So there’s this app called Send Me to Heaven that’s available only Android (hmm). The idea is simple: the app tracks how high you can throw your phone. You install the app (on your android, obviously). You then throw your phone as high as you can. Go on, throw it. Catching the phone is entirely
Read More...As of this writing, Apple’s current stock price (NASDAQ: AAPL) is $464. Ever since Apple’s stock peaked at $702 in September of last year, Apple has indeed been beleaguered — by a media narrative, not reality. It’s as if the entire investment and media communities decided, in one fell swoop, “Okay. Apple’s had a good
Read More...Anoop Savio over at the Oracle PeopleSoft Blog has a very useful code snippet to mark a Worklist Entry complete. It’s detailed below, and we think it’s something our customers might like to see. Thanks, Anoop! Below is an example code is to mark the Worklist Entry as completed once the corresponding request is approved.
Read More...Our own Shannon Roche did some legwork in setting up the new Quest International User Group PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management SIG. If you’re at all interested in any aspect of asset lifecycle management (ALM), this is something you should be part of. With great group leadership and enough expertise to fill a week’s worth of
Read More...Rafe Colburn over at RC3.org has a smart post about how Big Data gets all of the attention, but Big Data wouldn’t be very effective without data engineering, which is different than data science: Last year I started working in the world of Big Data, and at the time, I didn’t know that “data science” and “data
Read More...Activity Guides, a feature of PeopleTools, allows organizations to provide guided paths for completing a business process. In PeopleSoft 9.2 there is a delivered guided business process for Life Events. The guided process steps the user through the required and optional steps to record a life event. It provides the user the opportunity to record
Read More...You need to get your Monday started off right, and by right I mean by playing a game on a digital stopwatch that you no doubt played when you were younger. The point of the game is simple: try to get the stopwatch to stop at one second exactly. It took me 24 tries. Apparently,
Read More...Our just-wrapped-up blog series about PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing focused on the 9.1 release, and all of the content, features and videos are based upon 9.1 functionality. In the middle of our blog series 9.2 was released, adding new features and functionality. Taken from the cumulative feature overview, here is a list of the new features in
Read More...Here’s Matthew Haavisto on the Oracle PeopleSoft Technology Blog with some good information about a topic we hear about with regularity, given Secure Enterprise Search is a new and powerful tool under PeopleSoft 9.2. Oracle’s Secure Enterprise Search is part of PeopleSoft now. It is provided as part of the Peopltools platform as an appliance,
Read More...Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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