Our company uses PeopleSoft on an Oracle database. We’re implementing Benefits functionality and I have just been assigned the task of digesting Benefits and creating a universe design document that includes all the Benefits tables. I have only a week or so to understand it well enough to do it. It seems like I remember someone mentioning a ‘canned’ PeopleSoft universe. Am I dreaming?
Cindy Clayton - Business Objects Consultant AT&T
336.698.2144
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If you can get to the BO support page, you can download a RDT for peoplesoft, actually a whole suite thereof…
That will probably be a good, free start… Just a thought.
Brent
Our company uses PeopleSoft on an Oracle database. We’re implementing
Benefits functionality and I have just been assigned the task of digesting
Benefits and creating a universe design document that includes all the
Benefits tables. I have only a week or so to understand it well enough to
do it. It seems like I remember someone mentioning a ‘canned’ PeopleSoft
universe. Am I dreaming?
Cindy Clayton - Business Objects Consultant AT&T
336.698.2144
Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. Talk slowly but think quickly.
Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
Mind your own business.
Learn the rules then break some.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
In a message dated 00-02-01 10:36:15 EST, you write:
there are rapid deployment templates (canned universes) available for PeopleSoft.
If my memory is correct then they should be on your BO CD-ROM
The following RDT’s are on the cd:
SAP
PeopleSoft
BAAN
Oracle
Lawson
You may need to contact your sales representative to get a key; these features are typically not “unlocked” by your standard product key.
Just a few words of advice: don’t expect miracles from these templates. In my experiences these might provide a decent starting point, but they are often not detailed enough. On the other hand I must be honest: I have not used them or even looked at them in over a year, so they may have improved them over that time.
I have never used the PeopleSoft template so I can’t comment on it at all. But it should be available.
In a message dated 00-02-01 10:36:15 EST, you write:
there are rapid deployment templates (canned universes) available for PeopleSoft.
If my memory is correct then they should be on your BO CD-ROM
I wasn’t able to find them on the CD but they were at the TechSupport site. I was going to get them when I received an email from Maarten. He was kind enough to zip up the benefits universe and send it to me directly
Just a few words of advice: don’t expect miracles from these templates.In
my
experiences these might provide a decent starting point, but they are often not detailed enough.
And they seemed to be inaccurate in some cases. One example with the PeopleSoft RDT was that the universe failed to join tables accurately on effective date. PeopleSoft uses effective dates with almost annoying consistency :-). An easy to relate example is of a savings plan. A plan can be defined and then change. The old plan would simply be re-used with a different effective date. Effective date would need to be taken into consideration when determining whether an employee enrolled under the ‘old’ savings plan or the ‘new’ savings plan. The employee’s health benefit record would be effective dated as well. The ‘canned’ universe only joined the employee savings table to the savings plan reference table on two of the three key fields. The tables were not joined in a way that would ensure that the plan that was in effect when the employee joined was the one that would be returned. The universe WAS, in Dave’s words, a ‘decent starting point’.
I just wanted to share what I learned and thank those of you who offered assistance.
Have a great day all!
Cindy
Cindy Clayton - Business Objects Consultant AT&T
336.698.2144
Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. Talk slowly but think quickly.
Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice. Mind your own business.
Learn the rules then break some.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
