PeopleSoft Monthly HR Update for June 2017

Por Julie Alonso
Product Management Director
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM Strategy 

Hello Everyone,

Here is the PeopleSoft Monthly HR Update for June 2017.    Lots of focus group customers upgrading and deploying Fluid – I love to see that!!!

Have a nice day,

-Julie

Upcoming Conferences:

• South Africa Alliance – July 4-5 Pretoria, South Africa
• Southwest HEUG Alliance Conference - July 11-12, Costa Mesa, CA
• RECONNECT (PeopleSoft Apps Only) – July 18-20; Chicago, IL
• Oracle Open World – October 1-5; San Francisco, CA
• If you are interested in co-presenting at OOW, your registration fee is waived – please contact Robbin (robbin.velayedam@oracle.com)

June Conferences:  See pics below

• OHUG (Oracle HCM User Group) – Orlando, FL OHUG 2017 in Orlando Recap
• HIUG (Healthcare User Group) – Orlando, FL HIUG 2017 in Orlando Recap

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.

For additional customer success stories – check out this edition of the PeopleSoft Special Edition of Q&A Magazine

 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 –DEV is currently working on Multi-Select feature (ability to select multi people for a transaction – ex. reports to change).  An additional enhancement we are working on is ability to make Reason required (via configuration) for GSS.
• Global HR Focus Group – We had special guest, Russell Broom, who shared what Oracle tools are available to help with data privacy (ex. GDPR) and new tools PeopleSoft will be delivering to assist with GDPR requirements. 
• Onboarding – We have been busy testing our first roll out of Onboarding.  Customers who attended OHUG and HIUG were some of the first to see the new onboarding feature outside of the focus group.  Focus group will be meeting the last week of July.  We have some new customers that have recently  joined the focus group so please welcome them.  Get on board with PeopleSoft onboarding!
• Employee Snapshot -  No focus group meeting this month.  DEV is working on an administrative view which came up in our last focus group meeting as being an important component to rolling out employee snapshot.  We have many customers in the process of rolling out this great new functionality If you have rolled it out, then please join our focus group to share your user feedback with the group.
• U.S. Federal Focus Group – Met with the Federal Partners and demo’d the new, not released Fluid PAR and Partners provided feedback on the new feature.   Will be having a focus group meeting with Federal customers soon (TBD) – pending CPCA’s being signed.

***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/

• USA – Updated EEO-4 reporting changes for the 2017 report.
• France - The French Government has released a new technical book for DSN, and considering certain anomalies they have also released N4DS 2017 for employers who are late in adopting DSN.
• China - Changes to Social Insurance for Tianjin region have been announced and the solution posting timeline for these changes is updated in our position statement

 HR Bundles/PUM Update – tentative dates

• 9.1 – Bundle #25 scheduled for October 2017
• 9.2 – Image #23 scheduled for July 2017

PeopleSoft General Update –

• New PeopleSoft Talk – In this special episode of PeopleSoft Talk, recorded live at Collaborate 2017, Marc discusses value of the Quest User Group. https://youtu.be/ccS3qu7oAkE