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January 2014
Release Value Proposition for PeopleSoft Interaction Hub 9.1 Revision 2 Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. License Restrictions Warranty/Consequential Damages Disclaimer
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Contents Introduction............................................................................................................................................. 4 Purpose of This Document ................................................................................................................. 4 Release Information Publications ....................................................................................................... 4 Release Value Proposition ............................................................................................................. 4 Prerelease Notes ............................................................................................................................ 4 Release Notes ................................................................................................................................ 5 Cumulative Feature Overview Tool ................................................................................................ 5 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................... 6 Rebranding and New Restricted Use License ................................................................................... 6 Support for PeopleSoft Global Search ............................................................................................... 7 New Style Sheet ................................................................................................................................. 8 Red Paper for Single Sign-On Setup ................................................................................................. 9 User Experience Enhancements ........................................................................................................ 9
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Introduction This section discusses:
Purpose of this document
Release information publications
Purpose of This Document This document provides an overview of the new features and enhancements planned for Oracle’s PeopleSoft Interaction Hub 9.1/Revision 2 release. It is a road map intended to help you assess the business benefits of upgrading to PeopleSoft Interaction Hub Revision 2 and to plan your IT projects and investments. This document is only a preliminary version and is not subject to your license agreement or any other agreement with Oracle. This document contains information about intended developments and functionality and is not meant to be binding on Oracle to any particular course of business, product strategy, or development. Please note that this document is subject to change by Oracle at any time without notice. Note. Only those products that have significant enhancements planned are mentioned in this release document.
Release Information Publications This section lists the types of release information publications that are available.
Release Value Proposition The Release Value Proposition provides functional details, identifies major enhancements, and articulates the expected business benefit of the release. This document is designed to help you to determine how new product features warrant upgrading from an older release or embarking on a new implementation. With this information, managers will be able to initiate preliminary budget planning and engage a project team to further evaluate specific products.
Prerelease Notes Prerelease Notes provide more functional and technical details than the Release Value Proposition. This document describes how each enhancement functions within the context of the greater business process. This added level of detail should enable project teams to answer the following questions:
What out-of-the-box functionality will change?
What customizations may be affected?
How will an upgrade or new implementation affect other systems?
How will these changes affect the organization?
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After the project team has reviewed and analyzed the Prerelease Notes, business decision makers should be in the position to determine whether to allocate budget and initiate implementation plans.
Release Notes Release Notes are published at general availability (GA) and validate the final scope of the release. The Release Notes document discusses the features and enhancements that are available with the GA release of each product, describing the finalized functional and technical details that will enable project teams to confirm budgets and complete implementation plans.
Cumulative Feature Overview Tool The Cumulative Feature Overview Tool helps you plan your upgrades by providing concise descriptions of new and enhanced solutions and functionality that have become available between an initial and a target release. You simply identify the products that you own, your existing release, and your target implementation release. With a single click, the tool produces a customized set of high-level, concise feature descriptions that have been incorporated in the target release and every other release since your starting point. The tool’s output is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, so you can easily manipulate and sort the results any way you wish or copy the content into other implementation planning documents.
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Executive Summary The PeopleTools development team is happy to announce the second feature pack release of the PeopleSoft Interaction Hub. This is part of the continuous release model, which we believe will enable us to make new functionality and features available to customers faster. We also expect that the new features will be easier to uptake in more fine-grained packages. The release continues Oracle’s commitment to protecting and extending the value of PeopleSoft applications. It provides valuable enhancements that improve the productivity of end users, as well as improvements to help reduce the total cost of ownership. While the feature pack contains many enhancements, for review purposes the enhancements can be characterized in the following areas:
Rebranding and new Restricted Use License
Full support for the new PeopleSoft Global Search
New Style Sheet adoption
Red Paper facilitating Single Sign-on between the Hub and PeopleSoft Applications
Other User Experience enhancements
Rebranding and New Restricted Use License The rebranding and new restricted use license are not strictly part of the Revision 2 release and have been in place prior to Revision 2, but these are important concepts worth noting in this document. The PeopleSoft Applications Portal has been rebranded to the PeopleSoft Interaction Hub. This was done to more clearly distinguish its unique role of enhancing PeopleSoft applications and their user experience and its unifying role in the greater PeopleSoft ecosystem. This name change also clearly distinguishes the purpose of the PeopleSoft Interaction Hub from Oracle’s WebCenter portal products and WebCenter’s role as the strategic enterprise portal product when used across multiple Oracle products. More importantly, Oracle/PeopleSoft is extending additional functionality to you through the Restricted Use License (RUL) that was originally granted with PeopleTools 8.50. This extended RUL is free to you with your PeopleTools 8.52 (or later) license. It gives you the ability to create a rich user experience for all your PeopleSoft applications—particularly for self-service. Whether you have one PeopleSoft application or many, you can provide your users access to all PeopleSoft content through a web sitebased user interface. The PeopleSoft Interaction Hub is the best means for bringing all this content together and providing the kind of contemporary experience that users demand. The following table gives an overview of the features that can be used with the restricted use license and which features require the full license:
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RUL
Full
Collaborativep Platform (Tagging, Workspaces, Discussions, Blogs, Wikis, etc.) Common homepage across multiple applications Dynamic unified navigation – Common navigation interface for multiple apps Site-wide branding Calendar and Email Integration Unified Worklists and Tasks Full distribution Blogs and Discussion Forums (not confined to a workspace) Management of multiple sites (e.g., Separate sites for each campus, divisions in a company, etc.) Content management, including news publications/company news Miscellaneous additional “Portal” features
The rebranding and extended restricted use license are not part of or dependant on the Revision 2 release. You can take advantage of the RUL now however it’s important to understand its availability. See the PeopleTools Licensing Notes for your respective PeopleTools release on the PeopleSoft Portal Solutions Interaction Hub 9.1 Documentation Home Page from My Oracle Support.
Support for PeopleSoft Global Search The new PeopleSoft Global Search was introduced in PeopleTools 8.52, and has been enhanced in 8.53. Full support for the new Search in the Interaction Hub is available in Revision 2. The new search is based on Oracle’s Secure Enterprise Search (SES), and is full-featured and robust. Interaction Hub enables the Interaction Hub to better serve as a launch pad for multiple PeopleSoft Applications. This also enables a more search-centric navigation paradigm by enabling end users to access content via searches executed in Interaction Hub across all PeopleSoft applications. The SES-based search has many advantages over the previous search: •
Facets for progressive filtering of result sets
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Incremental Indexing
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Federated search across multiple applications
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Segregation of security logic: Describe how you want to secure information
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Scheduler to trigger indexing jobs (parallel / incremental)
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PeopleTools UI to describe what you want to search
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In addition, improvements in 8.53 Global Search can be realized when deployed with the Interaction Hub
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Web sources and file sources are supported •
Indexes based on HTTP website content (web source)
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Content stored in a file system (file source).
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PeopleSoft applications can share a single Oracle SES instance
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Multiple FTP servers for storing attachments
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Monitoring and diagnostics: •
Greater access to the crawling process status,
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Better means of confirming the validity of search definitions
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More options for confirming the integration between your PeopleSoft system and SES
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Administrative control over duplicate search results
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Supports more operators—Contains Any, Contains All, In, Not In, Begins With, Between.
Support for Global Search also includes many indices for the Interaction Hub. In addition, you can build your own indices that are relevant for the business processes served by PeopleSoft applications.
New Style Sheet The Interaction Hub comes with new PeopleTools 8.53 style sheet standard. The new style sheet offers a more contemporary, visually pleasing appearance. This includes new colors, page controls, and adornments. It also affects pop-ups like prompt look-ups and modal windows, among others. The new approach is driven through CSS (3.0), which eliminates many images and reduces requests for images, improving performance. Application developers and customers have more control of styles by changing the CSS. Customers can remain on an older style sheet if they wish. Of course customers can also change the appearance of the Hub and their applications using the Interaction Hub’s branding capabilities. Interaction Hub customers running PeopleTools 8.53 also will be able to leverage a new feature in PeopleTools to upload images, HTML layouts, and JS/CSS files through PIA. This allows your portal administrators and developers to manage branding without using Application Designer.
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Red Paper for Single Sign-On Setup A new red paper is being published that will guide customers through the process of setting up single sign-on between the Interaction Hub and other PeopleSoft applications. The red paper will cover the following subjects and more:
Configuring Single Sign-on for Interaction Hub and PeopleSoft content providers.
Configuring Unified Navigation to federate portal registries from PeopleSoft content providers.
Configuring and synchronizing user profiles and roles across all PeopleSoft content providers.
Synchronizing user personalization across multiple PeopleSoft content providers.
This red paper will de-mystify the setup process for your PeopleSoft administrators.
User Experience Enhancements Revision 2 also contains some enhancements to the user experience that provide a more contemporary interactive look and behavior. These include the following:
Pagelet enhancements: 1. Modals for Company News, Discussions, Blogs, and Tags Pagelets. This enables users to retain their view of the context page while additional information is presented in a modal for a discussion topic or Blog. You can also associate a variety of icons with these pagelets. 2. Tags Pagelet enhancements--Now modal, personalization improvements, uses Authorization as a Service, and it is now component-based)
Collaboration: Discussion Forum Pagelet personalization enables the administrator’s personalization to apply to all users of that pagelet.
Finally, the Interaction Hub will take advantage of the PeopleTools 8.53 Secure By Default Initiative. This provides a secure Installation of the product by prompting for passwords during installation, and locking down delivered accounts.
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