PeopleSoft and the Future of ERP
In this two-part series, GreyHeller founders and former, early PeopleSoft Technical Strategists, Larry Grey and Chris Heller will discuss ERP trends and how they affect PeopleSoft customers. Part I will discuss Gartner’s recently published 2015 Strategic Road Map for Postmodern ERP and how the opportunities and challenges affect PeopleSoft customers. Part II will be a demo-intensive session showing how GreyHeller customers are meeting these challenges today.
Part I
July 15 • 11am PST
According to Gartner, Monolithic ERP solutions are being deconstructed into postmodern ERP that will result in a more federated, loosely coupled ERP environment with much of the functionality sourced as cloud services or via business process outsourcers. This direction is driven by a need to support strategic, organization-wide functionality that is more flexible, secure, integrated, and modern.
Where does this leave you as a PeopleSoft customer? Do you need to replace PeopleSoft to achieve the architecture and benefits to drive your organization in the future, or do you have an option to leverage it along with other cloud-based solutions?
This session will answer these questions as well as describe how PeopleSoft can be part of a hybrid approach to utilizing PeopleSoft and the cloud:
- Where PeopleSoft fits
- Integration considerations, including data and security
- User experience modernization
- Lifecycle Management and compliance
- Control over functionality and infrastructure
Part II
July 29 • 11am PST
This session will discuss how GreyHeller customers are utilizing our technology today to utilize PeopleSoft effectively in their postmodern ERP roadmap. This demo-intensive session will include customer case studies and product demonstrations that illustrate how to flexibly and safely retain your PeopleSoft investment by evolving its role from being a monolithic application to a key component of your hybrid ERP architecture.
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Security: how to protect your most sensitive data and processes in an ever-evolving cybercrime landscape
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Identity Management: how to leverage multiple identity providers for your different constituents — Candidates, Vendors, Employees using solutions such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Azure, and on-premise resources
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User Experience: how to provide a seamless solution that is modern, looks consistent across cloud and on-premise components, and is easy to use
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Flexibility: how to evolve the functionality you deploy rapidly
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Lifecycle Management: how to keep up with new updates (driven by regulatory or business value requirements) while keeping a low TCO
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Integration: how to control all of the integrations between each of the component
GreyHeller Annual ERP Upgrade Survey Results
At GreyHeller we speak with hundreds of ERP systems customers every year across all industries. Because we develop and license enterprise-class software products that modernize and secure PeopleSoft, we work closely with them on whether they should stay with their current, older system or migrate to a newer, more modern ERP system.
In order to help ERP customers understand what their peers are doing, we surveyed over 12,000 ERP customers – across all major platforms – about their degree of customization as well as their plans to upgrade.
- 75% of survey respondents have moderately or highly customized their ERP systems
- 57% of survey respondents have no plans to upgrade their ERP systems in the next 2 years or ever
ERP systems are designed to suit a broad range of industries. The 75% with moderately or highly customized ERP systems built those customizations to specifically address their unique requirements with the key benefits being efficiency/cost savings, competitive advantage, user adoption and security against cyber crime. Considering that an average ERP implementation costs over $7 million, takes nearly 17 months to complete and delivers less than 50% of expected benefits (Panorama Consulting), it makes total sense that 57% have no plans to upgrade their systems in the next 2 years, or ever.
Let’s consider this: according to Cedar Crestone’s 2013-14 HR Systems survey, the #1 reason organizations switch to a modern ERP system is to improve user experience.
Let’s also consider this: according to FBI Director James Comey, there are 2 types of organizations in the US – those that have been breached and those that don’t know they’ve been breached.
Eureka! If the 75% could modernize and secure while maintaining their customizations, and the 57% could offer their users a more modern, secure user experience, organizations could avoid costly migrations to new ERP platforms and eliminate the risk of a failed or underwhelming project…would that not be the most desirable outcome?
We think so.
Of course, our software does exactly that. We focus on modernizing and securing PeopleSoft. We help PeopleSoft ERP customers deliver a richer, more modern user experience while protecting their PeopleSoft assets from cyber crime. Our customers save millions of dollars by not replacing PeopleSoft. Their users are happy. Their customizations remain intact. Cyber criminals are thwarted from stealing sensitive data.
Fore more information, or to schedule a private PeopleMobile® demo contact us.
Click here to take part in our Annual ERP Security Survey. Your input is valuable and can help protect organizations from internal and external threats.
