Are You Running or Managing Your Business?

Larry Zagata | MIPRO

Are You Running or Managing Your Business?

Recently, I was traveling to Kansas City to give a presentation on using PeopleTools 8.5 to improve business intelligence.  Little did I know that my travel would offer me a good opening example to support the presentation. If you are a reader of this blog then you are likely familiar with the statement “ERP systems

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Using PeopleTools 8.51+ to Improve Business Intelligence

The live demonstration below will discuss and demonstrate how to take advantage of native PeopleTools 8.51 and higher to improve business intelligence in your organization. In this video, we show you how to expand business intelligence into PeopleSoft utilizing delivered tools to “configure,” not “customize” your solution and improve the business process with embedded business

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Oracle Mobile BI

We have discussed OBIEE and its analytics capabilities in detail in previous blog posts here on Unfiltered.  So it follows that we’d call out that Oracle announced the availability of a new Oracle BI Mobile option, which allows any OBI 11g customer to deploy all their existing dashboards to mobile devices (iPad, iPhone) without any

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What Is a Team Operating Agreement and Is It Right for Your Project?

An operating agreement is defined as ‘a set of agreed-upon parameters and mutual expectations that defines a process of working together’.  The operating agreement allows you to express your expectations for each project team member, your operating guidelines and allows you to hold project team members accountable for their commitments and obligations.  In certain organizations,

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The BluePrint Workshop

So you just spent six months creating a Request For Proposal (RFP), distributing that RFP to a list of 15 possible vendors, shortlisting the vendors, conducting oral presentations, selecting your implementation partner, executing weeks of contract negotiations and finally after thousands of person hours invested you are ready to start the implementation.  So, what’s the

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Utilizing Native PeopleTools for Improved Business Intelligence

In past blogs we have discussed both business intelligence, PeopleSoft functionality and the potential to merge both of those worlds.  With some of the delivered features and enhancements with PeopleTools 8.51 we can get very specific of how we can embed business intelligence into the PeopleSoft business transaction.  ERP solutions allow you to run your

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PeopleSoft Clients: What Can Web Services Do For You?

In the PeopleSoft context, a web service provides external applications a web-based means of accessing PeopleSoft data. Web services are implemented through the PeopleTools Integration Broker (IB) framework.  PeopleSoft Enterprise delivers web services that facilitate integration, including integrations with external partners, making processes more streamlined and efficient.  Integrations can be costly to develop, maintain and

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Oracle 11g and Spatial Business Intelligence

With Oracle 11g, you can take your business intelligence to the next level with spatial business intelligence. What does that mean?  It’s simply a name for a set of features that allow you to view key data based upon that data being graphically represented on maps which depict state level, regional level, country level, etc.

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Project Risk and the Project Progress Assessment (PPA): Keeping Your Project on the Straight and Narrow

In our last blog about project risk, we made mention of our Project Progress Assessment Workshop which supports risk identification, management and mitigation. PeopleSoft implementations can be complex and challenging with many projects running within the core project. Ensuring that all activities, obligations, project structure and deliverables are met on time is a challenge unto

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