Recent Posts by Matthew Haavisto

As I wrote in a recent blog post, PeopleSoft has delivered new chatbots AND a framework for developing chatbots for use with PeopleSoft.  Now we've posted a lot more information on a Key Concepts page that customers and partners will find useful.  As with most information, you can find it through peoplesoftinfo.com.  This Chatbot page contains links to the following: A red paper and other documentation for developers An FAQ for anyone interested in learning more about...

Open World is coming up soon!  I hope you'll be joining us in San Francisco September 15-19.  There are lots of great PeopleSoft sessions across all applications, including presentations from Oracle, customers, and partners.  I'll focus here on sessions that we'll be presenting in the tech area. Starting the week off on Monday we have three sessions: CAS5335 - Simplifying the PeopleSoft Maintenance Process: A Customer Success Story   Here we'll cover how to use configuration...

PeopleSoft recently released our first chatbot: An Absence Assistant for HCM.  There will be other chatbots offered in the near future for HCM, FSCM, and other pillars.     This is an exciting development because it gives PeopleSoft another modern enhancement to our User Experience.  Chatbots can provide better customer service, increased employee satisfaction, and even provide greater efficiencies for both mobile and desktop enterprise applications.   Here are some some benefits...

PeopleSoft’s Fluid User Interface has been around for several years now.  It was first introduced with PeopleTools 8.54.  Fluid was created not just to support mobile users, but to bring the PeopleSoft user interface up to modern standards and make it more efficient and intuitive.  This has been successful.  Customers that have adopted the Fluid UI have reported great acceptance and benefits from deploying Fluid to their users.  Fluid has become the default mode for...

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...