JD Edwards & Peoplesoft 3 _ Victor Li _ PeopleTools 8.51 highlights People Tools in Action.pdf

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PeopleSoft Technology Roadmap
Victor Li
Oracle, Principle Support Engineer, Software Support

The following is intended to outline our general
product direction. It is intended for information
purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any
contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any
material, code, or functionality, and should not be
relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
The development, release, and timing of any
features or functionality described for Oracle’s
products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

Program Agenda

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•  PeopleTools Roadmap

•  PeopleSoft Investment Strategy

•  PeopleSoft Technology Direction

•  Application Lifecycle Management

•  Announcement

PeopleTools Roadmap

•  Consistent, annual PeopleTools releases

PT8.50 PT8.51 PT8.52 PT8.53 PT8.5x

PeopleSoft Investment Strategy
When Should We Upgrade?

PeopleTools Patch Support
•  Each PeopleTools version will be patched until 12 months after the NEXT
version is released
•  Critical Updates (CPU’s) will be produced for 12 months beyond that

8.50 Patch Support begins at GA CPU’s for 12
And continues until 12 months after 8.51 GA additional months

8.50 8.51 8.52 8.53
PeopleTools

Applications 9.1 Feature Pack Feature Pack 9.2


Ideal Upgrade Frequency – In-Sync
•  Synchronized with PeopleTools’ annual releases
•  Tools Upgrade go-live prior to end of Patch Support
•  Subsequent Tools Upgrade go-live during its Patch Support and prior to
end of prior release’s Critical Patch Support

8.50 Patch Support 8.50 CPU Only


Ideal 8.50 Go-Live
8.50 8.51 8.52 8.53
PeopleTools
8.50 8.51



Alternate Upgrade Frequency – Skip One
•  Tools Upgrade go-live prior to end of Patch Support
•  Subsequent Tools Upgrade go-live during its Patch Support and prior to
end of prior release’s Critical Patch Support


8.52 Patch Support

Ideal 8.50 Go-Live Ideal 8.52 Go-Live
8.50 8.51 8.52 8.53
PeopleTools
8.50 8.52


PeopleSoft Technology Strategy
Global Trends That Influence our Direction

•  TCO
•  Infrastructure Flexibility
•  Productivity/Efficiency/Usability
•  Automation, Application Lifecycle
•  SaaS, Cloud Computing (Public/Private), Virtualization
•  Capitalization of Infrastructure, Cost Controls
•  Customization vs. Configuration
•  Integration, Security, Governance, Compliance
•  Heterogeneous implementations
•  Federated, loosely coupled integrated solutions
•  More content on the web, more processes include external
interaction

Goal: Align our investments with yours

PeopleSoft Technology Direction
Continue to Evolve

•  Enhance Usability
•  Simple
•  Productive
•  Intuitive

•  Deliver Business Value
•  Business-led upgrades
•  Visible and Measurable end-user benefits

•  Lower Cost to Own
•  Predict and Plan
•  Manage and Control risk
•  Optimize and Leverage resources

Deliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.50 brought…

•  New menu architecture
•  New style, look and feel
•  Dynamic, responsive UI
•  Grids
•  Modal Windows
•  Type Ahead
•  Related Content Framework

PeopleTools 8.51 added…

•  SmartNavigation
•  Application Navigation by Hierarchical Data


•  Related Actions – On-page contextual menus


•  Persistent Search Results

Persistent Search
Default Search Behavior (8.51)


•  Embedded Help
•  On-page integrated help content


•  Embedded Help
•  On-page integrated help content
•  Related Content Enhancements
•  Support for Level 1, 2 and Hidden Fields
•  Introduction of Workcenter Framework

PeopleTools 8.52 continues with…

•  Universal Search Framework
•  Comprehensive changes and enhancements to how users access
PeopleSoft content
•  Enables “Search” to be a fundamental aspect of user navigation
•  Provides Global Search, improved Component Search, Search
Facets and Search Filters


•  Application Workcenter Platform
•  Role-based functional dashboards that include:
•  Inter-related pagelet content in transactional context
•  Activity Guides: Process based navigation framework
•  Integrated Operational Reporting, Analytics and Dynamic Charts

Configurable “One Stop Shop”
Prioritize Work Role-based Work Center
Queues and Alerts

View and Correct
Exceptions
Drill to
Details

Personalized
Navigation

Perform Actions
Quickly on Multiple
Documents

Navigation / Related
Task Pane Content Pane

Target
Content Pane


•  Operational Reporting: Pivot Grid
•  Pivot Table functionality within PIA
•  Dynamic Integrated chart
•  Publish table or chart to pagelet for Operational Dashboard or
Workcenter


•  Operational Reporting
•  Pivot Tables

Evolutionary Technology Platform

PeopleTools 8.51… PeopleTools 8.52…

•  PeopleSoft Test Framework •  Application Data Sets
•  Usage Monitor •  Three-way Compare/Merge
•  Related Content as Managed
Objects
•  Feeds as Managed Objects
•  Feed Publisher Wizard
•  Feed Personalization
•  Feed Definition Templates

Application Lifecycle Management
Drivers and Value Proposition

Change is…

•  Inevitable
•  Enhancements
•  Maintenance
•  Upgrades

•  Risky and Expensive
•  System testing is time consuming and costly
•  Accurate Impact information is difficult to gather

Maintenance Process
Without PeopleSoft Enhanced LCM

Install
Manually Intensive

Impact Analysis

Fix Custom Code
•  Review Compare Reports
•  Check application functionality for Unit Test
potential impact
•  Estimate level of effort
System Test
•  Decision to apply maintenance often
based on partial or incomplete analysis
•  Review and fix customizations as needed
•  Developers complete unit testing
•  Business Owners complete system test
•  Scope of test usually very broad, often
majority of application

Maintenance Process
With PeopleSoft Enhanced LCM

Install
Automation Benefits
Impact
Analysis

Fix Custom Code

•  Run Test Coverage and Compare
Reports to tables Unit Test
•  Review Test Case Impact
•  Estimate level of effort System Test
•  Decision to apply maintenance based
on more complete analysis
•  Review and fix customizations as needed
•  Developers review Test Case Maintenance
report and complete automated unit testing
•  Impacted Business Owners complete
system test only on affected parts of the
application

Application Data Sets

•  Application Data Sets Without ADS:
•  Provide the ability to define Data Sets, or Manual Production
“shapes”, and move that data between Environment

databases without DataMover or flat files
•  Automates the process of moving data
between PeopleSoft application
instances
•  Reduces or eliminates the need for Test
Environment
manual data entry and configuration in
multiple instances
With ADS:
•  For Example: Automated
•  Setup all of your Annual Benefits
program data in a test environment
•  Your functional experts validate the data,
rules and test the functionality
Production
•  Move to production by manually entering Environment
annual benefits program data again


PeopleTools 8.51…

•  Documents Interface

+
Physical
Logical



•  Documents Interface •  PeopleSoft Integration Network
•  Simplified configuration and setup
•  Introspection of application interfaces
•  Monitor across nodes
•  Prompts Web Service
•  Improve use of Components with
external User Interfaces such as
applications built with Oracle ADF
•  WSDL 2.0/Soap 1.2
•  Performance Improvements for
Large/Binary content
•  RESTful Services



•  Oracle Active Data Guard •  Golden Gate
•  Offload “mostly read-only” •  Solaris x86-64
workloads to idle resources
•  EM Data Masking
•  Oracle VM Production
Templates •  Oracle Secure Files
PeopleTools 8.52 Release Value Proposition
•  Discontinue HPUX PA-RISC
(RVP) document is now available on
Oracle Support

Business Practice Change
PeopleSoft Third-Party Products

•  Oracle remains committed to supporting PeopleSoft
customers’ ability to choose technology components
•  Active partner testing and certification program

•  Aligning our business practices for partner products
•  Operating systems, Databases, Application Servers,
Browsers

•  Moving toward a business model where customers
license IBM WebSphere Application Server, Business
Objects Enterprise and Crystal Reports directly from
their respective vendors

Announcement: As of September 1, 2010, NEW customers will not receive
a license to use IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) when they
purchase PeopleSoft Enterprise applications. Prior to upgrading to
PeopleTools 8.52 existing customers will need to obtain support from IBM or
migrate to Oracle WebLogic.

If you already own a PeopleSoft application If you are a new customer and want to use
and want to keep using IBM WebSphere… IBM WebSphere…
•  The license you have already received is still •  Oracle will continue to certify new IBM WAS
valid. versions with future PeopleTools releases.
•  Oracle will continue to provide direct support •  You will need to purchase a license for WAS
for IBM WAS while PeopleTools 8.51 is being directly from IBM.
patched.
•  Oracle will continue to certify new IBM WAS
versions with future PeopleTools releases.

Details:
•  PeopleTools 8.51 will be the last release to package IBM WebSphere Application Server. Existing customers may
use the previously provided license, new customers will not receive a license to use WAS with PeopleSoft
applications.
•  Future versions of IBM WebSphere Application Server will be certified with future PeopleTools releases.
•  Customers who wish to continue using IBM WAS with PeopleSoft applications will need to obtain appropriate
license and support from IBM prior to upgrading to PeopleTools 8.52.
•  Oracle will continue to package Oracle WebLogic with PeopleTools. All customers will have the option to use this
product at no charge.

Announcement: As of July 1, 2011, Oracle will discontinue distribution of
Business Objects Enterprise and Crystal Reports with PeopleTools. Existing
customers may use the license previously received from Oracle. PeopleSoft
reports will continue to be delivered using Oracle XML Publisher, which is
included free-of-charge.

If you already own a PeopleSoft application If you are a new customer and want to use
and want to keep using Crystal Reports… Crystal Reports…
•  The license you have already received is still •  Oracle will continue to certify new Business
valid. Objects products with future PeopleTools
•  Oracle will continue to certify new versions of releases.
Business Objects products with future •  You will need to purchase a license for these
PeopleTools releases. You will need to products directly from SAP/Business Objects.
purchase these future releases from SAP/
Business Objects if you wish to use them.

Details:
•  All customers who have received a licensed copy of Business Objects products from Oracle with PeopleTools will
be able to continue using the product according to the provided license terms.
•  Oracle plans to continue to certify future versions of Business Objects products with future PeopleTools releases.
Customers who wish to use future versions of Business Objects products with PeopleSoft will need to obtain
appropriate license and support directly from SAP/Business Objects.
•  Oracle will continue to package Oracle XML Publisher with PeopleTools. All customers will have the option to use
this product at no charge. All of the critical reports included with PeopleSoft applications will be converted to XML
Publisher format and included with future PeopleSoft releases.

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