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Few days ago I wrote an article about Oracle 11gR1 DBFS and Peopletools 8.53.
As I said out there, there are 3 mains problems that I see :
* first, the database may grow dramatically
* second, the WebServer and FileSystem host must be Linux
* third, the fuse (more...)

Coming with Oracle 11gR2, the DBFS (DataBase FileSystem) feature improves the files storage.
So far, we had BLOB, files stored in the database, but we needed an access to the database with specific API to read/open them.
With DBFS, files are still stored in the database, but access may be (more...)

As of Peopletools 8.52, a lot has been done regarding the Integration Broker configuration and use through the Integration Network WorkCenter.
Many tasks have been made easier than ever for the configuration and maintenance of all the messaging between systems.
Few months ago, I showed how it can be (more...)

I've gotten quite a few questions lately about upgrading OBIEE from older versions to 11.1.1.7: how to get it done, what are the steps, etc. In other words, "Floyd, how are you getting it done?"

Well, the honest-to-goodness truth is...I follow the instructions of people (more...)

Another talk I gave at Collaborate 2013 is this one on ADF Mobile and WebCenter. It builds off my talk from last year about general techniques, and gets into specific about the new ADF Mobile technology, and how to integrate it with WebCenter content and WebCenter Portal.

At Collaborate 2013 this year, Tony Field and I put together a talk about a topic that has been been floating around the WebCenter community as of late...How do I integrate WebCenter Sites (Fatwire) with WebCenter Content or Site Studio? We put together a handful of integration techniques, but (more...)

Ever changing labor market conditions and supply demand fluctuations make sure that organizations don’t design employee compensation strategy in a vacuum. Success of your compensation strategy not only depends on your system’s ability to provide market data analysis during decision-making but also on how well you analyze the external data (more...)

Last week – along with others from Succeed – I attended the UKOUG PeopleSoft Roadshow. Although it’s just a single day event (where the Apps Conference is spread over two days) it does have the benefit of Senior Oracle US speakers – Jeff Robbins and Marc Weintraub.

As we have (more...)

What is a Load Balancer? Hardware or software which assigns workload to a set of servers in order to optimally use computing resources A server load balancer intercepts traffic destined for a site/application, and redirects it to various machines in the cluster as per method load-balancing.  This optimizes use (more...)

IT projects frequently fail. Depending upon which industry you belong to , the failure rate of large projects is reported as being between 70%-80%. Because of the natural human tendency to hide bad news, the real statistic may be even higher. This is a catastrophe. Many of the reasons have (more...)

Hereafter few issues I’ve seen so far on the VirtualBox Appliances for Peoplesoft. Some are on FSCM92000 only, some on both (HCM92 and FSCM92), and some only when you have the two running in same time.
From the errors/issues/problems described below have more or less impact on the system, I’d (more...)

Honest review of challenges and advantages on Big Data. “Big data: What’s your plan?” brings together learnings from actual analytics projects to show you how to get started. They’ve then produced 3 easy-viewing videos that: Explain the Big Data challenge Outline the human elements of implementing your Big Data (more...)

As an addendum of an article I wrote to explain how to move from the delivered VirtualBox Appliance for Peoplesoft to VMWare ESXi, there were several manual steps to be done in order to get it works.

It can be tedious to make some changes manually in the ovf (more...)

Under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), deferred revenue, sometimes called unearned revenue. Deferred revenue is a liability that is created when monies are received by a company for goods and services not yet provided. What is the deferred revenue? Deferred revenue is a liability that is created when monies are (more...)

Are you aware about the top three concerns for finance teams as Financial closing and reporting process Excessive use of spreadsheets and revenue recognition. In key finding of survey conducted by www.RevenueRecognition , it was observed 92% of public companies rely on manual processes to perform key revenue recognition (more...)

Last week, Oracle delivered new Peoplesoft demo images (available on My Oracle Suport only), please see the note PeopleSoft Update Manager Home Page [ID 1464619.1]

A lot of effort have been made here, that's really nice. It will greatly simplify the updates (PUM).

So far it was delivered as (more...)

Most of us here follow the good practice of executing our SQL statements directly against the database before using them within an SQLExec in PeopleCode, a view or an SQL actions in App Engines. Even after following this, we might get hit in some situations. Read on to find more.

I had a little trouble creating my first App Class criteria so I thought I would share some tips on how to write an App Class for use as AWE criteria. Here are the primary secrets:

• Your App Class must extend EOAW_CRITERIA:DEFINITION:CriteriaBase (PTAF_CRITERIA:DEFINITION:CriteriaBase for 9.0 apps).
• Your constructor (more...)

Ever since I discovered virtualization, I have been creating and using dedicated virtual machines for all my PeopleSoft sandboxes and Fusion MiddleWare components. This allowed me to run multiple releases of OS and PeopleSoft on my own laptop. Until recently I was

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Lately at work I've been having to remind myself lately not to pave the cow path -- not to bring existing business processes and technology forward just because that's how we've always done it.  Here's the poem that the expression comes from.

The Calf-Path

by  Sam Walter Foss  (1858-1911)

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