Reconnect 2016 – Day 2

conference Jul 20, 2016

Kyle Benson

Day 2 at Reconnect featured an Oracle Keynote and a bunch of deep dive sessions. Here is a quick overview.

Oracle PeopleSoft Product Line Update

The format was a discussion between Marc Weintraub and Paco Aubrejuan.
Even with all the cloud talk, no change in commitment to PeopleSoft.
Support for 9.1 ends Jan 2018, won’t be extended again.
Discussed different options with Cloud. Example, move demo\dev first.
Paco guessing 50% of customers at Reconnect will be in the cloud in 5 years.
Discussed PeopleSoft Cloud Architecture.
Talked about a new offering coming soon – Cloud Manager.
This will be a Self Service interface for doing psadmin type tasks
- Deployments, Refreshes, Start, Stop, Clear cache, etc
Should be coming to 8.55
Selection Adoption discussion
Confirmed they use Scrum internally to develop and deliver images
We should see the size of images stabilizing now with this approach.
Discussion on Fluid.
Pushing more Related Content.
Confirmed again that Elasticsearch is coming soon.
Marc and Paco mentioned “cloud” 66 times.

PeopleSoft Technology Roadmap

This was given by Jeff Robbins
Similar to Paco’s talk
A lot more Cloud talk
Did show a screenshot of Cloud Manager – looks very nice, sorry no pic.
Fluid big on Homepages, Tiles and Personalization options.
NavBar now remembers where you were when you return.
Idea not just putting a Fluid stylesheet on, but refactoring for Fluid.
Simplified Analytics discussion.
Search and analytic line is blurring.
Rushed through some LCM and Security talk.

Leveraging PeopleSoft Test Framework to Minimize the Time to Test

How NYU Langone uses PTF to help with Selective Adoption.
Get a list of your manual test scripts first.
Do a PTF “project” before or after your upgrade project – not during.
Focus on tests that effect casual users.
Some power users like to do all manual testing. Let them if they can handle it.
Blank out field defaults when recording.
Documentation is key for your test scripts.
Layout a plan before you record.
Cannot simulate drag and drop.
They run in UAT, as well as dev and system test.
PI releases also tend to include Tools and middleware patching.
Not using Usage Monitor yet – leveraging normal compare reports, etc to determine testing needs.
About 40% of test scripts in PTF.

Continuously Upgrade: Are they crazy? No, actually it’s really clever!

Mark and Wendy from NYU Langone chat Selective Adoption.
They had a clever Tetris theme for their presentation.
Business and IT working together key.
More of an agile approach, versus waterfall.
Getting current with images 4 times a year.
Turned capital costs into operational costs.
Estimated to save them 70% versus old upgrade methods.
CFO tool will compare features from image to image.
PTF was a big deal for them.
HR and FIN teams have their own sprint schedules.

Oracle’s Investment in PeopleSoft Fluid UI Technology

Oracle’s David Bain talks Fluid
Fluid not just mobile, it is UX.
Getting reports that power users resistant to new navigation, casual users love it.
Multiple paths to access content, users can choose their own path.
Quick navigation from anywhere.
Homepages are role based, everyone gets a My Homepage.
Tiles are crefs, not pagelets.
Their primary job is navigation
Put anything in a tile
- Component
- iScript
- External Source
- Pivot Grid
- NavCollections
There is a Tile wizard now
Activity Guides key in refactoring classic components into Fluid.
Native notifications can be setup via Oracle Mobile App Framework.
You get a restricted use license for MAF with PeopleSoft.
Fluid can be used in Interaction Hub
Can be a blend of tiles and homepages from multiple apps.
Page Designer is coming – data driven Fluid page design.
Guided branding is a wizard to help with branding – only in IH.
Fluid standards DocID 2063602.1
Fluid UI best Practices DocID 2136404.1

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