Larry Ellison: Oracle OpenWorld Keynote 2014
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.
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Whitepaper: Adapting to PeopleSoft Continuous Delivery
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...Some Advice from Jeff Bezos
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...PeopleTools Simplifies Internet Explorer Certifications
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
Read More...Why are Work Centers Important?
We have covered work centers before, namely what they are, and how they are part of end user experience improvements. But how does that really apply in the real world, outside overview blog posts? Let’s look at the Buyer Work Center. In order to understand the value, we have to understand what a buyer does
Read More...Feature Video: PeopleSoft 9.2 HTML Email Approvals
This is an example of a feature that on paper seems ho-hum, but in practice is one of those details that make your job and workflow so much easier – especially if you don’t spend a ton of time logged into your PeopleSoft system. In a nutshell, HTML email approvals allow a user to take
Read More...Business Intelligence Requirements Gathering: Ask the Right Questions!
We have discussed these things before: business intelligence requirements gathering, maintenance management, and even business intelligence for maintenance management. The following example dialog is intended as an easy way to understand how asking the right questions can lead to getting the right answers for your business when it comes to business intelligence requirements gathering. This is
Read More...Moving to PeopleTools 8.54? Use the Right Environment Components.
If you’re planning to move to PeopleTools 8.54 (and you should, for the Fluid User Interface alone), there is a caveat we find ourselves telling our customers often: adhere to environment standards. Here, we’re talking mainly browsers and browser components, because browsers progress rapidly and support for newer technologies is spotty when you go back
Read More...When Experience Tell Us to No-Bid a PeopleSoft Deal
I’m assuming you’ve heard this cliché at least once or twice before: “Trust me, this is going to hurt me more than you, but it’s for your own good.” This is exactly what went through my mind when I had to send a “no-bid” notice to a prospective new PeopleSoft deal. As a seasoned sales
Read More...National Instruments Transforms Global HR With Oracle HCM Cloud
MarketWatch: National Instruments (NI) equips engineers and scientists with tools that accelerate productivity, innovation, and discovery to meet not only grand but also daily engineering challenges in an increasingly complex world, and continues to experience growing demand for its technology. To help meet that demand and scale its business, NI selected Oracle Human Capital Management
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