I’m here to talk about the January 2015 1099 season. It’s not quite officially here yet, but it is fast approaching. I always tell our clients that Oct-Dec is the time to review your 1099 data. By starting the data cleanup process now, it will give you more time in January to focus on creating the
Read More...First, some key figures from this year’s OpenWorld: 50,000+ attendees 135 PeopleSoft-relevant sessions 12 PeopleSoft demonstration stations It was, in a word, vibrant. We were excited by the energy surrounding PeopleSoft, and Oracle did indeed focus on the two areas we’ve been writing about on this blog for the past few months. Continuous Delivery – new
Read More...We have weekly talks with clients about PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 and why it’s such a worthwhile upgrade. In the most recent version of PeopleSoft Talk with Marc Weintraub, Director of PepleSoft HCM Product Strategy Maria Ana Santiago gives a great 12-minute rundown on what makes PeopleSoft HCM so effective. Topics covered include: HR transformation How
Read More...As we hear increasing buzz about the PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface (which we’ve written about several times before), Oracle is doing a nice job of providing overview videos to help spread the word and allow organizations to see the new look and feel of PeopleSoft powered by version 9.2 and PeopleTools 8.54. Below are three videos
Read More...If anyone knows something about hard drives, it’s Backblaze, whose very existence depends on the reliable, stable backup of its customers’ data. Earlier this year Backblaze published a report that detailed their operational experience with hard drives from Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi and others. Just last month, they updated their findings based on the 34,000
Read More...We have written quite a bit about the new PeopleSoft release model, but we have conversations about it weekly. We still find that many customers have high-level questions about the new model and how update images are released and deployed (in contrast with how they used to be released). That’s the crux here: organizations are used
Read More...In case you missed it: here is Larry Ellison’s keynote speech at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld, presented last week on Sunday, September 28, 2014. Definitely worth an hour of your time.
Read More...This news is getting around, but the ‘Shellshock’ bash exploit (aka Bash Bug) that was recently discovered is pretty severe. It affects over 500 million web servers running the Bash shell under Unix, Linux and some Mac OS X, Windows Server and even Android deployments. On the enterprise front, Oracle has released a Security Alert
Read More...MIPRO Consulting Featured in Executive Insight September 2014 For the healthcare industry, the government-mandated move to electronic medical records (EMR) has helped to overcome some pervasive industry-wide inertia and sparked the adoption and implementation of new IT infrastructure for a large swath of organizations. While this has been a welcome and necessary move forward
Read More...Oracle has released a very well-written white paper on the continuous delivery model associated with PeopleSoft 9.2. The paper does a good job of describing how the new continuous delivery model requires organizations to change. How so? Change in the manner they view upgrades, change in the manner they analyze updates and new features, change in
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