J.D. Edwards & Company engages in the development and marketing of collaborative enterprise software that helps its customers meet their enterprise needs and collaborate with trading partners. Its software manages and stores large volumes of diverse business information, providing its customers continuous and simultaneous availability of information to geographically dispersed employees, customers, and suppliers. The company’s family of collaborative enterprise software, J.D. Edwards 5, consists of seven product lines: enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, supply chain management, supplier relationship management, business intelligence, collaboration and integration, and tools and technology. J.D. Edwards also provides consulting, education, and support services. It markets to defined vertical markets and sub-segment categories in the manufacturing and distribution, project and service oriented, and asset-intensive industries. The company develops software in 21 languages that is used by approximately 6,700 mid-market and large customers worldwide. J.D. Edwards competes with Oracle, SAP AG, Intentia, IFS, Microsoft Business Solutions, i2 Technologies, Manugistics Group, and Siebel Systems. J.D. Edwards & Company is a subsidiary of Oracle Corp.