If you’re interested in contributing ideas for the roadmap of your PeopleSoft Human Capital Management (HCM) product, you won’t want to miss the chance to participate in a PeopleSoft HCM focus group. As a part of one of these focus groups, you will have the opportunity to meet with PeopleSoft Development and Strategy leads and other users to help shape the future of features with PeopleSoft HCM.

The functions and features of PeopleSoft translate into real and immediate benefits for organizations. PeopleSoft can impact the entire cycle of IT for Human Resources including recruiting, workforce administration, talent development, procure to pay, financial management and operations, and credit to cash. The impact is made possible by easy configurations, powerful analytics, personalization opportunities, notifications, and accessibility. Rebekah Jackson, Vice President of Product Strategy at Oracle, walks through each of the stages in the cycle and outlines the impact PeopleSoft can have on each.

As part of Quest Experience Week—PeopleSoft Day, Kim O’Connor, the Senior IT Manager at Tower International, gave a presentation about the company’s process of implementing self-service. The presentation covered the phases of implementation, considerations to keep in mind, and how they handled support and testing.

As part of Quest Experience Week—PeopleSoft Day, Rick Delaney, part of the PeopleSoft Strategy team for Payroll for North America, spoke about Fluid WorkCenters and how they can make life easier for your payroll department.

The French Government, as part of their annual routine, has announced updates on Social Security Ceilings, Benefit In Kind (Lodgment, Food/meal), Minimum Salary (SMIC), Garnishments (Saisies sur Salaires) or Fillon Reduction. These changes are effective from January 1, 2019.

Administrators now have access to a number of workforce analytics from a single location using PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface. The workforce insight dashboard gives you the flexibility to view tiles with real-time data and easily move between analytics for in-depth analysis from different vantage points.

The PeopleSoft Fluid Company Directory is a one-stop interface for searching employee information and using hierarchical and organizational structures like dotted line management and matrix teams. You can update contact information, a personal statement, and any relevant links to the configured related actions for your Company Directory profile. Managers can also initiate job-related actions for their direct reports from the Company Directory and Organization Chart.

A recent video that is part of the PeopleSoft Spotlight Series covered the topic of HCM Activity Guide Composer. Check out these highlights from the PeopleSoft Spotlight Series video for more information.

Payroll employees can now complete all of their payroll processing tasks from one central area with WorkCenters that are created by your System Administrators using the PeopleSoft Enterprise Components Fluid WorkCenter Framework.

A recent Quest Global Day presentation from Prathibha Sastry, part of Oracle’s Product Management and Strategy team for PeopleSoft HCM, covered the basics of PeopleSoft HCM OnBoarding. The presentation went over reasons users should utilize PeopleSoft HCM OnBoarding, helpful features within the OnBoarding feature, and items that were on the roadmap for the future.