☕ This Week’s Focus

Edition 29 highlights a growing tension in the ERP and cloud space: acceleration versus alignment.

Oracle is pushing aggressively into AI, with infrastructure investments, partnerships, and now large-scale agent-based automation. At the same time, workforce changes and market reactions remind us that transformation always comes with trade-offs.

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Across the ERP landscape, the conversation is shifting toward ecosystems and composability. Organizations are no longer asking “Which ERP should we choose?” but rather “How should our ERP fit into a broader architecture?”

Meanwhile, the PeopleSoft community continues to move forward with clarity by leveraging OCI, expanding Cloud Manager capabilities, and aligning with the 2026 roadmap.

⚙️ Oracle, AI & Market Signals

🔗 Oracle Layoff Plan Raises Questions (Yahoo Finance)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-layoff-plan-raises-questions-011119909.html
Reports of layoffs are raising questions about how Oracle is balancing cost management with its aggressive investments in AI and the cloud. It’s a reminder that large-scale transformation often includes difficult operational decisions.

🔗 Oracle + NVIDIA at GTC 2026: Key Announcements (OCI Blog)
https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/oracle-nvidia-gtc-2026-key-announcements
Oracle and NVIDIA announced deeper collaboration around AI infrastructure, including expanded GPU capabilities and performance optimizations. The focus remains clear: enable enterprise-scale AI workloads with high-performance compute.

🔗 Oracle Unleashes 1,000 AI Agents (CloudWars)
https://cloudwars.com/ai/oracle-unleashes-1000-ai-agents-to-automate-entire-industries/
Oracle is introducing a large portfolio of AI agents designed to automate complex business processes across industries. This marks a significant step toward agentic ERP, where systems don’t just process data; they act on it.

📊 ERP Strategy & Architecture

🔗 Why ERP Ecosystems Are a Strategic Architecture Decision (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/03/20/why-erp-ecosystems-are-a-strategic-architecture-decision/
This piece makes a strong case that ERP is no longer a standalone system, it’s part of a broader ecosystem. Integration strategy, data flow, and platform alignment now matter as much as core functionality.

🔗 Composable ERP: Architectural Reality or Executive Imperative? (ERP Today)
https://erp.today/composable-erp-architectural-reality-or-executive-imperative/
Composable ERP continues gaining attention as organizations look to assemble capabilities rather than replace entire systems. The challenge is balancing flexibility with governance and long-term maintainability.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Community & Practice

🔗 Enabling AI for PeopleSoft with OCI (PeopleSoftCareer)
https://blog.peoplesoftcareer.com/enabling-ai-for-peoplesoft-with-oci/
A practical guide to integrating AI capabilities into PeopleSoft using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It outlines how AI services can enhance existing workflows without disrupting the core system.

🔗 Cloud Manager Image 21 (Oracle PeopleSoft Blog)
https://blogs.oracle.com/peoplesoft/cloud-manager-image-21
Oracle highlights updates to Cloud Manager Image 21, including improvements to provisioning, lifecycle management, and automation. Cloud Manager continues evolving into a key platform tool for PeopleSoft operations.

🔗 PeopleSoft 2026 Product Roadmap (PeopleSoftCareer)
https://blog.peoplesoftcareer.com/peoplesoft-2026-product-roadmap/
An overview of the 2026 roadmap, including continued investment in UX, AI capabilities, and platform enhancements. The roadmap reinforces Oracle’s long-term commitment to PeopleSoft.

💬 Aaron’s Take

Edition 29 reinforces a shift that’s been building for a while: ERP is no longer a destination; it’s a component of a larger system.

Oracle’s AI push, NVIDIA partnerships, and agent-based automation are all part of a broader strategy to move beyond traditional ERP boundaries. But those moves come with real operational considerations, including cost, workforce alignment, and execution risk.

At the same time, the ERP conversation itself is evolving. Ecosystems and composability are replacing monolithic thinking. The question isn’t whether ERP changes, it’s how well it integrates with everything around it.

PeopleSoft continues to fit into this new model in a very practical way. Instead of being replaced, it’s being extended and connected to AI services, managed through Cloud Manager, and aligned with a clear roadmap.

The organizations that succeed won’t be the ones chasing the biggest changes. They’ll be the ones who thoughtfully architect, deliberately integrate, and consistently evolve.

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☕ This Week’s Focus

Edition 28 highlights a theme that continues to define ERP strategy in 2026: evolution over disruption.

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Across the industry, the most successful organizations aren’t abandoning their ERP foundations. Instead, they’re layering AI, automation, and modern architecture patterns on top of stable platforms. Oracle’s financial performance and market momentum reinforce the scale of its cloud ambitions, while analysts and practitioners alike encourage enterprises to modernize intelligently rather than rush into costly replacements.

Meanwhile, the PeopleSoft ecosystem continues to deliver practical updates, from tax reporting changes to developer automation techniques, demonstrating that modernization often happens through incremental capabilities rather than sweeping change.

Let’s look at the signals shaping the landscape this week.

⚙️ Oracle, Cloud & Market Signals

🔗 Well-Architected Design for Resiliency with Oracle Database@AWS
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/well-architected-design-for-resiliency-with-oracle-databaseaws/
AWS outlines architecture guidance for running Oracle Database workloads with resiliency and high availability. The takeaway is clear: hybrid and multicloud patterns are becoming normal for enterprise workloads, especially when reliability and geographic redundancy are priorities.

🔗 Oracle Stock Surges on AI and Cloud Momentum (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/oracle-stock-ai-cloud-computing
Axios reports renewed investor confidence in Oracle as AI and cloud demand continue driving revenue expectations. Markets are increasingly viewing Oracle not just as a database company, but as a major infrastructure provider for enterprise AI workloads.

🔗 Oracle Announces Fiscal Year 2026 Third Quarter Financial Results
https://investor.oracle.com/investor-news/news-details/2026/Oracle-Announces-Fiscal-Year-2026-Third-Quarter-Financial-Results/default.aspx
Oracle’s quarterly results reinforce the same trend: cloud infrastructure and AI-related demand remain key growth drivers. The company continues investing heavily in capacity and infrastructure as enterprise workloads scale.

📊 ERP Strategy & Industry Direction

🔗 Don’t Rip and Replace PeopleSoft—Pair It with Emerging Tech Instead (CIO.com)
https://www.cio.com/article/4132315/dont-rip-and-replace-peoplesoft-pair-it-with-emerging-tech-instead.html
CIO.com reinforces a strategy many experienced ERP leaders already follow: extend PeopleSoft with modern tools rather than replacing it prematurely. Integrations, automation layers, and AI services allow organizations to modernize while protecting the stability of their core systems.

🔗 AI in ERP: How Intelligence Is Reshaping Enterprise Platforms (NetSuite)
https://www.netsuite.com/portal/resource/articles/erp/ai-erp.shtml
This overview highlights how AI is becoming embedded across ERP workflows—forecasting, automation, anomaly detection, and decision support. The shift isn’t toward replacing ERP systems, but toward making them more intelligent.

🔗 Gartner: Embedded AI in Cloud ERP Will Accelerate Financial Close by 30%
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-02-24-gartner-predicts-embedded-ai-in-cloud-erp-applications-will-drive-a-30-percent-faster-financial-close-by-2028
Gartner predicts that embedded AI capabilities will significantly accelerate financial close processes by 2028. Automation of reconciliations, anomaly detection, and workflow orchestration is expected to reshape finance operations.

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🔗 IRS FIRE to IRIS: What PeopleSoft Customers Need to Know for 2026 Filings
https://blogs.oracle.com/peoplesoft/irs-fire-to-iris-what-peoplesoft-customers-need-to-know-for-2026-filings
Oracle outlines the transition from the IRS FIRE system to IRIS for tax reporting. Organizations using PeopleSoft must understand the changes and prepare their reporting processes accordingly to ensure compliance.

🔗 PeopleTools Sessions of Interest at Blueprint 4D 2026
https://blogs.oracle.com/peoplesoft/peopletools-sessions-of-interest-at-blueprint-4d-2026-2
Oracle highlights key PeopleTools sessions at Blueprint 4D, including topics on platform capabilities, automation, and modernization strategies. These sessions provide a good roadmap for teams planning upgrades or exploring new features.

🔗 PeopleSoft 2026 Product Roadmap Overview
https://blog.peoplesoftcareer.com/peoplesoft-2026-product-roadmap/
This overview summarizes major roadmap directions for PeopleSoft in 2026, including continued UX improvements, AI integrations, and platform modernization initiatives.

🔗 Automating Document Merges in PeopleSoft with Java and PeopleCode
https://newpeoplesoft.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/automating-document-merges-in-peoplesoft-pdf-jpg-and-png-consolidation-with-java-and-peoplecode/
A practical technical guide showing how to automate document merging processes inside PeopleSoft. It’s a great example of how PeopleCode and Java integration can streamline operational workflows.

💬 Aaron’s Take

Edition 28 reinforces something that’s becoming increasingly obvious across the ERP landscape: the future of ERP isn’t replacement—it’s augmentation.

Organizations that rush into rip-and-replace transformations often underestimate the complexity and cost involved. Meanwhile, teams that thoughtfully integrate modern technologies, including AI services, automation layers, and observability tools, can dramatically improve their ERP environments without destabilizing them.

Oracle’s market momentum reflects the infrastructure side of this story. Demand for cloud capacity and AI platforms is growing rapidly, and Oracle is positioning itself as a key provider of that infrastructure.

But the more interesting story may be happening inside existing ERP platforms like PeopleSoft. Incremental improvements, better integrations, and smarter automation are quietly transforming how these systems deliver value.

In other words, modernization doesn’t always look dramatic. Sometimes it looks like disciplined progress.

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☕ This Week’s Focus

Edition 27 centers on a theme that keeps resurfacing in 2026: ERP modernization is less about replacement and more about refinement.

Oracle continues to land major public-sector wins and expand its cloud footprint in federal modernization initiatives. At the same time, real-world ERP implementation stories remind us that success depends on thoughtful customization—not over-customization, not blind standardization.

Inside the PeopleSoft ecosystem, Cloud Manager continues to mature, PeopleTools 8.62 capabilities are expanding, and natural language experiences are moving from concept to delivered functionality.

Let’s break it down.

⚙️ Oracle, Public Sector & Cloud Expansion

🔗 Oracle Lands Air Force Win (Yahoo Finance)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-lands-air-force-win-152003927.html
Oracle secured a significant contract win with the U.S. Air Force, reinforcing its position in federal cloud and infrastructure services. Public-sector validation remains one of Oracle’s strongest credibility anchors in 2026.

🔗 OCI to Support CMS Modernization Initiative (Oracle Press Release)
https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-to-support-centers-for-medicare-and-medicaids-modernization-initiative-2026-02-11/
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ modernization efforts. This is another large-scale healthcare transformation backed by OCI, signaling continued trust in Oracle’s ability to deliver secure, scalable environments.

Together, these stories reinforce an important point: while AI narratives dominate headlines, it’s infrastructure reliability and compliance capabilities that win major contracts.

📊 ERP Strategy: Why Smart Customization Matters

🔗 What Midwest Groundcovers Learned from Implementing a New ERP System (Greenhouse Grower)
https://www.greenhousegrower.com/technology/what-midwest-groundcovers-learned-from-implementing-a-new-erp-system/

This implementation story highlights a lesson seasoned ERP teams already understand: the danger isn’t customization. Rather, it’s unintentional customization.

Midwest Groundcovers discovered that blindly replicating legacy processes inside a new ERP system can stall transformation. At the same time, refusing all customization in the name of “best practice” can create operational friction.

The sweet spot is disciplined customization. Where processes are evaluated, simplified where possible, and extended only when business value justifies it.

For PeopleSoft teams, this lesson resonates. Event Mapping, Page & Field Configurator, and delivered frameworks exist precisely to enable thoughtful extension without destabilizing the core. Smart customization preserves upgradeability. Reactive customization destroys it.

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🔗 Image Highlights: Cloud Manager Image 21 (YouTube)

This video walks through key updates in Cloud Manager Image 21, including refinements in environment lifecycle automation, provisioning enhancements, and improved orchestration capabilities. For teams managing PeopleSoft in OCI, Cloud Manager continues evolving into a true platform operations tool—not just a deployment assistant.

🔗 Mastering Notification Composer & Landing Page Notifications in PeopleTools 8.62 (NewPeopleSoft Blog)
https://newpeoplesoft.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/mastering-notification-composer-and-landing-page-notifications-in-peopletools-8-62/
A detailed guide to using Notification Composer and landing page alerts effectively. These features are powerful when governed well, and distracting when overused. The key is intentional communication design.

🔗 Is GenerateComponentPortalURL Still Relevant? (JSMPros)
https://blog.jsmpros.com/2026/02/is-generatecomponentportalurl-still.html
A thoughtful technical exploration of whether older PeopleCode patterns remain appropriate in modern Tools releases. The answer isn’t binary. Some patterns evolve; others remain valuable when used properly. Modernization requires understanding, not reflexively replacing, core capabilities.

🔗 Natural Language Assistant in PeopleSoft (Oracle Blog)
https://blogs.oracle.com/peoplesoft/natural-language-assistant-in-peoplesoft
Oracle introduces Natural Language Assistant capabilities within PeopleSoft, enabling users to interact with the system more conversationally. This marks a tangible step toward embedded AI experiences inside PeopleSoft—not as an external bolt-on, but as part of the user workflow.

💬 Aaron’s Take

Edition 27 reinforces something I’ve seen repeatedly across ERP programs: durability beats drama.

Oracle’s public-sector wins demonstrate that reliability, compliance, and scale still matter more than hype. At the implementation level, stories like Midwest Groundcovers highlight that success comes from disciplined decisions, not extremes.

And inside the PeopleSoft world, the pattern continues: Cloud Manager gets stronger, Tools capabilities deepen, and AI becomes more practical.

The organizations that win in 2026 won’t be the ones chasing the newest acronym. They’ll be the ones who:

• Standardize where possible
• Customize where justified
• Automate where repeatable
• Govern where necessary

That’s not flashy. It’s effective.

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👋 Welcome Back

After a short hiatus, The Modern ERP Digest is back with Edition 26.

Sometimes a pause is useful. It gives space to see which stories actually matter after the initial headlines fade. Coming back into 2026, one thing is clear: the ERP conversation has sharpened. AI hype is colliding with legal scrutiny, capital markets are watching Oracle closely, and enterprises are making more deliberate, modular decisions about how ERP fits into their future.

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This edition reflects that shift. It blends market pressure, AI ambition, and very real PeopleSoft progress—exactly where ERP leadership lives today.

☕ This Week’s Focus

Edition 26 centers on credibility and consequence.

Oracle’s AI narrative is being tested by lawsuits and investor scrutiny, even as enterprises continue adopting Oracle technologies at scale. At the same time, PeopleSoft continues to move forward with meaningful HCM enhancements, and the broader ERP market is openly embracing best-of-breed and agentic AI models.

This isn’t a step backward. It’s a sign of maturity.

⚙️ Oracle, Markets & AI Pressure

🔗 Investors Sue Oracle, Alleging Executives Sold $18.7B Amid AI Hype (InvestmentNews)
https://www.investmentnews.com/regulation-legal-compliance/investors-sue-oracle-allege-executives-dumped-187b-amid-ai-hype/265164
Investors have filed lawsuits alleging that Oracle executives sold significant stock during peak AI enthusiasm. Regardless of outcome, the story underscores how closely Oracle’s AI messaging is being examined—and how accountability follows ambition.

🔗 Oracle Plans $50B Capital Raise to Support Cloud Infrastructure Demand (ERP Today)
https://erp.today/oracle-plans-50b-capital-raise-to-support-cloud-infrastructure-demand/
Oracle’s reported plan to raise $50B for cloud infrastructure highlights the scale of demand it’s betting on. This move reinforces Oracle’s belief that AI and cloud workloads will continue to grow, but also raises expectations around execution and returns.

🔗 U.S. Enterprises Increasingly Adopting Oracle Solutions (Yahoo Finance)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-enterprises-increasing-adopting-oracle-180845415.html
Despite market noise, adoption data tells a steadier story. U.S. enterprises continue expanding their use of Oracle platforms, suggesting that while sentiment swings, operational decisions remain grounded in capability and trust.

📊 ERP, AI & Industry Direction

🔗 Reimagining ERP for the Agentic AI Era (MIT Technology Review – Report Overview)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/20/1129965/reimagining-erp-for-the-agentic-ai-era/
This downloadable report explores how ERP systems are evolving from systems of record into systems of action. Agentic AI, orchestration layers, and autonomous workflows are central themes. The key takeaway: ERP isn’t being replaced—it’s being repositioned.

🔗 ERP in 2026: More AI, More Best-of-Breed Add-Ons (CIO.com)
https://www.cio.com/article/4121113/erp-in-2026-more-ai-more-best-of-breed-add-ons.html
CIO.com outlines a clear trend for 2026: core ERP platforms paired with specialized tools. Rather than monolithic replacements, organizations are layering AI, analytics, and niche capabilities on top of stable ERP foundations.

🔗 ERP Survey Shows Customers Re-Evaluating Vendor Value (The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/erp_survey_rimini_street/
Survey results highlighted by The Register show growing scrutiny of ERP vendor costs and roadmaps. Customers are demanding clearer value, longer viability, and less forced migration—signals that favor platforms teams truly understand.

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🔗 What’s New in PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 54 (Oracle Blog)
https://blogs.oracle.com/peoplesoft/whats-new-in-peoplesofts-hcm-update-image-54-key-enhancements-and-features
Oracle details the latest HCM Image 54 enhancements, including usability improvements, feature refinements, and continued investment in employee and manager self-service. It’s another reminder that PeopleSoft HCM remains an actively evolving platform.

🔗 Cornell’s Duffield Gift Highlights Long-Term PeopleSoft Impact (WSJ)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/cornell-duffield-gift-engineering-donation-peoplesoft-fc1894a3
The Wall Street Journal recounts how Cornell’s engineering program benefited from alum success tied in part to PeopleSoft’s early growth. It’s a rare mainstream acknowledgment of PeopleSoft’s lasting influence in higher education and enterprise technology.

💬 Aaron’s Take

Edition 26 reinforces a pattern that’s becoming impossible to ignore: ERP is no longer about promises—it’s about proof.

Oracle is betting big on AI and cloud, and the markets are watching closely. Lawsuits, capital raises, and adoption metrics all tell different parts of the same story. Ambition attracts scrutiny, and scrutiny demands results.

At the same time, PeopleSoft teams are quietly moving forward—adopting new HCM features, modernizing selectively, and operating within architectures they actually understand. Across the industry, organizations are choosing composition over replacement and intention over impulse.

That’s not hesitation. That’s maturity.

If 2025 was about sorting hype from signal, 2026 is shaping up to be about earning trust—technically, financially, and operationally.

I’m glad to be back. Let’s keep going.

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🎉 Edition 25 – A Milestone Worth Celebrating

This week marks a small but meaningful milestone: Edition 25 of The Modern ERP Digest.

I started this Digest last year with a simple goal: cut through the noise. There was (and still is) a flood of information across PeopleSoft, ERP, cloud platforms, AI, and infrastructure. Valuable insights were scattered across blogs, press releases, analyst reports, and community posts, but were rarely brought together in one place.

The Digest exists to do exactly that: consolidate what matters, add practitioner context, and help ERP leaders make sense of a rapidly shifting landscape. Reaching 25 editions tells me there’s real value in that approach, and I appreciate everyone who’s been reading, sharing, and challenging ideas along the way.

Now, on to this week’s signals.

☕ This Week’s Focus

Edition 25 reflects a familiar but intensifying theme for 2026: AI ambition colliding with operational reality.

Oracle continues to place big bets on AI-driven platforms as markets scrutinize leadership changes and long-term returns. At the same time, ERP vendors are reshaping the competitive field, and PeopleSoft practitioners are doubling down on performance, governance, and day-to-day operational excellence.

This is what modern ERP leadership looks like right now. It includes balancing strategy, execution, and risk.

⚙️ Oracle, AI & Platform Strategy

🔗 Retailers Mitigate Risk with Oracle’s AI-Driven Supply Chain Collaboration
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/retailers-help-mitigate-risk-with-oracles-ai-driven-supply-chain-collaboration-302657847.html
Oracle highlights how retailers are using AI-driven collaboration tools to improve visibility and resilience across supply chains. The key takeaway isn’t the AI buzz, it’s the focus on risk mitigation and coordination, two areas where ERP still delivers real value.

🔗 New Adapters and Connectivity Enhancements in Oracle Integration 26.01
https://blogs.oracle.com/integration/new-adapters-and-connectivity-enhancements-in-oracle-integration-26-01
Oracle Integration 26.01 introduces expanded adapters and connectivity improvements. For hybrid ERP environments, these enhancements continue the push toward cleaner, more maintainable integration patterns rather than brittle point-to-point solutions.

🔗 Oracle Announces Board Departures (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/oracle-announces-board-departures-george-conrades-and-naomi-seligman-.html
Oracle announced upcoming board departures, a reminder that leadership evolution often accompanies strategic inflection points. Governance matters, especially when organizations are making multi-decade bets on AI infrastructure.

🔗 Can Oracle Stock Rally in 2026? (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2026/01/05/can-oracle-stock-rally-possible-and-here-is-how/
Forbes explores scenarios where Oracle could see renewed stock momentum—driven by cloud revenue growth, AI services, and disciplined execution. It’s a useful lens for separating fundamentals from speculation.

🔗 Inside Oracle’s $50B AI Bet (PredictStreet)
https://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/article/predictstreet-2026-1-7-the-ai-goliath-inside-oracles-50-billion-bet-on-the-future-of-computing
A deeper look at the scale of Oracle’s AI investments and what success would need to look like to justify them. The article reinforces a familiar truth: big bets only pay off when adoption follows.

📊 ERP Market & Industry Shifts

🔗 Ellucian Acquires Anthology’s SIS and ERP Business (Campus Technology)
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2026/01/05/ellucian-officially-acquires-anthologys-sis-and-erp-business.aspx
Ellucian’s acquisition reshapes the higher-ed ERP market yet again. Consolidation continues, and institutions are being forced to reassess vendor strategy, roadmap confidence, and long-term platform viability.

🔗 Five ERP Strategic Implications for Operations Leaders in 2026 (ERP Today)
https://erp.today/five-erp-strategic-implications-for-operations-leaders-in-2026/
ERP Today outlines five trends shaping operational leadership this year, including automation and AI governance, as well as platform consolidation. The throughline is clear: operations leaders are now platform leaders.

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🔗 Upcoming Webinar: Troubleshooting PeopleSoft Performance
https://gideontaylor.com/event/troubleshooting-peoplesoft-performance-five-costly-mistakes-and-the-mechanic-mindset-that-helps-you-fix-them/
This upcoming webinar focuses on common PeopleSoft performance mistakes and a practical “mechanic mindset” for diagnosing issues. A solid opportunity for admins and DBAs looking to sharpen real-world troubleshooting skills.

🔗 PeopleSoft Change Assistant – A Practical Walkthrough
https://curiousdba.netlify.app/post/peoplesoftchangeassistant/
A hands-on look at PeopleSoft Change Assistant, including how it works, where it helps, and how to avoid common pitfalls. This kind of grounded tooling knowledge continues to separate smooth upgrades from painful ones.

🔗 Managing Ad Hoc PSQueries in PeopleSoft
https://blog.psftdba.com/2026/01/managing-ad-hoc-psqueries-in-peoplesoft.html
A pragmatic guide to controlling and organizing ad hoc PSQueries. Governance here isn’t about restriction. But rather it’s about protecting performance and maintaining trust in shared reporting environments.

💬 Aaron’s Take

Reaching 25 editions reinforces something I’ve seen repeatedly in ERP work: consistency matters more than noise.

Oracle is making bold AI investments. ERP vendors are consolidating. Markets are optimistic one week and skeptical the next. None of that changes the day-to-day reality for ERP teams who are responsible for keeping systems fast, secure, and useful.

The strongest organizations right now aren’t chasing every headline. They’re improving integration discipline, understanding performance bottlenecks, governing reporting responsibly, and making thoughtful platform decisions.

That’s the work this Digest has always tried to highlight—and it’s the work that will define successful ERP teams in 2026.

Thanks for being part of the first 25 editions. Onward.

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🎉 Welcome to 2026

Happy New Year—and welcome to Edition 24, the first Modern ERP Digest of 2026. If you’re new here, this is the perfect time to subscribe to www.PeopleSoftCloud.com. Each week, I curate the most relevant ERP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft stories, add context that matters to practitioners, and connect strategy to execution.

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2026 starts with renewed momentum: market sentiment is shifting, Oracle is doubling down on infrastructure and platforms, and PeopleSoft teams are pushing modular architectures, better observability, and cleaner delivery models. Let’s get into it.

⚙️ Oracle, Market Signals & Infrastructure

🔗 Beaten-Down Tech Giant Could Roar Back (AOL)
https://www.aol.com/articles/beaten-down-tech-giant-roar-193000624.html
A market reset may be setting the stage for a rebound. The article points to fundamentals, including cash flow, infrastructure investments, and enterprise positioning, as reasons Oracle could regain momentum. A useful lens as we move from hype to execution in 2026.

🔗 Launch Exadata Database Service Faster Using OCI Landing Zones (Oracle Database Blog)
https://blogs.oracle.com/database/launch-exadata-database-service-faster-using-oci-landing-zones
Oracle outlines how standardized OCI Landing Zones accelerate Exadata Database Service deployments with built-in security, networking, and governance. For ERP teams, this is about repeatability and speed without sacrificing controls.

🔗 Quarterly Updates Made Easy (Oracle Fusion Insider)
https://blogs.oracle.com/fusioninsider/quarterly-updates-made-easy
A practical guide to managing quarterly updates with less disruption. The emphasis is on planning, automation, and communication.

📊 ERP Strategy, Architecture & Delivery

🔗 From Idea Labs to Implementation Access (JSMPros)
https://blog.jsmpros.com/2025/12/from-idea-labs-to-implementation-access.html
This piece bridges experimentation and production, showing how teams can move ideas into controlled, supported delivery paths. It’s a reminder that innovation needs a runway and guardrails to scale.

🔗 From Menus to Meaning: How OpenSearch Modernizes PeopleSoft (LinkedIn)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-menus-meaning-how-opensearch-modernizes-selvakumar-ramasamy-4zm5c
A clear explanation of how OpenSearch shifts PeopleSoft from static navigation to insight-driven experiences. Observability, search, and analytics become first-class capabilities, not bolt-ons.

🔗 Why Modular PeopleSoft Architectures Matter (PeopleSoft Insider)

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Why Modular PeopleSoft Architectures Are Winning in 2026 + How To Guard Your Org From Taking the SaaS Cloud Pill

Happy New Year! I wanted to start out the new year with this topic as it remains on the minds of so many PeopleSoft Pros. The pressure to abandon the core has never been higher, but the logic for staying has never been clearer. We’ve reached a point where “migration” is often used as a euphemism for “unnecessary risk…

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3 months ago · 1 like · Derek Tomei

A strong case for modularization: decouple where possible, standardize interfaces, and evolve components independently. This is foundational thinking for hybrid ERP and long-term sustainability.

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🔗 PeopleSoft Now! – 2026 Product Roadmap (Video)

A forward-looking overview of the PeopleSoft 2026 product roadmap. The session focuses on continued investment across HCM, FSCM, Campus Solutions, and tools. Emphasizing UX refinement, analytics, and platform stability. It’s a solid orientation for planning the year ahead.

🔗 The 12 Week Challenge (PeopleSoftCloud)
https://www.peoplesoftcloud.com/p/the-12-week-challenge?r=z6fpj
A fictional story outlining a structured way to start 2026 with intent. This includes short cycles, clear outcomes, and steady progress. This challenge aligns perfectly with how successful PeopleSoft teams modernize: focused, measurable, and disciplined.

💬 Aaron’s Take

The tone of 2026 already feels different. Less noise. More intent.

Market narratives are settling, platforms are maturing, and ERP teams are shifting attention from chasing trends to building durable capability. Oracle’s infrastructure focus, the push for modular PeopleSoft architectures, and the growing role of OpenSearch all point to the same direction: clarity through structure.

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If 2025 was about sorting signal from hype, 2026 is about execution. This is the year to standardize, modularize, automate, and measure. Not because it’s flashy, but because it works.

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Welcome to 2026.

🎄 This Week’s Focus

Before we get into this week’s stories, I want to start by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This is the final edition of The Modern ERP Digest for 2025, and it feels fitting to close the year with both reflection and perspective.

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2025 was a year of acceleration, recalibration, and maturity across ERP, cloud, and AI. Oracle pushed deeper into AI infrastructure, market narratives swung between optimism and skepticism, and PeopleSoft teams quietly continued doing what they do best: improving systems that run real work.

This final edition brings those threads together, including major AI initiatives, sober market analysis, and practical PeopleSoft guidance, to help frame where we’ve been and where 2026 is likely to head.

⚙️ Oracle, AI & Industry Signals

🔗 Oracle and the U.S. Department of Energy Collaborate to Accelerate AI Initiatives
https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-and-the-us-department-of-energy-collaborate-to-accelerate-ai-initiatives-2025-12-18/
Oracle announced a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy to advance AI research and infrastructure. This partnership reinforces Oracle’s positioning not just as an enterprise vendor, but as a foundational player in national-scale AI initiatives.

🔗 TikTok Signs Deal to Sell U.S. Unit to American Investors Including Oracle
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/tiktok-signs-deal-to-sell-u-s-unit-to-american-investors-including-oracle-and-silver-lake
Oracle’s role in the TikTok U.S. deal highlights how deeply the company is embedded in high-stakes conversations about data governance and cloud infrastructure. This isn’t about social media; it’s about trust, compliance, and scale.

🔗 How Oracle Became a Poster Child for AI Bubble Fears (Yahoo Finance)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-oracle-became-a-poster-child-for-ai-bubble-fears-150039511.html
A more critical take on Oracle’s aggressive AI narrative, this piece captures investor anxiety around valuation, capital spend, and hype cycles. It’s a useful counterbalance to the bullish headlines, and a reminder that execution always matters more than ambition.

🔗 Workday Is Not an ERP Solution—and That’s an Issue (Oracle Modern Finance Blog)
https://blogs.oracle.com/modernfinance/workday-is-not-an-erp-solution-and-thats-an-issue
Oracle makes a clear distinction between systems of engagement and true ERP platforms. The article argues that finance, supply chain, and operations still require deeply integrated systems, something many “modern” tools were never designed to be.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Community & Practice

🔗 Branding System Options for Fluid (JSMPros)
https://blog.jsmpros.com/2025/12/branding-system-options-for-fluid.html
A practical guide to branding PeopleSoft Fluid interfaces, covering themes, layout choices, and visual consistency. This is the kind of incremental UX work that makes PeopleSoft feel current without heavy customization.

🔗 5 Reasons to Upgrade PeopleTools
https://www.peoplesoftcloud.com/p/5-reasons-to-upgrade-peopletools
This article lays out a clear, pragmatic case for staying current on PeopleTools, including security posture, performance improvements, delivered functionality, and long-term flexibility. Upgrading isn’t about chasing features; it’s about maintaining leverage.

🔗 Wrapping Up 2025 for PeopleSoft Pros (PeopleSoft Insider)

The PeopleSoft Insider

Wrapping Up 2025 for PeopleSoft Pros

Hey PeopleSoft Pros…

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4 months ago · Derek Tomei

A reflective end-of-year post for the PeopleSoft community, touching on career growth, platform evolution, and the quiet resilience of PeopleSoft professionals. A fitting read as the year comes to a close.

🔗 Unlocking the Power of PeopleSoft Lifecycle Management and Customization Insights
https://blogs.oracle.com/peoplesoft/unlocking-the-power-of-peoplesoft-life-cycle-management-and-customization-insights
Oracle highlights how Lifecycle Management and Customization Insights help teams understand their environments better, reduce risk, and modernize with intention. These tools are foundational for disciplined, data-driven PeopleSoft operations.

💬 Aaron’s Take

If there’s one theme that defined 2025, it’s this: the gap between hype and execution became impossible to ignore.

Oracle spent the year at the center of the AI conversation. Sometimes praised, sometimes questioned, but always relevant. Meanwhile, PeopleSoft teams focused on what actually works: better tooling, smarter upgrades, cleaner UX, and clearer insight into their environments.

That contrast matters. Big narratives come and go. Platforms that quietly deliver value year after year tend to outlast them.

As we head into 2026, the opportunity is clear. AI will keep evolving. Cloud architectures will keep shifting. But the organizations that win will be the ones that combine ambition with discipline, and curiosity with competence.

Thank you for reading, sharing, and engaging with The Modern ERP Digest throughout 2025. I’m grateful for this community, and I’m excited about what we’ll build together next year.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and I’ll see you in 2026.

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☕ This Week’s Focus

This week brings clarity on two fronts: Oracle is leaning even harder into multicloud and enterprise AI, and PeopleSoft continues to pick up steady, meaningful enhancements across UX, branding, and learning modules.

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Despite swirling headlines about OpenAI and market speculation, Oracle leadership maintains that the partnership is healthy, and the broader ecosystem seems to agree. AWS re:Invent showcased deep multicloud alignment, finance leaders are openly acknowledging AI’s transformative impact, and agentic ERP thinking continues to gain traction across the industry.

Inside the PeopleSoft community, we’re seeing practical improvement everywhere: smarter landing pages, deeper ELM functionality, cleaner branding options, and technical insights that make day-to-day work smoother.

Edition 22 reflects an ecosystem that is stabilizing around a simple truth: AI is becoming the engine, but PeopleSoft remains the backbone.

⚙️ Oracle, AI & Infrastructure

🔗 Oracle: No Delays in OpenAI Arrangement (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/12/oracle-says-there-have-been-no-delays-in-openai-arrangement.html
Oracle pushes back on reports of friction with OpenAI, affirming that joint infrastructure expansion and model hosting remain on schedule. The announcement signals confidence as AI demand increases.

🔗 AWS re:Invent 2025: Accelerating Multicloud Innovation (OCI Blog)
https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/aws-reinvent-2025-accelerating-multicloud-innovation
Oracle and AWS highlight deeper interoperability, enabling cross-cloud database access, shared AI tooling, and streamlined workload mobility. The message is unmistakable: multicloud is becoming the default enterprise pattern.

🔗 Oracle Can’t Escape OpenAI’s Shadow (WSJ)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/oracle-cant-escape-openais-shadow-ed90ae19
The Wall Street Journal frames Oracle’s AI ascent as both opportunity and challenge. OpenAI accelerates Oracle’s credibility but also raises expectations. The takeaway: Oracle must deliver AI infrastructure at scale to justify the narrative.

🔗 Oracle Using OpenAI to Build an Enterprise AI Platform (NextPlatform)
https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/12/11/oracle-is-using-openai-to-build-a-platform-for-the-enterprise/
A detailed look at how Oracle is weaving OpenAI models into its database, apps, and cloud stack. The architecture suggests Oracle is trying to build the first vertically integrated enterprise AI platform.

📊 ERP Strategy & Industry Insight

🔗 3 ERP Experts on AI’s Impact on Finance (InformationWeek)
https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/3-erp-experts-on-ai-s-impact-on-finance-why-finance-will-never-be-the-same
Leaders across ERP agree: finance will be one of AI’s fastest-moving domains. Automated close cycles, anomaly detection, forecasting, and agent-driven workflows are already reshaping expectations for 2026.

🔗 ERP as We Know It Is Dead: Get Ready for Agentic AI ERP (Diginomica)
https://diginomica.com/erp-we-know-it-dead-whats-next-get-ready-agentic-ai-erp-says-rimini-street-cio-vijay-kumar
A bold take from Rimini Street’s CIO: the next generation of ERP won’t just record data, it will act on it. Agentic AI will orchestrate tasks, trigger processes, and collaborate across modules. This aligns closely with Oracle’s 26AI direction and AI Assistant roadmap.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Community & Practice

🔗 PUM Map Tip: Understanding the tools_client Folder (PeopleTools Tech Tips)
https://peopletoolstechtips.com/peoplesoft-pum-map-the-tools_client-folder/
A helpful breakdown of what lives inside the tools_client folder and how it supports PUM automation. Great tutorial for PeopleSoft admins streamlining update image workflows.

🔗 Branding System Options for Fluid (JSMPros)
https://blog.jsmpros.com/2025/12/branding-system-options-for-fluid.html
A concise look at Fluid branding strategies—theme variations, logo placement, color alignment, and system-wide UX consistency. Perfect for teams prepping 2026 UI refreshes.

🔗 PeopleSoft ELM Image 25: Learning Experience Enhancements (PeopleSoft Blog)
https://blogs.oracle.com/peoplesoft/peoplesoft-elm-image-25-advances-in-learning-experience-flexibility
Oracle delivers updates to ELM focused on flexible learning paths, adaptive experiences, and more intuitive navigation. Strong improvements for institutions sharpening their digital learning strategy.

🔗 Transforming PeopleSoft Experience: New PeopleSoft Landing Page (PeopleSoft Blog)
https://blogs.oracle.com/peoplesoft/transforming-peoplesoft-experience-the-new-peoplesoft-landing-page
Oracle previews a redesigned landing page framework with modular tiles, hover insights, and cleaner UI logic. A meaningful UX step forward, especially for teams planning broader Fluid modernization.

💬 Aaron’s Take

Edition 22 reveals a maturing industry perspective: AI is not replacing ERP; it’s expanding it.

Oracle’s Linux and database moves show that the real AI breakthroughs are happening at the infrastructure layer. Multicloud partnerships aren’t competitive maneuvers anymore; they’re strategic commitments. And the OpenAI collaboration continues to shape how Oracle positions itself as an enterprise AI platform provider.

But the most telling stories this week come from PeopleSoft. From UX updates to ELM enhancements to integration patterns for AI assistants, the platform continues evolving through work that teams can actually adopt, not theoretical roadmaps.

The future feels clearer every week:
AI accelerates, cloud connects, and PeopleSoft adapts.
It’s not chaos. It’s convergence.

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☕ This Week’s Focus

This week presents a sharp contrast between AI acceleration and security pressure. Oracle continues to push forward with next-generation Linux releases, database AI enhancements, and bullish analyst predictions. At the same time, universities and enterprises are wrestling with Clop-linked attacks targeting E-Business Suite and legacy integrations.

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It’s a reminder of the dual reality ERP teams live in: progress is real, but so is the risk.

And as we move into the final month of 2025, PeopleSoft practitioners are leaning hard into hybrid innovation. This includes AI capabilities, new analytics in Update Images, and deeper architectural thinking around observability and integration.

Edition 21 is a snapshot of a landscape evolving fast, but guided by the people who keep ERP systems stable, secure, and moving forward.

⚙️ Oracle, AI & Infrastructure

🔗 Oracle Linux 10.1 Now Generally Available

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/oracle-linux-10-1-now-generally-available

Oracle announced Linux 10.1, featuring upgraded kernels, expanded hardware support, and optimized performance for AI and containerized workloads. This release signals Oracle’s intent to make Linux the backbone of OCI and on-prem AI architectures in 2026.

🔗 Oracle Linux vs Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Oracle Linux Blog)

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/oracle-linux-vs-red-hat-enterprise-linux

A clear, side-by-side comparison showing where Oracle Linux stands apart, including kernel choices, update models, license terms, and support strategy. A worthwhile review for PeopleSoft teams evaluating OS standardization during cloud migration planning.

🔗 Wells Fargo: Oracle Will Emerge as an AI Leader (CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/oracle-will-emerge-as-an-ai-leader-and-see-big-gains-ahead-wells-fargo-says.html

Analysts at Wells Fargo project significant upside for Oracle as AI workloads move to specialized infrastructure. The forecast highlights Oracle’s vertical integration, database, apps, and hardware, as a differentiator in the next wave of enterprise AI adoption.

🔗 Clop Attacks Hit University of Pennsylvania via Oracle E-Business Suite (CyberScoop)

https://cyberscoop.com/university-pennsylvania-oracle-e-business-suite-clop-attacks/

CyberScoop reports that Clop attackers targeted vulnerabilities in the university’s E-Business Suite instance. The takeaway for all ERP teams is straightforward: identity surfaces and integration points remain the most exploited paths, and vendor security events quickly become your problem.

🔗 Oracle AI Database 26AI Coming Soon for On-Prem Linux Platforms

https://blogs.oracle.com/database/oracle-ai-database-26ai-coming-soon-for-linux-x86-64-on-premises-platforms

Oracle confirms that 26AI will be available not just in the cloud, but also on-prem for Linux x86. This will bring vector processing, semantic search, embedded AI models, and agentic workflows directly into customer-owned datacenters. This is big news for hybrid ERP environments.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Community & Practice

🔗 When AI Writes PeopleCode: Fact or Fiction? (JSMPros)

https://blog.jsmpros.com/2025/12/when-ai-writes-peoplecode-fact-or.html

A practical, grounded review of AI-assisted coding for PeopleSoft. Instead of hype, this piece lays out real capabilities, limitations, and safe use cases, including debugging help, pattern suggestions, and boilerplate generation without handing over architectural decision-making.

🔗 Image Highlights: PeopleSoft FSCM Update Image 55 (YouTube)

This video walks through the latest FSCM Image 55 enhancements, including:

• New landing page layout

• Notification Publisher improvements

• Customization Insights

• Interactive Insights in WorkCenters

• Procurement Card approval upgrades

• Replenishment activity insights

• Travel authorization proxy insights

🔗 The PeopleSoft Connection – Episode 5: Page & Field Configurator

https://blogs.oracle.com/peoplesoft/the-peoplesoft-connection-episode-5-the-page-and-field-configurator

The newest “PeopleSoft Connection” episode shines a spotlight on Page and Field Configurator; still one of the most underrated, high-impact tools in the PeopleSoft toolbox. A great refresher for admins looking to reduce customizations without sacrificing flexibility.

🔗 Oracle’s Integration Architecture for PeopleSoft + AI Assistants (PeopleSoftCareer)

https://community.peoplesoftcareer.com/oracles-integration-architecture-for-peoplesoft-and-ai-a-comprehensive-guide-to-implementing-ai-powered-assistants-with-peoplesoft-and-the-oci-ai-agent/

A comprehensive guide for implementing AI-powered assistants with PeopleSoft using OCI AI Agents, eventing patterns, and integration gateways. This is the emerging blueprint for agentic PeopleSoft, where AI orchestration complements, not replaces, core ERP functions.

🔗 OpenSearch and Elasticsearch in PeopleSoft (PeopleSoftCloud)

A look at two major search engines and how they fit into PeopleSoft’s evolving observability and indexing story. From real-time dashboards to log analytics and performance tuning, OpenSearch continues to play an increasingly important role in PeopleSoft modernization on cloud platforms.

💬 Aaron’s Take

Edition 21 shows a clear message across all layers of ERP: technology is accelerating, but risk is accelerating too.

Oracle is doubling down on AI; from Linux and database layers to infrastructure and app-level assistants. Analysts are bullish again. Tools are improving. Hybrid and on-prem customers are getting more AI capabilities than ever before.

But none of that shields organizations from the security pressure we’re seeing in higher ed and public-sector ERP. Clop’s attack against E-Business Suite is a wake-up call: modernization without hardening is just wishful thinking.

Inside PeopleSoft teams, the momentum is encouraging—AI practices, new image features, integration frameworks, and clearer search strategies. These aren’t theoretical improvements; they’re upgrades that change how people actually work.

The next phase of ERP is clear: AI where it helps, cloud where it fits, security everywhere, and PeopleSoft evolving alongside it all, quietly, steadily, and effectively.

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☕ This Week’s Focus

This week shows a clear pattern across ERP, cloud, and cybersecurity: modernization only works when stability and risk management evolve at the same pace.

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Oracle released a major Linux update, new vulnerabilities hit Identity Manager, and analysts raised flags over rising credit protection costs. All of these point to growing pressure on IT leaders to deliver modern capabilities without ignoring the fundamentals, including patching, hardening, and operational discipline.

At the same time, the PeopleSoft community continues to move forward with thoughtful, human-centered innovation. AI stories are becoming more grounded, real-time search enhancements are improving student experiences, and strategic comparisons between SAP, Salesforce, and PeopleSoft are helping organizations make smarter decisions.

Edition 20 blends infrastructure, risk, and practical PeopleSoft moves; exactly the combination shaping real ERP strategy as we end the year.

⚙️ Oracle, AI & Infrastructure

🔗 Oracle Linux 9.7 Now Generally Available

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/oracle-linux-9-7-now-generally-available

Oracle released Linux 9.7 with updated kernels, stronger security defaults, and improved performance tuning options. For PeopleSoft teams planning 2026 refreshes or cloud migrations, this is the next stable foundation for application servers and automation frameworks.

🔗 Critical Flaw in Oracle Identity Manager Under Exploitation (Dark Reading)

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/critical-flaw-oracle-identity-manager-under-exploitation

Security researchers warn that attackers are actively exploiting a newly discovered flaw in Oracle Identity Manager. The incident highlights a simple truth: identity remains one of the most important and vulnerable control points in ERP ecosystems.

🔗 Morgan Stanley Warns Oracle Credit Protection Nearing Record High (LA Times)

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-27/morgan-stanley-warns-oracle-credit-protection-nearing-record-high

Analysts at Morgan Stanley note that Oracle’s credit protection is rising, a sign that markets are closely watching its debt exposure. With AI infrastructure investments surging, financial sentiment is becoming as relevant to IT planning as technical roadmaps.

📊 AI, ERP Strategy & Industry View

🔗 PeopleSoft AI and the Music Kid Who Joined the Team (PeopleSoft Insider)

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PeopleSoft, AI, and the Music Kid Who Never Left

This newsletter edition is all about fun. After Black Friday, You Need This! Every week new AI apps pop up for ERP, cloud apps, images, code, and now music. The flood feels wild for anyone in ERP, especially for PeopleSoft pros who still live inside query logs and PUM notes…

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4 months ago · 1 like · Derek Tomei

A thoughtful story about AI adoption told through a narrative lens using the metaphor of a music student to explain how AI can support, augment, and grow alongside PeopleSoft teams. It’s a reminder to start where you are, learn continuously, and avoid letting fear dictate your modernizations.

🔗 How to Decide Between SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, and PeopleSoft (LinkedIn)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-decide-between-sap-s4hana-salesforce-peoplesoft-your-aggarwal-ztwyc/

A framework for comparing the top three ERP ecosystems through capability, cost, culture, and complexity. Instead of pushing a “one-size-fits-all” answer, this piece highlights how alignment with organizational needs, not hype, should drive selection or retention decisions.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Community & Practice

🔗 Transition to the New My Oracle Support Portal (PeopleSoft Blog)

https://blogs.oracle.com/peoplesoft/transition-to-the-new-my-oracle-support-portal

Oracle confirms the transition to the updated My Oracle Support portal. For PeopleSoft admins, the change brings a refreshed interface, streamlined SR workflows, and better integration with cloud support tools. It’s a good moment to update internal documentation and onboarding materials.

🔗 Real-Time Indexing in Fluid Class Search for Campus Solutions (NewPeopleSoft Blog)

https://newpeoplesoft.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/real-time-indexing-in-fluid-class-search-for-peoplesoft-campus-solutions/

A practical breakdown of how to enable and optimize real-time indexing for Fluid Class Search. This enhancement improves search responsiveness for students and advisors and reduces the lag between data changes and UI availability. A smart win for student experience teams.

💬 Aaron’s Take

Edition 20 makes one message impossible to ignore: modernization isn’t a straight line; it’s a mix of progress, risk, and readiness.

On the one hand, Oracle is pushing new infrastructure and refining its cloud tooling. On the other hand, security threats and market signals remind us that ERP modernization is only meaningful if platforms are secure and financially sustainable. Cloud strategy can’t be separated from operational discipline or economic awareness.

Within PeopleSoft teams, innovation remains grounded and intentional. Real-time search, AI augmentation stories, and new workflows in MOS show that modernization is happening simultaneously at the edges and in the core. These aren’t flashy transformations. They’re steady upgrades that improve real work for real users.

The organizations that thrive next year will be those that pair technical improvement with clarity, security-first thinking, and a healthy respect for the operational details that hold everything together.

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☕ This Week’s Focus

If the past few weeks highlighted the tension between AI hype and operational reality, this week makes one thing clear: ERP modernization is now a global, security-first conversation.

Oracle expanded its global cloud footprint, new ransomware reports raised fresh concerns about vendor risk, and distributed database innovation accelerated the march toward agentic AI. Meanwhile, higher ed leaders are openly acknowledging that technology debt is shaping ERP roadmaps more than ever before.

And across the PeopleSoft community, practitioners continue to modernize where it counts: UX, automation, and performance-driven integrations.

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⚙️ Oracle, AI & Infrastructure

🔗 Oracle Opens Second Public Cloud Region in Italy

https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-opens-second-public-cloud-region-in-italy-2025-11-19/

Oracle launched a new public cloud region in Milan, strengthening its global coverage and reinforcing multicloud, multi-region resilience for EMEA customers. Another signal that Oracle intends to win by scale and geographic relevance.

🔗 Big Tech, Big Debt: What Oracle’s Borrowing Says About Its Future (Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/17/big-tech-debt-oracle

Axios highlights a growing concern among analysts: tech giants taking on billions in debt to fund AI expansion. For Oracle, the question isn’t capability; it’s whether the investment curve outpaces enterprise adoption.

🔗 Clop Ransomware Allegedly Breaches Oracle (CyberPress)

https://cyberpress.org/oracle-allegedly-breached-by-clop-ransomware/

Security researchers report a potential breach tied to the Clop ransomware group. While details are still emerging, it reinforces a critical point: vendor security posture is part of your ERP architecture.

🔗 Distributed Databases Enabling Agentic AI Across Global Regions (Oracle Database Blog)

https://blogs.oracle.com/database/distributed-databases-enabling-agentic-ai-across-global-regions

The Oracle Database team explains how distributed datasets enable AI agents to operate across regions in near real time. This is the technical backbone of agentic ERP: low-latency data access with global consistency.

🔗 Introducing Oracle’s AI Agent Marketplace (Fusion Insider)

https://blogs.oracle.com/fusioninsider/introducing-ai-agent-marketplace

Oracle unveiled a marketplace of prebuilt AI agents across Finance, HR, and Supply Chain. These agents move beyond suggestions; they execute tasks, automate processes, and support real agentic workflows.

📊 ERP Strategy & Higher Ed

🔗 Emerging Tech Demands Drive ERP Modernization in Higher Ed (GovTech)

https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/emerging-tech-demands-drive-erp-modernization-in-higher-ed

Higher ed leaders are facing rising expectations for automation, analytics, and AI-driven services. GovTech reports that most institutions aren’t replacing ERP; instead, they’re modernizing around it, leaning on cloud platforms, integrations, and targeted upgrades.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Community & Practice

🔗 Designing PeopleSoft Landing Pages – Advanced Sectionalized Homepages (NewPeopleSoft Blog)

https://newpeoplesoft.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/designing-peoplesoft-landing-pages-a-comprehensive-guide-to-advanced-sectionalized-homepages/

A deep, practical guide on building advanced Fluid landing pages using sectionalized layouts. Ideal for teams preparing modern UX enhancements in PUM 53+ environments.

🔗 The PSADMIN Command Line Survival Guide (PeopleSoftCloud)

This week’s feature post dives into essential PSADMIN command-line workflows—perfect for admins transitioning into platform engineering roles who want to automate routine tasks and boost operational efficiency.

🔗 Consuming Enormous Datasets with PeopleCode (JSMPros)

https://blog.jsmpros.com/2025/04/consuming-enormous-datasets-with.html

A highly technical walkthrough from JSMPros on how to efficiently process large datasets in PeopleCode without performance bottlenecks. A must-read for developers building integrations or large ETL-style routines.

💬 Aaron’s Take

This week’s news reinforces that modernization isn’t just about new features. It’s also about reach, risk, and readiness.

Oracle continues to expand globally, AI agents continue to mature, and distributed databases are quietly rewriting what’s possible in ERP automation. But the real story is the one beneath the headlines:

Security is now the architecture.

A ransomware breach isn’t “their” issue; it’s your enterprise risk.

And in higher ed, we’re finally hearing what many IT leaders have known for years: you don’t need to rip and replace ERP. You need to modernize with intent.

The PeopleSoft community remains a perfect illustration of that truth. Whether it’s advanced Fluid UX, more innovative PeopleCode practices, or command-line automation, teams are modernizing where the work lives.

Modern ERP isn’t about chasing the next platform; it’s about shaping the one you already trust.

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☕ This Week’s Focus

This week’s headlines highlight a fascinating paradox: AI enthusiasm is cooling on Wall Street just as Oracle’s multicloud growth heats up in the real world.

From Larry Ellison’s bullish momentum in multicloud to new tools that simplify application management, the conversation is shifting from “AI hype” to platform execution. Meanwhile, ERP compliance and PeopleSoft innovation are proving that modernization is about capability, not buzzwords.

As you’ll see below, the PeopleSoft community continues to lead quietly but effectively by expanding automation, experimenting with AI, and redefining the platform engineer role for a hybrid future.

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⚙️ Oracle, AI & Infrastructure

🔗 Larry Ellison Sees Oracle Multicloud Boom as Google and Amazon Customers Join (Cloud Wars)

https://cloudwars.com/cloud/larry-ellison-sees-oracle-multicloud-boom-as-google-amazon-customers-jump-aboard/

Ellison describes a “multicloud acceleration” as customers blend OCI with AWS and Google Cloud. Oracle’s strategy isn’t isolation, it’s integration, and the numbers show that cross-cloud adoption is driving real momentum.

🔗 Wall Street Cools on Oracle’s AI Buildout Plans (CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/13/ai-sentiment-is-waning-wall-street-cools-on-oracle-buildout-plans.html

Investor enthusiasm for AI infrastructure is showing cracks, with analysts questioning near-term ROI on hyperscale projects. The silver lining? Reduced hype means sharper focus on practical, monetizable use cases.

🔗 Introducing the New Fleet Application Management Release (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Blog)

https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/introducing-the-new-fleet-application-management-release

Oracle’s new Fleet Application Management toolset provides centralized lifecycle control across applications and environments, simplifying patching, monitoring, and compliance. For large PeopleSoft or Fusion portfolios, this release could quietly redefine operational efficiency.

📊 ERP Strategy & Compliance

🔗 Time for Tech to Rethink ERP Compliance (Grant Thornton)

https://www.grantthornton.com/insights/articles/technology/2025/time-for-tech-to-rethink-erp-compliance

Grant Thornton makes a sharp case: traditional compliance models can’t keep up with AI, automation, and continuous deployment. Future ERP governance must shift from “after-the-fact audits” to real-time risk visibility baked into DevOps and cloud workflows.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Community & Practice

🔗 PeopleSoft Landing Page Modeler (I Like Trains Blog)

https://i-like-trains.blogspot.com/2025/11/peoplesoft-landing-page-modeler.html

A quick, hands-on walkthrough of the PeopleSoft Landing Page Modeler. Showing how admins can rapidly prototype modern UX layouts without code. Perfect for teams planning PUM 53+ UI rollouts.

🔗 AI for PeopleSoft Pros: A Step-by-Step Approach (PeopleSoft Insider)

The PeopleSoft Insider

AI For PeopleSoft Pros: A Step By Step System To Automate The Boring Work And Prove Your Value

Why AI Belongs In Your PeopleSoft Stack…

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5 months ago · Derek Tomei

A practical guide to adopting AI inside your PeopleSoft ecosystem. Derek Tomei outlines small, actionable steps that leverage automation, pattern recognition, and OpenAI APIs to augment workflows without requiring system rewriting.

🔗 The PeopleSoft Platform Cloud Engineer (PeopleSoftCloud)

This week’s feature post introduces the PeopleSoft Platform Cloud Engineer role, which represents the evolution of the traditional administrator into a DevSecOps-driven architect. From Terraform to Chef to OpenSearch, it’s about turning platform stability into delivery velocity.

💬 Aaron’s Take

The signal beneath this week’s noise is simple: the hype cycle is maturing.

AI is settling into its true role as an operational accelerator, not a silver bullet. Investors cooling off isn’t a bad thing; it’s clarity returning to the room.

Meanwhile, Oracle’s multicloud strategy is proving pragmatic, not ideological. The company that once demanded exclusivity is now thriving in cooperative infrastructure. That’s a massive shift, and it mirrors what’s happening in PeopleSoft teams everywhere.

The PeopleSoft ecosystem continues to modernize through execution, experimenting with AI responsibly, improving UX, and professionalizing platform operations. That’s what sustainable transformation looks like.

As hype fades, the teams that stay focused on doing, automating, integrating, and improving are the ones who’ll win the next decade.

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☕ This Week’s Focus

If last week was about momentum, this week is about trust, and what happens when it’s tested.

A high-profile Oracle-linked data breach, volatility in Oracle’s stock, and new insights into AI’s role in ERP transformations are reminding enterprise leaders that innovation and resilience must move in lockstep.

At the same time, Oracle continues to expand its AI and database portfolio; the PeopleSoft community keeps shipping value, and ERP strategists are seriously discussing the agentic AI inflection point.

This week’s Digest blends realism with forward motion, because resilience isn’t resistance; it’s readiness.

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⚙️ Oracle, AI & Infrastructure

🔗 Washington Post Confirms Data Breach Linked to Oracle Hacks (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/07/washington-post-confirms-data-breach-linked-to-oracle-hacks/
TechCrunch reports that a recent vulnerability associated with Oracle has been exploited, exposing data from The Washington Post. The incident highlights the interconnectedness of third-party ecosystems—and underscores that shared responsibility in cloud security extends beyond a mere checkbox.

🔗 Oracle Stock Dips as Investors React to OpenAI Uncertainty (Barron’s)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/oracle-stock-price-drop-openai-869c4d14
Oracle’s stock declined after mixed signals emerged regarding its OpenAI partnership and AI infrastructure commitments. The message behind the numbers: Wall Street may be pricing not just Oracle’s potential, but its execution risk.

🔗 Mahesh Thiagarajan on Oracle’s Cloud Strategy and Innovation (Cloud Wars Live)
https://cloudwars.com/ai/mahesh-thiagarajan-on-oracle-cloud-strategy-and-innovation-cloud-wars-live/
Oracle EVP Mahesh Thiagarajan emphasized the importance of cross-layer integration, focusing on Fusion apps, database AI, and infrastructure alignment, as the next competitive moat. The focus is to simplify the stack to amplify AI results.

🔗 Apps 2025 Update: AI Agents, AI Marketplace, and More (Oracle Fusion Insider)
https://blogs.oracle.com/fusioninsider/apps-2025-update-ai-agents-ai-marketplace-and-more
Oracle’s latest Fusion Apps update introduces prebuilt AI agents, a smarter AI marketplace, and new integrations across HR, Finance, and SCM. It’s a step toward turning “agentic ERP” from theory into a standard feature.

🔗 Distributed Databases: Enabling Agentic AI Across Global Regions (Oracle Database Blog)
https://blogs.oracle.com/database/distributed-databases-enabling-agentic-ai-across-global-regions
Oracle’s database team breaks down how distributed data architectures make agentic AI scalable and compliant across regions. This is paving the way for truly global ERP intelligence.

📊 ERP Strategy & Market Insight

🔗 Is Agentic AI the Inflection Point for ERP Transformation? (Bain & Company)
https://www.bain.com/insights/is-agentic-ai-the-inflection-point-for-scaling-ERP-transformations/
Bain argues that agentic AI represents an operational tipping point, where ERP transforms from a process executor to a self-optimizing system. The challenge? Scaling trust and governance as fast as the tech itself.

🔗 SaaS ERP vs PeopleSoft: Pros, Cons, and the Real Trade-offs (PeopleSoftCloud)
https://www.peoplesoftcloud.com/p/saas-erp-vs-peoplesoft?r=z6fpj
In this week’s featured article, Aaron explores the strategic decision-making behind SaaS adoption versus modernizing PeopleSoft. The verdict: SaaS isn’t inherently better; alignment and readiness are.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Community & Practice

🔗 The PSFT Connection Podcast – Episode 5: Page and Field Configuration + Change Tracking (Quest Oracle Community)
https://questoraclecommunity.org/learn/podcasts/thepsftconnection_episode-5-page-and-field-configuration-change-tracking/
This week’s Quest podcast explores two powerful yet underutilized features: Page and Field Configuration and Change Tracking. Both make PeopleSoft admins’ lives easier without customization sprawl.

🔗 Stop Calling PeopleSoft “Legacy” When You Haven’t Even Turned It On Yet (PeopleSoft Insider)

The PeopleSoft Insider

Stop Calling PeopleSoft “Legacy” When You Have Not Even Turned It On Yet

A few months ago I talked to a CIO who was replacing PeopleSoft with a cloud ERP system. He said the new one has better UI and is more “modern.” The project was priced at $5 million to implement and $1 million per year to subscribe…

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5 months ago · 1 like · Derek Tomei

Derek Tomei delivers one of the most grounded takes of the year: PeopleSoft isn’t “legacy”—it’s just understood by fewer people. He points out that most replacements happen not because PeopleSoft fails, but because leaders stop exploring what it already does.

💬 Aaron’s Take

It’s been a fascinating week in ERP.

Between data breaches, AI ambitions, and shifting market sentiment, it’s clear that trust is the new foundation of innovation. When Oracle takes a financial or operational hit, the ripple effect is felt by everyone, from CIOs to campus administrators.

Here’s what I’m seeing:

• Security isn’t a silo. It’s now a shared, systemic layer across ERP, integrations, and infrastructure.

• Agentic AI is real. It’s the next leap forward, but it remains sustainable only if governance evolves in tandem with automation.

• PeopleSoft remains steady. While SaaS solutions make headlines, PeopleSoft teams continue to modernize from within, combining stability with smart innovation.

The best ERP leaders this quarter won’t just talk about transformation; they’ll architect trustworthy systems that can actually support it.

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If September and October were about AI scale, this week is about operational realism. CIOs are weighing big-bet infrastructure moves against resiliency, governance, and the day-to-day work of making PeopleSoft smarter. The tension is productive: bold visions sharpen the need for practical roadmaps.

You’ll see that contrast below: critical analysis of Oracle’s cloud trajectory, DR features you can use on Monday, and hands-on PeopleSoft how-tos. That’s the hybrid future in a nutshell: aim high, ship small, iterate fast.

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⚙️ Oracle, AI & Infrastructure

🔗 Oracle’s Cloud Strategy: An Increasingly Risky Bet (CIO)

https://www.cio.com/article/4081535/oracles-cloud-strategy-an-increasingly-risky-bet.html

A sober look at concentration risk, capex intensity, and execution dependencies in Oracle’s AI-led cloud push—useful framing for boards and procurement as AI demand meets supply constraints.

🔗 NVIDIA + Oracle + U.S. DOE: New AI Supercomputers for Scientific Discovery

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-oracle-us-department-of-energy-ai-supercomputer-scientific-discovery

A significant U.S. research investment featuring Oracle in the AI HPC stack. Beyond headline capacity, note the implication: faster model training for enterprise-adjacent science and analytics.

🔗 OCI Full Stack DR: October 2025 Feature Updates (Oracle MAA Blog)

https://blogs.oracle.com/maa/oci-full-stack-dr-new-features-october-2025

Standardized Data Guard templates, Terraform modules, and automation-first patterns make DR plans more repeatable and auditable—good news for teams blending Exadata, DB services, and app tiers.

📊 ERP Market, Security & Strategy

🔗 Cybersecurity in the Age of AI: 3 Imperatives for Resilient ERP (Forbes SAP BrandVoice)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2025/10/30/cybersecurity-in-the-age-of-ai-3-imperatives-for-resilient-erp/

Short, actionable framing: govern AI-assisted processes, secure multi-cloud data flows, and design for recoverability—not just prevention. A handy checklist for Q4 risk reviews.

🔗 Whitepaper: The Rise of Agentic AI ERP (Rimini Street)

https://www.riministreet.com/resources/whitepaper/the-rise-of-agentic-ai-erp/

Position paper on layering agentic AI over existing ERP to shift from system-of-record to system-of-action. This is useful for pressure-testing upgrade assumptions and rethinking time-to-value.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Community & Practice

🔗 Integrating Google reCAPTCHA with PeopleSoft (Custom Java + PeopleCode)

https://newpeoplesoft.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/integrating-google-recaptcha-with-peoplesoft-using-a-custom-java-class-and-peoplecode/

A crisp walkthrough for adding bot protection at the app layer; lightweight, practical, and timely for public-facing CS/ELM forms.

🔗 Feature Focus Friday: Making PeopleSoft Smarter (PeopleSoftCloud)

A weekly series kickoff centered on small, compounding wins. These are the patterns that make PeopleSoft feel modern without waiting for a big-bang overhaul.

🔗 Don’t Jump—Level Up Your PeopleSoft (PeopleSoft Insider)

The PeopleSoft Insider

Don’t Jump—Level Up Your PeopleSoft Career

I had a strange conversation with a PeopleSoft developer just the other day…

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5 months ago · Derek Tomei

A mindset reset: improve posture (testing, docs, observability, integrations) before contemplating wholesale replacement. Treat PeopleSoft as a platform, not a dead end.

🎥 Featured Video

Landing Pages: First Impression (PeopleSoft HCM PUM 53)

A quick look at the delivered HCM PUM 53 landing page and dashboards. These are useful for stakeholders to visualize what users will actually see, and for admins planning image adoption.

💬 Aaron’s Take

Three threads connect this week’s stories:

1. Ambition vs. Resilience. Big infrastructure moves are exciting, and they’re also dependencies. As you plan 2026 budgets, balance capacity bets with governance, DR automation, and security by design.

2. Agentic, Not Just Generative. The most interesting roadmap isn’t “AI everywhere,” it’s AI that does work. Orchestrating processes across ERP and SaaS with auditable guardrails.

3. PeopleSoft as a Platform. Teams that win aren’t waiting for permission. They’re hardening the edges (reCAPTCHA), improving UX (PUM 53), and shipping weekly. Modernization is momentum.

The pattern is clear: lead with practical capability you can deploy in weeks, and let outcomes—not hype—pull you forward.

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If last week was about AI becoming the operating principle of ERP, this week shows what happens when that vision starts scaling globally.

At Oracle AI World 2025, we saw the debut of new leadership, new infrastructure, and new ambition. Between Stargate’s Wisconsin expansion, OCI’s new Zettascale10 AI supercomputer, and fresh Gartner ERP rankings, it’s clear: the future of enterprise systems will be powered by AI infrastructure as much as application innovation.

And while the headlines focus on scale, the PeopleSoft community continues to evolve in parallel, documenting, modernizing, and connecting through events like PeopleSoft Reconnect Dive Deep and new educational resources on PeopleSoftCloud.com.

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⚙️ Oracle & AI World 2025 Highlights

🔗 Oracle AI World 2025: A First Look Under New Command

https://www.forrester.com/blogs/oracle-ai-world-2025-the-first-look-under-new-command/

Forrester’s first look at Oracle AI World under new leadership highlights a more focused strategy, centered on AI for productivity, fusion extensibility, and an open marketplace model for enterprise AI agents.

🔗 OpenAI and Oracle Announce Stargate Data Center in Wisconsin

https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-oracle-announce-stargate-data-center-site-wisconsin-2025-10-22/

Oracle and OpenAI confirmed that Stargate’s next site will be built in Wisconsin. A multi-billion-dollar data center designed to power next-gen AI workloads at unprecedented scale. The Midwest just became an AI hotspot.

🔗 Oracle Unveils OCI Zettascale10 – The Cloud’s Largest AI Supercomputer

https://smallbiztrends.com/oracle-unveils-oci-zettascale10-the-clouds-largest-ai-supercomputer/

Oracle’s new Zettascale10 platform is now the world’s largest AI supercomputer offering exascale compute capacity built specifically for training enterprise AI models. This marks a massive leap for OCI’s competitive positioning against AWS, Azure, and Google.

📊 ERP Market & Insights

🔗 Gartner Magic Quadrant 2025: Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises

https://www.cxtoday.com/customer-analytics-intelligence/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-erp-for-product-centric-enterprises-2025-the-rundown/

The 2025 report shows steady consolidation in the ERP cloud market. Oracle Fusion remains a Leader, SAP holds position, and several niche players gain traction in industry-specific deployments. AI-readiness is now a top evaluation factor.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Community & Practice

🔗 5 Ways to Properly Document What PeopleSoft Does

Before you modernize or migrate, you have to truly understand what your system does. This guide outlines five ways to create a living blueprint of your PeopleSoft environment, your foundation for automation, integration, and SaaS transition planning.

🔗 PeopleSoft Reconnect Dive Deep – Upcoming Conference

https://questoraclecommunity.org/events/conferences/peoplesoft-reconnect-dive-deep/

Quest’s annual PeopleSoft Reconnect Dive Deep event is right around the corner, featuring roadmap sessions, customer case studies, and hands-on labs. It’s the can’t-miss conference for anyone serious about staying current with PeopleSoft innovation.

🔗 Bonus Read: “Stop Supporting. Start Enabling.”

https://substack.com/home/post/p-177054363?source=queue

A reflection on how PeopleSoft leaders can evolve their teams from reactive support to proactive enablement, empowering business units to innovate safely, quickly, and effectively.

💬 Aaron’s Take

Edition 15 captures a clear message:

👉 AI may be driving the infrastructure revolution, but PeopleSoft and ERP teams are the ones driving adoption.

• Oracle’s pace is staggering: a new AI supercomputer, a new data center, and a refocused vision under new leadership.

• The market is shifting fast, but modernization is still about fundamentals—documentation, connection, and community.

• The most innovative PeopleSoft teams aren’t waiting for change; they’re building readiness for it.

This community is thriving because we’re blending tradition with transformation. We are staying grounded in what works while preparing for what’s next.

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Oracle’s AI World 2025 announcements make one thing clear: AI isn’t an add-on to enterprise apps anymore. It’s the operating principle. From multicloud universal credits to AI agents embedded in Fusion Apps and 26AI bringing vector and semantic smarts into the database layer, ERP strategy is shifting from “integrate AI” to “design for AI.”

On the PeopleSoft side, this week features highly practical how-tos and leadership pieces, showing how to modernize the stack and the culture at the same time.

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⚡ Oracle AI World Highlights

🔗 NVIDIA & Oracle: Accelerating Enterprise AI Data Processing

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-oracle-accelerate-enterprise-ai-data-processing/

NVIDIA and Oracle deepen ties around Grace Hopper and OCI to turbocharge data prep and model workloads—useful for ERP analytics, forecasting, and planning use cases that demand GPU-backed pipelines.

🔗 Oracle Database@Azure Expands: New Regions, Features, Programs

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/oracle-databaseazure-offers-new-features-regions-and-programs-to-unlock-data-and-ai-innovation/

The Oracle–Microsoft partnership adds more regions and capabilities, reducing latency to Azure services and simplifying routes to AI + data co-location. Multicloud is now a design pattern, not a workaround.

🔗 Multicloud Universal Credits

https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ai-world-oracle-introduces-multicloud-universal-credits-2025-10-14/

Oracle introduces credits that follow your workload across clouds, helping finance and architecture teams align budgets with the realities of cross-cloud AI.

🔗 Database 26AI: ‘AI for Data’

https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ai-world-database-26ai-powers-the-ai-for-data-revolution-2025-10-14/

Built-in vector search, semantic models, and GenAI, where your data actually lives. Expect simpler retrieval-augmented workflows and fewer glue components between data and intelligence.

🔗 Fusion Applications AI Agent Marketplace

https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ai-world-oracle-launches-fusion-applications-ai-agent-marketplace-to-accelerate-enterprise-ai-adoption-2025-10-15/

Prebuilt agents for Finance, HR, and Supply Chain turn AI from a pilot into a packaged capability. Think: guided close, proactive exception handling, and personalized self-service.

☁️ ERP Strategy & Transformation

🔗 10 Steps to Get Your PeopleSoft System Ready to Move to SaaS

A pragmatic roadmap: stabilize, de-customize, document, automate tests, and lift analytics—so whether you stay hybrid or shift to SaaS, you’re starting from strength.

🔗 Parsing JSON Arrays with PeopleCode (JSMPros)

https://blog.jsmpros.com/2025/09/parsing-json-arrays-with-peoplecode.html

Modern integrations without the mess: concise patterns for consuming REST payloads in PeopleSoft—cleaner code, faster data flows.

🎥 Featured Video

Image Highlights, PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 53

A quick overview of HCM Image 53 enhancements—covering usability refinements, self-service improvements, and lifecycle updates HRIS teams will want in their next image plan.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Leadership & Culture

🔗 Stop Hiding Your Impact in PeopleSoft (PeopleSoft Insider)

The PeopleSoft Insider

Stop Hiding Your Impact in PeopleSoft and Start Showing it Off!

A senior PeopleSoft developer messaged me last week with a familiar problem. He led a clean Fluid rollout that removed a pricey mobile app. His resume showed one sleepy line: “Implemented HCM Fluid self-service.” No metrics. No outcomes. No story. He felt stuck in interviews because he could not remember the business impact, only the tasks…

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6 months ago · Derek Tomei

A timely reminder: outcomes beat outputs. If you’re modernizing PeopleSoft, tell the story, tie Insights dashboards, automation, and integrations back to business results.

💬 Aaron’s Take

The center of gravity is moving: AI is becoming the control plane for enterprise systems. Oracle’s AI World lineup (universal credits, 26AI, AI Agent Marketplace) points to an ecosystem where data, models, and apps behave like composable services.

For PeopleSoft teams, the playbook is clear:

• Keep sharpening integration skills (JSON, REST).

• Bring analytics to the surface with Insights.

• Prepare your footprint (and your culture) for trusted automation.

ERP isn’t just transactional anymore; it’s anticipatory.

AI is no longer the future of ERP. It’s the foundation being poured right now.

From Oracle NetSuite’s “AI-first” strategy to PeopleSoft developers embracing automation and analytics, this week’s stories show how fast the lines between ERP, data, and intelligent systems are blurring.

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💡 ERP & AI Strategy

🔗 Oracle NetSuite’s Evan Goldberg: Why the Future of ERP Is AI-First

Evan Goldberg outlines NetSuite’s vision for an “AI-first ERP,” where embedded intelligence automates forecasts, purchasing, and close processes. The takeaway: ERP systems aren’t just supporting decisions—they’re about to start making them.

🔗 Autonomous ERP Is Changing Daily Work with Agentic AI

Agentic AI is pushing ERP toward autonomy, enabling workflows that adapt and self-optimize. Think of it as the evolution from a reporting system to a decision partner. The challenge? Trusting the machine enough to let it act is crucial.

☁️ Oracle Cloud & Infrastructure

🔗 Oracle Launches Intelligent Communications Orchestration Network

Oracle unveiled a cross-cloud orchestration layer that connects AI, data, and app services across providers. It strengthens OCI’s multi-cloud stance, letting enterprises route AI workloads securely between vendors without building custom plumbing.

🛡️ Security & Risk

🔗 Cl0p-Linked Hackers Breach Dozens of Organizations

The Cl0p ransomware group is back, targeting managed file-transfer systems in global enterprises. It’s another reminder that third-party integration points remain ERP’s soft underbelly, and that patching alone isn’t a complete defense.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Insights

🔗 Stop Hiding Your Impact in PeopleSoft – PeopleSoft Insider

A sharp reflection on leadership visibility: technical skill matters, but communicating your impact keeps PeopleSoft professionals relevant as organizations modernize.

🔗 PeopleSoft in the AI Era: Build Enterprise Agents on OCI – Selvakumar Ramasamy

Shows how PeopleSoft teams can leverage OCI and generative models to create AI “enterprise agents” that handle inquiries, automate data lookups, and augment user experience without replacing the core application.

🔗 PeopleTools 8.62: Essential Enhancements for Technical Developers

A developer-focused guide to the most meaningful 8.62 updates, from REST API improvements to search and configuration enhancements that make PeopleSoft more open and modern-ready.

🔗 Add a PSQuery to Insights Data Tables – PeopleTools Tech Tips

A concise, hands-on tutorial showing how to feed custom PSQuery results into Insights dashboards. Turning standard reporting into actionable analytics right inside PeopleSoft.

💬 Aaron’s Take

Edition 13 makes one thing clear: ERP intelligence is shifting from dashboards to decisions.

• Oracle is building infrastructure where AI and cloud services interoperate seamlessly.

• NetSuite and autonomous ERP models are redefining what “system of record” means.

• And the PeopleSoft ecosystem keeps pace, embedding Insights, APIs, and AI agents that transform stability into innovation.

The next frontier isn’t just more intelligent systems. It’s trusted automation: ERP that thinks with us, not just for us.

Welcome to the first issue of The Modern ERP Digest, published exclusively on PeopleSoftCloud.com!

For the past several months, this digest has been published on LinkedIn, reaching leaders, architects, and administrators across the PeopleSoft and Oracle ecosystems. Moving forward, every Monday you’ll find it right here, with the same practical insights on PeopleSoft, ERP modernization, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and the evolving AI landscape. Additionally, we gain more room for in-depth exploration, richer visuals, and community engagement.

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🛡️ Security & Risk

🔗 Oracle Says Known Vulnerabilities Possibly Exploited in Recent Extortion Attacks

Oracle confirmed that attackers have likely exploited unpatched vulnerabilities in several legacy middleware components during recent extortion incidents. A sharp reminder that patch cadence and vulnerability management are no longer “ops tasks,” they’re business-continuity safeguards.

☁️ Oracle Cloud & Strategy

🔗 Oracle Cloud Can Be as Big as AWS This Decade

Analysts at The Next Platform suggest that Oracle’s AI-optimized data center expansion could make OCI a top-tier hyperscaler by 2030. Aggressive investment in Exadata, AI partnerships, and sovereign cloud zones is driving that ambition.

🔗 NATO Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

The NATO Communications and Information Agency chose OCI to support secure mission systems across member nations—a milestone deal that underscores Oracle’s growing credibility in defense and sovereign cloud environments.

🔗 What Is Oracle? — A Deep Dive into the Tech Giant’s Strategy and Tools

A clear, high-level explainer that traces Oracle’s journey from database pioneer to AI-enabled cloud platform. A great refresher for anyone mapping Oracle’s product universe and competitive landscape.

🏗️ ERP Transformation

🔗 PwC and SAP Complete One of the Largest Global ERP Moves

PwC’s global consolidation onto SAP S/4HANA demonstrates how massive ERP transitions are now being treated like strategic mergers—managed through automation, AI-based testing, and rigorous change governance. A practical case study for CIOs considering global harmonization.

👩‍💻 PeopleSoft Updates & Insights

🔗 Unlocking Cost Savings with Customization Insights

Oracle’s new Customization Insights tool helps identify unnecessary custom code that adds cost and risk. A decisive step toward data-driven optimization of PeopleSoft footprints.

🔗 Course Numbering System Enhancements in PeopleSoft

Campus Solutions users gain new flexibility to renumber courses without breaking existing records—enabling a small change with a significant impact on registrar efficiency and data consistency.

🎥 Featured Video: Image Highlights – PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Image 36

This latest Campus Solutions video highlights feature updates in PI 36, including Edu-API services, Financial Aid enhancements, and improvements to the student experience. Quick runtime demo — worth a watch for any CS admin planning their next image upgrade.

💬 Aaron’s Take

The stories in this edition reflect a clear trend: ERP modernization is no longer just about applications; it’s about platform positioning.

• Oracle is scaling OCI faster than most predicted.

• PeopleSoft continues to prove that incremental innovation still pays dividends.

• And security remains the unseen anchor that keeps all this progress afloat.

As we move the Digest to its new home on PeopleSoftCloud.com, expect more depth, more hands-on analysis, and more of the same straightforward perspective you’ve come to trust.

Thanks for reading, and welcome to the next chapter of The Modern ERP Digest.

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