Understanding the Integration of External Data with PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft enables you to integrate external data with PeopleSoft through an integration mechanism. Based on your business requirements, you may want to integrate external data with PeopleSoft to enable you to arrive at business decisions, use data for visualization and analytics, supplement existing data in PeopleSoft, and so on. For example, as a PeopleSoft HCM payroll user, you may want information about your company products that are purchased, but this information is in external systems. As a PeopleSoft FSCM user, you may prefer to perform cash discounting or dynamic discounting based on federal funds rate, and the federal funds rate information is in an external system.

If you plan to use the integration mechanism, you should ensure that the following requirements are met:

• Credentials for data retrieval from an external system.

• Network infrastructure that allows you to connect to the external system.

• Pre-defined roles and users who have the permissions or access to the external data.

PeopleSoft uses the following PeopleSoft products and third-party tools in the integration mechanism:

• PeopleSoft Search Framework

• OpenSearch

• Logstash