PeopleSoft RECONNECT 2013 Highlights; Top Keynote Takeaways

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PeopleSoft RECONNECT 2013 Highlights; Top Keynote Takeaways

Last week, our team headed to the Windy City for PeopleSoft RECONNECT, hosted by Quest.  RECONNECT, the only PeopleSoft-specific event in North America, is a must-attend conference according to Tim Schinke, our Director of the North Central Region.  More than 300 PeopleSoft users from a wide range of industries came together under one roof to collaborate, share ideas and

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Defining Data Engineering

Rafe Colburn over at RC3.org has a smart post about how Big Data gets all of the attention, but Big Data wouldn’t be very effective without data engineering, which is different than data science: Last year I started working in the world of Big Data, and at the time, I didn’t know that “data science” and “data

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OVERVIEW: PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 — Guided Life Events

Activity Guides, a feature of PeopleTools, allows organizations to provide guided paths for completing a business process.  In PeopleSoft 9.2 there is a delivered guided business process for Life Events.  The guided process steps the user through the required and optional steps to record a life event.  It provides the user the opportunity to record

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One-Second Stopwatch

You need to get your Monday started off right, and by right I mean by playing a game on a digital stopwatch that you no doubt played when you were younger. The point of the game is simple: try to get the stopwatch to stop at one second exactly. It took me 24 tries. Apparently,

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PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: What’s New in v9.2

Our just-wrapped-up blog series about PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing focused on the 9.1 release, and all of the content, features and videos are based upon 9.1 functionality.  In the middle of our blog series 9.2 was released, adding new features and functionality.  Taken from the cumulative feature overview, here is a list of the new features in

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Tips on Deploying Secure Enterprise Search with PeopleSoft

Here’s Matthew Haavisto on the Oracle PeopleSoft Technology Blog with some good information about a topic we hear about with regularity, given Secure Enterprise Search is a new and powerful tool under PeopleSoft 9.2. Oracle’s Secure Enterprise Search is part of PeopleSoft now.  It is provided as part of the Peopltools platform as an appliance,

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QUOTE: On Talking a Walk

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Casual Friday: The Best ‘America’s Got Talent’ Surprise Yet

We had some technical difficulties this morning, but we’re back with an abbreviated Casual Friday post. If you tried to find us this morning, sorry about that. Thanks for hanging in there. This video might be the best thing going right now. Two siblings — the brother, a 9-year-old drummer, and the 6-year-old sister, a

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PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: Mini-series Summary

I hope you have enjoyed and found value in our blog series. This blog marks the final notes on our multi part series on PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing. We have discussed and demonstrated a ton of information not found anywhere in a short-form layout: Creating bid factors Total cost modeling Creating events Creating event responses Analyzing

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