How Kaiser Permanente Successfully Completed the Quad Play Upgrade: Database; Tools; PUMs and Fluid!

Learn how Kaiser Permanente successfully completed a ‘Quad Play’ upgrade in 2018 for their single-instance finance and supply chain PeopleSoft ERP supporting 250;000 users! This included upgraded the Oracle Database from 11g to 12.2; PeopleTools from 8.55.16 to 8.56.07; PeopleSoft Image (PUMs) Upgrade from 24 to 27 and Fluid UI Feature adoption (Classic Plus pages; Fluid based Home pages and Navigation Collections). We included 11 required new features and 2;548 total bug fixes! Learn about the combined project – why we chose to do the 4 major upgrade scope elements; how we structured the project; how we managed risk; how the cut-over weekend and initial support has gone since the Sep. 17th cut-over date.

Objective 1: Learn about PeopleSoft upgrades in a large; complex organization (database; PeopleTools; PeopleSoft Image Updates (PUMs) and Fluid feature adoption strategy)

Objective 2: Learn how we managed risk and handled change management for the ‘Quad Play’ upgrade (database; PeopleTools; PeopleSoft Image Updates (PUMs) and Fluid feature adoption strategy)

Objective 3: Hear the lessons learnt from the ‘Quad Play’ upgrade (database; PeopleTools; PeopleSoft Image Updates (PUMs) and Fluid feature adoption strategy) 

Presented by Tony Schollum, Marcello Perez, Rajnish Verma & Vijaya Rakesh, Kaiser Permanente

Part of PeopleSoft Industry Day 2019: Click here for the full agenda.