102140 - oracle cloud infrastructure: the benefits seen by

102140 - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure:

The Benefits Seen by PeopleSoft

Customers

Mark Hoernemann

PeopleTools Strategy

Oct 7, 2020

Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates.

Ivan Mazoch

Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Mark Rumbles

McMaster University

MCMASTER UNIVERSITYA medical-doctoral, research-

intensive university located in

Hamilton, ON Canada with total full-

time student population of 27,987.

PRESENTERS

Kevin de KockDirector, Enterprise Applications & Data SystemsUniversity Technology Services

McMaster University

Mark RumblesManager, HR & Finance ApplicationsUniversity Technology ServicesMcMaster University

OUR VISION

Use the Oracle Compute Cloud to empower functional teams and developers and take the load off the DBA’s. We believe the combination of Cloud Manager, PTF and Selective Adoption allows us to start moving towards a DevOps model

• Download the latest images from the Cloud Market place as soon as they are released

• Explore new features and functionality

• Look for opportunities to decommission customizations with delivered functionality

• Use for prototypes and demos

• Spin up temporary non-prod environments for various business use cases. E.g. Training environments

• Create change packages to extract bug fixes, new features etc.

OUR JOURNEY

• Did an initial POC in 2016/17 using a 30-day trial account on the Compute Cloud

• gave us confidence that the Compute Cloud could provide the value and productivity improvements we were looking for

• We maintain a subscription that has grown steadily as we start seeing and using new features

• We’ve explored the features of the PeopleSoft Cloud Manager thoroughly and believe it will be key to the success of our strategy

• We continue to download new update images as they are released and use them for demos and prototypes

• We have confirmed our intention to run a hybrid landscape and will use OCI for non-production environments only

CHALLENGES

• We have a few problems to solve before we can realize our vision for the cloud

• In 2018 we made the decision to move all our database to the ExaCCplatform. As early adopters, we’re running on the Gen 1 version which is not compatible OCI, which is Gen 2, so “lift-and-shift” doesn’t work as advertised

• Workaround will be to copy on-prem data to an OCI database and run PeopleSoft Cloud Manager using the cloud database. Not ideal, but still see the benefits.

• Challenge – McMaster has not yet defined our cloud services support model. “Who does what?”

• Unsure if our current subscription will cover all that we wish to do in OCI. “Best guess”

Comptroller of Public AccountsState of Texas

Ivan Mazoch

CAPPS Technical Operations Lead


CAPPS HR/PayrollCAPPS Financials

• 113 agencies deployed by end of FY2021

• $92.8 billion in spending through CAPPS

• ~115,000 employees on-boarded

CAPPS by the numbers

Drivers behind migrating environments to OCI


• The Move to IaaS

• Projected 50 percent cost savings

• Improved system performance

• A system design that supports high application availability

• The ability to add agencies without a major installation effort or architecture change

• CAPPS migrated from Accenture Public Cloud RAC Database on Red Hat Linux servers to OCI Public Cloud on Exadata and Oracle Linux servers

• CAPPS migrated over 100+ PeopleSoft HR/Payroll, Financials, and Portal (Interaction Hub) environments

• Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Why OCI:

• Cost Savings

• Performance Improvements

• Storage Capacity

The State of Texas partnered with Accenture and Oracle Leadership to accomplish the migration to OCI.


Results of migrating environments to OCITimeframe:

CAPPS OCI Cloud Project started officially on 9/1/2018 and went live in Production as scheduled on 4/1/2019. (7 month implementation)

OCI Lessons Learned:

• Multi-Availability Domain (AD) Deployment

Goal - Spread architecture across data centers for improved High Availability (HA)Issue – Latency between data centers was not low enough to allow key transactions to complete as needed Result – All active layers of the architecture were deployed to a single data center using Fault Domains to avoid the latency issues

• Fast Connect vs VPN

Goal – Move from VPN to FastConnectIssue – No native encryption Result – Implemented VPN with native encryption; Reduced traffic using VPN

• Oracle Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS)

Goal - Leverage cloud-native, HA functionality provided by Oracle’s LBaaSIssue - LBaaS is missing a few key components (Single cookies per LB, Only 1 IP address per LB, No ability to set a maintenance page)Result – Leveraging Fortinet’s Virtual Load Balancer until OCI delivers key components required

OCI Benefits & Metrics


15% increase in the number of

processes that run in less than 30

seconds (~5k more processes per

month run in under 30s in OCI)

50% reduction in PO

dispatch run time

Elimination of downtime during

quarterly patching

70% reduction in pre-

release report run time

60% reduction in PO /

AP print run time 40% reduction in

production backup run time

50% reduction in nightly

environment refresh run time

50% projected cost

savings over 5 years

Questions!


PeopleTools Sessions of InterestTuesday, Oct 6

Session Title Time (CDT)

102090 Elasticsearch, Logstash, & Kibana: Latest Features and Best Practices 11:15

10240 Fortune Favors the Brave - Move PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud with Confidence

11:15

102120 Micro Focus COBOL: The Time for Change is Now 12:30

102200 Reduce Cost with The Latest in Configuration Features 12:30

102190 Recent Improvements in the PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface 1:45

101150 The Road to Kibana: Learn how a PS customer paved their way to Data Visualizations

1:45

102170 PeopleTools Platform and Infrastructure Overview 3:00

102270 Working with the Oracle Digital Assistant 3:00

100740 Baking more than PI with OCI 3:30

PeopleTools Sessions of InterestWednesday, Oct 7


102080 Deploy a PSFT Chatbot in less than 20 Minutes 11:15

102550 PeopleSoft Managed Services: Best Practices for Support, Hosting, Training and Testing-as-a-Service

11:15

102130 Oracle Management Cloud for PeopleSoft 12:45

102410 PeopleSoft Test Framework Panel Discussion 12:45

102220 The Value of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for PeopleSoft 1:15

102140 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: The Benefits Seen by PeopleSoft Customers 2:00

102210 Succeed with Chatbots in PeopleSoft 4:00

101340 Taking PeopleSoft Swimming in an OCI Instance Pool 4:00

100140 Upgrade and Lift and shift of PeopleSoft FSCM 9.1 to 9.2 on OCI 4:00

PeopleTools Sessions of InterestThursday, Oct 8


102150 PeopleSoft Embraces the Autonomous Database 11:15

102230 Understanding OCI file systems 11:15

102240 Use Notifications for a More Efficient User Interface 11:45

100340 Getting the Most Out of PeopleSoft PeopleTools: Tips and Techniques 1:15

102070 Beyond Hardening – New Threats 1:15

101810 Running PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud 1:15

102180 PeopleTools Product Panel Discussion 2:30

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