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Oracle just launched "PeopleTools Viewlets" at http://download.oracle.com/peopletools/viewlets.html.  The viewlets are short training videos on PeopleTools topics like Web services & Integration Broker, reporting, security, enterprise 2.0 etc.   They're great if you need a quick refresher or want to see a live example of something you need to do.  Check it out.

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Quotable Quotes

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.  –Henry L. Stimson

If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.  –African Proverb

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.  –Frances Willard

Every now and then go away—for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.  –Leonardo DaVinci

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.  –R. Buckminster Fuller

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.  –Henry Ford

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.  –Charles Dickens

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.  –Edmund Hillary

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of British Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.  –Charles Babbage

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I'm going to do a PeopleSoft Install today.  It'll be PeopleTools 8.48, Financials 8.9 on SQL Server 2005 and Windows 2003 to a server in the Amazon cloud. I know these are old versions but I need a machine that matches a client's current state config, and the installation basics haven't changed that much anyway.

I set up a Go To meeting that you can join if you'd like to "look over my shoulder" and ask questions.  Feel free to drop in and out as you get time.  I'll record it for posterity in case you miss it.

Connection info is:

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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.  –Thomas Jefferson

Patience with others is love.  Patience with self is hope.  Patience with God is faith.  –Adel Bestavros

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.  –Margaret Young

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.  –William James

 

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Well, it's final -- I got the e-mail from Charles Phillips and Safra Catz this morning.  Oracle has finally satisfied the regulators and now is the proud new owner of Sun Microsystems.  What can we expect from Enterprise Software going forward?  Well, according to the e-mail:

Performance levels will be unmatched. Oracle’s software already runs faster on Sun SPARC/Solaris than on any other server or operating system. With Sun as a part of Oracle, each layer of the stack will be engineered to further improve performance, reliability and manageability so that IT will be more predictable, more supportable, and more secure. Customers will benefit as their system performance goes up and their system integration and management costs go down.

In addition, our open standards-based technology will give customers choice. Customers can purchase our fully integrated systems, or easily integrate our best-of-breed technologies with their existing environments. Our open technology also enables customers to take full advantage of third party innovations. Oracle also plans to extend its partner specialization program to include Sun technologies to better enable partners to deliver differentiated and value-added solutions to customers.

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If you try to run PeopleTools 8.50 from a file server, or if you copied the directory to your home directory and tried to launch it, you may get the following error:

The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.  Please see the application event log for more detail.

This happens because PeopleTools 8.50 is developed using the Microsoft Visual C++, and the C run time files must be installed on your workstation or the PeopleTools client programs will not run.

Here's how to fix it:

1. Go to PS_HOME/setup/vcredist
2. Run vcredist_x86.exe

 

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I’ve been using Google Analytics to track how users use my web site for years now, but it just occurred to me that Google Analytics would be a powerful way to track usage in a PeopleSoft system as well.

Turns out it’s not all that hard to put the Google Analytics code on your Peoplesoft component pages.  Here’s how to do it:

1)      Launch App Designer

2)      Pull up HTML Object PT_HNAV_TEMPLATE

3)      Scroll to the bottom, and just after the closing tag but before the closing Body tag, add the Google Analytics code.

4)      Save.

That’s all there is to it.  Let this run for a day or two, and pretty soon you’ll see URL’s like this in your “Content Overview” section of Google Analytics:

 

Here are a few points to bear in mind:

 

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I spent some time upgrading the web site over the weekend.  I'm now running the latest versions of Joomla and all of the components and modules.  The look and feel has changed considerably and I even took the time to make up a logo for my company, ERP Associates.

PeopleSoft Corner Blog and the forum are where they've always been.  Hopefully all of your old shortcuts still work.  Your old username/password combination should work if you're a registered user.

I do encourage you to register if you haven't already done so.  Registration makes it easier to post messages on the forum or leave comments.  You'll also get access to the members only area of the web site, and you'll be able to use the social networking features when they start rolling out in the near future.

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If you're looking for Oracle's hosted PeopleBooks, you can find them here.  They start with version 9.0 and are full-text searchable.

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If you didn’t see Thursday’s Fusion Applications Unconference session, you missed out on the best Fusion Applications informational session in the whole conference.  Why was it so good? Because Oracle lifted the non-disclosure restrictions around Fusion Applications earlier that morning, and the people that have been the closest to the Fusion Applications can now speak freely about what they know.

And what do they know?  They LOVE Fusion Applications and they can’t WAIT until they are running in their respective companies. 

So what makes Fusion Apps so great?  From what I’m hearing, Fusion isn’t really a "fusion" of the best parts of PeopleSoft, EBS, JDE, Siebel, etc.  It was more of a ground-up redesign of everything based on how customers said they do business now.  As a result, Fusion focuses on end-to-end business process instead of module silos.  There is a lot of automation around those processes.  And information appears on the pages when and where you need it with additional information never more than a click away.

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