PeopleSoft is shipping seven offerings based on its
PeopleSoft Enterprise and EnterpriseOne families, formerly known as
PeopleSoft 8 and JD Edwards 5 respectively.
According to PeopleSoft chief technology officer Rick Bergquist,
the latest offerings include an enhanced enterprise performance
management application that can be used by JD Edwards
customers.
Using extract, transform and load (ETL) technology,
EnterpriseOne-generated data can be loaded into the PeopleSoft data
warehouse and exploited to get a view of business operations and
then align them with strategic goals.
PeopleSoft Enterprise Strategic Sourcing is also now integrated
with the EnterpriseOne Procurement application. That means
EnterpriseOne users, who typically deploy the applications at
manufacturing plants, can now aggregate their purchases on a global
basis.
PeopleSoft appears to picking up the pace of its integration
efforts, said Meta Group analyst Barry Wilderman. Overall,
PeopleSoft is making good first steps, doing things such as using
ETL to create a central warehouse for data that can be used by both
customer sets.
However, Wilderman cautioned that the metadata formatting may be
sufficiently different to keep EnterpriseOne users from exploiting
all of the Enterprise scorecard and other analytic capabilities. He
advised customers to work closely with PeopleSoft to find out just
how deep the application integration actually is and whether it
really enables seamless process flows, such as order to cash.
As part of its integration effort, PeopleSoft also announced the
following:
- Enterprise Order Capture has been integrated with EnterpriseOne
Inventory and Order Management
- Enterprise Human Resource Management is now linked with
EnterpriseOne Financial Management
- EnterpriseOne Advanced Planning is now integrated with
Enterprise Supply Chain Management
- EnterpriseOne Real Estate Management is now integrated with
Enterprise Financial Management
The products are all available now.
Marc L Songini writes for
Computerworld