Roush is an engineering company with over 3,500 employees in over four countries with 49 facilities. Roush self-implemented PeopleSoft 7.5 at the end of 1999, in preparation for the dreaded 2000. Now, in 2019, Roush is on PeopleSoft 9.2 PUM 23 and Tools 8.56. The company is committed to staying current as PUM updates become available and will soon be evaluating PUM 24 and PUM 25.

Quest hosts three major conferences for Oracle products throughout the year—COLLABORATE, RECONNECT and INFOCUS. COLLABORATE is the largest user-led, user-focused event for Oracle users of all levels. RECONNECT is the premier deep-dive PeopleSoft focused event of the year, and INFOCUS is the equivalent for JD Edwards users. In this Quest How To video, we walk you through how to create and submit a Call for Presentation paper for a Quest event.

As part of Quest Experience Week—PeopleSoft Day, Kim O’Connor, the Senior IT Manager at Tower International, gave a presentation about the company’s process of implementing self-service. The presentation covered the phases of implementation, considerations to keep in mind, and how they handled support and testing.

As part of Quest Experience Week—PeopleSoft Day, Rick Delaney, part of the PeopleSoft Strategy team for Payroll for North America, spoke about Fluid WorkCenters and how they can make life easier for your payroll department.

Peter Bendor-Samuel, the CEO of Everest Group—a management consulting and research firm headquartered in Dallas, wrote an article in Forbes about how to avoid a pitfall in data-driven decisions during a digital transformation. Many organizations are going through changes in their business models, but when they start looking at their business through a data lens instead of a business process lens, serious issues will arise.

In this Quest How To video, we walk members through networking opportunities within the Quest Oracle Community. On our website, there are several opportunities to connect with people, join groups, get your questions answered, and attend events—both in person and online.

Kundan Vyas, Principal Product Manager within Oracle’s Product Management and Strategy group for Oracle PaaS, presented on how to leverage the power of Oracle Autonomous PaaS to connect and extend CX, ERP and HRMS applications.

In a recent Forbes article, Kevin Roebuck, Director of Digital Experience for Education and Research within Oracle’s Industry Solutions Group, explored five ways that higher education will change as a result of Blockchain and other technologies.

Running PeopleSoft today is different than it was just five years ago. It is fundamentally different than running traditional on-premise software. Characterizing PeopleSoft as on-premise software is no longer accurate. You can run PeopleSoft anywhere—in a data center or in the Cloud—and today, you’ll get the most value when you run PeopleSoft in the Oracle Cloud.