MiPro Consulting

	August 2008

Changes

It's been a few months since our last newsletter, and during that time, a few things have changed.

Number one, the look and feel of ProNews has been refreshed. We're hoping you find this cleaner, more readable and easier to navigate.

Second, we are going to be increasing the frequency of publication, so this will be coming to you every 4-6 weeks instead of once per quarter. We'll be focusing on short, digestible content so the newsletters aren't too long.

We hope you welcome these changes to the newsletter format and frequency. We know everyone is running lean in the attention economy these days, and we respect that. Our goal is to make these short, entertaining and useful, and we'd love to hear how we're doing. Drop us a line and let us know.

Best,

Chris Bishop
President
MiPro Consulting

By: April Black and Jack Kochie,
Sr. Principal Consultants

From PeopleSoft 8.9 to 9.0, some of the invoice matching and processing rules changed significantly, and we find many of our clients don't know about the changes in any sort of detail. At a high-level, here are the biggest-hitting changes:

9.0 includes all features of prior releases
Expanded document association included (e.g. receipt selection)
Expanded rules engine (contexts: summary, tolerance, global), which provide:
- More flexibility
- Flow control (allows matching - i.e. check all or check first)
- Summary rules
- Rule tolerances
Auto-matching with debit memos
Configurable matching workbench
Expanded workflow

As for what we get asked about steadily, it's the intricacies of the rules engine.

By: Jeff Ventura,
Director, Marketing

As much as we dig your emails, nothing beats meeting our clients face-to-face. For August, you can catch us at two regional user groups:

	August 14th: Upper Midwest RUG, University of MN St. Paul
	August 21st: Ohio RUG, Columbus OH

Come on by and say hi and tell us what your PeopleSoft/Workday/Authoria project radar looks like. Tell us what issues you're facing, especially in light of the current economic landscape. We hear all sorts of things, and we're very interested in what challenges your business is facing.

By: Jeff Ventura,
Director, Marketing

After much ado about theme and layout/design, the MiPro blog is now online. Called MiPro Unfiltered, it covers PeopleSoft, Workday, Authoria, ER, SaaS spaces, as well as general business, industry moves and general nerdery. I'd love for you to come by and take a look, and even subscribe to our RSS feed if you like what you see. I promise you it's not a shill blog, which means we don't plug ourselves shamelessly. We focus on relevant, eclectic and interesting content, and we post pretty frequently. Give us a look!

If full-on blogs seem so 2004 to you, you can follow us on Twitter and dispense with anything greater than 140-character updates. Check our Twitterstream out here.

By: Jeff Micallef,
Managing Partner

One of the most difficult things to do is to walk away from an opportunity. Even though you know in your heart it's the right thing to do, it is always difficult.

A few weeks ago we made a tough decision that only recently demonstrated that it was the right course of action.

One of our trusted partners brought us in early to a consulting opportunity. We continuously ask to be brought in early versus at the last minute so we can add value throughout the process, and in this case our partner obliged. We were very pleased to eventually earn a verbal approval from the customer. Soon thereafter, however, we found the customer's legal counsel exceptionally challenging to work with in attempting to negotiate a contract.

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