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Casual Friday: Stuff I Found While Clicking on Underlined Words

It’s that time again, and I’m sorry to do this to you. Not so sorry not to do it, however. Good luck deciphering that ambivalence. I indeed have an absolute bucketload of tabs open in my browser that I want to share, but that don’t quite warrant their own posts. I’ve done these linkposts before,

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MIPRO’s Highlights From Alliance 2013

MIPRO had quite a crew at Alliance 2013 in Indianapolis a few weeks ago, with four of our team members working our Silver Sponsor booth. And, as expected, the Higher Education User Group (HEUG) and the public sector industry made a solid appearance. A combination of PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions, Financials and HCM customers were

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Flexibility More Important Than Ever in Today’s Technology Environment

Do these terms sound familiar: SaaS, on-premise, off-shoring, on-shoring, the cloud, Big Data, mobile computing? I’m betting that not only have you heard of them, but you’re inundated with them. Customers today are flooded with choices on how they should or shouldn’t operate their enterprise systems. And naturally, the IT vendors in the marketplace are

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Casual Friday: Know Your Yelling Goat Meme (and Mashups)

A couple weeks ago, a video of goats yelling like humans dominated the Internet. If you haven’t seen it, here it is. I have to warn you: it’s more entertaining than you think it is. Don’t skip over this; it’s required viewing if you want the rest of this post to make sense. So naturally,

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What Is Keeping You From PeopleSoft Real Estate Management?

In the past few weeks there seems to be increased interest in the Real Estate Management applications, which I guess makes me wonder, “What took so long?” For the last 20 years, the PeopleSoft applications have offered us an opportunity to eliminate point solutions and replace them with integrated PeopleSoft modules. I believe the saying

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User Group Report: Hot Topics Among PeopleSoft Users

I recently attended the Midwest Regional User Group (MW RUG) meeting in Chicago. There were a number of PeopleSoft customers/users in attendance and breakout meetings were held to discuss current hot topics. Below is a collection of things I noticed — a pulse of the conversations, at it were. Needless to say, everyone is interested

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Why I Don’t Care About DST

Every spring, it’s the same gig. The internet erupts into frustrated cries about the sleep-flummoxing evils of Daylight Savings Time (DST), how it throws you off, causes your sleep to be ruined for two weeks, destroys your family life and causes your children to morph into foam-drooling, bleary-eyed hyenas. (Okay, I’ll concede that last part

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Taking Control of Your Health: The Skinny on Exercise

Posts in the Taking Control of Your Health series thus far: Taking Control of Your Health and Fitness Bloodwork as Your State of the Union Understanding What ‘Real Food’ Is, Part 1 What Are Fats Besides a Bad Word? Understanding Proteins Understanding Carbohydrates Controlling Stress When It Comes to Health & Fitness, Tracking is Knowing The

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Sometimes, We All Need an Economics 101 Refresher

Some days we are so deep in what we are doing that we lose sight of the basics. I was recently engaged in a conversation with the President of a consulting company who reminded me of one of the most basic tenets of Finance.  He took time to remind me that for every dollar you

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