BLOG POSTS FROM AROUND THE COMMUNITY

  • Search in Blogs:

1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

Networking 101

Posted: Jun 29, 2011

Networking is the key to success in business, says Keith Ferrazzi, business coach and author of Never Eat Alone, a book about the power of relationship building and networking. It helps you find jobs, recruit talent, win new customers and discover investors who'll support your ideas. But networking is a trial for shy people—geeks ...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

5 Essential Missions of a Great Manager

Posted: Jun 29, 2011

Great managers are great based on their actions.  Actions reign supreme.  Intentions are meaningless — results are everything. Just not the results you might think. Consistently accomplish these five missions and everything else follows:  Fame, fortune, promotions, bigger offices, and snazzier business cards.  Y...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

Podcast: The Role of BI in Oracle Fusion Applications

Posted: Jun 23, 2011

Listen to this podcast from Oracle's Chris Leone about Fusion Applications. “What we’ve done is really pervasively applied analytics throughout the applications,” says Chris Leone, group vice president, applications product strategy, Oracle. “What you’ll see is at all the key decision points based on the role that you...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

Have you discovered the Oracle Learning Library?

Posted: Jun 23, 2011

The Oracle Learning Library was designed to allow you to search for free online learning content on the internet. The content can come from a variety of sources, including OTN, YouTube, or Blogs. The type of content that can be found on the Learning Library include the following: Demos, Videos, Blogs and Articles.   GO NOW >

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Reducing Customizations and Extending Value

Posted: Jun 21, 2011

Quest also caught up with Marc Weintraub, product management director, OraclePeopleSoft, and asked him to talk about the top messages he hoped PeopleSoftcustomers took home after his session at COLLABORATE11.Weintraub started out with hard and fast numbers. “Over 1,150 customers are liveor in the process of going live with 9.1,” he said...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Irrational Fear and the End of the Big Bang

Posted: Jun 21, 2011

By now, even if you weren’t able to come to Orlando, you’ve probably heard about the new support timelineannounced at COLLABORATE11 for JD Edwards products. We asked Oracle Group VP and General ManagerLyle Ekdahl, who made the announcements to a nearly packed house, to delve a little further into the reasonsbehind that decision. “...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Security as a Service: Business Decision Factors

Posted: Jun 20, 2011

Businesspeople are concerned about the rising number and severity of IT security risks not just because they are dangerous but because of their business impacts: direct financial losses, data theft and inadvertent disclosure, productivity lost to downtime and repair activities, network and system capacity consumed by defenses  A...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Gartner Highlights Key Elements of an Effective IT Governance Process

Posted: Jun 14, 2011

To successfully implement IT governance, chief information officers (CIOs) require both leadership and execution, according to Gartner, Inc. Great IT leaders master process, and they understand that executing governance programs involve process, discipline and creativity. Read more here: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1724221

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

50 Most Influential Government Government CIOs

Posted: Jun 14, 2011

Check out InformationWeek's Government CIO 50, its power list of top government CIOs. Ranging from the NSA's technology chief to innovators at the state and city government level, they've got vision, clout, and sometimes, billion-dollar IT budgets. But most of all, these CIOs are known for delivering tangible, measurable results. Here's an inside l...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Executive Women In IT Group

Posted: Jun 14, 2011

The CIO Excutive Council's Executive Women in IT (EWIT) community of practice (COP) is an affinity group providing networking opportunities for IT leaders to share expertise, best practices and solutions to business challenges faced by female executives in today's ever-changing world. Read more about the group and its upcoming events here: htt...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
290 Points

Dave Hyzy

Benderson Development Company, Director of Information Technology

The Unfulfilled Dream of the JDE World World

Posted: Jun 30, 2011

There has been a lot of talk recently about third-party solutions to provide a Web interface to JDE World software.  As necessary as this discussion is, I can't help but reflect that the battle over the user interface is one that could have, and should have, been addressed by JDE a long time ago.  Stubborn, shortsightedness from Ed McVane...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
166 Points

Greg Parikh

Oracle Corporation, Senior Director Peoplesoft Information Development

Oracle Learning Library, free PeopleSoft online learning content on the internet

Posted: Jun 20, 2011

The Oracle Learning Library was designed to allow you to search for free PeopleSoft online learning content on the internet. The content can come from a variety of sources, including OTN, YouTube, or Blogs. The type of content that can be found on the Learning Library include the following: Demos, Tutorials, Videos, Blogs, Articles, Presentations, ...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
2000 Points

Mike Guerin

First impression - Blackberry Playbook (off the cuff - no science here!)

Posted: Jun 19, 2011

 Well, I broke down about six weeks ago and got a Blackberry Playbook.  I’ve been sniffing around either one of them or an iPad2.  I was staying away from the iPad due to 1) Flash not being available on it and 2) the price.  I was leaning towards the Playbook as I use a BB Bold now as my cell phone / assistant.  I was...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
154 Points

Johnny Quest

Quest International Users Group, Staff

How to Build a Case for HR Technology

Posted: Jun 15, 2011

Listen to Lexy Martin discuss the origins, objectives and surprises of the annual CedarCrestone HR Systems Survey on The Bill Kutik Radio Show®. Click here to listen to the program OnDemand. 

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
504 Points

Loren Zettler

Quest International Users Group, Sales & Marketing Specialist

Sony Using Cloud to Give You More Music

Posted: Jun 15, 2011

Just read this on FastCompany and thought I'd share -    Sony's Music Unlimited On Android Joins The Mobile Streaming Tunes FrayBY KIT EATONToday   Sony's not being held back by its recent woes. Instead, it's taking its new cloud-based music system mobile for the first time.   Sony's Music Unlimited system, through its Qri...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
72 Points

Sam Ojofeitimi

J. Anderson & Associates

VP, ERP Systems & Strategy -- referrals

Posted: Jun 14, 2011

HIRING -- VP, ERP System & Strategy – NJ -- Leads a team of 10 direct reports, +900. Provides strategic & tactical direction, insuring focus on critical issues that drive savings, creation of common systems infrastructure encompassing: HR/Payroll, intranet systems, Employee collaboration tools, Workforce scheduling, Directory ...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
72 Points

Sam Ojofeitimi

J. Anderson & Associates

VP, ERP Systems & Strategy -- referrals

Posted: Jun 14, 2011

HIRING -- VP, ERP System & Strategy – NJ - TTL Comp. -- Leads a team of 10 direct reports, +900. Provides strategic & tactical direction, insuring focus on critical issues that drive savings, creation of common systems infrastructure encompassing: HR/Payroll, intranet systems, Employee collaboration tools, Workforce scheduling...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
65 Points

Swaminathan N.R.

Coloplast A/S

Agreement Master Unusual Expiration in Header

Posted: Jun 11, 2011

We have a situation in our production wherein when the user's are trying to Maintain/Update expire Few agreements pertaining to a Business units, it gets applied and reset the expiration date of all the agreement master for all the Business Units only in the Header file (F38010). It does not change globally the detail file. I would like to kn...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
251 Points

David Andrews

EPM, CPM, EIM and other confusing acronyms – making sense out of Oracle’s data management offerings

Posted: Jun 09, 2011

Oracle proclaims itself to be the leader in the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) market – an assertion that is hard to dispute given the imprecise way in which that acronym is used.  Like all of its competitors, Oracle has its own unique vocabulary and associated definitions of the jargon and acronyms it uses.  For those tryi...

READ ENTIRE POST

Recommend This Post
Subscribe via RSS ›

TAG CLOUD

FEATURED POSTS THIS MONTH

OTHER BLOGS WE LOVE