Arkalgud Venkatesh, IT Manager at Alameda County, recently sat down with me to discuss Alameda’s Selective Adoption strategy. Arkalgud is responsible for the county’s PeopleSoft footprint, including their use of Selective Adoption, and our conversation helped shed light on a few key pieces of strategy that can help others utilize what Selective Adoption has to offer.

Key Takeaways

Arkalgud shared some great pieces of information regarding Alameda’s Selective Adoption strategy, as well as where they are on their journey to implement Fluid. Here are a few key points I gathered from our conversation that other organizations should consider as they create a Selective Adoption strategy:

• It’s a learning process and a change in upgrade mindset is imperative.
• Users get functionality more quickly, without waiting for an upgrade, but it requires more frequent testing.

Alameda County’s Profile

Alameda County, a county in the state of California, uses PeopleSoft Human Capital Management (HCM) and Financials Supply Chain Management (FSCM). Alameda’s technology team supports applications that cover over 9,000 employees. Alameda County has been a PeopleSoft customer since 2000 and they are currently on Financials and HCM 9.2 as well as PeopleTools 8.55.

If you want to learn more about Alameda’s approach to Selective Adoption and their Fluid implementation, check out the full customer story which includes a helpful Q&A portion. For more helpful information and stories from users like you, join us at COLLABORATE 18, April 22-26, 2018. Follow our updates on Twitter on #c18lv!