We understand the value and power of networking and bench-marking and so we are always looking to connect PeopleSoft customers with shared interests through dinners, events and informal contacts. To find out more information about future PeopleSoft networking opportunities please email info@cedarconsulting.co.uk

Date to be confirmed - PeopleSoft Recruitment Functionality Seminar: London

This Seminar will focus on the latest versions of the PeopleSoft recruitment solution. It will explain how the new functionality can be utilised to improve the quality and efficiency of the recruitment process. This seminar will also reference various project work completed, along with the pitfalls and lessons learnt along the way.

Date to be confirmed – 2nd PeopleSoft Global Payroll Forum: London

An excellent opportunity to network with other Global Payroll users, discuss common issues and hear about the future direction of Global Payroll.

17th June, 2008 - Financials Upgrade Event: London

Similar to the HCM Upgrade event, an event to highlight the opportunities and issues faced when upgrading to the later releases of PeopleSoft Financials (v8.9/9.0), together with some shared experiences from upgrade projects. This seminar will also summarise the major functionality changes within these later releases.

23rd January, 2008 - PeopleSoft HCM Upgrade Seminar: London

60 guests from over 24 PeopleSoft HCM utilizing organizations attended a content filled half day seminar. This event highlighted the opportunities and issues that can be faced when upgrading to the laterest releases of PeopleSoft HCM (v8.9/9.0).

This Cedar Consulting, Oracle and Orion event was broken down into different sessions. Firstly Orion Partners drilled down into the Strategic Process considerations of upgrading. Following this there was a session run by Laura Smith focusing on some major Technical considerations when upgrading. Mike Everitt from Oracle summarized some of the major functionality changes within PeopleSoft v9.0. Saint-Gobain then explained their story of upgrading HCM and Payroll to v8.9, plus moving from a SQL Server to Oracle. Craig Parkins then briefly explained the ‘PeopleSoft Upgrade Feasibility Study’ offering from Cedar Consulting. Finally, James Bennett from Oracle described the new PeopleSoft Guardian Program, which aims to support PeopleSoft UK customers wherever they are in the upgrade process. To view the slides from these sessions please follow the below links:

* Orion Partners – Strategic Considerations (click here to see slides)
* Technical Session – Laura Smith (click here to see slides)
* Customer Story – Saint-Gobain (click here to see slides)
* PeopleSoft Upgrade Feasibility Study offering from Cedar Consulting. (click here to see document)
* Joint Upgrade Support Services slide and contact numbers.(click here to see slide)

December 2007 – Oracle OUG: Birmingham

Cedar Consulting co-presented on an international Global Payroll v8.9 roll-out (click here to see slides - 2MB) and an international HCM v9 implementation.

December 2007 - PeopleSoft HCM Upgrade Seminar: London

An event to highlight the opportunities and issues faced when upgrading to the later releases of PeopleSoft HCM (v8.9/9.0), together with some shared experiences from upgrade projects. This seminar will also summarise the major functionality changes within these later releases.

5th of November - PeopleSoft Portal Seminar – Scotland

This event followed the very well received PeopleSoft Portal seminar recently run in the City. The seminar focused on a functional overview of the PeopleSoft Portal products, an implementation story from managers at BSkyB and a demonstration from Oracle.

25th October - 6th PeopleSoft Executive Dinner

This was the sixth in our program of Oracle and Cedar Consulting Dinners for Senior Executives within the PeopleSoft community. The event was hosted at the Great Eastern Hotel in Liverpool Street. Thirty five senior Executives heard our prestigious key note speaker for the evening, Dr Adrian Atkinson. He is a business psychologist, strategic advisor and executive coach who travels the world advising CEO’s and senior management. His informative and provocative speech created an excellent debate throughout the dinner. Also we would like to again extend our thanks to James Bennett from Oracle and Heather Davies from the UK OUG for their updates on the latest news from the PeopleSoft world.

Dr Adrian Atkinson

Heather Davies from the UK OUG

Cedar Consulting have agreed to Sponsor the next four PeopleSoft focused UK Oracle User Groups SIG’s. These meetings provide a valuable forum for the PeopleSoft community to meet up and discuss shared issues and solutions as well as hear the latest updates from Oracle. For information on joining the UK OUG please go to http://www.ukoug.org/membership

Meeting dates confirmed are:

17th May - PeopleSoft Financials, Technology, HCM and Payroll SIG’s (click here)
4th September – PeopleSoft HR and Payroll SIG (click here)
11th September – PeopleSoft Financials SIG (click here)
26th September – PeopleSoft Technology SIG (click here)

Throughout 2007 - Oracle and Cedar Consulting HCM Road Show

Oracle ran a series of roadshows last November asking the question: "Are you getting the most out of your Oracle & PeopleSoft Human Capital Management investment?"

With over 140 attendees representing 120 organisations, the customer feedback has been extremely positive. With Cedar Consulting supporting we have now put together a countrywide Roadshow Tour for 2007 designed to inform and educate you on the valued added components of the our HCM solutions (both eBusiness and PeopleSoft). We will also cover the latest developments (release 12 and 9 respectively) and provide a chance for you to meet our team in a relaxed and open environment.

This 2007 Road show plans to cover: Edinburgh, Manchester, London, Reading, Birmingham and Dublin.

If you want to attend any of these sessions please email: simon.boscoe@cedarconsulting.co.uk. Alternatively for more information please contact Mel Darvill on +44 (0) 118 92 45267

3rd May 2007 - 5th PeopleSoft Executive Dinner

On the 3rd of May we held our most successful PeopleSoft Customer Executive Dinner to date. This joint Oracle and Cedar Consulting event provided an opportunity to hear direct from top level Oracle/PeopleSoft executives, who gave a brief update and insight into their current and future PeopleSoft related plans and thinking. This included the introduction of the new "Oracle Guardian" Strategy for UK PeopleSoft Customers.

Heather Davies from Oxfam also spoke about the Oracle User Group (OUG) SIG’s plans for 2007, which Cedar Consulting will be co-sponsoring (please click here for dates). These SIG’s provide an essential independent forum for PeopleSoft Customers.

For this our 5th PeopleSoft Customer Executive Dinner we were also privileged and delighted to have the opportunity to hear from a top keynote speaker, Rene Carayol, who delivered a charismatic speech on Best-Practice Leadership for Senior Executives.

Rene Carayol MBE is a highly distinguished thought-leadership keynote speaker with international recognition for his charismatic best practice business presentations. He has had outstanding success in the boardroom, as a media personality, as a best-selling business author and the presenter of the BBC2 finance program "How to pay off your mortgage in 2 years". Rene has also set up Inspired leaders in the United Kingdom and in South Africa.

If you are interested in attending any future PeopleSoft events then please email simon.boscoe@cedarconsulting.co.uk

Wednesday 21st March 2007 - PeopleSoft Portal Seminar

With the growing ubiquity of the web and internet savvy among workforces, organisations are increasingly asking how they can effectively deliver information and functionality to users beyond the corporate functions. But how do we deliver complex ERP systems to people who have day jobs, ensure they only see what they need to see, so that the information they want is immediately accessible and in a way that requires minimal training? The answer to these questions is often to use some kind of Portal.

PeopleSoft, anticipating this trend, incorporated the portal technologies of personalisation and pagelet navigation into the core products from 8.4 and then extended them with the Portal Packs, and the Community / Enterprise Portal products.

For a PeopleSoft user a valid set of questions might be, "what exactly do these products do?", "can they help my organization?" and "what have been the experiences of others?"

On the 21st of March, over twenty European and Global PeopleSoft customers attended a seminar that focused purely on the above questions. Colin McCartney from BSkyB kindly presented his experience of implementing Portal across PeopleSoft HR v8.8 (click here to see slides - 2MB). Graham Varley from Cedar Consulting also broke down the different types of functionality within Portal, Portal Pack and Enterprise Portal (click here to see slides - 4MB).

Finally, Colin Daniels from Oracle presented a demonstration on PeopleSoft Portal to the guests so they could view the system in action.

Due to the great success of this event we are considering running a second seminar for clients who were unable to attend. If you are interested in finding out more please email info@cedarconsulting.co.uk for more details.

Date to be confirmed – PeopleSoft Financials Event.

"Upgrading Financials to v8.9 or 9.0"

With interest increasing in upgrading PeopleSoft Financials to version v8.9 and 9.0, Cedar Consulting are planning to hold a fourth quarter event to explore the issues and benefits of such a move. Details will follow but please contact us if you would like to find out more. (simon.boscoe@cedarconsulting.co.uk or telephone +44 (0) 7738 024826.)

Tuesday 5th December – Global Payroll Forum.

On the 5th of December Cedar Consulting, in association with Oracle, held the first of an on-going programme of Global Payroll Forums. The majority of PeopleSoft UK Global Payroll Customer base were represented at this event located at the London Oracle City Office. The session was split into three distinct parts.

Special thanks must go to all the speakers for their excellent presentations. This developing forum is giving customers the platform to network and share ideas on the on-going development of the PeopleSoft Global Payroll product.

Alex Lightstone presentation on the new enhancements to the Global Payroll Product.

Gary Lindsay explaining the impact of the new bundles.

John Webb presenting the future strategy for the PeopleSoft product

Tuesday 12th September 2006 – PeopleSoft Executive Dinner

"Changing corporate HR to become more business focused"

The fourth in the series of Cedar Consulting and Oracle sponsored "PeopleSoft Executive Dinners" took place at the Westbury Hotel, London. Over 45 guests from 23 PeopleSoft customers enjoyed an entertaining and informative evening.

This exclusive event gave Senior IT and Business Leaders the opportunity to network with their fellow PeopleSoft colleagues. Many thanks to Lawrence Clark from Oracle, who spoke about the robust future of the PeopleSoft Product and fielded questions from the floor about such subjects as Apps Unlimited (Oracle slides will appear here soon).

There has also been excellent feedback from our guest speaker Randel Tajer, Managing Director of Tajer Pearson and Associates. Randel gave a charismatic and highly informative talk on the changing face of HR within corporate business. (Randel’s slides will appear here soon).

Tuesday 9th May 2006 - Dinner & Discussion

"HCM technologies and delivery: Present and the future"
Insights from the CedarCrestone HCM Survey

The second in the series of Cedar Consulting and Oracle Dinner and Discussion events for PeopleSoft customers and associates. This executive level event offers a rare opportunity to hear Lexy Martin, Director of Research and Analytics for CedarCrestone US discuss the latest trends in the adoption of Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions and service delivery approaches.

Now in its eighth year, the survey covers the status and plans for both in-house and outsourced services delivery. Its hallmark is its coverage of the value achieved by the applications and approaches, which can help to justify investment and the prioritisation of planned workforce technology initiatives. (click here to see slides)

Wednesday 1st February 2006

Dinner & Discussion featuring British Red Cross

British Red Cross discuss how the organisation transitioned to PeopleSoft 8.9 - the first organisation to do so - and the benefits they have gained. Dinner and breakout groups allow the opportunity to network within specific discussion groups focused around the areas of HCM, Financials and Technology.

Thursday 20th October 2005

Breakfast Seminar featuring University of Surrey

The University of Surrey and Cedar Consulting discuss the implementation of e-Recruit.