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PeopleSoft
eNews 1.10.07
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Oracle Applications Unlimited: 5 New Releases, 6 Continents, 24 Hours
Join Oracle
for an unprecedented event in the history of business software. From January 31
through February 1, Oracle will launch five new releases of their applications
products around the world. You'll learn how to take advantage of your current
investments while preparing for the next generation of business. The U.S. event
will take place in New York City on January 31. For information about this
event, click here.
-- COLLABORATE
07: Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community
April 15-19, 2007: COLLABORATE 07,
Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay Resort and Convention Center
Why
attend COLLABORATE 07? Get
advice from users who have been there.
Education Session Information
The Knowledge Committee has
completed their review of more than 500 sessions submitted for consideration
for COLLABORATE 07. Presenters are being informed of their session status this
week. Thanks to huge amounts of participation from the user community, Quest
remains the No. 1 source for PeopleSoft
content - more than 80 percent
of it, in fact, for PeopleSoft users. Be
sure to check www.questdirect.org
next week for a complete listing of approved sessions, descriptions, and times,
and remember to use Quest's online myConference tool once you've registered to
make a personalized conference agenda that includes sessions you want to
attend.
COLLABORATE 07 -
Common Registration Questions
Is it important which user group Web site
I register through?
Yes! Quest, IOUG and OAUG have
different registration systems and Web sites for the conference, each
targeted to our respective user group communities. Registering with Quest as a
PeopleSoft customer will allow you access to all updates about content and
networking specific to our product lines that you wont get anywhere else.
Also, Quest has events and prizes that only our registrants can participate in.
What's
different about hotel reservations this year?
First,
you must register for the conference before receiving access to the hotel
reservation links. The hotels are not
taking phone reservations. Second, if you wish to stay at the Mandalay Bay, be
sure to review the instructions listed before going into that housing link.
This will help avoid any confusion regarding the usage of an access code. Review housing options now.
Registration is LIVE! Click
here
to register now.
Bring
your group!
Is your company planning on sending four or more attendees to COLLABORATE
07? Does your company have a Quest corporate membership? All Quest
corporate members can save $200 per attendee by registering through
our Group Program, a special promotion not part of online
registration. Please note that the group rate cannot be combined with any other registration promotion. To
participate, look for the Group Program form online or email conferences@questdirect.org.
PeopleSoft Pre-Conference
Training
PeopleSoft
users may choose from eight different courses on everything from candidate
gateway to report management. PeopleSoft training courses are offered by Knowledge Services. Established in 1996, Knowledge Services
has grown to be the largest independent training facility in the state of
Indiana with additional facilities located in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Florida, and Alabama. Knowledge Services currently
provides tens of thousands of IT consulting hours and more than 10 thousand
person days of training every year. Knowledge Services success is a combination
of exceedingly talented and dedicated Knowledge Services team members. They
maintain strong business partner relationships with Oracle, Microsoft, The SAS
Institute, and Oracle PeopleSoft, all with an intense focus on excellence.
Ask Product Executives all of your
unanswered conference questions!
When you make your conference travel reservations, plan
on staying all the way through Thursday - the last time slot on
Thursday (beginning at 12:15 p.m.) is reserved for exclusive Q&A
sessions with Oracle PeopleSoft general manager Doris Wong. It's the perfect
chance to ask them any questions you didn't get addressed earlier in the week,
and go home with even more information!
-- Quest
and the CIO Executive Council Partner to Benefit IT Executives
The CIO
Forum, an invitation-only event for top-level executives, is the brainchild of
Quest International Users Group and the CIO Executive Council. This exclusive
event -- which will take place April 16 at the Las Vegas MGM
Grand -- will focus on peer-to-peer interaction and presentations by CIOs
and visionaries. If your organization uses PeopleSoft applications and you
or someone from your organization would like to be considered for inclusion,
please email delaine.bender@questdirect.org.
-- Call for Candidates - Quest Board of Directors
Want to
shape the future of your user group? If you are a PeopleSoft customer,
apply for a position on the Quest Board of Directors. Applications are being
accepted through January 23, 2007. As a member of the Quest BOD, you
will invest your time and energy for the benefit of customers and be
recognized as a leader for the user community. Click here
for more information, or email DeLaine Bender, Quest executive director, at delaine.bender@questdirect.org.
-- Enhancements Update
Three user
groups are currently participating in a pilot program for the enhancements
request system Quest is working with Oracle to produce. The enhancements
request system will allow users to submit, rank and comment on potential
enhancements to their software, with participation from Oracle and Quest
affiliated product, industry and special interest groups. Pilot groups are the
Tech SIG, the Public Sector UG and the Communications IUG. Please contact Viki
Young at viki.young@queststaff.org
if you have any questions or would like more information.
-- Quest
PeopleSoft Lunch and Learn Series: February 15
Quest is
launching a new series of webcasts -- Lunch and Learn.
Topic: XML
Publisher or BI Publisher for Peoplesoft Enterprise customers
Presenter:
Oracle's Fusion Middleware and application teams
Date:
February 15
Time: 11:00
am - 12:00 noon Central Standard Time.
For call in
info, please email peoplesoftadvocacy@questdirect.org.
Description:
Oracle XML Publisher / BI Publisher offers PeopleSoft Enterprise customers the
most efficient, scalable reporting solution available. It provides a central
architecture for generating and delivering information both securely and in
the right format. Oracle XML Publisher / BI Publisher reduces the high costs
associated with the development, customization and maintenance of business
documents; while increasing the efficiency of reports management.
Furthermore,
it reduces a company's dependency on third party software systems that are
required to format business documents, reducing the complexity of your
reporting infrastructure. Utilizing a set of familiar desktop tools such as
Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office users can create and maintain their own
report formats based on data extracts supplied by a multitude of sources.
-- Have
a user tip? It could be worth $500! Quest is looking for all PeopleSoft users with a story to
tell -- your article could end up in the next issue of Q&A Magazine!
Submit a user tip or a case study about your company's software experience, and
if it's published in Q&A, we'll pay you $500. Email questions to editor@questdirect.org.
Q&A is also searching for companies that:
-- Have
been involved in a disaster recovery effort,
-- Have
recently outsourced some/all of their IT or are in the process of outsourcing,
-- Or have
evaluated outsourcing but decided it wasn't for them.
Please contact editor@questdirect.org
if you have a story to tell!
Quest wants to hear
from you. How have Quest's services, events or tools
benefited you or your company? Let us know at editor@questdirect.org.
Do you need your user ID and password? Email membership@questdirect.org.
Upcoming Quest Webinars -- Check our PeopleSoft
Webinar page for more information.
January 17 - Newmerix
January 24 - Applimation
January 31 - WorkStrategy
Find upcoming user group
meetings on QuestDirect.
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