PeopleSoft Can Do That?
May 8, 2013
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Agenda
Emtec Overview
PeopleSoft Update
Reporting
User Experience
Operational Enhancements
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Emtec… ‘Big enough to do the work, small enough to care’
EMTEC THE COMPANY
• Serving clients for over 46 years
• 14 locations, including 8 development centers
• Over 1,000 full-time professionals
• Voted One of the Top 100 Places to Work by Cranes
Chicago in 2012
• Our consultants have an average of 14 years of
experience. Nearly 45% have advanced certifications
• 73% of our PMs, Architects & Consultants worked at Tier
1 consultancies in a previous life
• $255M IT Services Provider
• Regularly compete & win against larger IT service
providers
EMTEC AROUND THE WORLD
US Locations
• Radnor, PA (HQ)
• Atlanta, GA
• Chicago, IL
• Dayton, Ohio
• Freemont, CA
• Jacksonville, FL
• Herndon, VA
• Minneapolis, MN
• Springfield, NJ
• St. Louis, MO
Global Offices
• Toronto, Canada
• Ottawa, Canada
• Pune, India
• Bangalore, India
EMTEC SERVICES AT A GLANCE
• Emtec has completed more than 1,100 Package Application
engagements, including:
- 200+ Oracle clients with more than 415 engagements
- 206 EPM / Hyperion & OBIEE clients and 323 engagements
- 186 Microsoft Dynamics and more than 255 projects
• Emtec is a premier provider of SaaS and Emerging
technologies consulting, including 51 Salesforce Clients with
more than 75 engagements, Including Sales Cloud, Service
Cloud and Custom Cloud
• Emtec has performed more than 6.3M hours of application
development and maintenance work ranging from Business
Analysis to Product Development
• Emtec has served more than 565 Infrastructure services
clients where we have:
- Deployed more than 1.85M servers, personal computers, tablets
and mobile devices
- Installed or provided more than 925 exabytes of storage
(That’s a whole lot…)
- Triaged more than 30,000 L1 support incidents
- Implemented service management solutions for more than 125
clients
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Emtec’s five practice areas offer focused solutions to help our clients solve complex
business & IT challenges
From up-front strategy & consulting all the way to application, infrastructure & procurement services,
Emtec’s 1,000 professionals are what makes us special, and we invite you to see the difference for yourself.
Consulting Services Package Application
Services (PAS) Cloud Technologies
Application
Development &
Management
Services (ADMS)
Infrastructure
Services
• IT Strategy & Planning
• IT Process Improvement
• IT Performance and
Governance
• Information Management:
− Big Data
− Business Intelligence
− Analytics
• Mobility Solutions
• Program and Project
Management
• Oracle
− Fusion
− EBS
− PeopleSoft
− EPM : Including Hyperion
− OBIEE
• Microsoft
− AX and GP
− BI
− CRM
• SAP
• Functional: HCM, FM, SCM
• Cloud Strategy & Planning
• Salesforce.com Solutions
− Sales Cloud
− Service Cloud
− Marketing Cloud
− Force.com
• Cloud Application
Development
& Technology
• Private Virtual Cloud
• Cloud Applications
• Portfolio Analysis
• Application Advisory
Services
• Product Development
• Custom Application
Development & Maintenance
• Package Application:
Development, Maintenance
& Support
• Mobile solutions
• Quality Assurance & Testing
Services
• Managed Services, Capacity
Management & Staffing
Services
• IT Service Mgmt.
• Data Center
• Business Application
Infrastructure
• End User Computing
• Platforms
• SWAT team of 45 highly
skilled Strategists, Architects
and Consultants
• 10 years of experience and
more than 75 projects
• 180 Specialists, including
Project Managers, Architects,
Consultants and Analysts
• More than 300 ERP & CRM
projects completed
• Expert team of Big Data,
business intelligence and
analytics professionals
• Specialized team of 25
Strategists, Project Managers,
Architects, and Consultants
• More than 90% certified
• 62 Customers & 112
engagements
• Global workforce of nearly 750
associates (approximately 250
associates based in North
America)
• Provided more than 6.3M
hours of application
development and
maintenance services.
• Special expertise in Business
Analysis and Testing (among
other things)
• More than 100 associates
providing data center,
compute, network and storage
related services
• Value Add Reseller providing
full device lifecycle
management services for
more than 30 years
• IT Service Mgmt. BU having
supported more than 70
distinct clients
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Emtec’s six Oracle practice areas offer focused solutions to help
our clients solve complex business needs using Packaged-Based
applications EPM
Enterprise
Performance
Management
Financial
Management
Human Capital
Management
Fusion Human
Capital
Management
Enterprise
Technology
Oracle Business
Intelligence
• Oracle EPM application
implementations and
upgrades
• Existing application
enhancements and
integration
• Business Process
Design and Review
• Project Management
• Application Support
• Customer Training for
end-users and
Administrators
• Packaged Application
Implementations and
Upgrades
• Business Process
Design and Redesign
• Project Management
• Managed Services
• Application Support
• QA & Testing
• Application Advisory
Services
• Lab-Based Services
• Upgrade Planning
Assessments
• Packaged Application
Implementations and
Upgrades
• Business Process
Design and Redesign
• Project Management
• Managed Services
• Application Support
• QA & Testing
• Application Advisory
Services
• Lab-Based Services
• Upgrade Planning
Assessments
• Cloud / SaaS Based
Implementations and
Upgrades
• Center of Excellence
• Packaged Application
Implementations and
Upgrades
• Business Process
Design and Redesign
• Project Management
• Managed Services
• Application Support
• QA & Testing
• Application Advisory
Services
• Implementation and
Upgrade Services
• Packaged Application
Development,
Maintenance and
Support
• Managed Services
• Packaged Application
Sizing, Infrastructure,
Hardware Planning,
Installation and Support
• Database Administration
• Application
Administration
• Performance Tuning
• Enterprise Reporting:
Dashboards, Key
Performance
Indications, Reports
• OBIEE Platform
• OBIA
• OLAP Analytics
• Real-Time Analytics
• Ad-Hoc Analysis
• Scorecards
• Proactive Intelligence
Delivery and Alerts
• Mobile BI
Packaged Applications
• Hyperion Planning
and its modules
• HFM (Hyperion
Financial
Management) and its
modules
• Essbase
• FDQM (Financial
Data Quality
Management)
• Data Relationship
Management (DRM)
• Hyperion Reporting
Tools
Packaged Applications
• PeopleSoft
• EBS
• Fusion
Business Process
• General Ledger
• Procure to Pay
• Credit to Cash
• Asset Management
• Projects & Contracts
• Financial Analysis &
Reporting
• Plan to Procure
Packaged Applications
• PeopleSoft
• EBS
Business Process
• Hire to Retire
• Payroll Processing
• Workforce
Management
• Talent Management
• Workforce Service
Delivery
• Time & Labor
Packaged Applications
• Fusion HCM
Business Process
• Hire to Retire
• Global Payroll
• Workforce
Management
• Talent Management
• Workforce Service
Delivery
• Time & Labor
• Benefits
Packaged Applications
• PeopleSoft
• EBS
• Fusion
Packaged Applications
• PeopleSoft Financials
and HCM
• EBS Financials and
HCM
• Fusion Financials and
HCM
• SAP Financials
• JD Edwards
Financials
• Siebel
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From an Emtec perspective, there are four primary service delivery models for
our Clients to consider
Insource
(aka Do it Yourself) Staff Augmentation
Project / Co-Source
(aka Capacity
Services)
Outsource/Managed
Services
Serv
ice
Deli
very
Mo
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Overa
ll
Descri
pti
on
• Internal control to establish
protection of intellectual
property, privacy and enhanced
strategic reaction
• Lower costs, yet maintaining
responsibility for application
support and maintenance
activities
• External cost structures benefits
are rendered while maintaining
suitable control by client.
• All IT
Services/Programs/Projects are
transitioned to external
organization specializing in the
core skill for a project, program
or IT service.
Pri
mary
Ben
efi
ts
• Not applicable
• Assurance that all intellectual
property and privacy is
maintained and ability to
enhance strategic reaction
• Labor Arbitrage (LOW)
• Supply low-cost labor near-shore
or offshore, creating an
extension of internal IT
• Instill resources available for
defined projects and/or to
manage discrete systems (i.e.
Legacy applications) Labor
Arbitrage (MED)
• Program Management Included
• Supplier Process & Methods
• Open resources for strategic
work
• Influence Outcomes
• Joint Accountability
• High labor arbitrage
• YoY efficiency improvements
• Predictable pricing
• Program Reporting & Metrics
• Supplier Process, Metrics &
Tools
• Accountable for Outcomes
• Demand & Service Management
• Integrated delivery Model
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• Full Client Ownership • Client Owned & Directed
• Emtec provides qualified
resources with agreed
timeframes
• Collaboration with client.
• Client owns deliverables and
bears risk
• Emtec responsible for quality of
our scope of work
• Collaboration with client.
• Emtec owns deliverables and
bears risk
• Application and/or System
performance SLAs
Sam
ple
SL
As
• N/A • Quality Resources
• Resource turnaround times
• Delivery Quality
• Quality of Resources
• Resource turnaround times
• Milestone and/or Functional
Responsibility
• Application Performance
• Estimation Accuracy
• System Performance
• Delivery Quality
• Quality of Resources
• Resource turnaround times
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PEOPLESOFT UPDATE
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PeopleSoft 9.1
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PeopleSoft 9.2
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PeopleSoft 9.2
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PeopleSoft Roadmap
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Oracle’s Upgrade Themes
• Simplicity
–New interaction and navigation concepts
• Activity Guides, Train Stops, Related Actions, Embedded Help
–Greater user focus on primary daily job function
–Less need for training and help desk inquiry
• Productivity
–New capabilities and functionality
• WorkCenters enabling power users to focus
• Combining transactions, analytics, workflow, and reports
–Feature-rich, flexible, role-based user experience
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership
–Eliminating costly customizations
• Further planned enhancements
• Expanded integrations
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PeopleSoft 9.2 Upgrade Paths
• Release 9.2
–Direct upgrade path to 9.2
• Financials from 8.9, 9.0 and 9.1
• HCM 9.0 and 9.1 – Not 8.9
–Focus on making PeopleSoft:
• More Intuitive for end users via Activity Guides / Train Stops
• Access to Actionable Information via Pivot Grids
• Increased User Effectiveness with WorkCenters
• Enable your mobile workforce
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PeopleSoft: Pivot Grid REPORTING
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PeopleSoft Pivot Grid
• Overview
–Similar to Pivot Tables in Excel
–Advanced reporting technology that enables users to visually display data
–Performs operations such as pivoting and filtering
–Uses data sources like PeopleSoft Query
–Can view data in 3 different visualizations:
• Grid only
• Chart only
• Grid and chart
–Chart and grid are synchronized
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Display Components
• Grid Display Component
–Based on existing PS analytic grid
• Has 3 axes—row, column, and filter
–Enables multilevel display and drag-and-drop operation
• Chart Display Component
–Grid and chart display option
• Pivot Grid uses the result set that was retrieved while populating the grid for chart display
–Chart only display option
• Users can drill down on the chart by clicking the data points of the chart to display details
• Drill out option is available as a locator link at the top of the chart. Clicking the drill out link restores the chart to its
earlier state
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PeopleSoft:
Business Intelligence Publisher REPORTING
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Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher
• Overview
–Also known as XML Publisher
–New reporting platform standardized across all PeopleSoft applications (i.e. Fusion, Hyperion)
–Reporting solution to manage and deliver reports
–Enables users to view reports online
–Design and create report layout templates with the more common desktop applications
–Single template can generate reports in many formats (PDF, RTF, Excel, HTML) and in many
languages
–Approach reduces report maintenance, templates, and translations
–Allows document and template branding
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BI Publisher Benefits
• Lower report and form generation development costs
• Eliminate the need to reverse engineer government forms into Crystal or SQR
• Separation of report data (logic) from report format
• Re-use report data into multiple formats
• Ability for end users to create report layouts from familiar desktop applications
• Integrated data extracted from PS Query
• Templates can be branded or content can be modified to fit an organization’s needs
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BI Publisher Branding Examples
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• Management Reports
–Chart with summary functions and table
with detail records
• Operational reports
–Re-grouping, conditional highlighting,
summary calculations, running page totals
• Bill of Lading
–High fidelity, using tables and barcode fonts
BI Publisher Samples
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PeopleSoft Connected Query REPORTING
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Connected Query
• Connected Query enables you to create a single XML file based on a set of queries with
parent-child relationships
• User create a set of linked simple queries to collect data from multiple tables instead of
creating a complicated query with multiple equal, outer joins, and grouping conditions
• When two or more SQL statements are linked with left outer join to the same query.
• Connected Query enables you to collect data similar to query performing left outer joins. In
contrast to query, Connected Query enables you to link multiple queries to a single parent
query.
• As a tool in the process of replacing Crystal reports (that use subreports) with XML
Publisher reports.
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PeopleSoft Related Content USER EXPERIENCE
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Related Content
• Linking application pages with collaborative, analytical, and informational content
–Essentially extra information related to a transaction
–Discussions, Links (intra-portal or external), Tags
• Related Action
–Ties additional actions to transactions
• Modal window – no need to leave transaction page
–Appears as red glyph in designated field
• Related Content Benefits
–Eliminates customizations
–Open Framework
• Customers develop services
–Interactive
–Secure
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Related Content – HCM examples
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Related Content – Future Enhancements
• PeopleSoft 9.2 enhancements to Related Content
–Embedded operational metrics
• Order fulfillment effectiveness
• Average time to pick/pack/ship
–Contracts
• Bill Plans
• Revenue Plans
• Contract Terms
–Inventory analytics
• Incorporated anywhere as Related Content
• Related Actions on Pivot Grids in 9.2
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PeopleSoft Pagelets USER EXPERIENCE
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Pagelet Information
• User-defined independent component on a PS page
• Types of Pagelets
–Homepage Pagelets
• 2 or 3 column view on user’s homepage
• Some options – wide and narrow versions of pagelets
–Workspace Pagelets
• Used for members of collaborative workspaces
– Virtual team room
– Used for projects
–Template Pagelets
• Added to a PeopleSoft template
• Portal template – organization and layout of pagelets on portal
– Multiple template Pagelets make up a portal template
• Personalization
–Dragging and dropping under Personalize Layout page
–2 or 3 columns, with as many pagelets as user desires
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Pagelet Example – Homepage Pagelets
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Pagelet Example – HCM Pagelets
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Pagelets – Future Enhancements
• PeopleSoft 9.2 Pagelet enhancements
–Standard Delivered Pagelets
• My Work
• My Links
• Queries
• Reports & Processes
–Staffing
• Rapid action staffing
– With Related Actions, modal window capability
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PeopleSoft WorkCenters USER EXPERIENCE
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• User portals for specific roles; role-based
homepage
–Homepage – User customized
–WorkCenter – pre-built homepage
• Menu in one column, work space in another column
• Streamlined user interface that reduces the
need for navigation
–Increased productivity – centralized daily work
organization
• Available as part of PeopleTools
• Built on templates, similar to portal products
• Incorporates Related Content and Pagelets
–Use template or homepage Pagelets
WorkCenter Pages
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WorkCenter Pages - Benefits
• One location
–Consolidated delivery of actionable info
–Less navigation, fewer open windows
• Interruption mitigation
–All PeopleSoft work saved on one page
–Less work lost upon interruption of a task
–Increased efficiency in switching tasks
• Within and outside of PeopleSoft
• Complete picture view
–View transactions throughout entire process
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WorkCenter Pages - Samples
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WorkCenters – Future Enhancements
• PeopleSoft 9.2 WorkCenter enhancements
–Four standard delivered pagelets
• My Work, My Links, Queries, Reports & Processes
–Pre-configured by user roles
• Payables
• Billing
• Receivables
• General Ledger
• Supply and Demand
• Staffing
• Contracts
• Grants
• Projects
• Supplier Admin
• SRM Buyer Admin
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Embedded Help Overview
• Select information icon on group boxes, grids, or scroll areas
• Helps explain how to complete a specific task or transaction
• Message appears in modal window that can be moved around page
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PeopleSoft Approval Framework ENHANCEMENTS
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Approval Framework
• Also known as the Approval Workflow Engine (AWE)
• Configurable Workflow
–Setup for approvals, rules and routings maintained online
–Enables Email based approvals
• Enhancements
–Functionality extended to new modules
–Approval through Outlook email – some mobile support
–Configured online, rather than in App Designer
–Approval Monitor – tracks document throughout process
–Setup workflow by Business Units
–Approval at Header or Line level, rather than by accounting field
–User-defined approval hierarchy; dynamic roles list
–Easily configurable Timeout Options
–Ad Hoc reviewers and approvers
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Example – PS Monitor Email HTML Approval
• Financial Transactions
–Requisitions
–Purchase Orders
–Journals
• HCM Transactions
–Absence Management
–Delegation
–Person Profiles
–Job Offer/Opening Process
–Performance Management
–Promotion Transactions
–TL Reported Time / TL Payable Time
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Forms and
Approval Builder ENHANCEMENTS
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Forms and Approval Builder
• Configurable tool to create forms and specify approval process to follow
• Eliminates paper and email-based approvals
• PeopleSoft forms are:
– Auditable
– Electronically Approvable
– Immediately Accessible
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PeopleSoft
Testing Framework ENHANCEMENTS
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PeopleSoft Testing Framework
• Overview
–Record and playback tool
–Automates tasks within the PeopleSoft application
–Included in Tools 8.51
–Replicates actions of a single user executing functional tests against the PeopleSoft application
–Users record manual test procedures and save them within the framework
–Stored in database as App Designer Objects
–Assists with Change Impact Analysis
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PTF Benefits and Limitations
• Benefits
–Automates testing to increase efficiency and accuracy
–Ensures coverage of functionality
–Reduces testing time and resources
–Easily migrate test assets between environments
–No additional software costs
• Limitations
–Unable to validate image appearance, position of data and online objects
–Not a load testing tool
–Lacks certain user functions, like drag and drop
–Recognize/validate objects in 3rd party applications
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PTF Architecture
• Standalone program that runs on a Windows workstation
• Connects to the PS application database using a secure HTTPS connection through
Integration Broker Web Services
• Connects to the PS application that is to be tested through a IE browser session
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PTF Explorer
• Access to PTF Test Assets
–Tests
–Test Cases
–Libraries
–Logs
• Tree Structure
• Used to create/delete tests and folders,
copy and move tests, and open test assets
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PTF Test Editor
• Record and edit test scripts
• Add, copy and delete test
steps
• Create and edit test cases
• View both test and test case
in a single window
• Debug tests
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Leverage PTF in your next project
• Identify and plan PTF usage early
–Will take time to migrate scripts to PTF
• Train end-users and development staff on how to utilize PTF record and playback features
• Focus on key business processes first
• Make sure test cases ready for Unit Testing and System Testing
–Provides opportunity to “test” testing framework prior to UAT
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When to use PTF
• New Implementation projects
• Limited/No existing testing documentation
• Limited functional resources to participate in testing
• Highly customized environment
• Significant ongoing development projects
• Routinely deploying patches and fixes
• Committed to PS Platform
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PTF Best Practices
• Consistent Naming Conventions
–Be descriptive by including module, priority, and project name in description
• Record test whenever possible
–Record every testing step to be more accurate than manually constructing through Test Editor
• Clean Up Tests
–Review tests to remove unnecessary steps in process
• Use Process Object Types
–Eliminates need for steps in run processes
• Dynamic Tests
–Reserved words, variables, conditional logic
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PTF in Action
• Demo
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