Tag: PeopleSoft Technology

The newest version of PeopleTools is here and available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. PeopleTools 8.57 is ready to impress with an enhanced user experience with friendlier, customizable homepages, dashboards, and Work Centers. To increase all-important productivity, PeopleTools helps users access pivot grids, conduct successful elastic searches more easily than ever, and set important notifications.

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.

While one of PeopleSoft’s benefits has been the ability to customize, customizations do require maintenance costs. PeopleSoft customers now have more options to meet business objectives while minimizing customizations using new features in PeopleTools and frameworks. The experiences shared by a customer panel assembled for Quest Experience Week – PeopleSoft Day allows you to consider your organization’s approach to leveraging these new functionalities.

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.

Customer Spotlight: University of Minnesota
Jeremy Irrthum, PeopleSoft Developer at the University of Minnesota, shared a breakdown of the university’s technique for managing new Images and refining the PUM Image Application Process.

The PeopleSoft Update Manager dashboard contains four additional analytics to help you understand and select the updates for your target database. For multilingual customers, the “Bugs by Language” pivot grid shows the multilingual fixes available for the language installed on the target.

Presented by Jessica Becker, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC. (SRNS) is the Management Contractor for the Department of Energy (DOE) Savannah River Site near Aiken, South Carolina. SRNS uses PeopleSoft 9.2 ERP software to manage our business in Human Resources, Finance, and Supply Chain Management. SRNS recently implemented a new PUM (PeopleSoft Update Manager) Strategy and with this tool,  updated our system to Image 26, People Tools 8.54 in the Public Sector / Government environment. This session will provide functional examples that successfully utilized Page and Field Configurator, as well as some ideas that were not a good fit for this functionality. The use of Application Data Sets (ADS) for migration of the configuration will be discussed. We will also discuss Ideas in Oracle Community that may be able to further enhance the use of Page and Field Configurator.

*This session was part of Quest Experience Week, PeopleSoft Day*

Presented by Kim O'Connor, Tower International

We will walk the audience through the process we began in 2013 to implement Self-Service, which stalled as quick as it started.  But in July of 2017 we embarked on the journey once again.  We have a lot of  functional and technical experience in house but there was so much to learn.   Many decisions had to be made; 2 Factor authentication or just user id and password,   Third party vendor for 2 factor or develop with Peopletools.  Text or Email authentication code, and how to force User Profile Setup and how do we manage higher volume support.   Working with the business Leadership we decide to secure the infrastructure and then begin rolling out more functions in 2018.  Upgrading our Peopletools to 8.56 and learning to work with Fluid pages, Tile creation, branding and new Peoplecode events.  Finally, the outcome our success, our lessons and hints for anyone else looking to implement Self-service outside their firewall.

*This session was part of Quest Experience Week, PeopleSoft Day

Presented by Kim O'Connor, Tower International

We will walk the audience through the process we began in 2013 to implement Self-Service, which stalled as quick as it started.  But in July of 2017 we embarked on the journey once again.  We have a lot of  functional and technical experience in house but there was so much to learn.   Many decisions had to be made; 2 Factor authentication or just userid and password,   Third party vendor for 2 factor or develop with Peopletools.  Text or Email authentication code, and how to force User Profile Setup and how do we manage higher volume support.   Working with the business Leadership we decide to secure the infrastructure and then begin rolling out more functions in 2018.  Upgrading our Peopletools to 8.56 and learning to work with Fluid pages, Tile creation, branding and new Peoplecode events.  Finally, the outcome our success, our lessons and hints for anyone else looking to implement Self-service outside their firewall.

*This session was part of Quest Experience Week, PeopleSoft Day