At this year’s BLUEPRINT 4D conference, Paco Aubrejuan, Oracle’s Senior Vice President of Applications Development, delivered a powerful and energizing PeopleSoft keynote, reflecting on Oracle’s ongoing commitment to PeopleSoft while highlighting groundbreaking enhancements across usability, operations, and functionality.
20 Years In – and Still Going Strong
Kicking off with a moment of appreciation for the PeopleSoft community, Paco marked Oracle’s 20th year of PeopleSoft stewardship with a reassuring message: investment in PeopleSoft continues, and the 10-year rolling support model remains in place. This year marks the seventh consecutive year Oracle has extended PeopleSoft support—now out to at least 2036—with a strong likelihood it will roll forward again in 2026.
Paco emphasized that Oracle’s dual strategy of retaining PeopleSoft customers while supporting cloud migration is working. Attrition rates are low, and many customers are beginning their journeys to Oracle Cloud.
Elevating the User Experience
Oracle is introducing new features for application productivity. One of the most important new features is a new Landing Page that utilizes new styling capability that has been delivered with PeopleTools 8.62. Coupled with the new notification composer, the new landing page is tailored by role and user to not only help them navigate, but also helps direct them to the appropriate tasks and actions.
Additional user productivity features include:
- Smart Prompts: Surface frequently selected values in lookups based on user behavior.
- Favorite Saved Searches: Let users save and access searches directly from the homepage for one-click access.
- Real-Time Indexing (RTI): Updates content dynamically using PeopleSoft search indexes, enabling better performance and real-time accuracy without overloading the OLTP database.
Powering Up WorkCenters
PeopleSoft WorkCenters are evolving into more robust operational hubs for power users. In WorkCenter 3.0, Oracle introduces:
- Embedded Visualizations: Use insights and graphs to filter and interact with data in real time.
- Work Management: Assign, track, and collaborate on tasks within My Work lists to reduce duplication and improve accountability.
These changes aim to simplify exception handling, foster collaboration, and eliminate inefficiencies from static, paper-based processes.
Expanding Functional Capabilities
Functionality enhancements continue to arrive via application images:
- Oracle Business Network Integration: Import supplier catalog data directly into PeopleSoft, streamlining procurement and improving visibility into pricing and product details.
- Asset Scanning: Perform asset tagging and scanning using mobile devices—no extra hardware required.
- Payment Cards: Enable faster, more secure supplier payments while reducing reconciliation effort and fraud risk.
- Approval Status Viewer: Track approvals across submitted and reviewed transactions with a single view, enhancing visibility and response time.
Measuring and Managing Customizations
A major breakthrough comes with Customization Insights—a new tool that quantifies and categorizes customizations by usage, testing, and impact. Available via PeopleTools 8.62, this functionality helps organizations:
- Identify unused customizations
- Analyze test coverage
- Prioritize customizations for removal based on maintenance impact
- Track progress over time
This insight enables data-driven decisions for reducing maintenance costs and simplifying updates.
Operational Efficiency in the Cloud
PeopleSoft Cloud Manager remains a significant investment area in PeopleTools, offering fully automated lifecycle management for PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Hundreds of customers are already reaping the benefits—faster performance, reduced costs, and simplified operations. Notably, the U.S. Army is migrating its HCM environment to OCI, signaling enterprise-level confidence in the platform.
AI, Generative Intelligence & the Road Ahead
Paco addressed the elephant in the room—Generative AI. Oracle is making substantial investments in generative AI across its cloud applications, enabling agent-based automation and intelligent workflows through tools like Oracle AI Agent Studio.
For PeopleSoft, Oracle will not retrofit the platform with native generative AI features, but it is actively supporting customer-driven integrations. Key initiatives include:
- Reference Architecture for Gen AI Integration: Use REST APIs and real-time indexes to enable secure, efficient chatbot and assistant capabilities without database hits.
- Stopping Investment in Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) Skills for PeopleSoft: Oracle will discontinue updates to the legacy Picasso skills and instead offer guidance on integrating with modern Gen AI solutions.
The goal? Provide customers with the infrastructure and extensibility they need to implement generative AI in a way that fits their organizations.
Final Thoughts
From cutting-edge user experience upgrades to next-gen operational insights, the PeopleSoft team continues to deliver powerful tools that help organizations modernize without compromising stability. Whether you’re staying the course or preparing for a move to Oracle Cloud, there’s never been a better time to explore what’s new in PeopleSoft.
Want more?
Explore more content and resources to help you get the most from your PeopleSoft investment:
- Be sure to check out the BLUEPRINT 4D 2025 Event Hub (coming soon) for presentation slides – available exclusively to Quest members.
- Visit the Quest Learn Libraryfor blogs, how-to demos, and on-demand sessions.
- Connect with peers in one of our Quest PeopleSoft Community User Groupsto swap stories, ask questions, and share tips with other users facing the same challenges.
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