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

Join us for Day 1 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! In this session, Oracle’s, Mark Hoernemann, will share a high-level overview of PeopleTools upgrades, why your organization may benefit from utilizing them, insights about those companies who already use them, and resources that may help your organization get started.

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

Join us for Day 1 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! In this panel, PeopleSoft customers who have recently upgraded to People Tools 8.59 or are making plans for 8.60 will share innovations, best practices and lessons learned.

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

Join us for Day 1 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! In this panel, PeopleSoft customers who have recently upgraded to People Tools 8.59 or are making plans for 8.60 will share innovations, best practices and lessons learned.

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

Join us for Day 1 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! Learn and understand how PeopleTools 8.60 can help you de-customize and modernize your PeopleSoft application by leveraging 8.60 Understand the PeopleSoft buzzwords Analytics and Reporting, ElasticSearch, Event Mapping, Page and Field configurator and many more. Watch live demo of some of the new key features of ElasticSearch, Page and Field configurator and Fluid Reporting.

11:00 am – 11:30 am ET

Day 2 Kick-Off with Oracle: Lifecycle Management/Selective Adoption

Presented by:
Sasank Vemana, Oracle

Join us for Day 2 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! In this session, Oracle’s, Sasank Vemana, will share a high-level overview of lifecycle management and selective adoption, why your organization may benefit from utilizing them, insights about those companies who already use them, and resources that may help your organization get started.

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

Join us for Day 2 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! In this panel, PeopleSoft customers will share how they manage their PeopleSoft lifecycle, including the process of applying fixes, features, and Tools upgrades, and how they use a more strategic approach to staying current with strategy, resource alignment, and feature selection for both the technical and business audience.

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

Join us for Day 2 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023!
 
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

Join us for Day 2 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! This customer panel presentation will highlight the benefits and challenges of running PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The panelists, who are current customers of the platform, will share their experiences, insights, and best practices for optimizing PeopleSoft on OCI. The presentation will cover various topics, such as the migration process, performance optimization, cost management, and security considerations. The panelists will also discuss how OCI’s advanced features and tools, such as Autonomous Database, Compute Instances, and Load Balancing, have helped them enhance their PeopleSoft environment and streamline their business operations. In addition, the panelists will share their thoughts on the future of PeopleSoft on OCI, including potential innovations, trends, and challenges. They will also answer questions from the audience, providing valuable insights and advice for those considering or already using PeopleSoft on OCI. Overall, this customer panel presentation aims to provide a comprehensive and informative overview of running PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, highlighting its benefits, challenges, and best practices.

11:00 am – 11:30 am ET

Day 3 Kick-Off with Oracle: Configuration

Presented by:
Joe Willever, Oracle

Join us for Day 3 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! In this session, Oracle’s, Joe Willever, will share a high-level overview of configuration options, why your organization may benefit from utilizing them, insights about those companies who already use them, and resources that may help your organization get started.

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

Join us for Day 3 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! In this panel, PeopleSoft customers will share new configuration features in 8.60, success stories from 8.59 features, how their using PeopleSoft Configuration Manager, PeopleSoft Test Framework, Configurable Search, and more.

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

Join us for Day 3 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023!
 
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

Join us for Day 3 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! Join us to learn about how Daytona State College (DSC) uses PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF) scripts for system validation.
 
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

Join us for Day 4 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! In this session, Oracle’s, Sasank Vemana, will share a high-level overview of Kibana, why your organization may benefit from utilizing it, insights about those companies who already use it, and resources that may help your organization get started.

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

Join us for Day 4 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! In this panel, PeopleSoft customers will share how they are driving innovation and efficiency through Kibana analytics. Possible topics could include dashboards, Elasticsearch, data visualization, and integrations.

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

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.

11:00 am – 11:30 am ET

Day 5 Kick-Off with Oracle: Fluid User Experience

Presented by:
Robbin Velayedam, Oracle

Join us for Day 5 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! In this session, Oracle’s, Robbin Velayedam, will share a high-level overview of fluid user experience, why your organization may benefit from utilizing it, insights about those companies who already use it, and resources that may help your organization get started.

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

Join us for Day 5 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! In this panel, PeopleSoft customers will share their experience with a range of topics, potentially including how they are developing Fluid applications, using the PeopleSoft Fluid interface, using Delivered Fluid Pages or implementing Classic Plus.

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

Join us for Day 5 of PeopleSoft Week: Gamechangers 2023! In this session we’ll discuss Fluid features and benefits, recent PeopleTools advancements in this area and focus on Fluid features such as Notification Framework, Activity Guides and Pivot Grids.
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