🧠 The Modern ERP Digest – Edition 16

Curated by Aaron Engelsrud | Published on PeopleSoftCloud.com

☕ This Week’s Focus

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.

⚙️ 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)

Don’t Jump—Level Up Your PeopleSoft Career

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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