This preface discusses:
Additional resources.
PeopleSoft application fundamentals.
PeopleSoft automation and configuration tools.
PeopleSoft business object management.
PeopleTools PeopleBooks.
Note. This PeopleBook documents only page elements that require additional explanation. If a page element is not documented with the process or task in which it is used, then either it requires no additional explanation or it is documented with common elements for the section, chapter, PeopleBook, or product line.
The PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 Application Fundamentals PeopleBook contains essential information describing the setup and design of the PeopleSoft CRM system. This book contains important topics that apply to many or all PeopleSoft applications across the PeopleSoft CRM product line.
The PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 Application Fundamentals PeopleBook contains these parts:
CRM Multi-Product Foundation
This part discusses the design and setup of the PeopleSoft CRM system, including security considerations.
Workforce Management
This part discusses how to administer workers who perform tasks such as support or field service in PeopleSoft CRM. It includes information on competency management and assigning workers to tasks.
Interactions and 360-Degree Views
This part discusses how to manage interactions and set up and use the 360-degree view, a powerful tool that enables users to view and work with any transaction or interaction that is associated with a customer or worker.
Self-Service for Customers
This part discusses how to set up, administer, and use self-service applications for customers and workers.
Relationship Management
This part discusses how system users manage their contacts and tasks.
Entitlement Management
This part discusses setting up agreements and warranties.
SmartViews
This part discusses how to set up and use SmartViews to manage key customer segments and accounts in a central environment.
See Also
Oracle's PeopleSoft CRM Application Fundamentals Preface
The PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 Automation and Configuration Tools PeopleBookdiscusses automation and configuration tools that are common to multiple PeopleSoft CRM applications. This is an essential companion to the PeopleSoft CRM Application Fundamentals PeopleBook.
There are four parts to the PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 Automation and Configuration Tools PeopleBook
Correspondence Management
This part discusses the setup and application of manual notifications, automatic notifications and manual correspondence requests among CRM objects.
Automation Tools
This part discusses PeopleSoft CRM workflow, the Active Analytics Framework (OAF), business projects, and scripts.
Configuration Tools
This part discusses configurable search pages, configurable toolbars, attributes, and industry-specific field labels and field values.
Knowledge Management
This part discusses Verity search setup.
Business Process Management
This part provides information on the two different approaches to manage business processes in PeopleSoft CRM and discusses:
The setup of the BPEL infrastructure to initiate and manage BPEL process instances.
The setup of Business Process Monitor to view the status information of initiated BPEL process instances.
The setup of BPEL worklist integration to send CRM worklist entries (both notifications and action items) from BPEL processes.
The setup and execution of business projects.
See Also
Oracle's PeopleSoft CRM Automation and Configuration Tools Preface
The PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 Business Object Management PeopleBook discusses how to create and manage customer and worker business objects in PeopleSoft CRM.
The PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 Business Object Management PeopleBook has these parts:
Business Object Management Basics
This part provides an overview of the business object relationship model and discusses setting up role types, relationship types, and control values.
Data Management for Organization Business Objects
This part discusses how to set up and manage companies, sites, and partner companies.
Data management for Individual Business Objects
This part discusses how to set up and manage persons, including contacts and consumers, and workers.
Business Object Management
This part discusses how to define and use business object searches, quick create, and the customer identification framework to manage business objects.
Customer and Worker Data Integrations
This part discusses how to integrate customer and worker data with other systems.
See Also
Oracle's PeopleSoft CRM Business Object Management Preface
Cross-references to PeopleTools documentation refer to the PeopleTools 8.52 PeopleBooks.
A companion PeopleBook called PeopleBooks and the PeopleSoft Online Library contains general information, including:
Understanding the PeopleSoft online library and related documentation.
How to send PeopleSoft documentation comments and suggestions to Oracle.
How to access hosted PeopleBooks, downloadable HTML PeopleBooks, and downloadable PDF PeopleBooks as well as documentation updates.
Understanding PeopleBook structure.
Typographical conventions and visual cues used in PeopleBooks.
ISO country codes and currency codes.
PeopleBooks that are common across multiple applications.
Common elements used in PeopleBooks.
Navigating the PeopleBooks interface and searching the PeopleSoft online library.
Displaying and printing screen shots and graphics in PeopleBooks.
How to manage the locally installed PeopleSoft online library, including web site folders.
Understanding documentation integration and how to integrate customized documentation into the library.
Application abbreviations found in application fields.
You can find PeopleBooks and the PeopleSoft Online Library in the online PeopleBooks Library for your PeopleTools release.