Our campus is in the process of implementing a new student system. After a lengthy assessment, we selected PeopleSoft and we are now in the early stages of implementation. During the assessment, I was a vocal advocate for selecting a product that was both usable and accessible.
This week I was sent the online training materials to familiarize myself with PeopleSoft. I’ve been using Chrome as my browser the last couple of weeks and when I opened up the link to the training materials, I got the following message:
“The Player requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later.”
I tried to open the site using Firefox, Opera and Safari, and got the same message. (Yes, It works fine in IE.) I have a very bad feeling about this. I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come with our student system.
If anyone of you have expereince with PeopleSoft, I’d love to hear from you regarding how valid their code is. I sure hope that people won’t be forced to use IE.
I use Peoplesoft from the user side just fine in Firefox. Hopefully that’s an isolated situation.
The University of Missouri system (all four campuses) became PeopleSoft users six or seven years ago. We’re using it for student services, HR, financial, etc. People hate change, so people hate PeopleSoft. I don’t interact with it much myself. But it’s one of the big “enterprise-level” or whatever you want to call it systems.
Good luck.
Or, as King Arthur said to his knights when he encountered the Rabbit: “Run away! Run away!”