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14030 PeopleSoft Success – One Strategy For Staying Current and On Track For The Future Scott Schafer – Oracle Aaron De Los Reyes – Cognizant Ashish Jaikaria – Cognizant Senior Product Manager IT Director Senior Manager
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Program Agenda
• Value Of Staying Current
• PeopleTools – More Than You Think
• Cognizant’s Background & Strategy
• Staying Current Cognizant’s way
• Questions & Answers
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Value Of Staying Current
• What are we hearing? – Business is asking for new capabilities – Business is not familiar with PeopleTools
• Many only understand application upgrade – Business is talking with new application vendors
• Not all topics are being discussed – Security – Reporting – Integration
• Staying current = ‘best practice’
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8.52 8.51
Value Of Staying Current PeopleSoft Investment Strategy
STRATEGY • Evolve PeopleSoft User Experience
toward Next Generation • Incorporate Capabilities as Optional in
an Upgrade • Align Investments with our Customers’
Direction and Timing
OBJECTIVES • Enhance User Experience
• Simple • Productive • Intuitive
• Deliver Value to Customers • TCO • Business-led Upgrades
Feature Pack Feature Pack
8.50
9.1
PeopleTools
Applications
8.53
9.2
8.55 8.54
Feature Pack Feature Pack
8.56
9.3
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Program Agenda
• Value Of Staying Current
• PeopleTools – More Than You Think
• Cognizant’s Background & Strategy
• Staying Current Cognizant’s way
• Questions
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PeopleTools – More Than You Think • PeopleTools is more than just a technology layer
– Better understand change – impact analysis • Change Impact Analyzer
– Data management • Data archive manager
– Reduce system downtime • Pre-load cache • Parallel boot
Investment Themes Before
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PeopleTools – More Than You Think
• PeopleTools is more than just a technology layer
– Improve user productivity
– Reduce cost of ownership
Investment Themes Today
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PeopleTools – More Than You Think
– Model secondary pages • Contextual data • Actionable data
Improve User Productivity
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PeopleTools – More Than You Think
– Model secondary pages
– Related content • In context of
transactions • Easy to deploy • Open and flexible • Being delivered by PS
Improve User Productivity
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PeopleTools – More Than You Think
– Model secondary pages – Related content – Workcenters &
Dashboards • Everyday activities and
tasks • Navigation and search
easier and quicker • Reports and data needed
for day-to-day work • Role-based
Improve User Productivity
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PeopleTools – More Than You Think
– Model secondary pages
– Related content – PeopleTools charting
• Improved analytics
Improve User Productivity
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PeopleTools – More Than You Think
– Model secondary pages – Related content – PeopleTools charting
• Improved analytics
Improve User Productivity
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PeopleTools – More Than You Think
– Model secondary pages – Related content – PeopleTools charting – Feeds
Improve User Productivity
Pagelet with all your feeds
Subscribe to content of interest…
…or an entire workspace
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PeopleTools – More Than You Think
• PeopleSoft Test Framework – PTF – Introduced in PeopleTools 8.51 – More than just a “Record and Playback” tool – Integrated with lifecycle management – Integrated with PeopleTools – Tests and test cases are PeopleTools managed objects
• Comparable • Copyable
– Enhances data from Usage Monitor and Compare Report
Reduce Cost Of Ownership
Oracle Proprietary and Confidential
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PeopleTools – More Than You Think
• Usage Monitor – new in 8.51 – Critical to impact analysis
• Understand what objects are used in your application • Extends PTF and Compare Report data
• Compare Reports To Tables – new in 8.51 – Stores compare data is application tables – Critical to impact analysis
• Understand what objects are being changed • Extends Usage Monitor and PTF data
Reduce Cost Of Ownership
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PeopleTools – More Than You Think
• Why Invest in PTF ? – Application system testing
• Automated testing – Impact Analysis
PeopleSoft Test Framework PSFT Application
Change
Usage
Test Cases
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PeopleTools – More Than You Think
• Value of meta data
PeopleSoft Test Framework
010203040506070
Impacted Test Cases
Non-Impacted Testa Cases
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PeopleTools - More Than You Think System Management • Enterprise Manager - centralize and simplify
• Proactive system monitor and management
• Leverage best of breed Oracle management technology
• Lower your total cost of ownership (TCO)
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Program Agenda
• Value Of Staying Current
• How PeopleTools Is Helping
• Cognizant’s Background & Strategy
• Staying current Cognizant’s Way
• Questions
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Cognizant Corporate Overview
Identified as a Tier 1 IT Services Company by Gartner, Forrester and other leading industry research bodies Added to the NASDAQ 100 Index
Fastest IT services company to reach $1 billion annualized run rate
Added to S&P 500 Index
1994
2005
1996
2002
2006
Ranked 12th in Business Week 50 of “Best in Class”
2007
Entered the Fortune 1000 list 2008
2004
2009 Named to Business Week 50 Top Performing U.S. Companies -April 2009
1998
Captive technology arm for The D&B Corp. and group companies
Tier 1 IT and BPO services provider Very strong financial base with sequential growth since listing in
June 1998 $4.59 Billion in revenues in 2010, up over 40.1% year-over-year Employees: 111,000+ * 714 active clients, 46 of Fortune 100 Universally recognized as Tier One provider Fastest growing firm in the industry Born Global – US based with proven global delivery model
2010
Named Best IR company in computer services & IT consulting category by Institutional Investor -Feb 2010
Assessed at SEI-CMMi level 5 and P-CMM Level 5 IMS Health divests its stake and Cognizant becomes widely held
Listed on NASDAQ Became the first IT company leveraging India to get listed on the NASDAQ
Servicing other clients focusing on an onsite-offshore model of execution
Expanding global delivery capabilities » Operating more than 52 facilities around the world
» Projects spread over US, Europe and APAC
» Global delivery center established in Manila, Philippines
» Expanded Buenos Aires, Argentina and Shanghai, China
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PeopleSoft Footprint in Cognizant
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Related Content Functionality – Background / Business Need
• PeopleSoft Absence Management is being deployed globally & needs to feed data into our time-sheet system
• PeopleSoft time & expense module is used to capture time-sheet • Time-sheet is filled by 120,000+ users bi-weekly, with 90+ % compliance rate • Time-sheet data is a input to our billing system & hence is a critical activity • The requirement came from our CFO & thereby had the visibility at the highest level • Requirement -
– To make the user experience between time-sheet and absence management system as seamless as possible with minimal change management.
– Provide the ability to do multiple tasks of entering time-sheet & absence from one place
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ESA Time-sheet – Related Content Functionality
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Timesheet and Absence in a single page
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Business Benefits
• Provided related information / processes in one place • Seamless user experience • Improved usability – Reduced no of clicks and made it a 1click
functionality • Minimized change management for 120,000+ users • Minimized multiple logins by leveraging PeopleSoft single-sign on
capability
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PeopleSoft Testing Framework – Background / Business Need
• PeopleSoft ELM 9.0 is a single global instance used by 120,000+ users across 36 countries
• Around 20,000+ new hires in Q2-2011 underwent training through Cognizant academy
• Training credits is an important metrics in your appraisal process • High volume of enhancement request which requires a robust testing
strategy • Budget / cost pressures to provide higher productivity with reducing cost
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PeopleSoft Testing Framework – Test Scenario
• To check whether the new supplemental learning type of Podcast/Videos is available for associates
• Associates should be able to add Supplemental Learning for this type and submit the same to their Manager
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PeopleSoft Testing Framework – Test Scenario To check whether the new supplemental learning type of Podcast/Videos is available for associates. Associates should be able to add Supplemental Learning for this type and submit the same to their Manager
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PeopleSoft Testing Framework Select the value “Podcast/Videos” and click on “continue” button
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PeopleSoft Testing Framework The mandatory fields are filled and the user click’s on “Save” button
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PeopleSoft Testing Framework Supplemental learning should be added. Select, drag and drop the validation button on the message
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PeopleSoft Testing Framework All the steps performed is recorded in the test framework
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PeopleSoft Testing Framework – Business Benefits
Provided business confidence & strength to our testing process
Reduced development & execution time around testing
Helped in automation of tests through Record and Playback method
Provided flexibility in storing and running of test scripts
Test Assets (Test Cases and data) being Peoplesoft metadata objects, simplifies the upgrade and also enables PTF to validate recorded objects against PeopleSoft object metadata definitions
Helped in automation of PeopleSoft specific functions by running the processes through Process Scheduler
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Cognizant Roadmap
• Q1 – 2011 – Completed PeopleSoft 8.9 ESA & FMS assessment • Q2 – 2011 – Started the upgrade of ESA & FMS to 9.1. Planned completion date Q1-2012 • Q4 – 2011 – Complete HCM and ELM assessment • Q2 – 2012 – Complete HCM upgrade to 9.1 & tools 8.5x • Q3 – 2012 – Complete CRM upgrade to 9.1 & tools 8.5x • Q4 – 2012 – Complete ELM upgrade to 9.1 & tools 8.5x
• Currently all applications are in tools 8.50 except ELM which is on 8.51 • The goal for 2012 is to have all apps on PeopleSoft 9.1 (including the latest feature pack)
and tools 8.51 or 8.52
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Tools Benefits – Recently used feature Helps quick access to frequently used pages by reducing the clicks
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Tools Benefits – Improved Menu
Menu navigation without any page refresh. Also, provides more real estate on the page
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Tools Benefits – Modal look-up prompts Helps provide the context for the lookup. Also, eliminates page refresh and improves performance
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Tools Benefits – Type ahead / Auto complete feature
Provide the result set as the user is typing in the look-up. Reduces the clicks.
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Information Portal – Locate the documentation, training, and other info needed to help with your implementation process. Customers searching for this information should make this their first online destination. http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/054275.html
Hosted & Mobile PeopleBooks – PeopleTools PeopleBooks are available in three formats: Hosted PeopleBooks, PDF’s, and Amazon’s Kindle format. All can be accessed here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/psftent-090284.html
Doc Home Pages – Constantly updated direct links to PeopleBooks, PeopleBook Updates, Release Notes, Installation and Upgrade Guides, and other useful product documentation from My Oracle Support. PeopleTools 8.52 Doc Home Page: https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&doctype=REFERENCE&id=1356456.1
Learn More PeopleSoft Information Development Resources
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Follow us on PeopleSoft_Info
Cumulative Feature Overview (CFO) – Providing concise descriptions of new and enhanced solutions and functionality that have become available starting with the 8.4 release through our latest 8.52 release. https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&doctype=SYSTEMDOC&id=793143.1 Upgrade Resource Report Tools – Helps you find all the documentation, scripts, and files you need for your upgrade project. https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&doctype=SYSTEMDOC&id=1117047.1
Learn More PeopleSoft Information Development Resources
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PeopleTools Sessions of Interest Monday
Time Title Number Location
11:00 Improve ROI and Lower Costs by Mastering PeopleSoft Upgrade Tools and Resources
14509 Moscone West - 3020
Mastering PeopleSoft Query 12440 Moscone West - 2024
PeopleSoft Answers: How to Prevent Hackers from Exploiting Your System
14841 Moscone West - 2022
2:00 Managing Your PeopleSoft Applications with Oracle Enterprise Manager
12420 InterContinental – Union Square
Performance Tuning for the PeopleSoft Administrator 14023 Moscone West - 2022
PeopleTools Developer Series: Building and Consuming Web Services 13985 Moscone West - 2024
3:30 PeopleSoft on Oracle Exalogic: A Perfect Fit 14008 Moscone West - 2022
5:00 PeopleTools Product Roadmap 14504 Moscone West – 3002/3004
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PeopleTools Sessions of Interest Tuesday
Time Title Number Location
10:15 PeopleSoft Enterprise: Oracle Database Technical Update 13580 Moscone South - 310
11:45 PeopleSoft Success: Best Practices for Using PeopleSoft Test Framework
14028 Moscone West - 2022
1:15 PeopleSoft Integration Broker in PeopleSoft PeopleTools Release 8.52: Highlights
13987 Moscone West - 2022
PeopleSoft Answers: How to Create a Great PeopleSoft UI 14020 Moscone West - 2024
3:30 PeopleSoft PeopleTools Tips and Techniques 14003 Moscone West - 2022
Oracle Fusion Middleware for Oracle Applications: Get Answers from Development
12388 Moscone West - 2016
5:00 Platform Update for PeopleSoft 14007 Moscone West - 2024
Upgrading to PeopleSoft Feature Pack Releases 14031 Moscone West - 2022
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PeopleTools Sessions of Interest Wednesday
Time Title Number Location
10:15 Application Integration for PeopleSoft Enterprise 12750 Moscone West - 3020
11:45 PeopleSoft PeopleTools Release 8.52: How PeopleSoft's New Search Features Will Change The World
14022 Moscone West - 2022
1:15 PeopleSoft Success: Using Virtualization to Manage TCO 14006 Moscone West - 2024
5:00 Meet the Experts: PeopleSoft PeopleTools S317455 Moscone West – Applications/CRM Lounge
PeopleSoft Success: PeopleSoft Portal Creates Great Self-Service Solutions
14010 Moscone West - 2022
PeopleTools Developer Series: Secure Coding Practices 14001 Moscone West - 2024
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PeopleTools Sessions of Interest Thursday
Time Title Number Location
9:00 PeopleSoft Success: One Strategy for Staying Current and On Track for the Future
14030 Moscone West - 2024
PeopleSoft Answers: How to Provide Seamless User Access, On-Premises or as SaaS
14842 Moscone West - 2022
Extending PeopleSoft Applications with Oracle ADF and Oracle SOA Suite
12381 InterContinental – Union Square
10:30 PeopleSoft Answers: How to Enable PeopleSoft for Mobile Users 14000 Moscone West - 2022
12:00 PeopleTools Developer Series: Performance Tips for the PeopleSoft Developer
14026 Moscone West - 2022
1:30 Hands On Lab - Install Release 9.1 of PeopleSoft Human Capital Management in Minutes with Oracle VM
21401 Marriott Marquis - Nob Hill CD
PeopleSoft PeopleTools Product Team Panel Discussion 14005 Moscone West - 2022
3:00 Hands On Lab - Install Release 9.1 of PeopleSoft Human Capital Management in Minutes with Oracle VM
21401 Marriott Marquis - Nob Hill CD
PeopleSoft Answers: Oracle Active Data Guard and Oracle GoldenGate for Read-Only
14009 Moscone West - 2022
PeopleSoft Success: Using the Related Content Framework to Empower Users
14021 Moscone West - 2024
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