The PeopleSoft Ecosystem

PeopleSoft provides multiple solutions,

focusing primarily on Human Resources/

Payroll (HRMS), Financial & Supply Chain

Management (FCSM) and Customer Re-

lationship Management (CRM). A typical

PeopleSoft application is highly customized

through configuration and PeopleCode cus-

tom development.

With the mission-critical function these ap-

plications serve, the IT team typically faces

challenges such as:

• Severe performance issues, mainly due to

SQL queries

• Huge business impact with underperform-

ing Performance, Stability and Security

• Rapid evolution to meet the needs of the

business impacted by a lack of agility

• Risk avoidance becomes costly, so it is

difficult to keep TCO under control

Most development on PeopleSoft applica-

tions is completed by major Systems Integra-

tors (SIs), and development performance is

typically very uneven. Also, Oracle Support

helps more on SQL optimization than ad-

dressing and preventing other issues.

The CAST Answer

CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP)

provides repeatable, automated analysis of

PeopleSoft configuration and custom devel-

opment in PeopleCode, checking over 100

PeopleSoft configuration and PeopleCode

development rules.

With CAST AIP for PeopleSoft you can

improve control of PeopleSoft application

quality and:

• Achieve superior insight into the configura-

tion and PeopleCode technical structure

• Avoid the business impact of performance,

stability or data integrity issues rooted in

poor PeopleSoft configuration or People-

Code developments

• Improve agility and reduce development,

maintenance and upgrade costs

• Enable frequent and cost-effective auto-

mated controls, especially when driving

outsourcer’s delivery

• Determine impact analysis and upgrade

risk or cost reduction

For System Integrators

Many SIs leverage CAST AIP for PeopleSoft

development, to monitor overall quality for

executive oversight and establish a Struc-

tural Quality Gate between development and

testing.

The insight provided by CAST AIP allows SIs

to:

• Identify defects and low productivity

practices

• Create a Remediation Action Plan at the

start of all new development cycles

• Facilitate knowledge acquisition and shar-

ing through technical documentation

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CAST Application Intelligence Platform for PeopleSoft

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With CAST, executives can manage PeopleSoft applica­tion quality:

•Bring control and improve­ment to new heights

•Enable frequent and cost­effective au tomated con­trols

•Access proactive dash­boards

•Drive outsourc er delivery

Case Study

A major SI was managing a very large imple-

mentation of FSCM PeopleSoft Suite with

a high level of customization. The overall

Technical Quality of the application was

at risk, with the highest concerns around

Performance and Security. The SI had also

identified risks in Transferability, Changeability

and Robustness.

With analysis provided by CAST AIP, includ-

ing version to version trends, team productiv-

ity and required QA effort, the SI was able to

remediate most significant structural issues

and show an immediate performance in-

crease. They also established the framework

for a Structural Quality Gate using insights

provided by AIP.

As a result, the team now focuses on the

most relevant actions needed to reduce costs

by enhancing application maintainability and

improve quality by solving defects before they

reach production. Goal-oriented action plans

have resulted in development team behav-

ior improvement. And the team also saw

a reduction in QA effort as a result of fewer

defects, and overall QA efficiency improved

with visibility on changes.

About CAST

CAST is a pioneer and world leader in Soft-

ware Analysis and Measurement, with unique

technology resulting from more than $100

million in R&D investment. CAST introduces

fact-based transparency into application de-

velopment and sourcing to transform it into a

management discipline. More than 250 com-

panies across all industry sectors and ge-

ographies rely on CAST to prevent business

disruption while reducing hard IT costs. CAST

is an integral part of software delivery and

maintenance at the world’s leading IT service

providers such as IBM and Capgemini.

Founded in 1990, CAST is listed on NYSE-

Euronext (Euronext: CAS) and serves IT inten-

sive enterprises worldwide with a network of

offices in North America, Europe and India.

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Email us at contact@castsoftware.com

With CAST, a major

SI can now focus

on reducing costs by

enhancing application

maintainability and

improving quality,

solving defects before

they reach production.