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Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

SOA Support Resources from MOS blog

Posted: Feb 29, 2012

SOA Support Resources By cwarticki on Feb 21, 2012 I was recently requested to put together a list of SOA Resources for a customer. Sharing with all. First of all - Start here on OTN -  (Thanks Bob R) Also recently announced is the SOA Information Center on MOS - (Thanks Sean Bailey)   Product Knowledge ...

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Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

How Mobile, BYOD and Younger Workers are Reinventing IT

Posted: Feb 29, 2012

Despite big changes in technology over the past couple of decades, IT departments and the duties of their staff have stayed pretty consistent. The classic model involves helpdesk agents, desktop support staff, systems and network administrators, DBAs and developers, and managers at various levels reporting to a CIO or technology director. It's a sy...

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Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - Coexistence and Reassurance for PeopleSoft

Posted: Feb 28, 2012

Oracle has confirmed its commitment to continue investing in its PeopleSoft product at the UK Oracle User Group's (UKOUG) conference for the community.   The company was eager to reassure PeopleSoft users that its Fusion Applications did not mean an end to the PeopleSoft product line.   "No, Fusion is not impacting investmen...

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Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - Does Big Data = Big Confusion?

Posted: Feb 27, 2012

Big data gets a lot of buzz these days and organizations are increasingly concerned about the problem of managing it, but many don't really understand what big data is. Nor do they have the tools in place to effectively manage much of the data already at their disposal, says Mandeep Khera, chief marketing officer of LogLogic, which specializes...

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Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - Five Ways CIOs Benefit from Facetime with Customers

Posted: Feb 24, 2012

The customer is always right, but how would you know? Few CIOs truly understand what external customers want and why they act the way they do. Running IT can all too easily keep CIOs internally focused, making sure fellow employees have the technology they need to do their jobs. That's important work, but it's not strategic.   CIOs who don't...

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Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1 Feature Pack 2: New Capabilities that Enhance and Streamline Business Processes

Posted: Feb 22, 2012

Developed to accelerate business performance and lower total cost of ownership, PeopleSoft FSCM 9.1 Feature Pack 2 offers new applications for financial governance and control, healthcare materials management and enterprise service automation. Oracle’s Feature Pack delivery method underscores its commitment to provide new functional...

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Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - Point/Counter Point: The Death of ERP?

Posted: Feb 22, 2012

Two interesting opinions about whether ERP's days are numbered. What do you think?   The End of ERP, from Forbes.com. Much has been discussed about SAP’s pending $3.4B acquisition of SuccessFactors, and now Oracle’s $1.9 billion deal to buy Taleo. Rightly, SAP and Oracle hav...

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Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - The Secret Power of Introverts

Posted: Feb 21, 2012

Are introverts treated like second-class citizens? One author believes they (we?) are.   If you had to guess, what would you say investor Warren Buffett and civil rights activist Rosa Parks had in common? How about Charles Darwin, Al Gore, J.K. Rowling, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and Google’s Larry Page? They a...

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Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - Reactions to Oracle's Acquisition of Taleo

Posted: Feb 20, 2012

Oracle Shakes Up Talent, Performance Management   Last week, Oracle announced it would acquire Taleo for $1.9 billion, in a move widely interpreted as a reaction to SAP's $3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors. Also in the last few months, Salesforce.com acquired Rypple, a maker of social software for employee recogni...

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Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

Interesting Read: Three Types of People to Fire Immediately (From Bloomberg Business Week)

Posted: Feb 15, 2012

“I wanted a happy culture. So I fired all the unhappy people.”—A very successful CEO (who asked not to be named)   Show of hands: How many of you out there in Innovationland have gotten the “what took you so long?” question from your staff when you finally said goodbye to a teammate who was seemingly always part...

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Mike Guerin

Airline boarding and corporate business processes

Posted: Feb 13, 2012

I was at the Oracle Partner Summit a week or so ago - great content by the way, and so refreshing for a "old time" JDE guy to see the road map for both EnterpriseOne and World carrying out well into the future, with new features, capabilities, usability enhancements and industry specific stuff being added in.    When I was at Denver Int...

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