The PeopleSoft Weekly newsletter

HCM 9.2 Release Value Proposition published

Marissa Mayer becomes CEO of Yahoo

Marissa was one of the most public faces of Google, having joined in 1999 as employee number 20 and the company’s first female engineer. She held key roles in Google Search, Images, News, Maps, Gmail and oversaw the layout of Google’s famous homepage. The helm of Yahoo is a huge role, but she carries a lot of goodwill with her. Marissa is an inspiration to many women in our industry, leading one of the biggest companies in the world whilst only 37 and pregnant!

UKOUG PeopleSoft Partner of the Year Competition

Succeed were honoured to win the coveted UKOUG PeopleSoft Partner of the Year competition last year. The award is voted for by end users, which made us particularly proud. This year, we’re hoping to retain our crown. If you like our work or what we stand for, head over to the link above to vote. Thanks!

Functional

Fusion Core HR and Employment Terms

Jacki W, one of Succeed’s HCM and GP experts, has run the rule over Fusion’s use of the PeopleSoft ‘person model’ and how it has been tweaked with the introduction of Employment Terms.

Technical

Creating a quick BI Publisher Report Using PeopleCode

David Wiggins – one of Succeed’s premier Techs – shows just how simple it is to create a BI Publisher report using just 7 lines of PeopleCode.

Reading

Oracle on its knees?

It wasn’t long ago that Oracle seemed to be going from strength to strength; with several successful outcomes in the European Court, completion of its 75th acquisition and a share price at a 10 year high to name a few. However, with the recent blows how will Oracle respond?

Highest paid Valley Executives

Larry Ellison may have a reputation for being a top earner, but Apple CEO Tim Cook earned $378 million compensation in 2011, becoming the highest paid valley executive for 2011. Unfortunately for him most of his money is in restricted stock and not a gigantic pile of cash (so he’ll have to wait a little longer to buy an Hawaiian island).

And Finally…

Top 10 reasons Darth Vader was just an amazing Project Manager

Are all Project Managers evil dictators? Of course not, but here’s why one notorious evil dictator was just a misunderstood Project Manager.

Second court defeat for Oracle

Reading

Two Changes to the Oracle Support Site

Oracle is about to make two changes to its support website. One is a welcome step forwards, however the other presents a challenge to those not moving to Tools 8.53 soon.

A comparison of PeopleSoft and Fusion Organisation Structures

One of Succeed’s Senior Functional Consultants compares the model for Organisation Structures as we’re used to them in PeopleSoft against how they’ll be setup in Fusion.

Highlights from the PeopleTools 8.53 RVP

A summary of the more important points revealed in the Release Value Proposition.

Watching

BashMobile for PeopleSoft Campus

There’s a new product available that enables Campus Solutions customers to allow their students to access useful areas of the system via their mobiles. The headline above links to a YouTube demo video. Their website can be found here.

And Finally

A good day for science, but not slide design

The PeopleSoft Interaction Hub

Reading

Undergrad suspected in large PeopleSoft breach

Officials at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln (UNL) have identified an undergraduate student they say is responsible for a recent intrusion into a university’s PeopleSoft Campus Solutions system containing personal information on more than 650,000 students, parents and employees.

The Oracle OpenWorld 2012 Session Catalogue is live

Many of the sessions planned for this year’s Oracle OpenWorld conference are browseable on the above website. There are >100 sessions just on PeopleSoft alone.

Watching

Larry remembers Steve Jobs

Ed Catmull (co-founder of Pixar) and Larry Ellison share their memories of/and insight into the life and career of Steve Jobs. Steve and Larry were neighbours and met when Larry marched around to complain about Steve’s peacock! (12 mins)

Tools and Code

A new App Store?

Although it seems to still be six weeks from launch a new website has appeared proporting to be ‘the Enterprise App Store’. It appears to be a 3rd party venture – not created by Oracle – so we’ll be watching this one with interest.

PeopleTools 8.52.09 is released

Reading

Converting the PeopleTools OVM Template to VirtualBox

Jim Marion documents how to convert an Oracle Virtual Machine template into a Virtual Box instance. This will help anyone who is eager to try the templates but doesn’t have some spare hardware to reformat and load OVM host onto. This is the companion post to Jim’s first entry (Converting PeopleSoft OVM Templates to VirtualBox Guests).

First Impressions of Fusion

Jacki – one of Succeed’s payroll consultants – runs the rule over Fusion, from the perspective of a PeopleSoft expert.

Watching

Larry Ellison Unplugged

A video interview with Larry Ellison at the 10th D: All Things Digital conference, which sees him in very relaxed, but also forthcoming mood. One of the best soundbites was on his perceived resistence to the cloud: “I started NetSuite, NetSuite was my idea … 6 months later Marc Benioff copied it”. It’s a little long (39mins until the questions, but there’s some great anti-Workday points after that point) but it’s an entertaining insight into the man himself.

Tools and Code

A Custom Sign-On Page

The delivered PeopleSoft sign-on screen is perfectly functional, however as it’s the first screen your users see when they log on it’s worth putting in a little effort to make the right impression. We’ve found that adding a page that’s branded – so it’s both attractive to look at and recognisable as ‘one of our systems’ – creates far more positive feelings than one that’s left as vanilla. Here’s how you can get one the easy way.