PeopleSoft Technology Blog

Augmenting PeopleTools with Fusion Dev Tools

There was an item in an earlier post about augmenting PeopleTools with Fusion development Tools.  Remember, with Apps Unlimited, there is no need to rush to Fusion Development Tools. PeopleSoft applications and Tools will be supported and enhanced as long as there is customer demand.  Follow the link for more information on Apps Unlimited.

So what are Fusion Development Tools?  Easiest way to answer that is for you to see for yourself.  Next time you have a free 15 minutes check the  Fusion Tools Demo.  What a ride.

Want some more.  There is a library of viewlets that showcase JDeveloper (JDeveloper is to Fusion Apps what AppDesigner is to PeopleTools).

While you're there, look at some other great examples in the Oracle JDeveloper Overview and the Web Services and SOA Development sections.  The ADF Rich Client viewlet gives you a peek at the UI capabilities in future releases.  The more you look at these, the more insight you'll have to the Fusion Tools and Development experience. 

Back to the original demo.  What I find interesting about that viewlet is that it's Fusion Development Tools on top of an existing E-Business Suite (EBS) application.  That's even mentioned at the start (using an EBS schema).  EBS is a suite of Enterprise Applications developed inside Oracle and covered by Apps Unlimited just like PeopleSoft Applications.

That's one of the great things about Fusion Development Tools, they can be used to create new applications, or extend existing applications with new functionality.

Check back later to find out how to get up to speed on Fusion Technology and what the opportunities are to enhance PSFT apps with Fusion Dev Tools.

PeopleSoft's Enterprise Portal 8.8 goes out of Premier support as of March 2008. Oracle offers extended support for an additional three years on this release.

This is also an opportune time to upgrade to release 9.0, which delivers significant enhancements in the areas of collaboration and usability over release 8.8.

Oracle's Lifetime Support Policy

Release Notes for EP

There has been a lot of confusion recently among customers, analysts, and even the Oracle field about the status of PeopleSoft's Enterprise Portal.  Just to clarify things, Enterprise Portal is subject to Oracle's Applications Unlimited program.   What does that mean?  It means Oracle plans to continue providing ongoing enhancements to current PeopleSoft applications including Enterprise Portal.  This commitment extends beyond the the delivery of Oracle Fusion applications and WebCenter.  In fact, we expect there will be coexistence of Fusion products with PeopleSoft applications in many customer environments. 

The current EP 9.0 release offers distinctive portal functionality.  But we have a strong team dedicated to portal development and are building on this foundation.  We will be introducing some exciting new functionality in the next (9.1) release and going forward. 

Enterprise Portal will continue offer choice and value, particularly for those customers in which PeopleSoft is important to their applications portfolio.

Read about Applications Unlimited