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.

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.

Kibana for PeopleSoft provides rich analytics and visualization with performance enhancements - enabling better decision-making and improved understanding of your data. Kibana is easy to install, configure, and maintain, and it provides superior performance in rendering visualizations.

As part of Quest's PeopleSoft Week 2020, Matthew Haavisto, Product Management Director at Oracle, spoke about how to leverage tools like Event Mapping and Drop Zones to isolate customizations in your PeopleSoft system.

PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 33 was recently released, and it contains a long list of helpful new features.

As part of the PeopleSoft HCM Configuration Series, Oracle's own Julie Alonso and Joe Willever presented on delivered features in PeopleSoft HCM that will help you with managing sensitive and personally identifiable information. The pair shared what PeopleSoft HCM currently provides for data deletion and employee content as well as how to leverage the recently enhanced Page & Field Configurator to allow your organization to mask any data field in PeopleSoft.

At RECONNECT 19, State of Minnesota's Rahul Nori provided a Query Manager deep dive for both technical and functional users. Nori covered basic tips and tricks for query writing, creating smart prompts, and using expressions wisely. He also covered what you can do to ensure that your system keeps your information safe and secure while keeping your database from spinning out of control.

David Bain, Sr. Director of PeopleTools Product Management, released a blog yesterday announcing the release of PeopleTools 8.58 on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The release will not be available for on-premises environments until the 8.58.03 patch. Until then, Oracle invites customers to take advantage of the many benefits offered by PeopleSoft Cloud Manager and of running PeopleSoft applications in the Oracle Cloud.

PeopleSoft OffBoarding provides a simple and intuitive way to help employees, managers, and others with the important tasks required when an employee leaves your organization.