Sneak peek: PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 9.1
PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 9.1 will be a significant release for the portal because it will incorporate web 2.0 technologies and take advantage of a variety of new UI enhancements.
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Quote: On simplicity
“There is something infinitely touching when an artist, in old age, takes on simplicity. The artist is saying: display and bravura are tricks for the young, and yes, showing off is part of ambition; but now that we are old, let us have the confidence to speak simply.” —Author Julian Barnes (Via Signal vs. Noise)
Read More...Cisco’s vision of the smart grid
I’ve read wisps of ‘smart grid’ technology in documents describing upcoming enterprise software functionality (namely, PeopleSoft), but the macro market is clearly shaping up. Cisco – whose networking gear is heavily smattered across the internet infrastructure landscape – sees a $20B/year opportunity to give the aging, analog electrical grid a much-needed digital facelift. Cisco’s move
Read More...Back to basics: Why choose an enterprise Business Intelligence tool, anyway?
For many, the notion of Business Intelligence (BI) is simply means a reporting tool or the ho-hum ability to extract data from a source system. However, with today’s technology having moved way past BI’s introductory stigma, enterprise BI is another animal entirely. Certainly reporting is part of the equation, but there are key differences between
Read More...PeopleTools 8.5: A look inside
As many in the PeopleSoft world may or may not know, Oracle is on the verge of releasing PeopleTools 8.5 this year. This release is significant because of some of the advances that have been incorporated into it. Many of the enhancements are going to greatly improve the end-user experience, and rumor has it that
Read More...What Zappos teaches us about business culture, character and nuance
I keep going back to Robert Scoble’s essay about what businesses can learn from Zappos, especially from management, ethics and culture standpoints. Scoble was lucky enough to spend some time inside the company, including a good discussion with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. This admittedly long post will eventually lead to what gives a company its
Read More...How to do traditional advertising right
These days, almost all ‘traditional’ advertising equates to voluntary contributions to the ocean of ad noise out there that nobody pays attention to. It’s boring, wordsmithed into the ground, filed so that every possible catchy edge has been worn into dust. It’s been reviewed by legal and boundary-cased so that no possible negative impression can
Read More...QUOTE: On discerning what matters
Something we discuss all the time when talking to our prospects and clients, as consultants often find themselves facing myriad information: I learned back in the days when I was consulting that they give you more information than you could possibly read. So you needed to quickly step back and say, “What are the two
Read More...Oracle and Sun and the key question from many technologists
You can’t step inside an RSS reader or Twitter today without reading about the Oracle/Sun acquisition, so I’ll assume for a moment that most everyone knows that Oracle plans to buy Sun for $7.4B or $9.50 per share in cash. I’ll also assume that everyone has heard Ellison’s definite (and somewhat foreboding, especially if you’re
Read More...ANNOUNCEMENT: Two new whitepapers now available (PeopleSoft + Business Intelligence)
These have been circulating on our Twitter feed, but for all of our new blog visitors (hi everyone!), I thought I’d post our recently-published whitepapers here. They are: PeopleSoft Maintenance Management: An Introduction and Overview of Benefits An overview of PeopleSoft Maintenance Management and its superiority relative to point solutions. This paper discusses the MM/ALM-centric
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