Recent Posts by Rebekah Jackson

Today at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle announced the newest PeopleSoft Innovators.  These 17 organizations are using the latest capabilities in PeopleSoft to drive measurable value for their organization - in areas ranging from running PeopleSoft in the Oracle Cloud (Infrastructure as a Service), to Fluid user interface adoption, to deploying newly delivered features rapidly with Selective Adoption, to eliminating customizations and embracing new configuration capabilities, and...

At the Quest Attendee Welcome Session today at COLLABORATE, Oracle announced the newest PeopleSoft Innovators.  These Innovators showcase what is possible with today’s PeopleSoft – driving measurable results in areas such as reduced operating costs, more rapid response to changing business demands, and providing users with an intuitive and productive user interface.  The PeopleSoft Innovators: Adventist Health System implemented Elasticsearch for all of their PeopleSoft...

Let the conference season begin!  We kicked things off with Alliance 2018 in Salt Lake City last month, with a large gathering of Oracle’s customers in the Higher Education industry.  It was an excellent event, full of customer sessions, product updates, and interactive discussions. Next up is COLLABORATE 2018 in Las Vegas, April 22 - 26.  It’s one of our key conferences for PeopleSoft, particularly useful for helping you set or validate your PeopleSoft strategy for the...

OpenWorld is an event on a massive scale, with tens of thousands of people engaging in discussions on every possible aspect of software and technology.  It’s where our team can tell the big story about what’s happening today with PeopleSoft… Thousands of customers live on the latest release. Many, many customers deploying Fluid, with great things to say about the user experience. Customers rapidly deploying the new features we are delivering, and talking about the measurable...

At the PeopleSoft general session today at Oracle OpenWorld, Paco Aubrejuan, Senior Vice President, recognized the first of many PeopleSoft Innovators.  Today’s PeopleSoft is powerful, intuitive, and drives results in diverse global businesses across many industries.  The PeopleSoft Innovators showcase what is possible with today’s PeopleSoft.  These customers are taking advantage of the latest capabilities and technologies to transform their businesses and their IT practices...

At RECONNECT last month, one attendee shared that her colleagues come up to her in the elevator to say how much they love the new Fluid user interface.  A partner said that customers deploying Fluid Candidate Gateway are seeing 40 – 70% improvements in hiring new talent.  Another partner recounted a recent conversation with a customer that was able to respond to an operational budget reduction by rolling out new Fluid transactions. It’s exciting to hear that kind of feedback,...

To state the obvious, one of the great things about continuous delivery is that there’s always new functionality coming out.  In the past, we had to wait years to announce the delivery of new features in a release.  Customers had to wait even longer to upgrade, adopt, and use the features.  Not anymore. What’s New? Just in the first 5 months of this year, we shipped 6 images, containing more than 55 new features.  Some of the most exciting include: Enhancements to our highest...

If you work with PeopleSoft applications more than PeopleTools and the tech stack, you may not have seen or paid much attention to the announcement of PeopleSoft Cloud Manager.  After all, it is technology that helps deploy and manage PeopleSoft environments.  That’s what IT and the technical folks do.  But please don't ignore this one…let me explain why. When we talk with customers, we often hear you are grappling with challenges like: Struggling to keep up with the pace and...

2016 was a productive year.  According to the Cumulative Feature Overview tool, we delivered more than 330 features across 20 application Update Images.  Those numbers tell the story of PeopleSoft’s transition to continuous delivery.  We are now delivering more functionality, faster, and perhaps most importantly, with direct customer involvement throughout the entire process. And while those numbers are important, they don’t begin to tell the full story.  What else happened in...