Recent Posts by Matthew Haavisto

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...

As with all conferences these days, Quest's Reconnect will be an online conference.  RECONNECT 20 will be held October 5-8 and is the only conference dedicated exclusively to PeopleSoft.  In addition, this is the first Oracle-PeopleSoft conference designed from the ground up to be held online. Quest has invested in a new virtual conference platform that enables RECONNECT to be reimagined and optimized for digital learning. This ensures that you will get the most out of your...

As you've seen from posts on this blog, the PeopleSoft apps strategy blog, videos, and several of our conference presentations, Chatbots are a big new thing with PeopleSoft, and they are important at Oracle overall. PeopleSoft uses Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) to develop and implement our bots.   However, one important aspect of Oracle Digital Assistant is that it can be used across your enterprise application portfolio.  In this article, I'll provide a list of some...

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,...