Michael Lopp, writing over at his fantastic blog Rands in Repose: My first job in technology was a QA internship. The summer between my freshman and sophomore years, I tested the first release of Paradox for Windows at Borland. As an intern, I started by following someone else’s QA test plan – dutifully checking each
Read More...(Editor’s note: Jeff Micallef is a co-founder and managing partner of MIPRO Consulting.) Oracle released the latest version of PeopleSoft (9.2) in March of 2013 and since then has also released nine new PeopleSoft images. From where we sit, over the past eighteen months the impact and advantages of 9.2 have become clearer. Simply put, Oracle
Read More...An example of a PeopleSoft Train. Click to enlarge. Similar to the Workcenter vs. Dashboard term intermingling that we bump into from time to time, we are seeing a need for clarification between PeopleSoft Activity Guides and Train Stops. The conflation of these terms comes up every now and again, and there’s a pretty simple explanation
Read More...By now, if you’ve been working with or researching PeopleSoft 9.2/Tools 8.54, you’ve heard about the new PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface. It’s responsive design done right for PeopleSoft, and it truly modernizes the PeopleSoft experience across all types of devices. PeopleSoft is no longer tied to a specific client or client environment, and now it’s
Read More...We’ve gone on and on about this before, but PeopleSoft Selective Adoption was the buzz of this year’s OpenWorld, and we are talking to clients every week about what it offers their organization. It’s a feature that is relatively simple on paper, but is much more complex (and has more significant implications than meet the
Read More...Great blog post over at The PeopleSoft Tipster Blog about a brief interview with Oracle’s Paco Aubrejuan. Aubrejuan is the Senior VP of Development for PeopleSoft. You can watch the whole session here, but you need to login to Quest to do so. The best parts came during the Q&A session after Aubrejuan’s presentation. The most
Read More...(Editor’s Note: Todd Rayburn is MIPRO’s HCM Practice Manager.) I have been in the HCM application space for over 17 years. The first 15 were focused on HCM PeopleSoft implementations. During the last two years I have been a part of multiple Oracle HCM Cloud implementations. While the product had it challenges in the early
Read More...The first time you see an iPhone 6 or 6+ display, it looks considerably better than the previous generation iPhone (5S) despite having the same resolution. Bryan Jones, a photographer, explains it like this: The first time you switch on an iPhone 6, you will be amazed at how clear the display is. It looks even higher
Read More...(Note: Jack Kochie, a MIPRO Senior Principal Consultant, contributed to this post.) Over the course of a few presentations we’ve watched as well as several discussions we’ve had, we’ve come to notice there is some confusion between Dashboards and WorkCenters in PeopleSoft 9.2. So, we’d like to clarify to make sure these two terms don’t
Read More...Bottom line right up front: Yes, PeopleSoft Asset Management (AM) can save your organization money! I recently had the opportunity of implementing PeopleSoft AM v9.2, and have worked with PeopleSoft AM a handful of times over the past 15 years. But this year I’ve really had the pleasure to see how PeopleSoft AM can save
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