I was at a client recently. I was hunkered down in their conference room trying to knock out a few emails in between meetings. I noticed a sign that caught my attention. The sign read 10 Rules for Meetings and was clearly posted as some guiding principles for those who use the room. It included a
Read More...I recently turned 45. While it was a disappointingly ho-hum event (Ryan Seacrest did NOT show up at my house, if you can believe that nonsense), I caught myself wondering what I’d tell my 20-year-old self if I were able to go back and dispense the modicum of “wisdom” (do finger airquotes here) I’ve picked
Read More...I’ve had this article hanging around my Pinboard (please don’t confuse that with Pinterest, by the way) for a few months now, and it’s time I gave it its due. It’s an excellent piece, as is par for the course with Harvard Business Review’s op-ed content. Here’s HBR’s John Butman, talking about four often-seen “impossible”
Read More...Here’s Marc Weintraub, writing for PeopleSoft Apps Strategy: A focus area for sessions at Oracle OpenWorld 2014 in San Francisco is to highlight customer successes with the latest PeopleSoft release, PeopleSoft 9.2. With PeopleSoft 9.2 available for a year now, more and more customers are upgrading and deploying PeopleSoft 9.2 every day. If you are one of these customers, we
Read More...Earlier this week, Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey took to Reddit to defend the sale of his company to Facebook for $2B. Oculus VR is mainly known for a product called Rift. If you don’t know what Rift is, it’s essentially the most promising next-generation thing for gaming and interactive digital experiences. It’s the virtual
Read More...Terms like, the cloud, on-premise,co-existence: these are just but a few of the current strategies that most organizations contend with today in determining how they are going to manage their enterprise applications that run their businesses. It can feel like a daunting task, often equal parts confusing and overwhelming. The truth of the matter is,
Read More...Oracle’s John Webb has an outstanding series of blog posts that is probably the most comprehensive collection of punchlist advice for any organization looking to upgrade to PeopleSoft 9.2. It’s truly excellent. If you’re considering or planning your organization’s move to 9.2, make sure you read Webb’s four-part series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
Read More...Stop by here most Fridays and you will see a personal story, a parenting lesson I clumsily try to tie to something that happened the previous week, or our thoughts on leadership, grit and management culture. Sometimes, even though I can’t believe it myself, cat stories. Not today. Today is a different kind of tangent.
Read More...We have created multiple videos in the past on drilling URLs in PeopleSoft query as well as a few on BI Publisher (XML publisher). Now, in this video we will demonstrate how easy it is to put that URL on the BI publisher report. Essentially, whether a BI publisher report is run ad hoc or
Read More...Increasingly, I have taken to using Google Drive for document creation and collaboration. Last week, Google announced add-ons for Google Docs (text documents) and Sheets (spreadsheets). Here’s Google’s Saurabh Gupta, Product Manager: You use Google Docs and Sheets to get all sorts of stuff done—whether you’re staying up late to finish that final paper or just
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