ON DEATH ROW: Innovation goes out the window when Oracle comes through the door. Hardly surprising when we realize that last time Oracle brought truly great innovation to the IT market was THIRTY YEARS AGO with the modern relational database.  Since then Oracle has either copied its competitors (e.g. Apps -SAP, Fusion -SAP/Workday) or bought and killed them (e.g. PeopleSoft, Siebel, Hyperion etc.)

As the timeline graph shows, as an independent company PeopleSoft released a  new version every 12-18 months with substantial functionality in each one. However, in the seven years since Oracle took over, only two releases have come out. Yes, that's one every 3 ½ years which even in the glacial pace of ERP releases is quite unique. Now, if the features developed were game-changing and disruptive one might make the case that maybe it was worth waiting that long. But look at what has been delivered in those releases. Release  9.0 (December 2006) brought the first talent management feature (Talent Profile) aiming at stemming the hemorrhage of PeopleSoft customers going to the likes of Taleo and SuccessFactors. That concern was even more apparent with the next release, PeopleSoft 9.1 (September 2009), which delivered the back integration of Talent 9.1 to previous PeopleSoft releases (actually just 9.0 and 8.9.) It did not stop the hemorrhage and Oracle was left with no other solution than to buy Taleo five years later thus proving the futility of its PeopleSoft-based talent management offering. The only feature of note was the three localized payrolls (Argentina, China, Thailand - in the case of Argentina it was a partner-developed solution which  was productized in 9.1.) Apart from that you are more likely to find a four-leaf clover in the Mojave Desert that truly innovative PeopleSoft functionality in these releases.

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