In a recent PeopleSoft Talk, Marc Weintraub talks with Ravi Shankar, Senior Director of PeopleTools Development, about Elasticsearch in PeopleSoft applications. Ravi shares an update on Elasticsearch and PeopleSoft, discusses the transition to Elasticsearch, customer adoption and available resources. He describes Elasticsearch to be a widely used, industrial strength, open source distributed search platform based on Apache Lucene, a Java based search library.

Elasticsearch was designed for scalability, reliability and easy management. It is available as an alternate search engine to SES via PTSF. PeopleSoft delivers a specific version of Elasticsearch as a deployment package. Additionally, PeopleSoft deploys Elasticsearch on different hosts (Linux or Windows) than PeopleTools. Important to note is the security of Elasticsearch, which uses PeopleSoft security and retains the PTSF Security Model.

PeopleSoft shifted to Elasticsearch to reduce operational overhead and enable efficient search implementations. They wanted to bring search-based innovations to app developers and customers, to enable easier scalability, fail-safe, DR and cloud deployments. Ravi talks about the seven step transition to Elasticsearch: estimate resource requirements, deploy Elasticsearch on Server using Linux or Windows, update new features and fixes to PeopleSoft and Elasticsearch, configure PeopleSoft integration with Elasticsearch, build search indexes on Elasticsearch, perform acceptance testing and, finally, migrate to Elasticsearch.

Learn more about Elasticsearch on PeopleSoft and how to get more resources from Oracle PeopleSoft in this episode of PeopleSoft Talk.