Rocky Agrawal, reporting for TechCrunch: This morning American Express is launching a new deals platform in partnership with Facebook that should make big waves in the payments and offers space. Winners: Facebook, American Express, small businesses Losers: Groupon, LivingSocial, Google, foursquare, VISA, MasterCard With the new platform, merchants will be able to target deals at American
Read More...No long commentary today, but I did find an interesting take on archiving from an entertainment industry perspective, as opposed to the more typical IT, taxes or business records standpoints. If you think about the digital assets the entertainment industry generates (film, animation, models, textures, CGI artwork, etc.), you begin to see how archiving needs
Read More...I’ve always been a little bit of a techno-geek. While I am rarely bleeding edge, I usually like to be one of the first to embrace a new technology. Over the years, I have watched the crossover create convergence, and found myself amazed at the transition. Does anybody remember writing memorandums and actually sending (or
Read More...Last week, I talked to you about Charleston, South Carolina and the very real chance that you would burst into flame if you dared walk outside. I’m happy to say that I have returned uncombusted and in fact with a report of perhaps the best singular meal I’ve ever eaten. So yes, here I’m going
Read More...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
Read More...The99percent.com has posted Simon Sinek’s talk about leadership, trust, authenticity and meaning. Sinek is a well-known ethnographer and leadership expert, and here he argues that everything we say and do is a symbol of who we really are. He also argues something I’ve said several times over on this blog: if you communicate genuinely, without
Read More...I recently attended the Oracle Human Resources Group (OHUG) meeting in Orlando. As a consulting partner/vendor I had a chance to talk to a large number customers — both Oracle eBusiness and PeopleSoft HCM– about their current plans and their perception of Fusion. I have to admit, I was surprised by what I perceived to
Read More...We’ve been saying for a few weeks now that PeopleTools 8.52 is shaping up to be quite a powerful release, and we recently learned of three other new enhancements that are sure to make developers happy — especially if they’re into PeopleTools AppDesigner. Here’s the one we hear about quite a bit, as detailed by
Read More...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
Read More...We are fortunate – very fortunate actually – to have a very talented team of managers, consultants and sales professionals here at MIPRO. Every day, you, our daily readers, have the opportunity to read something new, exciting (we hope) and in most cases of high value (we really hope), here on our blog. And for
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