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NEWS AND LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
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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.
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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.
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NEW RELEASES
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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.
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FUNCTIONAL
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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.
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Stephen Morgan writes about new functionality that makes the Fluid eProcurement searching smarter than ever for the eProcurement Requesters.
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TECHNICAL
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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.
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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.
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READING
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LISTENING
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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.
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WATCHING
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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.
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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.
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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.
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AND FINALLY
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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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