We mention PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) a lot, because we think it’s incredibly useful and convenient for users. To that end, if you want to learn more about PUM, Oracle has posted PUM training on the Oracle Learning Library. You can check it out here: PeopleSoft Update Manager End to End Training Module 1 As
Read More...The highly anticipated release of PeopleSoft 9.2 earlier this year not only provided users with significant system enhancements and improvements, but may also have sparked the end of the upgrade process as we currently know it thanks to a new feature called PeopleSoft Update Manager (casually known as PUM). Paco Aubrejuan, Senior Vice President of
Read More...Gautam Narula on how one can get better at chess pretty quickly: The tl;dr of this training plan is, play a lot, analyze your games, and primarily study tactics. Your knowledge of openings, endgame, middlegame, etc. will come from analyzing your games and going over grandmaster games. Only study one of those specific topics if
Read More...Lia Pas, writing about how strange it is that relatively new technology can suddenly feel very old in the face of the newest technology: How strange that technology that is only three years old feels cludgy in our hands now. How strange what high expectations we have for responsiveness from a thin board of glass
Read More...Brian S. Hall, writing for Techpinions: That Google continues to develop and support services optimized for iPhone is all you need to know about those who scream that IPHONE IS DOOMED. They are either ignorant or they are lying to you. Why do you continue to reward them with your attention? Very smart piece about
Read More...Okay you guys, here in the U.S. we have Thanksgiving coming up next week , and that means you need stuff to talk about or that one relative who always smells sort of like old bacon will talk about their kids too much and shut the whole thing down. So I’ve browsed the entire Internet
Read More...In early 2012 I wrote a blog entitled, Mainframe, Distributed, Personal, Cloud – Back to Where We Started? My hypothesis was how we have come full circle – mainframe back to “mainframe-like” in order to access the applications we somehow cannot live without. Except now these apps reside in a “cloud” somewhere in a massive server farm
Read More...Fascinating article in Vanity Fair about how Jony Ive and Marc Newson collaborated for Product Red: In 2007, at Larry Gagosian’s town house, following the opening of the Newson show, Bono spoke to Newson about the possibility of doing something for Product (Red). Bono has also known Ive for years. They met through Steve Jobs,
Read More...If your organization has more than one ERP platform, such as one for Human Capital Management (HCM) and others for Financials (FI) and Supply Chain Management (SCM), it is likely a good time for the C-staff to get together and agree on one standard platform. Why? Take it from my experience: because a lack of
Read More...You’ve probably heard this news, and thought, “Oh good, finally.” The reality is that while the FAA has approved expanded use of personal electronics, it’s now up to the airlines to show the FAA its airplanes can handle radio interference. And, naturally, not many airlines have gone through that process yet. From the portable electronics
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