Oracle PeopleSoft continues to support Classic pages for up to 3 years after the Fluid version is made available.  We know 3 years can fly by so don’t worry, Classic pages will remain delivered in the PeopleSoft database – we do not currently have plans to remove Classic pages.  However, it is highly recommended that customers deploy as many Fluid pages as possible – starting with any employee self-service, manager self-service, or approval actions or pages.

HCM Image 42 is now generally available.  It includes new Analytic Dashboards for Managers, Global Payroll, and Time & Attendance Administrators.  As your organization works through the process of employees returning to work locations, your managers can use the new Remote Worker Analytics Dashboard to view a breakdown of the remote work status of their team members,.  Also available in Image 42 is a new Calendar feature that provides employees a one-page view of their peers’ absences, schedules, holidays, work anniversaries, and birthdays.  Take a look at the Image Highlights Image 42 video for an overview of the major features available.

HCM Image 44 is now available for download.  Some of the highlights of Image 44 include:  schedule and shift change requests through employee self-service, processed absences analytics for administrators, life events analytics for benefits administrators, remote worker eligibility analytics, extended configuration options for payroll direct deposit, a program funding framework that allows for faster rules deployment of state funded programs like Paid Family Leave, configurable benefits statements, enhancements to the benefit plan compare, and much more.

As the calendar year draws to an end, we have a number of new enhancements that are being added to our product roadmap.  As each enhancement gets targeted to a future image for delivery, you will find a summary of each feature on the Product Roadmap page on peoplesoftinfo.com.  Some of the new features under consideration include:  allowing employees to enter preferred or chosen names, benefits administrator’s ability to close out unfinished life events, fluidizing the employee self-service Form 1042-S  and 1099-R for Payroll, customer-requested enhancements to the Fluid timesheet, ability for managers to use delivered direct access types to access time reporters in their self-service time pages, and new team calendars for administrators, business partners, and proxies.  Many of these enhancements originated from the Ideas Space on My Oracle Support.  We encourage customers to use the Ideas Space to vote for existing ideas and create new ones of their own for roadmap consideration.

Congratulations to Andersen Company for being recognized as a PeopleSoft Feature Innovator for their deployment of Kibana Analytics with Real Time Indexing (RTI).  As a long time PeopleSoft customer, you may know Andersen Company under one of their portfolio brands - Andersen Windows & Doors, Renewal by Andersen and Fenetres MQ.   Deploying an Analytics Dashboard based on Job Data as well as a search-first navigation user paradigm were high priorities for Andersen.  Leveraging RTI ensured that their Administrators were always viewing the most current job and person data which at Andersen can change on a minute-by-minute basis.  Check out Andersen’s story as written in this blog by one of Andersen’s software engineers.

HCM Image 45 is now available for download. Among new features for HR, Payroll, Time & Labor, Absence Management, and Recruiting, this image also contains the much anticipated enhancements for Performance Management. PeopleSoft Performance Management (ePerformance) has been redesigned in Fluid to provide a more modern user experience with better visibility and flexibility for your employees and managers. The redesign includes configuration to allow your organization to track an employee’s performance review throughout the year with multiple checkpoints. Check out this blog for an update on the major enhancements made available for customers with Image 45.

       Upcoming User Groups/Webinars/Conferences: Oracle Public Sector HCM Meeting – August 1, 2023 HIUG PeopleSoft Time & Labor/Absence Management Roundtable- August 3 Payroll for NA SIG Meeting – August 8, 2023 Customer Advisor Board (CAB) - August 22 – 24, Virtual Oracle Cloud World – September 18-21, 2023; Las Vegas RECONNECT Deep Dive…

Upcoming PeopleSoft HCM 2024 User Groups/Webinars/Conferences: Oracle Apps Unlimited JAPAC Webinar: PeopleSoft Updates – March 26, Virtual (free) Oracle Public Sector HCM Meeting – March 26, 2024 Oracle PeopleSoft Executive New York Event - April 17 (invite only – reach out to your Oracle PeopleSoft Account Representative) Oracle Federal Forum – April 25; Washington D.C.…

Upcoming PeopleSoft HCM 2024 User Groups/Webinars/Conferences: PeopleSoft Week 2024: Game Changers - February 26 – March 1, 2024 Oracle Public Sector HCM Meeting – February 27, 2024 Oracle PeopleSoft Executive New York Event - April 17 (invite only – reach out to your Oracle PeopleSoft Account Representative) Oracle Federal Forum – April 25; Washington D.C.…

We are excited to celebrate a HUGE milestone with our PeopleSoft Finance customers and partners – in March we delivered our 50th FSCM 9.2 image!!! This includes six fluid WorkCenters, a common framework to filter Insight Dashboards by currency, new Insight Dashboards for Lease Administration and analytics for Page and Field Configurator Change management.  A special Thank You to our customers who continue to deploy new features and functionality.