ERPA PeopleSoft Rapid Fluid Deployment (Case Study)

PeopleSoft is still going strong with an estimated four thousand plus (4886) application installations thanks to customer-driven innovation, continuous investment, and a global product development team one thousand (1,000) strong. Features such as Selective Adoption, Simplified Analytics, Elastic Search, WorkCenters, Fluid UI, and Clustered Environments maintain PeopleSoft’s position as a powerful solution for businesses operations globally.

In the past seven years since version 9.2 was released most customers of Oracle’s PeopleSoft applications focused on upgrading their ecosystem to 9.2 on PeopleTools 8.53 and then continue to upgrade PeopleTools through the current 8.57 release. While the new technical foundation allowed for things like WorkCenters, Form Builder, and Fluid development many organizations did not look to adopt new features immediately. In a lot of cases they conducted forklift upgrades meant to bring the application up to the latest application version but did not adopt new features or functions wholesale. This was especially true in PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.2 which was made generally available in December 2015. Oracle purposefully released CS 9.2 with few major new application features or functionalities. The major upgrade was in the underlying technical foundation in PeopleTools capabilities which has continued to be expanded. Fluid development capability was available in 8.54 while the published fluid pages have continued to grow in number since.

ERPA listened to our clients who said they were interested in PeopleSoft fluid but did not have time to immediately focus on that development. As a result, we developed a Rapid Fluid Deployment implementation service which could be combined with Fluid as a Service (FaaS) to save our clients time and cost in rolling out Fluid UIs.

This blog is meant to highlight ERPA’s case study of the delivery of Managed Project services for the Rapid Implementation of PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.2Fluid at the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD).

Client: The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California, and some of its neighboring cities and certain unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County. Its headquarters are in Downtown Los Angeles. Over the past seventy-seven years LACCD has served as educator to more than three million students. The Los Angeles Community College District is the largest community college district in the United States and is one of the largest in the world. The nine colleges within the district offer educational opportunities to students in Los Angeles.

LACCD
Project Overview
  • PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0 (AD, CC, AA, SR, SF, FA) Upgrade to 9.2
  • PeopleTools 8.51 upgrade to PeopleTools 8.57.
  • Oracle Database Upgrade 11g to 12c

Project Start: October 2018
Fluid Development Start: May 2019
Upgrade / Fluid Deployment Completion Date: October 2019

Organization Goal
  • PeopleSoft Campus Solutions (AD, CC, AA, SR, SF, FA) 9.0 to 9.2 Upgrade
  • Implement CS Fluid User Interfaces
  • Retire the Enterprise Portal (iHub)
  • Provide a responsive design for students
  • Oracle roadmap to phase out the Campus Solutions Mobile App
Team
  • ERPA – Fluid Portal, Infrastructure and Fluid Development Team
  • LACCD – Applications, Systems and Business Stakeholders
Challenges
  • Customizations and Scope
  • Performance of the Application
  • User Acceptance
Solutions
  • Deploy ERPA PeopleSoft Center of Excellence (COE)
  • ERPA Pre-designed solution Reduced Design Effort 60%
  • Pre-Designed built Homepages
  • ERPA Rapid Fluid Methodology
  • Pre-Designed Tiles
Customizable / Pre-designed Home Pages
Campus Solution (Role/Function Centric)
Bursar's Homepage
Student Records Administrator
Financial Aid Administrator
Self-Service Administrator
*Advisor Homepage
HelpDesk Staff
*Student Homepage
Faculty Self-Service
Admissions Administrator
*Applicant Homepage
*Contributor Relations Homepage
*Campus Solutions Administrator
User Administration
*Security Specialists, Security Admins
*Project Managers
*Customer Service
*Help Desk
Student Home Page
Student A&R
Business Benefits
  • Fluid Enabled Mobile Application Strategy
  • Staying current with latest PeopleSoft product version
  • Improved Decision making & Faster approval
  • Flexible Mobile Design and adaptive & Reponses
  • Improved End User Satisfaction / Ease of Use Role or Job based
Classic UI
Fluid UI

About the ERPA Group

ERPA is an Oracle PartnerNetwork and market leader in providing Managed Projects, Managed Hosting, Managed Support, and Consulting Services for Oracle’s PeopleSoft applications. ERPA’s headquarters are in Dublin, Ohio and has continuously provide PeopleSoft application services for twenty plus (20+) years. We are proud to represent the largest directly employed PeopleSoft centric workforce in the U.S. and capabilities that span across all pillars of the application in FSCM, HCM, Campus Solutions, CRM, and Portal.

We are specialized in Higher Education and have the proven ability to provide quality services in PeopleSoft including the successful delivery of Managed Projects, Managed Hosting, Managed Support, and Consulting Services to the following institutions among others:

  • Alabama State University
  • Arizona State University
  • California State University System
  • Florida International University
  • Howard University
  • Lone Star College System
  • Los Angeles Community College District
  • University of California Office of the President
  • University of Colorado
  • University of Maine System
  • University of Texas System
  • Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges

ERPA Group Fluid as a Service: https://erpagroup.com/services/ps-fluid-as-a-service/

Contact : Info@ERPAGroup.com