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1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

Mark Hurd responds to OpenWorld critics in InformationWeek

Posted: Oct 27, 2011

I got the sense that Oracle wanted to give Mark Hurd another crack at InformationWeek, offering me an interview with the company's co-president after recent columns by two of my colleagues--executive editor Doug Henschen and contributor and consultant Josh Greenbaum--criticized Hurd and Oracle for being less than visionary or in...

1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

From DBTA: Quest International Users Group Moves to Address Changing Requirements of IT Professionals

Posted: Oct 21, 2011

Industry Leader Q&A with Michael L. Whitmer, President of the Quest International Users Group  Quest International Users Group (Quest) for Oracle PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Oracle Utilities users is laying out an ambitious roadmap for the year ahead, incorporating new in-person product-focused events directed specifically at the need...

203 Points

Daniel Strassberg

Quest International Users Group, Executive Director Quest ANZ

JDE training tools what else is out there?

Posted: Oct 19, 2011

"Apart from Oracle's UPK are there any other JD Edwards training tools out there?" This was reequested by a Quest ANZ member in Australia as part of the Quest ANZ, JD Edwards UPK SIG.  

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - Oracle OpenWorld At a Glance

Posted: Oct 19, 2011

  If you were able to attend Oracle OpenWorld 2011, you know what a tremendous event it was. If you weren’t able to attend, never fear – your Quest headquarters staff was busy shaking hands, meeting new customers, vendors and Oracle folks, and working behind the scenes for our members. For the first time, Quest blogged and twe...

1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

Meet and Greet Siri: FAQs About the IPhone 4s Personal Assistant (from CIO Magazine)

Posted: Oct 12, 2011

Apple baked in iOS 5 a surprise feature that allows you to have a conversation with your phone. It's called Siri: a voice-enabled personal assistant feature that uses the built-in Apple apps on an iPhone to find the information you ask it for. Here's what you need to know about Siri: What devices are Siri available on? Siri is a feature...

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Quest Editor's Blog - Farewell from OpenWorld

Posted: Oct 06, 2011

Well, folks, the party's just about over here in San Francisco, and what a week! We've connected and reconnected, learned, taught, recruited, walked, danced and laughed.   We listed to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison introduce and demo Oracle Public Cloud and Oracle Social Network.   Fusion is now out and available and creating a buzz. &n...

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - Live from OpenWorld - Big announcements from Larry Ellison!

Posted: Oct 05, 2011

What a day! Currently sitting in on Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's keynote address, where as expected, he's made some big announcements.    First up, lots of talk about Fusion of course, which was built on these goals:  Cloud computing, industry standards, service-oriented architecture, and built-in security.    Since they...

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - live from OpenWorld - Oracle After Hours

Posted: Oct 05, 2011

True, lots of great information has already come from OOW, but the days don't stop when the sessions are over. Monday night provided tons of great socializing and relaxing after hours as the Quest staff party-hopped to support our partners, including IBM, the JD Edwards Alliance, CSS, DSI and others. The Weinstein Gallery made an amazing backdrop f...

2646 Points

Becky Sellers

Quest International Users Group, Editor

Editor's Blog - Live from OpenWorld - Upgrading JDE

Posted: Oct 05, 2011

Just attended a great session on best practices in upgrading JD Edwards Enterprise One and World with Oracle's Barb Canham and Jeff Amerine and customer Tredegar Film Products. Lots of great nuggets and pearls of wisdom.   A few highlights: Check out www.upgradeJDE.com, and new site full of resources for both the World and E1 upgrade...

1191 Points

Madeline Vied

Quest International Users Group, PR & Marketing Specialist

Oracle Announces Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Support for iPad

Posted: Oct 05, 2011

  Support for the iPad offers JD Edwards EnterpriseOne users an intuitive and safe platform with functionality targeted to optimize their dynamic business needs. Key features of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne for the iPad include: Enhanced iPad user experience with the addition of application-specific gestures to create intuitive and efficie...

2000 Points

Mike Guerin

iCloud – uncharacteristically troubling and not like Apple

Posted: Oct 28, 2011

With my new iPad I decided to give iCloud a whirl.  Sounded promising – “one stop shop” for synchronizing content and information between devices, using what is normally thought of as the legendary interface and power of anything Apple.  You are able to synch your pictures, music, books, contacts, calendar, email and mor...

60 Points

Laurence Grey

Making the most of the PeopleSoft Ecosystem

Posted: Oct 27, 2011

It was not that long ago when the average ERP customer had few options available to them for getting help with their PeopleSoft applications. Unless they went to their software vendor or hired an expensive consulting firm who didn’t have deep product skills, there wasn’t much they could do.   Remember the days of PeopleSoft Conn...

2000 Points

Mike Guerin

Congrats to our Q3 webinar winner - Carlo Angeles from CNRL

Posted: Oct 24, 2011

Each quarter, we draw for a winner of a $200 gift card from those that attend our webinars - these show up in the educational content notices you get each month from our friends at Quest.  This quarter, the winner was Carlo Angeles from Canadian Natural Resources (CNRL) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  Carlo, a Finance Analyst, won...

2000 Points

Mike Guerin

Favorite ipad apps?

Posted: Oct 24, 2011

Hey Questers ... looking for input here.  Just picked up an iPad and looking for your recommendations on apps that would be good / interesting / fun / productive for it.  I have browsed through the app store and grabbed some related to reading, businesss (box.net, which I use anyway), personal stuff (TED) and a number of others. ...

166 Points

Greg Parikh

Oracle Corporation, Senior Director Peoplesoft Information Development

Like us on Facebook!!! PeopleSoft is now on FB!

Posted: Oct 20, 2011

Check us out on Facebook... http://www.facebook.com/pages/Oracle-PeopleSoft/220476464680933

166 Points

Greg Parikh

Oracle Corporation, Senior Director Peoplesoft Information Development

New PeopleSoft Video Feature Overviews

Posted: Oct 20, 2011

Want to see some of the new functionality being delivered in PeopleSoft feature packs? Click on this My Oracle Support link to access our all new Video Feature Overviews. https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&doctype=REFERENCE&id=1362821.1

166 Points

Greg Parikh

Oracle Corporation, Senior Director Peoplesoft Information Development

Free PeopleSoft Fitgap Tool on My Oracle Support.

Posted: Oct 20, 2011

PeopleSoft is now offering a tool that will enable you to leverage your PSFT UPK prebuilt content in the implemetation or upgrade Fit Gap process. Free for customers that have the UPK tool/player.https://support.oracle.com/CSP /main/article?cmd=show&type=NO T&doctype=REFERENCE&id=1362833.1    

2000 Points

Mike Guerin

New iPhone versus Blackberry Bold - what are your thoughts??

Posted: Oct 12, 2011

First off, I am a long time Blackberry user - love the convenience of it, the security (or so I perceive).  The time is rapidly approaching for me to replace my current BB Bold – it is coming up on 3 years old now.  It is, in addition to my laptop, my most heavily used business tool.    So … RIM now has the new B...