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NEWS AND LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
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Larry Ellison explains why Oracle is building so many ‘cloud region’ data centres - “We believe we just have to get into more countries than Amazon, let’s say, because we have to serve those countries where we have a large installed base.”
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EVENTS
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The PeopleSoft Innovation Summit event held a couple of weeks back sounds like it contained some real high-quality content. Happily, the recordings for all the sessions have been made available online and for free. If you missed the event, make sure you check out the recordings.
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NEW RELEASES
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Jim shares a list of Open Source PeopleSoft projects. Many of these are not new, but there are certainly more than we were aware of. Additionally, whilst some of these are polished functionality which you can download and use immediately others are works-in-progress. Check these out, and maybe consider contributing either to these projects or one of your own.
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FUNCTIONAL
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The latest enhancements to the Page and Field Configurator (PFC) expand the potential usage on pages significantly in addition to improvements in the user interface for the Page and Field Configurator administrators. Joe Willever (Product Management Director, Oracle) lists three capabilities which he believes are the most compelling.
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TECHNICAL
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Sasank shares the methods behind his dynamically changing Fluid homepage tiles.
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Jim gives details of a potential bug he's encountered while trying to send SMS messages from PeopleSoft via Twilio, and the workaround he uses to get around the issue.
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READING
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An Israeli company unveiled the first 3-D-printed rib-eye steak in February. The new meat-making process prints living cells that are incubated on a plant-based matrix to grow, differentiate and interact to achieve the texture and qualities of a real steak. The company will even be able to adapt the steak to a specific country or palate, for instance, making it more or less tender, according to a consumer’s taste.
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A thought-piece by Robert Scoble (US blogger, technology evangelist) on the huge advantage Tesla has over Apple and other electric car wannabes. It's a long-ish article but it gets really interesting from about the half-way point so it's worth sticking with it.
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There are more than 200 million public and private security cameras installed across China. The 'Sharp Eyes' program provides citizens with special TV boxes installed in their homes so they can watch live security footage and press a button to summon police if they saw anything amiss. The aim is to achieve 100% coverage of public spaces and reports suggest they're very close.
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LISTENING
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This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about sharing PeopleSoft code, a great new bolt-on tool from CY2, and the joy of setting up Phire for the first time.
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WATCHING
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PeopleSoft Fluid Travel Authorisations enable your employees to see and modify travel authorisations created in Classic. This 4 minute video shows more.
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Recruiting Solutions is leveraging two emerging technologies, Oracle Digital Assistant and Twilio, to provide Recruiters with a new way to communicate with candidates. This 7 minute video shows more.
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AND FINALLY
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You didn't know you wanted to play with an iceberg simulator, but it's going to be difficult not to spend the next 5 minutes drawing icebergs of different shapes and seeing how it will float.
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