Your Success is our Business

Over the past 7 years, Succeed has represented a badge of excellence in the Oracle | PeopleSoft consulting market. As an experienced team of highly skilled consultants we have successfully delivered high quality solutions to some of the largest companies in the UK. With our absolute focus on delivery for our clients, coupled with our research and innovative project delivery products, we represent unmatched value in the consulting market, and the ideal partner for your Oracle / PeopleSoft project to lead you through Oracle's Fusion roadmap and beyond.

23/09/07 - Tesco - PeopleSoft HR and Time and Attendance Group design to be deployed in US to support initial store openings

Over the past year, Succeed have been engaged by Tesco to deliver their 8.9 global implementation. Initially focused on the global design for Time and Attendance and HR, we are now supporting the US in the final stages of deployment of the Group design. The Group design incorporates features from the Core HR, Time and Attendance, Enterprise Portal, and EPM modules of PeopleSoft. XML Publisher has been extensively used to support repoorting requirements, and we have developed configurable custom frameworks to accomodate some of Tesco's more complex requirements - particularly around integration, and letters generation.

17/08/07 - PeopleSoft HCM Is A Contender For Integrated Performance And Compensation Solutions

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23/09/07 - BT - 7 years of support

Succeed celebrates 7 years of working with BT to implement project work and support ongoing development of BT's HR systems. During this time, we have provided senior technical and functional consultants to lead cutting edge work on the BT People System, and have engaged in numerous projects and initiatives. Over the past 2 years, our suport and development has been more focused on: • Upgrading the system from v7.0 to v8.8
• Custom contracts solution
• Billing engine for the out-sourced HR (via Accenture HR Services)
• Functional guidance for global roll-outs
• Functional leadership for eRecruit Service Optimisation project
• A complete Graduate, Undergraduate and Apprentice recruitment system
• Complete redesign of the Vacancy (Requisition) system
• End-to-end delivery of ongoing change requests
In addition to this, the Succeed team have worked alongside BT staff to assist in many other areas, providing expertise such as .Net development, web security, MS Office application automation and general consulting skills.

16/07/07 - The Benefits of Upgrading to PeopleSoft 9

When Oracle announced the Applications Unlimited program for PeopleSoft applications, many customers were extremely relieved.

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11/06/07 - Audio Interview: Fusion Middleware

Oracle's Fusion is a hot-pluggable architecture that allows you to leverage your investments in any existing application, system, or technology.

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27/04/07 - Oracle to Unleash 'Mother of All Fusions'

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13/04/07 - TomorrowNow responds to Oracle allegations

TomorrowNow, the US subsidiary of SAP being sued by Oracle for copyright infringement has finally responded to the allegations.

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15/03/07 - PeopleSoft and JD Edwards Resource Center

PeopleSoft professionals should bookmark this page for whitepapers, benchmarks and case studies.

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05/03/07 - Oracle Narrows SAP Gap with a deal thought to be worth over £1.6bn.

Hyperion is a provider of performance management software solutions and Oracle believes that the acquisition will make it top dog in the enterprise performance management market.

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21/02/07 - PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards Apps Updated

Oracle President Charles Phillips said at a launch event that the E-Business Suite and the company's other applications will continue to be enhanced indefinitely.

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03/02/07 - Oracle unveils global business suite

Oracle announced on Wednesday the general release of E-Business Suite Release 12.

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25/01/07 - PeopleSoft on SQL Server 2005 Whitepaper

A comprehensive whitepaper written with Oracle and the SQL Server Product Team, a great resource for PeopleSoft Customers.

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20/01/07 - Oracle offering early warning on security fixes

Oracle's Tuesday "Critical Patch Update" is planned to include twenty-seven fixes for Oracle database products, seven for E-Business Suite, six for Enterprise Manager and three for PeopleSoft...

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21/12/06 - Oracle Kick BEA - Systems

Oracle used its fiscal second quarter earnings release to kick around another competitor–BEA Systems.

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06/12/06 - The Pros and Cons to adopting Vista

Now that Windows Vista is available for big businesses, organizations vary widely in their plans for adopting the new operating system.

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30/11/06 - Have Oracle lost support from loyal PeopleSoft Customers? The UK OUG question their findings…

"PeopleSoft and JD Edwards users have now had two years about in the Oracle world. This time last year we saw that PeopleSoft users understood what Oracle was doing. What we see now is that satisfaction has slipped a little but within the noise level." Says Ronan Miles (UKOUG chairman).

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23/11/06 - Release 9 of PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management Gives A Better View of Your Workforce…

The Release of PeopleSoft 9 for Human Capital Management is targeted to give human resources and business managers more comprehensive views of their workforce resources. Planned capabilities will make it easier to match people with skill requirements, find qualified candidates quickly, and manage reporting."

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09/11/06 - Oracle promise PeopleSoft customers that they will continue to support and enhance their products…

"We will help PeopleSoft customers protect their investment in PeopleSoft… This applies not only to future releases but also in giving them a choice when they want to move to Fusion or stay with PeopleSoft."

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26/10/06 - The launch of PeopleTools 8.48

Designed to enhance users' ability to support the use of Web services and tie in both custom and legacy applications with PeopleSoft enterprise software.

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12/10/06 - Oracle buy Sunopsis

UK Regus friends Sunopsis have finally been bought by Oracle: "Oracle announced on Monday 9th October 2006 plans to enhance its Oracle Fusion Middleware offerings through the acquisition of Sunopsis, a leading provider of heterogeneous data integration products."

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28/09/06 - Accenture walk away from 1.9 mill NHS deal

After reporting a 67% drop in profits earlier in the year, Accenture finally walked away from their 1.9 billion contract with the NHS. See full story

19/09/06 - Oracle announce 28% increase in profits

Ellison continues to prove his strategy to buy up $19 billion of software companies appears to be working. See full story

17/09/06 - Succeed grows its functional consultancy practice.

As more clients realise the benefits of moving to PeopleSoft HCM 8.9, particularly with the improvements in the areas of Recruitment and ePerformance, Succeed has recently taken on more consultants to consolidate its functional practice.