For years customers have been asking me if there was a quick and dirty way of generating nice looking, graphical reports from JD Edwards World.  The easy solution was to go buy Showcase or Crystal Reports and train a couple of power users to create reports.
In my opinion this option works but both showcase and Crystal reports are fairly sophisticated tools and the learning curve was steep for an ordinary user.  On top of that, your I.T. staff would still have to do anything that was complicated.
Well, there is …

Oracle proves they are not leaving World Customers behind.
The pre-built integration between JD Edwards World and DemantraDemand Management extends the existing demand management capabilitiesof JD Edwards World with powerful, advanced forecasting capabilitiesthat deliver enterprise-wide value by ensuring efficient,cost-effective production planning and global supply chain management.
The pre-built integration is available for JD Edwards World release A9.1 and enables organizations to:
1)  Automate the extraction of sales and sales history data from JD Edwards World into Demantra Demand …