A recent PeopleSoft Spotlight Series video walked through how to select and apply maintenance best practices and recommendations for working with PeopleSoft Selective Adoption tools.

PeopleSoft Selective Adoption is both a huge change and opportunity for PeopleSoft customers. Another video in the PeopleSoft Spotlight Series outlined important elements of how PeopleSoft works now with Selective Adoption and how customers should adopt to take advantage of the new delivery model.

There are several tools associated with Selective Adoption, which were discussed in the “PeopleSoft Spotlight Series: Selecting and Applying Maintenance Best Practices and Recommendations” video. This video talked through how to work with PeopleSoft Updates Images, important concepts for keeping your system updated and as current as possible, and how to apply change and determine the impact that it may have on your system. It also explained how some changes are dependent on others and how to deal with those interdependencies.

Running PeopleSoft today is different than it was just five years ago. It is fundamentally different than running traditional on-premise software. Characterizing PeopleSoft as on-premise software is no longer accurate. You can run PeopleSoft anywhere—in a data center or in the Cloud—and today, you’ll get the most value when you run PeopleSoft in the Oracle Cloud.

Selective Adoption refers to the ability to independently apply features and fixes rather than performing entire upgrades or applying bundles of fixes. Selective Adoption became available with PeopleSoft release 9.2. A recent presentation gave a breakdown of Selective Adoption (including a summary of what life was like before it), what’s changed after 9.2, and how to implement PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) to start adopting new features.

Learn the key concepts and takeaways about Selective Adoption that were learned at PeopleSoft RECONNECT 18.

Quest had the opportunity to talk with Wendy Plante, Senior Director of Finance Enterprise Solutions from NYU Langone Health System about her team's Fluid UI selective adoption strategy.

We recently had the opportunity to meet with Andrew Maxedon, IT Architect for Finance systems at Centene to discuss their annual get-current strategy for their PeopleSoft environment. It has allowed flexibility in bringing in new functionality as well as bug fixes between annual releases as well as improved the upgrade process to the only impact those objects changed and not the traditional upgrade method of starting from delivered, which had several challenges.

Susan G. Komen on their Selective Adoption strategy and the importance of working closely together and tackling mindset change.

Rachael and I spoke about Deakin’s journey to maximize their investment in PeopleSoft by continuing to enhance the product to support the HR function at Deakin.