PeopleSoft 9.2 May Be the Last Upgrade You Will Ever Need
Did you hear the BIG news in the world of PeopleSoft?
During a May 2014 PeopleSoft Talk, Marc Weintraub, PeopleSoft Senior Director, interviewed Paco Aubrejuan, Sr VP PeopleSoft Development, who highlighted two main aspects of PeopleSoft’s newest Delivery Model.
Before version 9.2, PeopleSoft delivered a new release; offering tax updates, minor product enhancements and fixing bugs using software bundles delivered every 10 - 12 weeks or so. During the same time, PeopleSoft developers were working on a NEW release and thus working on two code lines (actually 3 since they were supporting multiple previous versions and developing on the next version). It took years to get the major product enhancements to market and often years more for the average customer to perform an expensive application upgrade.
Most PeopleSoft customers admit that they are not on the current version of the product. The PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) offered with release 9.2 allows the ability to deliver a package of changes that are selective by customer. All changes through the lifetime of the release are offered but the customer chooses what they want based upon their business needs. They package it themselves. They create a personalized bundle that includes only what they need. The cost savings are huge and customers take what they want, when they want it minimizing the size and expense of an upgrade. This results in a quick time to market for enhancements and quicker update time by customers once the enhancements are available.
PeopleSoft Update Manager is a game changer. Paco Aubrejuan elaborated with the following groundbreaking news.
“Once the customer gets onto 9.2 they don’t necessarily need to worry about an upgrade. They can maintain the system at a much lower cost and all the new functionality that we are coming out with over the next several year’s…they can take without doing an upgrade. They can take the pieces that they want when they want to take them and retain the customizations that they have. That is a game changer for customers who used to get on a release and then get no new functionality until they upgraded to the next release. Now they get to take down new functionality as they go, in a much easier way and much lower cost way.”
What is Oracle’s call to action for customers? Get your PeopleSoft upgraded to version 9.2. Don’t wait to move to 9.3 because there is a chance that it won’t exist. Oracle likes the idea of having their developers work on a single code line similar to a SaaS solution. This will result in better support and quicker time to market for new features.
There are so many valuable reasons to move to 9.2 sooner rather than later. An immediate value will be to take advantage of PeopleSoft functionality that is only available on 9.2 (think Global Application Search, extended use of Approval Framework, WorkCenters, delivered pagelets, Data Migration Workbench, Value Add Integrations, and more). The added bonus value is that customers may be positioned to take advantage of every future PeopleSoft advancement as it comes along…for years to come.
Oracle isn’t the only one spreading this important news. A recently released report by the Gartner Group offers a thorough recap of the dramatic improvements offered by these upgrade tools and processes PeopleSoft Update Manager Delivers Significant Improvements to the Upgrade Tools and Processes
http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1Y136DH&ct=140723&st=sbConfidence%20(1).docx
(Source: Bill Gibbard)
During a May 2014 PeopleSoft Talk, Marc Weintraub, PeopleSoft Senior Director, interviewed Paco Aubrejuan, Sr VP PeopleSoft Development, who highlighted two main aspects of PeopleSoft’s newest Delivery Model.
Before version 9.2, PeopleSoft delivered a new release; offering tax updates, minor product enhancements and fixing bugs using software bundles delivered every 10 - 12 weeks or so. During the same time, PeopleSoft developers were working on a NEW release and thus working on two code lines (actually 3 since they were supporting multiple previous versions and developing on the next version). It took years to get the major product enhancements to market and often years more for the average customer to perform an expensive application upgrade.
Most PeopleSoft customers admit that they are not on the current version of the product. The PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) offered with release 9.2 allows the ability to deliver a package of changes that are selective by customer. All changes through the lifetime of the release are offered but the customer chooses what they want based upon their business needs. They package it themselves. They create a personalized bundle that includes only what they need. The cost savings are huge and customers take what they want, when they want it minimizing the size and expense of an upgrade. This results in a quick time to market for enhancements and quicker update time by customers once the enhancements are available.
PeopleSoft Update Manager is a game changer. Paco Aubrejuan elaborated with the following groundbreaking news.
“Once the customer gets onto 9.2 they don’t necessarily need to worry about an upgrade. They can maintain the system at a much lower cost and all the new functionality that we are coming out with over the next several year’s…they can take without doing an upgrade. They can take the pieces that they want when they want to take them and retain the customizations that they have. That is a game changer for customers who used to get on a release and then get no new functionality until they upgraded to the next release. Now they get to take down new functionality as they go, in a much easier way and much lower cost way.”
What is Oracle’s call to action for customers? Get your PeopleSoft upgraded to version 9.2. Don’t wait to move to 9.3 because there is a chance that it won’t exist. Oracle likes the idea of having their developers work on a single code line similar to a SaaS solution. This will result in better support and quicker time to market for new features.
There are so many valuable reasons to move to 9.2 sooner rather than later. An immediate value will be to take advantage of PeopleSoft functionality that is only available on 9.2 (think Global Application Search, extended use of Approval Framework, WorkCenters, delivered pagelets, Data Migration Workbench, Value Add Integrations, and more). The added bonus value is that customers may be positioned to take advantage of every future PeopleSoft advancement as it comes along…for years to come.
Oracle isn’t the only one spreading this important news. A recently released report by the Gartner Group offers a thorough recap of the dramatic improvements offered by these upgrade tools and processes PeopleSoft Update Manager Delivers Significant Improvements to the Upgrade Tools and Processes
http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1Y136DH&ct=140723&st=sbConfidence%20(1).docx
(Source: Bill Gibbard)
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