Gideon Taylor

Ascend 2022 Conference (OHUG-OATUG)
2022-06-12 - 2022-06-15
Ascend is the Oracle user community event that unites functional users, IT professionals and expert resources for frank discussion and practical education to elevate insights and improve decision making, project planning and business operations. Focused on Oracle’s family of applications and technologies, Ascend brings together users of Peoplesoft HCM, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Cloud Applications, Oracle Database, or Taleo. Make plans now to reconnect with the Oracle community June 12-15, 2022 at the sleek and sophisticated Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

INTERACT 2022 Conference (HIUG)
2022-06-12 - 2022-06-15
The HIUG Interact Conference is an annual user-driven meeting of Oracle application Healthcare users. The conference comprises 600+ attendees, 40+ vendors, and more than 175 educational sessions/clinics.

The educational sessions are presented by user organizations, Oracle experts, and our vendor sponsors.
Industry leaders and other industry experts share information on how they continuously transform their applications and businesses to meet the needs of the ever-changing Healthcare Industry
The Exhibit Hall offers the ability to evaluate multiple vendors, discuss service offerings, and see product demos

The Interact conference provides the perfect setting to collaborate and share innovative and efficient uses of the Oracle applications as they serve the healthcare community. It is open to all employees of Healthcare Organizations with licensed Oracle Enterprise application products and services. The Interact Conference team is hard at work, so make your plans now to be a part of Interact 2022.
Join us for these sessions hosted by Gideon Taylor:
PeopleSoft Power Tools to Boost ROI: Chatbots, eForms, and RPA (Session #20118)
Monday, June 13, 9:40 – 10:40 AM EDT
Presented by: Paul Taylor (Gideon Taylor) and Andrew Bediz (IntraSee)
Chatbots, eForms, RPA. There is no better return on investment in enterprise software than automation. Not cloud, not SaaS, not upgrades. The single biggest cost to enterprise software is the people needed to run it. Automation at all levels will drive efficiency and save your organization money.
Automation can be applied to various pillars, but the three most common are (1) automating work your backend users perform, (2) automating work your self-service users are asked to do, and (3) automating the work to support all of your users. For PeopleSoft customers, all three of these automation opportunities are available today! Join us for a crash course on the tenets of automation ROI and see how you can maximize the value, productivity, and performance of your PeopleSoft system. We’ll show you how you can automate user tasks and support with world-class digital assistants; automate business processes with Fluid eForms; and automate heavy backend work in PeopleSoft with RPA technology.
Eliminate clicks, simplify processes, increase visibility, and accelerate transactions. You will spend far less than on a new SaaS and have much greater returns. If you’re looking for more productivity, more efficiency, and more value, we will show you how to unlock that today from your HCM / FSCM / Campus Solutions systems.

PeopleSoft Onboarding – Delivering Employee Productivity On and BEFORE Day One! (Session #20117)
Tuesday, June 14, 9:30 – 10:30 AM EDT
Presented by: Paul Taylor and Scott Antin (Gideon Taylor)
In today’s competitive labor market, making your employees welcome and productive even before Day One can be the difference between “Welcome Aboard” and “See Ya’ Later”. Join us as we walk through a demo and discussion of the components of a successful PeopleSoft Onboarding experience including seamless integration with recruiting systems; pre-hire access to complete onboarding tasks and eForms; a fast and easy I-9 / E-Verify experience; and automatic provisioning of security accesses.

Cloud, SaaS, PeopleSoft, and You: Preparing for What’s Next (Session #20154)
Wednesday, June 15, 8:30 – 9:30 AM EDT
Presented by: Paul Taylor (Gideon Taylor) and Andrew Bediz (IntraSee)
In today’s market, organizations have options on whether/how/when to move to the Cloud. Some are reimplementing to new SaaS solutions; others are optimizing PeopleSoft and lifting their existing ERP/HCM to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; and others are choosing to integrate Cloud-based solutions with their on-premise PeopleSoft applications.
Join us for a panel discussion on factors to consider in evaluating your options and how to get the most value from the direction you choose. We’ll share insights to help you navigate the options and the marketplace. How do you engage Oracle? How do you evaluate providers for Cloud services and/or Cloud infrastructure? What are the benefits you should expect? What will your team be responsible for AFTER the migration?
We’ll also share best practice on some of the smart things your organization can be doing TODAY so that you’re ready for TOMORROW: Designing Cloud-proofed business processes that can easily move PeopleSoft down either cloud path; Automating manual tasks to help your staff redefine the nature of “work”; Identifying opportunities to reduce and retire third-party systems.
Bring your questions and join us for successful strategies that will help you ensure a smooth landing if and when your cloud migration comes, and allow you to keep innovating in the meantime.

BLUEPRINT 4D Conference (Quest)
2022-06-06 - 2022-06-09
Make plans to join us for BLUEPRINT 4D, taking place in Las Vegas and online June 6 – 9th, 2022. The hybrid event format is designed to provide an optimal experience for customer participation and engagement both in person and digitally for a truly global event. This global Oracle customer event is your chance to get the updates and practical hands-on learning for JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle Cloud apps, Oracle Database & Technology and Oracle Commerce!
Join us for these sessions hosted by Gideon Taylor and our Newbury and IntraSee divisions:
8 Great Ways for Users to Navigate Today’s PeopleSoft (Session #104590)
Thursday, June 9, 10:15 – 11:15 AM PDT
Presented by: Jeff Robbins, Senior Director – Strategic Initiatives at Gideon Taylor Consulting
Learn how to quickly leverage delivered functionality to make PeopleSoft efficient, modern and more engaging for users. PeopleSoft has delivered so many shiny new features, are you taking advantage of them to improve your users’ experience?
Hear how your organization can benefit from the latest developments in the PeopleSoft User Interface. We’ll show you how you can take advantage of:

Fluid UI
Home Pages, Dashboards, Tiles
Activity Guides, WorkCenters
Fluid Approvals, Notifications, Alerts
Related Actions
Elastic Search
Kibana
Chatbots

PeopleSoft Power Tools to Boost ROI: Chatbots, eForms, and RPA (Session #111050)
Tuesday, June 7, 4:00 – 5:00 PM PDT
Presented by: Paul Taylor (Gideon Taylor), Mark Aiman (IntraSee), and Jeff Robbins (Newbury Enterprise Services)
Chatbots, eForms, RPA. There is no better return on investment in enterprise software than automation. Not cloud, not SaaS, not upgrades. The single biggest cost to enterprise software is the people needed to run it. Automation at all levels will drive efficiency and save your organization money.
Automation can be applied to various pillars, but the three most common are (1) automating work your backend users perform, (2) automating work your self-service users are asked to do, and (3) automating the work to support all of your users. For PeopleSoft customers, all three of these automation opportunities are available today! Join us for a crash course on the tenets of automation ROI and see how you can maximize the value, productivity, and performance of your PeopleSoft system. We’ll show you how you can automate user tasks and support with world-class digital assistants; automate business processes with Fluid eForms; and automate heavy backend work in PeopleSoft with RPA technology.
Eliminate clicks, simplify processes, increase visibility, and accelerate transactions. You will spend far less than on a new SaaS and have much greater returns. If you’re looking for more productivity, more efficiency, and more value, we will show you how to unlock that today from your HCM / FSCM / Campus Solutions systems.

GT eForms Master Series: Advanced Workflow Scenarios
2022-05-12 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | image-1
CUSTOMER EXCLUSIVE ONLINE EVENT
The GT eForms Framework provides eForm creators with many options to configure workflow, rosters, and visual ifs. This session covers how to configure the following scenarios with delivered GT eForms functionality:

Need 3 approval steps, but need 2 users to approve at each step
Need the form submitter to advise who the form should initially route to for approval
Need an approver that appears twice in the workflow to only have to approve the form once
Need the workflow to jump forward to an approver who submitted the form and make the workflow start after that approver’s step

For years, Gideon Taylor has hosted internal “Tips & Tricks” sessions to help our GT eForms designers and developers become more proficient with the software. This year, we’re turning that practice on its head and giving you the benefit of our senior consultants’ knowledge in a series of quarterly educational webinars exclusively for GT eForms Enterprise customers.
To register, please email info@gideontaylor.com.

PeopleSoft Master Series: The State of Chatbots for PeopleSoft Customers
2022-04-12 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
You have likely heard the terms chatbot, digital assistant, ODA, Picaso and, as a result, are more confused than ever!
Andrew Bediz from IntraSee, a division of Gideon Taylor, will review the current state of this market, the value proposition and the options available to PeopleSoft customers. An art-of-the-possible live demo will also take center stage in this session as we explore the future of automation and user interface.
Register via the link below.

Alliance 2022 Conference (HEUG)
2022-03-13 - 2022-03-16 | tickets-per-agent-per-month
Join Gideon Taylor, IntraSee, and Newbury at the premiere PeopleSoft conference for higher education and public sector: HEUG Alliance 2022. Three days dedicated to the world-class educational content attendees have come to expect over Alliance’s 25-year history from member institutions around the world. We can’t even tell you how excited we are to see everyone again!

Visit us in the Exhibit Hall at Booth 427 to find out what we’ve been up to this past year, including PeopleSoft managed services, cloud hosting, RPA, AI digital assistants, and, of course, really awesome automation with GT eForms!
You’ll also be able to find us at any of these sessions featuring Gideon Taylor, IntraSee, Newbury, and/or GT eForms solutions:

GT eForms: “Prerequisite Override Request Automation” (Session 8563, Penn State University) – Empowering students with workflow-enabled custom requests inside Campus Solutions!

GT eForms: “Pardon Our Dust: Radically eForming PeopleSoft at NDUS” (Session 8743, North Dakota University System) – Find out how NDUS is delivering 200 new eForms by June 2022

GT eForms: “Today’s Special: eForms Your Way with a Side of AWE” (Session 8813, University of California, Berkeley) – UC Berkeley will lead a tutorial on the elements that make a successful eForm solution including Fluid page design, conditional logic, AWE routing, notifications and more

GT eForms: “GT eFORMulating Efficiencies” (Session 8672, University of Wisconsin-Madison) – Hear how the Office of Student Financial Aid has transformed business processes with GT eForms.

GT eForms: “Gideon Taylor eForms: Customer Discussion and Exchange of Ideas” (Session 8577, Madison College) – Madison College will host an open discussion on customer experiences, questions, and ideas on GT eForms

GT eForms: “**FEE REQUIRED** Advanced Tips & Tricks with GT eForms for PeopleSoft” (Session 8785, Gideon Taylor) – Jam-packed how-to session to extend your skills on GT eForms!

GT eForms and Ida: “PeopleSoft Power Tools to Boost ROI: Chatbots, eForms, and RPA” (Session 9067, Gideon Taylor) – Building the case for enhanced PeopleSoft automation: chatbots, eForms, RPA

Ida: “Journey to the AI. 23 Community Colleges, 1 Digital Assistant” (Session 8725, Virginia Community College System) – VCCS will demo the Oracle-based AI digital assistant they’ve implemented to create a personalized experience for each student. If you want to roll out AI at scale, this session is for you!

Ida: “Meet LUie, Loyola University of Chicago’s Digital Assistant, One Year Later” (Session 8806, Loyola University of Chicago) – Loyola will share data on the impact their AI-based digital assistant has had. Demo included!

Ida: “State of Chatbots for PeopleSoft Customers” (Session 8792, IntraSee) – An art-of-the-possible LIVE demo will take center stage in this session as we explore the current state of this market and the future of automation and user interface.

PeopleSoft on OCI: “There’s a Reason the Space Needle has an Elevator – BYU-Hawaii’s Journey to the Cloud(s)” (Session 8819, Brigham Young University-Hawaii) – Learn about the preparation, the process, and the results of BYUH’s move of PS Campus Solutions to OCI

“What Color is YOUR Parachute? Smart Strategies to Get From ‘PeopleSoft’ to ‘What’s Next’” (Session 9052, Gideon Taylor) – Whether it’s tomorrow or ten years from now, what can you be doing today to prepare for SaaS and the Cloud?

“Bring on the Bots! Intelligent Automation in the Higher Ed World” (Session 9070, Newbury Enterprise Services) – See how institutions are leveraging RPA to fully automate common, repetitive tasks to free time, reduce cost, and improve productivity

PeopleSoft Master Series: Transforming Higher Ed through Automation
2022-03-01 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | image-1
Join Gideon Taylor and UiPath to get practical information on how automation can help you conquer your biggest higher ed issues – and drive value that people will feel immediately. As we continue to journey beyond COVID, the higher education industry faces a multitude of problems such as declining enrollment and increased costs, the need to digitize, supporting the student journey, and doing more with limited resources. Automation – including RPA and eForms – adds the capacity you need to do more, and the efficiency and effectiveness you need to drive forward.
During this discussion, attendees will:

Explore the problems higher education institutions are facing, and how automation can help
Learn how to build an effective strategy and roadmap that will help transform your organization, improve efficiency and drive a better experience for students, staff, and faculty
See examples of efficient RPA in action!

GT eForms Master Series: Search Record Configuration
2022-02-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | image-1
CUSTOMER EXCLUSIVE ONLINE EVENT
The GT eForms Framework provides eForm creators with easily configurable tools for controlling form access. This “Tips & Tricks” session covers what some of those tools are and how to use them.
For years, Gideon Taylor has hosted internal “Tips & Tricks” sessions to help our GT eForms designers and developers become more proficient with the software. This year, we’re turning that practice on its head and giving you the benefit of our senior consultants’ knowledge in a series of quarterly educational webinars exclusively for GT eForms Enterprise customers.
To register, please email info@gideontaylor.com.

RECONNECT Dive Deep
2021-10-04 - 2021-10-07
Join Gideon Taylor and Newbury Enterprise Services for the RECONNECT Dive Deep virtual conference where PeopleSoft users of all levels can dig into new releases, dive deep into practical learning, get new ideas from best practices and hone their core PeopleSoft skills during four jam-packed digital days of education and networking.

OHUG / OATUG Ascend 2021 Conference
2021-08-15 - 2021-08-18
Join Gideon Taylor and Newbury Enterprise Services for an exciting new Oracle PeopleSoft education and networking opportunity: the inaugural Ascend 2021 Conference at The Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida and ONLINE.

Look for the GT and Newbury teams at these sessions:

Sunday, August 15, 4:00 – 5:00 PM EDT: OHUG PeopleSoft Community Meet Up
Tuesday, August 17, 4:30 – 5:30 PM EDT: Optimizing and Extending the Department User’s Experience in HCM 9.2
Wednesday, August 18, 10:15 – 11:15 AM EDT: What’s All the Chatter About Chatbots?
Wednesday, August 18, 9:00 – 10:00 AM EDT: Rediscovering PeopleSoft Health & Safety

GT PeopleSoft Master Series: A PeopleSoft Checklist for a Safe Return to School for Students and Staff
2021-06-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
Ready or not, COVID is still going to be impacting us as students and staff return to campus this fall. Are you prepared? Even as you plan for a near-normal return, you may be faced with new requirements: administering wellness surveys, tracking vaccinations of students and staff members, or enabling them to quickly and easily submit leave requests online.
Join us as we discuss and demonstrate PeopleSoft tools and features that can support a safe return to school for your students and employees. We’ll review features available for PeopleSoft HCM and Campus Solutions, including:

Questionnaires, acknowledgements, and wellness surveys
Immunization tracking for staff and students
Workflow-enabled self-service incident reporting (to self-report a COVID infection or report others)
Health & Safety administration for managing COVID incidents and contact tracing
Analytics related to COVID incidents and lost workdays related to such incidents; insights on hot-spots based on dept, location, jobcode, etc.

Alliance 2021 Virtual Conference
2021-03-15 - 2021-03-18
Join us March 15-18, 2021 for the second Alliance Virtual Conference! Alliance conference is the premier place for higher education and public sector knowledge sharing, collaboration with peers and finding the inspiration that comes from learning about creative solutions. Informative and timely content across 300+ sessions with live presenter Q&A. Participate in community discussions and collaborate with other participants.

RECONNECT 2020
2020-10-05 - 2020-10-08
Created by users for users, RECONNECT 20 is the definitive deep dive PeopleSoft conference. Gather with more than 2,000+ PeopleSoft users just like you!
At RECONNECT, you can:

Meet your PeopleSoft product and strategy teams in-person
Select from more than 200 hands-on technical and functional learning sessions
Explore hot topics like: PeopleTools, Configuration, User Experience, Selective Adoption and PeopleSoft on the Cloud
Earn CPE credits or get Oracle certified on your modules
Network with hundreds of other PeopleSoft users

You’ll learn from the experts, swap stories with other users, follow tracks specific to your product interests, and get practical experience through Oracle Hands-on Labs. Whether you’re an old hand or just learning the ropes, RECONNECT 20 offers something for everyone.
Best of all, RECONNECT will help you and your team drive innovation, make better decisions faster, align business and technology goals and expand the business value of your existing solutions.

Optimizing and Extending the Manager's Experience in PeopleSoft HCM 9.2
2020-07-14 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
HCM 9.2 delivers MyTeam, Guided Self-Service, Fluid Approvals, and frameworks for questionnaires and agreements – powerful features that can drive greater productivity and usability for your organization’s front-line managers. How can you deploy these delivered options to complete real-world transactions, and customize the experience without modifying delivered PeopleSoft?
We’ll take you on a guided tour of these latest features for manager self-service in HCM 9.2, and options for your business analysts to seamlessly extend those with configuration-based self-service eForms to maximize the power of your PeopleSoft system!

A Guide to Building Custom Forms with Delivered 9.2 Tools
2020-06-16 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
Looking to create custom PeopleSoft forms and self-service applications? PeopleSoft 9.2 offers an intriguing catalog of tools, including Activity Guides, Approval Framework (AWE), Fluid Approvals, Page Composer, and the Fluid user interface. But what exactly do these tools do, and how do they work together to build an actual end-to-end, workflow-enabled form experience?

We’ll review each tool, getting a view of what they’re designed to do, how they work, and how a best-practices approach incorporates each of them. We’ll focus special attention on where configuration options allow a functional analyst to contribute, and where developers will have to get involved.
At the end of the session, we’ll show how the latest release of Fluid GT eForms incorporates and extends your 9.2 tools to deliver even more power and flexibility.

Overcoming Onboarding Obstacles: Yes, 9.2 Fluid Onboarding Can Work for You!
2020-06-02
Ever feel that you’re so snowed under with PeopleSoft transactions that you can’t see the forest for the trees? PeopleSoft has some powerful tools available that can give you the big picture, letting you focus your attention where it is most needed. When those tools let you drill down from insight-heavy graphics to taking action on specific transactions, you have the power to master your workload. BYU has been investing in these visual tools, and we’ll demonstrate them in this session…

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PeopleSoft, Visualized: Getting the Big Picture with Pivot Grids, Analytics, and Kibana
2020-06-01
Ever feel that you’re so snowed under with PeopleSoft transactions that you can’t see the forest for the trees? PeopleSoft has some powerful tools available that can give you the big picture, letting you focus your attention where it is most needed. When those tools let you drill down from insight-heavy graphics to taking action on specific transactions, you have the power to master your workload. BYU has been investing in these visual tools, and we’ll demonstrate them in this session…

Alliance 2020 Virtual Conference
2020-05-22 15:30 - 16:30 UTC
The Alliance conference has always been most of all about sharing innovations,
collaborating with peers and finding the inspiration that comes from learning about creative solutions.
That focus will never change. We hope to see you soon (virtually!)
Session #7202: Do Me a Favor, Open the Door, And Let ‘Em In: Including External Participants in PS Workflow

PeopleSoft Master Series Webinar
2020-05-12 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
Ever feel that you’re so snowed under with PeopleSoft transactions that you can’t see the forest for the trees? PeopleSoft has some powerful tools available that can give you the big picture, letting you focus your attention where it is most needed. When those tools let you drill down from insight-heavy graphics to taking action on specific transactions, you have the power to master your workload. BYU has been investing in these visual tools, and will demonstrate them in this session.
BYU partnered with Gideon Taylor to create a pivot grid-based tool that helps us see what’s happening across thousands of eForm transactions. Related Actions let us drill into the transactions themselves, send emails to participants, and leverage administrative tools, all conditioned on user security.
Gideon Taylor will also review other visualization tools available in PeopleSoft, including Simplified Analytics, Fluid Dashboards, Oracle JET, and Kibana.

Collaborate 2020 Conference
2020-04-19 - 2020-04-23
COLLABORATE 20 has been cancelled for 2020 due to the evolving COVID-19 situation. Our thoughts remain with our members, partners and extended community – stay safe and healthy!
But good news… the Quest Forum at COLLABORATE is going digital!
Introducing the Quest Forum Digital Event
This series of live interactive events kicks off in April with Innovation Week, a FREE week of keynote speakers, Oracle roadmap updates, strategic insights and case studies presented by industry innovators.
In May and June, we’ll follow with community education weeks for JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Oracle Cloud apps and Database and Technology that offer a full roster of education programs, including:

Product-centric education tracks and sessions
Oracle Hands-On Labs and other workshops
Demonstration and Tips & Tricks sessions
Meet the Experts events and other panel sessions
Special Interest Group meet-ups and digital roundtables

We can’t wait to join you online for this new Quest event! You’ll get the latest news about what’s coming from Oracle, dive deep into practical hands-on learning with key product experts and join in the conversation through panel discussions and live Q&A.
