— Eric Thorsen , GVP Technology Presales , Field CTO at JDA Software visible partnership is our work with Microsoft . Azure is our strategy for cloud and is where our Luminate solution runs . We also chose to partner with MuleSoft due to their best of breed integration platform that allows us to enable APIs and provide enterprise-class integration .”

Thorsen has clear ideas of what he anticipates the future to look like at JDA Software over the next few years and beyond . “ In order to stay ahead , we have to listen to our customers and pay attention to changing market demands ,” he says . “ We have our own concept of a crystal ball and what we expect the future to look like . We hold an annual event for everyone at JDA to come together and collaborate on ideas of things to try out . It ’ s a wonderful venue for teams to get together and build something , mock up a prototype and show the commitment to a certain element of the supply chain or customer demand . It ’ s a great opportunity to think about what ’ s possible . We should always be thinking about what we should implement next .”

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