This Article Printer-Friendly Version Agriculture picks PeopleSoft 8 applications By David Essex Special to GCN With the release of PeopleSoft 8, PeopleSoft Inc. has upgraded its flagship enterprise resource planning product for the Web. One of its first tests is getting underway at the Agriculture Department. PeopleSoft 8 contains 59 brand-new applications along with upgrades of 108 other applications to conform to Hypertext Markup Language and Extensible Markup Language standards, said Jon Gearhart, industry director for PeopleSoft Public Sector. The new collaborative apps are all designed to extend PeopleSoft's ERP applications to handle electronic commerce transactions among suppliers, employees and customers, company representatives said.
Users access the apps through a portal personalized according to their roles in the organization.
But Hagerty faulted PeopleSoft for not rewriting its customer relationship management module for the Web. New property tax and budget preparation modules will be released before the end of the year, Gearhart said. Md. He said the rollout is a prime example of Washington's push toward electronic government. Heidenreich's team of 13 federal employees and six contractors are starting the rollout this month, and he expects to finish within nine months. With PeopleSoft 8's Web architecture, most of the effort goes into setting up Web and application servers in the National Information Technology Center in Kansas City, Mo., Heidenreich said.