J.D. Edwards

Freedom to Choose in the Internet Economy

With approximately 6,000 customers, 5,000 employees and $1 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2000, J.D. Edwards & Company (NASDAQ: JDEC) is the leading provider of agile, collaborative solutions for the Internet economy. For more than 22 years, J.D. Edwards has provided innovative, flexible business solutions essential to running complex and fast-moving multinational organizations � acting as a true business partner enabling companies of all sizes leverage their existing investments, take advantage of new technologies, maintain competitive advantage and deliver shareholder value.

J.D. Edwards is shaping the next phase of e-business in the Internet economy: collaborative commerce (C-Commerce). C-Commerce is the ability to deliver open, collaborative technologies that allow communication among organizations, suppliers and customers across the supply chain, thereby maximizing value in business-to-business environments. J.D. Edwards� C-Commerce initiative extends its value proposition to inter-enterprise collaboration by providing customers with freedom from proprietary standards, freedom to adopt new technologies, freedom of interoperability between all applications, and the freedom to put the best idea into action. These freedoms result in companies� ability to become more competitive in today�s fast moving B2B environment, intelligently plan for changes in the market, and streamline inter-company processes. J.D. Edwards is the only company providing customers with the freedom to choose how they assemble their internal and external applications and how they collaborate with partners in the Internet economy.

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