I recently turned 45. While it was a disappointingly ho-hum event (Ryan Seacrest did NOT show up at my house, if you can believe that nonsense), I caught myself wondering what I’d tell my 20-year-old self if I were able to go back and dispense the modicum of “wisdom” (do finger airquotes here) I’ve picked
Read More...I’ve had this article hanging around my Pinboard (please don’t confuse that with Pinterest, by the way) for a few months now, and it’s time I gave it its due. It’s an excellent piece, as is par for the course with Harvard Business Review’s op-ed content. Here’s HBR’s John Butman, talking about four often-seen “impossible”
Read More...Terms like, the cloud, on-premise,co-existence: these are just but a few of the current strategies that most organizations contend with today in determining how they are going to manage their enterprise applications that run their businesses. It can feel like a daunting task, often equal parts confusing and overwhelming. The truth of the matter is,
Read More...Oracle’s John Webb has an outstanding series of blog posts that is probably the most comprehensive collection of punchlist advice for any organization looking to upgrade to PeopleSoft 9.2. It’s truly excellent. If you’re considering or planning your organization’s move to 9.2, make sure you read Webb’s four-part series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
Read More...Stop by here most Fridays and you will see a personal story, a parenting lesson I clumsily try to tie to something that happened the previous week, or our thoughts on leadership, grit and management culture. Sometimes, even though I can’t believe it myself, cat stories. Not today. Today is a different kind of tangent.
Read More...We have created multiple videos in the past on drilling URLs in PeopleSoft query as well as a few on BI Publisher (XML publisher). Now, in this video we will demonstrate how easy it is to put that URL on the BI publisher report. Essentially, whether a BI publisher report is run ad hoc or
Read More...Joe Rogan is easily my favorite podcaster, and he’s what I’m listening to 90% of my time in the car. Recently, while interviewing bowhunting athlete Cameron Hanes, mentioned that life is like a bucket of crabs. Here’s what that means: in a bucket of crabs, when one figures out how to climb up and escape
Read More...Over on the Oracle Media Network, Mark Weintraub, Director of Product Strategy for PeopleSoft, discusses the latest features and enhancements of PeopleSoft that are available to Premier Support customers. Lots of stuff here that many PeopleSoft customers don’t know. Give it a look. Link: Innovation with Oracle PeopleSoft and Premier Support
Read More...The message has been loud and clear: PeopleSoft 9.2 dramatically improves the user experience. It has been blogged about, written about, presented on, podcasted and mentioned by most media and social mechanisms possible. But what does it really all mean? There is so much content out there and to read about it is one thing,
Read More...After 25 years in consulting, one of the foundations of every consulting relationship is the element of trust. While you may buy software based on features and functionality, or you may buy hardware based on performance metrics, you typically select a consulting relationship based on a level of trust. Measuring that “sense” is not always
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