expert ERP support.

Off-maintenance customers wishing to maintain a perpetual license model would be subject to backdated maintenance charges and new support contracts, in addition to the cost of an upgrade. Rather than committing to this big capital expenditure at once, SaaS allows you to budget a fixed monthly amount and run the same software as you would in a traditional application delivery model, fully hosted and supported by Syntax.