Reality Check: You Can’t Build With Your Hands Tied

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Reality Check: You Can’t Build With Your Hands Tied

Stop me if you heard something similar before. Ready? Kentucky limits on debt issuance have hindered high-priority university construction/renovation projects.  Detailing this is a great piece over at Inside Higher Ed, by Kevin Kiley. To wit: Even though the university would fund its new debt through non-state revenues, lawmakers in the Kentucky state legislature, which

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PeopleSoft FSCM v9.1 Feature Pack 2 – For You!

Just a month ago (February 16 to be exact), Oracle provided the latest version of Financials and Supply Chain Management (FSCM) in its Feature Pack 2 (FP2) release.  At MIPRO, we’re pretty excited about the new capabilities within this FP, and believe that this one is for you. From Oracle’s press release, FP2 delivers “…new

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Are You Looking to Achieve Global ERP?

As I talk to customers about their PeopleSoft solution, it is interesting to me how often the discussion now seems to involve some flavor of a global solution. For one project, it’s as “simple” as a single location in Ireland, but it drives a need for consolidations and multiple currency calculations. For another project, we are engaged

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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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Fusion’s Coming, But PeopleSoft Is Alive and Well

Contrary to what some backstreets of the ERP rumor mill will say, there’s a strong roadmap ahead for PeopleSoft, including a new current release of HCM and even a major release next year.  Here’s InformationWeek’s Doug Henschen talking about what that means for Fusion and what mindset customers should consider adopting: …if PeopleSoft’s getting all

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Now, Where Did I Put My Assets?

Oracle has begun to offer ‘Feature Packs’ between planned major releases to deliver new capabilities and value to customers. If you’re not aware of this (and you should be), here’s the information about the Oracle Feature Pack program. With the release of the PeopleSoft 9.1 Feature Pack in Spring 2011, Oracle now offers “significant new

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The One Event You Don’t Want to Miss If You’re Interested in Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)

But first, what is Enterprise Asset Management?  Good question.  There’s  always the Wikipedia definition, and then there’s our perspective given what we’re hearing from our customers and prospects. From where we sit, there’s a lot of buzz in the market about EAM, which is logical given the economic conditions we have just experienced.   Organizations today,

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