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Upcoming 2021 Webinars/Conferences:

• OHUG’s Ascend Conference – August 15 – 18, 2021; Hollywood, Florida and Remote
• RECONNECT Deep Dive  October 4-7, 2021; Remote
• PeopleSoft Tour – October 7, 2021 Spain
• UKOUG Conference 2021 November 29 – 30, 2021; London, UK
• Quest Experience Week – PeopleSoft Day December 6, 2021

RV’s Strategy Spotlight–

HCM Image 39 is now available for download.  Image 39 is the first HCM image to be made available on the latest PeopleTools 8.59 release.  Incidentally, last month PeopleTools 8.59.03 was made available for PeopleSoft on premise customers to download.  PeopleTools 8.59 features a number of new technologies including enhancements to the user experience to make it easier to navigate and search in PeopleSoft applications.  Click here to see a quick demo.

HCM Image 39 delivers on a number of enhancements including the new PeopleTools 8.59 user experience and design, insightful Kibana analytics for Benefits, Payroll for North America, and Global Payroll Leaders, an HCM encryption framework to allow you to mask and encrypt sensitive data including bank account information, configurable addresses to allow you to enter formatted data for non-supported locations, and configurable search and display features for Fluid Position Management.  Let us know if you have plans to deploy PeopleTools 8.59 by the end of the calendar year so we can recognize your accomplishment in an upcoming newsletter.

Finally, a word for our PeopleSoft Global Payroll (GP) customers.  Please refer to an announcement posted last month if you are using one or more of the following delivered APAC or EMEA country GP extensions/localizations:  Australia, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom.  Effective January 2023, support for the aforementioned country extensions will transition over to Advanced Customer Services Market Driven Support.

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

Focus Group Updates:   If you are interested – Click this link for list of HCM Focus Groups

• Recruiting Solutions – The group discussed two Kibana visualizations on the roadmap:  a Recruiter Pipeline dashboard for the Recruiter and a Recruiting Administrator dashboard with diversity and workload  visualizations
• U.S. Federal – The group received a demo of PeopleSoft PICASO and the skills it supports today. They also saw a demo of Configurable Search for Fluid Position Management that modernizes the search experience for HR Position Administrators
• Kibana Analytics – The group received a demo of the Procurement Kibana Dashboard and Health and Safety Dashboard.
• Absence Management – The group reviewed and provided feedback on the Fluid Scheduling page and the Team Calendar
• Time and Labor – The group reviewed the Fluid Manage Time Reporter feature delivered in Image 39, as well as the Fluid Scheduling feature.  They also took a quick peek at the Team Calendar, but will be reviewing it again after the Time and Labor data is added to the framework.
• Accessibility with PeopleSoft HCM – The group reviewed how to identify accessibility related features and bugs using PUM, enhancements in Tools 8.59 that address accessibility, and recommended tools for testing PeopleSoft accessibility.  Next meeting is scheduled for Aug 17^th.
• ELM – The focus group to review updates to the ELM Kibana analytics being development. Note: The ELM focus group meets monthly on the second Thursday of each month.

 ***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.

USA/Global Legislative Updates –https://blogs.oracle.com/PsftLegUpdates/

• Japan – Effective October 2022, the Government of Japan has introduced new eligibility conditions for exemption of social insurances for the period when employees are on Maternity/Child Care Leave
• Singapore – The Government of Singapore announced that the Central Provident Fund (CPF) contribution rate for workers aged 55 to 70 will be increased.  This was originally intended to take effect in 2021 but is now deferred to begin January 1, 2022.

PeopleSoft Update

• HCM Image 40 – posting October 2021*
• ELM Image 22 – posting August 27, 2021*  (first ELM image delivered on Tools 8.59)
• CRM HR HelpDesk Image 20 – posting September 3, 2021*  (first CRM image delivered on Tools 8.59)

*Tentative Dates – Oracle Safe Harbor Statement applies

PeopleSoft General Update

• Image Highlights, PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 39– Video
• PeopleSoft Chat – Ep 12: What PeopleSoft Customers Need to know about Oracle HCM Cloud – Podcast
• Oracle Market-Driven Support for Select Global Payroll Country Extensions begins January 2023 – Blog
• Answer External Applicants Questions 24/7 with the Recruiting Solutions ChatBot  – Blog

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