In “For Bloomberg, Waste Mars Another Digital Project” (September 23, 2011) David M. Halbfinger looks back on the New York City Automated Personnel System (NYCAPS) project started a decade or more ago, adding up the costs incurred so far…

A while back some said that PeopleSoft’s days were numbered, on a steady decline to irrelevance, enterprise software soon to be discarded like those old cars you sometimes see as you drive America’s back roads, in the front yard, prominently displayed like yard art, up on blocks, containing more rust than sheet metal. Now it [...]

Welcome to Certain Wisdom, your new home. I trust your move was transparent, easy, and painless. This new site uses advanced technology, offers more features, and provides overall a much better user experience. I think you will like it. The primary focus of the new Certain Wisdom site will remain the same: emphasizing the importance [...]

As the upgrade season moves into full swing some may get caught up in the momentum, the excitement of new functions and new features, perhaps, leading to considerable changes in how your people do their work. It is fun, even necessary, to visualize the improvements, yet, like a baseball bat made from rotted wood, your [...]

Do you feel like when you talk no one is listening? Does it seem like the only time you see your boss is when something goes wrong? When someone, always a person without the power to change anything, asks how you do it, get up each morning, work frantically for hours on end, late nights, [...]

Oracle recently announced a new name and a new price for the PeopleSoft portal, known to many as the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal and to others as the PeopleSoft Community Portal. The new name is: PeopleSoft Applications Portal, a description that Oracle hopes will clarify this product’s role, unifier of user experience and content, facilitator of [...]

The best way to save money on your upgrade is to do things right the first time. Being wrong is expensive. There I was all by myself sitting at a long table (..on deck as it were..) being asked detailed questions about how I planned to manage a complex PeopleSoft upgrade project. In those days [...]

The best way to save money on your project is to do things right the first time. Being wrong is expensive. In this posting and in the series to follow I will recommend ways to save money on your upgrade and improve your chances of success at the same time. Raoul (an internal employee and [...]