The second sentence in the announcement by Kristen Emery over at PeopleSoft Apps Strategy says it all: This Update Image is the largest and most impactful PeopleSoft Update Image posted to date. And it certainly is. The buzz around Fluid User Interface is astonishing. It was one of the main themes at Oracle OpenWorld last
Read More...We have written several times about the new PeopleSoft Update Manager (here, here and here) and Continuous Delivery Model (here and here), because they drastically transform the PeopleSoft delivery and update image administration experience. At this year’s OpenWorld, they constituted headline-grabbing educational sessions for the PeopleSoft community. You could say they’re sort of a big deal.
Read More...While we’ve written some thoughts about Marc Weintraub’s OpenWorld 2014 roundup blog post, it’s always interesting to see the show through another’s eyes, particularly as it relates to PeopleSoft. Matthew Haavisto, whom we consider an observant eye in the PeopleSoft space, posted his thoughts on OpenWorld 2014 over at his blog, the PeopleSoft Technology Blog. The good news? Haavisto
Read More...There’s a saying: in business, you have two choices: win by being more regular, more standard and lower cost. Or win by being better, more remarkable, higher quality and more human. There’s another saying, an adjunct, more a piece of branding reality: you want people to either love or hate your brand. Those in the
Read More...First, some key figures from this year’s OpenWorld: 50,000+ attendees 135 PeopleSoft-relevant sessions 12 PeopleSoft demonstration stations It was, in a word, vibrant. We were excited by the energy surrounding PeopleSoft, and Oracle did indeed focus on the two areas we’ve been writing about on this blog for the past few months. Continuous Delivery – new
Read More...We have weekly talks with clients about PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 and why it’s such a worthwhile upgrade. In the most recent version of PeopleSoft Talk with Marc Weintraub, Director of PepleSoft HCM Product Strategy Maria Ana Santiago gives a great 12-minute rundown on what makes PeopleSoft HCM so effective. Topics covered include: HR transformation How
Read More...If anyone knows something about hard drives, it’s Backblaze, whose very existence depends on the reliable, stable backup of its customers’ data. Earlier this year Backblaze published a report that detailed their operational experience with hard drives from Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi and others. Just last month, they updated their findings based on the 34,000
Read More...We have written quite a bit about the new PeopleSoft release model, but we have conversations about it weekly. We still find that many customers have high-level questions about the new model and how update images are released and deployed (in contrast with how they used to be released). That’s the crux here: organizations are used
Read More...In case you missed it: here is Larry Ellison’s keynote speech at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld, presented last week on Sunday, September 28, 2014. Definitely worth an hour of your time.
Read More...This news is getting around, but the ‘Shellshock’ bash exploit (aka Bash Bug) that was recently discovered is pretty severe. It affects over 500 million web servers running the Bash shell under Unix, Linux and some Mac OS X, Windows Server and even Android deployments. On the enterprise front, Oracle has released a Security Alert
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