I can’t believe we are in June already – and what a great time of year for our customers.  We had so many great customers successes this month – very  impressive!!!

Upcoming 2021 Webinars/Conferences:

• UKOUG Applications Summit  – June 9 & 16, 2021
• HIUG’s Interact 21 Virtual   – June 14 – 16, 2021
• PeopleSoft Week – June 21-25, 2021
• OHUG’s Ascend Conference – August 15 – 18, 2021; Hollywood, FL
• RECONNECT Deep Dive  October 4-7, 2021
• UKOUG Conference 2021 November 29 – 30, 2021; London
• Quest Experience Week – PeopleSoft Day December 6, 2021
• PeopleSoft and Cloud HCM Webinar Series – Ongoing

RV’s Strategy Spotlight– I had an insightful podcast interview with Colonel Greg Johnson, who is in charge of the U.S. Army’s Integrated Personnel & Pay System (IPPS-A) servicing 1.3 million users and 20,000 HR Specialists.  In the podcast,  Colonel Johnson talks about how the Army is using PeopleSoft Profile Management functionality to create a comprehensive 25 point profile for each solider to help the Army select the right soldiers for the right assignments.  You may be inspired to leverage the power of profile management within your own organization, which by the way is a module already included as part of your HR license.

If your organization has deployed PeopleSoft Chatbots or are planning to do so within the next six months, please reach out to me so we can include you on a new PeopleSoft Chatbot workgroup we plan to start up as early as next month.  It will give members an opportunity to share best practices and work through the art of the possible with our Chatbot product management team.

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

• Job Data Modernization – We meet and customers shared their Fluid Job Data deploying strategies (big bang vs. certain transactions).  We also shared some tips and tricks for Fluid Job Data.
• Benefits – Focus Group had a great discussion on tracking of documents and approvals using the Multiple Document Upload for Life Events that was delivered in Image 37 and interaction with the anticipated delivery of the Document Upload and Approvals for Dependent Updates. We received excellent feedback on how customers anticipate using the features to streamline a very manual process today.
• Recruiting Solutions – Members shared responses to a short survey on open jobs. This information will be used as we create a Recruiter Pipeline Kibana Analytic.
• Remote Worker – Focus Group met to review mockups of the fluid employee self-service remote worker request. We also discussed requirements and what type of information organizations would like to capture. Our next meeting we will be discussing Kibana visualizations.
• Analytics and Visualization – Focus Group saw the new Time and Labor and Absence Visualizations that were released in Image 38 (thanks to Lisa Chow).  They also got a sneak peek at the Benefits Kibana Utilization. We discussed how a derived field inside of an index can be used to create a visualization as well.
• U.S. Federal – Focus Group reviewed proposed Gender identity feature requirements, we discussed if there is a need for Federal agencies to adopt the gender identity feature and if any U.S. Federal specific requirements, changes are to be considered.
• Absence Management – Quest hosted an Absence Management Implementation panel discussion with a panel of 6 Absence experts to answer any customer questions.  The recording is available on the Quest website:  Absence Management Implementation Panel Discussion

• Accessibility with PeopleSoft HCM – This focus group will kick off June 15^th to  discuss the new criteria in WCAG 2.1, accessibility related updates available in PeopleTools 8.59, published accessibility documentation, and a new PeopleSoft Update Manager enhancement that allows customers to easily identify delivered accessibility changes.

 ***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 – Update on EEO-1, EEO-3, EEO-4 and EEO-5 reporting dates for 2021 – Click on EEOC blog for more details
• United States  – Oracle Advisor Webcast: PeopleSoft HCM Nacha Data Security for Payroll for North America
• Switzerland – The Federal Tax Authorities have made changes to the Tax statement for the year 2021 Budget.
• Australia – Update on the Tax Administration Act based on the changes released so far
• Japan – Japan Pension Services has released a new version of Employment Insurance CSV files for submissions to E-Gov

PeopleSoft Update

• HCM Image 39 – posting July 30, 2021* (likely to be the first HCM image release on PeopleTools 8.59)
• ELM Image 22 – posting August 27, 2021 – tentative date
• CRM Image 20 – posting September 3, 2021  – tentative date
• PeopleTools 8.59 – posting July 19, 2021* (April 9, 2021* for customers on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)

*Tentative Dates – Oracle Safe Harbor Statement applies

PeopleSoft General Update

• In this special episode of PeopleSoft Now, PeopleSoft Investment Strategy with Paco Aubrejuan , Paco discusses the investment strategy, the state of the business and what comes next. Paco also delivered the keynote address at the recent RECONNECT Envision conference and he talks about the new announcements and new capabilities for PeopleSoft from that conference – Video
• How the U.S. Army uses PeopleSoft to build a 25-point profile for 1.3 million soldiers – Podcast
• The PeopleSoft Extended Application Services Framework Video Feature Overview – Video
• Hello. My name is Christelle please call me Christy. The importance of using a Preferred First Name – Blog
• Job Data Search Just Got A Little Easier using Preferred Name – Blog
• Safety First. Learn how to create a Vaccination Kibana Dashboard – Blog
• Safety First. Health & Safety Kibana analytics can help you with employee vaccination tracking – Blog
• Safety First. 1, 2, 3, 4 easy steps to deploying Health & Safety Kibana Dashboard – Blog
• PeopleSoft Time and Labor Kibana Dashboard – the Art of the Possible – Blog
• PeopleSoft Absence Management Implementation Panel Discussion – webinar

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