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PeopleSoft was a company which provided ERP software solutions in different business areas like Human Capital Management, Customer Relationship Management, Financial management, Student Administration ,Enterprise Performance Management, Supply Chain Management etc. It was founded in 1987 by David Duffield and Ken Morris with its head quarters in California. Later on, in 2005 Oracle Corporation acquired PeopleSoft.Though PeopleSoft have begun functioning in 1987, its first ERP package PeopleSoft 6 was released in 1997. PeopleSoft HRMS was released in 1988. They continuously released the enhanced versions, the last one being PeopleSoft HCM 9.0 which is released by Oracle in 2007.
Now Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Business Suites includes Human Capital Management, Financial Management, Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Service Automation, Enterprise Performance Management, Campus Solutions etc.
From Version 8 onwards PeopleSoft applications runs on web centric design called PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture which makes possible it to be accessed from Internet. The underlying technology for the PeopleSoft applications is called PeopleTools. With PeopleTools you can easily develop a new application or customize the existing one to implement the business requirement. Enterprise PeopleTools contains over 40 tools, utilities, and technologies for it to make building the applications easier. Currently PeopleSoft can be implemented on Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix and Sybase. PeopleCode is the object oriented language that is used to write programs in PeopleSoft.
