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
Read More...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
Read More...Larry Zagata, our VP of Solution Delivery, received this card in the mail recently. It’s a handwritten congratulations card from the folks at Quest/Reconnect 2012 telling him that his session (called Utilizing Native PeopleTools for Improved Business Intelligence) was the highest-ranked session of the entire show. That’s exciting, especially considering the very high caliber of
Read More...I believe a big part of the value of our blogs is sharing information in a community that sometimes doesn’t always have a great venue for the sharing. Sometimes we demo or share our opinions, but we try to always share real information. In fact, there is so much information out there about PeopleSoft and
Read More...While many of my blogs are about PeopleSoft and Business Intelligence, a personal passion of mine is support of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). At age 6, my youngest daughter Lauren was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, as soon as I realized, I started to research on how to reverse diabetes. It was a life
Read More...Being a combination business intelligence and PeopleSoft guy, I am always looking for enhancements to improve the end user experience and capability of embedding business intelligence into the business process. Here are some of the favorite enhancements I am most looking forward to evaluating in PeopleTools 8.53. Related Actions/Related Content Enhancement: The Related Actions Framework
Read More...ZD Net contributor Joe McKendrick wrote a great blog about three reasons to hate BI dashboards. His opinion is certainly one that I share, and many of the blogs I have written here in the past try to focus on how to avoid these pitfalls. McKendrick’s post can be found here. Essentially his three reasons are: Dashboards haven’t
Read More...In prior posts, we have generically discussed utilizing PeopleTools 8.5x to improve business intelligence within PeopleSoft. Our message is definitely resonating with our customers as they are now looking for unique ways to take advantage of these powerful enhancements. For example, we worked with a customer to create a buyer homepage dashboard. This dashboard is
Read More...Heads up in case you missed this: here’s a fantastic blog post by Oracle’s Mark Rosenberg talking about what happens when IT respects the users, the co-existence of PeopleSoft and Fusion and how next-gen business intelligence is the key to the future. Frankly, this is one of Oracle’s best blog posts, across any of its
Read More...Previously, we have discussed the real power of BI — making business decisions out of the oodles (that’s a technical term for a lot) of data within organizations), embedding BI into the business process and processing that data extremely quickly and efficiently. So, while we have talked about it and tried to explain the concepts and
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