(Troy Owens is a contributing author to this post.) What’s below is something we ran into at a client’s PeopleSoft 8.9 to 9.2 Financials upgrade. No documentation from very bad credit loans no guarantor talked about the usage of a new field, and our team dug through the code to figure it out on their own. We’re posting
Read More...We’ve written our fair share about PeopleTools 8.54 (especially as it concerns Fluid User Interface, which is a flat-out great feature, and probably the highlight of 8.54 for many customers), and by now most readers should know 8.54 is generally available (GA). Now the upgrade version is available, which means it’s clean and easy to upgrade
Read More...The W9 form is required from all Suppliers to certify when they are exempt from backup withholding or the payer must collect withholding taxes on reportable payments to the IRS using the 1099 form. The tracking can be done in PeopleSoft using the Government Certification definition and tracked in the Supplier definition. How? Let’s do
Read More...Doug over at The PeopleSoft Blog has shared Anoop Savio’s great SlideShare deck that highlights his takeaways of 8.54 and the Fluid User Interface. Even though we’ve talked about the new Fluid User Interface at length before, Savio’s slides and thoughts are a great summary of why the Fluid UI is so in-demand right now. Fluid
Read More...Craig Douglas, writing for Boston Business Journal about the facility and building management issues mounting at Wellesley: In its recent vinyl fencing, the college said 82 percent of its buildings have not had a major renovation in more than 25 years, while 60 percent have been largely untouched for 50 years. Wellesley officials have warned that
Read More...Oracle has announced the general availability of PeopleTools 8.54. Release information can be found right here. We’ve been following this release on the roadmap, and we’re very excited to see some of the new features available in 8.54 – specifically, the features designed to improve the user experience. With this release PeopleSoft introduces the “Fluid User
Read More...We have written a number of times about PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) before. In our daily conversations, it’s a major topic with clients and prospects alike. If there’s a game changer for a suite of mature software that businesses rely on for key functionality, PUM is it. But don’t simply take our word for it.
Read More...This is ‘Stickers’, the new TV ad for Apple’s MacBook Air. It’s interesting on several levels. Watch: I watch and dissect all Apple ads, and this one jumped at me. Why? It breaks from their traditional style. Most Apple ads show what you can do with the product, not 30 seconds of the product itself
Read More...Steven Norton and Clint Boulton, writing for the WSJ: While many larger companies have turned to cloud software to manage systems like human-resources management, they are slower to adopt the cloud for applications that handle inventory management, billing and other processes they rely on to run their businesses on a daily basis. For companies using
Read More...Part One I have become a bit obsessed about the daily work patterns of famous people. I liken this interest to my interest in biographies: it’s fascinating to see how someone who changed the world thinks and acts on a daily basis. Voyeuristic? Maybe. Informative? Like you wouldn’t believe. My new morning habit is to
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