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Issue #286 – 10th March 2021

"This week we bring you news of Oracle Customers making the World better, a massive Microsoft hack, new patches/images, life events, eProcurement, debuggers, saving money, astronauts, Cloud Wars and Wombat poop."
Corrina, Editor
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NEWS AND LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

Oracle Customers Make The World Better 

In addition to achieving commercial goals, Oracle’s customers use its technology to build a better future throughout the world. This lists some of Oracle customers who are making a positive impact to the environment, education, healthcare and communities.

60,000 Orgs Hacked Via Exchange

At least 60,000 organisations globally have over the past few days been hacked by an unusually aggressive Chinese cyber espionage unit that’s focused on stealing email from victim organisations. The espionage group is exploiting flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server, and has seeded hundreds of thousands of victim organisations worldwide with tools that give the attackers total, remote control over affected systems.
NEW RELEASES

PeopleTools Patch 8.58.10

PeopleSoft FSCM Image #39

PeopleSoft Campus Image #20

According to the Cumulative Feature Overview tool there are a documented 17 features and enhancements released in PeopleSoft Campus Image 20. These are across Campus Community, Financial Aid and Student Records.
FUNCTIONAL

Multiple Upload for Life Events 

The Multiple Document Upload and Approval for Life Events was introduced in Image 37 to help the Benefits Administrator, track the approval process and to also ease confusion for the employee on what documents are required for what event. Tammy Boyles walks us through the functionality.

eProcurement Experience Improvements

Stephen Morgan writes about new functionality that makes the Fluid eProcurement searching smarter than ever for the eProcurement Requesters.
TECHNICAL

The Debugger in App Designer 

Did you know there was a real-time PeopleCode Debugger in Application Designer? Graham, from the Version 1 PeopleSoft team, explains what it is, how to set it up and how to use it in his latest blog post and video.  

Keyword/Elastic Search

Shilpa Varshney, Principal Applications Engineer at Oracle, India, shares her knowledge of implementing the Keyword search in a component. Implementing this feature can provide enhanced search capabilities which are extremely useful for the customers.
READING

Saving Money in the Cloud: Part 2 

Julien Lehmann from the Oracle OCI JAPAC team offers another 5 ways to save cost if you're running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. There's a link in his blog post if you missed Part 1 of his very useful insights. 

16 Famous ERP Disasters

A somewhat enlightening list of some of the biggest ERP implementation failures. Many of these are a while ago, and almost all are SAP projects, however there are some lessons which can be learned from the list.

Cancer Survivor Becomes Astronaut 

Hayley Arceneaux, 29, a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, will be one of four people on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Florida later this year. She could become the youngest American ever to travel to orbit. She will also be the first person with a prosthetic body part to go to space after losing part of her leg while fighting cancer.
LISTENING

PSAdmin #279 – PSVault Validation

This week on the podcast, Kyle shares how to validate psvault’s new keys, and Dan and Kyle discuss using Branding for different environments and roles, and PeopleTools 8.59 certifications.
WATCHING

Image Highlights - FSCM #39

This week FSCM Image 39 was released. Review the Cumulative Feature Overview to see the many new features and enhancements released since Image 38 or quickly spin up a demo system using Cloud Manager.  Included are new features in eProcurement, Fluid Travel Authorizations, PS Query masking and Page & Field Configurator enhancements and new features in GL, AP, Expenses, Billing, AR and more.

Kibana for Health and Safety 

Every organisation must have a health and safety policy and procedure in place - especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This 5 minute video shows how the Incident Analytics Kibana visualisations can help your administrator analyse and report workplace incidents in the PeopleSoft Health and Safety module.

Cloud Wars - Clay Magouyrk / OCI

Clay Magouyrk (EVP, Oracle and leader of the OCI business) joins Cloud Wars live to discuss the cloud's role as a business accelerator and how Oracle's approach to cloud infrastructure can offer unique value to customers.
AND FINALLY

Why Wombats Poop Cubes 

The bare-nosed wombat - a furry Australian marsupial - has cube shaped poop. Researchers have now discovered how the wombat creates these unusually shaped deposits and, more interestingly, the biological reason why this shape helps.
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