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The Roadmap to ensure your PeopleSoft system stays ‘Best of Breed’
Liz DerrerDuncan Davies
The Cloud is Coming
They’re not mountains… they’re waves
Interstellar (2014)
Uptake of Cloud HCM Applications
Source: “How Modern is HR” survey, Aug 2014
17%
15%
68%
Have you deployed HCM Apps in the Cloud?
17% - Have HR Cloud Apps
15% - Moving to Cloud Apps
68% - No Cloud Apps
Survey of 170 HR Professionals, 74% from the UK
Note: Recruitment software excluded
Uptake of Cloud HCM Applications - 2
Source: “How Modern is HR” survey, Aug 2014
32%
27%
41%
Plans to deploy HCM Apps in the Cloud?
32% - Have HR Cloud Apps
27% - Have Plans to Move
41% - No Cloud Apps
The Benefits of the Cloud
The Benefits of the Cloud
Better UI
Mobile Access
Greater Flexibility of Infrastructure
Cloud-style Operations
Easier and More Frequent Updates
Enhanced Security / Resilience
Reduced Ongoing Cost
No Upfront Licence Cost
How Do I Get Those Cloud Benefits With PeopleSoft?
The Benefits of the Cloud
Better UI
Mobile Access
Greater Flexibility of Infrastructure
Cloud-style Operations
Easier and More Frequent Updates
Enhanced Security / Resilience
Reduced Ongoing Cost
No Upfront Licence Cost
9.2 - Improved Experience for Users?
Better UI
PeopleSoft is moving towards a 2-Tier User Interface:
The Classic UI
Designed for Power Users, back-office admins
Information dense, lots of fields, data, analytics
The Fluid UI
Designed for Self Service Users
Simplified layouts, fewer fields
Less training needed
Better UI
Better UI - Work Centres
Role-based Home Page:
What you need to DO
Where you need to GO
How you DO IT
Simplified Navigation
Reduced user Training
Ultimately, allows more work to be done in less time
Accounts Payable Work Centre
Accounts Payable Analytics Dashboard
Classic Tabs and Big Buttons
Company Branding
Better UI – Activity Guides
Guided navigation steps to complete end-to-end business process
Simplified Navigation
Reduced user Training
Consistency
‘Train Stops’ show where in the process you are
HR Admin Guided Processes
The Benefits of the Cloud
Better UI
Mobile Access
Greater Flexibility of Infrastructure
Cloud-style Operations
Easier and More Frequent Updates
Enhanced Security / Resilience
Reduced Ongoing Cost
No Upfront Licence Cost
Fluid UI on a Smart Phone
Fluid UI on an iPad
Fluid UI – Diversity Analytics
Fluid UI – Diversity Analytics
Fluid UI – Diversity Analytics
Fluid UI – Diversity Analytics
Better UI - 3
Cedar’s Recommendations:
This is the PeopleSoft direction for Self Service and mobile, so it’s crucially important.
Developers need some HTML and CSS skills
Don’t try to ‘convert’ classic pages to Fluid. They should be simplified versions for light-touch transactions.
Browser debugging tools are invaluable
The Benefits of the Cloud
Better UI
Mobile Access
Greater Flexibility of Infrastructure
Cloud-style Operations
Easier and More Frequent Updates
Enhanced Security / Resilience
Reduced Ongoing Cost
No Upfront Licence Cost
Greater Flexibility of Infrastructure
Purchase servers at the start but then stuck with them
Virtualisation only gave some improvements
Cloud vendors give you elasticity of infrastructure
Here’s some idea of the agility that you can gain …
Syst
em L
oad
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Traditional hardware sizing/costs to peak usage
Cloud baseline
‘Elastically’ burst
hardware where
required
Greater Flexibility of Infrastructure - 2
The Benefits of the Cloud
Better UI
Mobile Access
Greater Flexibility of Infrastructure
Cloud-style Operations
Easier and More Frequent Updates
Enhanced Security / Resilience
Reduced Ongoing Cost
No Upfront Licence Cost
Cloud-style Operations
Use Developer Skills (i.e. coding) and a free automation platform to reduce SysAdmin/DBA effort
Boot/Shut-down non-Prod environments on schedule
Automate refresh of Test environment from Prod
Backups and automated cache-clears available ad-hoc
Proactive Monitoring:
Is the PIA Responsive?
Do I have failed/queued jobs?
Is the Payroll taking longer than usual?
Cloud-style Operations - 2
Production
Man
ager
s/B
acko
ffic
eSe
lf-S
ervi
ce
Pilot User
Pilot User Pilot Users
Normal Users
The Benefits of the Cloud
Better UI
Mobile Access
Greater Flexibility of Infrastructure
Cloud-style Operations
Easier and More Frequent Updates
Enhanced Security / Resilience
Reduced Ongoing Cost
No Upfront Licence Cost
Easier and More Frequent Updates
PeopleSoft Selective Adoption:
The process has changed. No more big upgrades.
The images deliver fixes and new functionality.
You need to plan for this:
the effort to apply the patches,
and how the system will change for the users
If you do nothing, you’ll end up with a big upgrade 3, 4 or 5 years down the line
Easier and More Frequent Updates - 2
“Always stay current” and “You must apply bundles in sequence”
New functionality every 3 years
Apply patches on your schedule
New functionality every few months
Easier and More Frequent Updates - 3
“PeopleSoft used to recommend we stay current and apply all maintenance, but we didn’t because it was too difficult.
Now they say we don’t have to, but we do because it’s so easy.”
PeopleSoft Customer Advisory Board
Easier and More Frequent Updates - 4
Questions:
Can I avoid an upgrade by doing nothing?
The longer you leave it the larger the catch-up effort will be. Leave it too long and it could be as significant as a major upgrade. Avoid this by running a scheduled maintenance program.
What is a ‘get current’ Change Package?
It applies all available but not yet applied patches to bring your system up-to-date.
Will there really never be a v9.3?
It certainly looks that way. Selective Adoption fits much better with the twice yearly updates that cloud vendors enforce.
Easier and More Frequent Updates - 5
Other tips:
Use the CFO Tool to show the differences between images
Customer must be on a currently supported version of PeopleTools to use Selective Adoption
Some newer functionality may require a certain level and patch of PeopleTools however
Plan for how you will host the images (VirtualBox etc)
PUM has matured and improved since it was first released
If you run on Oracle databases, the Image replaces DMO
Watch out for PRPs and POCs
Easier and More Frequent Updates - 6
Cedar’s Recommendations:
If you’re not on 9.2, starting planning the upgrade. It’s the last upgrade you’ll have to do
Plan a schedule for applying the update images that suits you, maybe two or three times a year with an annual ‘get current’
Plan a schedule for applying PeopleTools patches, maybe one every 9 months
Consider increasing your usage of PeopleSoft Test Framework, as it’ll reduce the burden testing of the updates
The Benefits of the Cloud
Better UI
Mobile Access
Greater Flexibility of Infrastructure
Cloud-style Operations
Easier and More Frequent Updates
Enhanced Security / Resilience
Reduced Ongoing Cost
No Upfront Licence Cost
Cloud Security / Resilience
Firewalled by default
Control which IP Ranges have access
Virtual Private Cloud – site-to-site VPN
Military grade protection at Data Centres
Customers’ databases kept separate
Multiple datacentres make failover simpler
The Benefits of the Cloud
Better UI
Mobile Access
Greater Flexibility of Infrastructure
Cloud-style Operations
Easier and More Frequent Updates
Enhanced Security / Resilience
Reduced Ongoing Cost
No Upfront Licence Cost
The Cloud is very cheap:
Medium Large Extra Large
Processors 2 4 8
Memory ~4GB ~8GB ~16GB
Price/hr 14p 28p 56p
Price/yr £718 £1,447 £2,890
Prices are for Windows instances in Ireland/EU data-centre using exchange rate as of 20th Feb 2015Hourly prices are ‘on-demand’ instances.Yearly prices are ‘reserved instances’ on 3 year terms, paid upfront.
Reduced Ongoing Cost - 1
Reduced Ongoing Cost - 2
Production (Database server, App/Web)
Non-Production (4 Envs, Database server, App/Web)
PUM and Jenkins
Plus
All storage
All backups
Support
Windows licences
Database licences
Reduced Ongoing Cost - 3
Production (Database server, 2x App, 2x Web, SES, Load Balancer)
Non-Production (Database, App, Web, SES)
Failover (Database, App, Web, SES)
Plus
All storage
All backups
Support
PUM and Jenkins
The Benefits of the Cloud
Better UI
Mobile Access
Greater Flexibility of Infrastructure
Cloud-style Operations
Easier and More Frequent Updates
Enhanced Security / Resilience
Reduced Ongoing Cost
No Upfront Licence Cost
No Upfront Licence Cost
Historically PeopleSoft (and other ERPs) has been sold with an upfront licence fee and an Annual Support fee.
Cedar can offer PeopleSoft as a BPO licence:
No up-front fee
Pay monthly
Even just have BPO for individual modules
You can pay for PeopleSoft like a SaaS product
What do the Analysts Say?
It’s Good to be King
I know many analysts feel sorry for customers who appear trapped in their on-premise cages – PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards etc.
Actually, they are in the driver’s seat:
a) Oracle keeps supporting them as part of its Apps Unlimited initiative
b) They can move onto the Cloud/IaaS, and use the managed support model if they choose
c) They can “ring fence” their core functionality with cloud extensions like Taleo
d) When they are ready to move more fully into the cloud, they can choose between a number of products
No wonder most of them seem content to stay where they are.
Vinnie Mirchandani, Sept 2014
Key Take-Aways
Key Take-Aways
PeopleSoft is changing to adapt to the Cloud World
Selective Adoption, Fluid UI
You need to adapt also
Get to PeopleSoft v9.2, Schedule updates, Adopt Fluid UI
PeopleSoft in the Cloud offers many business benefits
Cost (both upfront and ongoing), Flexibility
Even if you stay on-premise, there are some cloud practices that you can take advantage of
Automation and proactive monitoring, PeopleSoft Progressive Rollout
Administration tasks moved away from HR to Managers and employees
HR freed up for more strategic / business partner initiatives
Thank you for your attention
We’re happy to answer questions now, or
throughout the day
Agenda: 12:20 – 13:00
Hays HR, Payroll and Financials Upgrade(Knightsbridge room)
HCM Cloud: Are you considering moving your HR applications to the Cloud?(Waterloo room)
British American Tobacco Payroll Upgrade(Mayfair room)
What’s Next?
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