WEBINARS

Implementing Oracle Student: Reflections From An Oracle Early Adopter

Implementing Oracle Student: Reflections From An Oracle Early Adopter

Spring Arbor University is transforming how it provides campus services by adopting Oracle’s full suite of Cloud applications. In this webinar, representatives from Spring Arbor University, Sierra-Cedar, and Oracle provide an informative preview of Spring Arbor’s implementation. We discuss Spring Arbor’s experiences, transformational focus areas, and lessons learned.

Implementing Oracle Student: Reflections From An Oracle Early Adopter

PeopleSoft on AWS: Unleash the Power of the Cloud for Public Sector

PeopleSoft on AWS: Unleash the Power of the Cloud for Public Sector

In this three-part series, Timothy Gehrig, EVP, Cloud and Managed Services, breaks down this popular topic into short, easy-to-digest videos. The videos outline moving PeopleSoft to AWS with a focus on the challenges facing government entities. The first webinar outlines the most common factors that are driving governments to the cloud. The second webinar provides the pros and cons of the two main migration paths and a typical timeline of the journey to the cloud. Finally, the third webinar shows the results you can expect from a move to the cloud.

Part 1: Why Governments are Moving to the Cloud

Part 2: Migration Paths and the Journey

Part 3: The Results

Automated Class and Enrollment Maintenance

Automated Class and Enrollment Maintenance

The coronavirus has created many challenges for higher education institutions. The decision to offer classes in person, virtual, or a blend requires significant alterations to the current Fall semester/quarter. As institutions make their final decisions on Fall classes, the Registrar’s office and departmental schedulers will be tasked to implement the various class section changes and move existing enrollments. To address this current challenge, we have developed two bolt-on enhancements that use automation to help registrars process the necessary changes. In this overview webinar, we discuss these bolt-on enhancements and show how they help registrars process the necessary changes. We will also outline the process to access these free tools for institutions running PeopleSoft Campus Solutions v9.2, PeopleTools 8.57 and 8.56.

Overview: Automated Class and Enrollment Maintenance

Open Office Hours Session 1: Automated Class and Enrollment Maintenance

Open Office Hours Session 2: Automated Class and Enrollment Maintenance

Open Forum: Automated Class and Enrollment Maintenance

Finding the Value of PeopleSoft on AWS

Finding the Value of PeopleSoft on AWS

PeopleSoft applications continue to support core business operations for many institutions. Moving this infrastructure to the cloud is an opportunity to reassess your architecture and operations. In this webinar, Tim Rogers outlines the benefits of moving PeopleSoft to AWS, including agility, reliability, scalability, disaster recovery, and cost control.

Finding the Value of PeopleSoft on AWS

Higher Education Forum: Open Conversation around Grading Basis Options

Higher Education Forum: Open Conversation around Grading Basis Options

The Covid-19 virus has created a lot of challenges for Higher Education institutions, including grading and graduation, particularly with the inclusion of Pass/Fail and Credit/No-Credit grading options. In this webinar, we discuss how to implement these changes and understand the impacts on configurations, downstream business processes, potential scripting, and technical considerations.

Higher Education Forum: Open Conversation around Grading Basis Options

Open Office Hours: Student Records and Student Financials

Open Office Hours: Academic Advisement, Financial Aid, Student Financials

PeopleSoft-as-a-Service Cloud Series

PeopleSoft-as-a-Service Cloud Series

As an Oracle Partner with more than 20+ years of experience delivering 2,000+ PeopleSoft projects, and as an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner with deep experience in delivering cloud services, we can provide the information you need to plan, execute, and manage a successful PeopleSoft cloud migration to AWS. In this educational series, we will explain how to transform your PeopleSoft environment to improve scalability and enhance operations.

PeopleSoft on AWS: Unleash the Power of the Cloud

Running PeopleSoft on AWS, Using Infrastructure as Code

Chatbots, Digital Assistants and the Future

Chatbots, Digital Assistants and the Future

There are thousands of Chatbots in use today, and if you’ve called or texted a customer services group, then you’ve likely encountered one. Watch this webinar to understand where Chatbots are in use and their value to both the individual and the organization.

Chatbots, Digital Assistants, and the Future

Mathematical Optimization and Automation of Inventory Replenishment Policies

Mathematical Optimization and Automation of Inventory Replenishment Policies

To compete effectively today, a business needs to keep its inventory investment to a minimum and increase the velocity of its cash-to-cash (C2C) cycle, while at the same time enhancing the customer experience through improved service levels. To address this need, Sierra-Cedar has developed a methodology to analyze inventory data and provide updated replenishment order policies that are calibrated to the customer demand and constraints associated with each inventory business unit.

Mathematical Optimization and Automation of Inventory Replenishment Policies

Machine Learning Demystified

Machine Learning Demystified

Living in a world where the impact of analytics on decisions is taking off exponentially, the rise in demand for data scientists has never been higher. But data scientists are few, and the gap is growing. The Oracle Data Visualization tool closes this gap by leveraging Data Science through Adaptive Intelligence and bringing Machine Learning to the fingertips of the everyday user.

During this webinar, you will live a day in a life of a business user: Accessible Data Science with Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle Data Visualization and mobile analytic capabilities, and Human Capital Management and Supply Chain Management use cases.

Machine Learning Demystified: Using Oracle Analytics Cloud and Machine Learning to Drive Business Performance

Sierra-Cedar’s PeopleSoft Playbook: Winning Strategies for Today and Tomorrow

Sierra-Cedar’s PeopleSoft Playbook: Winning Strategies for Today and Tomorrow

Continuous innovation, robust functionality, automation, mobile and engaging UX, and low-cost updates. Does PeopleSoft come to mind? Well, it should—PeopleSoft has quietly re-emerged as the “new” modern ERP platform. With this four-part webinar series, Sierra-Cedar’s PeopleSoft Playbook, PeopleSoft customers have the opportunity to learn about the untapped potential within their existing ERP systems as they contemplate alternative paths for the future.

We address today’s most pressing PeopleSoft questions—What is the “New PeopleSoft Value Proposition”? How do we win with PeopleSoft in the Cloud? How do optimal Integration approaches change in the new PeopleSoft world?—by providing insights for developing Winning Strategies for…

Achieving Your Enterprise Application Goals

Realizing the New PeopleSoft Value Proposition

“PeopleSoft in the Cloud” Transformations

Modern Integration in the New PeopleSoft World

Introduction to AI Processes in the PeopleSoft Testing Framework

Introduction to AI Processes in the PeopleSoft Testing Framework

Software testing can be frustrating and time consuming, but running software updates without testing them in your own environment can have far-reaching implications on the business at large. Customers who use PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) to maintain their IT investment will be pleased to learn that Oracle provides (free) the PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF) tool to assist with testing tasks which includes robotic process automation (RPA).

Learn about the PeopleSoft Testing Framework and how to apply the RPA features in your test plans: how to create an IT roadmap for deploying the PeopleSoft Testing Framework; how to create test scripts that include variables for regression testing, and how to automate this; how to build a library of test scripts for reuse; and how to analyze the test results and take appropriate action.

Introduction to AI Processes in the PeopleSoft Testing Framework

Minimizing Time and Effort in PeopleSoft Updates Using PTF

Minimizing Time and Effort in PeopleSoft Updates Using PTF

Having a Selective Adoption process is vital for organizations to keep PeopleSoft current. PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF) is one tool organizations should consider to reduce testing time and test errors during the process. Sierra-Cedar presents two case studies that outline lessons learned when implementing and using PTF for large ERP deployments in Higher Education and Financials Services.

Minimizing Time and Effort in PeopleSoft Updates Using PTF

Planning a Successful IT Integration Roadmap after a Merger or Acquisition

Planning a Successful IT Integration Roadmap after a Merger or Acquisition

Once the merger or acquisition deal is signed, the heavy work of successfully integrating IT systems begins. Without a plan, IT integration can be difficult, painful, and rejected by employees. Learn how we apply decades of experience to successful IT integrations for HCM and ERP environments. In this webinar, you will learn what to include in an integration, roadmap, how to avoid common IT integration pitfalls, and how to prepare your people and systems for change.

Planning a Successful IT Integration Roadmap after a Merger or Acquisition

Key Findings from the Sierra-Cedar 2018–2019 HR Systems Survey, 21st Annual Edition

Key Findings from the Sierra-Cedar 2018–2019 HR Systems Survey, 21st Annual Edition

Join Survey authors Stacey Harris, VP of Research and Analytics, and Erin Spencer, Senior Research Analyst, as they answer these questions and discuss key findings from this year’s research: What are the benefits of having an HR Technology Systems Strategy? How does a Culture of Change Management affect business outcomes? How are Machine Learning and intelligent platforms changing the HR space?

With the release of the Sierra-Cedar 2018–2019 HR Systems Survey White Paper, 21st Annual Edition, we share over two decades of HR Systems research and community development. Published annually since 1997, this is the longest running, most widely distributed, and most highly participative research effort in the HR industry, annually tracking the adoption, deployment approaches, and value achieved from HR technologies.

Key Findings from the Sierra-Cedar 2018–2019 HR Systems Survey, 21st Annual Edition

PeopleSoft Fluid UI Delivers a Modern User Experience

PeopleSoft Fluid UI Delivers a Modern User Experience

Many organizations are still committed to their robust PeopleSoft HCM application. However, the employees and managers may think of it like their grandparent’s Buick with hand-crank windows. Reliable, secure, roomy, and economical to operate, but missing the vroom-vroom of a nimble, sporty ride. Look under the hood of PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface to experience the flash and zing of a sporty new service delivery application with mobile, social, and personalized capabilities, while still retaining the horsepower needed to support mission-critical business processes.

PeopleSoft Fluid UI Delivers a Modern User Experience

Jump-Start Your Cloud Journey with Sierra-Cedar and Oracle Analytics Cloud

Jump-Start Your Cloud Journey with Sierra-Cedar and Oracle Analytics Cloud

As a long-time Essbase, Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE), and Oracle Business Intelligence Application (OBIA) user or a new Essbase, OBIEE, and OBIA user, are you wondering how your cubes and BI reporting could work in the Cloud? This five-part webinar series will provide Essbase and BI users and administrators the tools necessary to plan and implement your Essbase calculations and reporting and Oracle BI analytics in Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC). Each session will focus on financial reporting cubes, allocation cubes, and related operational and management reporting cubes, including OBIEE and OBIA reporting, analytics and data visualizations.

Configure, Provision, and Migrate to Oracle Analytics Cloud Services

Design and Administrate Oracle Analytics Cloud Essbase Databases

Migrate Your Essbase Financial Reports, Web Analysis, and Smart View Reports to OAC Essbase

Drive Better Insights with Oracle Analytics Cloud

Assess and Migrate On-Premise OBIEE to Oracle Analytics Cloud Services

Optimizing Your PeopleSoft Investment with Selective Adoption and PUM-as-a-Service

Optimizing Your PeopleSoft Investment with Selective Adoption and PUM-as-a-Service

How do you go about deciding what new features to adopt and which customizations to retire? When is a good time to go about this? Will it be a huge project or could it all be arranged so it’s routine?

The overall objective of updating PeopleSoft is to gain the most from your system—keeping it simple, effective, and efficient. This means keeping your customizations at a minimum while adopting the new features and functions on a routine basis.

In this session, you will hear about Selective Adoption from both a technical and business perspective. You will also learn how Sierra-Cedar’s PUM-as-a-Service packages can help you reduce costs, simplify maintenance, and improve delivery to your organization.

Optimizing Your PeopleSoft Investment with Selective Adoption and PUM as a Service

How “Fit” is Your Human Capital Management?

How “Fit” is Your Human Capital Management?

This two-part webinar series will help you take the “fitness” of your HCM applications to the next level!

How Is Your HR's Core Strength and Conditioning?

How Can an HR “Fitness Program” Take You to the Next Level?

How Can an HR “Fitness Program” Take You to the Next Level?