Here is a brief (~10 minute) PowerPoint overview of PeopleSoft 9.2 HCM, something we’re hearing about literally every day. Over the next couple weeks we will build on this topic (discussing things like Guided Life Events and Payroll Modeler), but for now this overview is a summary of the new 9.2 HCM platform. Sorry for
Read More...Okay, picking up where we left off last week. If you use PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing or are considering doing so, this information will be very useful. Once vendors have entered their bids, we can begin to analyze them. You can analyze bids at any time during an event, or you can wait until it ends.
Read More...Cam Davidson-Pilon has an excellent blog post about 21st Century Problems. In it, he posits one of the best explanations of the promise of Big Data I’ve yet to come across: 21st Century problems are statistical problems Statistical problems describe the space we haven’t explored yet. Statistical problems are not new: they are likely as
Read More...Okay, finally this Strategic Sourcing blog series is coming off hiatus. We thank everyone for their patience. We had a few technical environment snags to comb out. Let’s pick up where we left off: if you recall, we had discussed and demonstrated creating a sourcing event, so let’s focus on entering responses to that sourcing event. It’s
Read More...Some stuff I found while looking around this week. I have to share all this because my ‘Saved For Later’ tab in Feedly is getting obnoxious. Here is a 14-year-old girl absolutely nailing Van Halen’s “Eruption”. This is amazing to be because not only is she 14 and plays it perfectly, but also because I
Read More...Great data and visualizations from Oracle. Here’s to hoping they do more infographics like this.
Read More...Bianca Bosker, writing for HuffPo Tech, interviews 14-year-old Casey Schwartz about Schwartz’s iPhone. Specifically, what really happens on a teen girl’s iPhone, and how it becomes a source of stress and social status among Schwartz’s peers. Some excerpts are below, but you owe it to yourself to read the whole interview. Parents of teenage girls,
Read More...Although I’ve gone fishing about two dozen times in my life, I am by no means what you’d call a good fisherman. I can cast and reel a lure in, sure, but ask me to string a reel, hook a worm or select even a halfway appropriate lure for conditions, and I’m lost. And knots
Read More...I recently did my rounds with my customers in Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky. Nothing like spending hours and hours driving on Interstate 75. Yup, just me and about 900,000 semi trucks. Simply put, my primary job responsibility at MIPRO is to sell consulting services to implement the PeopleSoft suite of applications. As most of our
Read More...David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Keyon College commencement speech made the rounds a few years ago, never more intensely than after his death in 2008. As a guy in his mid–40s who reflects on what he has and hasn’t learned over the years, I find commencement speeches interesting and hopeful – little spoken placards of life
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