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Calling All PeopleSoft Customers
--David Creelman
The breaking news last week was that Oracle is launching a bold assault on PeopleSoft. This is of real concern to PeopleSoft's employees and customers. Fortunately for Oracle, PeopleSoft's employees and customers have no say in the matter. If Oracle is willing to offer a generous price to PeopleSoft shareholders then the shareholders would be foolish not to jump at it.
Oracle intends to liberate customers from the PeopleSoft platform and migrate them to what they perceive as the ideal way to live the Oracle eBusiness Suite. This is good business for Oracle and they may well have the raw power to make it happen.
However, it's hard to imagine the migration as being anything but a nightmare for PeopleSoft's customers. PeopleSoft apps are big, complex and customized. The migration will cost customers a lot of time, money and attention.
PeopleSoft's customers need to mobilize and decide just where they want this all to go. This is not a matter of supporting PeopleSoft's management (who will be concentrating on what is good for PeopleSoft's management) but rather figuring out what is best for them as a community. As a community they won't want to be at the mercy of some Oracle appointed pro-consul. However, they shouldn't want to be at the mercy of PeopleSoft's management either. ERP and HRMS software has become so integral to a company's business that they have all but lost the ability to switch vendors. If companies want HRMS software that meets their needs then they need to grab control of situation.
It would not be unthinkable for a consortium of PeopleSoft's customers to counter Oracle's bid. Similarly, a united community of PeopleSoft clients could negotiate terms with Oracle (or PeopleSoft) rather than being dictated to as a conquered people.
This is too big an issue for companies to sit back and watch events unfold. They need to get organized and get involved. |
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