We are seeing more and more interest in our Stat customers moving their EBS and/or PeopleSoft applications to the cloud. It seems most of the moves currently are to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In some cases, customers are also moving Stat as well…
I expect the past 18 months has been challenging for you and your company. Likely, your company had to adjust the way you operate since the pandemic hit. It must be difficult keeping the manufacturing output up to match demand with social distancing and…
No doubt the past two years have been challenging for all ERP teams, this is especially true for the healthcare industry. The pandemic, in many cases, has increased the number of changes to their ERP system(s) to support the business. This, along with…
Likely the reason your college or university implemented an ERP System(s) was to improve and reduce the cost of core business process such as managing CRM activities such as student prospecting, onboarding, registration, and retention. Of course, ERP…
I had the opportunity to travel to Dallas last week and meet with several existing customers as well as several new prospects. The requirement to add new environments to existing migration paths and update existing open change requests surfaced with two…
I hope you have been following the DevOps series of posts. If not, the following is a quick index of the previous posts on the topic:
You May Be Doing DevOps and Not Even Know It
You may be doing DevOps and not even know it – ‘The First Way’…
Last week we posted part two of this blog series for our Stat customers and prospects in which we examined the The First Way and how users can use Stat’s functionality to achieve goals and the practices that underpin DevOps. This week’s blog will…
Last week, we posted part one of this blog series for our Stat customers and prospects, in which I stated our Stat users may already be doing DevOps and not realize it. I suggested the functionality in Stat empowers organizations to achieve the goals…
Having a solid, enforceable, change control process ensures that everyone and everything is transparent. Whether it’s Stat for PeopleSoft, Oracle eBusiness Suite or Custom Applications there’s a Stat change control tool to support your daily…
We have activated the “Ideas” portal on the Stat community for Enhancement Request submissions. Anyone in the Community can now post their enhancement requests on the Ideas portal. Community members along with Quest internal employees will be able to…
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As our world becomes faster, our lives busier, our days longer, any shortcut we can find and share with friends is a good thing.
Below is a list of keyboard shortcuts that I use frequently within Stat. I hope that you find them useful as well.
…With the advent of Oracle Release 12.2.x, Oracle has delivered to its customers the ability to do online patching for their environments. According to Oracle, this new feature will help customers “greatly reduce the downtime that was needed in previous…
You’re in the tech industry, you love the latest gadgets and gizmos, you’re all about innovation ― and yet you’re stuck wrangling all the moving parts of managing application changes…manually?
There are probably…
How much of change management, version control and migration management is art, and how much is science?
I worked for an IT director who had been through dozens of audits and migrations. He used to talk about “the Art and Science of IT.”
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We have robots that clean floors, planes that practically fly themselves and soon we’ll all be riding around in driverless cars. So why are IT managers, of all people, still expected to do so much work…manually?
Dude, where’s my automation…
Root canal, appendectomy, IT audit. Which is the most painful? Well, considering you’re numb with your feet up for the first two, I’d have to pick the latter.
Few things in life are more of a pain, and cause more stress, than the dreaded…
Why do we think they’re more important than ever? Good question and the answer to that question will depend on the team members asking it:
The MOD Squad Column: It’s Groovy Man.
“If you meet these kids in an alley some night, don't fight ’em. They’re cops.”
They’re “The MOD Squad…”
There’s Linc, Julie and Pete:
The Mod Squad…
You will see that our quest for a fully web-enabled client is full steam ahead! We just released Stat 5.8.1. This is a maintenance release that previews some cool new features and fine tuning of the infrastructure that will be a part of the upcoming Stat…
Stat has been running smoothly for many months, and then suddenly Katie’s e-mail approvals do not appear to be moving the workflow along as it should.
Katie receives e-mails from Stat asking for approval, and she responds by approving them.
She…
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
I was raised fifteen miles west of Concord, Massachusetts. More specifically, I was raised 14.9 miles west of Walden Pond and the…
