Presented at RECONNECT 20

In April 2020, during the initial weeks of mandatory shelter-in-place restrictions, the City & County of San Francisco upgraded PeopleTools (from 8.54 to 8.57), HCM (from Image 13 to 32), and ELM (from Image 13 to 19) systems. Come find out how this successful projects was executed during a pandemic with all resources working remotely, including San Francisco staff and their implementation partners.

Share thought process in moving forward with upgrade during initial weeks of shelter-in-place.

Discuss challenges of doing upgrade remotely.

Identify positive outcomes and benefits for future upgrades.

Presented by

Jack Wood, City & County of San Francisco, CA

Doris Wong Smart ERP Solutions

Dennis McCormick City & County of San Francisco, CA

Presented at RECONNECT 20

Developing pages with Fluid, PeopleSoft's latest user interface, may seem intimidating. In this session you will learn key differences between Classic and Fluid in order to become productive and effective in Fluid. In this session you will learn the fastest way to convert a Classic page to Fluid as well as how to effectively handle layout issues.

Learn to convert classic components to Fluid

Learn Fluid layout techniques.

Experience advanced Fluid opportunities

Presented by

Jim Marion, JSMPROS INC

Presented at RECONNECT 20

Manage and Evolve your PeopleSoft Application Portfolio.

This presentation will highlight best practices for PeopleSoft Application Support, Hosting on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, On-Going Training and Testing-as-a-Service. Your presenters will discuss how we successfully utilize a world-class issue management platform, robust metrics tracking, monthly data analytics, and communication strategies. Attendees will understand why SpearMC chose Jira Service Desk for PeopleSoft Application Support and how to build a balanced internal support organization.

Our case study details steps that a large Healthcare System took towards stability and optimization with PeopleSoft Managed Services and Application Support using Jira Service Desk. This large HCM and FSCM customer was able to significantly lower on-going support costs, streamline business processes, improve end-user satisfaction and upgrade their PeopleSoft HCM and FSCM platform.

Learn to realize the benefits of PeopleSoft Managed Services. SpearMC is a managed services specialist within the PeopleSoft ecosystem. We combine consultative services with 24x7 ongoing management and support, using a rigorous support model.

Hear from our customer: “Working through support tickets used to be a major bottleneck in getting our roadmap executed. Since partnering with SpearMC, we have a track record of meeting business needs and discovering PeopleSoft's Art-of-the-Possible"

Understand our approach to build a service platform that is geared for organizations lacking expertise to support their PeopleSoft platform or looking to refocus IT resources on innovation vs. testing, hosting, maintenance and support.

Presented by

Cameron McClurg, SpearMC

Gary Dranikoski SpearMC

Presented at RECONNECT 20

Learn about all the latest features of ELK and how to use them to best advantage with PeopleSoft.  We’ll cover updates to Search, the varied uses for Kibana for both administrators and application users, and how Logstash is used in Health Center.  We will also take a peek into the future for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana enhancements as well as potential improvements in the Search Framework.

Presented at RECONNECT 20

With continuous delivery and selective adoption, staying current is critical to customer success. But how can we stay current when we have so many customizations? In this session, learn strategies to reduce your customization footprint and increase organizational value while retaining business-specific differentiators.

Learn configuration alternatives

Experience creative alternatives to customizations

Understand potential configuration limitations

Presented by

Jim Marion, JSMPROS INC

Presented at RECONNECT 20

Panning to do an upgrade to a new PeopleTools version or get current and want to future proof some of your customizations? This session is for you! This is a session with lessons learned from our objective to get State of Minnesota aligned with Oracle’s product roadmap and lifecycle management strategy. When we caught up with the latest and PUM and PeopleTools versions. Let us look through some strategies and newly delivered features to ensure that fewer customizations can be made to delivered objects, which means that there is less code retrofit effort now and during future upgrades, hence making the application easily maintainable. During the session we will look at how we implemented some new features delivered by PeopleSoft to reduce customizations like Event Mapping, Page and Field Configurator. We will also discuss some implementation strategies for features like PeopleSoft Fluid Workflow, Page Composer, Classic Plus styling, Accessibility, WorkCenters and Related Content.

Learn about new and innovative features & techniques within PeopleSoft application development

Discuss tips and tricks to make use of new features in HCM/FSCM 9.2 and PeopleTools 8.57

Look at some of our prototype applications and lessons learned to see how we've made use of these technologies.

Presented by

Rahul Nori, State of Minnesota

Presented at RECONNECT 20

Do your users want to run their own queries? Does it make you feel uneasy to open up Query Manager? Let's be honest - they may create the perfect Cartesian join to bring down the whole system!

This Quick Tip session is for you. A Business Analyst covers how The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill implemented a Query WorkCenter using delivered PeopleTools functionality.

(1) Users are empowered to run the queries they want... no more, no less.

(2) The Business Analysts maintain the setup and security from a simple configuration page.

Join us and find out how to leverage what we learned.

Presented at RECONNECT 20

In this session you'll see what it takes to deploy a chatbot from the Oracle Digital Assistant Skill store and get it working from a PeopleSoft Application.

Presented by

David Bain, Oracle America, Inc

Senthil Kumaran Oracle America, Inc

Presented at RECONNECT 20

Join Paco Aubrejuan, senior vice president of Oracle Applications, as he kicks off the Reconnect Conference.  Paco will provide an update on the PeopleSoft strategy and roadmap and will highlight key product capabilities that have been delivered over the past 6 months.  You will also hear a preview of some of the exciting news of the conference including an update on Innovators, PeopleTools and Cloud Manager plans, as well as new content channels that the PeopleSoft team is working on, and you’ll have an opportunity to ask questions.  This session compliments and will build upon the update that Paco provided for Quest Forum Digital Event.

Presented at RECONNECT 20

If you're a technical or functional user that is looking to learn some tips and tricks of Query Manager, this session is for you. If you are confident in your ability to write queries to retrieve transactional information about student/employee/vendor/supplier; and are looking for ways to be more sophisticated in your data retrieval, then this is the session is also for you!

We will begin with some basic tips and tricks for query writing, and then move to some more complicated topics, like creating smart prompts, or using expressions wisely. Finally, we discuss some advanced topics such as using query manager on 4-tier vs using query builder tool within Application Designer for PeopleTools 8.57, as well as look at the new classic-plus view of query manager.