As part of Quest's 2020 PeopleSoft Week, David Bain Senior Director of Product Strategy, spoke about how to manage customizations in PeopleSoft.

One of the best values PeopleSoft offers is the ease of making customizations to get the application to work the best for your business, but those customizations come at a cost. When applying maintenance you have to account for the changes. However, there are strategies you can take to minimize the cost of customizations. Bain's presentation covered what is available in the lifecycle products to help you manage change.

PeopleSoft FSCM Update Image 35 was recently released, and it contains a long list of helpful new features. Check out the highlights in this post.

Kibana for PeopleSoft provides rich analytics and visualization with performance enhancements - enabling better decision-making and improved understanding of your data. Kibana is easy to install, configure, and maintain, and it provides superior performance in rendering visualizations.

The Ohio Regional User Group (ORUG), previously known as the PeopleSoft ORUG, has expanded to include Oracle Cloud, and we are ready to hit the ground running at the upcoming Spring conference on March 19, 2020. The conference includes both PeopleSoft and Oracle Cloud content geared toward functional and technical users with informative sessions, roadmaps, roundtables, customer stories, panel discussions, and networking. 

PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 33 was recently released, and it contains a long list of helpful new features.

There have been significant laws passed in Europe and the United States around confidential data protection for applicants and employees. Attend this Quest session to learn about the delivered features in PeopleSoft HCM that will help you with managing sensitive and personally identifiable information. We will share what PeopleSoft HCM currently provides for data deletion…

At RECONNECT 19, Jian Wen, Oracle Product Strategy Director for PeopleSoft Financial Management Solutions, spoke about how to integrate the latest innovations for PeopleSoft Finance and Accounting. She provided an update on Oracle’s PeopleSoft Financial Control and Reporting solution and the efficiency gained with Fluid expansions such as maintenance of the financial structure, journal entry through configuration, and real-time insights with business intelligence as the period close progresses. There are several PeopleSoft Financials capabilities that you can selectively adopt as well as many planned features on the roadmap that help to drive efficiency, productivity, and a shorter close cycle, as well as new reporting opportunities.

As part of Quest Experience Week (QXW) 2019, Anita Paye, Director of Finance Compass Support at Emory University, spoke about how the university handled change management to ensure the success of its new ERP system implementation in 2014 after a failed attempt in 2009. She covered four change management pillars, the reasons people resist change, and practical ways to help them move forward.

A recent PeopleSoft Spotlight Series video took a closer look at PeopleSoft security and how you and your team can work together to build out a strongly protected application. The video covered security considerations for the CEO, how to prevent PeopleSoft from becoming collateral damage, elements of a security infrastructure, and questions for your IT security staff.

PeopleSoft Fluid Simple Journal Entry simplifies the Journal Entry page using a configurable journal template, which reduces data entry errors and enables greater control over the data your users can enter. Delivered in Image 29 and 33, this journal entry point for PeopleSoft General Ledger has the same power as the Classic Plus Journal Entry feature. Your users can add new journals, edit, copy, and post journals.