Session Highlights: Public Sector

Session ID: P-027830

Value Check your PeopleSoft investment: Are you getting the best bang for your buck? Are you getting the most out of all delivered functionality? How to get the maximum ROI? How to enhance PeopleSoft

Presented by:
Venkatesh Arkalgud, Alameda County

Abstract:

Value Check your PeopleSoft investment: Are your users getting the best bang for your buck – pivot grids, dashboards

Are you getting the most out of all delivered functionality – configurable search and menu search? How to enhance/customize PeopleSoft – drop zones: page field configurator.

How to get the maximum ROI?

Have you thought about those lately? We do on a regular basis at Alameda County, attend the session to see!

Session ID: P-031868

Five Ways to Ruin your Change Management Strategy

Presented by:
Chelsea Ward, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Abstract:

Buckle up for a rollercoaster ride through the misadventures of Choctaw Nation’s journey in Change Management. From doubling in growth post-transition to Oracle Cloud to the realization that change management was an unfamiliar concept, we’ve navigated the complexities of organizational evolution. Amplifying our change management challenge is the vast decentralization of our organization: spanning most of the southeastern portion of Oklahoma.

Join us as we candidly share our experiences, from initial stumbles to ongoing strides in adopting change management strategies. Our tribal government, which operates with and manages grants and tribal funding, has transitioned from legacy systems to Oracle HCM, ORC, ERP, and SCM.

Through anecdotes and insights, we’ll explore the five perilous paths that we’ve stumbled down to essentially undermine our own change management strategies: Just Send Emails, Don’t Identify All Your Stakeholders, The Sponsors Know What Change Management is…Right??, and Skimp on Training. It’s a journey of lessons learned, continuous improvement, and the pursuit of effective change management practices.

Session ID: P-033726

CSS 101: Customizing look and feel in the PeopleSoft UI

Presented by:
Rebecca Morris-Ostrom, State of Minnesota

Abstract:

Are you tired of going to these sessions and hearing just change the CSS but don’t know where to start? After all, PeopleSoft developers in the past haven’t worked much with front end development. This session will introduce attendees to the basics of CSS, including:

• What is CSS
• Classes, Pseudo-classes, and IDs
• General Syntax
• Specificity and inheritance

Browser developer tools will be used to demonstrate how a user can analyze delivered design and start to customize the look-and-feel of their own PeopleSoft applications. This session will be applicable to anyone looking to learn basics of CSS, but the content will focus primarily on common changes made to the PeopleSoft user interface.

Session ID: P-036932

5 Tips to Conquer Oracle Quarterly Updates

Presented by:
Emily Crow, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Abstract:

When the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma went live with Oracle Cloud in 2020, our legacy system was 5 years behind on updates! We chose a system that would require us to stay current with the latest release, but that didn’t make the 2-week testing window any less daunting.

Join us to find out how we streamlined our processes, reduced our validation time to only ONE week, and learned to love Oracle quarterly updates.

Session ID: P-038637

Transitioning to Oracle Cloud – the Good: the Bad: and the Ugly

Presented by:
Emily Crow, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Abstract:

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma is the 3rd largest Native American tribe in the US. As a fully functioning government funded by a combination of commercial operations and grants, we encountered many unique challenges during our transition from JDE to Oracle Cloud. Join us to hear about our implementation of ERP, HCM, and SCM – the good, the bad, and the ugly.

We’ll also share our advice for a successful implementation as well as some of the tips and tricks we’ve learned in our last four years living in the Cloud.

Session ID: P-039123

How We Built Our Oracle Cloud Support Team From the Bottom Up

Presented by:
Chelsea Ward, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Abstract:

During this session, we will delve into the journey of building and nurturing our Choctaw Nation Oracle Cloud Support Team. We will highlight how a team, that is effectively ten percent of the organization’s IT department, has successfully managed to set the standard for project and system support.

Key topics will include insight into our tailored Project Life Cycle, an exploration of our commitment to continuous learning, how we have successfully customized our project and support approaches, and an honest look into our decision to manage Oracle Cloud autonomously, what we’ve learned, and how we continue to improve.

Come along with us on this enlightening journey as we share the strategies, triumphs, and most importantly, the challenges that have bolstered the Choctaw Nation Oracle Cloud Support Team to new heights.

Session ID: P-042648

Overview of PeopleTools 8.60 Fluid UI: Branding and Personalizations: How and Why

Presented by:
Rahul Nori, State of Minnesota

Abstract:

Let’s make PeopleSoft our own! Understanding Fluid UI, personalizations and adopting various flavors of branding, Homepages, Fluid, Classic, Dashboards, Icons, Logos, etc.

For many organizations who try to get to a newer version of PeopleTools, the challenge of creating a custom branded environment turns into a daunting task. It needs input from both IT and business, and requires PeopleSoft Developers and Admins to be become front-end developers.

In this presentation we will review the new elements of PeopleTools 8.60 Fluid UI and discuss how and why to create the critical elements of Branding at various levels – Fluid, Classic, Homepages, Dashboards, Navbar, Icons and Logos – to make users happily transition into the newer PeopleTools version. We will review how to design, configure and setup branding. You’ll learn why you need to be thinking about customizing look and feel and how to design it for your organization. We will end the discussion with an overview of some of the new PT8.60 personalization options at user and global levels.

Session ID: P-041554

PeopleSoft Testing Framework Roundtable

Presented by:
Pamela Ingram, Hennepin County

Abstract:

PeopleSoft Testing Framework (PTF) Roundtable discussion will include organizations from the Oracle Community that share how they are using PTF, tips, tricks, and best practices.

Getting started with PTF can be a challenge. Come ready to become a successful user of the product. Listen to their approach, how they keep their tests current with each update, and how they have built confidence in the user base that PTF is the answer.

Session ID: P-044344

U.S. Army provides an update on the use of PeopleSoft HCM: ELM: and CRM with the over 1 million Soldiers.

Presented by:
COL Rebekah Lust, U.S. Army

Abstract:

The United States Army’s Integrated Personnel and Pay System (IPPS-A) is responsible for the human capital management for 1.1 million soldiers. In this session you will learn about the largest PeopleSoft deployment in history. Colonel Lust will discuss the challenges and successes along their journey, including how the Army was able to leverage agile to incrementally deploy PeopleSoft to such a large and global user base.

IPPS-A completed a PeopleTools upgrade and PUM updates to ELM, CRM, and HCM in the year since Go-Live. The team will also explain how it continued to enhance the user experience with additional features and analytics.

Session ID: P-044710

How Hennepin County implemented Oracle Guided Learning

Presented by:
Pamela Ingram, Hennepin County

Abstract:

Hennepin County, MN implemented Oracle Guided Learning(OGL) to help it’s end users feel successful in the system. With the goal of reducing help desk calls and issues with data: Hennepin County focused on the financials pillar first to implement OGL.

This session will describe the project plan, implementation, as well as a live demo of OGL.

Session ID: P-048818

Moving to the Cloud and Upgrading PeopleTools on a Non-Fluid Portal – Lessons Learned

Presented by:
Donna Braga, Connecticut Office Of The State Comptroller

Abstract:

State of Connecticut migrated the full suite of PeopleSoft Financials, HCM, and CRM, along with EPM and Oracle Business Intelligence to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, while also upgrading PeopleTools from 8.56 to 8.60. This was particularly challenging, as it was the first step before upgrading the application to the latest versions of PUM and Fluid.

Session ID: P-047927

Calgary Catholic School District’s Journey to Modernize PeopleSoft and Plan for the Future

Presented by:
Trudy Thistlethwaite, Calgary Catholic School District

Abstract:

Not all PeopleSoft journeys take the same path. But the common factor is the customer desire to make PeopleSoft work as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Calgary Catholic School District (CCSD) in Canada has been running PeopleSoft for nearly 20 years and handles everything from Payroll to Supply Chain to all the Financials challenges you could encounter. Like many early adopters, CCSD now has 20 years of institutional knowledge built into this critical system. As any long-established system will show, early decisions could benefit from a fresh eye performing an assessment.

Calgary has begun looking at the heart of core processes to see if there is a better way to maximize their return on investment in terms of both time and money. With recent projects to architect a new implementation of Project Costing, to Adopting Activity Guides for Purchasing to getting the new PeopleTools Open Search working. Calgary is even in the early stages of discussing how this Microsoft shop can lift their PeopleSoft to the Azure Cloud or if the time to move away from PeopleSoft has come.

This will be a 45-minute discussion of some of the refinements, fixes, and future of PeopleSoft planning going on at Calgary while managing the future of a core component relied upon by their entire organization. Join us as we look as some projects to update the old and the factors they are considering as a move to the cloud future is being planned.

Session ID: P-045876

Query Manager: Tips and Tricks

Presented by:
Rahul Nori, State of Minnesota

Abstract:

If you’re a technical or functional user that is looking to learn some tips and tricks of Query Manager, this session is for you. If you are confident in your ability to write queries to retrieve transactional information about student/employee/vendor/supplier; and are looking for ways to be more sophisticated in your data retrieval: then this is the session is also for you!

We will begin with some basic tips and tricks for query writing, and then move to some more complicated topics, like creating smart prompts, or using expressions wisely. Finally, we discuss some advanced topics such as using query manager on 4-tier vs using query builder tool within Application Designer for PeopleTools 8.57, as well as look at the new classic-plus view of query manager.

Topics Covered will include:

1. Query Manager Tips – Demo
2. Understanding Joins
3. Manipulating Data with Expressions
4. Aggregating Data
5. Sub Queries
6. Drilling URLs
7. Tips and Tricks
8. 2-Tier
9. Query Admin