If you find yourself eschewing tree-based documentation in favor of the Kindle’s .MOBI format, you can now get your PeopleBooks from OTN for your Kindle. Among the available documentation for the Kindle:
- PeopleSoft Enterprise Customer Relationship Management 9.1 PeopleBooks
- PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1 PeopleBooks
- PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources Management System 9.1 PeopleBooks
- PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal Solutions 9.1 PeopleBooks
- PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools 8.50 PeopleBooks
Get them here.
But first, what is Enterprise Asset Management? Good question. There’s always the Wikipedia 
definition, and then there’s our perspective given what we’re hearing from our customers and prospects.
From where we sit, there’s a lot of buzz in the market about EAM, which is logical given the economic conditions we have just experienced. Organizations today, more than ever, want to control costs and fully understand the economics of their capital assets. EAM solutions do exactly that: help companies monitor and maintain their assets during their useful life. This includes functional areas like capital planning, budgeting, constructing, servicing and maintaining these assets.
Combined with strong financials, project, and supplier/supply chain management, EAM is a powerful approach to an organization’s capital infrastructure management strategy. And it’s being considered more than ever by companies in asset-intensive industries (manufacturing, hospitals, utilities, real estate and complex IT shops).
On March 9-10, 2010, in Redwood Shores, CA, Oracle is hosting its 4th Annual Customer Maintenance Summit. In particular, for anyone interested in PeopleSoft’s EAM solution suite, this show is 2010’s best venue to meet with other Oracle maintenance practitioners. There will be a plethora of best-practices information shared among attendees, and you’ll have a prime opportunity to provide product-specific feedback to Oracle.
“Oracle recognizes the maintenance community with an event specifically designed for them. All three EAM software packages were represented, with users presenting applications in a variety of industries. It was a ‘no spin’ zone, with project leaders framing their company, business issues, architecture, and results while also discussing the lessons learned. This was a refreshing and very credible approach.” — ARC Advisory Services on Last Year’s Summit
The agenda for the event has just been released, and here’s what it looks like:
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While at one of our clients, we recently fielded a question about Nevada’s new data security laws and how they may impact a company and its HR operations. We’ve been able to find the following information think it might be useful to a broader audience. So, here goes.
Nevada enacted a new data security law that went into effect on January 1, 2010. Nevada is one of several states that have enacted or proposed legislation that addresses how companies transmit and store personally identifiable information (PII). This PII can pertain to employees, customers or vendors and includes information such as social security number, driver’s license number, credit card data and bank account information combined with a last name and first name (or first initial). These laws are being created to prevent identification theft (Nevada is ranked 2nd in a listing of ID theft victims per 100,000 population).
From a business perspective looking outward onto these laws, there are several safeguards that companies can do to comply with this new legislation:
- Use encrypted storage devices – Storage devices include any item that houses PII, including but not limited to servers, personal computer, external hard drives, flash drives, iPods, CDs, smart phones, DVDs or any other item that can store or transmit data.
- Limit access to data – Only persons with a business need for the PII or access to the systems that house the PII should have access.
- Understand who has access and where data is stored – There should be an understanding of what systems house what data. Also, one should fully understand the processes for secure access to the data. What if a person’s job responsibilities change? Are there processes in place to evaluate that the equivalent access to PII is necessary?
- Use encrypted transmissions – This pertains to personal transmission as well as automated transmissions between systems. Care should be taken that PII is not emailed, instant messaged or otherwise transmitted over unencrypted connections. In addition, there should be encryption built in to all PII interfaces between systems. A company’s IT department should be familiar with the encryption standards as well as the storage of encryption keys.
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Ignoring the fact that I just ended a headline with a preposition while asking
what we should write about, I’d like to know what you’re working on or researching.
This blog has grown in readership considerably since its launch in mid-2008. Since that time, we’ve written over 140 posts covering PeopleSoft, Workday, Business Intelligence (BI) and general culture topics.
We get asked quite a bit to write about topics that our customers and prospects are interested in, and in the past we’ve done exactly that. We even create whitepapers if the demand is great enough.
This year, we’d like to hear from more organizations about what they’re interested in or where our expertise might be able to help. We consistently hear that companies must commit to tying IT spend to strategic goals (now moreso than ever), and there are a lot of topics that fall under that umbrella.
To that end, what topics would you like to hear about in the PeopleSoft, Workday or Business Intelligence worlds? I’ve started a discussion over on Facebook, and I’d love to hear what you’re interested in or what sort of information would be useful to you. All ideas, comments and questions welcome.
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”
– Opening sentence from ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D. Salinger, dead today at 91.
Fred Wilson is a VC and principal of Union Square Ventures. As a VC, he points out a consistent error made by entrepreneurs pitching their business plans:
As I look over the business plans and projections that these entrepreneurs share with us, one thing I constantly see is a lack of sophistication in calculating the investor’s return.
Wilson proposes instead an ROI calculation method called the cash flow method. It’s very interesting, and you can read about it here. He even provides an example of the method via Google Docs.
(Via Dan Benjamin)
How not to say what you mean in business.
Why some comedy writers aren’t laughing at Jay Leno.
Speaking of Leno, I’ve seen this all over the place lately, making its way around the ‘tubes.
Baratunde Thurston speculates how MLK Jr. might have used Twitter. (“Who is Chuck Norris, and why is everyone tweeting about him?”)
Interesting invitation design for next Wednesday’s Apple announcement. In particular, it’s curious how it emphasizes color. The only thing keeping me back from getting a Kindle is the lack of color and a more sophisticated presentation layer. Give me OLED color, good resolution, top-grade typography and I’ll read all my media on the device.
Probably not the kind of flattering he’s looking for.
The sound design of Transformers 2.
Andreas Bick, a sound artist and composer living in Berlin, shows us that ice cracking and shifting sounds just like blaster fire in Star Wars.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
