PeopleSoft Human Resource Solutions
The PeopleSoft story begins in the mid-1980s, when founders Dave Duffield and Ken Morris engineered the company's first human resources application.
Built on a client-server architecture, their solution offered flexibility and ease-of-use to a class of users previously barred from simplified access to the information and capabilities centralised in mainframes. By putting ease of functionality directly in the hands of users, PeopleSoft quickly assumed industry leadership status in human resources solutions.
Today, PeopleSoft is the world's second largest enterprise application provider, with $2.8 billion in annual revenues and more than 11,000 customers in 150 countries.
The visionary innovation that made PeopleSoft an industry leader continues to fuel its expansion into new technologies, new markets, and new industries.
In 2000 PeopleSoft re-architected its solutions for the internet, based on PeopleSoft's Pure Internet Architecture.â„¢ The advent of PeopleSoft 8 meant that all organisations needed to run their applications was a web browser, since with the Pure Internet Architecture, there is no code on the client. Applications could now be accessed via the web, anytime, anywhere, all you needed was a device with a web browser.
This technology has enabled organisations to become a Real Time Enterprise, organisations can connect people directly to business processes, without intermediaries, inside and outside the enterprise, and arm their workforce with information in real time.
The Real-Time Enterprise sets the standard for business performance in the 21st century, and PeopleSoft is at the forefront of enabling businesses to make this model a reality.
As part of an ongoing effort to offer customers a broader range of solutions and support, PeopleSoft acquired J.D. Edwards, creating the second largest enterprise application software company in the world.
J.D. Edwards' strength in asset-intensive industries complements PeopleSoft's longstanding leadership in service industries and government. J.D. Edwards' expertise with mid-market companies adds to PeopleSoft's proven success with large enterprises.
Together, the merged companies share a reputation for customer-driven development and support.
PeopleSoft has continued its drive for customer success with the launch of the Total Ownership Experience, a new era in improving implementations, operations, upgrades and usability for enterprise applications.
TenderSearch has been supplying PeopleSoft with the Tender Notification Service for 12 months.
Anna Gregory is a freelance journalist. She has 20 years experience in broadcast television as presenter and producer, and corporate communications as media advisor and writer.
As published in TenderSearch Magazine - Spring/Summer 03 Issue
