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PeopleSoft and Accessibility: A Practical Starting Point

By Padmaja Kurumaddali posted 4 days ago
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Accessibility isn't new. It's been a good practice, and in many cases a requirement, for years. What's changed is that it's no longer optional or something to get to eventually. Updated ADA Title II rules now adopt WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the legal standard, and the scope covers employee-facing systems and third-party vendor software, not just public websites. That puts PeopleSoft, and every customization built on top of it, squarely in scope for most universities, agencies, and enterprises. This shift is catching a lot of teams unprepared. Delivered PeopleSoft functionality can meet a baseline, but customizations and configurations often don't, and most organizations ...
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Member Sessions Are the Real Value of Alliance! Submit Yours By 9/11

By Adam Bowling posted 5 days ago
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Way back in 2019, I had the opportunity to attend my very first Alliance conference. At the time, I felt like I barely knew anything about PeopleSoft. What could I possibly learn from all these presentations that were on the cutting edge of the ERP world? Even if I did learn something, how could I possibly contribute to the other members? It was daunting. I imagine that this is how many new users feel when they are able to attend their first Alliance conference, and maybe even their second or third. But after attending Alliance for the last seven years, I've learned that every member has something they can contribute. While the experience that each attendee ...
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Query Prompt Series Session 1 - Wildcard Prompts

By Paula McDaniel posted 6 days ago
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PS Query Prompts Series: Give Users More Ways to Search Series Overview A prompt lets the person running a query choose a value without changing the query itself. That works nicely when users know exactly what they want. Of course, that is not always how it goes. Sometimes they want to use only part of a value, need several values, or do not want to limit the results by that field at all. This series looks at four ways to give users a little more flexibility: 1. Wildcard prompts: Search for values that match a pattern. 2. Optional prompts: Enter a value or leave the prompt blank to skip that filter. 3. Comma-delimited ...
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How I used AI to pick a solid visual for a one-slide story

By Anna Kourouniotis posted 10 days ago
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I think it is fair to say for the most part, a simple bar graph – whether horizontal, vertical, or stacked – meets most needs. The benefit with bar graphs is that you can easily compare categories either in a single or multiple points in time (granted, line charts are better at changes over time). There are several chart guides and catalogs out there that aid in the selection process and these are typically the places I go to directly when I need inspiration or validation for my own selections (I admit to my own biases). What I have been experimenting with lately is working with AI to explore how to visualize data differently. This post describes my process, ...
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Examples from Colleagues why they are important

By Sandra Asebedo posted 11 days ago
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Examples from Colleagues why they are important ROWSET Sandra Asebedo UT Arlington COP- Connected Campus Member I had originally planned on sharing with you a rowset example I received from a Colleague. I was new to People Code and had written basic sql statements. I know found myself needing to Traverse a sql output in People Code. The colleague was more than happy to provide a basic example of traversing a rowset. This proved very valuable to my career in PeopleSoft as a Programmer. Armed with this basic knowledge I was able to branch out and not only traverse the output of a SQL Statement, but, learn to use rowsets ...
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Steady in the Storm: What We’ve Learned About AI in ERP (Part 1 of 5)

By Scott Antin posted 11 days ago
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The organizations that navigate market disruption well tend to have one thing in common: they’ve seen the pattern before. We’re watching that pattern play out again right now with AI, and the version of it we learned first, years ago, is worth telling. About a decade ago, PeopleSoft released a native forms automation tool called Forms and Approval Builder, or FAB. The reaction across the PeopleSoft community was understandable. There was excitement, and a collective exhale. If the platform organizations were already running was about to deliver forms automation, why invest in a third-party solution? Organizations that had been evaluating GT eForms paused ...
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HCMS Spotlight Month Recap: Highlights, Recordings, and What's Next

By Carmina Vasquez posted 12 days ago
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Thank you to everyone who participated in HCMS Spotlight Month. Throughout August, members of the HEUG Human Capital Management Systems (HCMS) community came together to share experiences, exchange ideas, and strengthen professional connections through discussions, knowledge sharing, and collaborative learning. From Time & Labor and Payroll to Recruiting and member-generated content, HCMS Spotlight Month showcased the value of community-driven engagement and reinforced what makes HEUG so impactful: members helping members succeed. HCMS Spotlight Month Highlights 💼 PeopleSoft Time & Labor / Absence Management Roundtable ...
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Connecting SLATE and Campus Solutions – Integrations lessons Learned

By Sagaya Alphonse posted 12 days ago
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Boston University recently implemented Technolutions Slate for graduate admissions, while PeopleSoft Campus Solutions (CS) continues to serve as the system of record. As we worked through the integration, we found that the challenge was about much more than moving data between two systems. Some of the most important decisions involved system ownership, transaction management, error handling, and long-term supportability . In this article, I wanted to share a few lessons from our implementation that may be helpful to other institutions connecting Slate, Campus Solutions, or similar CRM-to-SIS platforms. A consolidated view of the integration ...
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UKG Differential Hours Overpaid in PeopleSoft Payroll

By Sathiyamoorthy Ramu posted 13 days ago
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Issue This was a production issue where KWD differential hours received from UKG were overpaid in PeopleSoft Payroll . UKG (Kronos) sent the KWD licensed weekend differential hours , which were successfully loaded into PeopleSoft through PSHUP and processed by Payroll. The hours were correct , and there were no issues with the inbound time data. However, the employee's paycheck amount was significantly higher than expected. The issue was identified after Payroll Confirmation when the calculated earnings were reviewed. Example An hourly employee had: KWD Hours: 10 hours Expected KWD Differential Rate: $2.00 per hour The expected ...
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Still using paper forms or a form tool that sits outside PeopleSoft?

By Ron Anderson posted 13 days ago
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Some institutions still collect information the same way they did years ago: a paper form in the office, a PDF in email, or an online form that lives in another system. The form itself is rarely the hard part. The hard part is everything after someone submits it. The data is not in PeopleSoft. Disconnected forms create extra work. Staff confirm the data and re-key it. The student or employee transaction is not real time and they do not see a response until someone loads it. XTend from Lagniappe Software lives inside PeopleSoft. Functional users build and test easy to create forms and surveys. Data lands in a lean, query-ready schema. You can pre-populate ...
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Test Blog

By Anna Kourouniotis posted 17 days ago
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Connected Campus Wants Presenters of Every Kind for Alliance 2027

By Anna Kourouniotis posted 24 days ago
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Your production environment survived another year, and honestly, so did you! Connected Campus wants to hear how. Submit a proposal to present at HEUG Alliance 2027 in San Antonio , where "have you tried turning it off and on again" is a legitimate opening keynote. What are we looking for? Successes, failures, panel discussions, and everything in between — bring what you've got. During a recent Coffee Hour, community members expressed interest in seeing more sessions on AI (surprising), PeopleSoft Reporting tools, onboarding new analysts, App Designer for business analysts, PeopleTools retrospective, retrofitting and aligning the new ...
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Your Story Could Inspire the HEUG HCMS Community

By Carmina Vasquez posted 08-05-2026
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The Alliance 2027 Call for Proposals is officially open! I recently recorded a short message for our HEUG HCMS community to encourage you to share your experiences, ideas, and lessons learned. Take a minute to watch the video, then consider how your story could inspire others. 🎥 Alliance 2027 Call for Proposals Every day, HCM professionals across higher education are finding innovative ways to solve challenges, improve processes, and better support their institutions. In the video, I shared a message that I hope resonates with every member of our community: Don't assume your story isn't big enough. It is. ...
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What Wolfram Saw Coming: Computational Thinking as the New Literacy for Higher Ed Analysts

By Anna Kourouniotis posted 07-13-2026
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When I wrote “Messy Data, Meet Computational Thinking” for the HEUG Connected Campus community last September, I was mostly trying to make sense of a very unglamorous afternoon that comprised of merging a CSV, a delimited text file, and a duplicate-riddled Excel sheet into something Tableau could actually read. What surprised me wasn’t that AI ( Microsoft Analyst ) cleaned it up. It was that watching the tool work felt like watching computational thinking come to life: decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithmic thinking, all on display in one real problem. Recently I came across Conrad Wolfram’s work on computational thinking ...
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XTend was built for functional users!

By Ron Anderson posted 07-13-2026
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Attention PeopleSoft customers: Here are some facts about XTend from Lagniappe Software: XTend lives inside of your PeopleSoft environment. Easier to build, easier to test. Zero weeks of training — your team is building forms on Day 1 Better UI for all end users — clean, modern, works on all devices. All data is collected into a concise, lean set of tables—creating a clean, query-ready schema that makes real-time reporting effortless. Let’s schedule a short demo so I can show you how easy it is to build and test content with XTend. Reach out at contact@lanyapps.com or visit our website at www.lanyapps.com ...
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Part 3 – The Data Quality Assistant: Catching Bad Data With SQL You Already Know

By Anna Kourouniotis posted 06-25-2026
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A documented environment is great. A documented environment full of bad data is just well-organized trouble. So let’s close the loop. Data quality (DQ) work usually dies in the gap between “we should really check this” and “we don’t have a DQ platform.” Checks get written once, they live in somebody’s saved SQL file, and never run again. Then a bad data load slips through and we find out from a director’s dashboard instead of from ourselves. I don't like that! That is scary. How the agent helps The Data Quality Assistant turns your playbook into a helper that writes and explains checks in plain SQL. It suggests sensible thresholds and, just as important, ...
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Part 2 – The Data Dictionary Builder: Documenting PeopleSoft Without a Vendor Tool

By Anna Kourouniotis posted 06-17-2026
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Last time we met the Analytics Solution Consultant , the strategist of the group. This one's the workhorse, and if you run PeopleSoft, you already know the pain it's aimed at. Thousands of PS_ tables. Cryptic field names.Knowledge locked in one DBA's head. And the vendor cataloging tool is either out of budget or out of scope. So the data dictionary that everyone agrees you need never quite gets written. How the agent helps The Data Dictionary Builder works like a cookbook. You're not asking Copilot to magically know your schema. You're giving it the recipes. It walks whoever's doing the documenting through pulling structure straight from PeopleSoft's ...
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CVE-2026-35273 : When the Door You Forgot Was There Gets Kicked In

By Francisco Pier Png Yong Sing posted 06-13-2026
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CVE-2026-35273 and What the PeopleSoft Zero-Day Campaign Means for Higher Education Between 27 May and 9 June 2026, a cybercrime group called ShinyHunters quietly worked through a list. They were not guessing. They were not phishing. They had a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft — a critical flaw in a background component called the Environment Management Hub (PSEMHUB) — and they had automated scripts capable of scanning the internet, identifying every exposed PeopleSoft instance, and compromising it without a single login credential. By the time Oracle published its advisory on 10 June, the attackers had already been inside 300 PeopleSoft environments ...
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Three Copilot Agents Worth Building for Your Analytics Team

By Anna Kourouniotis posted 06-12-2026
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Part 1 – Meet the Analytics Solution Consultant (and a Quick Primer on Copilot Agents) If your work at a Microsoft institution, then this post is for you. And if you do analytics work in higher ed, you probably have more questions than tools to answer them, and more tools than people to run them. Over the next three posts I want to walk through three Copilot agents that can help with exactly that kind of problem. The nice part is they’re built on things most of us already have sitting in your Microsoft space. Let’s start with what a Copilot agent actually is. So what’s a Copilot agent, really? Think of it as a focused version of Microsoft Copilot that ...
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June 2026 Update: What Oracle’s AI Announcement Means for Your Organization

By Scott Antin posted 06-08-2026
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Last month, Oracle made some meaningful announcements about the future of AI in PeopleSoft. Russell Broom, Oracle’s VP of PeopleSoft Strategy, published a full recap of the keynote that covers the roadmap in detail. If you want the technical specifics on what’s coming in PeopleTools 8.63, that’s a great place to start: PeopleSoft Technology Powers Modern Solutions for Stakeholders . Having met with Oracle’s PeopleSoft leadership at the conference, here’s our take on what these announcements actually mean for the decisions your institution is facing right now. Infrastructure Is Not a Solution The throughline of Oracle’s generative AI strategy for PeopleSoft ...
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