Customers Benefit from Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0
Oracle Extends the Value of Customer Investments; Delivers End-to-End Business Process and Superior Usability on Next-generation Technology Platform
DENVER, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- COLLABORATE 2008 --
-- Oracle today announced that leading organizations rely on Oracle's
PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0 to address their most business- critical strategic requirements.
-- PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0 combines industry-leading functionality with
a best-in-class user experience and demonstrates Oracle's continued
commitment to protect, extend and evolve customer investments as part
of the "Applications Unlimited" program. "Applications Unlimited"
enables customers to maximize the value of their current applications
through Oracle's on-going product development.
-- Customers including Blackboard, Cytec, Drummond, Flagstar Bancorp,
Michigan Sugar, Moody Bible Institute, Northwestern University and
University of California, San Francisco have deployed PeopleSoft
Enterprise 9.0 applications, including Human Capital Management (HCM),
Financial Management Solutions (FMS), Supplier Relationship Management
(SRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) and Campus Solutions.
Product Functionality
-- Beginning June 2006, Oracle has unveiled PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0
solutions, including: PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management
(HCM) 9.0, PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management (FMS) 9.0,
PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions 9.0, PeopleSoft Enterprise
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 9.0, PeopleSoft Enterprise
Supply Chain Management (SCM) 9.0, PeopleSoft Enterprise Supplier
Relationship Management (SRM) 9.0, PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance
Management (EPM) 9.0 and PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Management
(ELM) 9.0.
-- Developed through collaboration with customers, PeopleSoft Enterprise
HCM 9.0 (http://tinyurl.com/5fm93a) enables organizations to deploy
enterprise-wide talent management strategies and configurable business
processes to increase efficiency and operating performance.
-- With PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Management 9.0
(http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_jun/elm.html), companies
are equipped for better compliance with increasingly complex
multinational regulatory requirements. With the 9.0 release, Oracle
responded to customer feedback by including substantial usability
enhancements while strengthening Oracle's talent management offering.
-- Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9.0
(http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_oct/fms9.html), features
enhancements to core financial accounting, asset lifecycle management
and enterprise service automation applications. Additionally, new
features were introduced in PeopleSoft Enterprise Internal Controls
Enforcer, a key product designed to enable users to automate and
enforce internal controls required under Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley.
-- The latest releases of PeopleSoft Enterprise SCM 9.0 and SRM 9.0
(http://tinyurl.com/65fxdp) help streamline business processes,
improve supplier relationships with increased visibility into, and
measurement of, supplier performance and simplify regulatory compliance
with new tools to manage risk.
-- Highlights of PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 9.0
(http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_aug/psft-crm-9.html)
include enhancements designed specifically for the financial services
and communications industries, usability enhancements designed to help
increase productivity and increased use of Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware.
-- PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management 9.0
(http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_aug/psft-epm9.html)
demonstrates Oracle's focus in building out analytic applications by
extending the suite's capabilities, while continuing to emphasize
usability. New features of PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management
include expanded enterprise planning and compliance management
capabilities and new industry functionality.
-- Oracle's PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Release 9.0
(http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_feb/campussolutions9-0.htm)
is a feature-rich student information and alumni donor management
system. It is the most adaptable solution serving all sizes and types
of institutions including small, private universities, community
colleges, research institutions, and large, public, multi-campus
systems.
-- PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0 is certified on the Oracle Fusion Middleware
platform and has adopted key technology components including Oracle
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Process Manager and Oracle
XML Publisher. This enables customers to lower implementation costs,
simplify upgrades and reduce the complexity of maintaining integration
points with next-generation technology.
-- PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0 is supported by PeopleTools release, 8.48 and
the subsequent release 8.49. PeopleTools 8.48 delivers tools for
enabling a Service-Oriented Architecture like the new Web Services
designer. These PeopleTools platforms provide a solid and high
performance foundation for PeopleSoft Enterprise applications and are
backwards compatible-enabling customers to run their release 8.4 and
greater PeopleSoft Enterprise applications on them.
Supporting Quotes
-- "The release of PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0 demonstrated a
milestone in Oracle's commitment to Applications Unlimited," said Doris
Wong, Oracle Group Vice President of PeopleSoft Enterprise
Applications. "Today, customer adoption rates reveal that the next
generation technology and enhanced functionality of the latest release
are delivering the value organizations seek. We're pleased with the
increasing market traction of PeopleSoft solutions and believe the
application will continue to transform the way customers manage their
most strategic objectives."
-- "University of California, San Francisco has benefited from PeopleSoft
Enterprise Financial Management and its value to support our business
processes," said Jane Wong, Director of Application Services,
University of California, San Francisco. "Now with the improvements in
the upgrade processes, we can continue to leverage the new capabilities
of PeopleSoft Enterprise and Supply Chain Management Release 9.0 to
further streamline our business processes."
-- "Oracle and PeopleSoft enabled Moody Bible Institute to market our
course offerings and optimize contact with each student, significantly
improving our recruiting, response rates and students' experiences,"
said Frank Leber, Vice President Information Systems, Moody Bible
Institute. "We know that we can always rely on Oracle to deliver next- generation technology for our PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM
implementations, and look forward to the outstanding new usability in
our PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0 upgrade."
-- "As many companies can attest, the prospect of a CRM upgrade can seem
daunting and extremely complicated," said Rav Sandhu, Director,
Enterprise Applications, Blackboard. "Blackboard's upgrade to
PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0 CRM was incredibly smooth and the
massive improvements to the upgrade process are unparalleled. We
highly recommend this latest version for organizations to upgrade, not
only for the process' new simplicity, but for the terrific gains with
usability and performance that are now available."
-- "Our technology goal is simple - provide our students, faculty, and
staff with the best user experience possible," said Betty Brugger,
Director of IT Management Systems, Northwestern University. "With
Oracle's strong commitment and its lifetime support of our PeopleSoft
Enterprise Release 9.0 Campus Solutions, we are assured that we can
continue to cost-effectively invest in our systems to satisfy our
users' current needs and to support their future requirements."
-- "As our organization grows, Oracle's core foundation of HR data and
processes is expanding to accommodate our needs," said Jeffrey C.
Futterman, Vice President, Information Technology, Cytec. "As we've
rapidly grown through acquisition to more than 7,000 employees
globally, we realized we needed a global system to manage our human
capital that could evolve with our needs. Cytec standardized on
PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM 9.0 because it provides the global visibility
into talent our organization requires now, and we know this support
will continue in the future with the Applications Unlimited program."
Supporting Resources
Oracle PeopleSoft 9.0:
http://tinyurl.com/6f5zum
Press Release - Oracle To Deliver PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0:
http://tinyurl.com/4o4j67
PeopleSoft Technology Blog:
http://blogs.oracle.com/peopletools/
Podcast - Update on PeopleSoft 9.0:
http://tinyurl.com/2hnpmm
White Paper - PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0: The Extended-Value Release:
http://tinyurl.com/2873o3
Oracle ACE PeopleSoft Enterprise Forum:
http://tinyurl.com/4f9qcu
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