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New PeopleTools Developer Book Available

Good find by Matthew Haavisto over on Oracle’s PeopleSoft Technology Blog: I recently had an opportunity to work through a copy of a new book for PeopleTools developers and thought it might be of interest to the readers of the PeopleTools blog. It is called PeopleSoft PeopleTools Tips & Techniques, and was written by Jim

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What Is ‘Real-time Data Warehousing’?

I get asked the following questions often: What is real-time data warehousing? Is there such a thing as real-time? Who defines ‘real-time’ anyway? Is real-time really just ‘near-time’? It comes down to this concept: the ability to have valuable, quality data in your data warehouse as quickly as that data is generated within your operational

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 12/31/10

Today’s post is going to be a smallish browser tab clean-out, much like every other Friday Linkology post we publish, but this one will be especially incoherent because I’ve had a fever for the past two days and my thinking was a bit bizarre. Really, if you’re looking for a ‘2010 Year in Review’ thing,

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 12/24/10

A few good, worthwhile links before you get into the eggnog and rum balls today: The CIA has put together an investigatory task force to assess the damage caused by the leak of 250,000 diplomatic cables.  It’s  name?  WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF for short. (I couldn’t make this up if I tried.) Why net

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New PeopleTools 8.51 Feature: PeopleSoft Test Framework

Originally noted by Ganesh A.M. over at the Oracle PeopleSoft blog, PeopleTools 8.51 offers a PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF) as part of its PeopleTools Objects array.  I can see this being useful for POC/development and QA/testing teams. Here are some videos to illustrate how it works.  Questions?  Fire away in the comments. PeopleSoft Test Framework

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 12/17/10

This is the first year that I have completed my holiday shopping completely online – I have not set foot into a store and actually purchased something on my list from said store. What’s more, I cranked out my shopping in about 40 minutes – 25% of which was me screwing around looking at things

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