Diary of a PeopleSoft Expert: Implementing Oracle HRMSHave you ever realized that getting what you asked for might not really be what you wanted in the first place? I’m about to find out. Follow along as I record my experiences as a PeopleSoft expert going through a “baptism by fire†in implementing Oracle’s HRMS product. I’ll point out the challenges in my learning curve, differences in the practices and implementation process, as well as any other miscellaneous thoughts that might prove insightful to others.Oracle HRMS - Is it a Lime or a Lemon- August 24, 2005 For those of you who are passionate Oracle HRMS supportersimplementors that are ready to send me flaming comments, please hold off till I explain my opening title, then you can go ahead and send me mean comments. Being a PeopleSoft HRMS expert, I know that product in and out, but Oracle HRMS is new to me. The requirements gathering process is roughly the same steps needed to figure out what data the client would like to have in the system, how they would use the system, etc. But that is wherhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/peoplesoft-exper... Getting my feet wet with Oracle- August 15, 2005 From my experience in setting up a test benefit program in the Oracle Vision instance, Oracle's Advanced Benefits module isn't all that much different than PeopleSoft's Benefits Administration module setup. A couple of differences I've seen so far is that Oracle is drastically flexible in what it can do, but his flexibility comes at a cost. The configuration for life events seems much harder to implement in Oracle since there are a lot more set up steps(configuratino items) than PeopleSoft'http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/peoplesoft-exper... Oracle's Implmentation Methodology - Lower your expectations!- August 5, 2005 I started looking into Oracle's Implementation Methodology this is named "AIM". The templates that are delivered by Oracle in this methodology are many, many documents. But most of these docs delivers are nothing but formatted shells for you to populate. The only thing that is helpful is that they have the same look and feel(because they are all copied from a starting doc and the deliverable names have been changed), but since we have to change the formatting of all of our docs to include thehttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/peoplesoft-exper... Believe none of what you read and half of what you see!!!- August 2, 2005 An old saying "Believe none of what you read and half of what you see" came to mind to me today when discussing Oracle eBusiness app functionality with my fellow Oracle Implementors(who are very experienced with the application). It seems as though Oracle is just like PeopleSoft in marketing some features that are "Not ready for prime-time". They just don't work out of the box. I still don't have my hands on the app yet, it seems as though our Vision database install(Oracle's version of HRDhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/peoplesoft-exper... |