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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...

Machine Learning in the Oracle Analytics Cloud
Data Science Capabilities at Your Fingertips Most analytics tools are only capable of reporting on past events and showing trends. While helpful, it’s not actionable. Historically, predictive...

The Cloud Understood (Part 5 – PeopleSoft in the Cloud)
Welcome to Part 5 of The Cloud Understood series. In this edition, I want to address questions and concerns from the clients of Sierra-Cedar. As you most likely already know, Sierra-Cedar is first...

Increase System Confidence and Lower Cost with PeopleSoft Test Framework 2.0
One of the significant benefits of PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF) is consistency. Once a test runs successfully, it will always run successfully until there is a configuration change. It is easy to...