Summary of "Image Highlights, PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 53"

Summary of PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 53 Video

Key Technological Concepts and Product Features

1. PeopleSoft HCM Landing Page

Provides a unified, role-targeted home page experience for employees, managers, recruiters, business analysts, and administrators.
Utilizes PeopleTools 8.62 styling capabilities, including CSS control over backgrounds, borders, tiles, and buttons.
Dynamic content and navigation are generated via Notification Composer and in-app notifications.
Key sections include:
- Welcome: Greetings, photos, birthdays, anniversaries.
- Banner Announcements: System alerts, holiday notices.
- Suggestions: Pending tasks such as approvals, onboarding, performance documents.
- Continue With: Unfinished transactions with “save for later” support.
- Announcements: Rich text, images, embedded links.
- Quick Access: Common organization-wide self-service tasks.
- My Work: Daily tasks for managers, analysts, and administrators.
- Team, HR, Time & Attendance, Recruiting: Organized by role and business area.
- Reporting and Process Tools: For administrators.
- Recently Visited, Favorites, Favorite Searches: For quick navigation.
Configurable footer area allows custom messages.
Can be used out-of-the-box or customized for a modern user experience.

2. New Dashboards Supporting Task-Oriented Experience

Self-service dashboards: Benefits, Pay and Time, Personal Details.
Manager dashboards: Team dashboard consolidating approvals, time, absence, recognition, compensation, recruiting, onboarding.
Business analyst/administrator dashboards: Human Resources, Manage People and Jobs, Time and Attendance, Administer Time and Attendance, Recruiting.
Dashboards consolidate content and navigation to improve efficiency and prioritization.

3. Notification Publisher Enhancements

Leverages Notification Composer and PeopleTools 8.62 to deliver notifications via email, text, or in-app landing page sections.
Supports one-time or recurring notifications with configurable categories, target audiences, expiration dates, and override content options.
Notifications appear dynamically on landing page sections such as banner announcements or announcements.
Enhances communication consistency and timeliness across the organization.

4. Customization Insights

Combines customer customizations with PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) metadata.
Provides data-driven views of customization usage, impact by delivered updates, and maintenance effort.
Tracks which customizations are used, unused, or impacted by updates.
Requires PeopleTools 8.62 and HCM Image 53 patches to enable.
Includes a dashboard with granular filtering by product area and impacted objects.

5. Remote Worker Feature Enhancements

Embedded interactive insights on approval request pages showing workforce distribution (office, remote, hybrid).
Detailed charts of remote workdays.
Link to a full remote worker insights dashboard.

6. Modernization of U.S. Federal HR Administrative Functions

Fluid interfaces for Add Person and Modify Person transactions.
Search match functionality to avoid duplicates.
Activity guide context with Drop Zones for adding custom steps without customization.
Tracking of federal-specific data such as ethnicity, smoker status, Medicare, citizenship, and military status.
Submit confirmation links to organizational relationship pages and classic hire pages.
Planned expansion to hiring federal employees, contingent workers, and persons of interest.
Additional features include improved validation attachments and transaction summaries showing before/after values.

7. Payroll Enhancements

Conversion of paid family and medical leave programs (Connecticut, DC, Massachusetts, Washington) to the program funding configuration framework.
Provides greater flexibility and seamless reporting without costly customizations.

8. Fluid Paycheck Modeler for Payroll Administrators

Enables simulation of employee paychecks.
Supports paycheck inquiries.

9. Recruiting Solutions Enhancements

Adoption of PeopleTools 8.62 automated incremental indexing.
Automatically updates search indexes when effective dates or last update timestamps change.
Example: Future-dated department description changes trigger index updates without manual scheduling.

10. Indexing Data Change Notifications

Administrators are notified when setup tables lacking last update timestamps are modified.
Helps prevent stale or incorrect data in search indexes.
Notifications include impacted search definitions and prompt full index runs.
Planned expansion to more setup tables and indexes.

Additional Notes

The video highlights only key features; more information is available via CFO tools, Oracle support, and the PeopleSoft information portal.
PeopleTools 8.62 is a prerequisite for many features.

Main Speakers/Sources

The video appears to be an official Oracle/PeopleSoft product update presentation or demonstration, likely delivered by Oracle PeopleSoft product management or development team members. Specific individual names are not provided.