Security & Audit
Technical User Documentation
Automatically generate comprehensive technical documentation and perform bulk Net Change analysis to simplify audits, upgrades, and compliance.
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A Powerful Technical Documentation Solution
Purpose-built for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne users—including developers, business analysts, external consultants, and IT management. It automatically generates comprehensive technical documentation and performs bulk comparisons across multiple programs to highlight changes, dramatically reducing the time and effort required by IT teams. By streamlining documentation and version tracking, the solution enhances audit readiness, simplifies upgrade preparation, and supports compliance with minimal manual intervention.
Trusted Expertise
20+ years delivering JDE-native tools built for real-world IT challenges.
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Purpose-Built
A fully automated documentation engine designed specifically for JDE.
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Unmatched Insight
Bulk comparisons and net-change tracking you won’t find in any other solution.
COMMON challenges
Clear Docs, Confident Teams
Automate technical documentation in JD Edwards and eliminate the risk of outdated specs, manual errors, and audit surprises.
Who can benefit from a well-documented system?
- Development team
- Business analyst
- External resources
- IT Management
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The Technical User Documentation tackles the widespread and persistent problem of inadequate, outdated, or entirely missing technical documentation in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne environments. In most projects, documentation is the first thing cut due to time or budget constraints, yet it’s critical for:
· Audit readiness and compliance
· Understanding customizations and modifications
· System maintenance and upgrades
· Knowledge retention when key personnel leave
Manually creating and updating technical documents is time-consuming, tedious, and error-prone—often pulling skilled developers away from strategic work. This Technical User Documentation solution solves this by automating documentation generation and providing instant, bulk comparison reports (Net Change), enabling teams to maintain accurate documentation with minimal effort. This improves efficiency, reduces risk, and supports better decision-making across IT and business functions.
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How it Works
Technical User Documentation transforms documentation from a burdensome chore into a strategic asset—enhancing visibility, reducing risk, and freeing up IT teams to focus on higher-value tasks. It is an automated documentation and comparison tool purpose-built for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. It works by directly connecting to the JDE database and extracting technical object metadata and specifications. Here’s how it provides value:
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1. Automated Technical Documentation
- What it does: Scans and documents vanilla and custom objects (UBEs, BSFNs, Tables, BSVWs, Applications, UDOs, etc.)
- Benefit: Eliminates manual effort, drastically reduces the time required, and ensures consistency and accuracy.
2. Net Change Reporting (Compare Functionality)
- What it does: Compares objects across environments or over time (e.g., Dev vs. Prod, Before vs. After an upgrade).
- Benefit: Quickly identifies what changed, who changed it, and when—critical for audits, troubleshooting, and upgrade planning.
3. Easy-to-Navigate Interface
- What it does: Presents technical data in structured, readable, exportable formats (Word, Excel).
- Benefit: Empowers functional consultants, auditors, and new developers to understand the system without requiring access to a development client.
4. Custom Object Auditing
- What it does: Flags and highlights customizations through comparisons.
- Benefit: Helps in upgrade readiness, simplification efforts, and assessing technical debt.
5. Knowledge Retention
- What it does: Creates a centralized documentation repository.
- Benefit: Protects against knowledge loss when staff leave or transition.
6. Rapid Onboarding and Training
- What it does: Provides immediate visibility into how objects are built and interconnected.
- Benefit: New team members get up to speed faster, reducing ramp-up time and dependency on SMEs.
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JD Edwards Integration
This solution integrates with JDE at the data layer, offering a powerful, secure, and non-intrusive way to document, analyze, and compare your technical landscape without altering your JD Edwards environment. Technical User Documentation integrates directly and securely with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne using native database connectivity and object metadata access.
Here’s how the integration works:
1. Direct Database Access
- How: CAT DOC connects to the JDE EnterpriseOne database (SQL Server, Oracle, or DB2) using read-only credentials.
- What it accesses: Object metadata stored in JDE’s central object repository (F9860, F9861, F9862, etc.) and other technical tables.
- Benefit: No JDE application layer changes or customizations are needed—completely non-invasive.
2. Object and Metadata Extraction
- How: It reads specifications of:
- UBEs (Reports)
- Applications (APPL)
- Business Functions (BSFN/NER)
- Tables (TBLE)
- Data Structures
- Business Views (BSVW)
- Processing Options (POs)
- Orchestrations (ORCH)
- Service Requests
- Notifications
- Whitelists
- Cross References
- Rules
- Composed Pages
- Benefit: Allows for deep visibility into how objects are configured and interact across environments.
3. Environment Comparison
- How: CAT DOC uses generated documentation to compare objects. This can compare documents generated at various stages of application releases, environments, and development progress.
- Benefit: Enables version control, change tracking, and supports deployment validation.
4. Export & Reporting
- How: Extracted data is converted into human-readable formats (Word, Excel) for documentation, review, and audit.
- Benefit: Makes technical information accessible to both developers and non-technical stakeholders.
5. Secure & Controlled
- Setup: Requires minimal setup—usually just a JDBC/ODBC connection with proper credentials.
- Security: Read-only access ensures no changes are made to the JDE system.
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Webinar | Streamline JDE Upgrades, Development, Documentation and Compliance with the JDE Toolkit
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The Key Benefits
Saves Time – Automates documentation that would otherwise take weeks of manual effort
Improves Accuracy – Eliminates human error in capturing technical object details and dependencies.
Enhances Upgrade Readiness – Speeds up retrofit planning by clearly showing object differences between environments.
Reduces Risk – Provides reliable impact analysis to avoid unintended consequences during development or upgrades.
Supports Compliance – Delivers audit-ready documentation for internal controls or external reviews.
Boosts Developer Efficiency – Frees up technical teams to focus on value-added development work.
Accelerates Onboarding – Helps new team members quickly understand JDE customizations and system design.
Saves Time
Improves Accuracy
Enhances Upgrade Readiness
Reduces Risk
Supports Compliance
Boosts Developer Efficiency
Accelerates Onboarding
Features
Key Features for Smarter Documentation
The tool offers a unique capability in the JDE E1 ecosystem to analyze and document net changes across multiple programs simultaneously, a feature not available in any other JDE E1 solution. Some of its key features are;
- Bulk object comparisons across programs and environments
- Instant documentation for UBEs, Applications, Tables & more
- Net-change visibility between DV, PY, PD, etc.
- Impact analysis for upgrades and system changes Full metadata extraction
- Clean, exportable reports in Excel and Word
- No custom code or JDE modifications needed
- Supports multiple environments via direct DB access
- Cuts documentation time from weeks to minutes
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