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PeopleSoft HCM Newsletter August/September 2025

Quest Customer Learning Team

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Customer Corner – Highlights customers who have implemented, upgraded or deployed new HCM Features

     Congratulations to this month PeopleSoft HCM Innovators:

  • Congratulations to Cape Cod Healthcare who implemented several delivered and custom Insights. This has allowed management to see all statistics in one screen, which allowed Cape Cod Healthcare to stay compliant with all the requirements for hospital employees.
  • Congratulations to Collins County who deployed OpenSearch dashboards to help their HR users utilize the visualizations to monitor workforce composition and workforce equity of the company. The dashboard visualizations have allowed these users to more independently and efficiently retrieve up-to-date information, which provides the ability to use that data for quick answers and last-minute reports and presentations.
  • Congratulations to CGI for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to City and County of San Francisco, CA for deploying Fluid Job Data and deploying PS in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
  • Congratulations to City of Colorado Springs, CO for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to City of Eugene, OR for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to City of San Jose, CA for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to Community Transit of Everett, WA for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to County of King, WA for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to County of Rockland, NY for deploying Open Search and for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to Hobart and William Smith Colleges for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to Houston Community College for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to Hyatt Hotels for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to James Madison University for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to Kirkland & Ellis LLP for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to McMaster University for deploying PS in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
  • Congratulations to Metropolitan Council for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to Mutual of Omaha for deploying Payroll Insights and for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to New York City Health and Hospitals Corp for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to Public Health Insitute (PHI) for deploying Fluid Timesheet
  • Congratulations to School District of Clark County, NV for deploying PS in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
  • Congratulations to School District of Lee County, FL for deploying Notification Composer
  • Congratulations to School District of Wichita, KS for deploying Fluid Paycheck Modeler
  • Congratulations to Seminole State College of Florida for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
  • Congratulations to State of Minnesota for deploying Notification Composer
  • Congratulations to State of Montana for deploying Offboarding
  • Congratulations to State of Texas – Controller of Public Accounts for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61

Focus Group Updates – Link to available Focus Groups

  • ELM – Enterprise Learning Management is releasing PUM image on November 7, 2025. The focus group met and discussed recent developments including Microsoft’s recent announcement on supporting LTI 1.3 for integration with teams. We are evaluating the new LTI standard and will give an update in the coming months.
  • Performance Management – Development for the Recognition Badging feature is underway. Next focus group meeting is in November, we plan on sharing an update on work done on this feature.
  • HCM Workcenters – The Absence Management, Benefits, Global Payroll, Payroll for North America, and Time & Labor Focus Group met to provide feedback on future enhancements for HCM WorkCenters – Work Management functionality.
  • Global Payroll and Absence Management Focus Groups – we held a joint meeting to collaboratively review and discuss the approach and design for the upcoming Mass Absence Events, as well as Mass Earnings and Deductions Assignments features.
  • Accessibility – Focus group met to discuss options around Reflow for fluid transactions in PeopleSoft.

USA/Global Legislative Updates

  • General – PeopleSoft Has a Dedicated Oracle Advisor Webcast Registration Page
  • New Zealand – Upfront Employment Information Validations to Strengthen Payday Filing effective October 2025
  • Brazil – Updates regarding the Alphanumeric CNPJ are available. According to the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service (RFB), the new CNPJ format will be assigned starting in July 2026.
  • Brazil – eSocial Technical Note S-1.3 04/2025
  • Singapore – RAS has rolled out Interface File Specification Release 15.0 for YA 2026, replacing Release 14.0.

PeopleSoft HCM Image Posting Dates –  Click here for schedule of release dates

  • HCM Image 54 – posting January 30, 2026*
  • HCM Image 55 – posting May 22, 2026*
  • HCM Image 56 – posting September 11, 2026*
  • HCM Image 57 – posting January 29, 2027*
  • ELM Image 25 – posting November 7, 2025*
  • ELM Image 25 (multilingual) – PRP posting July 3, 2026*
  • CRM Image 23 – posting November 14, 2025*
  • CRM Image 23 (multilingual) – PRP posting July 9, 2026*

*Tentative Dates – Oracle Safe Harbor Statement applies.

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