Casual Friday: Sitting Is the New Smoking

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Casual Friday: Sitting Is the New Smoking

We’ve posted a bunch about health and nutrition before, and we got a bit nerdy. Maybe too nerdy (as if there’s such a thing). But today, we’re posting about health again, but we’ve cut out almost all the nerdy. Promise. Today is about why sitting is killing you. Sure, there are tons of articles out

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Tip: Custom Email Templates

Anoop Savio over at The PeopleSoft Blog has a tip that we’re sure many of you have bumped into: how to build a custom email page for messaging. Savio explains: You might have had requirements where you have to build a configurable email page for messaging purpose. People use several ways to accomplish  this requirement.

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On Finding the Balance Between ERP and SaaS

Recently, Naomi Bloom commented via Twitter on our blog post entitled, 7 Ingredients That Make or Break a PeopleSoft Upgrade: We felt it deserved a longer reply than Twitter affords, so here is our President’s response: Your comment implies that everyone is SaaS-ready or willing to ignore the investments they have made over decades.  If

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7 Ingredients That Make or Break a PeopleSoft Upgrade

It’s a question that will make a room fall silent: what’s the difference between a successful upgrade and one that fails? We have seen two completely opposite ends of the spectrum between effective PeopleSoft projects and ones that have not succeeded. Historically, we’ve been asked to come in to try to remedy a number of

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On Yahoo’s New Logo

Stephen Coles, contributing to Fonts In Use: In describing the new Yahoo! logo that launched today, CEO Marissa Mayer said it is based on “a sans serif font with scallops”. That font is Optima. The ‘O’s come straight from Herman Zapf’s typeface, while the other letters are derived from it. Setting aside the question of whether Optima is a good choice

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Casual Friday: Dissecting This Week’s iPhone Event

Apple announced on Tuesday what the its leaking supply chain has been saying for weeks. There were no surprises, and this is a bad thing. On the whole, leaks-made-good aside, Apple made some good business moves today. The 5C will be legitimate second-tier phone, the MacBook Air to the iPhone 5S’s MacBook Pro. Nobody really

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OracleDirect Organization Hosts Successful Charity Event

The OracleDirect organization hosted the second annual OracleDirect Charity Golf Event on Wednesday, September 4th for the benefit of the Angel Foundation in Minneapolis, MN.  The event held annually in Minneapolis, led by Oracle executive sponsor, Paul Macura, raised over $30,000 for the local foundation that provides much needed assistance for families fighting cancer. Those

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Oracle Unveils Oracle’s PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery to Help Customers Improve Project Performance

This Oracle press release is getting picked up all over the place. The summary: Projects often fail due to cost overruns, inadequate resources, improper staffing and lack of visibility. Oracle has introduced Oracle’s PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery to help customers avoid project failures by proactively providing visibility into projects and resources. By taking advantage of the extreme

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