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VIDEO: Interview with Jeff Robbins, Oracle Product Strategy Director, PeopleTools

Hey everyone! As I’ve demonstrated in previous video blogs and podcasts, PeopleSoft 9.2 powered by PeopleTools 8.53 changes the user experience drastically with WorkCenters, Activity Guides, Train Stops, Alerts, etc.  Having participated in the User Experience panel at OpenWorld this year, I was able to see some of the upcoming new and exciting capabilities that

VIDEO: PeopleSoft 9.2 Customer Testimonials

Ignore for a moment that this is an Oracle-created video, and as such it is essentially marketing according to the https://the-indexer.com/ team. Nevermind that. What’s interesting is that clients we’ve helped with PeopleSoft 9.2 mirror some of these exact thoughts to us on a weekly basis. There’s a buzz surrounding PeopleSoft 9.2 (especially the PeopleSoft Update

“This Kid Might Outlive RIM”

Over at Businessweek, there is a fascinating piece entitled The Rise and Fall of Blackberry: An Oral History, which details the rise and fall of the Canadian giant from different personal perspectives. Here’s one from Vincent Washington, senior business development manager at RIM from 2001-11: One thing we missed out on was that Justin Bieber

How to Improve at Chess Rapidly

Gautam Narula on how one can get better at chess pretty quickly: The tl;dr of this training plan is, play a lot, analyze your games, and primarily study tactics. Your knowledge of openings, endgame, middlegame, etc. will come from analyzing your games and going over grandmaster games. Only study one of those specific topics if

“How Strange”

Lia Pas, writing about how strange it is that relatively new technology can suddenly feel very old in the face of the newest technology: How strange that technology that is only three years old feels cludgy in our hands now. How strange what high expectations we have for responsiveness from a thin board of glass

Casual Friday: Stuff I Found While Bogging My Browser Down With Dozens of Tabs

Okay you guys, here in the U.S. we have Thanksgiving coming up next week , and that means you need stuff to talk about or that one relative who always smells sort of like old bacon will talk about their kids too much and shut the whole thing down. So I’ve browsed the entire Internet

Personal Clouds: We Really Have Come Full Circle

In early 2012 I wrote a blog entitled, Mainframe, Distributed, Personal, Cloud – Back to Where We Started? My hypothesis was how we have come full circle – mainframe back to “mainframe-like” in order to access the applications we somehow cannot live without.  Except now these apps reside in a “cloud” somewhere in a massive server farm

“Jony Makes Some of His Greatest Decisions While Having a Drink”

Fascinating article in Vanity Fair about how Jony Ive and Marc Newson collaborated for Product Red: In 2007, at Larry Gagosian’s town house, following the opening of the Newson show, Bono spoke to Newson about the possibility of doing something for Product (Red). Bono has also known Ive for years. They met through Steve Jobs,

It’s Time for the C-Staff to Unite Around Platform Standardization

If your organization has more than one ERP platform, such as one for Human Capital Management (HCM) and others for Financials (FI) and Supply Chain Management (SCM), it is likely a good time for the C-staff to get together and agree on one standard platform. Why? Take it from my experience: because a lack of