Oracle OpenWorld and Thoughts on Oracle Beehive

jason.averbook — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:05:14 GMT

I was unable to make it to Oracle OpenWorld for the first time since Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft. Before that, I had attended seven previous PeopleSoft Connect conferences. While I was disappointed that I missed the event, I had some amazing opportunities for Knowledge Infusion to work with many new conferences and organization's such as Mercer's Global Outsourcing Summit (a world-class event) and IDC Canada "Human Capital Count" event, another brilliant and informative event.

While I was unable to attend any product briefings or sessions at OpenWorld, I was able to pickup through the blogosphere and press some of the happenings during the week. A few highlights that I think are important for all:

The Oracle announcement of Oracle Enterprise (PeopleSoft) 9.1 and some of the initial feedback is extremely exciting. The user interface and enhanced Talent Management components should be "just what the Dr ordered" for customers that have already have huge investments in the platform.
Oracle's continued focus on Talent Management and Analytics continues to show the HR space that for an ERP vendor, it is for real and working diligently to ensure that it continues to "be very competitive and a force to be reckoned with" when it comes to the HR technology vendors in the ERP space.
Oracle's continued discussion of Fusion middleware should be a continued exciting discussion to watch for all Oracle/PeopleSoft customers continue to struggle with legacy interfaces that are in desperate need of upgrades to true "web services" based integrations.

The other major announcement was around Beehive, Oracle's Enterprise 2.0 collaborative toolkit. I have seen many blogs and clips about people saying "nothing new, same old thing compared to Twitter and Facebook". One of the things that people forget is that these tools ARE NOT in most enterprises today and organizations are struggling with how to use them. Oracle's foray into this space is very exciting as one of the way's enterprises will adopt Web 2.0 tools is if they are tightly integrated with their daily business applications. Continue to watch Oracle use similar Beehive technology in it's future HR/HCM/Talent Management products which will continue to appeal to the enterprise base.

Oracle continues to prove that its combination of database innovation, support of the true transactional HR function, its efforts to enhance its Talent Management solutions, a focus on analytics as well now Enterprise 2.0 capabilities continues to reinforce Oracle's direction today and long-term potential going forward.

I personally look forward to seeing some of the new solutions at HR Technology Conference in Chicago in a few weeks.

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Oracle / PeopleSoft Talent Management - A good fit for many

jason.averbook — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:04:14 GMT

Once again, as part of blogging from the Strategic e-HR Conference in San Diego. As part of the luncheon at the event, I had the opportunity to sit with customers who are thinking about automating and transforming the talent management process in their organizations. It was quite an interesting conversation and wanted to remind our customer base and other readers about a few key things:

Oracle as part of their EBS suite and PeopleSoft as part of the Enterprise suite had and still have good solutions for talent management that work for many organizations in the marketplace today.
Integration with the core HRMS solution offered by Oracle / PeopleSoft is very important and is very hard to duplicate if only using third party solutions.
Oracle / PeopleSoft continue to spend a great amount of time and resource listening to their customers and enhancing the functionality of these products.
Talent Management is still in its infancy and if you are a customer of Oracle/PeopleSoft, you more than owe a look at these vendors; do not eliminate them from a process based on what you might have heard in the past. Their products continue to evolve and come along. I state this based on customers thoughts that I heard about what was in releases of Oracle or PeopleSoft 3-5 years ago, which is not a valid comparison to other vendors in the marketplace.

Once again, Knowledge Infusion believes in having a strategy for talent management and then enabling that with whatever technology makes the most sense at the right time in an organization. These are the types of conversations happen at these events that can prove very valuable for all.

Knowledge Infuser

Oracle OpenWorld and Thoughts on Oracle Beehive

Oracle / PeopleSoft Talent Management - A good fit for many