Overall Applications Strategy and Roadmap for PeopleSoft

Presented by Rebekah Jackson, Vice President Product Strategy

In this session hear about the strategy for Oracle’s ongoing investment in PeopleSoft. Understand the drivers behind the hundreds of new features and enhancements delivered in the current PeopleSoft offering and learn about the enhancements currently in development and planned for the PeopleSoft roadmap. Discover how Oracle is embracing continuous delivery to provide new innovations to customers on an ongoing basis, and how every PeopleSoft customer can engage with Oracle to impact the roadmap, help prioritize investments, and collaborate with the PeopleSoft community.

WorkStrategy will provide an overview of 9.2 8.56 upgrade steps, functional enhancements, and PUM installation tips. Presenters will highlight new Fluid application features, WorkCenters and Activity Guides, Simplified Analytics, Guided Self Service, customization reapplication approach. Webinar will also cover upgrade methodology and project phases.

Objectives:
• Understand how to leverage new 9.2 functional enhancements
• Review Project Planning and Resource Allocation
• Learn about PUM installation best practices
• Review Fluid configuration options
• Review tips for upgrades and customer case studies 

*This session was part of Quest Experience Week-PeopleSoft Day*

Presented by Brian McIntyre, President of WorkStrategy

Presented by Jessica Becker, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC. (SRNS) is the Management Contractor for the Department of Energy (DOE) Savannah River Site near Aiken, South Carolina. SRNS uses PeopleSoft 9.2 ERP software to manage our business in Human Resources, Finance, and Supply Chain Management. SRNS recently implemented a new PUM (PeopleSoft Update Manager) Strategy and with this tool,  updated our system to Image 26, People Tools 8.54 in the Public Sector / Government environment. This session will provide functional examples that successfully utilized Page and Field Configurator, as well as some ideas that were not a good fit for this functionality. The use of Application Data Sets (ADS) for migration of the configuration will be discussed. We will also discuss Ideas in Oracle Community that may be able to further enhance the use of Page and Field Configurator.

*This session was part of Quest Experience Week, PeopleSoft Day*

Oracle has dramatically extended its PeopleSoft investment in the Fluid User Experience which delivers PeopleSoft applications / pages in a modern and intuitive way across any type of mobile device. Additionally PeopleSoft 9.2 and PeopleTools 8.55 delivers revolutionary innovation by creating an improved user experience that fundamentally changes how users interact with PeopleSoft.

This session will cover Reed Smith’s journey to deploying PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface and the results and benefits for their organization.

Topics covered:

• A Strategy for deploying Fluid
• The Drivers for deploying the Fluid User Interface
• Where and how Fluid is being used
• The Roll out of the Fluid User Interface to end users
• The Lessons learned other customers could benefit from
• Obstacles encountered while deploying Fluid
• Results and Benefits Since deploying Fluid

Presented by Elizabeth Peterson & Rachel Steckel, Reed Smith LLP and Derek Tomei, Velocity Technology Solutions Inc.

*This session was part of Quest Experience Week- PeopleSoft Day*
 

With organizations looking to fully leverage their investment in PeopleSoft, strategies to enhance PeopleSoft’s mobility have proven to be a key priority. However, expanding users’ access to PeopleSoft comes with the additional access points that can put data at risk, and the objective to maintain strict data security policies must accompany any mobility projects. Balancing the desire for added mobility and productivity, with this increased threat exposure can be daunting, but is necessary to tackle both in tandem.

As access potentially moves outside the corporate firewall, organizations must focus on application-level security to protect themselves from malicious outsiders, privilege-abusing insiders, and inadvertent data leakage. In this insightful session, PeopleSoft security professionals Greg Wendt and JD Bell will demonstrate how to:

Protect your publicly-facing PeopleSoft applications from cybercriminals gaining access through phished credentials or brute force attacks
Embed two-factor authentication within PeopleSoft to restrict access to sensitive systems and information
Dynamically control access to systems handling sensitive information based on the context of request (corporate/remote network, known/unknown device, etc.)
Monitor suspicious activity that occurs outside normal business hours.
Leverage data visualization to execute on-going risk management strategies
Presented by Greg Wendt & JD Bell, Appsian

*This session was part of Quest Experience Week-PeopleSoft Day*
 

Presented by Dan Rotermund, Roush Enterprises

Using procurement contracts will save you time and money. This process will put controls in place, provide valuable notifications and communicate effectively with suppliers. Buyers will not have to create new PO's for each release or requisition when using the Single PO option. This will also reduce ME's with the receiving and A/P process.

*This session was part of Quest Experience Week, PeopleSoft Day*

Presented by Robbin Velayedam, Oracle PeopleSoft

This session provides an update of the latest features available for Oracle's PeopleSoft human capital management (HCM) solutions, including the latest developments in core human resources, payroll, time and labor, learning and talent management, and benefits. Learn about recently delivered features and upcoming functionality such as regulatory and legislative changes, modernization of administrative pages, customer-requested enhancements, and new HCM frameworks for extensions without customizations. The session also explores what successful customers are doing with their PeopleSoft HCM solutions including deploying fluid, self-service capabilities to advance the effectiveness and usability of their PeopleSoft system. 

Presented by Meredith Bixler & Cliff Autin, Canon Information and Imaging Solutions

An organization that strives to maintain excellence in its industry, has to rely on fast and accurate flow of accounting documents. Control over the AP workflow and on-time processing are crucial.

Join us to learn how AP Automation can expedite invoice processing and reduce manual paperwork. We will demonstrate, using a real life example of a large healthcare organization, how complex and paper-intensive PeopleSoft AP processes can be transformed to be manageable and efficient, with easy-to-access information and quick-to-retrieve records.

Learn how this Healthcare organization digitized its large and complex AP operations, to enable:

Efficient workflow to approve, code, and retain invoices
Easy access to invoice documents electronically, from within PeopleSoft  - no need to manually pull paper invoices from file cabinets and fax or email to share information
Visibility into the status of approvals and payments, providing business intelligence to improve decision-making.

This session was part of Quest Experience Week- PeopleSoft Day

Software testing can be frustrating and time consuming, but running software updates without testing them in your own environment can have far-reaching implications on the business at large. Customers who use PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) to maintain their IT investment will be pleased to learn that Oracle provides (free) the PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF) tool to assist with testing tasks which includes robotic process automation (RPA). Join Sierra-Cedar to learn about the PeopleSoft Testing Framework and how to apply the RPA features in your test plans.

In this webinar, you will learn:
• How to create an IT roadmap for deploying the PeopleSoft Testing Framework
• How to create test scripts that include variables for regression testing, and how to automate this
• How to build a library of test scripts for reuse
• How to analyze the test results and take appropriate action 

Presented by:

Russ Barberio, Sr. Consultant, 26 years PeopleSoft, 2 years PTF

Dan Croce, Sr. Consultant, 20 years PeopleSoft technical

*This session was part of Quest Experience Week- PeopleSoft Day*