Unabashedly Waxing Poetic on Apple From a User’s Standpoint I started using Macs when they were powered by the Motorola 68000’s and Berkeley Breathed anthropomorphized one in Bloom County. Even back then, in the miasma of the awakening WinTel juggernaut and whiffs of Amigas and Atari STs, Macs were considered niche machines. I wrote my
Read More...OVERVIEW PeopleSoft Forms and Approval Builder is part of Common Components 9.1, therefore available for use throughout all of the PeopleSoft HCM and FMS modules. It allows a business analyst or other non-developer PeopleSoft application expert to create simple forms and establish an approval for the content. HOW-TO Begin with creating the form using the
Read More...Prior to jumping into the world of PeopleSoft consulting, I spent many years implementing accounting solutions, as well as conducting instructor-led training for those applications. In my years, I had some great classes, and I had some that just plain left me scratching my head. Was it me? Probably not: nobody except the lead developer
Read More...I heard a radio ad a few days ago that has been bugging me, so I’m going to riff on it here. Sorry, no links or cat stories this week. In the radio spot, the voiceover guy says in closing, “We do what’s right for the customer, not what’s right for the company.” The second I
Read More...Oracle’s 6th Annual Maintenance Management Summit March 27 – 29, 2012 As a Gold level Sponsor, MIPRO would like to welcome you to Nashville for the 6th Annual Oracle Maintenance Summit. Talk and learn from other maintenance users, discuss product strategy with Oracle representatives, and meet the MIPRO Team. This year’s Summit will feature
Read More...A Clear And Present Danger How often does it happen that an organization moves from an old legacy ERP type system to a new, up-to-date ERP system and it fails to meet expectations and to improve system and business process efficiency? Too often! One of the primary reasons is that the project is way underfunded
Read More...Say what you want about Cuban, but I love his no-BS approach. Here are his 12 rules for startups, and it’s hard to argue with any of them. He comes out of the gate with two I find to be the cornerstone of every successful business: 1. Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and
Read More...2012…what’s in store for you this year? If Santa didn’t leave you an upgrade to PeopleSoft 9.1 under your tree, nor PeopleTools 8.52 in your stocking Christmas morning, you may need to take control of the situation yourself. Whether you are losing support for your current PeopleSoft applications or you finally have managed to set
Read More...Here’s a good example of why the Internet is amazing: experience the restart sequences from a bunch of operating systems, audio and all. No navigation necessary; do it all from a single page. Brings back memories. Workbench, anyone? ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and Facebook. About this blog.
Read More...Dan Tynan, writing for CIO.com: For the past decade, ERP has been the poster child for IT projects that overpromise and underdeliver. It was notorious for painfully complex rollouts that took years to implement, required massive customization, and were often only partially realized. Billions of dollars were spent just trying to get ERP systems to work
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