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PeopleSoft Technology Roadmap
Scott Schafer
Oracle, Senior Product Strategy Manager, PeopleTools Strategy
The following is intended to outline our general
product direction. It is intended for information
purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any
contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any
material, code, or functionality, and should not be
relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
The development, release, and timing of any
features or functionality described for Oracle’s
products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
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Program Agenda
• Delivery Model
• Release Planning
• 8.50 & 8.51 In Review
• 8.52 And Looking Forward
• Questions
PeopleTools Roadmap
• Consistent, annual PeopleTools releases
PT8.50PT8.50 PT8.51PT8.51 PT8.52PT8.52 PT8.53PT8.53 PT8.5xPT8.5x
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8.528.51
PeopleSoft Investment StrategyDeliver Timely Additive Solutions That Are Easy To Adopt
STRATEGY
• Add Capabilities to Current Application Release
• Annual PeopleTools Release Cycle
• ~3 Year Applications Major Release Cycle
OBJECTIVES
• Continue Delivery of Value-Add Capabilities
• Provide Capabilities More Frequently
• Enable Feature Adoption without Upgrading your Application
Feature Pack
Feature Pack
8.50
9.1
PeopleTools
Applications
8.53
9.2
8.558.54
Feature Pack
Feature Pack
8.56
9.3
PeopleSoft Investment StrategyWhen Should We Upgrade?
PeopleTools
Applications
8.528.51
Feature Pack Feature Pack
8.50
9.1
8.53
9.2
PeopleTools Patch Support
• Each PeopleTools version will be patched until 12 months after the NEXT version is released
• Critical Updates (CPU’s) will be produced for 12 months beyond that
8.50 Patch Support begins at GA
And continues until 12 months after 8.51 GA
CPU’s for 12 additional months
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PeopleSoft Investment StrategyWhen Should We Upgrade?
PeopleTools
Applications
8.528.51
Feature Pack Feature Pack
8.50
9.1
8.53
9.2
Ideal Upgrade Frequency – In-Sync
• Synchronized with PeopleTools’ annual releases
• Tools Upgrade go-live prior to end of Patch Support
• Subsequent Tools Upgrade go-live during its Patch Support and prior to end of prior release’s Critical Patch Support
8.50 Patch Support 8.50 CPU Only
8.50 8.51
Ideal 8.50 Go-LiveIdeal 8.50 Go-Live
8.51 Patch Support 8.51 CPU Only
PeopleSoft Investment StrategyWhen Should We Upgrade?
PeopleTools
Applications
8.528.51
Feature Pack Feature Pack
8.50
9.1
8.53
9.2
Alternate Upgrade Frequency – Skip One
• Tools Upgrade go-live prior to end of Patch Support
• Subsequent Tools Upgrade go-live during its Patch Support and prior to end of prior release’s Critical Patch Support
8.50 Patch Support 8.50 CPU Only
8.50
Ideal 8.50 Go-Live
Ideal 8.50 Go-Live
8.52 Patch Support
8.52
Ideal 8.52 Go-Live
Ideal 8.52 Go-Live
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Program Agenda
• Delivery Model
• Release Planning
• 8.50 & 8.51 In Review
• 8.52 And Looking Forward
• Questions
PeopleSoft Economics
ValueValue ==Cost1 + Cost2 + …Cost1 + Cost2 + …
Ben1+ Ben2+ … Ben1+ Ben2+ …
• Benefits are not always monetized
• Benefits are almost always subjective (marginal value, etc.)
• Costs are often easier to measure and therefore take critical focus
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PeopleSoft Technology StrategyGlobal Trends That Influence our Direction
• TCO
• Infrastructure Flexibility
• Productivity/Efficiency/Usability
• Automation, Application Lifecycle
• SaaS, Cloud Computing (Public/Private), Virtualization
• Capitalization of Infrastructure, Cost Controls
• Customization vs. Configuration
• Integration, Security, Governance, Compliance
• Heterogeneous implementations
• Federated, loosely coupled integrated solutions
• More content on the web, more processes include external
interaction
Goal: Align our investments with yours
PeopleSoft Technology DirectionContinue to Evolve
• Enhance Usability
• Simple
• Productive
• Intuitive
• Deliver Business Value
• Business-led upgrades
• Visible and Measurable end-user benefits
• Lower Cost to Own
• Predict and Plan
• Manage and Control risk
• Optimize and Leverage resources
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Program Agenda
• Delivery Model
• Release Planning
• 8.50 & 8.51 In Review
• 8.52 And Looking Forward
• Questions
PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.50 brought…
• New menu architecture
• New style, look and feel
• Dynamic, responsive UI
• Grids
• Modal Windows
• Type Ahead
• Related Content Framework
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PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.50 brought…
• New menu architecture
• New style, look and feel
• Dynamic, responsive UI
• Grids
• Modal Windows
• Type Ahead
• Related Content Framework
PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.50 brought…
• New menu architecture
• New style, look and feel
• Dynamic, responsive UI
• Grids
• Modal Windows
• Type Ahead
• Related Content Framework
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PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.50 brought…
• New menu architecture
• New style, look and feel
• Dynamic, responsive UI
• Grids
• Modal Windows
• Type Ahead
• Related Content Framework
PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.50 brought…
• New menu architecture
• New style, look and feel
• Dynamic, responsive UI
• Grids
• Modal Windows
• Type Ahead
• Related Content Framework
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PeopleTools 8.50 brought…
• New menu architecture
• New style, look and feel
• Dynamic, responsive UI
• Grids
• Modal Windows
• Type Ahead
• Related Content Framework
PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.51 added…
• SmartNavigation
• Application Navigation by Hierarchical Data
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PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.51 added…
• SmartNavigation
• Application Navigation by Hierarchical Data
• Related Actions – On-page contextual menus
PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.51 added…
• SmartNavigation
• Application Navigation by Hierarchical Data
• Related Actions – On-page contextual menus
• Persistent Search Results
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PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.51 added…
• SmartNavigation
• Application Navigation by Hierarchical Data
• Related Actions – On-page contextual menus
• Persistent Search Results
• Embedded Help
• On-page integrated help content
PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.51 added…
• SmartNavigation
• Application Navigation by Hierarchical Data
• Related Actions – On-page contextual menus
• Persistent Search Results
• Embedded Help
• On-page integrated help content
• Related Content Enhancements
• Support for Level 1, 2 and Hidden Fields
• Introduction of Workcenter Framework
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PeopleTools 8.51 brought…
• SmartNavigation
• Application Navigation by Hierarchical Data
• Related Actions – On-page contextual menus
• Persistent Search Results
• Embedded Help
• On-page integrated help content
• Related Content Enhancements
• Support for Level 1, 2 and Hidden Fields
• Introduction of Workcenter Framework
• Impact Analysis
PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
Usage
Test
Application Maintenance
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Program Agenda
• Delivery Model
• Release Planning
• 8.50 & 8.51 In Review
• 8.52 And Looking Forward
• Questions
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PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.52 continues with…
• Universal Search Framework
• Comprehensive changes and enhancements to how users access
PeopleSoft content
• Enables “Search” to be a fundamental aspect of user navigation
• Provides Global Search, improved Component Search, Search
Facets and Search Filters
Let’s see a demo…
PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.52 continues with…
• Application Workcenter Platform
• Role-based functional dashboards that include:
• Inter-related pagelet content in transactional context
• Activity Guides: Process based navigation framework
• Integrated Operational Reporting, Analytics and Dynamic Charts
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Prioritize Work Queues and AlertsPrioritize Work
Queues and Alerts
Configurable “One Stop Shop” Role-based Work Center
Configurable “One Stop Shop” Role-based Work Center
View and Correct Exceptions
View and Correct Exceptions
Personalized NavigationPersonalized Navigation
Drill to DetailsDrill to Details
Perform Actions Quickly on Multiple
Documents
Perform Actions Quickly on Multiple
Documents
Navigation / Task PaneNavigation / Task Pane
Target Content Pane
Target Content Pane
Related Content Pane
Related Content Pane
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PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.52 continues with…
• Operational Reporting: Pivot Grid
• Pivot Table functionality within PIA
• Dynamic Integrated chart
• Publish table or chart to pagelet for Operational Dashboard or
Workcenter
PeopleSoft Technology DirectionDeliver an Evolutionary User Experience
PeopleTools 8.52 continues with…
• Operational Reporting
• Pivot Tables
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PeopleSoft Technology DirectionEvolutionary Technology Platform
PeopleTools 8.51…
• PeopleSoft Test Framework
• Usage Monitor
PeopleTools 8.52…
• Three-way Compare/Merge
• Related Content as Managed
Objects
• Feeds as Managed Objects
• Feed Publisher Wizard
• Feed Personalization
• Feed Definition Templates
Application Lifecycle Management Drivers and Value Proposition
Change is…
• Inevitable
• Enhancements
• Maintenance
• Upgrades
• Risky and Expensive
• System testing is time consuming and costly
• Accurate Impact information is difficult to gather
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Maintenance ProcessWithout PeopleSoft Enhanced LCM
Install
Impact Analysis
Fix Custom Code
Unit Test
System Test
• Review Compare Reports
• Check application functionality for potential impact
• Estimate level of effort
• Decision to apply maintenance often based on partial or incomplete analysis
• Review and fix customizations as needed
• Developers complete unit testing
• Business Owners complete system test
• Scope of test usually very broad, often majority of application
Manually Intensive
Maintenance ProcessWith PeopleSoft Enhanced LCM
Install
Impact Analysis
Fix Custom Code
Unit Test
System Test
Automation Benefits
• Run Test Coverage and Compare Reports to tables
• Review Test Case Impact
• Estimate level of effort
• Decision to apply maintenance based on more complete analysis
• Review and fix customizations as needed
• Developers review Test Case Maintenance report and complete automated unit testing
• Impacted Business Owners complete system test only on affected parts of the application
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PeopleSoft Technology DirectionEvolutionary Technology Platform
PeopleTools 8.51…
• Documents Interface
PeopleTools 8.52…
• PeopleSoft Integration Network
• Simplified configuration and setup
• Introspection of application interfaces
• Monitor across nodes
• Web Service Prompts
• Improve use of Components with
external User Interfaces such as
applications built with Oracle ADF
• WSDL 2.0/Soap 1.2
• Performance Improvements for
Large/Binary content
• RESTful Services
PeopleSoft Technology DirectionEvolutionary Technology Platform
PeopleTools 8.51…
• Oracle Active Data Guard
• Offload “mostly read-only”
workloads to idle resources
• Oracle VM Production
Templates
• Amazon EC2 Cloud
Deployment
PeopleTools 8.52…
• Golden Gate
• Solaris x86-64
• EM Data Masking
• Oracle Secure Files
• Discontinue HPUX PA-RISC
PeopleTools 8.52 Release Value Proposition (RVP) document available on MY Oracle Support
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Business Practice Change PeopleSoft Third-Party Products
• Oracle remains committed to supporting PeopleSoft
customers’ ability to choose technology components
• Active partner testing and certification program
• Aligning our business practices for partner products
• Operating systems, Databases, Application Servers,
Browsers
• Moving toward a business model where customers
license IBM WebSphere Application Server, Business
Objects Enterprise and Crystal Reports directly from
their respective vendors
Details:
• PeopleTools 8.51 will be the last release to package IBM WebSphere Application Server. Existing customers may
use the previously provided license, new customers will not receive a license to use WAS with PeopleSoft
applications.
• Future versions of IBM WebSphere Application Server will be certified with future PeopleTools releases.
• Customers who wish to continue using IBM WAS with PeopleSoft applications will need to obtain appropriate
license and support from IBM prior to upgrading to PeopleTools 8.52.
• Oracle will continue to package Oracle WebLogic with PeopleTools. All customers will have the option to use this
product at no charge.
If you already own a PeopleSoft application
and want to keep using IBM WebSphere…
If you are a new customer and want to use
IBM WebSphere…
• The license you have already received is still
valid.
• Oracle will continue to provide direct support
for IBM WAS while PeopleTools 8.51 is being
patched.
• Oracle will continue to certify new IBM WAS
versions with future PeopleTools releases.
• Oracle will continue to certify new IBM WAS
versions with future PeopleTools releases.
• You will need to purchase a license for WAS
directly from IBM.
Announcement: As of September 1, 2010, NEW customers will not receive a license to use IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) when they purchase PeopleSoft Enterprise applications. Prior to upgrading to PeopleTools 8.52 existing customers will need to obtain support from IBM or migrate to Oracle WebLogic.
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Details:
• All customers who have received a licensed copy of Business Objects products from Oracle with PeopleTools will
be able to continue using the product according to the provided license terms.
• Oracle plans to continue to certify future versions of Business Objects products with future PeopleTools releases.
Customers who wish to use future versions of Business Objects products with PeopleSoft will need to obtain
appropriate license and support directly from SAP/Business Objects.
• Oracle will continue to package Oracle XML Publisher with PeopleTools. All customers will have the option to use
this product at no charge. All of the critical reports included with PeopleSoft applications will be converted to XML
Publisher format and included with future PeopleSoft releases.
If you already own a PeopleSoft application
and want to keep using Crystal Reports…
If you are a new customer and want to use
Crystal Reports…
• The license you have already received is still
valid.
• Oracle will continue to certify new versions of
Business Objects products with future
PeopleTools releases. You will need to
purchase these future releases from
SAP/Business Objects if you wish to use
them.
• Oracle will continue to certify new Business
Objects products with future PeopleTools
releases.
• You will need to purchase a license for these
products directly from SAP/Business Objects.
Announcement: As of July 1, 2011, Oracle will discontinue distribution of Business Objects Enterprise and Crystal Reports with PeopleTools. Existing customers may use the license previously received from Oracle. PeopleSoft reports will continue to be delivered using Oracle XML Publisher, which is included free-of-charge.
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