Value of Upgrading PeopleSoft

Value of Upgrading


With each release of PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM, we strive to add value to your vital business processes.

HCM 9.0 represents a continued commitment to excellence and quality and centers on three key business drivers:

•Enterprise-Wide Talent Management We continue our leadership in the talent management space. The introduction of a centralized Profile Management business process delivers enterprise-wide talent management, offering organizations seamless integration of talent management applications.

•Lean Business Processes We offer more flexible and configurable products that enable organizations to tailor applications to business needs. Made possible by new capabilities such as SmartHire, a template-driven approach to streamlining the onboarding process, HCM 9.0 represents a truly configurable application. Enhancements throughout the application set deliver more flexibility so customers are able to adapt the system to their individual requirements while reducing the need for customizations.

•Extended Value with Innovative, Standardized Technology We’ve leveraged the rich technology foundation offered by Oracle’s Fusion Middleware. The extended value of this technology centralizes common tasks and components, helping change the way people do business. Oracle XML Publisher reduces the high costs associated with the development, customization and maintenance of business documents while increasing the efficiency of document and reporting management. We provide an embedded common approval framework across the suite. Our ongoing commitment to Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) is delivered with enhanced and additional web services to improve extensibility and performance.

HCM 8.9 offered our customers dramatically improved functionality and experience and centered on four key business drivers:

•Total Ownership Experience In 2003, PeopleSoft management made a commitment to address our customers’ total cost of owning PeopleSoft applications. PeopleSoft made installations and implementations faster, simplified upgrades, offered real-time support and performance diagnostics, and delivered robust integration with other eBusiness software.

•Implementation We automated the people-intensive process of installing, configuring, and integrating software. PeopleSoft continually improves installation, configuration, and integration to dramatically reduce implementation time and costs.

•Usability We enhanced usability across the product suite reducing the time and number of clicks needed for key processes, establishing industry leadership in task completion rates, and making marked improvements in the usability of key functions throughout the HCM suite.

•Supportability We incorporated extensive improvements in the areas of supportability, performance, and upgrades. PeopleSoft offers three system-aware diagnostic and support tools as part of the PeopleTools 8.44 Total Ownership Experience release, including Change Assistant, Performance Monitor, and Diagnostic Framework.

HRMS 8.8 continued the global expansion of our world-class HRMS solutions, adding new countries to the list of supported locations and enhancing our products in those regions already familiar with PeopleSoft. New products included:

•PeopleSoft Mobile Time Management. Part of the PeopleSoft Mobile Workforce application suite, this application employs PeopleTools Mobile Agent to enable your mobile workforce to record, report, and update time through a laptop or PDA (personal digital assistant) while disconnected from a network.

•PeopleSoft ePerformance Management.

•PeopleSoft Global Payroll extensions for Brazil, India, The Netherlands, New Zealand, and Singapore.

HRMS 8.3 expanded the global footprint of our world-class HRMS solutions, adding new countries to the list of supported locations and enhancing our products in those regions already familiar with PeopleSoft.

We improved PeopleSoft HRMS Collaborative Applications for better, faster decision making at the desktop by including self-service features and integrating more content from industry leading suppliers.

Recruiting Solutions combined several applications to provide a fully integrated, end-to-end recruitment tool. We included more self-service and integrated content from leading suppliers.

This release included major new functionality and performance enhancements in other areas as well.