Recent Posts by Matthew Haavisto

As you may know from our conference presentations, blogs, and other communications, PeopleSoft is providing a conversational interface to the applications with Chatbots.  There is no doubt this will become more and more important over time. PeopleSoft bots use Oracle Digital Assitant (ODA) as the foundation for developing, training, and deploying our bots.  ODA is an important PaaS product in the Oracle catalog, and the ODA team is continually improving it.  You can learn more...

Chatbots are becoming a more prominent part of enterprise application user interfaces, and PeopleSoft has been hard at it implementing some bots.  I believe this trend will only accelerate across all applications.  PeopleSoft is working on delivering more chatbots with our applications, and as with most things PeopleSoft, customers can create their own or configure and modify the ones we deliver.  For more information on chatbots and how they are used with PeopleSoft, visit th...

One great aspect of the Fluid user interface is that it's easy to apply branding.  Most enterprises have spent some significant effort defining their brand.  So it makes sense that customers want to apply their enterprise brand to their PeopleSoft System so users see that brand.   Before Fluid was introduced, branding was not a simple process and accomplishing it took specialized development and design skills.  Many customers deployed the PeopleSoft Interaction Hub (formerly...

Event Mapping is a useful feature that was introduced in PeopleTools 8.55, and we've been enhancing it ever since.  We've added additional events that can have event mapping code injected, and we've introduced features in App Designer to make it easier for the developers to maintain their event mapping code. Minimize the Impact of Change Event Mapping doesn't make writing customizations easier, but it removes or greatly diminishes the impact and cost of customizations when you...

The Quest virtual PeopleSoft conference starts next week.   As most of you know by now, the annual live Collaborate event hosted by Quest has been canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  In an effort to bring the knowledge planned for the live event to the PeopleSoft community, Quest has created an online event. There are different events for the various Oracle technologies and products, and PeopleSoft week is June 1-4.  Quest has made a great effort to make the virtual...

The Alliance virtual conference starts next week.  If you are a higher ed or public sector customer, please try to attend.  The live conference was moved online, of course, due to the Covid-19 crisis, and the HEUG has gone to great lengths to make the virtual conference as informative and collaborative as possible in the new format.  Visit the site here to register and build your agenda.  There are a great variety of sessions, workshops, community discussions, keynotes,...

The PeopleSoft user interface went through a dramatic transformation when we moved to the Fluid UI.  This completely transformed PeopleSoft's look and feel as well as the way users interact with and navigate throughout their PeopleSoft applications.  Fluid also enabled us to provide a UI that worked across form factors from phone to desktop.  The Fluid UI has been updated and improved with each release since its introduction in PeopleTools 8.54, and now with recent releases,...

We introduced Drop Zones in PeopleTools 8.57 as described here.  This feature enables customers to customize their pages, adding fields and other page elements without affecting the delivered page.  This can have a significant impact on your life cycle because your page customizations won't be affected when you take a new image.  Image uptake is thus easier, faster, and cheaper.  In 8.57, Drop Zones are only available on Fluid pages. Now with PeopleTools 8.58, Drop Zones have...

The ability to customize PeopleSoft applications has always been a strength of our products.  That ability came with a cost, though: customized applications are more difficult and expensive to upgrade.  To address that, we have been making major enhancements and investment in providing customers the means to isolate customizations so those changes don't impact new application images.  This streamlines the life-cycle and enables customers to benefit from the latest images and...