Fusion Apps witnessed in the flesh!

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Do you want the good news or the bad news first?  Let’s start with the good news …

Floyd Teter, an Oracle envangelist and big name in the User Group community in the US has had a trip to Oracle and has seen some Fusion Apps in the flesh.  He mentions that whilst they’re not ready yet, they’re looking pretty good.  This is all excellent news as we’ve had little to go on with Oracle’s almost radio silence on release dates and the like.  Most of us out here genuinely want to be excited by what’s coming down the pipeline so info like this is very welcome.

There’s no mention of which Apps were witnessed, let’s hope it was some rough cut versions of Financials or HR, and not the rather niche CRM apps that it seems are going to released first, along with (I expect) much heralding of ‘see, we delivered on time’ etc.

There are lots of encouraging snippets for those of us that would like Fusion to be a success with talk that it is “next-generation” and “intuitive”, with “Web 2.0” functionality and collaboration plus “embedded analytics”.  Us PeopleSoft folk are used to our app being slightly ahead of the curve, so this is excellent news.

Floyd’s full write-up – and it’s worth a read – is here.

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3 thoughts on “Fusion Apps witnessed in the flesh!”

    Roy Joslin said:
    September 11, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    I will be monitoring your fusion posts with great interest. I am particularly interested in the effect on the PeopleSoft realm. Will Fusion lead to a drop in younger workers willing to learn PeopleTools? I read recently that the bulk of engineers will soon be either 60 or 20. Is PeopleSoft headed in the same direction?

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    Roy Joslin said:
    September 15, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    It looks like Fusion applications will be a “No PeopleTools” zone. What effect will this fact have on the PeopleSoft technical workforce? Younger workers?

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    Tipster said:
    September 22, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    Roy, there’s a post by Frank Scavo on this very issue.

    http://fscavo.blogspot.com/2008/09/is-there-really-sap-and-oracle-skills.html

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