Paul Taylor founded Gideon Taylor Consulting in April, 2001 after four years of PeopleSoft implementation experience with the City of Provo, the University of Minnesota and Brigham Young University. Paul saw the tragic underutilization of PeopleSoft as an integrated ERP and realized that most customers spend millions of dollars and thousands of hours only to be able to do with PeopleSoft little more than what their legacy systems were capable of. Most of the productivity of the ERP tool lay untapped.

As an experienced PeopleSoft developer with the knowledge of how little of the promise of ERP systems was being realized in practice, Paul began championing the high-end productivity technologies of PeopleTools, including workflow, component interfaces and application messaging (web services). He received a contract from Wakefern Food Corporation (NJ) to help them redesign their personnel action workflow. Paul developed the GTC eForms solution concept at Wakefern—a bolt-on PeopleTools application that allowed the company to replace paper with on-line transactions that had the ability to follow the organization’s actual flow of work. Using the GTC eForms tool, Paul developed version 1.0 of ePAF, a set of electronic, workflow-enabled Personnel Action Forms.

In 2002, Gideon Taylor brought the GTC eForms product to Brigham Young University, and helped the university implement the GTC eForms and ePAF solution within a higher education environment. Over the past 3 years the company has upgraded, modified, and expanded the capabilities of both the GTC eForms architecture and the ePAF application while helping BYU improve the overall productivity of its Human Capital Management, Financials, and Asset Management business processes. While working for BYU, Gideon Taylor grew from a single consultant to a 4-person team of knowledgeable and dedicated professionals.

During this time, Gideon Taylor also developed innovative Web Services-based integration solutions for BYU, Midwest Airlines and Wiltel Communications. These involved real-time and near-real-time data interfaces, XSLT transformations and an XML-based Service-Oriented Architecture protocol using Integration Broker as a transport layer for PeopleSoft and non-PeopleSoft services.

In November of 2005, Gideon Taylor accepted a contract to install the GTC eForms / ePAF solution (versions 2.1) for the University of Florida.