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Oracle CFO Central

Are you familiar with Oracle CFO Central?  This is a site designed by Oracle with a focus on the CFO.  The website contains white papers, podcasts, testimonials, case studies, solutions, articles, executive interviews. It’s new, and an excellent resource. If you are a CFO, VP of finance, or controller, CFO Central has a great amount

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Using PeopleTools 8.51+ to Improve Business Intelligence

The live demonstration below will discuss and demonstrate how to take advantage of native PeopleTools 8.51 and higher to improve business intelligence in your organization. In this video, we show you how to expand business intelligence into PeopleSoft utilizing delivered tools to “configure,” not “customize” your solution and improve the business process with embedded business

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The Value of Value Realization

In these days of tight times, the most common modus operandi/strategy of IT and Business Process re-engineering or Optimization projects has been twofold: Keep the wheels on the wagon, or Fund only projects that have a good opportunity for real ROI. If you have had problems getting funding (like everyone else) for worthwhile projects, consider

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What Is a Team Operating Agreement and Is It Right for Your Project?

An operating agreement is defined as ‘a set of agreed-upon parameters and mutual expectations that defines a process of working together’.  The operating agreement allows you to express your expectations for each project team member, your operating guidelines and allows you to hold project team members accountable for their commitments and obligations.  In certain organizations,

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Utilizing Native PeopleTools for Improved Business Intelligence

In past blogs we have discussed both business intelligence, PeopleSoft functionality and the potential to merge both of those worlds.  With some of the delivered features and enhancements with PeopleTools 8.51 we can get very specific of how we can embed business intelligence into the PeopleSoft business transaction.  ERP solutions allow you to run your

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A Smart IT Investment Could Help Ease Budgetary Challenges for K-12 Education

It might not be the first thing on your mental checklist, but enterprise software consulting firms play a key role in the overall return on investment for K-12 education by implementing applications –  in our case Oracle and PeopleSoft, which enable significant organizational efficiencies. In today’s economic climate, K-12 education administrators must be especially mindful

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Project Risk and the Project Progress Assessment (PPA): Keeping Your Project on the Straight and Narrow

In our last blog about project risk, we made mention of our Project Progress Assessment Workshop which supports risk identification, management and mitigation. PeopleSoft implementations can be complex and challenging with many projects running within the core project. Ensuring that all activities, obligations, project structure and deliverables are met on time is a challenge unto

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Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management

In previous blog posts (see here and here) and our Business Intelligence Manifesto whitepaper we have discussed the importance of aligning metrics and goals from top to bottom in the organization. Aligning metrics and goals allow the organization to measure its performance consistently against the key objectives of the entire organization. This means that every

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