Integration Tools

• PeopleSoft Integration Broker.
• Feed Publishing Framework.
• PeopleSoft Component Interfaces.
• File Interfaces.
• Supported Integration Tools.
• Integration testing tools.
• Enterprise integration utilities.
• Workflow Technology.
• MultiChannel Framework.

PeopleSoft Integration Broker
PeopleSoft Integration Broker provides service oriented architecture (SOA) technology that facilitates the transmission of synchronous and asynchronous service operations. Use the PeopleSoft Integration Broker to:
Perform asynchronous and synchronous messaging among internal systems and third-party systems.
Expose PeopleSoft business logic as web services to PeopleSoft and third-party systems.
Consume and invoke web services from third-party and PeopleSoft systems.
The two major components of PeopleSoft Integration Broker are the integration gateway and the integration engine. The integration gateway is a platform that manages the receipt and delivery of service operations passed among systems through PeopleSoft Integration Broker. The integration engine is an application server process that routes service operations to and from PeopleSoft applications as well as transforms the structure of service operations and translates data according to specifications that you define.
PeopleSoft Integration Broker offers the following benefits:
PeopleSoft Integration Broker is provided with PeopleTools so you don't need to purchase additional, third party integration tools.
Consistent infrastructure using PeopleSoft Application Servers and web servers.
Ability to reuse development staff skills.
"Out-of-the-box" integration to all PeopleSoft applications.
Supports all major integration methods, such as web services.


Feed Publishing Framework
The Feed Publishing Framework provides user interfaces and APIs for feed definition creation and maintenance, feed searching and subscription, as well as feed document generation and delivery.
A web feed, news feed, or feed is a data format that provides users with access to frequently updated content. A feed contains entries, which might be headlines, full-text articles, excerpts, summaries, digital media, and links to content on a web site, along with various metadata. PeopleSoft applications, news organizations, external web sites, and other content distributors publish or syndicate web feeds, which enables users to subscribe to them.
The Feed Publishing Framework provides:
A set of APIs and code samples to assist application developers in creating new type of feeds and integrating them with existing features
Unified interfaces for content owners and administrative users to create, configure, and maintain feed definitions of various types.
Interfaces for end users to discover related feeds and search feed definitions.


PeopleSoft Component Interface 
Component interfaces provide a way to access the PeopleSoft database without using a graphical user interface. A component interface encapsulates a PeopleSoft component, which is a logical grouping of PeopleSoft pages representing a complete business transaction. You create component interfaces using PeopleSoft Application Designer.
A PeopleSoft component provides all of the business rules, through PeopleCode and edits, for interacting with the PeopleSoft database. Components are based on pages and are presented to the user to view and update with a browser. The component interface takes this same functionality and exposes it to third-party systems without using a graphical user interface.
Component interfaces:
Enforce all of the business rules defined on the component.
Provide synchronous access to the PeopleSoft database.
Provide access to PeopleSoft components through APIs.
Component interfaces expose the rich functionality delivered in the hundreds of components within PeopleSoft products. A component is an atomic transaction that implements a business process or function. A component interface provides real-time synchronous access to the PeopleSoft business rules and data associated with a business component.
The interface is exposed via standard access methods: Java, C/C++, COM, SOA, and CORBA (through partnership). Component interfaces encapsulate PeopleSoft data and business processes, and they hide the details of the structure and implementation of the underlying page and data. The actual interface consists of a set of clearly defined properties and methods that follow an object-oriented programming model. External applications can access component data only by using the properties or methods specified in the component interface.


File Interfaces
File-based integrations provide the ability to exchange files with third-party systems or legacy systems that do not support messaging. Files are exchanged using file layouts or PeopleSoft Application Engine programs. File layouts are used to graphically define where data is located in a file. The file definition layout is then accessible to the PeopleSoft Application Engine program to import or export the file.

The File class provides methods and properties for reading from and writing to external files. Most application interfaces to files require complex parsing of file data. Files that allow for this kind of complexity in a PeopleSoft application are based on a File interface.

A File Interface is a definition (or mapping) of a file to be processed. It identifies where data fields are located in the file. This powerful interface enables application developers to access data from a file as they would a message or a page buffer (scroll). There is no need to parse each file record into fields.

File interfaces are unique to a specific format and may only process that particular type of formatted file. The definition created in Application Designer retains a consistent look and feel regardless of format.

File layouts support the following file types:
Fixed format sequential files.
Comma delimited files.
XML files.


Supported Integrated Tools
PeopleSoft supports these additional integration utilities:
EDI Manager.
Outgoing Forms API.
Open Query ODBC Driver and API.
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a standard means of exchanging data between companies so they can transact business electronically. For example, using EDI a company can submit an order to a vendor, and the vendor can acknowledge and fulfill the order without any paper changing hands or any contact between company representatives.
With PeopleSoft Application Designer, you can implement routings, which transfer data from one step in a business process to another. One type of routings is a forms routing. With a forms routing, the system takes data from a PeopleSoft page the user is working on, enters it onto a third-party form, and mails the completed form to designated users by means of the forms product's mail capabilities.
The PeopleSoft Open Query ODBC driver and API allow third-party reporting tools or applications to access PeopleSoft data in conformance with the PeopleSoft Query access architecture (the embedded SQL access intelligence provided by PeopleSoft Query).


Integration Testing Tools

PeopleSoft provides these tools for testing your integration development: 

• Send Master Utility.
• Simple Post Utility.
• Automated integration point testing.
• Transformation Test Utility.
• Handler Tester. 
• Schema Tester

Send Master Utility

The Send Master utility enables you to test PeopleSoft Integration Broker messaging interactions with PeopleSoft and third-party web servers, application servers, and integration gateways. It can test listening connector functionality, target connector functionality, connector introspection and transactions. Send Master enables you to post any data format, including the PeopleSoft Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) message format, to web and application servers over HTTP and HTTPS. You can also use Send Master to simultaneously test groups of different types of messages, as well as stress test your system.
Simple Post Utility
The Simple Post utility enables you to use shell scripts or a Java API to post XML messages from third-party systems to the integration gateway. The utility wraps the incoming messages in the PeopleSoft XML wrapper format and posts them to the HTTP listening connector. The Simple Post utility reads ASCII, UTF-8 and UTF-16 file formats for incoming messages and converts them to UTF-8 to send to the integration gateway.

Automated Integration Point Testing
PeopleSoft provides a means for automated integration point testing. You can perform automated integration point testing as a means to unit test, perform cross-application business process testing, or regression test integration points. Automated integration point testing is suitable for testing integration points between PeopleSoft systems, PeopleSoft systems and third-party systems, and PeopleSoft systems and open interfaces. You can use automated integration point testing with the following PeopleSoft integration technologies:

• Messaging, including asynchronous and synchronous publishing and subscribing.
• Component interfaces.
• Flat files.
• Staging tables.

Transformation Test Utility
PeopleSoft Integration Broker provides the Transformation Test utility, which you can use to test Application Engine transform programs without sending messages, and with minimal development effort.

Handler Tester
The Handler Tester allows you to test handlers defined for rowset-based and nonrowset-based service operations from within the PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture. You can test handlers without setting up a routing, without having pub/sub booted on your application server, and without impacting other developer activity on the system.

Schema Tester
The Schema Tester Utility enables you to validate rowset-based and nonrowset-based messages against message schemas during development to determine if messages adhere to defined message schemas.

Enterprise Integration Utilities

In addition to the integration technology provided by Enterprise PeopleTools, there is a set of utilities shipped with your PeopleSoft applications that are also a part of the PeopleSoft integration solution.
These additional utilities include:

• Publish utility.
• Error Handling utility.
• Effective Date Publish utility.
• Flat File utility.
• XML Schema utility.
•  Publish Utility

The Publish utility automates the process of copying the contents of an entire table into a remote database or legacy system. Use the utility to synchronize data from an existing system when a new PeopleSoft system is installed. The data is chunked based on the maximum size set for a message. You can control the size, number, and frequency of these data messages by using a series of data publishing rules and:

• Whether to create header and trailer records.
• Where the data comes from.
• Whether to chunk the message.
• Which related languages to publish.

The publishing rules include pages for full table publishing rules, batch publishing rules, record mapping, languages, and batch programs.

Error Handling Utility
The Error Handling utility is a PeopleTools application that you use to view and correct messages that are received by the subscriber. You can also use this utility to correct data that is stored in staging tables.
PeopleSoft applications that receive flat file data from other systems through batch processes have built-in facilities to validate and correct data prior to updating the main application tables. Likewise, before updating core PeopleSoft application tables, the subscription process detects data errors in the messages that it receives. These error messages are stored in either message queues or staging tables.

In some cases, however, errors can’t be sent back to the third party for correction (such as when data is in a flat file). In these cases, you must provide error processing on incoming data so that messages that contain information on business objects, such as items and vendors, can be corrected and reprocessed in the PeopleSoft system. The Error Handling utility enables you to achieve this task.
Effective Date Publish Utility
The Effective Date Publish utility enables you to design processes to update external systems that process only current data and don't use or recognize effective dating.
For example, for full data messages that are intended for vendors who do not handle effective dating, the Effective Date Publish utility enables you to publish only those rows that are currently active. Any future-dated rows are not published and written to the delay table instead.
Flat File Utility
The Flat File utility enables you to develop complementary processes to translate incoming files into messages or translate outbound messages into files. You use this utility when external systems send you flat files, when external systems only accept flat files sent to them.
The Flat File utility reads the data in an incoming flat file and copies the rowsets of the data file into a message. When the utility sends the message to the subscribers, the subscribing systems receive the message an initiate normal inbound data processing. This process works in reverse for outbound flat files.
XML Schema Utility
PeopleSoft Open Integration Framework enables near real-time messaging and transactions by using a format that is based on XML to convey information between diverse applications in a standard way. To take advantage of this standardization, you must obtain clear XML definitions (schemas) for each application message, component interface, or business interlink.
The XML Schema utility provides the following features:
Output options for the XML Schema utility, document type definition (DTD), or BizTalk definition for all application messages.
The ability to create an XML definition for a single object, for all of the objects, or for all of the objects by a specific owner.
A single flat file for each XML definition that is written to your system’s %TEMP directory (when you use the Microsoft Windows client) or the server’s common access file directory (when you use PeopleSoft Internet Architecture).
An application foundation for future standards of XML definitions.

WorkFlow Technology

Workflow enables collaboration between applications, organizations, and people. PeopleSoft Workflow enables you to:

• Automate paper-based business processes.
• Increase collaboration between employees, customers, and suppliers.
• Integrate your system according to business processes.

The main elements of PeopleSoft Workflow include:

• Business process definitions, which reflect the business process—from beginning to end.
• Activities, which are a set of logically ordered steps in a process.
• Worklists, which are the automated “to-do” lists.
• Rules, which determine the activities that are required to process your business data.
• Roles, which describe how people fit into the workflow.
• Routings, which specify where information goes and what form it takes (email message or worklist entry).

PeopleSoft MultiChannel Framework
PeopleSoft MultiChannel Framework delivers an integrated infrastructure to support multiple interaction channels for call center agents or other PeopleSoft users who must respond to incoming requests and notifications. The PeopleSoft MultiChannel Framework can be used from any PeopleSoft application.
A “channel” refers to the technology used to communicate during an interaction. PeopleSoft MultiChannel Framework supports the following channels:

• Voice (telephone).
• Web collaboration (chat).
• Email.
• Instant messaging.

Analytic Tools

•    PeopleSoft Query
•    PeopleSoft Analytic Calculation Engine
•    PeopleSoft Cube Builder
•    BI Publisher for PeopleSoft
•    PS/nVision
•    Crystal Reports for PeopleSoft
•    SQR for PeopleSoft
•    PeopleSoft Tree Manager
•    PeopleSoft Process Scheduler.
•    Understanding Analytic

PeopleSoft Query
PeopleSoft Query provides a user friendly, intuitive way to quickly generate ad-hoc and scheduled reports from any data stored in your PeopleSoft tables. Users can design and run queries using any supported web browser. Designers of queries do not need to write or be familiar with Standard Query Language (SQL). In addition, users who are less technically savvy can run predefined queries. Queries can be as simple or as complex as necessary. You can run queries from a web browser and then download the data as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.


PeopleSoft Analytic Calculation Engine
PeopleSoft Analytic Calculation Engine combines a calculation engine plus several Enterprise PeopleTools features that enable application developers to define both the calculation rules and the display of calculated data within PeopleSoft applications. The calculated data is used for the purposes of multidimensional reporting, data editing, and analysis.
Application developers create analytic models which define the rules used to calculate data. To display the data to end users, application developers create PeopleSoft pages that include a specific type of grid—an analytic grid.
End users can view, analyze, and even make changes to analytic model data. When end users save any changes made to the analytic model, PeopleSoft Analytic Calculation Engine recalculates the data and sends the calculated data to the application database.

PeopleSoft Cube Builder
PeopleSoft Cube Builder provides a framework for modeling your OLAP cubes through its design tools. This framework enables you to manage dimensions, attributes, measures, and cubes that you might want to build from PeopleSoft sources. All of these definitions can be shared across cubes to ensure that OLAP results are consistent across your enterprise.
What you design in PeopleSoft Cube Builder can be used across all target OLAP platforms supported by PeopleSoft. The majority of a cube's design attributes can be applied to Hyperion Essbase.. PeopleSoft Cube Builder also enables you to leverage your existing PeopleSoft metadata to define the cube structure.

PS/nvision
PS/nVision is a sophisticated tool for creating business reports in Microsoft Excel. Working within Microsoft Excel, you create a report layout that defines both the data to retrieve and the format of the report. Using PS/nVision, you can create report layouts that summarize information from your PeopleSoft database and use the drill down feature to expose the supporting details. You can share report layouts across multiple business units and time periods, creating reports that "roll" from unit to unit or period to period without changing the data-retrieval criteria.
PS/nVision works within spreadsheets. You access PS/nVision features from a special PS/nVision menu within Microsoft Excel to create templates (layouts) for data retrieval. Once you create a report layout (XNV file), you can use it to automatically format data. PS/nVision selects data from your PeopleSoft database using ledgers, trees, and queries.

• PS/nVision enables you to extend the rich querying features that PeopleSoft Query offers. For example:
• With PeopleSoft Query you can generate tabular reports without formatting, and with PS/nVision you can deliver well formatted, easy-to-read reports.
• PS/nVision enables you to produce matrix reports in which you can use multiple ledgers or queries to define the reports.
• PS/nVision provides dynamic features, such as bursting and nPlosion, unavailable in static query results.

• PS/nVision offers built-in logic to detect detailed ledger metadata in multiple financial environments.

 BI Publisher for PeopleSoft
Oracle provides a standalone Java-based reporting technology named BI Publisher (BIP) that streamlines report and form generation. Enterprise PeopleTools is leveraging this technology with BI Publisher for PeopleSoft Enterprise, which provides native BIP technology for PeopleSoft Query as well as any PeopleSoft application.
BIP separates the data extraction process from the report layout. BIP provides the ability to design and create report layout templates with the more common desktop applications of Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat, and renders XML data based on those templates. With a single template, you can generate reports in many formats (PDF, RTF, Excel, HTML, and so on) and in many languages.
BI Publisher for PeopleSoft provides an environment for the power business user to manage templates, data sources, reports, translations, content components, and to produce reports according to a user-defined criteria. BI Publisher for PeopleSoft also can burst reports, such as annual wage statements for employees, electronically.

Crystal reports in PeopleSoft
Crystal Reports enable you to generate clear and easy-to-read reports presenting data from your PeopleSoft applications. You can generate standard reports already created and saved in Crystal, or you can create your own custom reports.
Generating formatted output in Crystal involves two steps. First you create and save queries in PeopleSoft Query, and then you create report definitions in Crystal to format the fields (columns) used in the queries. You can generate reports in a variety of different formats, including text files, Microsoft Word documents, and spreadsheets.

SQR for PeopleSoft
SQR for PeopleSoft is a powerful enterprise reporting system that provides direct access to multiple data sources. The SQR for PeopleSoft tools make it possible to create clear, professional reports from complex arrays of information systems.
SQR is a specialized programming language for accessing, manipulating, and reporting enterprise data. With SQR, you build complex procedures that perform multiple calls to multiple data sources and implement nested, hierarchical, or object-oriented program logic.
The high-level programming capabilities that SQR provides enable you to add procedural logic and control to data source calls. You can use SQR to write other types of applications, such as those for database manipulation and maintenance, table loading and unloading, and interactive querying and displaying.

PeopleSoft Tree Manager
The PeopleSoft Tree Manager enables you to arrange data into a hierarchal format that can then be used in other areas, such as report generators, OLAP, chartfield field combination editing in PeopleCode, and security. Casual users have a familiar and easy-to-understand interface, as well as all of the functionality required for creating and maintaining trees.
PeopleSoft Tree Manager enables you to:

• Present summarization rules visually.
• Give the system a single place to look for summarization rules.
• Provide simpler selection and updating of values in reports, ledgers, or security profiles.

PeopleSoft Process Scheduler
PeopleSoft Process Scheduler enables you to schedule and manage the execution of PeopleSoft batch processes. With PeopleSoft Process Scheduler you can:
Schedule recurring processes to run on any date or time interval that your business requires, such as monthly, daily, hourly, or by the minute.
Create jobs (groups of processes) that run several processes and conditionally schedule successive processes based on the status of a previous process in the job.
The primary role of Process Scheduler is to support the PeopleSoft application environment. With a PeopleSoft application, you might want to run certain processes (batch programs, reports, and so on) behind the scenes of the online system. Running reports, posting journal entries, loading benefit enrollment forms, and calculating payroll deductions are all examples of processes that you might want to perform offline.
Using PeopleSoft Process Scheduler can streamline your business practices by enabling you to take advantage of the distributed computing environment at your site, whereby you can schedule performance-sensitive jobs to run on a powerful server while the online system is still available to end users.

Reporting Web Services
Reporting Web Services are services published through the Integration Broker that can be consumed by third-party applications to facilitate creating and running reports on the PeopleSoft system. Web Services are available for Query Access and Process Scheduler. Each web service contains multiple service operations to perform specific tasks relating to reporting.

Administration Tools

•    PeopleTools Security.
•    PeopleSoft Performance Monitor.
•    PeopleSoft Diagnostic Framework.
•    PeopleSoft Data Mover.
•    Data Integrity Tools.
•    PeopleTools Utilities.
•    PeopleSoft Configuration Manager.
•    Additional administration utilities.
With Information Technology infrastructure becoming more complex, Enterprise PeopleTools offers the state-of-the-art tools to make maintenance easy and cost-effective. The Enterprise PeopleTools administration tools enable system administrators to manage the applications you have deployed within your organization. The administration tools enable you to perform numerous administrative tasks, such as configure security, monitor performance, troubleshoot, upgrade to new versions, apply patches, and transfer data from target to source systems. Most of the tasks can be completed using the same browser interface used for completing business transactions in PeopleSoft applications.
PeopleTools Security
The PeopleSoft security approach is tailored for the internet. As you implement PeopleSoft, you need a robust and scalable means by which you can grant authorization to users efficiently. When you deploy your applications to the internet, the number of potential users of your system increases exponentially. Suddenly, you have customers, vendors, suppliers, employees, and prospects all using the same system.
Just as PeopleTools provides the foundation for PeopleSoft applications, PeopleTools security provides the foundation for PeopleSoft security and for managing the user life cycle within the application.
You can apply security to all users, including employees, managers, customers, contractors, and suppliers. You group your users according to roles to give them different degrees of access. For instance, there might be an Employee role, a Manager role, and an Administrator role. PeopleTools security enables you to manage the role-based system, including directory group import capabilities, to leverage your Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory facilities.
Users who belong to a particular role require a specific set of permissions, or authorizations, within your system so that they can complete their daily tasks. Because of the increase in users due to the internet deployment, PeopleTools security enables you to perform numerous maintenance tasks programmatically, which enables your system administrators to focus on other tasks. PeopleTools security also delivers robust encryption methods to provide additional custom data protection.
PeopleTools security also provides the capability for easily integrating enterprise user management and access applications like Oracle Access Manager and Oracle Identity Manager.
Additionally PeopleTools security implements the WS-Security framework to protect web services-based integrations.
PeopleSoft Performance Monitor
PeopleSoft Performance Monitor is a built-in diagnostic utility that enables system administrators to monitor performance of the main elements of your PeopleSoft system, such as web servers, application servers, and PeopleSoft Process Scheduler servers. You can monitor real-time performance as well as analyze historical data.
PeopleSoft Performance Monitor reports:
Durations and key metrics of PeopleTools runtime execution, such as SQL statements and PeopleCode events.
Key resource metrics, such as host CPU utilization and web server execution threads.
The metrics provided by PeopleSoft Performance Monitor enable system administrators to:
Monitor real-time system performance.
Identify poorly performing tiers, hosts, domains, servers, application code, and SQL in a PeopleSoft environment.
Identify performance trends.
Address and isolate performance bottlenecks.
PeopleSoft Diagnostic Framework
The PeopleSoft Diagnostic Framework is designed to facilitate the diagnosis and resolutions of incidents by Oracle Global Customer Support. It enables the critical system data to be packaged and sent to PeopleSoft Global Support Center without the need for IT intervention. This reduces administration overhead and can help PeopleSoft solve customer issues more quickly.
The diagnostic framework retrieves diagnostic information from a PeopleSoft database enabling you to:
Discover problematic application-related data.
Explore setup details.
Present information to PeopleSoft support in a common format.
PeopleSoft Data Mover
PeopleSoft Data Mover enables the database administrator or system programmer to perform a number of functions, including:
Transfer application data between PeopleSoft databases.
Move PeopleSoft databases across operating systems and database platforms.
Execute Structured Query Language (SQL) statements against any PeopleSoft database, regardless of the underlying operating system or database platform.
Create, edit, and run scripts.
PeopleSoft Data Mover provides a development interface that enables you to create scripts using specific commands. You can run scripts from the development environment or from a command line. You use PeopleSoft Data Mover during the PeopleSoft installation, but it is also used for a variety of maintenance tasks.
PeopleSoft Data Archive Manager
In any enterprise application, the ability to purge and archive transactional data is critical to data management. You need to have consistent methods to archive transactional data before your database increases to unmanageable sizes. PeopleSoft Data Archive Manager provides an integrated and consistent framework for archiving data from PeopleSoft applications. Using a predefined template, you can select any queries and multiple objects that meet your archiving and restoration requirements. Leveraging the Archive Query in PeopleSoft Query, you can easily define and customize your archive template.
Data Integrity Tools
PeopleSoft provides several tools to ensure the integrity of the data that is stored in the PeopleSoft system. Typically, you use these tools during installations, upgrades, and system configuration to verify the PeopleSoft system and compare it to the underlying SQL objects to ensure synchronization. Data Integrity tools include:
SYSAUDIT
The System Audit (SYSAUDIT) identifies orphaned PeopleSoft objects and other inconsistencies within the system. An example of an orphaned object is a module of PeopleCode that exists, but which does not relate to any other objects in the system.
DDDAUDIT
The Database Audit Report (DDDAUDIT) finds inconsistencies between PeopleTools record and index definitions and the database objects. This audit focuses on tables, views, and indexes.
SQL Alter
The PeopleSoft Application Designer SQL Alter function brings SQL tables into accordance with PeopleTools record definitions.
PeopleTools Utilities
As you work with the PeopleSoft system, you find that there are some administrative tasks that you only need to perform occasionally. The PeopleTools Utilities provide a set of tools for accomplishing some of these more infrequent tasks. Although use of these utilities may be infrequent, they provide an easy means to manage important aspects of your PeopleSoft environment. Examples of tasks that require the use of the PeopleTools Utilities are:
•    Setting your base language.
•    Specifying a specific style sheet.
•    Setting PeopleBook Help locations.
•    Editing messages in the message catalog.
•    Entering values in the URL catalog.
•    Setting PeopleCode and SQL trace options.
PeopleSoft Configuration Manager
PeopleSoft Configuration Manager simplifies Windows workstation administration by enabling you to adjust PeopleSoft registry settings from one central location. Note that the Configuration Manager applies only to workstations being used by developers and system administrators who need access to the development environment. For example, developers who need to access PeopleSoft Application Designer to view and modify pages, records, components and so on need the appropriate options set in the PeopleSoft Configuration Manager.
 PeopleSoft Configuration Manager contains a variety of controls that let you set up workstations for connecting to the database, connecting to application servers, or setting trace options. You can set up one development workstation to reflect the environment at your site, and then export the configuration file, which can be shared among all the development workstations at your site.
Additional Administration Utilities
With Enterprise PeopleTools, you can also take advantage of:
Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Oracle Configuration Manager.
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a comprehensive, integrated management solution that helps you achieve high levels of performance and availability, and reduce the costs of managing applications. Oracle Enterprise Manager monitors the health of all application components, the hosts that they run on, and the key business processes that they support. Oracle Enterprise Manager’s diagnostic tools help to identify system issues for you to address. In addition to monitoring and diagnostics, Oracle Enterprise Manager also manages the configuration of application environments through its integrated configuration management tool. This tool provides the ability to configure application environments properly by keeping an inventory of application and infrastructure components, tracking the changes that are made, and validating the changes to make sure that they are correct. Oracle Enterprise Manager provides the tools that help organizations achieve the required application performance and availability, improve management productivity, better utilize resources, and drive down costs.
To integrate the Oracle Enterprise Manager with your PeopleSoft implementation, you can install the PeopleSoft Enterprise Environment Management Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager (licensed separately from PeopleTools).
This document on oracle.com:PeopleSoft Enterprise Environment Management Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager Implementation Guide
 Oracle Configuration Manager
Oracle Configuration Manager is used to collect configuration information from your environment and store that information at Oracle to provide you proactive resolutions to issues affecting your specific environment. During your PeopleTools installation, you have the option of installing Oracle Configuration Manager along with PeopleTools. Oracle Configuration Manager, working in conjunction with Software Configuration Manager (SCM), enables Oracle to deliver:
Faster time to problem resolution.
Service Request (SR) management and tracking for your configurations.
Security patch advice and health checks specific to your configurations.
Knowledge content tailored for your configurations.
Note. There is no relationship between PeopleSoft Configuration Manager and Oracle Configuration Manager. PeopleSoft Configuration Manager is used only for configuring development workstations.