Recent Posts by Matthew Haavisto

The ability to customize PeopleSoft applications has always been a powerful and popular aspect of PeopleSoft products.  This power and flexibility came at a cost, however. Although customizations are valuable in that they enable customers to meet unique and important requirements that are not part of the standard delivered products, they are difficult and costly to maintain. PeopleSoft has been working hard to enable customers to continue developing those valuable...

Elasticsearch 6.1.2 is the minimum version planned for PeopleTools with release 8.57 (more information on that coming soon).  In addition, 6.1.2 is also planned for availability on PeopleTools 8.55 and 8.56.  Upgrade to Elasticsearch 6.1.2 will require full indexing of all search definitions.  Customers will be able to use the Live Cutover feature in the PeopleSoft Search Framework to migrate to Elasticsearch 6.1.2 with no downtime. If you are using Elasticsearch 2.3.2, and...

Oracle released PeopleSoft Cloud Manager in 2017 featuring in-depth automation to help accelerate adoption of Oracle Cloud (Classic) as an efficient deployment platform for PeopleSoft customers. With the excitement generated around Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)--a cloud designed for the enterprise customer--several customers and partners have been looking forward to taking advantage of the enhanced OCI with PeopleSoft Cloud Manager.  Oracle is pleased to announce Cloud...

As many of you may have heard, PeopleSoft has moved several functional capabilities from the PeopleSoft Interaction Hub (formerly the PeopleSoft Portal) to PeopleTools.  Why did we do this?  We wanted to make clustering available to many more customers.  Clustering enables two or more PeopleSoft applications to behave like a seamless system without noticeable boundaries between applications.  We did a webinar on this subject recently.  Clustering formerly required the...

As has been mentioned in earlier blog posts, Oracle's Secure Enterprise Search (SES) will no longer be an option with PeopleSoft.  As of  May 1, 2018, Elasticsearch is the only search engine supported for PeopleSoft 9.2 applications and it is the only search engine that can be used with PeopleTools 8.56. No new instances of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search should be deployed as the search engine with the PeopleSoft Search Framework.  Starting May 1, 2018, Oracle will provide...

Configuration has been a major area of investment for Peoplesoft lately.  We've added many new features in PeopleTools and Enterprise Components that enable you to configure your environment to meet your enterprise's unique requirements.  Configuration is a better option than customization because it makes changes easier and cheaper to manage.  You can take image updates from Oracle/Peoplesoft with much less impact and not have to worry about re-implementing your...

Oracle/PeopleSoft made Elasticsearch our new search engine as of PeopleTools 8.55.11, which was released in November 2016.  At that time, we announced that Oracle's Secure Enterprise Search would no longer be supported as of April 2018.  That date is rapidly approaching. Oracle recommends that customers move to Elasticsearch as soon as possible.  Do not deploy new instances of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) as the search engine with the PeopleSoft Search Framework....

The Quest user group recently conducted a virtual conference for the PeopleSoft user community.  PeopleSoft Day consisted of 19 sessions on a variety of topics about  applications as well as PeopleTools and technology.  There were keynotes, roadmaps, and numerous educational sessions.  If you didn't have a chance to attend the conference live, you can view recorded videos of the sessions on the Quest Content Library.  (You must be a Quest member to access content.)  If you...

We've recently become aware of a significant compatibility issue between Firefox V57 (called "Quantum") and JAWS (the screen reader application from Freedom Scientific).  With V57 of Firefox, each call for JAWS to obtain information takes a long time to process, so performance will suffer.  There are other compatibility issues as well.  Freedom Scientific is working with Mozilla (makers of Firefox) to address the situation.  Firefox Quantum will not work in any fashion unless...