PeopleSoft Corner

Software Testing and Development Newsletter - November 2009

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:09:43 +0100

http://www.infoq.com/articles/current-direction-of-agile (http://www.infoq.com/articles/current-direction-of-agile) Article: Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity Computing resources have moved into the realm of commodity and this requires a completely different mindset and approach to how to allocate and manage them. This article is about the new economic paradigm called “Chris Anderson’s new book FREE (http://www.scribd.com/doc/17135767/FREE-by-Chris-Anderson). But it’s not clear if enterprise software will adopt this model or not (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/12/guest-post-is-free-the-future-of-enterprise-software-yes-and-no/). http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/mf_freer (http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/mf_freer) Article: The Agile Social Contract Successfully implementing agile software development methodologies is more about the “soft skills” than about the technical aspects. This author says that the appropriate “social contract” hinges on commitment and a disciplined implementation approach. http://www.ddj.com/architect/220900441 (http://www.ddj.com/architect/220900441)

Oracle Hosted PeopleBooks

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:58:02 +0100

If you're looking for Oracle's hosted PeopleBooks, you can find them here (http://www.oracle.com/pls/psft/homepage). They start with version 9.0 and are full-text searchable.

OOW09 Thursday

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:02:22 +0100

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.

OOW09 Wednesday

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:24:55 +0100

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 (http://blogs.oracle.com/peopletools/2009/10/peoplesoft_projects_community.html). 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)

OOW09 Tuesday

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:13:00 +0100

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: