We are in the month of July and halfway through with 2022… We had an amazing month for customer go-lives and deploying new features, very impressive!
Upcoming 2022 User Groups/Webinars/Conferences:
- Oracle Public Sector User Group – August 2, 2022
- Payroll for NA SIG Monthly Meeting – August 8, 2022
- PeopleSoft RECONNECT – October 10-13, 2022 (Virtual)
- Breakthrough’22 : December 1-2, 2022, Birmingham, England
- PeopleSoft and Cloud Applications Webinar Series
If you missed the PeopleSoft Blueprint 4D user conference last month, don’t worry because you will have another opportunity to engage with us, your industry peers, subject matter experts, and other PeopleSoft customers at PeopleSoft RECONNECT 2022 – October 10th to 13th. Reconnect will be a 100% virtual conference with plenty of high-value attendance options and deep-dive content that will teach you how to best use the latest PeopleSoft features and technologies. We would love to hear from you about what sorts of topics we should consider presenting at Reconnect. Please forward to Julie Alonso any and all ideas you and your team have regarding session requests for Reconnect by Friday, July 15th.
Customer Corner – Highlights customers who have implemented, upgraded or deployed new HCM Features
Focus Group Updates: Click on the link to find a focus group to join
- Job Data Working Group – The group met and the development team answered customers’ questions regarding Fluid Job Data.
- Absence Management – The focus group did not meet this month but will be meeting soon to review the proposed Processed Absences analytics and the new Absence Self-Service pages.
- Time and Labor – The focus group did not meet this month but will be meeting soon to review the enhancements to the Fluid Timesheet, including a Bi-weekly period view.
- Benefits– The Focus group will be meeting July 13th to review Image 43 features and discuss two roadmap items – Benefits Enrollment Visualization for Fluid Life Events and Open Enrollment and additional bells and whistles for Benefit Plan Comparison.
- Accessibility – The group met to review accessibility questions that members have. We reviewed suggestions on how developers can address accessibility throughout the development process, a review of the purpose of Oracle’s VPAT, expected date formats in the application, and suggestions on how to make it easier to escalate reported service requests through the use of video. The next focus group meeting is scheduled for Aug 16th.
- Performance Management – Development has been working on new performance management enhancements. We will review these enhancements in our next focus group meeting scheduled for August 4th and will also discuss our next enhancements for performance management.
- Enterprise Learning Management (ELM) – The team has been busy developing the ELM fluid manager self-service pages. We will have our next meeting on July 14th followed by August 11th. In the August meeting we will be talking about future enhancements that we will be looking at after we finish the fluidization of MSS.
- HR Help Desk – The next focus group call is on July 21st, we plan to show a demo of the Approvals for Solution Management enhancement and discuss designs for the Solution Effectiveness Analytics enhancement.
***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/
- United States – Form I-9 is expiring this October. Dept of Homeland Security has announced significant changes to the form, but has yet to release a finalized new form (TBD).
- Brazil – According to the eSocial Guidelines Manual, information related to Training, Capacity Building, Simulated Exercises and Other Notes must be provided by filling in the {treiCap} field of the events S-2200 and S-2206 with one of the codes available in “Table 28 – Training, Capacity Building, Simulated Exercises and Other Notes”.
- Australia – Australian Government has announced changes to key superannuation rates and thresholds for the financial year 2022-23.
- Australia – Australian Government announced changes to the Study and Training Support Loan (STSL) rates for tax-free threshold claimed & tax-free threshold not claimed, which is effective, 1st July 2022.
PeopleSoft Update
- HCM Image 43 – posting July 15, 2022*
- HCM Image 44 – posting October 21, 2022*
- ELM Image 22 – posting November 18, 2022*
- CRM Image 21 – posting November 21, 2022*
*Tentative Dates – Oracle Safe Harbor Statement applies.
“Popular & New” HCM Ideas – Check out and VOTE for your favorite Idea, click here to see all the PeopleSoft Ideas
- HR – ability to configurable page of name, address, phone & email types in ESS – Popular Idea
- HR – Ability for Employees to request an accommodation in self-service – New Idea
- HR – Create Tuition Request/Approval/Reimbursement Module – Popular Idea
- ELM – Delegations in ELM – Popular Idea
- Time & Labor – HCM – Absence pages for timekeepers without direct reports – Popular Idea
- Time & Labor – Start the monthly timesheet view (fluid) on a Sunday, to reflect calendar views – Popular Idea
- Approvals – Ability to insert an Ad-Hoc Approver before Level 1 Req Approver on Fluid Requisition – New Idea
PeopleSoft General Update
- Oracle announces the extension of support for PeopleSoft to 2033, once again reaffirming its commitment to support PeopleSoft for a rolling 10 years. – Blog (Important)
- Image Highlights, PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 42 – Video
- The Team Calendar shows employee events in a calendar format that enables employees to see events related to them and their co-workers. Managers can track their employees and take action from the calendar – Video
- The Payable Time Dashboards – The Payable Time Insight dashboard contains visualizations intended for timekeepers and administrators. The Payable Time Trend dashboard is intended for management to see if there are trends that may be of concern – Video
- How to Get Some Appreciation from Your Employees with a Total Rewards Statement – Part 1 – Blog
- How to Configure Your Flexible Total Rewards Statement – Part 2 – Blog
- Extract, Review, Fix, Repeat or How to Publish Your Total Rewards Statements – Part 3 – Blog
- Oracle Announces the 2022 Class of PeopleSoft Innovators – Blog
- Trends and Insights into Your Payable Time – Blog
- Benefit’s Dependent Life Insurance Plans Can Now Specify Coverage Relationship – Blog
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