Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Proper planning for a new PeopleTools release helps to avoid any last-minute scrambles. This should start with ensuring your intended infrastructure is fully certified and ready to be supported by Oracle Support. No one likes surprises on a go-live weekend. Come to this session and learn the key infrastructure differences between 8.58 and past releases. This session will also introduce attendees to PeopleSoft Cloud Manager and share the benefits it provides to customers including the automated PeopleTools upgrades and patches and a number of recent enhancements. If you're thinking about a move to the cloud, come to this session and see benefits PeopleSoft provides with Cloud Manager on OCI.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Want an easier way to interface with your external vendors?  Do it using Query?  We will show you how simple it is to make changes to what is sent by using Queries and XML transformation.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

PeopleSoft has long offered numerous and powerful reporting and analytic capabilities. Now we're raising the bar by enabling Kibana visualizations in PeopleSoft. Kibana is an open source analytic application that uses Elasticsearch indexes to render rich visualizations. Since Kibana uses index data, performance is superior, and there is no impact on transactional performance. Learn how Kibana is embedded right in the PeopleSoft user interface, and how you can create your own visualizations. Another new feature is Personalized Analytic Notifications, which capture business rules and enhance the way users interact with PeopleSoft.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

With the help of SpearMC and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, First Financial Northwest Bank (FFNWB) migrated their accounting, asset management, and accounts payable functions to PeopleSoft FSCM in four months — all with minimal internal resources and no in-house infrastructure.  Come learn how OCI enabled this rapid implementation and supports efficient production support.

CHALLENGE PRESENTED: FFNWB’s Financial Accounting Solution was not scaling with their needs. It was slow, lacked security and functionality, and left their team powerless to enhance the system or add new features.

PROPOSED SOLUTION: SpearMC guided FFNWB through the process of migrating to PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This new solution includes scalable computing power and storage, disaster recovery, and network-to-network connectivity.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

This presentation will provide insight into How a DBA can help Tune the PeopleSoft (PSoft) Applications of PeopleTools, HCM & CRM.  There are rather unique opportunities how PSoft works, and how the Oracle RDBMS may impact performance. The DBA team leveraged their expertise in SQl*Plus, Sql*Developer, OEM & Diagnostic Performance Tuning to provide tuning assistance to the PSoft Application Team, and their long-running processes (SQL).

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

There are still many PeopleSoft customers out there that have yet to upgrade to 9.2, that feel stuck on old hardware, old software, and outdated architecture. Are you one of those customers? Do you wonder what it would take to get your PeopleSoft installation out of the dark ages and on to an updated and supportable architecture? If this describes your plight, have no fear. This case study will provide you with all the details required to take your neglected PeopleSoft application and make it shiny and new again. Going from PeopleSoft HRMS 9.0, 8.52 tools, on Windows Servers with an Oracle 11 database to PeopleSoft CS 9.2, 8.57 tools on Red Hat Linux 7 with an Oracle 19 database was not a simple process, but by understanding the steps required to get from there to here, you will be able to make your upgrade as painless and straightforward as possible. We will review bundles, upgrade images, update images, the required at upgrade patching process, and the tools and application upgrade.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Come to this session ready to ask questions of the PeopleSoft team.  All levels of Oracle's PeopleSoft team from PeopleTools to applications and from product strategy leads to the executive management team will be on hand to address your questions.  Attend and make sure you get your top of mind questions answered by the PeopleSoft team.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Cloud is maturing. It enables you to focus more on business and less on infrastructure management by taking away all the complexities involved in acquiring and managing the infrastructure to run business on Cloud. This presentation will demonstrate technical requirements, strategies, benefits, and design for Lift and Shift of On-Premise PeopleSoft environment to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using latest PeopleSoft Cloud Manager. It also demonstrates on how to provision multiple middle tier, elastic search deployment and configuration for PeopleSoft environment through PeopleSoft Cloud Manager.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

We all have gone through production issue nightmares, sleepless nights during payroll processing. What can we do to alleviate those concerns and achieve a smooth functioning application stack - see how we achieved them. Knock on wood!

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Integris Health made it to the latest version of PeopleSoft. But quickly recognized importance of staying with latest "image"”update? Working with SpearMC, they were able to take advantage of Oracle's releasing thousands of new features and functions, bundled frequently into PeopleSoft Update Manager Images (PI).  We will discuss staying current and approaches to analyzing and testing each PI to evaluate if and how it fits within your organization — a time-consuming and tedious task.