Customers often ask about Oracle's support policy for PeopleSoft. In 2018, Oracle announced support for PeopleSoft through at least 2030. At the same time, Oracle confirmed that there would be a rolling 10-year commitment to support PeopleSoft. As 2020 begins the 10-year window to 2030, Oracle began reviewing and planning to extend support by one year, each year, until Oracle's investment and support strategy for PeopleSoft changes. After this review, Oracle has announced that support for PeopleSoft will be extended to 2031! The Lifetime Support Policy datasheet for Applications has been updated, and now shows all PeopleSoft continuous delivery releases supported through at least 2031.

Financial functions are the hardbeat of a company, and having accurate financial information at any time is critical to decision making. But inherent complexities in PeopleSoft reporting mean that certain expertise is required to maintain the ERP, as well as address ongoing standardized and ad hoc reporting needs of the finance team. Fortunately, financial reporting solutions have come a long way, giving PeopleSoft users a better choice for the future.

As part of Quest's 2020 PeopleSoft Week, David Bain Senior Director of Product Strategy, spoke about how to manage customizations in PeopleSoft.

One of the best values PeopleSoft offers is the ease of making customizations to get the application to work the best for your business, but those customizations come at a cost. When applying maintenance you have to account for the changes. However, there are strategies you can take to minimize the cost of customizations. Bain's presentation covered what is available in the lifecycle products to help you manage change.

PeopleSoft FSCM Update Image 35 was recently released, and it contains a long list of helpful new features. Check out the highlights in this post.

Kibana for PeopleSoft provides rich analytics and visualization with performance enhancements - enabling better decision-making and improved understanding of your data. Kibana is easy to install, configure, and maintain, and it provides superior performance in rendering visualizations.

The Ohio Regional User Group (ORUG), previously known as the PeopleSoft ORUG, has expanded to include Oracle Cloud, and we are ready to hit the ground running at the upcoming Spring conference on March 19, 2020. The conference includes both PeopleSoft and Oracle Cloud content geared toward functional and technical users with informative sessions, roadmaps, roundtables, customer stories, panel discussions, and networking. 

PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 33 was recently released, and it contains a long list of helpful new features.

There have been significant laws passed in Europe and the United States around confidential data protection for applicants and employees. Attend this Quest session to learn about the delivered features in PeopleSoft HCM that will help you with managing sensitive and personally identifiable information. We will share what PeopleSoft HCM currently provides for data deletion…

At RECONNECT 19, Jian Wen, Oracle Product Strategy Director for PeopleSoft Financial Management Solutions, spoke about how to integrate the latest innovations for PeopleSoft Finance and Accounting. She provided an update on Oracle’s PeopleSoft Financial Control and Reporting solution and the efficiency gained with Fluid expansions such as maintenance of the financial structure, journal entry through configuration, and real-time insights with business intelligence as the period close progresses. There are several PeopleSoft Financials capabilities that you can selectively adopt as well as many planned features on the roadmap that help to drive efficiency, productivity, and a shorter close cycle, as well as new reporting opportunities.

As part of Quest Experience Week (QXW) 2019, Anita Paye, Director of Finance Compass Support at Emory University, spoke about how the university handled change management to ensure the success of its new ERP system implementation in 2014 after a failed attempt in 2009. She covered four change management pillars, the reasons people resist change, and practical ways to help them move forward.