12 September 2008
Gideon Taylor Prototypes E-Verify Integration
Gideon Taylor introduced their Paperless I-9 Form in March 2008. Now, GT has succeeded in seamlessly integrating the Paperless I-9 with the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify system, which validates eligibility to work in the US. GT has completed a working prototype for the integration, and is pressing forward with beta development of the integration.

When the I-9 is created online, it automatically creates an E-Verify case and returns the result. The completed system will close authorized cases, and automate the employee’s contesting of tentative negative results. For positive results, the E-Verify integration will occur seamlessly, requiring no additional effort from the employer!

As the federal government moves toward mandating E-Verify participation for many organizations, GT hopes to provide clients with an efficient way to comply with E-Verify, and at the same time, automating the I-9 Form itself. See the full press release.

7 September 2008
GT Personnel eFile Goes Live at University of Alberta
After much praise during user acceptance testing, the University of Alberta completed the implementation of GT Personnel eFile.

Jointly developed by GT, Sierra Systems and UofA, when ePAFs like the New Hire Form are completed online, supporting documents can be scanned and attached to the eForm. Downstream approvers can view the attachments, and using GT Personnel eFile, all of an employee’s ePAFs, their attachments, and any additional scanned documents for that person can be viewed and managed from one place. The whole paper personnel file can now be moved online, and the “paperwork” keeps up with the electronic forms!

15 July 2008
University of Oklahoma - Norman Update
Over 2800 eForms have been processed successfully in the first six weeks of the system being live.

19 June 2008
University of Alberta Sponsors GT Personnel eFile
The University of Alberta in Edmonton has commissioned Gideon Taylor, in conjunction with our partner Sierra Systems, to create an online personnel file solution. This functionality will extend their successful ePAF™ implementation (called SmartForms) by allowing both eForms and paper forms to be combined and accessed in a single, online repository. The result will a completely paperless personnel file!

GT Personnel eFile will provide multiple views, including a Historical View that blends eForms and Attachments in date order, and a Structured View that organizes the entries by type. Notes can be added and stored by authorized users.

This functionality will be added to the GT eForms Library, and will be accessible without additional charge to all our GT eForms licensees.

03 June 2008
GT eForms and ePAFT Go Live at University of Oklahoma - Norman
This was a GT eForms implementation for a large university with over 10,000 active employees.  The project was completed within the 5 month project timeline and on budget.  The greatest complexity of the project was the business requirement to support up to 24 levels of approval per transaction.  This requirement was met with conditional routing enhancements, resulting in significant improvements in processing time over the previous system. See the full news release.

30 May 2008
GT eForms and ePAF™ Go Live at All Four Campuses of the University of Houston

Congratulations to the University of Houston on their successful implementation project!

This project featured an interface with the PeopleAdmin recruiting system, and an interface with Houston’s document imaging system. The imaging system interface allows scanned and desktop documents to be attached to eForms, stored in the enterprise document repository, and accessed later via links stored with the eForm itself.

27 May 2008
GT eForms and ePAFT Go Live at University of Utah
The University of Utah has turned on ePAF™ for their user community, and has received very positive feedback both from the user departments and from HR. The project was completed on time, despite significant additions to the project scope. Some of these are listed below:

  • Manage Personal Workflow eForm Type
  • Manual Request eForm Type
  • Enhanced Employee Personal Data eForm Type
  • Alternate Routing Functionality – ability to optionally route to user-specified Alternate Approvers
  • Manage eForms Queues Tool – allowing a business analyst to start and stop eForm messages without ACS
  • eForms Debugging Tool – enabling integrated Condition and routing debugging, even in Production, without compromising user passwords
  • Setup Table-Defined Notifications Tool – New setup functionality allowing email notifications to be defined outside of PeopleTools

12 March 2008
Gideon Taylor Demonstrates New I-9 eForm
Gideon Taylor presented the new I-9 eForm in Las Vegas at the HEUG Alliance '08 Conference. Paul Taylor showed a fully reg-compliant electronic I-9 solution that will revolutionize how companies complete, store, and retrieve employment verification forms. See the full news release.

14 February 2008
Infocrossing and Gideon Taylor Establish Strategic Partnership
Gideon Taylor announced today that Infocrossing is the first company to be recognized as a GT Gold Partner. This strategic alliance will allow the companies to offer GT's Peoplesoft Workflow Solutions, such as GT eForms™, supported by Infocrossing's Global Delivery Model. See the full news release.

21 January 2008
Gideon Taylor Announces New COO
Gideon Taylor Consulting Appoints John Woodrum as New Chief Operating Officer. John will begin transitioning into his new responsibilities at Gideon Taylor in mid-February. See the full announcement.

14 January 2008
University of Oklahoma Expands Implementation of GT eForms / ePAF™
University of Oklahoma has contracted with Gideon Taylor to expand their implementation of GT eForms / ePAF™ to their Norman campus. After the successful implementation at OU-HSC, the Norman campus also recognizes the positive impact that further expansion of GT eForms™ will have for them.

3 December 2007
University of Utah Chooses GT eForms / ePAF™
Gideon Taylor has contracted with the University of Utah to license our GT eForms / ePAF™ solution for the Division of Human Resources. The University will use GT eForms™ to automate and streamline its personnel action forms. This is one of the first steps HRIS (HR Information Systems) is taking to improve many of their business processes.

12 October 2007
University of Florida Saves Money with ePAFT
The University of Florida conducted an internal ROI (Return on Investment) Analysis on GT eForms and ePAFT one year after implementation. The purpose of the University's study was to measure the actual impact of the project in terms of financial savings as well as improved processes. The study sites that through the use of ePAFT the University was able to:

  • Realize a savings of over $342,000
  • Reduce data entry time by 75%
  • Receiving / General Ledger Reconciliation

For more information on the study, view the University of Florida ROI Analysis (PDF) document.

5 October 2007
University of Florida Wins Florida 2007 Davis Productivity Award
The GT eForms and ePAFT project team at the University of Florida was recently won a 2007 Davis Productivity Award for their accomplishments with GT eForms and ePAFT. According to the state website, the Davis Productivity Awards recognizes and rewards state employees whose work significantly and measurably increases productivity, promotes innovation and saves money for Florida taxpayers and businesses.

We are delighted to see other organizations recognize our clients for the way GT eForms and ePAFT are revolutionizing their businesses.

18 September 2007
University of Houston Chooses GT eForms / ePAF™ For Implementation at Four Campuses
Gideon Taylor has contracted with the University of Houston to license our GT eForms / ePAFT solution at the Main, Downtown, Clearwater and Victoria campuses. The first phases of the project are underway as The University of Houston looks to automate and streamline its personnel action form processes.

We are exited to be working with yet another prestigious school like the University of Houston and look forward to working for our client's success.

21 May 2007
University of Central Florida Selects GT eForms / ePAF™
The University of Central Florida has elected Gideon Taylor Consulting to help automate their personnel action form processes. With the installation of the GT eForms framework, UCF will not only be able to use the features of ePAFT but also gain the ability to automate other paper-based forms in their organization. Project scope discussions are underway.

We welcome the University of Central Florida to Gideon Taylor's growing community of clients, and look forward to serving them.

6 April 2007
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee Chooses GT eForms / ePAF™
Gideon Taylor has contracted with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee to license our GT eForms / ePAF™ solution. The scope of the initial implementation is being determined in conjunction with our partners, Skybridge Global, through whom our Implementer Team will provide consulting services.

We are excited to add BCBS to our growing clientele, and happy to be working with our partners at SkyBridge Global to bring our innovative solutions to their consulting clients.

5 April 2007
GT eForms Library Catalog Posted
We have updated the GT eForms Library catalog and posted it in the Resources section of our website.

Licensees of our GT eForms product, an electronic form development toolkit for PeopleSoft applications, form a collaborative community of users that can share eForms solutions among themselves. Gideon Taylor facilitates this community by redistributing the eForms in the library upon request from our clients.

This innovative approach gives our clients access to pre-developed solutions that can then be customized for their own use, reducing development costs and duplication.

30 March 2007
Gideon Taylor Completes Academic ePAF™ for University of Alberta
Our consulting team successfully completed development and unit testing for the Academics phase of their ePAF™ implementation.

The University is planning to go live with its full ePAF™ solution after a round of application patches is completed.

With this success, our consulting team has rolled off the project. Our Sierra Systems partners will complete the migration to Production.

22 March 2007
New Downloads Available on our Resources Pages
We've posted some new downloadable materials on our Resources pages. Print-Ready Materials includes new versions of our Feature Lists, plus an updated Clients list.

On the Presentations page, we've added Alliance 2006 session presentations, plus PDF versions of all the presentations.

The Whitepapers page now includes our GT eForms System Requirements document.

For further information, feel free to Contact Us!

15 March 2007
Gideon Taylor Sponsors Successful Alliance 2007 Conference
Gideon Taylor was proud to be a Bronze Sponsor of Alliance 2007 in Orlando, Florida this week. The weather was beautiful, and the conference was busy and exciting. We were especially gratified by the interest our booth received on the Exhibit Floor. We met a lot of great people with great ideas about using our solutions to radically improve their business processes, and enjoyed catching up with our existing clients.

Click here to view our e-vite sent out in early March. We look forward to exciting developments for our clients and our company as a result of this year's conference!

1 March 2007
Gideon Taylor Completes ePAF™ Phase II Tasks for OU Health Sciences Center
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center engaged Gideon Taylor for Phase II tasks to expand their ePAF™ solution to provide additional functionality for Faculty. Our consulting team's contributions include the following enhancements:

  • A Faculty Titles eForm that gathers multiple faculty titles, obtains appropriate approvals, and enters the titles into PeopleSoft's Manage Faculty Events module.


  • Real-time Action/Reason calculation for Job Changes, which displays to the user the Action/Reasons that will be entered into Job Data as a result of the changes they make.


  • Sophisticated Earnings Distribution calculation tools that allow them to move funds among multiple funding sources and funding departments with a single eForm. This includes routings to approvers for all the departments affected.

6 February 2007
BYU Continuing Education Chooses Gideon Taylor for Recruiting / ePAFTM Project
The Department of Continuing Education (DCE) for Brigham Young University has selected Gideon Taylor as a consulting partner in a project to enhance DCE's recruiting experience. The project deals specifically with the special needs of DCE's Youth Programs. Previous attempts to use eRecruit 8.8 for Youth Programs have been plagued with practical difficulties. Gideon Taylor will provide functional and technical resources to help DCE overcome these issues and support the unique goals and needs of the Youth Programs effort.

The project will also involve integrations between PS Recruiting and Gideon Taylor's ePAFTM solution, which BYU has been using successfully for two years. Recruiters will be able to launch into a Hire ePAF from within Recruiting with a single click.

We appreciate BYU's confidence, and look forward to extending our long track record of successes with the University.

15 December 2006
University of Alberta Expands ePAF™ Scope to Include Academics
Demonstrating their confidence in the ePAF™ solution our combined project team has created for support staff, the University of Alberta has expanded the project scope to include automated personnel action solutions for Academic personnel.

Called SmartForms, the ePAF™ project is jointly staffed by our implementation partner Sierra Systems, Gideon Taylor and university resources.

30 November 2006
University of Alberta Project Reaches Milestone
With the Development stage of our University of Alberta ePAF™ / Smart Forms project nearing completion, we have reached the milestone of migrating to a staging environment in preparation for a rigorous System Test project phase.

The University is also considering a project scope expansion, which would extend ePAF™ use to Academics.

9 November 2006
University of Oklahoma Health Science Center Goes Live on ePAF™
Having successfully completed Acceptance Testing and pilot production training, the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center has migrated the GT eForms framework and their custom ePAF™ application to their Production instance.

It will be used initially by a pilot population of users who have received early product training. The first production forms have already passed through the approval process and into PeopleSoft. The initial feedback from end users has been very good, and the system is functioning as expected.

The next phase of training and Production roll-out will begin November 27.

12 July 2006
University of Alberta Elects for Full ePAF™ Implementation Project
In light of our successful completion of the Proof-of-Concept requirements, The University of Alberta has chosen to proceed with the full implementation of GT eForms and ePAF™. The implementation phase, staffed jointly by Gideon Taylor, Sierra Systems and university resources, will begin immediately.

We are gratified by trust placed in us by the University and by our implementation partners, and look forward to delivering a great product that will revolutionize personnel action forms processing at the U of A.

10 July 2006
University of Oklahoma Health Science Center ePAF™ Project Begins
Our GT Implementer Team is now on the ground at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, and is beginning the process of installing the GT eForms framework and the ePAF™ template.

The team is also beginning the Planning phase of the project, which will include high-level defaulting analysis and project scope determination.

We are excited to be working with another highly respected university, using our products and expertise to optimize their Personnel Action Form management and approval processes.

23 June 2006
Gideon Taylor Completes University of Alberta Proof-of-Concept Requirements Ahead of Schedule
The University of Alberta has accepted the results of our Proof-of-Concept project as meeting their requirements. The "bridging" approach has worked very well. We have demonstrated, using our delivered Update Security Roles eForm, that a form can be initiated on the Financials system reading HRMS data, be sent via Application Messaging to the HRMS system, update delivered HRMS components and return the form status to the Financials-hosted GT eForms system.

The University will now consider whether to fund a full implementation project for ePAF™.

5 June 2006
University of Alberta Proof-of-Concept Project Begins
Gideon Taylor resources are on the ground at the University of Alberta, beginning a Proof of Concept project to demonstrate the feasibility of our "bridging" plan to host ePAF™ on their Financials 8.8 system, and pass the data to HRMS 8.3 via Application Messaging. We are working with our Sierra Systems partners and with U of A staff to prove out this innovative approach to their Smart Forms initiative.

17 May 2006
Gideon Taylor Wins University of Alberta Contract
The University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta has selected Gideon Taylor's GT eForms and ePAF™ products to fulfill their Smart Forms initiative. U of A initiated the Smart Forms project in an effort to radically improve the processing of personnel action forms on campus. Their review has found that ePAF™ meets or exceeds all of their requirements for a Smart Forms solution.

The U of A is using PeopleSoft HRMS 8.3, on PeopleTools 8.22. Because of the limitations of this older Tools version, we will attempt an innovative solution where GT eForms and ePAF™ will be hosted on their Financials application, Tools 8.45, and will communicate with HRMS 8.3 through Appication Messaging and DB Link-based views. The project will start with a Proof-of-Concept phase where we will test the feasibility and performance of this approach.

Gideon Taylor resources will be working through Sierra Systems, a leading consulting services provider with offices across Canada and the United States, and a preferred services provider for the University of Alberta. We are excited to be partnering with Sierra Systems in bringing our electronic forms solution to the U of A.

09 January 2006
University of Florida approaches phase II of implementation and installation.
  Our GT eforms and ePAF™ solution continues to test well in Florida’s operating environment.  The basic GT eForms and ePAF™ architecture is now in place, and our business analyst is helping distill essential routing and business process information for inclusion in the ePAF™ rollout.

10 December 2005
University of Florida installation ahead of schedule.
  With the advent of an improved install script, the basic installation work at University of Florida is proceeding ahead of schedule.  Of course, the responsiveness of UF personnel in providing resources, assistance, feedback, and planning has been phenomenal.  At this rate, we project to be able to relax a little over the Christmas-New Years week as the project continues to meet or beat planned milestones.