Customer Reviews

Peoplesoft Administrator's Guide

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This book only provides an overview of the product, and should be not used as an administration guide.

It contains a good coverage of topics, although the level of detail is inconsistent. For example, the author spends 4 pages explaining how to create an FTP script; whereas more relevant topics are barely touched on.

Another dislike I have is that the material and the examples cover a Sybase implementation. Most PeopleSoft implementations are on Oracle.

Unfortunately, there are simply not very many good resources for PS admins out there. The only upside is that the ERP structure of the system is not so bad that you can't muddle through on your own.

This book was pretty much a waste of time. It meandered through several short chapters that basically amounted to 'hey we got it right' without bothering to explain exactly what said magic formula is. The source examples were uncommented and poorly explained, and really didn't shed any light on ADMINISTRATION (that IS was this was about right?) anyway. Some discussion of an RDBMS other that Sybase would have been nice, considering maybe 80% of PS installations run Oracle. That and the lack of performance tuning discussion of any kind, peopletools included, really kinda left me amazed. Of particular note, several of the .sqr examples were obvious performance problems for most RDBMS platforms, where they repeatedly scanned multiple tables with obfusicated and overly verbose WHERE clauses to reach an end. Ughhh.

The one redeeming factor is that it's perfectly suited to fit under the edge of my office door.

2 thumbs down.

I bought this book, opened it once, and put it back on the shelf. It provides so little depth and detail that it is almost useless. For a brand new technical person I'm not sure this book would be valuable, but it does provide a high level oversight of the workings of the system and would be useful for a Project Manager new to the PeopleSoft area.

Having been to the training sessions for Peoplesoft technical training, this book is a good summary for those who have already been through the training. However if you want to pick up this book and expect to become an Administrator you will be disappointed.

Overall a pretty good guide.

Gave a good overall view of PeopleSoft. Not enough detail to be really useful.

Numerous topics were covered, however; some sections were hard to follow and were only specific to author's systems. Not geared for someone justing getting into Peoplesoft

This book covers numerous topics, but did not go into depth on each. It definitely serves well as a check list of deliverables and guidelines for a successful implementation.

The book made mention of a great deal of PS topics but went into very little detail on any. Documentation standards would definitely have been helpful. More geared toward a first time implementation than day to day type administration of the software. Layout of the books was good. Coding examples fair. I would like to have seen a lot more on the technical aspects. It really didn't do Application Engine, Mass Change or release upgrades justice.

Definitely better than any other book that has come out, though. It also puts a lot of topics together in one reference.

A good book to have in your PeopleSoft library. It does give someone with a (very)good understanding of Database Administration a heads up about "PeopleSoft" and how to implement and plan integration with (different) Hardware Platforms.

As a seasoned DBA, I found the book lacking in depth and concentration on configuration and performance issues.

A good start but more is needed.

I'm new to PeopleSoft
I'm writing an interface to the PeopleSoft to
interface with our system.
This book is the best I have found so far.