The PeopleSoft Blog has a nice reminder that you can search object navigation via a customizable search function under ‘Enterprise Components’. Some of you may know about this, but we find many don’t. A picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s a screenshot: (Click to enlarge) Give it a shot if you haven’t already.
Read More...The best part about working in an office is where your colleagues bring in their children’s fundraising projects and ask you to chip in, acting as if you have any choice in the matter. What are you going to say, no? Are you going to say, “Listen, your kid is an nearly 100-degree assemblage of
Read More...Carol Bartz has been fired from Yahoo and replaced, in the interim, by Tim Morse. Bartz sent this zinger of an email to the entire Yahoo staff upon receiving the news: From: “Carol Bartz” To: “all-worldwide@yahoo-inc.com” Subject: Goodbye To all, I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone
Read More...In these days of tight times, the most common modus operandi/strategy of IT and Business Process re-engineering or Optimization projects has been twofold: Keep the wheels on the wagon, or Fund only projects that have a good opportunity for real ROI. If you have had problems getting funding (like everyone else) for worthwhile projects, consider
Read More...Fermilab astrophysicist Jason Steffen got to thinking about an everyday problem we all can agree needs some brianpower applied to it: how to make passengers board airplanes more efficiently. By design, he thought, passenger jets seem to encourage people to waste time. How to fix it? After a bit of tinkering, Steffen found a way:
Read More...Prelude You should never, ever, allow somebody you don’t know to build something for you where your safety is actually up for grabs. Invariably, when you are not looking, they will flub the job just enough to send you to an emergency medical establishment, where their uncles work and will pay them a handsome fee
Read More...Jean-Louis Gassée on Steve Jobs: When I first met Steve, in February 1981, he was sitting cross-legged on a credenza in the Apple board room, picking his toes. Since then I’ve watched with glee as he went against received wisdom, causing pundits to have fits at every turn. I picture them as a gaggle of
Read More...Contrary to what some backstreets of the ERP rumor mill will say, there’s a strong roadmap ahead for PeopleSoft, including a new current release of HCM and even a major release next year. Here’s InformationWeek’s Doug Henschen talking about what that means for Fusion and what mindset customers should consider adopting: …if PeopleSoft’s getting all
Read More...Initially I thought Twitter was some gimmick through which celebrities (insert your own definition of celebrity) fed their own egos by posting snippets of their life. I didn’t care, so Twitter did not interest me much. I did not even watch Entertainment Tonight, so following some “celebrity du jour” as they tweeted arcane details of
Read More...(Ed. Note: Lenore S. Litwin is MIPRO’s Director of HR.) Bear with me for a self-congratulatory moment? I was so proud to receive the announcement last week that MIPRO has once again been named one of ‘Metropolitan Detroit’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For.’ This makes six consecutive years that we have been so
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