Reconnect 2016 – Day 3

Kyle Benson

Day 3 was the last day of the conference, and it was a busy one! With travel, and a presentation of my own, I didn’t get a chance to see everything I wanted to. I also didn’t get this post written until now because it took me 23 hours to get home(O’Hare was a mess due to weather), what a nightmare. That said, I had a great time. Here are my highlights from the last day.

Publishing PeopleSoft through WAP for AD FS Single Sign-on

• This was my session.
• Used Web Application Proxy as a rps for Supplier Portal.
• Non-claims based pre-authentication done with AD FS using Kerberos.
• Our Enterprise standard is SAML, so would like to use claims based pre-auth in the future.

REST Your Weary Head! Query can handle it!

• HyperGen talked about REST and Query Access Services.
• REST is a lot better now in 8.54 and 8.55.
• Queries via QAS can be run Synchronously or Asynchronously.
• QAS is a good quick and easy way to create REST web services.
• If you have a more complicated web service, you may want to create your own message handler via App Packages.

Rethinking Excel to CI

• Kevin Weaver talks about his alternative to ExcelToCI
• His solution creates CI templates online instead of within Excel.
• You upload a data sheet online and then process it in an App Engine.
• You can find this and more on his blog – http://pskcw.blogspot.com/

PeopleSoft Single Sign-On with SAML 2.0

• Vlad from GNC walks us through his great SSO solution.
• This uses an IdP-initiated SSO profile.
• Built an Assertion Consumer Service in Signon PeopleCode
• Uses openSAML Java package to do the validation.
• His slides had a ton of code snippets.

PeopleTools Product Panel

• A panel of Oracle employees discuss PeopleTools.
• MS Office will be removing ActiveX from there products soon.
• The Finance team will be delivering a new solution for Journal Upload and other solutions that use XmlLink. Most likely using IB(similar to ExcelToCi?).
• Talked more about Cloud Manager.
• Will be used in Oracle private cloud at first, then maybe other cloud providers, then maybe YOUR datacenter.
• Will be placed within an Interaction Hub instance.
• Elastic is coming soon, likely around patch 10.
• Question about PS Admins needing Puppet skills.
• Oracle will be getting the DPKs better, but you will need these skills to customize and fit your organization.

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