Upcoming PeopleSoft HCM 2024 User Groups/Webinars/Conferences:
- RECONNECT Conference – Virtual; October 28 – 31, 2024
- Payroll for North America SIG – Virtual; November 12, 2024
- PeopleSoft Southeast RUG Orlando, FL; November 14, 2024
- Oracle Public Sector HCM Meeting – Virtual; November 26, 2024
- Oracle Applications Unlimited Tour 2024 – Europe
- Reading, UK; October 24, 2024
- Paris, France; November 7, 2024
- Frankfurt, Germany; November 12, 2024
Customer Corner – Highlights customers who have implemented, upgraded or deployed new HCM Features
- Congratulations to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama for deploying Fluid Self-Service
- Congratulations to Children’s Hospital Colorado for deploying Profile Management
- Congratulations to City of Calgary, Alberta for deploying Smart HR
- Congratulations to City of Plano, TX for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
- Congratulations to County of Chelan, WA P.U.D. for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
- Congratulations to Lockton for upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
- Congratulations to Harvard University for deploying Benefits Insights
- Congratulations to New York City Health and Hospitals Corp for deploying Fluid Job Data and Insights
- Congratulations to PNM Resources for deploying Fluid ELM
- Congratulations to Public Health Institute (PHI) for deploying Team Calendars and upgrading to PeopleTools 8.61
- Congratulations to Salt River Pima – Maricopa Indian Community for deploying Remote Worker and Questionnaire Framework
- Congratulations to U.S. Dept of Energy – Savannah Nuclear Solutions for deploying HR Help Desk
- Congratulations to University of Calgary for deploying Smart HR
- Congratulations to University of New South Wales for deploying Oracle Guided Learning (OGL) and Time & Labor
- Congratulations to University of North Texas Systems for deploying Remote Worker
- Congratulations to Walla Walla University for deploying Ben Admin
Focus Group Updates: Click on the link to find a focus group to join
- Benefits – Focus Group met in September to discuss features released in Image 50 features, SECURE 2.0 – Section 101 to be released as a PRP, and also some of the enhancements on our roadmap.
- Recruiting Solutions – Focus Group met in September where we discussed the initial Candidate Gateway – Collect DOB and SSN with Job Offer that was just released in Image 50 and our future feature to expand the Capturing of Additional Information During the Job Offer. We also looked at other enhancements on the roadmap items as well.
- Enterprise Learning Management – Focus group met and had open discussions about what customers were working on. We discussed future meetings and the schedule for 2024 and the upcoming year. In November, we will also be discussing our next indicatives that we will start on over the next few months.
- Performance Management – Next focus group meeting is first week of November, and we will be talking about initiatives that we are currently working on like including the ability to exclude items from ratings. Interested in joining the focus group -email Jeremy.Pelley@oracle.com.
- Tuition Reimbursement – We are so excited with what we have been doing through the design process of this exciting new functionality. We will be reviewing our final design before we move into development. This meeting will occur the first week of November and we will be sending invites out soon. Interested in joining the focus group -email Jeremy.Pelley@oracle.com.
- Profile Management/Employee Snapshot – It has been a while since this focus group has met, the focus group will be talking about a new feature for employee snapshot employee view as well as discussing a new feature coming to profile management that will enable the ability to build tiles directly to content areas. This focus group will meet the first week of December. Interested in joining the focus group -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 – Revised Employee and Applicant Veteran Self-Identification form release in Image 50
- Malaysia -Effective October 1, 2024, The Social Security Organisation (SOCSO) salary ceiling for contributions has been increased from RM5,000 to RM6,000 per month by the Ministry of Human Resources.
- United Kingdom – HMRC has published new RTI specifications for the tax year 2025-26.
PeopleSoft Update – Click here for schedule of release dates
- HCM Image 51 – posting January 31, 2025*
- HCM Image 52 – posting May 23, 2025*
- HCM Image 53 – posting September 26, 2025*
- HCM Image 54 – posting January 30, 2026*
- ELM Image 24 – posting October 18, 2024*
- ELM Image 25 – posting October 17, 2025*
- CRM Image 22 – posting October 15, 2024*
- CRM Image 23 – posting October 24, 2025*
*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
- 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– Popular Idea
- HR – Fluid Job Data – Include History/Correction mode at bottom of page – Popular Idea
- HR – OnBoarding – Activity Guide Group/Parent Step – Mark Complete Configuration – Popular Idea
- HR – Ability to add Department fields to Company Directory/Org Chart – New Idea
- Time and Labor – Add Active/Inactive Employee filter on MSS Manager Search Options – New Idea
- Time and Labor – Allow departments to create quick-fills for time reporters only in that department/group id – New Idea
- Time and Labor – Weekly Fluid TimeSheet – Need Ability to select the time period to copy from – Hot Idea
- Absence Management – Absence Request History – allow to be downloaded to Excel – Hot Idea
PeopleSoft General Update
- Oracle Extends Support for PeopleSoft, Maintains 10-Year Rolling Support – Blog (Important)
- PeopleSoft Now! Investment Update for 2024 with Paco Aubrejuan – Video (Important)
- An important message from Paco for the PeopleSoft Healthcare community – Video (Important)
- The PeopleSoft Page and Field Configurator Video Feature Overview – Video
- PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8 61 Highlights – Video
- Image Highlights, PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 50 – Video
- Oracle announces the 2024 Class of PeopleSoft Innovators – PeopleSoft NOW! Episode 4.4 – Blog
- PeopleTools 8.61 is available for on-premise installation – Blog
- PeopleSoft Now! PeopleSoft Product Strategy Roadmap Update – Video (check out these friendly PS faces)
- Saint Paul Public Schools continues to invest and expand its PeopleSoft footprint while decreasing infrastructure costs… – Blog
- Unlocking Flexibility: Empowering Personnel Action Request Final Approvers to Modify Request Details and Accelerate Approvals – Blog
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