The JD Edwards line is one of a number of high-profile acquisitions Oracle has made in the past 10 years, along with PeopleSoft and Siebel. While Oracle recently launched its long-awaited, the vendor's Applications Unlimited program pledges support and new updates for the acquired legacy product lines for many years to come.

One announcement on Monday concerned JD Edwards World A9.3, the latest version of a system that runs as a pre-bundled suite for IBM i platforms.

While planning the upgrade, Oracle "looked at a mature set of customers and thought about how we could improve their productivity," said John Schiff, vice president and general manager of JD Edwards World.

Improvements focus on sub-ledger accounting; better tools for producing slick product catalogs and invoices; accounting features that help make it easier to do business in the European Union; improved direct shipping processes; and integration with the Vertex Payroll Tax Q Series product.

JD Edwards World 9.3 also features finer-grained security and governance capabilities, including "work order activity rules that provide an additional layer of control over how and when changes are made to the status of a work order," according to a statement.