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AWS Cloud Migration Strategy: Two Models for Making the Transition
Looking to move your ERP application to the cloud? To get started, it’s important to understand the two most leveraged migration path alternatives that organizations take. In this post, we’ll take a...
Government and the Cloud: 4 Approaches to Migration
For years, maintaining a central, on-premise data center was the norm for organizations with sensitive, proprietary, or top-secret data. Since 2010, though, increasing numbers of government entities...
A Journey to Oracle Cloud Applications Through the Eyes of a Financials Consultant
Talk about trying to teach an old dog new tricks! I have been working with PeopleSoft for more than 25 years, both as a technical and functional consultant. When I found out I needed to learn Oracle...
Lucas County Reaches New Heights with Oracle Cloud Applications: Highlights from the May 21st Webinar
In January 2020, Sierra-Cedar and Lucas County, Ohio brought live Phase One of the County’s Oracle Cloud investment: Oracle Financials, Procurement, and Budgeting Cloud Services. Weeks later...
COVID-19 and Grading Basis Changes
The COVID-19 virus has created a lot of challenges for higher education institutions. A front runner is grading and graduation, particularly with the inclusion of Pass/Fail and Credit/No-Credit...
How Oracle Student Financial Planning Provides Dynamic Flexibility for Higher Ed Institutions Amidst COVID-19
In the ever-changing environment of higher education, updates to financial aid policy are not an uncommon occurrence. However, the unprecedented impacts of COVID-19 have created challenges for this...
Oracle Integration Cloud Bootcamp
Sierra-Cedar recently participated in Oracle’s hands-on multi-day bootcamp led by Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) specialists. The bootcamp focused on the OIC application, which brings together...
Take Advantage of New Features in PeopleSoft HCM Images 30-31
PeopleSoft HCM Images 30-31 has 91 new features. Although each feature may not apply to your organization, you’ll likely be pleased by the ones that can help you improve productivity, simplify...
Overcoming the Barriers to Effective Project Costing in Hospitals
Hospitals face many challenges when capturing project costs—not the least of which includes disparate systems and processes that often result in incomplete and inaccurate information. Cost pressures...
Modern Integration in the New PeopleSoft World: A Call to Action for Business Users
Demands for robust connectivity and business system agility are greater than ever. We want the latest information available across all systems and devices at all times. The tolerance we once had for...