Enabling customers to maximize their investment in Oracle's PeopleSoft
applications, Oracle today announced that PeopleSoft Human Capital
Management 9.2, PeopleSoft Financials 9.2 and Supply Chain Management
9.2 will be generally available Friday, March 22.
-- Oracle demonstrates its commitment to continue to invest in PeopleSoft
by including more than 1,000 new features, functions, and enhancements
in PeopleSoft 9.2.
-- PeopleSoft 9.2 delivers an innovative new user experience, expanded
product functionality, while helping to reduce total cost of
ownership.
-- As with PeopleSoft 9.1, Oracle plans to continue to deliver new
capabilities on top of PeopleSoft 9.2 via Feature Packs.
-- PeopleSoft 9.2 leverages important new technology capabilities
delivered in PeopleTools 8.53.
-- With the delivery of PeopleSoft 9.2, Oracle will simultaneously
provide upgrade scripts as well as the multi-language version of this
release, a first for PeopleSoft applications. This enables PeopleSoft
customers around the world to immediately begin implementing
PeopleSoft 9.2 and reap its benefits sooner.
-- A number of customers and partners have been working with Oracle as
early adopters of PeopleSoft 9.2 and have already started their
implementation and upgrade projects. Some of these customers include:
AARP, Caterpillar Inc., Daimler, Franklin Templeton Investments,
Washington University in St. Louis, Westfield, and Verizon. Partners
working with Oracle include: Accenture LLC, BTR Group, Cardinal Point
Solutions, Cognizant, CSC, Deloitte Consulting, Ellire, GreyHeller,
Huron Consulting Group, Infosys, KPMG, MIPRO, Newbury Consulting
Group, PwC, Regents Consulting LLC, SmartERP Solutions, Succeed
Consultancy LLC, Wipro, and Zanett.
Innovations in PeopleSoft 9.2 Extend Business Value for Customers
-- Designed to reduce the cost to stay current, PeopleSoft Update Manager
transforms the maintenance process. With PeopleSoft Update Manager,
customers can:
-- Define change packages so they are tailored to their specific
needs
-- Apply maintenance on their schedules
-- Get current regardless of prior maintenance levels
-- Streamline maintenance processes
-- Minimize costs and disruptions associated with applying
maintenance (e.g. regression testing) and maximize the impact of
desired updates
-- A new global, free text search across multiple objects and multiple
instances within PeopleSoft 9.2 via Oracle's Secure Enterprise Search
provides more than 120 indices to enable users to quickly retrieve
accurate and actionable search results for a more efficient
search-driven approach to navigating.
-- PeopleSoft 9.2 adopts the expanded Related Actions Framework delivered
in PeopleTools 8.53, which further streamlines navigation by enabling
users to take contextually relevant actions on objects in place of
using traditional menu paths.
-- This release delivers new visual guides to help casual users better
navigate the system and execute activities faster and more easily:
-- Activity Guides enable intuitive, step-by-step processes that
simplify a casual user's interaction with the system. Activity
Guides are used in pre-built Life Events for the self-service
management of actions related to marriage, a new born baby,
adoption and divorce/legal separation.
-- Train Stop visualizations lay out steps of a process in a highly
visual manner across the top of a work screen to help casual users
better navigate other self-service actions such as Pay Check
Modeling and Supplier On-Boarding.
-- In addition to making changes to assist casual users, Oracle has also
made changes to PeopleSoft 9.2 intended to help high-impact users be
more productive by delivering a number of out-of-the-box WorkCenters.
WorkCenters are designed to dramatically improve the effectiveness by
consolidating user tasks, exceptions, alerts, links, reports, and
queries into a single, secure, role based, cockpit style "command
center" that can be personalized via end user configuration.
-- PeopleSoft applications take advantage of new real-time,
multi-dimensional decision support analysis capabilities enabled by
PeopleTools 8.53 with over 60 prebuilt self-service Pivot Grids
delivered in release 9.2.
-- New and enhanced features and functions in PeopleSoft 9.2 create
comprehensive business and industry solutions designed to address the
most intricate requirements.
-- PeopleSoft Human Capital Management 9.2 includes smart HR
template-based transactions, Mid-Period Reviews, a
consumer-oriented recruiting user experience, Learning dashboard,
and redesigned time entry process.
-- PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.2 include mass
GL Journal Approval, Matching History, Supplier On-Boarding, Cash
Forecasting, Multi-Dimensional Project Rate Definition, Asset
Retirement Obligation Accounting, new intuitive self-service
eProcurement requisitioning, and redesigned Expense entry.
-- Industry-specific applications include Approval Workflow for
Commitment Control budget journals for Public Sector, support of
Global Location Numbers (GLN) for Healthcare, balance sheet
valuation through settlement date for Financial Services, a new
Grants WorkCenter for Higher Education, and a new Staffing
WorkCenter and branch recruiter productivity tools for the
Staffing industry.
-- Building upon recent mobile capabilities, PeopleSoft 9.2 includes new
mobile capabilities for requisitioning for purchasing users via
eProcurement, which enables users to place and approve orders from
their mobile devices.
-- Existing PeopleSoft customers and partners may access release notes
and various other PeopleSoft 9.2 materials at My Oracle Support.
Supporting Quotes
-- "With revolutionary innovations in user experience, Oracle's
PeopleSoft 9.2 has new features and functionality designed to help
users work more efficiently, get their work done quicker, and in a way
that's more familiar based on consumer technologies. And, with
dramatic improvements in operational cost management, we believe
Oracle's PeopleSoft 9.2 is a game changing release," said Paco
Aubrejuan, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle's
PeopleSoft Applications.
-- "WorkCenters in Oracle's PeopleSoft 9.2 provide users with a single
page that contains all of their work. This new innovation will enable
users to be more effective and efficient by the ability to see and
manage their work on a single page. WorkCenters include information
users need to complete their tasks, truly making them a one-stop
center for users," said David Baugh, director, Financial Systems,
University of Louisville.
-- "We anticipate that features like pivot grids, enhanced mobile
integration options as well as the improved functions and usability in
several modules (e.g. Recruiting) will enable our HR users and
employees to improve the overall experience with PeopleSoft 9.2. In
conjunction with our Exadata/Exalogic infrastructure, we believe
PeopleSoft 9.2 alongside its interaction-hub will deliver significant
benefits for Daimler when it comes to user performance," said Vielsack
Guido, Director Corporate Processes and Systems at Daimler.
-- "The implementation of Oracle's PeopleSoft 9.2 will provide AARP with
a platform that will allow for system consolidation savings, best in
class processes, high power user interface that improves productivity
and efficiency, increased financial data visibility and enhanced data
integrity," said Robert Hagans, Jr., Executive Vice President &
Chief Financial Officer at AARP.
-- "When looking at our PeopleSoft environment, Scott & White
Healthcare realized we had to make a decision. After seeing previews
of Oracle's PeopleSoft 9.2 at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 the decision was
made clear. PeopleSoft 9.2 brings overall usability, recruiting, and
other talent management functions to the next level. We believe the
move to upgrade to 9.2 will bring significant stability, reliability,
and an improved user experience to the application. Together with
Oracle's PeopleTools 8.53, Oracle's Secure Enterprise Search, and the
PeopleSoft interaction hub enhancements, our executives, managers, and
employees will be able to get the right data at the right time," said
Jeremy Pelley, Director of Business Applications, Scott & White
Healthcare.
Supporting Resources
-- Oracle's PeopleSoft Applications
-- Oracle's PeopleSoft 9.2
-- Oracle's PeopleSoft Videos on YouTube
-- PeopleSoft Apps Strategy Blog
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Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/18/idUSnMKW97475a+1c0+MKW20130318
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