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"Peoplesoft is a curse on humanity" I would love to know the story of how this wretched piece of software seems to have embedded itself into nearly every colle

"Peoplesoft is a curse on humanity" I would love to know the story of how this wretched piece of software seems to have embedded itself into nearly every college and university in the United States.

derwiki 6y ago
Believe it or not, Peoplesoft was way better than what it replaced at my school.
xyst 6y ago
No surprise that it is backed by Oracle. The sales people at Oracle are really good at getting technology inept people/businesses into multi year contracts. Once they started citing the list of features in their hundred slide presentation, the administrator stood no chance.
- tallanvor 6y ago
  PeopleSoft was one of the larger players, at least in education, well before Oracle bought them. There's really (or at least there was when I was involved in higher education) only 3 main players at that level. And trust me, each option you had was bad in its own way. The problem is that these products started out much smaller, and grew to fill the needs, although not necessarily as nicely as you might like. So now when it's time to put out a new bid, there's just the handful of vendors who can check off all the boxes for what the current system does. And integration with other systems is always a pain - even today it often includes csv or tab-delimited files that get sent to ftp sites for batch processing!
patrickk 6y ago
The 4 ways to spend money[1], in this case, spending someone else's money on someone else. Likely a procurement person with no IT knowledge, who never has to deal with the painful solution, but got wined and dined by the salesman. [1] https://investorjunkie.com/economics/milton-friedman-ways-spend-money/ https://investorjunkie.com/economics/milton-friedman-ways-sp...
gadders 6y ago
All these enterprise systems are crap. Trying using SAP. It's not better.

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"Peoplesoft is a curse on humanity" I would love to know the story of how this wretched piece of software seems to have embedded itself into nearly every colle

by unreal6 6y ago

"Peoplesoft is a curse on humanity" I would love to know the story of how this wretched piece of software seems to have embedded itself into nearly every college and university in the United States.

derwiki 6y ago
Believe it or not, Peoplesoft was way better than what it replaced at my school.
xyst 6y ago
No surprise that it is backed by Oracle. The sales people at Oracle are really good at getting technology inept people/businesses into multi year contracts. Once they started citing the list of features in their hundred slide presentation, the administrator stood no chance.
- tallanvor 6y ago
  PeopleSoft was one of the larger players, at least in education, well before Oracle bought them. There's really (or at least there was when I was involved in higher education) only 3 main players at that level. And trust me, each option you had was bad in its own way. The problem is that these products started out much smaller, and grew to fill the needs, although not necessarily as nicely as you might like. So now when it's time to put out a new bid, there's just the handful of vendors who can check off all the boxes for what the current system does. And integration with other systems is always a pain - even today it often includes csv or tab-delimited files that get sent to ftp sites for batch processing!
patrickk 6y ago
The 4 ways to spend money[1], in this case, spending someone else's money on someone else. Likely a procurement person with no IT knowledge, who never has to deal with the painful solution, but got wined and dined by the salesman. [1] https://investorjunkie.com/economics/milton-friedman-ways-spend-money/ https://investorjunkie.com/economics/milton-friedman-ways-sp...
gadders 6y ago
All these enterprise systems are crap. Trying using SAP. It's not better.