Oracle HCM Cloud: Lessons learned and Tips & Tricks for a succesful implementation

The past couple of months, we worked on several global implementations of Oracle HCM and Talent Management Cloud. One of the projects (see press release) consisted of a Oracle HCM and Talent Management Cloud implementation in 40 countries as replacement of the current PeopleSoft HCM 9.0 environment. During this period we gained a lot of experience and expertise, that we would like to share with you as our lessons learned and tips & tricks.

Enabling HTML Email Approvals for HCM

A few months ago Oracle release HTML Email Approvals for Approval Framework. With this OOTB feature you can now easily enable Approvals that can be managed from your mail, without having to log into PeopleSoft first.
Although the technology for HTML Email Approvals have be part of AWE for years now and is also highly used in FSCM, this is the first email templates that are delivered in HCM. The following email templates are delivered:

• Job Opening
• Job Offer
• Absence Request
• Extended Absence Request
• Promote
• Transfer
• Reporting Change
• Performance Document

Switching from VMWare to VirtualBox

Ever since I discovered virtualization, I have been creating and using dedicated virtual machines for all my PeopleSoft sandboxes and Fusion MiddleWare components. This allowed me to run multiple releases of OS and PeopleSoft on my own laptop. Until recently I was using VMWare Player and was not a big fan of VirtualBox. After running my first PeopleSoft sandbox based on the OVM templates in VirtualBox I was amazed by the performance and memory allocation. Ever since I have moved all my VMWare virtual machines to VirtualBox.

Oracle Open World 2012 & JavaOne presentations available for download

Oracle Open World 2012 is officially over and most of the presentation slide decks and session recording videos are becoming available in the Content Catalog.

Oracle Open World: Day 3

After attending Oracle Open World for three days, it looks like the future is all about handling big data, flash, hardware, mobile and social media and all of this in the cloud. And Oracle is supplying all of these, although we see competitive products from partners. Oracle is really making cloud the new standard for your business and you can see this in all the keynotes. No more on premises hardware, maintenance, upgrade, just a monthly fee and you are up and running with your entire infrastructure.

Oracle Open World: Day 2

What a day today was! The day started off with a keynote on again Exadata X3 and in memory pluggable databases. In addition to Larry's keynote, not only did we see screenshots, we actually saw a live demo and use cases. And this continued throughout the entire day. Every Oracle session had a demo on a live system. Oracle is not just selling a dream, but demoing actual (nearly) complete ship able products.