As part of PeopleSoft Global Day, Pravas Bhagat from Oracle spoke about several enhancements made to PeopleSoft Global Payroll over the past few years that are intended to make things easier for Payroll Developers and Administrators. Some of these enhancements include the Global Payroll WorkCenter, COBOL Trace Utility, and Global Payroll Element Browser. Pravas gave a demo of these features that shows the ease of personalizing view, running reports, issue resolution, and comparing elements.

Lisa Chow, HCM Product Manager Director at Oracle, recently gave an overview of what’s new and exciting in the world of PeopleSoft Time and Labor. There are some new pages, some old pages made new again, and new navigation. In her presentation, Lisa walked through how to use the pages, which device they should be used on, and the configuration that will help your organization make the pages meet your needs. She also showed the new Navigation Dashboard, which will make presenting the pages to time reporters easier.

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) is the Managing and Operating Contractor for the Department of Energy Savannah River Site. SRNS employs roughly 5,000 people. The Savannah River site is located in the central Savannah River region near Aiken, South Carolina. This site has over 15,000 acres devoted to industrial facilities, research labs, and supporting infrastructure. As the SRNS team utilized their PeopleSoft platform, they recognized a need for Page and Field Configurator in two use cases.

Robbin Velayedam, Senior Director of Product Management for PeopleSoft HCM, gave a presentation with an update on the HCM roadmap. PeopleSoft customer success stories are the foundation for creating a roadmap for HCM updates. This roadmap focuses on specific responsibilities of HR professionals including Benefits Open Enrollment, Timesheets, Payroll Work Centers, Compensation History, Onboarding, Company Directories, Privacy Frameworks, Year End Forms, and Employee Snapshots.

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.

Data analytics are becoming increasingly popular and helpful to employers looking to attract and retain the top talent in their industry. Analytics can drastically improve HR processes like recruiting. Linda Currey Post, a senior writer at Oracle, wrote an article in Forbes about how Human Resources professionals are utilizing analytics in order to attract top talent and retain it within their organization. Analytics can quickly show you helpful information like which applicants are the best matches based on the requirements in a job posting.

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.