Role of IT as the Cloud comes in

As administrative functionality gets outsourced via the cloud and virtualization cuts down hardware and other costs freeing up IT budgets, the IT department has a chance to become a true business partner for other departments. It will be interesting to see how it goes ! Any thoughts ?

Employee Engagement - who is most engaged ?

Good insight on who is most engaged in a company : http://blog.achievers.com/2013/06/why-are-men-more-engaged-women?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRojv63KZKXonjHpfsX66%2BwvXKCzlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DS8RrI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFS7PDMbJo3rgOUhQ%3D

Oracle Fusion - excellent informative site

This site is run by one of Oracle's product executives.

https://sites.google.com/site/fusioncustomercollabsso/

Who is who in Oracle world ?

List of useful 3rd party Oracle products

http://www.oracle.com/us/partnerships/solutions/index.html

Killer HCM analysis

Tony Ashton from SuccessFactors says it like it is.....

http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/view/story.jhtml?id=534355082

OBIEE and Credit Cards - predictive analytics vs operational reporting.

How easily data can be consumed will determine what data is being consumed. This is the same principle that is  behind the explosion of credit cards. How easily money can be spent determines how much will be spent. I see this to be true of information systems too especially when IT managers are struggling to supply relevant data to end users in a timely fashion. The slew of reporting tools and functional applications have yet to catch up on the GUI side which is being driven by consumer software. With mega tools like OBIEE and businessObjects taking 6 months to develop and 6 months to implement , by the time which KPI's will change does it makes sense to even use these multi million $ tools ? Is there a gap here ? Are IT managers using end user operational reporting tools to meet the needs of predictive analytics ?
Will IT managers and architects realize this ? More to come later....

R12 upgrade projects

Please bookmark this link which gives the list of new/incremental functionalities tested & QA-ed for every Oracle release from Oracle 11.5.10 . Scroll down to the end and click on attachments to view the exact HCM functionalities in that version. In case of upgrade projects it maybe simply sufficient to test and analyze these new functionalities on the seeded Oracle instance.

The metalink Document ID is : 1113083.1

https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1113083.1

Other useful upgrade project links :

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.0 Information Center - Documentation [ID 790190.1]

https://support.oracle.com/CSP/ui/flash.html#tab=KBHome(page=KBHome&id=()),(page=KBNavigator&id=(bmDocDsrc=KB&bmDocType=BULLETIN&bmDocID=790190.1&viewingMode=1143&from=BOOKMARK&bmDocTitle=Oracle%20E-Business%20Suite%20Release%2012.0%20Information%20Center%20-%20Documentation))

https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=394692.1

Oracle HRMS Documentation Resources, Release 12 [ID 395405.1]

https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=395405.1

Oracle Applications Documentation

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/applications-167706.html

All documentation http://tahiti.oracle.com/

List of API's :

http://irep.oracle.com

Vision Demo Document Index (Procurement) [ID 1075748.1]

E-Business Suite HCM R12.1 Information Center [ID 1100428.1]

https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1100428.1

QA Testing Approach and Features Tested for Oracle HRMS - Archive [ID 1113083.1]

https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1113083.1