Catarina Fake on why working hard, while a popular business dogma, is misguided: Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on. Paying attention to what is going on in the world. Seeing patterns. Seeing things as they are rather than how you want them to be.
Read More...Something I find many folks don’t know, at least on one level or another: most of today’s business intelligence (BI) solutions have been designed and built with integration into Microsoft Office in mind. Arguably, Excel is the main medium to which most BI information is exported (or in some cases, it can be the BI
Read More...Now that Oracle has announced the general availability of PeopleSoft HRMS 9.1, I would like to take some time over my next three blog posts to discuss some of the mainline enhancements that are relevant to PeopleSoft shops. This is a widely-anticipated release, and there’s some powerful stuff in the 9.1 version. Before we get
Read More...I am going to provide you two sets of links today. One set of links you should not click if you want to be anything resembling productive; the other you can click and still salvage your workday. The first set comes to you courtesy of Jason Kottke, who has decided to post some of the
Read More...Oracle’s Curtiss Barnes on the new Continuous Delivery Model for Campus Solutions: First and foremost, this is an inflection point for us and represents the first (highly visible) move to the next generation of PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions (CS). Several years ago, when Oracle announced Applications Unlimited, we indicated that we would continue the development
Read More...A look at a new settlement method gaining popularity with PeopleSoft Payables users.
Read More...People early in their career should learn from computer science: meander some in your walk (especially early on), randomly drop yourself into new parts of the terrain, and when you find the highest hill, don’t waste any more time on the current hill no matter how much better the next step up might appear. Great
Read More...Given the substantial amount of traffic linking to our earlier PeopleTools 8.5 post, you might be interested to know that PeopleTools 8.5 is now available through Oracle’s E-Delivery portal. You first have to provide some user information and accept the EULA terms, but the you can select PeopleSoft Enterprise and your relevant OS/hardware platform, and
Read More...But first, a story about a cat. I grew up with four cats, which I cleverly named in matching pairs: Sugar, Spice, Thunder and Lightning. Back then, when I was nine years old, this with the national criteria for genius and the most reliable harbinger for future success (that and creating small musical instruments out
Read More...Excellent insight into the rarified air of Oracle’s executive management culture, particularly as it relates to a limelight-shunning powerhouse, Safra Catz: Thirty executives had gathered in a conference room on the 11th floor of Oracle’s headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif., to discuss business alliances. Ellison, as is his wont, fidgeted in his seat and grew
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