During Quest Forum Digital Event: PeopleSoft Week, Matthew Haavisto, Director of Product Management for PeopleTools, shared an overview of the latest PeopleSoft analytics features - including Kibana and personalized notifications.

In 2020, Temple University Health System was recognized as a PeopleSoft Innovator for its use of PeopleSoft’s Fluid user interface (UI) to provide employees access to electronic job descriptions (see Page 22 for more). The team at Temple Health ultimately believes that higher employee engagement leads to higher patient satisfaction.

During Quest Forum Digital Event: PeopleSoft Week, Temple’s own Stephanie McNeil, Bret Huntington, and Lee Hasselbach joined forces to discuss this enhancement and other changes they have made to help drive employee engagement since their upgrade to 9.2.

Race Bannon wrote an Oracle blog about new PeopleTools training that is available now! PeopleTools provides the underlying technology for Oracle’s PeopleSoft applications and Oracle has just updated its Oracle University training to make sure users can maximize the implementation and ongoing support for all PeopleSoft applications utilizing new rich features of PeopleTools 8.57. A deeper understanding of PeopleTools functionality allows you to make the most of the inherent flexibility and adaptability that further enhances your application business processes and usability.

A recent PeopleSoft Spotlight Series video walked through Kibana basics such as the install, set up, and creation of Kibana.

PeopleSoft FSCM Update Image 36 was recently released, and it contains a long list of helpful new features. Check out the highlights in this post.

An Oracle YouTube video provided an overview of PeopleSoft Fluid Delegations. Delegations give users the ability to have someone else act on their behalf to initiate or approve a PeopleSoft transaction. Delegations are available for both Financials and Supply Chain Management (FSCM) and Human Capital Management (HCM) users.

As part of the PeopleSoft HCM Configuration Series, Hannah Gacey and Mike Betschart from King County spoke about King County’s integrated release set and approach to customization management. In 2015, King County adopted a release set delivery strategy to align human capital management (HCM) system updates with PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) Image releases. This strategy has been refined over the years to keep King County current with the latest available Images and give users access to the latest features and functionality.

During the presentation, Gacey and Betschart discussed King County’s approach to Images, how King County is creating a culture of innovation by actively managing customizations, utilizing Event Mapping to using testing automation, and implementing release sets every six to eight weeks.

At RECONNECT 19, Memorial Hospital at Gulfport's David Vandiver spoke about a PeopleSoft Monitoring Tool that was built using PeopleTools' Application Engine. The end result is a recurring process that uses PSQuery to check the health of the system. When issues are found, the designated staff can receive a formatted email showing what was detected, and the results show up on mobile devices as well without having to log back into PeopleSoft. You also have the ability to add new PSQuery alerts when needed, without writing additional code or migrating projects each week. 

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.