PeopleSoft India SIG 2025
PeopleSoft India SIG is an annual event conducted by the Oracle PeopleSoft development organization. This 2-day event is an opportunity to see demonstrations of new product features, participate in workshops that allow you to experiment with the new features and learn about the PeopleSoft roadmap. PeopleSoft India SIG includes pillar-specific breakout sessions with opportunities to meet with the product experts and network with other customers and partners.
The PeopleSoft India SIG 2025 will be held on Feb 20th and 21st 2025 at Oracle Technology Hub, Bangalore. This is an invitation only event for key strategic customers and partners in various industry segments who are users of our PeopleSoft HCM, FMS, SRM, ESA/ALM and PeopleTools products.
Registrations for the event opens on 6th Jan 2025.
Agenda
Day 1 – Thursday – Feb 20
Time | Session Title | Session Brief |
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9.00am | PeopleSoft Update and Roadmap | Join Russell Broom, Vice President, Peoplesoft Strategy and Development and Srilakshmi Ramachandra as they kick off PeopleSoft India SIG 2025. Attend this session to hear about PeopleSoft product updates, plans for ongoing investment and long term support strategy from Russell Broom. Meet the event sponsors, representatives from Oracle Support, Sales, Education and Consulting as Srilakshmi Ramachandra introduces you to the world of networking and learning opportunities at the 2 day conference. Get quick insights into ‘Where PeopleSoft customers are investing, and Why?’ |
10.45am | Customer Showcase | Evolution of PeopleSoft at Azim Premji Foundation. Raam Ramachandran, Chief Delivery Officer at Smart ERP in conversation with Surendra Hede, IT-Software Services, Azim Premji Foundation |
11.15am | PeopleTools Update and Roadmap | Join Deepankar Narayanan, Vice President PeopleTools Development as he embarks on a comprehensive run down of features delivered in PeopleTools 8.61 in the areas of User Experience, Search and Real Time Indexing, Analytics, Container Deployment, Lifecycle Management and PeopleSoft Cloud Manager. Get a preview of what PeopleTools 8.62 has in store. |
12.15pm | Machine Learning with PeopleTools | Did you know that PeopleTools provides the PeopleSoft Data Distribution Framework, an easy mechanism to integrate with Machine Learning (ML) platforms? Using this, the data in PeopleSoft databases can be flattened and used as a primary data source for training and use with an ML Model. PeopleSoft Cloud Manager has been taking advantage of this for scale up/ down functionality. Join Deepankar Narayanan as he chats with Rahul Mahashabde, PeopleTools Architect and Biju Narayanan to get an overview of the PeopleSoft Data Distribution Framework and its usage in PeopleSoft Cloud Manager. |
12.45pm | Customer Showcase | Data Strategy for Successful PeopleSoft modernization incorporating AI. Ratnakar Nanavaty, Chief Strategist at Astute Business Solutions will discuss the importance of data strategy for successful modernization of PeopleSoft that incorporates AI. |
2.00pm | PeopleSoft Shots | Quick demos of recently delivered and soon-to-come high value enhancements:
Biju Narayanan chats with Graham Smith, Oracle ACE Director and Head of PeopleSoft Technology at Version 1. |
3.30pm | Workshop and Meet the Experts | Explore PeopleSoft delivered features such as using External Data Source in Insights, using Configurable Search, Work Management and more under the guidance of experts from the PeopleSoft product development team. |
Day 2 – Thursday – Feb 21
Time | Session Title | Session Brief |
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8.30am | How well do you know PeopleSoft? | Graham Smith, Oracle ACE Director and Head of PeopleSoft Technology at Version 1, kicks off Day 2 of the conference with a PeopleSoft Quiz. Attend to test and improve your PeopleSoft know-how. Walk away with goodies. |
9.00am | Extending your PeopleSoft | Join Kalicharan Choudhury from Oracle Customer Success Services as he showcases examples of customers who have extended PeopleSoft by integrating with Oracle technologies to support their AI needs. |
9.30am | Customer Showcase | Graham Smith, Oracle ACE Director and Head of PeopleSoft Technology at Version 1, explores use cases of putting PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with real world examples from recent and ongoing implementations at Queen’s University of Belfast, athenahealth and others. |
10.00am | Customer Showcase – Fire side chat | Mukul Prasad from Oracle Center of Excellence in conversation with Saravana Kumar, Vice President of IT Systems at ITC Infotech about ITC Infotech’s move of PeopleSoft from Microsoft Windows on-premises to Oracle Linux on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. |
10.20am | Customer Showcase – Table Talk | Mukul Prasad from Oracle Center of Excellence in conversation with Ram Chandra, Head ERP at Birla Institute of Science and Technology about BITS’s move of PeopleSoft to Autonomous Database on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. |
10.40am | Customer Showcase | Mphasis moved from PeopleSoft to Oracle SaaS. Let us hear their experience. |
Pillar Breakout – Day 2 – Friday 21 Feb – 11.30am to 5.00pm
HCM Join Russell Broom and Murali Vemaraju as they kick off the HCM break out session with the HCM Overall update and Roadmap. Attend this session to learn more about some recently delivered features such as Preboarding, Approval Insights, Keyword Search, Recognition, Business Objectives and more. Get a sneak peek into what is planned for the next year such as the new PeopleSoft Homepages, new Dashboards, Insights and Workcenters, Tuition Reimbursement and more. Along with the HCM Development team, dive into an extensive exploration of recently delivered features in Human Resources such as Fluid Job, HR Insights, Onboarding Insights, and setting up your PeopleSoft to preboard potential employees even before they join your organization. Journey to the world of Time & Labor and Absence Management. Delve into recently delivered features in Time & Labor such as Configurable Time Summary, Batch Process to Reset Time Admin Status and Earliest Change Date, Quick Fill Configuration & Administrator Access. Find out what is new in the world of Global Payroll and get details about Formula Designer and Rapid Calc. Get a first look of the Approval Insights Dashboard which will provide insights into the trends of incoming transactions requiring approval. Understand how to monitor Number of approvals in each status, see Approval Request Trends, Average Time for Approval, View Approval Chain, and, Notify Approver | ERP Join Sudhir Arthanat as he kicks off the ERP break out session with the Overall update and Roadmap. Attend this session to learn about some of recently delivered features such as the new Fluid workcenters, Insights for Commitment Control exceptions, Supplier Activity, Lease Payments , Insights Catalog in workcenters, Oracle Business Network integration and more. Get a sneak peek into what is planned for the year ahead such as Embedded Insights for My Work, Match Exception Insights, Work Management framework for workcenters, Supplier Classification tracking and more. Join the Financials and Supply Chain Development team, as they dive deep into a few recently delivered features in ERP. Learn how Virtual Card for Supplier Payments improve Cash Flow, Working Capital and generate Revenue from Supplier discounts. Discover some recent additions to the Expenses product such as ability to define Mileage favorites and the use of Shared Corporate Credit Cards. Get a look into how Project Costing rate sets have been enhanced and the support for partial wildcards in the source criteria. Learn how productivity can be improved with newly added Batch Update Procurement Contracts feature which automatically updates contracts when suppliers change pricing. With the new capabilities in the Supplier Portal, learn how organizations across industries have gained from opening access to trusted Suppliers. | PeopleTools Join the PeopleTools Development team for an in-depth show-and-tell covering PeopleSoft Search, Cloud Manager Image 19 features, Smart prompts, Favorite Search, Notification/Reporting & Integration updates Learn how to exploit the capabilities of Customization Insights. Understand how container support for PeopleSoft with Kubernetes and OKE allows you to have a one-click provisioning of PeopleSoft environments, apply PeopleTools patches in 7 minutes and scale up/ down in 5 mins! Graham Smith, Oracle ACE Director and Head of PeopleSoft Technology at Version 1, will present a session on application monitoring with OCI Synthetic Monitoring. This will cover:
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