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PeopleSoft, Inc. was a software company that provided HRMS (human resource management), CRM (customer relationship management), Manufacturing, Financials, EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) and Student Administration software solutions to large corporations, governments, and organizations. Founded in 1987 by David Duffield and Ken Morris, and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, PeopleSoft's roots began with an idea Duffield had about a "Client-Server" (then a new concept) version of Integral's popular mainframe HRMS package. Once Integral declined development and released Duffield to pursue this endeavor on his own, PeopleSoft was born. In 2003, when PeopleSoft acquired J.D. Edwards, it decided to differentiate its former product line with those of Edwards by renaming both products. PeopleSoft's original flagship product was rebranded as PeopleSoft Enterprise. J.D. Edwards' ERP product was rebranded as PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne. In January 2005, PeopleSoft was acquired in a hostile takeover by the Oracle Corporation. This takeover was resisted by PeopleSoft but Oracle overcame the legal challenge and after the approved merger, PeopleSoft ceased to be an independent company, although its products continue to be used by thousands of companies.

Both the Enterprise and EnterpriseOne products are considered ERP systems and modularized into specific components: HRMS (including payroll, human resources, benefits, etc.), Financials (including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Asset Management, EPM, etc), Manufacturing (including inventory, purchasing, billing, order management, production management, cost management), Student Administration, and CRM (including helpdesk, support, and sales). PeopleSoft is well known for its ability to be easily "customized," or tailor-made, to fit the specific business needs of each client, while still being generic enough to meet corporate and governmental tracking requirements. Its detractors decry the frequent bugs found in the system, which required patches and fixes. PeopleSoft — like most large software companies — spawned an industry-within-an-industry of PeopleSoft consulting, the implementation and maintenance of the product.

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The whole software suite of PeopleSoft moved from the traditional client-server based design to web-centric design, called PeopleSoft Internet Architecture(PIA) with their version 8 releases. The end result was that all of a company's business functions could be accessed and run on a web client (i.e. Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla). A small number of security and system setup functions, though, still needed to be performed on a fat client machine. It successfully weathered architectural changes from client-server to the internet due to its innovative meta-database design.

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Integral Systems Specialist - Business Software Consultants provides consulting services for companies seeking to implement or enhance PeopleSoft Payroll/Human Resources and Financial Systems, and Integral Payroll/Human Resources System.
Meta Description: [ Business Software Consultants provides consulting services for companies seeking to implement or enhance PeopleSoft and Integral Payroll/Human Resources and Financial Systems. ]

Hickert Consulting, Inc. - PeopleSoft consultants specializing in enterprise resource planning (ERP) and human resources information systems (HRIS). Expertise in application, SQL and interface development.
Meta Description: [ Hickert Consulting provides PeopleSoft consultants to the ERP industry in support of database, application, SQL and interface development. ]

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IT Bites Ltd - Small UK based consultancy.
Meta Description: [ IT Bites Ltd provide support for major systems implementations, specialising in PeopleSoft HRMS and Global Payroll solutions ]

Numbers Only, Inc. - Services - Systems integrator for PeopleSoft applications based in the United States and India.

Nuvosoft Rwiz - Generates SQR reports for Peoplesoft.

Outer-Join Ltd - A solutions provider based in the United Kingdom and operating all over Europe.
Meta Description: [ PeopleSoft Technical and Functional Consulting Services - extensive experience with PeopleSoft applications and technology. ]

Pace-Soft, Inc. - Author site for a PeopleSoft developers utility.
Meta Description: [ Download Pace-Trace, a PeopleSoft developers' utility that helps troubleshoot database-related problems much more quickly, saving critical days of downtime. ]

Peoplecnc - Provides CNC Configurable Network Computing Technical support for Peoplesoft Enterpriseone.
Meta Description: [ Oracle Peoplesoft Jdedwards CNC Technical support for EnterpriseOne and JDEDwards OneWorld Xe E1. Basic and advanced helpdesk for your JDE installation including Oracle and SQLServer clusters support ]

PeopleSoft Consultancy - Congruent is a Global Alliance Partner providing complete PeopleSoft solutions to clients in both traditional and innovative business models.
Meta Description: [ Congruent is a specialist PeopleSoft consultancy with practices in London, Paris, Sydney and Singapore. ]

PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions - PeopleSoft develops enterprise application software. These enterprise solutions are used for customer relationship management, human resource management, financial management, supply chain management, and manufacturing management.

PeopleSoft Planet - Portal providing news, updates, articles, forums and also updates on the acquisition of PeopleSoft by Oracle.
Meta Description: [ PeopleSoft-Planet is the premier PeopleSoft forum and fan portal. On this site, you can find news, information and updates about the PeopleSoft toolset and community. ]

PeopleSoft Pros: Portal for PeopleSoft Users - Providing PeopleSoft professionals with peoplesoft jobs, discussion, news, tips, and code.
Meta Description: [ Provides PeopleSoft professionals with PeopleSoft jobs, discussion, news, tips, articles, code, and more. ]

PeopleSoft Upgrade Specialist - Specializing in PeopleSoft Upgrades.

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SQR Data Warehouse for PeopleSoft - SQR Integrator is data warehousing application that was created for existing PeopleSoft and ADP Platforms. Connect visual commerce objects together, add business logic, and create ETL scripts in SQR.

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TomorrowNow, Inc. - Provides PeopleSoft customers with upgrade, technology, and special support services.
Meta Description: [ TomorrowNow provides responsive third party support for PeopleSoft and JD Edwards products, as well as Siebel software. Dedicated maintenance service for annual licensees. ]

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