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