Since we announced our fixed-fee PeopleTools 8.5 upgrade service, we’ve had a lot of interest and inquiries about not only how our service works, but what, exactly, PeopleTools 8.5 gives you. We’ve covered that here and here, but recently Oracle announced an additional benefit of licensing PeopleTools 8.5, and we’re finding it’s something many prospects
Read More...Following in the wake of last week’s news that Steve Jobs won Fortune’s CEO of the Decade, Fortune ran an ancillary feature in which 8 business megastars talk about Steve Jobs. I particularly like Larry Ellison’s anecdote: I remember when Steve was my neighbor in Woodside, Calif., and he had no furniture. It struck me
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Read More...We have posted multiple posts on the new PeopleTools 8.5 release (here’s our most popular; here’s our shameless plug), in addition to several posts on the value of Oracle OBIEE and BI apps. However, today’s post will talk about PeopleTools 8.5: for customers who have both PeopleSoft and Oracle OBIEE, there is some additional value
Read More...Two bits of exciting news to share with everyone today. First, we’ve won SE Michigan’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For for the fourth year in a row. We’re excited about that, because no matter what we do or why we do it, it’s not worth it if the work experience (and, by
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Read More...Previously, we have discussed the value of Oracle BI apps for PeopleSoft, and we have examined some key implementation considerations. Today, in this final post on the topic, I would like to chat about the biggest buzzword of them all: ROI. The key question for many customers is this: does it really make sense to
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