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PeopleSoft HCM Newsletter May 2023

Luke Hodges

       Upcoming User Groups/Webinars/Conferences:

Strategy Spotlight – We experienced an amazing turnout for the BLUEPRINT4D conference in Dallas, Texas last month that surpassed many of our expectations.  Customers and partners in attendance were full of energy and focused on continuing to get the most out of their PeopleSoft investment.  Areas of most interest included Configurable Search, Job and Person Data modernization, integration with Cloud technologies such as Chatbots, regulatory updates, and ways to stay current with new feature delivery.  Also, the U.S. Army shared their amazing story of deploying PeopleSoft to over 1.1 million users worldwide – the largest PeopleSoft implementation ever.  If you missed Blueprint 4D this year, we hope you will make plans to join us next year in person – same city and venue.  Until then, I encourage you to attend RECONNECT Deep Dive a virtual event taking place Oct 24 – 26 that focuses on content you need to get up and running with delivered features.

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

Congratulations to this month’s Expansion Innovators:

  • Congratulations to National Shared Service Office for implementing Absence Management

 

  • Congratulations to Alaska Airlines for deploying Remote Worker
  • Congratulations to Baylor Scott & White Health for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin for deploying Performance Management
  • Congratulations to City of Cambridge, MA for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to City of Colorado Springs, CO for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to City of Eugene, OR for deploying Fluid Timesheets and Drop Zones
  • Congratulations to City of Seattle, WA for deploying Oracle Guided Learning
  • Congratulations to Consolidated Communications for deploying Fluid Job Data
  • Congratulations to Commonwealth of Massachusetts for deploying Payroll Work Centers and Fluid Position Management and Fluid Job Data and Preferred Names and Fluid Time Reporter and Gender Identity and upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to County of Collin, TX for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60
  • Congratulations to County of Santa Clara, CA for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to County of San Diego, CA for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to Federal Government of Belgium for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to Gwinnett County Public Schools for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to Harris Health System for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to HAYS Recruiting for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to Houston Community College for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for deploying Fluid Candidate Gateway
  • Congratulations to National Shared Service Office of Ireland for deploying Absence Management
  • Congratulations to North Carolina (NC)State University for deploying Remote Worker
  • Congratulations to Port of Seattle, WA for deploying Remote Worker
  • Congratulations to Raymond James for upgrading to People Tools 8.59
  • Congratulations to Salt River Pima – Maricopa Indian Community for deploying Company Directory and Drop Zones
  • Congratulations to Southern Methodist University (SMU) for deploying Fluid Job Data
  • Congratulations to U.S. Veteran Affairs (VA) for deploying Ben Admin
  • Congratulations to University of Michigan for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.60

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

  • Human Resources – Focus group and saw new HR features delivered in Image 46, we also discussed Preferred Name and the upcoming enhancements for this feature.
  • Enterprise Learning Management (ELM) – We are in the final stages of testing and will be releasing image 23 in July. We will be reviewing high level designs for mandatory programs in the July meeting.
  • Benefits – Focus Group met to discuss the SECURE 2.0 enhancements. This included discussion about an enhancement for Section 603 for employees earning more than $145,000. Our next focus group meeting will be on Wednesday, June 13th. If interested in joining this group, please email tammy.boyles@oracle.com.
  • Performance Management – The focus group will be meeting on June 21st to review business objectives and customer inquiries questions around fluid performance.
  • Global Payroll, Absence Management, Payroll for North America, Time and Labor – A joint focus group meeting was held to demonstrate the new Component Lockdown framework that will be most likely to use the new framework.
  • Tuition Reimbursement – The focus group met to discuss the initial requirements for a tuition reimbursement functionality. If you are interested in this functionality, please email Jeremy.Pelley@oracle.com

 ***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 – Update for PeopleSoft Human Resources & Recruiting – Form 503 (voluntary self-identification for disability) The PeopleSoft Release Patchset has been posted.  You need to use the new form BY July 25, 2023
  • 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. Here is a link to the current Position Statement and the Planned Features and Enhancement Page which outlines our current roadmap
  • Australia – A walkthrough of the significant features of PeopleSoft STP2 Reconciliation solution
  • Australia – Victorian Government proposes to introduce payroll tax related changes, as announced in the 2023-24 budget
  • Brazil – Updates were made available for PeopleSoft HCM referring to the Income Tax (IRPF) in compliance with the Provisional Measure No. 1.171 (MP 1171/23)

PeopleSoft Update – Click here for schedule of release dates

  • HCM Image 47 – posting September 15, 2023*
  • ELM Image 23 – posting July 28, 2023*
  • CRM Image 21 – posting August 4, 2023*

*Tentative Dates – Oracle Safe Harbor Statement applies.

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