Great writeup from Maria Ana Santiago over at PeopleSoft Apps Strategy discussing the buzz around “modern HR systems” and how PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 fits within that label. We’ll be the first to say that pandering to an ambiguous marketing term like “modern HR system” is a slippery slope, but indeed that’s what we hear our
Read More...Here’s author Malcolm Gladwell on the concept of criticism, and how entering a critical dialog with someone doesn’t have to equate to taking a shot at them or their work literally. Good stuff, and while it’s a solid theory most people understand, it’s much harder to put into practice. It requires a good deal of
Read More...This is too cool not to share: here is a realtime map of lightning strikes. (This region is set to United States, but you can select others on the left side of the screen.) Make sure your sound is turned on too, because you can hear audible notifications when a strike is reported. Average delay
Read More...This video is making the rounds, and yes it’s a marketing animation, but it really hits on a key point of cloud provider consideration: asking the right questions. The importance of this cannot be overstated. Most organizations we work with are looking for cloud solutions in one way or another. They want to ask the right
Read More...Oracle’s Marc Weintraub sits down with David Bain, Director of PeopleTools Product Management to talk about mobility, which is the mobile-centric features and upcoming direction in this area for PeopleSoft. Suffice to say that PeopleSoft is taking the mobile platform issue very seriously. This also ties in with what we wrote earlier about PeopleSoft Fluid
Read More...Graduation season is upon us. I have a fascination with graduation speeches, because I always find it interesting what luminaries will tell young adults just entering the fray of real adult life. In fact, I bookmark the best of them. Yes, I’m strange. To that end, however, I’d like to recap three of my favorite
Read More...We all live in a digital age, and there is no turning back the clock. However, it’s certainly not an excuse to rely solely on virtual relationships instead of real ones in your job and private life. Of course it’s much easier today to email, text or use a social media outlet to communicate with
Read More...In case you missed it, there is a new (June 2014) PeopleSoft statement of direction posted on My Oracle Support. There’s a ton of information in here. Specifically, there’s great information on PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface that ties into several of our previous blog posts. Above and beyond that, it’s the best place to find information on
Read More...For PeopleSoft Apps Strategy, Oracle’s Mark Rosenberg kicks off a new blog series called Cool Tools You Can Use. Headed up by PeopleSoft product management team, the series will be based on conversations Oracle had with PeopleSoft community members. The theme of this particular series is highlighting existing solutions to problems customers are trying to address. In
Read More...A couple of weeks ago we highlighted some information by Anoop Savio about a pretty exciting new feature coming for PeopleSoft: the Fluid User Interface. I’d like to follow that up with a video by Oracle in which PeopleSoft Senior Director Marc Weintraub interviews Willie Suh, Vice President of PeopleTools Development. It’s a great explanation
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