PeopleSoft Details New ERP Suite
At its user conference in New Orleans yesterday, PeopleSoftrevealed details of PeopleSoft 8, a new release of its
flagship enterprise resource planning suite entirely
redesigned for the Web. Building on Internet capabilities
introduced in May with PeopleSoft e7.5, version 8 will
complete the company's departure from its client-server
roots to a server-centric Web architecture, featuring a thin
HTML Web client. Benefits to users, the company says,
include lower cost of deployment and maintenance, better
application performance, and a more intuitive user interface
that requires less end-user training.
Rollout of the new suite will begin by the end of the year,
with availability of PeopleSoft development tools and
enterprise performance management applications designed for
the new architecture. The rest of PeopleSoft 8, including
core ERP applications, will be delivered in the second
quarter of 2000.
Joshua Greenbaum, an analyst at Enterprise Applications
Consulting, says PeopleSoft 8 will deliver better
performance and flexibility, but adds the company is just
catching up to Oracle and SAP in terms of architecture.
"It's been a long time in coming," Greenbaum says.
Addressing an audience of several thousand customers, new
PeopleSoft president Craig Conway emphasized in his keynote
speech that the company is also reorganizing to improve
customer service and support, which he acknowledged has
slipped in the last year.
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