JDA Software Reviews

Pros

1. The people are generally smart, competent and friendly
2. Lots of opportunity for career or professional development
3. Formal recognition program
4. The CEO is the most polished leader I have ever worked with and is smart and genuinely approachable as well as forth right.

Cons

1. Too much bureacracy and middle management which often times results in commuication failures
2. Promotions seem arbitrary and inconsistent.
3. The level of frugality often leads to short terms fixes that don't take into account long term concerns

Advice to Senior Management

The company is a hodge-podge of acquired companies and they should focus more on making a single JDA culture. Also, management needs to be more transparent on their decision making processes.

Pros

good pay, good salary. good work ethics.

Cons

lately they are outsourcing lot of development jobs to india.

Pros

Nice place to work, freedom of thought and expression, excellent management team, good place to work at, excellent learning potential

Cons

Lower salary levels than other companies

Pros

great work life balance
Great onsite opportunities if you get lucky

Cons

not too much room to change
Too dependent on the client

Advice to Senior Management

better projects should come out way

Pros

Conservative management which means the company will be around a long time.
Very process-oriented.
Very industry-leading technology

Cons

Sometimes the processes can be too rigid where people spend too much time filling out forms vs. doing their job.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to streamline the internal paperwork so that employees can focus on doing their job. But this is a nit, JDA is a great place to work.

Pros

Great pay master but they can lock you out of the market by making high pays

Cons

In India, the job might involve only low-level tasks since other regions are only shipping low-level work to India. This might cause you to never learn anything new - you might get locked into a strain zone and not a stretch zone

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management in India were leaders of small 20-30 people teams of smaller acquired companies. You need to refresh leadership with people who understand how to facilitate and not just monitor. You might also want to watch out of the line of commands in the organization. There are lot of teams where there are not people in the line of command than the actual people doing the work - everyone is a manager, director or VP

Pros

Open culture and approachable management

Cons

Less no. of office locations and not many options to work from home. Too old policies.

Advice to Senior Management

Policies need to be employee friendly.

Pros

The pay check is the best in the industry. You will feel recognized at the end of the day for the work that you execute. You will get an opportunity to get exposed to a plethora of their resources both online and resources that are also available for the associates internally. Knowledge sharing sessions are great to attend.

Cons

The pay check becomes a bane for you at the end of the day when you feel dissatisfied with your job considering the different facets to move over to another company. There aren't many companies that can match the pay check offered by JDA. Scope for growth is limited and you will have to wait for years and then you will also have to contribute at a consistent pace to the product, which is not possible.

Advice to Senior Management

Get your middle level managers to work with the team rather than just be the face of the team.

Pros

JDA Software is a leading vendor of supply chain management solutions. One can really build an expertise in the Supply Chain space by working at JDA.

Cons

More focus on acquisitions and less on internal innovation.

Pros

If you are interested in supply chain, you will find several colleagues who are gurus and are gem of people whom you would love to work with. One can always hope to get challenging work, diversity of staff, customers and industries. Being a small company, it offers opportunities to make your own decisions within a project. Those of love independence,can find it here. There is immense amount of stuff to learn on your own as you will often work with multi-cultural and transnational teams in projects, so you can be independently taking charge of your work and also be a team player.

Cons

Company barely does the job of looking after the development of its employees. There are a few eyewash programs existing which the executive use as a rhetoric if you ever raise them up. The management focuses heavily on sales but just not get that the other organizations like support and consulting are the one which is capable of generating sales leads and that there should be reward programs in place and yes widely publicized . There is an air of secrecy around promotions, salaries and bonuses. They are poorly structured and are not motivating enough for people to look forward to. The management is greatly skewed, it is full of people with white or grey hair and I feel it makes the company very dull. I will not be hesitant to write that as a company it is very dull but you could have fun with your colleagues in projects.

Advice to Senior Management

Quite a number of senior executive have been fired in the past. It puts a question mark on the management's ability to hire right people for leadership roles. It seems the company has too many VPs, EVPs, SVPs, RVPs, and probably a few more species of VP which I do not remember but has hardly any middle management which could convert ideas into action. The company needs a younger breed and bigger middle management and reduce the numbers on top. The people who are customer facing have a higher probability of getting a sales lead than a salesman who has no prior history with a company. The people who get leads must be rewarded nicely. If you feel that you have this in place and I am still writing it, then there is a message here- you do not either practice it or it has not been communicated properly or the reward is not adequate. Pls invest in your people not management. What is the aim of the company? What are we trying to achieve as a company?