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📦 PeopleSoft was never designed to be SaaS—but with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, it’s getting awfully close.

Over the past few months, I’ve talked a lot about how to transform the PeopleSoft experience—making it lighter, faster, and more flexible without giving up the customization that makes it valuable.

From one-click lifecycle management to predictive autoscaling, continuous updates, and built-in analytics, PeopleSoft on OCI isn’t just ERP—it’s a modern, cloud-smart platform.

I put together a quick carousel to show exactly how PeopleSoft delivers SaaS-like value while keeping its enterprise backbone.

👉 Swipe through to see how we’re turning PeopleSoft into something that feels effortless, but still packs all the power.

Let me know what’s resonating—or what you think comes next.

PeopleSoft, SaaS Style

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Over eight features, we’ve shown how PeopleSoft sheds its “legacy” label to deliver the simplicity, agility, and innovation enterprises expect from SaaS—without sacrificing its enterprise-grade power.

Transforming PeopleSoft into a SaaS-Like Experience: Series Wrap-Up

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SaaS platforms often come with analytics baked-in. PeopleSoft pulls off this trick with PeopleSoft Insights and Real-Time Indexing (RTI) on OCI, turning raw data into actionable intelligence with a SaaS-like flair.

Transforming PeopleSoft into a SaaS-Like Experience: Feature #8

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SaaS platforms build trust by incorporating strong security and compliance measures. PeopleSoft on OCI, enhances security with enterprise-grade protections in a similar fashion.

Transforming PeopleSoft into a SaaS-Like Experience: Feature #7

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SaaS wins wallets with its predictable, usage-based pricing. On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), PeopleSoft emulates this with a cost-efficient model.

Transforming PeopleSoft into a SaaS-Like Experience: Feature #6

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SaaS platforms shine by collaborating with other systems. PeopleSoft pulls off this trick with PeopleTools' Integration Broker and OCI’s platform services, turning it into a hub of seamless connectivity and innovation—SaaS-style.

Transforming PeopleSoft into a SaaS-Like Experience: Feature #5

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I nearly got fired.

After years of IT success, I stepped into a leadership role outside of my comfort zone—and it nearly wrecked my career. It wasn’t because I didn’t work hard.

The Year That Almost Derailed My Career: What I Learned from Failing in Leadership

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Fluid UI offers a sleek, responsive interface that works just like popular SaaS applications, letting employees approve requests or update records from any device.

Transforming PeopleSoft into a SaaS-Like Experience: Feature #4

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PeopleSoft brings SaaS-like functionality to the game with the advent of PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM), a game-changer that drops fresh update images every 10 weeks or so.

Transforming PeopleSoft into a SaaS-Like Experience: Feature #3

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Transforming PeopleSoft into a SaaS-Like Experience: Feature #2

This second post in my series shows how PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers a more SaaS-like experience with dynamic elasticity and predictive autoscaling. You can easily handle enrollment spikes or payroll surges since OCI’s real-time resource adjustments scale up when needed and trim costs when demand dips. Please read on for more details…

Transforming PeopleSoft into a SaaS-Like Experience: Feature #2

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Transforming PeopleSoft into a SaaS-Like Experience

Oracle PeopleSoft has long been a recognized powerhouse for enterprise resource planning. It offers robust capabilities to handle complex business processes, yet many users, administrators, and IT managers believe it feels dated. They see it as a legacy system that stalls innovation instead of driving it forward.

This raises a pivotal question: can PeopleSoft evolve into a modern Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering? While it isn’t a native SaaS product, PeopleSoft, in combination with PeopleSoft Cloud Manager and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), has the potential to deliver the scalability, simplicity, and constant innovation that enterprises crave in their cloud solutions.

This blog series spotlights nine features that close the gap and position PeopleSoft as a compelling cloud contender. We start with a significant boost to efficiency and convenience: automated lifecycle management. 💥

Transforming PeopleSoft into a SaaS-Like Experience

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Unlocking the Power of AI in PeopleSoft

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we use PeopleSoft—unlocking more intelligent workflows, predictive insights, and seamless integrations. In my latest blog post, I explore how AI, Hybrid ERP, and vendor partnerships can supercharge PeopleSoft’s native capabilities, helping organizations modernize without starting from scratch. Check it out and let me know your thoughts!

[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unlocking-power-ai-peoplesoft-hybrid-erp-vendor-aaron-engelsrud-dba-iim3c](Unlocking the Power of AI in PeopleSoft)

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Keep Your Mission as Your North Star

“Another good way to practice your agility is to keep your mission front and center. Anyone who’s ever run a company or started one knows the importance of mission. Your mission is your North Star and should drive every single decision you make. This makes it easier to be agile in the face of challenges. If it supports the mission, it’s a yes. If not, move on.”— William Vanderbloemen, Be the…

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The Power of Belief in Leadership

“In order to convince and inspire others to follow and accomplish a mission, a leader must be a true believer in the mission.”— Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, Extreme Ownership At the core of every successful team and mission lies a leader who truly believes in what they are doing. This isn’t just some hollow cheerleading or surface-level excitement. It’s a deep, unshakeable conviction in the…

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The Freedom of the Present Moment

“What happened in the past has nothing whatsoever to do with your here and now, and what the future may hold is not a matter to think about here and now.”— Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga, The Courage to Be Disliked We spend a lot of time living in two places that don’t really exist: the past and the future. We replay old memories, wishing we could change what happened or at least make sense of…

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Leading Through Inspiration, Not Fear

“There is a time and place for striking terror into the hearts of your troops… but usually, you see better results when you inspire men. Beckon them beyond what they think they can do—don’t just yell at them.” — Cliff Graham, Day of War In Day of War, Cliff Graham gives us a powerful insight into leadership that many of us can apply to our daily lives—whether we are leading a team, a family, or…

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The Power of Starting: Just 10 Minutes

We’ve all been there. You’ve got that one task looming over you—whether it’s a workout, a work project, or even a conversation you’ve been avoiding. You know you need to do it, but the dread of starting feels like a mountain too high to climb. Michael Matthews, in Bigger Leaner Stronger, offers a simple yet incredibly effective solution to this problem: commit to just 10 minutes. You don’t have…