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May 16, 2012

By Alexia Martin

I’m really excited to let you know we are getting ready to launch our 15^th Annual CedarCrestone HR Systems Survey. Fifteen years…yikes, that means I’m fifteen years older. But I’m still pretty excited as we have some great things going on. Look for an invitation after May 23^rdor drop me a line with a request!! You may also provide your email address here, and you will be informed when the survey is live.

The survey is still a comprehensive research effort providing organizations with data to plan, justify, benchmark, and execute HR technologies. more »

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May 14, 2012

The Time to Review your Supply Change Management Solution is Now

By Ricky Arredondo

“Never before has the business case for transformation in the healthcare supply chain been so persuasive…While the future is unclear, most agree that at least some things are certain. Healthcare costs must come down. Hospitals and other care providers will be reimbursed on value, not volume. And hospitals will need to survive on Medicare reimbursement levels.” Driving Transformation in the Healthcare Supply Chain: Change Can Be Good for Your Bottom Line, GHX 2012

Today’s health care Supply Chain Management (SCM) challenge require process improvement, rapid development and implementation timelines that will meet evolving governmental mandates and address today’s high-velocity as hospitals are under increasing pressure to keep supply costs down…despite the near constant business change. more »

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May 8, 2012

Understanding Oracle PeopleSoft Position Management

By Dennis Bortolus

There has been a lot of confusion, particularly in the higher education world about Position Management and Commitment Accounting modules in Oracle’s PeopleSoft HCM suite. A good number of colleges have posed two questions to me lately:

How do we go about implementing Position Management?
What is Position Management? more »

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April 26, 2012

The Project Quality Review – A Helpful Friend or A Pesky Foe

By Vickie Cleary, PMP

I’ve spent a great deal of my career leading or facilitating quality management for technology projects and programs. These days I focus my energy on Project Quality Reviews. Project Quality Reviews address the need for independent review and analysis to determine if a project: (a) is on track to be completed within the estimated schedule and cost, and (b) will provide the functionality required by the sponsoring business entity. Performed proactively, this review process is designed to enhance a project’s probability for success. more »

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April 17, 2012

Legacy Back Office Systems are Costing Healthcare

By Ricky Arredondo

Okay blog readers, I have been saying this for years, the two (2) biggest controllable cost factors in Healthcare continue to rise: Labor and Supply Chain. So allow me to offer the following statistic from US Bureau of Labor Statistics (2008), Thomson Reuter Healthcare (2009) and, RC Healthcare (2011). more »

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March 23, 2012

Deciding on Using an Oracle AIA PIP

By Chris Judson

Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Process Integration Packs (PIP) is a concept that was created by Oracle to provide out of the box integrations between their various ERP systems. Their initial intention was to create a marketplace where Oracle partners could create PIPs and sell them to Oracle customers. This concept initially led to several PIPs to be created but as time has gone on many of the Oracle partners have limited or stopped supporting the PIPs that they have created. There are a couple of things to consider when evaluating the use of PIPs: more »

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March 15, 2012

Expand Your Training Staff in a Few Hours? We Did It!

By Kent Sipes

Getting the word out about your new PeopleSoft system is one of the most important and challenging tasks associated with an implementation or upgrade. So many resources must be devoted to the project that universal utilization of the system is crucial. But how do you spread the word with a limited training & communications staff?

Diffusion of Innovations research indicates that staff members are much more likely to react positively to messages about the new system when those messages are delivered by their peers. Those new to training & communications often lack one or more of the basic skills necessary to make them successful at delivering these messages, but with a few tools and some coaching, they can be very effective. more »

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March 14, 2012

Lessons from The Split

By Michael Kennedy

I started working on the CS / HCM split full time while helping Palomar College with their split project in 2011. They went live in October with little to no disruption. CedarCrestone was fortunate to be part of Oracle’s Early Adopter Program, which gave us frequent access to the right individuals in the Oracle Campus Solutions group when we needed help. Since Palomar, I have worked on a large number of split projects with a dedicated group of consultants at CedarCrestone. At each split client, regardless of their size, type of institution, or split approach, there are a number of common activities. This blog discusses a few of them. more »

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March 14, 2012

Lessons Learned from Going Global: Two Organization Types Outperform!

By Alexia Martin

The new white paper Lessons Learned from Going Global: Two Organization Types Outperform! reviewing how Multinational, Global, International, and Transnational organization types adopt HR technology is now available. The research is based on 338 organizations with operations in multiple countries that responded to the CedarCrestone HR Systems Survey (http://www.cedarcrestone.com/serv_annual_survey.php )

We’ve tried something different with this report and it was a breakthrough for me. It’s short! That was hard to accomplish as there’s just so much interesting material that a data geek like me and my team can find. more »

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	Alexandra Lozano Senior Consultant – PeopleSoft Portal Lead
	Alexia Martin Director, Research & Analytics
	Chris Ahern Higher Education General Manager for CedarCrestone
	Chris Judson Chief Architect of Fusion Middleware Solutions
	Chris Lane Senior Solution Architect
	Daniel Frye Associate Vice President of Corporate Security
	Dennis Bortolus Principal Consultant
	Dinesh Madireddy Consulting Director
	Helen Freese Senior Financials Consultant
	Janet Fleming Senior Consultant, Certified Business Intelligence Professional
	Jeff Johnson Manager – Remote Help Desk
	Kent Sipes Senior Consultant, Communications and Training
	Liz Dietz Vice President of Higher Education
	Marquis Montgomery Security & Development Engineer
	Matt Luby
	Michael Kennedy Solutions Architect
	Ricky Arredondo Director of Healthcare Solutions
	Tim Gehrig Vice President of Technical Solutions
	Todd McElroy Vice President of Higher Education Service Delivery
	Vickie Cleary, PMP
	Vince Salvato Vice President of Fusion Middleware Solutions

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