Upcoming User Groups/Webinars/Conferences:

• Payroll for NA SIG Meeting – December 13, 2022
• Upper Midwest Regional User Group (UMRUG) Peoplesoft HRMS Roundtable – December 15, 2022; Virtual
• Oracle Public Sector HCM Meeting – January 3^rd, 2023
• Payroll for NA SIG Meeting -January 10, 2023
• PeopleSoft India SIG – February 16 & 17; Bangalore, India
• PeopleSoft RECONNECT Live! at BLUEPRINT 4D – May 8 – May 11, 2023; Dallas, TX

Strategy Spotlight– Congratulations to Andersen Company for being recognized as a PeopleSoft Feature Innovator for their deployment of Kibana Analytics with Real Time Indexing (RTI).  As a long time PeopleSoft customer, you may know Andersen Company under one of their portfolio brands – Andersen Windows & Doors, Renewal by Andersen and Fenetres MQ.   Deploying an Analytics Dashboard based on Job Data as well as a search-first navigation user paradigm were high priorities for Andersen.  Leveraging RTI ensured that their Administrators were always viewing the most current job and person data which at Andersen can change on a minute-by-minute basis.  Check out Andersen’s story as written in this blog by one of Andersen’s software engineers.

Since this will be the final monthly newsletter of the year, I want to take this opportunity on behalf of the entire PeopleSoft Strategy team to wish you and yours a joyous holiday season and happy new year!  We look forward to continue to working with you in 2023.

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

• • Congratulations to Alameda County (AC) Transit for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to Andersen Corp for deploying Kibana Analytics and RTI (real time indexing)
  • Congratulations to BAE Systems for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to California State University (CSU) for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to County of Onondaga, NY for deploying Self Service
  • Congratulations to County of Rockland, NY for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for deploying Fluid Open Enrollment and upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to City of Calgary, CAN for deploying Quick Calc
  • Congratulations to City of Minneapolis, MN for deploying Fluid Open Enrollment
  • Congratulations to County of Chelan, WA P.U.D. for deploying Benefits Comparison and Benefit Statements
  • Congratulations to GATX for deploying Kibana Analytics
  • Congratulations to HEC Montreal for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to North Carolina (NC)State University for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to Piedmont Healthcare for deploying Compensation
  • Congratulations to PNM Resources for deploying Onboarding
  • Congratulations to Texas Christian University (TCU) for deploying Fluid Benefit Enrollment and onboarding
  • Congratulations to The University of Vermont for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to Universal Orlando Resort for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to University of Alberta for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59
  • Congratulations to University of Minnesota for Fluid Benefit Enrollment
  • Congratulations to WorkSafeBC for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.59

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

• Visualization Working Group – The State of Montana demoed their release of the Remote Worker Insights Dashboard.  They shared how they were able to quickly implement the dashboard and how they made changes to the delivered visualizations and created their own visualizations as well.
• Enterprise Learning Management (ELM) – The focus group has been reviewing idea’s space and future roadmap considerations.  We will continue to review items in the December meeting.  January invites will go out mid-December for the first half of the 2023 year for the focus group, now is a great time to join (group that meets every month on the second Thursday at 10 CST).
• Performance Management – Development and QA testing is wrapping up on fluid performance management.  We will take December off from having a focus group meeting and come back together in January on the 11^th for our next focus group.  The topic of conversation will be future enhancements to performance management as well as accomplishments and accolades.  If you want to be a part of this focus group now is a great time to join.
• Onboarding – We will be resurrecting this focus group with a meeting on January 26^th.  If you would like to talk about pre-boarding and enhancements to the onboarding and offboarding products please join this group as we talk through the future enhancements to PeopleSoft onboarding.
• Questionnaire – Focus group members participated in a survey to provide Development with some additional insight into the product’s current usability.
• HR Helpdesk Focus Group – During our November meeting we shared the proposed design for Solution Effective Analytics Dashboard.  The next Focus Group will be on January 18 to show final design for Solution Effectiveness Analytics Dashboard and get customer feedback.
• U.S. Federal – The next U.S. Federal HR Focus Group call is on 23^rd February, 2023. We plan to cover how Federal customers have deployed Employee and Manager Self Service today and discuss about making Official Position Title Description editable on Jobcode setup page.

 ***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.

***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.
• France – Oracle has delivered a Legislative Update, including changes on the DSN reporting, due to a  postponement to January 1st 2024 of the transfer of Agirc-Arrco supplementary pension contributions to URSSAF, that was originally planned for January 1st 2023.
• United Kingdom – The Government has announced the Start of Year (SOY) Changes for 2023-24. It contains the Income tax rates and thresholds changes.
• Japan – “The National Tax Agency (NTA)” has changed the reporting of non-resident dependents in the Withholding Tax/Wage Payment Report from 2023.
• Brazil – Updates were made available for PeopleSoft HCM referring to the Simplified eSocial version S-1.1, whose final layout was published in October 2022 and approved by JOINT ORDINANCE MTP/RFB/ME No. 33

PeopleSoft Update – Click here for schedule of release dates

• HCM Image 45 – posting January 20, 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 – OnBoarding – Activity Guide Group/Parent Step – Mark Complete Configuration – Popular Idea
• ELM – Delegations in ELM – Popular Idea
• Time & Labor – MSS Fluid Timesheet doesn’t allow for a View By Change that MSS Classic Timesheet does – New Idea
• Time & Labor – MSS Timesheet doesn’t allow for Date Selection – Popular Idea
• Absence – Add retroactive processing capability to leave donations – Popular Idea
• Approvals – Add Additional Filters to Fluid Pending Approvals – Popular 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)  
• Oracle Market-Driven Support for Select Global Payroll Country Extensions begins January 2023 – Blog (Important)  
• More Visualizations for the Remote Worker Manager and Administrator  – Blog
• The 5 New Absence Management Forecasting Enhancements That You Should Be Taking Advantage Of – Blog
• Honoring our Veterans on November 11 – Blog
• Seriously, we must do employee reviews again? – Blog
• Benefit Plan Comparison Bells and Whistles Helps You Create a Customized Comparison All With Configuration – Blog
• Image Highlights, PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 43 – Video
• The Search-first experience in PeopleSoft – Video Feature Overview – Video

Canadian HEUG Conference

Alliance Down Under Conference (Australia)

Pacific Northwest RUG (Portland, OR)

Happy Holidays from the PeopleSoft Strategy Team

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