Migration is Not Just for Birds: 5 Reasons to Migrate from PeopleSoft to Dynamics 365

It’s hard to believe that it has been 14 years since Oracle acquired PeopleSoft. Since then, PeopleSoft customers made the choice to stay with Oracle or move to a competing cloud alternative – but some companies are still using PeopleSoft. Are you one of them?

Support Until 2020

The support extension provided by Oracle through 2020 cannot hide the fact that PeopleSoft is mainly based on an architecture developed a couple of decades ago. The majority of PeopleSoft customers will have to determine whether they are well served by a product whose data design harks back to the mainframe.

Sticky ERP

Why do companies stick with PeopleSoft or other legacy products? That’s a good question. It may be because enterprise software is particularly sticky. Companies don’t change their ERP systems because the number of enterprise users are in the thousands, requirements are complex, implementation takes longer and costs are much higher. Therefore, expecting hundreds of large global companies to switch overnight to a new ERP system was never realistic. One thing is clear: doing nothing will become increasingly costly and will adversely affect your business.

Oracle Difficult to Implement

PeopleSoft customers can migrate to an Oracle product, and there is a popular misconception that it’s easy for PeopleSoft customers to migrate, but it’s simply not true. PeopleSoft and Oracle are based on radically different architectures and deployment models, and implementation can be costly and time-consuming.

Five Reasons PeopleSoft Customers Should Migrate to Microsoft Dynamics 365

1. Easy to Use and Maintain

   Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Enterprise Edition, formerly Microsoft Dynamics AX,  offers a rich array of functionality to serve the needs of a wide variety of enterprise companies in a variety of industries. Built using industry-standard tools and database, Microsoft Dynamics 365 is easy to implement and maintain.

2. Price and Total Cost of Ownership

   PeopleSoft is costly to maintain. Microsoft Dynamics 365 is less expensive for initial licensing, implementation, and on-going maintenance. It is a better value proposition overall, and chances are it integrates with a lot of your other existing systems.

3. Increased Productivity

   Dynamics 365 is designed to work like Excel and Outlook. With the vast array of open database tools from Microsoft and a host of other sources, Microsoft Dynamics 365 data can be readily queried, mined, extracted and interfaced with analytical applications, trading partner systems, third party applications, and productivity tools.

   The Microsoft Dynamics 365 user interface is role-based, meaning each user has a home screen that is tailored to provide easy access to the activities and functions that they use every day – boosting productivity.

4. Cloud Services

   Microsoft Dynamics 365 allows you to take advantage of cloud services, scale globally, run agile operations and connect employees by enabling real-time access to insights on any device.

5. You’ll love the Human Capital Management

   Fans of PeopleSoft love it’s human capital management (HCM) capabilities. Well, I’m here to tell you that the HCM functionality within Dynamics 365 is stellar, and getting better all of the time. Dynamics 365 for Talent enables exceptional experiences across employee attraction, engagement, development, and retention.

The time is now to migrate to a less expensive, easy to use system that will have your users singing its praises. Let me know if you have any questions about a migration to Microsoft Dynamics 365 from PeopleSoft or another legacy product.