A Look Inside: PeopleSoft 9.1 Enhancements

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A Look Inside: PeopleSoft 9.1 Enhancements

With all of the talk focused on the new Oracle Fusion HCM applications with their on-premise, on-demand and SaaS options, it seems that the old PeopleSoft workhorse of 9.1 HCM applications may have been forgotten.  But wait!  Here comes the latest feature pack (v2.0) which shines some new light on the PeopleSoft HCM suite. PeopleSoft

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Why PeopleSoft Implementations Fail

It’s the Big Daddy question: Why did our implementation fail? It causes a room to fall silent and eyes to focus intensely on meeting handouts and coffee cups. In our experience, there are some very key differences between PeopleSoft projects that have been successful and those that have not.  Historically, we have been asked to

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Upgrade: Obligation or Opportunity?

Some folks rank an upgrade right up there with routine maintenance on your car and a trip to the dentist.  You know it has to be done, and everyone can tell you why you should do it, but it is just so darn hard to get motivated about it.  Let’s be honest, you have heard

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The BluePrint Workshop

So you just spent six months creating a Request For Proposal (RFP), distributing that RFP to a list of 15 possible vendors, shortlisting the vendors, conducting oral presentations, selecting your implementation partner, executing weeks of contract negotiations and finally after thousands of person hours invested you are ready to start the implementation.  So, what’s the

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Something to Consider: Multiple PeopleTools Upgrade Options

I recently engaged a new prospective customer who is interested in upgrading PeopleTools to version 8.5.  One of the primary reasons for this client to undertake the PeopleTools upgrade is to preempt an inevitable upgrade to HCM v9.1, as they are currently on v 9.0 MP3.  What’s motivating them to upgrade HCM?  It’s a story

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Running PeopleSoft Portal 8.8? Now Is a Good Time to Upgrade

Extended support for PeopleSoft Portal Solutions has ended, according to the PeopleSoft Technology Blog.  What does this mean? Extended support for PeopleSoft Portal Solutions 8.8 will end in March 2011. This means that Oracle is not obliged to provide development support in the form of new features and fixes to Portal Solutions customers running 8.8

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‘PeopleSoft Is Still Going Gangbusters’

Back in January of this year Chris Kanaracus of IDG observed that PeopleSoft is still going gangbusters.  As we continue into 2011, we’ve seen a similar trend. Kanaracus notes that the current 9.1 release of PeopleSoft is being adopted at a rate four times faster than any other edition.  Pretty impressive for an application that

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PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1 Now Available

Quick update: Oracle has released PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1.  This is the final GA component of the 9.1 family of PeopleSoft applications. If you wish to download it, it is available via Oracle’s E-Delivery portal.  To get it, simply search on “My Oracle Support” for “documentation home pages” related to the PeopleSoft

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PeopleTools 8.5 and OBIEE: There’s Value in Those Hills

We have posted multiple posts on the new PeopleTools 8.5 release (here’s our most popular; here’s our shameless plug), in addition to several posts on the  value of Oracle OBIEE and BI apps.  However, today’s post will talk about PeopleTools 8.5: for customers who have both PeopleSoft and Oracle OBIEE, there is some additional value

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