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Quick Look: PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) 9.1 Enhancements
We had a huge response to our high-level discussion of what’s coming in the upcoming release of PeopleSoft Financials 9.1. Today, we will focus on PeopleSoft’s Asset Life Cycle Management (ALM) product line. If you have been reading any of our previous posts, you understand that the ALM suite consists of the following products: Asset
Read More...Why Excel Is Not an Enterprise Business Intelligence Solution
But don’t let the title fool you. I am not one of those Business Intelligence (BI) consultants who thoroughly bashes and discounts Excel. I think Excel is a flexible, powerful tool that has almost limitless uses and value. In fact, before becoming a convert to enterprise BI, I used Excel to create the world’s greatest
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Maira Kalman for the NYTimes’s And the Pursuit of Happiness blog is featuring an exploration of Ben Franklin that everyone – yes, everyone – should take a few minutes to read and consider. It sits nicely at the intersection of poignant and beautiful. You’re seriously missing out if you don’t see the whole thing.
Read More...Google’s Eric Schmidt Resigns From Apple Board of Directors
Apple PR: “Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to help make Apple successful,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple’s core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple Board member will be significantly diminished,
Read More...The Best of the Internet: Friday Links Edition for July 31, 2009
Here’s John Gruber with a poignant analysis of Microsoft’s current state of the union. No fanyboyism here, just some astute between-the-lines interpretation. Michael Pollan, one of my favorite authors, explains the strange juxtaposition of the decline of American household cooking and the rise of watching people cook on TV. I could not agree more
Read More...PeopleSoft ‘Edge of the Enterprise’ Applications: eSupplier Connection & eSettlements
In the current economy, it goes without saying that companies are continually looking for options to improve their bottom line. And naturally, software vendors are more than happy to provide you the tools to achieve these results. I would like to take the time to discuss a couple of applications that truly deliver on that
Read More...That’s $1,157,442,765,409,225 Per Cigarette
I knew smoking was expensive, but this ridiculous: MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars. Josh Muszynski (Moo-SIN’-ski) checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number
Read More...Verizon to Offer Palm Pre in Early 2010
I think this news, simply translated, means the iPhone won’t be announced on Verizon as soon as many hoped it would: There is still no official word about when or if Verizon Wireless will ever get Apple’s iPhone, but the wireless operator has confirmed it will be getting the Palm Pre early next year. The
Read More...PeopleSoft Financials: Source-to-Settle 9.1 Enhancements
Let’s just put it this way: PeopleSoft 9.1 a hot topic right now. If our webserver logs are to be believed, a huge portion of our readership is very interested in what enhancements will be in the upcoming release of PeopleSoft Financials 9.1. Well, I am happy to say that Oracle has published the release
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