Upcoming User Groups/Webinars/Conferences:

• Oracle Public Sector HCM Meeting – May 2, 2023
• PeopleSoft RECONNECT Live! at BLUEPRINT 4D – May 8 – May 11, 2023; Dallas, TX
• Pacific Northwest Rug – June 1, 2023; Seattle, WA
• Payroll for NA SIG Meeting – June 13, 2023
• HIUG (Healthcare) Interact User Group – June 11-13, 2023; Las Vegas, NV

Strategy Spotlight – We hope to see you in Dallas, TX at the Blueprint 4D conference May 8 – 11.  It’s not too late to sign up.  Blueprint 4D is the best in-person conference for PeopleSoft content in 2023.  Nearly our entire PeopleSoft Strategy team, PeopleSoft leadership including Paco Aubrejuan and Rebekah Jackson, and members of our Global Support team will be in attendance.  PeopleSoft subject matter experts will be presenting 35+ sessions that cover recently delivered functionality and roadmap investment areas.  A number of your fellow customers such as the U.S. Army, CRU, King County, State of Tennessee and Hays will be presenting how they leverage PeopleSoft for their operations.  There are also opportunities to have individual one-on-one discussions so we can dive into some of the questions you have about your PeopleSoft deployments.  Click here to register.

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

• Congratulations to Belgian Defence for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
• Congratulations to City of Kingston, Ontario for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
• Congratulations to CRU Global for deploying Fluid Job Data
• Congratulations to Evergreen Health for deploying Gender Identity
• Congratulations to Kaiser Permanente for deploying Gender Identity and upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
• Congratulations to Kentucky Community & Technical College System for deploying Preferred Names
• Congratulations to Queen’s Health Systems for deploying Fluid and upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
• Congratulations to School District of Palm Beach County, FL for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
• Congratulations to School District of Saint Paul, MN for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
• Congratulations to State of North Dakota for deploying Oracle Guided Learning (OGL)
• Congratulations to Syracuse University for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
• Congratulations to U.S. Census Bureau for deploying Classic Plus and upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
• Congratulations to U.S. Coast Guard for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59

Focus Group Updates:   Click on the link to find a focus group to join

• Visualization Working Group – The workgroup meeting was a continuation of members providing an update of their organization’s roadmap for uptake of Insight Dashboards and building of their own visualization.
• Human Resources – Our next focus group will be on April 26, we will review recently delivered HR enhancements and discussion/update on roadmap features like preferred name, address configurability and fluid personal data.
• Absence Management – The focus group meeting on March 15^th focused on getting feedback on the Leave Donations feature.  The new Manage Absences page was also reviewed.  Our next meeting we will be discussing the requirements for a new Fluid Absence Events/Create and Maintain Absences component.
• Time & Labor – The focus group met on March 22^nd and discussed the requirements for Direct Reports Fluid Time pages for Managers, the new configurable header and job selector that will be released in a future image, and the resetting of the Earliest Change Date (ECD) when inactive time reporters are reactivated.
• Enterprise Learning Management (ELM) – This month the focus group reviewed MSS Plans and Objectives.  We will continue to review new enhancement requests for notifications in our upcoming meeting.
• Performance Management –  The focus group will be to starting to look at a new feature – Accomplishments (previously called Kudos).  We will be reviewing high level designs in our April meeting.  Fluid Business objectives are currently in development and we will be reviewing in a future meeting.
• Accessibility – The focus Group met in March to discuss the Accessibility Assistant feature, WCAG 2.2 guidelines and dropdown usability on PS pages.  The next meeting will be scheduled in July (date TBD).
• *** New Focus Group – Career Planning***– We will be starting a new Focus Group for Career Planning with our first meeting being on May 24, 2023.  This group will meet to discuss some desired enhancements and discussion on how customers are currently using this feature.  If you currently use, or have considered using the career planning part of HCM please consider joining this group.  You can join by emailing [email protected]  The group is open to all PeopleSoft HCM customers as career planning is included with the PeopleSoft HCM license and does not require a separate license to use.
• *** New Focus Group – Tuition Reimbursement – We will be starting a new Focus Group for Tuition Reimbursement.  This focus group will meet to determine the need and desire for a tuition reimbursement functionality to be built in PeopleSoft HCM.  The Focus Group will be limited and will meet on May 25^, 2023 at 10 am Central Time.  If you have a desire to be part of the focus group please email [email protected]

 ***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).  They did announce that organizations should continue to use the expired form until a new form is released.
• United States – On December 29, 2022 the SECURE 2.0 Act was signed into law by President Biden as part of the Consolidate Appropriations Act of 2023 (HR 2617).  It contains 92 provisions affecting United States retirement savings plans.   Note: The Planned Features and Enhancement Page outlines our current roadmap. We are encouraging customers to follow our position statements and blogs as more information is released.
• Singapore – The Ministry of Finance has made the following changes to CPF during the 2023 Budget session.
• Malaysia – The Malaysian Government presented the budget on 24^th February 2023, for the Financial Year 2023-24.
• Malaysia – The Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia released a new version of Form C.P.8D  – Return on Remuneration from Employment, Claim for Deductions and Particulars of Income Tax deduction under the Income-tax rules 1994 (Deduction of Remuneration).
• United Kingdom – A BACS hash code on the full payment submission (FPS) is a randomly generated code when the FPS process is run.

PeopleSoft Update – Click here for schedule of release dates

• HCM Image 46 – posting May 26, 2023*
• ELM Image 23 – posting July 28, 2023*
• CRM Image 21 – posting August 4, 2023*

*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 for employees to enter a Preferred/Chosen Middle and Last Name – New/Popular Idea
• 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– New Idea
• HR – Create Tuition Request/Approval/Reimbursement Module – Popular Idea
• HR – Manager Dashboard for Dotted Line Reports – New Idea
• HR – OnBoarding – Activity Guide Group/Parent Step – Mark Complete Configuration – Popular Idea
• ELM – Delegations in ELM – Popular Idea
• Absence – Put the Limit of 4000 Characters on the Comments Section of the Request Absence Page – New Idea
• Approvals – Add Additional Filters to Fluid Pending Approvals – Popular Idea
• Time & Labor-  Fluid Timesheet – Remember the Elapsed vs. Punch selection with Previous/Next employee navigation – New Idea
• Time & Labor – Enhance the Update Time Reporter Status page to allow ECD and flag update for a batch of employees – 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)
• Announcing Our Image Delivery Schedule Next Year – Blog (Important)  
• HCM Image 45 is now available!  Here are some of the top features to take note of! – Blog
• Image Highlights, PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 45 – Video
• Saint Paul Public Schools journey to modern PeopleSoft in the Cloud – PeopleSoft NOW! Episode 3.3 – Video
• PeopleSoft Now! Exciting New Features in Human Resources with Strategist Julie Alonso – Video
• SECURE 2.0 Act – Position Paper UPDATED (U.S.A Only) – Blog     
• 5 Things You Don’t Want to Miss in Fluid Performance Management – Blog
• View By Period and Other Fluid Timesheet Enhancements – Blog
• Staying Current on PeopleTools – 2023 edition – Blog
• PeopleSoft Delivered Security Roles and Permissions – Blog
• Graham Smith – My experience of patching PeopleTools 8.60 using PeopleSoft Cloud Manager – Blog

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