Recent Posts by Matthew Haavisto

PeopleSoft has begun support for AI/ML.  Over the past several months, we posted a series of blog articles on this subject beginning with an introduction.  That was followed by data acquisition, data modeling, and finally, model deployment. If you are a developer interested in this subject, consider attending Oracle's Developer Live online webinar focused on AI/ML.  This webinar offers technical sessions, hands-on labs, demos, panels, and live Q&A with experts. It is held on...

Support for Kibana reporting and analytics is a major initiative for PeopleSoft.  One of our partners, SpearMC, offers Kibana training.  Their course was first offered last fall, but they've updated the material.  You can learn more about it here. Visit our Analytics page on peoplesoftinfo.com to learn more about using Kibana with PeopleSoft.  

I think we can all agree that 2020 was a difficult year for the entire world.  Despite that, Oracle-PeopleSoft and you, our customers and partners, have been quite busy.  Work at PeopleSoft hasn't slowed, and we've continued to work on new features for our next PeopleTools release as well as incorporating other Oracle and 3rd party technology.  One of our initiatives in 2020 was to increase the frequency and improve the relevancy of our blogging.  You, our audience, confirmed...

We have a program recognizing customers that are progressive and innovative in adopting and using PeopleSoft technology and applications.  This program has been around for a few years, but now we've modified it to include customers that are focused on innovating with a particular feature as well as those that have been innovating across many PeopleSoft features or areas of investment. Just as examples, if you've been especially progressive in adopting Chatbots, Kibana, or...

The Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) products have become important parts of PeopleSoft environments.  Although these are open source products, PeopleSoft customers should get them from us because they contain plug-ins and other features to support security and make them work more effectively in the PeopleSoft ecosystem. Oracle ships the ELK DPKs to make it easy to install these products with Peoplesoft. There have been some questions from customers on how to keep...

As you've probably seen from our conference presentations, webinars, and other sources, we've put a lot of effort into enabling the use of Kibana analytics with PeopleSoft. If you are not familiar with Kibana you can learn more about its use here. If you want a little help getting going with Kibana, some of our partners are offering services and training.  Here is one such example from SpearMC.   Does your organization crave Analytics?  Do you want to learn more about Kibana...

Here comes another feature to help you with your efforts at configuration and isolating customizations:  The Configuration Specialist Home Page and Role.  This feature was suggested to us by our Customer Advisory Boards. The basic requirement statement was this:  Customers want their functional/technical subject matter experts to be able to take advantage of all the configuration tools without exposing the entire PeopleTools menus to those users.  They also wanted a...

PeopleSoft has been soliciting suggestions for enhancements from customers and partners for several years.  This type of input is gathered through My Oracle Support on our Idea Spaces.  The Support team has recently introduced a new design of the Idea Spaces. Of course, there is an area dedicated to PeopleSoft products... ...and a category specifically for PeopleTools and technology associated with PeopleSoft. If you are a customer or partner, check out the new pages and submit...

As mentioned in a recent post, PeopleSoft Reconnect is coming up soon.  This conference is hosted by Quest, and is the only PeopleSoft-focused event on the conference calendar. It is also the first to be planned from the start as a Virtual (online) conference. There are lots of great sessions on offer, but I'd like to highlight one session in particular here:  Succeed with Chatbots in PeopleSoft In this session, you'll hear from two customers that are in production using...