Peoplsoft Survey

From: Survey <survey_at_reliantdata.com>
Date: 1998/10/22
Message-ID: <362FAE8D.36536313@dcle.com>

We are conducting a brief survey to attempt to ascertain the detailed requirements of how people are currently building their legacy system interfaces and conversion programs into their production PeopleSoft application systems. Our target audience consists of Project managers, Independent consultants, third-party system integrators, or any technical
representitive of a PeopleSoft implementation project.

Thanks in advance for helping us with this endeavor! All information will, of course, be kept confidential.

In the interest of not wasting too much bandwidth, please reply to this survey by email to:

survey_at_dcle.com

All respondents will be emailed the results of the survey (with names and
organization names, of course, kept anonymous), and a summary of the survey will be posted to this newsgroup.

Thanks for your time.

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[SECTION 1]
Please mark any of the following PeopleSoft modules as already in use
(U),

currently being implemented (I), planned (P), or not planned (N) within your organization (if planned, please give anticipated date) :

PeopleSoft modules

Financials
Accts Payable
Accts Rec
Gen Ledger
Asset Mgmt
Projects
Budgets
Expenses
Treasury
HRMS
Human Resources
Benefits
PSA Admin
Payroll
Payroll Interface
Time & Labor
Pension
Materials Management
Inventory
Purchasing
Distribution
Order Mgmt
Product Configuration
Billing
Enterprise Planning
Manufacturing
ERO Manuf. Solution
Production Planning
Engineering
Billings & Routings
Production Mgmt
Cost Mgmt
Supply Chain

[SECTION 2] My Responsibilities within the PeopleSoft deployment include :

Who is/was ultimately responsible for the PeopleSoft deployment project as
a whole?

[SECTION 3]
Survey Questions

Did you move, or are you planning to move historical data into the new application modules?
If no data is to be moved (or if only some modules are to be implemented) are you planning on interfacing these modules to your other, existing systems?
Do you currently have a plan for moving (converting) this data from the old application into the new? Is so, please detail.
Will the conversion be done only once into the PeopleSoft system, or will additional data be periodically updated? If so, how frequently?
What is the time window for the initial conversion? For subsequent conversions? (i.e. 12 hours, or over a weekend, etc?) How much data
(in
number of records and in gigs) will be converted initially? Recurring?
What is the make-up of your PeopleSoft conversion team? (please include skill sets and titles) How will the conversion/interfacing work be divided?
Would it be preferable to offload the conversion/interfacing work to a business analysts, rather than a dba or systems consultant?
If multiple people will be working on the same conversions/interfaces, how important is it for them to share work? How would this sharing ideally take place? (i.e. a check-in/check-out procedure? A shared multi-user metadata repository?)
Will (or was) a system integrator used to assist in the deployment or

conversion? If so, who?

Where do you typically go for PeopleSoft information? (i.e. magazines, web sites, user groups, peoplesoft direct, third-party consultants, etc.)
Will (or did) your implementation also include technology for 1) moving PeopleSoft data in/our of data warehouses or data marts 2) interfacing (EDI, EAI) to other ERP or legacy apps (and if so, which ones) 3) data replication to ERPs at other sites (if so, please list) or 4) creating enterprise metadata repositories?
Please describe any tools (internal or third-party) you might have used to facilitate building a conversion or interface. What are the three things you like most about these tools? What are the three things you like least?
For a given PeopleSoft module implementation, how much time (in man-weeks) is typically spent (or budgeted) on the initial data conversion?
For a given PeopleSoft module implementation, how much time (in man-weeks) is spent (or budgeted) building interfaces to other existing systems?
How are your conversion processes typically built? (i.e. programming, tools, etc.) Please describe.
How are your interfaces typically built? (i.e. programming, tools, etc.) Please describe.
Are these interfaces usually real time, near-real time, or batch? If you were to describe the "typical" interface now, what would it look like? If you were to describe the "ideal" interface now, what would it look like?
Do your current interfaces have a mechanism for restarting in mid process when errors occur (i.e. checkpoints, etc)? How important is a restart mechanism for interfacing?
How do you interfaces currently handle change data capture (i.e. selecting out and transferring only records that have changed.)? How important is change-data capture to interfacing?
What are typically the hardest obstacles in building your conversion

processes/programs or your system interfaces?

21. What are the most common systems (database, operating systems, applications) you convert data from (into PeopleSoft)?

22. What are the most common systems (database, operating systems, applications) you interface to PeopleSoft?

23. Does your organization currently use a systems management framework
(such as CA's Unicenter TNG, BMC's Patrol or Tivoli's TME/Enterprise)?

24. Does your organization currently use a common scheduler (such as CA's
Unicenter TNG, BMC's Patrol, or Tivoli's TME/Enterprise)?

25. Does your organization currently use a common performance monitor for
your PeopleSoft application? (such as CA's Unicenter TNG, BMC's Patrol, or
Tivoli's TME/Enterprise)?

26. If any of the above system management utilities in use, are any of them capable of tracking the performance of your current interfaces? If
not, would this be of value? How would such an interface monitor look, ideally?

27. If a single physical machine were to run multiple different databases
(or instantiations of the same database), would it preferable to have a
single remote agent or process running for each interface, or to have a single process controlling all interfaces for that machine?

28. At what phase in your PeopleSoft deployment timeline do you typically
create your conversion programs/processes?

29. At what phase in your PeopleSoft deployment timeline do you typically
create your interfaces to other systems?

30. Would you be interested in looking at a software product that minimized the process of build conversion processes and/or interfaces?

31. Assuming a software package could reduce the time and effort necessary
to build and manage these conversions/interfaces dramatically (i.e. by more than 50%), how valuable would this be? (Please rank numerically, 0=No
Value, 10=Exceptional Value)

Thank-you for taking the time to complete this survey. Received on Thu Oct 22 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT