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2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - Mentoring, Meeting of the Members and New Products

Posted: Apr 25, 2012

What a Wednesday we've had, and it's only getting better! Many folks are already getting dolled up for the Back to the 80s party tonight, but the day was chock-full of great sessions, discussions and speakers.    Some gems from the day:   The sharp gals at the Women in IT Panel talked about mentoring in and out of the workplace, ...

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - Standing Room Only at COLLABORATE 12

Posted: Apr 24, 2012

From Quest's Sunday night first-time attendee orientation to the Oracle keynote with CIO Mark Sunday, many of the events here in Las Vegas at COLLABORATE have required extra chairs - a problem we're okay with!   Tuesday marks a full day of education with classes running all day, and nearly everyone stopped in to hear Mark Sunday talk about O...

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - The Inside Scoop on JD Edwards World A9.3

Posted: Apr 23, 2012

With each new release and update, Oracle's JD Edwards World continues to offer solutions that deliver robust capability, renowned stability, and a proven low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Our latest release, JD Edwards World A9.3, builds on these enhancements with application and reporting innovations, more streamlined processes, improved control ...

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - The Inside Scoop on JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1

Posted: Apr 23, 2012

Building on the innovations first introduced in Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Release 9.1, the latest JD Edwards EnterpriseOne release continues Oracle's commitment to Applications Unlimited with important advancements for user productivity, industry-specific functionality, and support for global business operations. JD Edwards Enterprise...

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - Big Announcements from JD Edwards

Posted: Apr 23, 2012

It's official folks: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1 and World A9.3 are available now, so start your upgrade engines! Lyle Ekdahl entertained as always during his Monday morning general session, where the announcements were made. He issued a challenge to all attendees: the first company to go live on either product could be recognized at Oracle OpenWo...

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - Inspiration on a Monday Morning

Posted: Apr 23, 2012

Space shuttle commander Mark Kelly got things off to an inspirational start Monday morning with his talk about courage, strength and never giving up. While much of his talk centered on his wife, former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and her courageous fight after a gunshot wound to the head during an assination attempt, he also spoke of flying c...

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - JD Edwards 101

Posted: Apr 22, 2012

Just wrapped up the Introduction to JD Edwards session with Denise Grills and John Schiff, where new and long-time JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and World customers got answers to their product questions along with a bit of a history lesson (JD Edwards was founded by three men – Jack Thompson, Dan Gregory and C. Edward McVaney, who left an acc...

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - Live from COLLABORATE 12!

Posted: Apr 22, 2012

And we're off! COLLABORATE 12 officially kicked off today and things are already buzzing! The early morning flurry of activity at the registration desk continues as sessions have started and networking is underway. Keep checking this blog throughout the week for updates, breaking news and big announcements from the conference. I'll be updating regu...

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - Another Solution for Big Data: Make it Smaller!

Posted: Apr 19, 2012

Companies both large and small are struggling to keep up with the amount of data they’re generating and storing. IT managers are searching for ways to rein in so-called “big data” before it swamps data centers and causes IT budgets to skyrocket. But here’s the funny thing: did you know that 75 percent of all that data is mos...

1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

New Release: Oracle PeopleSoft Staffing 9.1 Feature Pack 2

Posted: Apr 18, 2012

Developed in collaboration with Infosys, the new feature pack helps staffing firms accelerate business performance and lower total cost of ownership by helping empower recruiters to engage and service clients and candidates faster and more flexibly. Infosys is a Diamond level member in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). With new pagelets and...

197 Points

Brett Beaubouef

NTT America, Looking for a new career!

Fact or Fiction: Hybrid ERP Deployments

Posted: Apr 28, 2012

With cloud computing and cloud ERP gaining additional attention in the marketplace, ERP vendors, resellers, and solution providers are quickly positioning their products and services as “cloud-enabled”. However, in my humble opinion, to simply put ERP software on a hosted server and provide subscription-based pricing does not a cloud s...

858 Points

Hendrix Bodden

ERP Mobility for PeopleSoft

Posted: Apr 10, 2012

We would like to send Quest members interested in mobile a copy of our white paper. We wrote it as a guide to help sort out the confusion and risk around mobile. Sections include:  Security Top Challenges Mobile Market Today Inward vs Outward Facing Apps Buy vs Build If you would like a copy, please send me an email to: hendrix.bodde...

70 Points

Erin Thompson

Sheetz, Inc., HR Systems & Process Manager

Employee Handbook Software

Posted: Apr 03, 2012

Is anyone using a specific package to deliver their Employee Handbook and would recommend it?