[5] Aneel Bhusri was born in an Indian-American family of Punjabi descent, in Pittsford, New York on February 14, 1966.

[6] He was educated at Brown University, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering.

Later, working for David Duffield, with whom he went on to co-found Workday,[9] he became responsible for product strategy and marketing.

[10] In the meantime, PeopleSoft had developed ERP, CRM, and other offerings, in addition to Human Resource Management.

Despite a U.S. Department of Justice suit to block the takeover, on the grounds of anti-trust infringement, in December 2004, Oracle announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire PeopleSoft for approximately $10.3 billion.