
February 26 - March 1, 2024
Practical digital learning for the PeopleSoft Community
Join us February 26 – March 1, 2024 for PeopleSoft Week: Game Changers
PeopleSoft Week 2024: Game Changers
Join us for five days of focused panel discussions and customer success stories built around key priority areas for the PeopleSoft Community. Topics from 2023 included:
Day 1: PeopleTools Upgrades – Monday’s program is designed for customers who have recently upgraded to PeopleTools 8.59 or are making plans for 8.60 — innovations, best practices and lessons learned
Day 2: Lifecycle Management/Selective Adoption – a broad program designed to cover both maintenance and getting current. Content could address how to manage your PeopleSoft lifecycle (the process of applying fixes, features, Tools upgrades, etc.) or the more strategic approach to staying current (strategy, resource alignment, feature selection, etc) for both the technical and business audience. This day provides a natural tie-in to PSFT on OCI as an accelerator for Lifecycle Management.
Day 3: Configuration – a popular topic for PeopleSoft customers, this program covers a range of topics including Configuration vs Customization, new configuration features in 8.60 or recent success stories from 8.59 features, PeopleSoft Configuration Manager, PeopleSoft Test Framework, Configurable Search, etc.
Day 4: Kibana – Thursday’s program showcases how customers are driving innovation and efficiency through Kibana analytics. Possible topics could include dashboards, elasticsearch, data visualization and integrations.
Day 5: Fluid User Experience – a broad program designed to cover a range of topics, potentially including how customers are developing Fluid applications, using the PeopleSoft Fluid interface, using Delivered Fluid Pages or implementing Classic Plus.
More information is coming soon. Don’t miss this great week of PeopleSoft learning!
PeopleSoft Week Agenda
11:00 am – 11:30 am ET
Day 1 Kick-Off with Oracle: PeopleTools Upgrades
Presented by:
Mark Hoernemann, Oracle
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
PeopleTools Upgrades Customer Panel A
Presented by:
Jeremy Irrthum, Software Engineer, University of Minnesota
Arkalgud Venkatesh, Director of Technical Services, Alameda County
Mudit Mittal, Senior Technical Manager, Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm ET
PeopleTools Upgrades Customer Panel B
Presented by:
Joseph Isaacks, Technical Manager, King County, Washington
Kenneth Palar, Business Analyst III, Hennepin County
Frank Dolezal, Nebraska NeSIS System Administrator, University of Nebraska Lincoln
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET
PeopleTools 8.60 upgrade and benefits
Presented by:
Supriya Prabhakara, PeopleSoft Lead Consultant, Astute Business Solutions
Mohammed Jiyash, Director OCI Practice, Astute Business Solutions
11:00 am – 11:30 am ET
Day 2 Kick-Off with Oracle: Lifecycle Management/Selective Adoption
Presented by:
Sasank Vemana, Oracle
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
Lifecycle Management/Selective Adoption Customer Panel
Presented by:
Arkalgud Venkatesh, Director of Technical Services, Alameda County
Matt Frigo, PeopleSoft Developer/Programmer Analyst, KAR Global
Tony Schollum, Executive Director, Natl. Functions Systems & Technology, Kaiser Permanente
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm ET
Cut the risk with proven, repeatable testing and balancing of two payrolls
Presented by:
Greg Rowell, Regional Account Director, Datavail
PayMatch® automates the testing and balancing of two payrolls by comparing paycheck data across 11 categories like earnings, deductions & taxes any time there is a change between baseline and updated payroll. It reduces testing time by over 90% and is especially useful during tax updates, patches, upgrades, conversions from 3rd party payroll providers, company mergers etc. to make sure they don’t negatively impact payroll. It also provides a sanity check for period over period payroll audits (e.g. fat fingering) or to reduce fraud.
During conversions, PayMatch® helps map, test and convert payroll data from one ERP to another with ease (e.g. PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud or SAP to Oracle Cloud). It is database independent and has no impact on payroll systems or data. PayMatch® was launched as a product in 1998 and it is an Oracle Validated Integration.
Say yes to hassle free data transfer and conversions without impacting currently used payroll systems/data with PayMatch® from one ERP to another (e.g. PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud or SAP to Oracle Cloud)
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET
Maximizing PeopleSoft Performance and Efficiency on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Insights from a Customer Panel
Presented by:
Arvind Rajan, CEO, Astute Business Solutions
Pam Ingram, Manager, Financial Systems, Hennepin County, MN
Aaron Ziff, Enterprise Director, Digital & IT — HRIT and EHS, Parker Hannifin Corporation
David Horak, Systems Engineer, City of Albuquerque, AZ
11:00 am – 11:30 am ET
Day 3 Kick-Off with Oracle: Configuration
Presented by:
Joe Willever, Oracle
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
Configuration Customer Panel
Presented by:
Arkalgud Venkatesh, Director of Technical Services, Alameda County
Nancy Eavenson, Sr. HRIS Specialist, Cru
Dinesh Prashanth Varantharajan, ERP Developer Analyst, Community Healthcare System
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm ET
Lift PeopleSoft and Shift to OCI – The story of the paradise island resorts that built value, scalability, and sustainability
Presented by:
Mahesh Vanapalli, Global Practice Leader, Datavail
In this session, you will learn how to de-customize your PeopleSoft applications by moving and improving on Oracle Cloud. We will also outline a blueprint and roadmap for the key ingredients and essential decisions customers need to make when considering moving to the public Cloud infrastructure. Different Cloud configurations, discuss potential overall objectives and strategies for the migration, and dissect the pivotal decisions and the timeline and financial impacts they have.
Live customer success demonstration of the paradise island resorts who has successfully executed this strategy to realize various benefits such as reduced cost of ownership, improved performance, license and maintenance costs elimination, and enhanced security.
This session will ensure that attendees have a primer and checklist to examine the business case for the public Cloud and consider the essential decisions and why choose OCI amongst the significant hyper-scalers, including AWS or Azure.
Learning Objectives:
– Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 101
– What are the benefits of migrating PeopleSoft to OCI? Hard savings/intangibles?
– Primary financial considerations in the Cloud migration
– Decision points along the Cloud migration journey
– Roadmap to move to OCI? Plan, effort, cost?
– What happens to your security, integration, and customization?
– Why prefer an OCI movement to the current 9.2 upgrade
– Key challenges and lessons learned – Review of the successful journey of the customer
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET
Case Study: How did Daytona State College (DSC) use PTF scripts for system validation?
Presented by:
Saad Mohammed, Director, Functional Services, ERPA
Sneha Lattupally, Project Manager, ERPA
After a system refresh or update, customers must spend considerable amount of time validating whether the basic system functionality (such as Ping test, COBOL process, SQR process, log in/log out) works. This validation usually involves someone logging into the system and manually checking each of the functionality. But now with DSC has automated the validation of system post-refresh or post-update – one click results in a summarized report at the end of testing.
Saad and Sneha will walk users through how PTF scripts are used to automate system validation and will be available to answer questions after their presentation and brief demo.
11:00 am – 11:30 am ET
Day 4 Kick-Off with Oracle: Kibana
Presented by:
Sasank Vemana, Oracle
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
Kibana Customer Panel
Presented by:
Arkalgud Venkatesh, Director of Technical Services, Alameda County
Mrudula Marpadga, Lead Application Analyst, BigLots
Charlie Sinks, Principal Software Engineer, Andersen Windows
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm ET
Build advanced Custom data visualizations using Kibana for Peoplesoft
Presented by:
Kanchan Singh, Peoplesoft Consultant, Astute Business Solutions
11:00 am – 11:30 am ET
Day 5 Kick-Off with Oracle: Fluid User Experience
Presented by:
Robbin Velayedam, Oracle
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
Fluid User Experience Customer Panel
Presented by:
Arkalgud Venkatesh, Director of Technical Services, Alameda County
Jeremy Irrthum, Software Engineer, University of Minnesota
Dongmei Gao, ERP Analyst, Florida State University
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm ET
Fluid User Experience – Implementing and Staying Fluid
Presented by:
Robbie de Leur, EdD, AVP, Higher Education Delivery, ERPA
Jami Kong, Campus Solutions Technical Subject Matter Expert, ERPA
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