What is "peopletools"

PeopleTools is proprietary software originally created by PeopleSoft Corporation, an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software vendor acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2004. PeopleTools facilitates the deployment of both vendor and custom developed applications using an Internet-based architecture, known as the PeopleSoft Internet Architecture (PIA).

Core vendor developed PeopleTools applications include: Campus Solutions (CS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Financials and Supply Chain Management (FSCM), Human Capital Management (HCM), and Interaction Hub. As a result of a high level of abstraction used in PeopleTools, these applications can be deployed on a variety of operating systems and databases and are designed to provide multilingual support on a variety of web browsers.

From a development perspective, PeopleTools consists of several technologies for building and customizing applications. While a PeopleTools developer can (and often does) work with many programming languages, the primary language is PeopleCode, and Application Designer is the primary integrated development environment (IDE).