Upcoming Conferences: PeopleSoft Strategy Team will be attending
  • COLLABORATE – April 2-6; Las Vegas, NV
  • OHUG (All Oracle HCM Products) – June 6-9; Orlando. FL
  • HIUG (Healthcare User Group)– June 18 -21; Orlando, FL
  • RECONNECT (PeopleSoft Only) – July 18-20; Chicago, IL
  February Conference: Alliance (Las Vegas, NV) – See pics below.  At the Alliance conference, I  presented the HR Core Roadmap session “Power of PeopleSoft HR” and attended Meet the Experts.  During the conference I was able to ‘recruit’ more customers for our HR Community, please welcome Art Institute of Chicago, City of Plano, TX, Florida A&M University, Florida State College @ Jacksonville, Harvard University, Lorain County Community Colleges,  Miami-Dade County, Peralta Community Colleges, Salt River Pima – Maricopa Indian Community, SBCTC, Seneca College, The University of Texas Systems ,The University of Texas @ Rio Grande Valley, UNITEC, University of California, University of Maine System, University of Wisconsin @ Madison, and University of Southern Mississippi!  A special thanks to our Customers/Partners – California State University, CherryRoad Technologies, Clackamas County, ERPA, GreyHeller, Griffith University, Northwestern, Peralta Community Colleges, Presence of IT, Quest International,  Sonoma State University, SpearMC, State of North Dakota, University of Arizona, University of Colorado Systems, University of Georgia Systems, University of Kansas, UNITEC, and Wala Wala University for sharing their free time to meet with me.   At Alliance the big themes I saw customers discussing were:
  • Fluid – Many customers are very interested in Fluid, this was the next big project customers are working on.  I would estimate about 20% customers are live with Fluid now (users love it) and I have a lot of customers implementing Fluid in Q2/Q3 2017.  If you need info on this – let me know.
  • Recruiting –Customers really liked the new Fluid Candidate Gateway (many seeing it for the first time).  A number of are looking to leave their current ATS (applicant tracking system) to re-implement or license PeopleSoft Recruiting Solutions
  • Birds of Feather (customers ask each other questions) - Time and Labor was the hot topic this year.  Customers had questions around the general tracking of hours and rules & alerts and what 3rd party solutions customers were using for more sophisticated scheduling/card swipe functionality.  Pretty quiet for Core HR which is typical (which is total fine with meJ).
  Customer Corner - I want to highlight the great accomplishments our HR Focus Group Customers have done this monthJ.  If your organization has done something great (upgraded, deployed fluid/new functionality) please let me know so you can get your well deserved recognition.   HR Focus Group Updates:  Thank you to all the customers who volunteered to participate in the focus group
  • Guided Self Service (GSS) Focus Group - New & Improved Manager Self Service – Focus Group provided feedback on different options for the new Multi-Select feature (ability to select a group of employees for a transaction – ex. Reports To Update).  DEV/QA finalizing work on the Update Employee’s Hours (FTE) transaction and Clone Position transaction.
  • Global HR Focus Group – DEV/QA is finalizing work on the new eBanking for self service – employees can update their banking (ex, IBAN) information -  (new feature is for a non-PS Global Payroll customers).
  • Onboarding/Offboarding Focus Group – We had a great conversation this month about Document Acknowledgement as well as starting the conversation around off boarding.  If you would like to help by sharing off boarding requirements please let Jeremy (Pelley@oracle.com) know.    If you haven’t ‘got onboard’ with this focus group now is a great time to join.
  • Employee Snapshot Focus Group (360 view of EE’s info in MSS) – Employee Snapshot focus group will meet on March 23rd.   If you are interested in giving input in this area please contact  Jeremy (pelley@oracle.com)
  •  Profile Management Focus Group – No update this month, look for our next meeting coming soon.
  • Position Management Focus Group – Still working on conceptual designs as well as proof of concepts for enhancements to position mgmt (addition fields, sequence # on position record).  We will be meeting to review, once preliminary designs are complete.
  • ePerformance– We had a great meeting this month and reviewed enhancements that will be coming in the next PeopleSoft Image.   We also discussed the roadmap and reviewed requirements.  We will meet again in April.  If you are interested contact  Jeremy (pelley@oracle.com)
  • Federal U.S. Focus Group (Federal customers only) - ***NEW*** Focus Group will review and provide feedback on new USF features (ex. PAR transactions & more).  If you are interested contact Venky (kotikalapudi@oracle.com).
  ***Important Note*** Focus Groups are open to all customers, calls are typically once a month for an hour or as needed.  Your organization needs to have a current CPCA (customer participation confidentiality agreement) since Oracle discloses future design and prototypes.  Email me if you are interested in any of the above focus groups.   USA/Global Legislative Updates – https://blogs.oracle.com/PsftLegUpdates/
  • India – Employee's Provident Fund Organization has released amendments to Electronic Challan cum Return (ECR) report
  • India - The Finance Minister has presented the budget for Fiscal Year 2017-18 on 1st of February 2017
  • United States – fix for a specific issue related to the Affordable Care Act processing
  HR Bundles/PUM Update – tentative dates
  • 1 – Bundle #24 scheduled for May 5
  • 2 – Image #22 scheduled for April 21
  • 2 – Image #23 scheduled for July 14
  PeopleSoft General Update –
  • New PeopleSoft Talk – In this Episode, Marc talks with Dave Bain, Director of PeopleTools Product Management about PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud. https://youtu.be/0l_xuXL0H5g