Tag: Move to Cloud

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Hear from Baylor University how they diversified their onboarding journey experience to ensure their new faculty are set up for long-term success.

Instead of describing what users should do to succeed in the Oracle Cloud, James McBride, Financial Systems Manager at Voya Financial and Cloud ERP user, used his experience to share what not to do during an Oracle Cloud migration and after go-live. He shared six common mistakes that users make.

What happens to your PeopleSoft HCM data that’s been stored in PeopleSoft all these years if you transition to the Cloud? The answer is multi-part, and it begins with the steps you’ll take to convert your data.

Oracle Soar is one solution that organizations can use to for their Oracle Cloud Migration. Find out what differentiates Oracle Soar and if it may be an option for your organization.

Everybody knows McDonald’s. Its golden arches can be found around the world in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific. With more than 38,000 restaurants and over 70,000 employees world-wide, the scale of the company’s operations is vast. In July 2021, McDonald’s shifted its North American HCM solution to the Cloud, moving from Lawson HR & Payroll to Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM.

Amongst the oldest and most well-known ERP solutions, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft have together delivered decades of tangible business value to their customers and continue to release innovative new features and functionality that help organizations modernize their operations. As cloud solutions become more ubiquitous and more enterprise businesses consider cloud investments, many options are now available to JD Edwards and PeopleSoft customers.

Some companies choose to run their existing JD Edwards or PeopleSoft solutions in the cloud on platforms like Azure, AWS or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Others start their cloud journey by moving select functions (often previously supported by 3rd party applications) to Oracle Cloud applications. Still others contemplate a full ‘lift and shift’ strategy, replacing their on-prem solutions with one or more Oracle Cloud applications.

For organizations who have not yet made the move to cloud, the benefits of migration are clear: lower cost of total ownership, increased operational agility, greater automation and modernization of existing business functions, but determining the optimal path to the cloud is not always easy.

Quest Oracle Community supports thousands of JD Edwards and PeopleSoft users world-wide, creating opportunities for customers to share insights, innovations and best practices through its education programs, networking activities and special interest groups. In a recent benchmarking survey, Quest invited its members to share where they are on their cloud journeys, which (if any) Oracle Cloud applications they are actively using or considering as well as challenges they have encountered as they develop and implement their cloud strategies.

Whether you are considering a move to Cloud HCM or you're already there, in this post you’ll learn how to apply updates and take regular maintenance in Oracle Cloud HCM. Quarterly updates are the key to leveraging continuous innovation available via the Cloud. Plus, regular updates are more efficient than pausing operations for a major update for non-Cloud systems. As you become familiar with quarterly updates, maintenance packs, payroll updates, legislative updates, and infrastructure updates, the process for maintaining your Oracle Cloud HCM will prove abundantly worth the effort of staying up to date.

Dermalogica's journey to the OCI was more than just a technical upgrade; it was a strategic shift in their approach. They left behind bad habits, simplified complex configurations, and found opportunities for data archiving.

When trying to determine if Oracle Cloud HCM is nimble enough to support your dynamic requirements, it may be helpful to understand more about this product.