Earlier this week, Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey took to Reddit to defend the sale of his company to Facebook for $2B. Oculus VR is mainly known for a product called Rift. If you don’t know what Rift is, it’s essentially the most promising next-generation thing for gaming and interactive digital experiences. It’s the virtual
Read More...Increasingly, I have taken to using Google Drive for document creation and collaboration. Last week, Google announced add-ons for Google Docs (text documents) and Sheets (spreadsheets). Here’s Google’s Saurabh Gupta, Product Manager: You use Google Docs and Sheets to get all sorts of stuff done—whether you’re staying up late to finish that final paper or just
Read More...MIPRO Completes Phase I PeopleSoft Implementation at Covanta Retained for Phase II March 10, 2014 MIPRO Consulting, a Milford, Michigan-based consultancy focused on implementations, upgrades and optimizations of Oracle’s PeopleSoft applications, announced the completion of their initial engagement with Covanta, a world leader in sustainable waste management and renewable energy. Covanta recently retained MIPRO
Read More...The Oracle community was buzzing in early February, kicking off 2014 with two key conferences occurring simultaneously. MIPRO Consulting was able to divide and conquer, with a major presence at Oracle’s inaugural HCM World in Las Vegas and at the second annual Oracle Value Chain Summit in San Jose, Calif. HR leaders from around the country gathered at Oracle
Read More...MIPRO Consulting Hires Todd Rayburn as HCM Practice Manager February 19, 2014 MIPRO Consulting, a Milford, Michigan-based consultancy specializing in the implementation and optimization of Oracle’s PeopleSoft and Fusion products, announced the hire of Todd Rayburn as HCM Practice Manager. MIPRO President and CEO Jim Prokes made the announcement. In his role, Rayburn
Read More...As the calendar flips to March, we can all look forward to the end of a long winter, as well as the dawning spring. But March also brings the annual Alliance conference. Alliance is by far one of my favorite events. I can remember attending what I believe was their second conference, which then was
Read More...Great update — the URL remains the same (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E52319_01/infoportal/index.html), but the look, feel and navigation is much better. Worth a bookmark.
Read More...Leadership and business literature is rife with dictums and volumes about not giving up. The sentiment was even on a now-ancient Successories poster that said: Go over, go under, go around, or go through. But never give up. Here, the message is brute force, as if you’re a Navy SEAL who’s going to achieve his
Read More...If you know us, or you’ve read this blog before – or, heck, even read our tagline – you know we’re big into three things: Focus Passion Doing what’s right, even when it’s hard We’ve grown MIPRO by relentlessly following these guiding principles, and it’s been incredibly rewarding. Challenging at times, but nonetheless very rewarding.
Read More...MIPRO Promotes Tim Schinke to Vice President, Alliances January 16, 2014 MIPRO Consulting, a Milford, Michigan-based consultancy focused on implementations, upgrades and optimizations of Oracle’s PeopleSoft and Fusion applications announced today that Tim Schinke has been promoted to Vice President, Alliances. MIPRO Managing Partner and CEO Jim Prokes made the announcement. In his
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