Quotable Quotes

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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I apologize for the snarky post in advance, but I’m in a goofy mood after a long week of conferencing, and this really has been a phenomenal but exhausting conference.  I’m looking forward to Aerosmith tonight and a bit of relaxation.

What we Got in PeopleTools (that I haven’t talked about yet)

• Peoplesoft Projects Community Development Platform.  Check it out!
  

• More debugging features:  Stack window that shows which functions we’ve been in, and tweak the values of anything in the component buffer.
• Reporting Console consolidates run controls, queries, process monitor and report manager.  I like it already.
• Connected Queries let you connect 1 or more queries together to preserve the parent/child relationships.  Then feed this to XML publisher for easier reporting than ever.
• Charting Capabilities – Everyone loves to show off the new Org Chart features, and yep it’s cool and I’ve seen it in so many demos I’m about sick of org charts.  There’s a good chance you can do different kinds of charts in app designer too.
• Rich Text Editor – Check the box on any long field on a page and suddenly you can change fonts, bold, italicize, color, resize, embed HTML and even pictures.  You can control which features you turn on to foil the hacker element that may be lurking in your enterprise.  Think how happy your recruiters will be now that they can make their job postings pretty!

 What We Want in PeopleTools (that we talked about this afternoon)

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It was a rainy Tuesday here at OOW, but it was definitely worth making it to the sessions.   The sessions I attended today were more “what’s new in Tools 8.5” focused, and I spent a little more time with the Integration Broker component specifically.

Like a lot in PeopleTools components, Integration Broker started humbly as the service bus to integrate different PeopleSoft applications.  It wasn’t entirely standards-based and proprietary components showed up there (like the PSCAMA tags).   It was enhanced over the years to become more SOA focused and the last integration broker enhancement release was PeopleTools 8.48 released in 2006 (if memory serves).  Going forward, Integration Broker remains THE integration tool for PeopleSoft.  99% of all integration with other Fusion Middleware components continues to go through Integration Broker, and that’s not expected to change.

If the 8.48 release was relatively deep with a few major redesigns, the 8.50 changes are broader, with lots of minor enhancements.  Without going into too much detail, here’s what’s new for Integration Broker in 9.0:

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Today had a decidedly more PeopleSoft theme.  It was quite different from last year when everything was still slideware – the demos today were of functionality that is now available or will be shortly.  Paco Aubre jaun, VP and General Manager of PeopleSoft gave a fast paced walk through of the PeopleSoft 9.1 value proposition and managed to squeeze in an HRMS and Financials demo while he was at it.  And John Webb, VP of PeopleSoft Product Management’s session went a little deeper in the new features and why PeopleSoft 9.1 is a superior product.  I also attended the PS Enterprise Platform update and got some insight into which platforms are supported and why.  It was good to be hearing about new features of a newly released PeopleSoft application again.

PeopleSoft 9.1 looks really good.  It’s obvious a LOT of work went into the products and multiple groups must have made big contributions, including the User Experience team I heard from yesterday.  In fact, user experience was the theme of this release as Oracle took the time to address their customer’s business challenges.  Oracle worked with 150 customers throughout the process – from requirements gathering through testing.  Let’s face it – every release we hear that processes are streamlined, but this time I think they mean it.  For example, to add an item in inventory takes like a zillion pages in 9.0, in 9.1 it’s down to 2 screens and you don’t even have to license Business Analytics to pull it off.

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