Upcoming PeopleSoft HCM 2025 User Groups/Webinars/Conferences:

• Payroll for North America SIG – Virtual; April 8, 2025
• Southeast RUG – Nashville, TN; April 10, 2025
• PeopleSoft Industry Days, Public Sector – Virtual; April 22, 2025
• Oracle Public Sector HCM Meetup – Virtual; April 22, 2025
• PeopleSoft Executive Event – Toronto, Canada; April 24, 2025
• Southeast RUG – Atlanta, GA; May 8, 2025
• Pacific Northwest RUG – Portland, OR; May 8, 2025
• BLUEPRINT 4D RECONNECT Live! – Las Vegas, NV ; June 9-13, 2025
• Southeast RUG – Orlando, FL; September 25, 2025

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

Congratulations to this month’s PeopleSoft HCM Innovator:

• Congratulations to Azim Premji Foundation, who embarked on a journey to improve their user experience with deployment of Fluid, OpenSearch and Insights.

• Congratulations to Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), who migrated their PeopleSoft systems from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Oracle Autonomous Database–Serverless (ADB-S) resulting in a more scalable, reliable and secure infrastructure. With this migration, BITS has seen approximately 50% improvement in performance with 30% reduction in infrastructure cost of their PeopleSoft systems.

• Congratulations to North Dakota University System who deployed PNA Year End Insights enabling their users to see various trends and draw insights from them.

• Congratulations to University of Florida Health, who expanded the use of their PeopleSoft HCM Suite to their recently acquired hospital UF Health St. Johns.

• Congratulations to Central Washington University for deploying Quick Calc
• Congratulations to City of Eugene, OR for deploying Fluid ePerformance
• Congratulations to City of Kingston, Ontario for deploying Remote Worker
• Congratulations to County of Lane, OR for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
• Congratulations to Med Star for deploying Fluid Timesheets
• Congratulations to North Carolina (NC)State University for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
• Congratulations to Saint Lawrence College for deploying Absence Management
• Congratulations to Sarasota Memorial Health for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
• Congratulations to School District Gwinnett County, GA for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
• Congratulations to State of New York (OSC) – Payroll for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
• Congratulations to State of Tennessee for deploying Recruiting Dashboard
• Congratulations to U.S. Courts (Admin Office) for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
• Congratulations to U.S. Senate, Sgt. at Arms for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61

Focus Group Updates:  

• Recruiting – Focus group met in February to discuss the latest Image 51 enhancements and also to review enhancements on the roadmap. Customers are also encouraged to provide information on what enhancements they would like to see on optimizing the Job Posting experience for Recruiters. Please send your suggestions to tammy.boyles@oracle.com .
• Insights – WorkGroup held its quarterly meeting in February. Participants provided an update to the group on their latest accomplishments and the roadmap for their organization.

***Important Note*** Focus Groups are open to all customers; calls are typically once a month for an hour or as needed.  Your organization needs to have a current CPCA (customer participation confidentiality agreement) since Oracle discloses future design and prototypes.   Select the Focus Group link above to find and join a focus group.

USA/Global Legislative Updates –

• United States – Section 101 of the SECURE 2.0 Act
• Malaysia – The Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia (HASiL) has released the latest formats of Forms E & EA for the tax year 2024
• United Kingdom – Start of Year Changes 2025-26
• Brazil – eSocial and Technical Note S-1.3 01/2024
• Brazil – Update for PeopleSoft HCM regarding the Decree No 12.342 of December 30, 2024 and the Interministerial Ordinance MPS/MF Nº 10 of January 2025 that provides, respectively,  for the National Minimum Wage Rate and for the Contribution table for insured employees, independent workers, and domestic workers, for payment from January 1, 2025.

PeopleSoft Update – Click here for schedule of release dates

• HCM Image 52 – posting May 23, 2025*
• HCM Image 53 – posting September 26, 2025*
• HCM Image 54 – posting January 30, 2026*
• ELM Image 25 – posting October 17, 2025*
• CRM Image 23 – posting October 24, 2025*

*Tentative Dates – Oracle Safe Harbor Statement applies.

“Popular &  New” HCM Ideas – Check out and VOTE for your favorite PeopleSoft Ideas

• Health & Safety – Enable End Date field on the Vaccine Details Grid on the EE Health Card – New Idea
• HR – Allow for Multiple attachments download in one click in Fluid Job Data– Popular Idea
• HR – OnBoarding – Activity Guide Group/Parent Step – Mark Complete Configuration – Popular Idea
• Time and Labor – Add Active/Inactive Employee filter on MSS Manager Search Options – New Idea
• Time and Labor – Allow departments to create quick-fills for time reporters only in that department/group id – New Idea
• Time and Labor – Weekly Fluid TimeSheet – Need Ability to select the time period to copy from – Hot Idea
• Absence Management – Absence Request History – allow to be downloaded to Excel – Hot Idea
• Remote Worker – Keep Workplace Support data for RWA Administrator Edit Function – New Idea
• Ability for Admins to easily make several Fluid Job Data changes in Single Action – Hot Idea

 PeopleSoft General Update

• PeopleSoft Now! Investment Update for 2024 with Paco Aubrejuan – Video (Important)

• An important message from Paco for the PeopleSoft Healthcare community – Video (Important)

• The PeopleSoft Page and Field Configurator Video Feature Overview – Video
• PeopleSoft Spotlight Series: Embedding Insights in Fluid WorkCenters and Application Pages – Video
• The Payroll U.S. Year End Insights Video Feature Overview – Video    
• PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8 61 Highlights – Video
• PeopleTools 8.61 is available for on-premise installation – Blog
• Image Highlights, PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 51 – Video
• Get up to date about HCM Image 51 – Blog
• PeopleSoft Now! PeopleSoft Product Strategy Roadmap Update  Video (check out these friendly PS faces)
• Saint Paul Public Schools continues to invest and expand its PeopleSoft footprint while decreasing infrastructure costs… – Blog
• Top 10 most popular PeopleSoft blog posts of 2024 – Blog
• Unlock savings with Cloud Manager Image 19’s latest features – Blog
• Boost User Experience for your Employees, HR Helpdesk Agents and Administrators with HR Helpdesk Image 22! – Blog
• New configurable tools to generate notifications when someone changes information on a page – Blog
• Control the Remote Worker type by Job Code or Position – Ideas Lab suggestion – Blog
• Join us at BLUEPRINT 4D from June 9-13 at The Venetian, Las Vegas, NV – Blog

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