Presented at RECONNECT 20

There have been significant laws passed in Europe and the United States around confidential data protection for employees. Come to this session to learn about the recently delivered features in PeopleSoft that will help you manage personally identifiable information. We will review what PeopleSoft currently provides for data masking, data deletion, and employee consent as well as what our current plans are for leveraging Page & Field Configurator to allow you to mask any data field in your PeopleSoft system.

Presented by
Julie Alonso, Oracle America, Inc

Presented at RECONNECT 20

In April 2020, during the initial weeks of mandatory shelter-in-place restrictions, the City & County of San Francisco upgraded PeopleTools (from 8.54 to 8.57), HCM (from Image 13 to 32), and ELM (from Image 13 to 19) systems. Come find out how this successful projects was executed during a pandemic with all resources working remotely, including San Francisco staff and their implementation partners.

Share thought process in moving forward with upgrade during initial weeks of shelter-in-place.

Discuss challenges of doing upgrade remotely.

Identify positive outcomes and benefits for future upgrades.

Presented by

Jack Wood, City & County of San Francisco, CA

Doris Wong Smart ERP Solutions

Dennis McCormick City & County of San Francisco, CA

Presented at RECONNECT 20

Time and Attendance transactions are some of the most used self-service transactions in your organization. Do you want the most accessed PeopleSoft pages in your organization to look old and outdated? There is now a variety of time entry options for both managers and time reporters that bring a modern, mobile look and feel to the user's experience. Come to this session to learn about the improvements that have been made to both Time & Labor and Absence Management, why you need to get on the latest version, and what is going to be de-supported in the future.

Presented by

Lisa Chow, Oracle America, Inc

Presented at RECONNECT 20

Manage and Evolve your PeopleSoft Application Portfolio.

This presentation will highlight best practices for PeopleSoft Application Support, Hosting on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, On-Going Training and Testing-as-a-Service. Your presenters will discuss how we successfully utilize a world-class issue management platform, robust metrics tracking, monthly data analytics, and communication strategies. Attendees will understand why SpearMC chose Jira Service Desk for PeopleSoft Application Support and how to build a balanced internal support organization.

Our case study details steps that a large Healthcare System took towards stability and optimization with PeopleSoft Managed Services and Application Support using Jira Service Desk. This large HCM and FSCM customer was able to significantly lower on-going support costs, streamline business processes, improve end-user satisfaction and upgrade their PeopleSoft HCM and FSCM platform.

Learn to realize the benefits of PeopleSoft Managed Services. SpearMC is a managed services specialist within the PeopleSoft ecosystem. We combine consultative services with 24x7 ongoing management and support, using a rigorous support model.

Hear from our customer: “Working through support tickets used to be a major bottleneck in getting our roadmap executed. Since partnering with SpearMC, we have a track record of meeting business needs and discovering PeopleSoft's Art-of-the-Possible"

Understand our approach to build a service platform that is geared for organizations lacking expertise to support their PeopleSoft platform or looking to refocus IT resources on innovation vs. testing, hosting, maintenance and support.

Presented by

Cameron McClurg, SpearMC

Gary Dranikoski SpearMC

Presented at RECONNECT 20

Learn how the recent TCJA has impacted the Federal and State W-4 Withholding forms and Payroll. We'll cover what's required, optional and how to remain compliant but still empower employees to update their own W-4 elections for all states and localities within PeopleSoft, even with the recent release of Tax Update 20-C, major changes to withholding tables and rules have been introduced.

Learn what the legal and compliance concerns are and how each customer dealt with the online forms and hard copy/retention requirements.

We'll review the IRS and American Payroll Association (APA) recommendations for withholding 2020 data and how to implement those policies in your organization via online self-service.

Determine what obstacles customers had to overcome to enforce this completely automated functionality

Presented by
Tyger Vollrath, PS WebSolution, Inc.

Presented at RECONNECT 20

Do your users want to run their own queries? Does it make you feel uneasy to open up Query Manager? Let's be honest - they may create the perfect Cartesian join to bring down the whole system!

This Quick Tip session is for you. A Business Analyst covers how The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill implemented a Query WorkCenter using delivered PeopleTools functionality.

(1) Users are empowered to run the queries they want... no more, no less.

(2) The Business Analysts maintain the setup and security from a simple configuration page.

Join us and find out how to leverage what we learned.

Presented at RECONNECT 20

O' Canada...Let's talk about the unique processing and compliance that our Canadian customers follow using PeopleSoft Payroll for North America.

Presented by

Rick DeLaney, Oracle America, Inc

Maria Moreno Oracle

Presented at RECONNECT 20

If you're a technical or functional user that is looking to learn some tips and tricks of Query Manager, this session is for you. If you are confident in your ability to write queries to retrieve transactional information about student/employee/vendor/supplier; and are looking for ways to be more sophisticated in your data retrieval, then this is the session is also for you!

We will begin with some basic tips and tricks for query writing, and then move to some more complicated topics, like creating smart prompts, or using expressions wisely. Finally, we discuss some advanced topics such as using query manager on 4-tier vs using query builder tool within Application Designer for PeopleTools 8.57, as well as look at the new classic-plus view of query manager.

Presented at RECONNECT 20

Come to this session to learn how PeopleSoft Payroll for North America continuously delivers functionality you can use every day.  In this session, you will learn about expected regulatory and legislative driven changes in upcoming tax updates. You will also see product demos of new functionality that has been delivered recently or currently under development such as Direct Deposit notifications, Chatbots, and Off-Cycle processing.

Presented at RECONNECT 20

Conversational Interfaces have been around for a long time.  With PeopleSoft Chatbots, organizations can now take an internal support function and automate it through a Chatbot.  We'll look at how Chatbots work, Delivered Chatbots, How to build your own, Pricing, and Use Cases.