You already knew that Java was going to be an important skill for your PeopleSoft developers since its the underlying technology for Oracle Fusion, but now that Oracle owns Java, it's even more important.

Labels: 2010, Java, webinar

When we conducted our first webinar in February to supplement our blog, we had no way of anticipating the reception we would have.

In the short 10 months we conducted these webinars, we had well over 1,000 session attendances, allowing PeopleSoft customers to attend sessions from their own desks.

If you were one of these attendees, you would have extended your knowledge in the following areas:

• Development Best Practices
• Java development techniques
• Reporting Best Practices
• Automated Functional Testing
• Advanced Reporting Techniques
• Utilizing Social Networking tools with PeopleSoft

However, our PeopleTools 8.5 webinars were by far the most well received.

• PeopleTools 8.5 Usability Features
• PeopleTools 8.5 Reporting Features
• PeopleTools 8.5 Collaboration Features

If you've attended one of our sessions, you'd also know that we spend most of our time demonstrating our topics on a live PeopleSoft environment, showing content that cannot be found anywhere else.

Feedback from our Session Attendees

We thought we'd share some of the feedback we've received from other PeopleSoft customers

"These sessions are incredibly valuable to our project team. We find these workshops more informative than a full day of training."

"Thank you for doing these webinars as we are finding them to be interesting and helpful"

"Many thanks to you and Chris for an excellent 8.50 Tools webinar. We all really liked it."

"Thank you very much for such a wonderful webinar! It was indeed very rewarding and very robust indeed."

"As usual, you guys always have the best topics."

"This was my first session with you and the experience was awesome. I really like the way it was organized and structured in highlighting the new features in 'PeopleTools 8.50'."

Upcoming Virtual Conference Sessions and Workshops

So, in the interest of keeping a good thing going, we have just put together our next round of sessions, and we will continue to offer these workshops free of charge. You can register by clicking on the description of any of the events in the calendar below (and we will continue to schedule new webinars all the time, so come back often).

We also encourage you to share this with anybody who works with PeopleSoft, so they can benefit from this as well.

Finally, we're always looking for ideas for new sessions. If you would like to share an idea with us, feel free to contact us at Webinars@GreySparling.com

Labels: webinar

As mentioned in the previous post, we've built out some environments with the GA release of PeopleTools 8.50 and have really been liking what we've been seeing so far.

One of the brand new features is the RSS Feed Publishing Framework, which enables you to create RSS feeds from a variety of different PeopleSoft sources. There's actually enough functionality baked in that the Feed Publishing Framework warranted it's own new PeopleBook. It's a reflection of the importance of PeopleSoft Query as a source for RSS feeds that the Feed Publishing Framework PeopleBooks is categorized with the Reporting and Analytic tools (but Query is not the only place to generate RSS from).

This Wednesday we will be taking a closer look at the Feed Publishing Framework in our popular "Social Networking Your PeopleSoft application" webinar. We'll also be including content from previous versions of the session as well, but we'll make sure to have plenty of time for the new PeopleTools 8.50 content since there's so much interest in that these days.

You can register directly from our upcoming events page.

*** Update - October 26, 2009 ***

We have taken the content presented in our webinars and created the following blog entry. Hopefully, this will help you get started with this cool new feature.

Labels: 2009, EnterpriseRSS, PT850, webinar

We've written before about using a Continuous Integration server called Hudson for use in implementing automated testing of your PeopleSoft applications.

Hudson is an open source project from Sun, and it was just announced that Sun will be selling formal support for a branded version of Hudson, called Sun Continuous Integration Server (SCIS).

This is great news, because Hudson/SCIS is an awesome tool. Since writing up what we have been doing with Hudson and doing some webinars about it, we've had a number of folks asking about getting going with it themselves, so having a formal support channel for it helps quite a bit.

In other Java news, we had a great turnout for our "Extending PeopleSoft with Java" webinar today. Folks got to see using the brand new JDeveloper 11gR1 (just released last month) in conjunction with PeopleTools for extending PeopleSoft business logic. Some good questions got asked during the Q&A portion as well.

We'll put some of that webinar content into some upcoming blog posts, but I have to say that JDeveloper 11g is looking very nice.

Labels: 2009, Business, Hudson, Java, Support, webinar

We've just posted our latest series of virtual user group presentations. Access http://www.greysparling.com/events.html to see the list and register.

Labels: webinar

Wednesday, April 8 @ 12:00 PM PST.

Former PeopleSoft Strategists, Larry Grey and Chris Heller will present this session that was a very popular keynote at the Greater Philadelphia Regional Users Group. Larry and Chris will discuss how PeopleSoft customers have a rich and robust ecosystem to help them run, support, and enhance their systems. Learn how you can solve new problems with limited resources, reduce the amount of time and effort it takes to solve problems, and learn the best way to run your applications. There's a rich Ecosystem out there to help you, once you know how to use it. This session is a must-attend if you're in a position of responsibility for your PeopleSoft application.

Click here to register.

Labels: webinar

Wednesday, April 1 @ 12:00 PM PST.

Do you have that nagging issue that you can't seem to get resolved? Perhaps you're looking to upgrade and aren't quite sure how best to leverage some of the new features. Sign up for this virtual roundtable to ask your technical questions, or just hear what others have to ask. This is no April Fool's joke. We will have our thinking caps on and several demo Peoplesoft environments at the ready so we can not only answer your questions, but show you wherever possible.

Click here to register.

Labels: webinar

Wednesday, March 25 @ 12:00 PM PST.

This session is one of our most popular user group presentations. Learn how to troubleshoot almost any issue in your PeopleSoft environment. PeopleSoft Expert, Chris Heller, will go through different techniques and open source tools that you can use to determine the source of problems and solve them. This in-depth session will cover tools for troubleshooting issues on the user's desktop, at the web server, the application server, the database server, and also within PeopleSoft's applicaiton designer. If you're responsible for supporting PeopleSoft, you'll definitely learn something that will help you in your day-to-day job.

Click here to register.

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Wednesday, March 18 @ 12:00 PM PST.

Your PeopleSoft application contains lots of information that your employees need access to. Learn how to utilize social networking technologies, such as instant messaging, RSS feeds, and VOIP to bring this information to your users using the PeopleSoft tools you already own. Not only will you walk away with the code we will be demonstrating in the session, but you increase your coolness factor immeasurably.

Click here to register.

Labels: webinar

This blog post falls under the category of why haven't we done this earlier?

Over the almost 4 years that we've been in business, we've had lots of folks who have read our blog and attended our "tips and techniques" user group sessions ask us to make this information available to others in their organization who aren't able to travel to physical meetings. Throughout the month of February, we've been piloting webinars to a select group of people to get out the kinks and so far, the feedback has been extremely positive (and the response rate we've received has exceeded even our most grandiose expectations).

Therefore, we are launching our webinar series, which is a combination of general tips and techniques sessions as well as deep dives into our products.

Upcoming Webinars

We have 3 new webinars that we're opening up for registration immediately

Development Best Practices for PeopleSoft Enterprise

Wednesday, March 4 @ 12:00pm PST. Click here to register.

Learn from the PeopleSoft experts the best techniques for developing in your PeopleSoft environment. We will discuss the common types of modifications made to PeopleSoft applications, and the best means for making changes with minimal impact and cost to your PeopleSoft environment, while still leveraging the functionality available in PeopleTools. We will also discuss techniques for analyzing impact and managing the changes you may be making.

Getting Started with PeopleSoft Reporting

Wednesday, March 11 @ 12:00pm PST. Click here to register.

You need to write a report, but how should you go about building it? Out-of-the-box, you are provided with several tools to write reports, an application with thousands of tables, trees, effective dating, and multi-language translations. Perhaps your organization has even standardized on a 3rd party reporting tool. This session will teach you best practices and techniques for determining what tool to use, and how to go about building, securing, and deploying reports against your PeopleSoft application.

Operational Excellence with Grey Sparling Version Control for PeopleSoft

Friday, February 27 @ 12:00pm PST. Click here to register.

If you would like to have better control over your development and release processes for your PeopleSoft environments, you will want to attend this session. We will be providing an overview of best practices in managing your PeopleSoft development and releases as well as our product offerings in this space.

We will be scheduling future webinars for other topics, so stay tuned.

Labels: webinar