There’s a saying: in business, you have two choices: win by being more regular, more standard and lower cost. Or win by being better, more remarkable, higher quality and more human. There’s another saying, an adjunct, more a piece of branding reality: you want people to either love or hate your brand. Those in the
Read More...I’m here to talk about the January 2015 1099 season. It’s not quite officially here yet, but it is fast approaching. I always tell our clients that Oct-Dec is the time to review your 1099 data. By starting the data cleanup process now, it will give you more time in January to focus on creating the
Read More...First, some key figures from this year’s OpenWorld: 50,000+ attendees 135 PeopleSoft-relevant sessions 12 PeopleSoft demonstration stations It was, in a word, vibrant. We were excited by the energy surrounding PeopleSoft, and Oracle did indeed focus on the two areas we’ve been writing about on this blog for the past few months. Continuous Delivery – new
Read More...We have weekly talks with clients about PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 and why it’s such a worthwhile upgrade. In the most recent version of PeopleSoft Talk with Marc Weintraub, Director of PepleSoft HCM Product Strategy Maria Ana Santiago gives a great 12-minute rundown on what makes PeopleSoft HCM so effective. Topics covered include: HR transformation How
Read More...As we hear increasing buzz about the PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface (which we’ve written about several times before), Oracle is doing a nice job of providing overview videos to help spread the word and allow organizations to see the new look and feel of PeopleSoft powered by version 9.2 and PeopleTools 8.54. Below are three videos
Read More...We have written quite a bit about the new PeopleSoft release model, but we have conversations about it weekly. We still find that many customers have high-level questions about the new model and how update images are released and deployed (in contrast with how they used to be released). That’s the crux here: organizations are used
Read More...In case you missed it: here is Larry Ellison’s keynote speech at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld, presented last week on Sunday, September 28, 2014. Definitely worth an hour of your time.
Read More...Oracle has released a very well-written white paper on the continuous delivery model associated with PeopleSoft 9.2. The paper does a good job of describing how the new continuous delivery model requires organizations to change. How so? Change in the manner they view upgrades, change in the manner they analyze updates and new features, change in
Read More...Jason Fried over at the popular Signal v. Noise blog has a fantastic post about Jeff Bezos stopping by the Basecamp offices to talk product strategy with the Basecamp team. The floor was opened up to a 45-minute Q&A session, in which Bezos shared an interesting opinion: He said people who were right a lot
Read More...A couple weeks ago, we mentioned Mark Hoernemann’s post about using the right environment components (especially browsers) for PeopleTools 8.54 rollouts. Since then, Hoernemann, responding to a bevy of questions, wrote another post about how Oracle has simplified the Internet Explorer (IE) certification process. IE is a massive mainstay in the enterprise, and this information is
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