At Quest’s BLUEPRINT 4D, Marcel Esqueu, VP of Financial System Transformation and Financial Close for The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, shared his team’s experience transitioning from PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud.

Guardian has provided mutual life insurance to customers for over 150 years and currently serves 39 million customers throughout the U.S. With a rich history of success and millions of customers relying on its services, company leaders are committed to evolving the tech stack as better technology comes available.

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.

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.

There were over 130 Cloud sessions presented at BLUEPRINT 4D, May 8th – 11th, 2023, in Dallas, TX, experienced by over 425 attendees with 200 companies represented!  While nothing compares to attending the event in-person, we’ve listed the recordings of the top ten most popular Move to Cloud sessions here so you can see what all the buzz is about!

Oracle has extended PeopleSoft support it until 2034, but what happens after that?  You may be considering a move to Oracle Cloud HCM, but before you do, you may be interested in identifying what the Oracle Cloud can do that PeopleSoft can’t.

When it comes to modern enterprise applications, most organizations have some key expectations. For starters, we expect them to be highly performant and to scale without our users noticing; a core back-office application like Oracle PeopleSoft will be able to scale during times of peak demand – like student enrollment periods, for example – without needing to overprovision.  We’re also expecting that behind the scenes, application developers are able to push updates very quickly; so from one day to the next we’ll see new functionality added to an existing application like flipping a switch. And from a security perspective, we expect modern application security to be integrated and on by default, rather than bolted-on.

But it can be very challenging to get these benefits with on-premises deployments, where availability is difficult and performance requires dedicated infrastructure – and the maintenance, capacity planning, and costly hardware refreshes that go hand-in-hand with these environments. It’s with these challenges in mind that so many on-premises Oracle applications customers are choosing to migrate their workloads to (OCI.)

Thinking about a move to the Cloud? Stuck in an endless planning cycle? Not sure who to listen to for unbiased advice?

Join us for our new hands-on executive learning series, Stairway to Cloud, led by ERP expert Sue Shaw. Designed for IT and Business Leaders who would like some assistance in structuring their approach to moving their applications, especially ERPs, to the cloud. Hear from an enterprise applications expert who sees the world through a customer’s eyes and can help you sift through the sometimes cloudy advice out there.

Oracle GoldenGate Product Management is happy to announce free GoldenGate software licenses and support on OCI Marketplace. This promotional offer is valid for a limited period of time for existing Oracle Cloud customers who have already trusted and invested in Oracle Cloud and also to new customers who are planning to migrate data to Oracle Cloud in the next many months.