The United Nations Development Programmes is an international organization targeted at helping developing countries achieve a high level of growth and potential. The PeopleSoft Application is one of the numerous applications that have been implemented to help achieve their business functions and enhance the effectiveness of their daily business processes.
The PeopleSoft Enterprise application was developed by Oracle Corporation to address the dynamic business requirements of most organizations. It is targeted at improving general business performance and offers a wide choice of infrastructure to choose from.
It also helps to integrate web services seamlessly into a multi-layered applications environment.
It is necessary to take a look at the technology behind the PeopleSoft software so that associated change management issues and policies become easier to understand and implement. Change management is a business process that is determined and guided by the technology behind it. This study will examine the PeopleSoft application, the surrounding technologies and the change management strategies that are recommended for its successful installation and deployment within any organization.
PeopleSoft combines different aspects of an organization’s business like Human Resources, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Purchasing and so on. It is a web-based application that uses a relational database as its back-end database. It is necessary to secure the operating system, the internet and the network while using the PeopleSoft application. PeopleSoft can be briefly described as an enterprise application; an enterprise application is an intelligent business system that comprises all the departments of the business including sales, marketing, manufacturing and planning.