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1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

New Federal Mobile IT Strategy Must Address Security

Posted: May 31, 2012

As the Obama administration moves to implement a broad-ranging mobile computing initiative throughout the government, agency CIOs need to integrate forward-looking policies to ensure that mobile devices and the data and applications that reside on them are insulated from both internal and external threats from the outset, according to a security ex...

1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

On the Health Care Reform Horizon: New Info on How to Handle W-2s

Posted: May 31, 2012

With the slew of other new legal disclosures coming up this summer, adding the full cost of medical coverage on W-2s in January 2013 may have fallen off your radar.   Experts agree that between 401(k) fee disclosures and theSummary of Benefits and Coverage notices, the new mandated information on W-2s is definitely a blip. Yet, it ...

1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

PeopleSoft Global Payroll integrates with PeopleSoft Cash Management for European Payments

Posted: May 22, 2012

PeopleSoft recently announced the union of two products: Financial Gateway and Global Payroll To comply with the new Euro zone payments requirements and allow customers to leverage the value of a singular payments platform, PeopleSoft Global Payroll leverages the Financial Gateway, which is part of the Cash Management product within...

1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

The Cloud Wrap-up: Opinions on Cloud Computing from Around the Web

Posted: May 15, 2012

Oracle Embraces Cloud Computing, the New Consumption Model   The clouds have lifted at Oracle, one might say. In a series of briefings at the recent Oracle Industry Analyst World 2012, the software vendor set its sights on the cloud computing market, announcing a broad portfolio of products and services to enable public, private and hybrid c...

1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

Is Gamification A Great Motivator?

Posted: May 15, 2012

The game is afoot in business, as more and more organizations integrate game mechanics into their internally and externally facing applications and processes. The market for gamification is expected to grow significantly in the next few years. But why gaming? Why now?   Research from Gartner indicates that by 2015, 50% of organizations ...

1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

ComputerWorld: Most Oracle users prefer Fusion in the cloud

Posted: May 09, 2012

Most of the 250 customers that have so far licensed Oracle's recently-launched Fusion Applications have chosen a hosted deployment model, according to a senior executive at the software vendor.   The majority of the customers are also running Fusion "in a coexistence fashion" alongside long-installed Oracle business software, such as the E-B...

1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

Career Advice: Careers in the Cloud, Abandoning IT, Resume Writing and More

Posted: May 09, 2012

Allan Hackney, senior vice president at John Hancock Financial Services, is this month's ComputerWorld Premier 100 IT Leader, answering the following questions:   My friends in the IT field seem to be moving toward jobs at cloud computing firms. I'm in IT operations at a traditional company. Am I missing the boat?   I'm in testing and...

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - CIO Forum Trends and Takeaways

Posted: May 08, 2012

CIO Forum 2012: Trends and Takeaways Look for the full trends and takeaways research paper coming later this month!   More than 100 attendees came to the 2012 CIO Forum: A QLC event and made the day a great success. The event kicked off with a keynote address from R "Ray" Wang, principal analyst and CEO of Constellation Research. Five c...

203 Points

Daniel Strassberg

Quest International Users Group, Executive Director Quest ANZ

13 months in a year JD Edwards

Posted: May 07, 2012

I have been asked by an Australian company the following and need user help:   " We have been asked by the business to investigate the feasibility of implementing Period 13 for audit adjustments. If you have implemented period 13 at your site, could you please provide any setup, reporting, cut off etc. issues that you came across and the sol...

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - PeopleSoft Information Portal

Posted: May 07, 2012

Did you know there's a one-stop shop for Peoplesoft information on Oracle.com (and no, it's not a search box!)? Check out the PeopleSoft Information Portal and you will see links by product area to PDF documents you can view or download to your desktop for quick reference anytime. Each PDF contains direct links to every kind of informatio...

78 Points

Scotti Whitmire

DeRoyal Industries, Inc., Systems Manager

Technology SIG update...

Posted: May 29, 2012

Collaborate '12 was a great success!  We enjoyed seeing old friends and making new ones, especially at the Geek Meet, which featured an appearance by Lyle Ekdahl, Vice President of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, and this year's Technology SIG theme song, "System Survivor".   We're now starting to plan for InFocus, the conference just fo...

197 Points

Brett Beaubouef

NTT America, Looking for a new career!

Fact or Fiction: Hybrid ERP Deployments

Posted: May 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...

102 Points

Sacha Wilinson

Ndevr Pty., Ltd.

JD Edwards OneView Reporting

Posted: May 16, 2012

Ndevr loves the latest version of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne - we are so excited about it that we started a new blog section within our website dedicated to all the new things in 9.1.   One of our first articles posted covers OneView Reporting!   Shortly we will be holding a webcast that will look at the differences between OneView Rep...