Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin’s (CHW) outdated PeopleSoft application posed significant risks and was requiring more and more budget to maintain. Thanks to a quick, affordable lift-and-shift upgrade to PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), CHW has saved time, lowered the total cost of ownership, and reduced risk, all while transforming their IT organization from a cost center to a value provider.

CHALLENGE PRESENTED: CHW’s aging infrastructure lacked a Disaster Recovery solution and was no longer actively supported with vendor upgrades, patches, and technical support. These gaps resulted in security vulnerabilities, software incompatibility, and compliance issues, poor performance and reliability, as well as rising support costs.

PROPOSED SOLUTION: SpearMC helped CHW upgrade their legacy, server-based PeopleSoft application to a more modern solution hosted on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).                  

HOW WE HELPED CHW SUCCEED:
-Provided on-site employee training on OCI, PeopleSoft Cloud Manager, OCI Maintenance, PeopleSoft Update Manager, PeopleSoft Integration Tools, plus important considerations and best practices
-Performed a lift-and-shift to PeopleSoft OCI for upgraded functionality with minimal business impact
-Built a library of automated test scripts using the PeopleSoft Test Framework for fast future updates

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

There have been significant laws passed in Europe and the United States around confidential data protection for employees.  Come to this session to learn about the recently delivered features in PeopleSoft that will help you manage personally identifiable information. We will review what PeopleSoft currently provides for data masking, data deletion, and employee consent as well as what our current plans are for leveraging Page & Field Configurator to allow you to mask any data field in your PeopleSoft system.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

In this session, we'll review the way "Shared Responsibility" impacts the traditional approach to application and enterprise security. We'll also examine the tools available to provide additional, non-traditional, ways to protect your systems and data in OCI. OCI and cloud technology bring a wealth of security features, in this session, we'll see how you can take best advantage of them.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

With the release of 8.58 in Cloud, check out how you can explore both the 8.58 features and moving into the Cloud.

-Know the features and benefits of upgrading to 8.58
-Understand how doing an upgrade on Cloud reduces both the time and cost
-Understand how this can be simplified using PeopleSoft Cloud Manager
-Live demo of 8.58 features

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Kibana is a new data visualization tool offered through Elastic Search by way of PeopleTools to provide insights into the vast amount of data stored in PeopleSoft. Data visualization includes modern tools such as heat maps, tag clouds, time series, and overlays that have never been available in PeopleSoft before. Come to this session to learn more about what PeopleSoft intends to deliver for customers to leverage out-of-the-box in addition to how you can leverage Kibana to build out your own HR analytics and dashboards.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Demonstration on developing test scripts with PeopleSoft Test Framework 8.57.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

PeopleSoft’s delivered 9.2 Fluid OnBoarding offers a compelling, accessible onboarding experience for new employees. There are some hurdles, though, that can make delivered Onboarding an impractical solution. These include:
-How do you transition data from your Applicant Tracking System to Onboarding to Hire without manual steps and data re-entry?
-To prevent duplicate IDs, you want to gather their birthdate and SSN using Onboarding to see if they already have IDs, but they can’t access Onboarding without an Emplid and a UserID…
-You want them to start Onboarding before their first day of work, especially Section 1 of the I-9, but they can’t access Onboarding until they are hired in Job Data.
-The delivered Onboarding steps are nice, but you need to meet requirements unique to your organization.

The good news is that all these hurdles can be, well, hurdled! We’ll present solutions for each, painting a realistic picture of how delivered 9.2 Fluid Onboarding can work for you.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

In 9.2 applications, the concept of Selective Adoption is introduced with regards to how maintenance is applied to the system.  One of the challenges to taking advantage of this adoption method is if your system has customizations to the delivered objects.  This presentation is designed to show you how you can utilize new functionalities in the latest versions of PeopleTools which provide alternatives to performing those customizations to your PeopleSoft system. We will focus on the top ways to use delivered functionality to meet your business requirements WITHOUT customization to the system. The top areas covered are: Related Content, WorkCenters and Dashboards, Forms Builder, Activity Guides, and Secure Enterprise Search/Peopletools Search Framework.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

Reporting & Validation of results are cornerstone to a successful PTF implementation and continued product life cycle. In this session, we will go over the various methods and levels of reporting including Pivot Grids, composite Queries, XML reports in HTML form. Validation of results by end users is another critical and often overlooked aspect of PTF automation. We will go over the various methods my clients utilize to validate results and sign-off.

Quest Forum Digital Event 2020

In this session hear how SPPS and Collier IT (CIT) collaborated to build and support Oracle’s PeopleSoft Human Resources and PeopleSoft Financials in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. SPPS is a Minnesota-based public school system and CIT is a technology consulting company, and the two have partnered to successfully migrate SPPS’s PeopleSoft workload to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Learn about its success strategies and lessons learned about the implementation and transition phases. Learn how SPPS leveraged the expertise of CIT to move to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Hear how CIT provided ongoing infrastructure support services to keep SPPS infrastructure up and running.