PeopleTools is the comprehensive development and runtime platform for PeopleSoft applications. Its fundamental design principle--that developers and business analysts should 'define applications rather than code them' --has made PeopleTools the gold standard for enterprise applications. PeopleSoft applications such as Human Capital Management, Financial Management and Supply Chain, and others are all built with PeopleTools.

PeopleTools' many features include standards-based integration, robust reporting, advanced user interface features, administrative tools, and lifecycle management tools--everything that a comprehensive enterprise-level platform needs.

Integration
PeopleSoft applications have always been leaders in external application integration. To facilitate external integration, PeopleSoft delivers a complete standards-based integration platform called Integration Broker. Integration Broker delivers three critical aspects of integration:

• Metadata-based integration definitions for easy development and life-cycle management
• Runtime platform complete with synchronous and asynchronous processing that is tightly integrated with PeopleSoft runtime
• Adapters to several key technology interfaces such as web services, ftp, and email

Businesses today are required to adapt quickly to competitive and customer challenges. Integration Broker helps address these challenges. Using Integration Broker, PeopleSoft Applications can integrate with other PeopleSoft applications or with third-party applications using standards-based integration technology such as SOAP, XML, WSDL, WS_Security, FTP(s), REST, and many others. The PeopleSoft Integration Network (PIN) lets integration administrators introspect PeopleSoft applications to discover integration points, validate integration definitions, and trace integration transactions between multiple systems.

Reporting and Analytics
The PeopleSoft reporting framework makes users more productive by providing web-based tools to locate and organize real-time data as they work. Users can query ad-hoc data from the system, embed analyses in a business process for reuse, and then access those results from different devices like their laptop or iPad.

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