Data analytics are becoming increasingly popular and helpful to employers looking to attract and retain the top talent in their industry. Analytics can drastically improve HR processes like recruiting. Linda Currey Post, a senior writer at Oracle, wrote an article in Forbes about how Human Resources professionals are utilizing analytics in order to attract top talent and retain it within their organization. Analytics can quickly show you helpful information like which applicants are the best matches based on the requirements in a job posting.

Bernard Marr, an internationally best-selling author, popular keynote speaker, futurist, and strategic business and technology advisor to government and companies, wrote an article for Forbes about five major trends concerning Internet of Things.

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.