The PeopleSoft Technology Blog has another detailed rundown about another popular feature-set coming in PeopleTools 8.52: flexible, customizable feeds. Matthew Haavisto writes: There are some new features coming in PeopleTools 8.52 that will make creating and managing Feeds in PeopleSoft easier and more useful. This is provided through several enhancements to the Feed Publishing Framework. Namely,
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Read More...Interesting take on the future landscape of IT jobs, as seen by Jason Hiner over at ZDNet’s Between the Lines. Hiner says: More and more of traditional software has moved to the web, or at least to internal servers and served through a web browser. Many technophobic Baby Boomers have left the workforce and been
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Read More...We’ve been saying for a few weeks now that PeopleTools 8.52 is shaping up to be quite a powerful release, and we recently learned of three other new enhancements that are sure to make developers happy — especially if they’re into PeopleTools AppDesigner. Here’s the one we hear about quite a bit, as detailed by
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Read More...eWeek’s Nathan Eddy, writing about Dice.com’s Dice Report and its trend showing a rise in resume searches for PeopleSoft technicians: The fourth trend concerns PeopleSoft Security. Hill said businesses use Oracle’s PeopleSoft applications to manage complex systems, from finances to human capital and supply chains to CRM databases, and PeopleSoft Security uses a hierarchical approach
Read More...PeopleTools 8.51 introduced the PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF), a feature that allows for the automated testing of a PeopleSoft application. PTF also is powerful in that in can help developers understand the impact of how a change will impact the application before it moves into production. In the upcoming PeopleTools 8.52 release (discussed here previously),
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