PeopleSoft 9.2: Activity Guides vs. Train Stops

Anne Meyer | MIPRO

PeopleSoft 9.2: Activity Guides vs. Train Stops

  An example of a PeopleSoft Train. Click to enlarge. Similar to the Workcenter vs. Dashboard term intermingling that we bump into from time to time, we are seeing a need for clarification between PeopleSoft Activity Guides and Train Stops. The conflation of these terms comes up every now and again, and there’s a pretty simple explanation

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PeopleSoft 9.2: Dashboards vs. Workcenters

(Note: Jack Kochie, a MIPRO Senior Principal Consultant, contributed to this post.) Over the course of a few presentations we’ve watched as well as several discussions we’ve had, we’ve come to notice there is some confusion between Dashboards and WorkCenters in PeopleSoft 9.2. So, we’d like to clarify to make sure these two terms don’t

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VIDEO: Interview with Jeff Robbins, Oracle Product Strategy Director, PeopleTools

Hey everyone! As I’ve demonstrated in previous video blogs and podcasts, PeopleSoft 9.2 powered by PeopleTools 8.53 changes the user experience drastically with WorkCenters, Activity Guides, Train Stops, Alerts, etc.  Having participated in the User Experience panel at OpenWorld this year, I was able to see some of the upcoming new and exciting capabilities that

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PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 Paycheck Modeler

Today I am going to follow-up on my PeopleSoft 9.2 Guided Life Events post from a couple weeks ago. Up for discussion now: the new PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 Paycheck Modeler. Paycheck Modeler is a new self service feature in PeopleSoft HCM 9.2.  Note that it is available for North American Payroll only and currently is

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OVERVIEW: PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 — Guided Life Events

Activity Guides, a feature of PeopleTools, allows organizations to provide guided paths for completing a business process.  In PeopleSoft 9.2 there is a delivered guided business process for Life Events.  The guided process steps the user through the required and optional steps to record a life event.  It provides the user the opportunity to record

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PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 Overview

Here is a brief (~10 minute) PowerPoint overview of PeopleSoft 9.2 HCM, something we’re hearing about literally every day. Over the next couple weeks we will build on this topic (discussing things like Guided Life Events and Payroll Modeler), but for now this overview is a summary of the new 9.2 HCM platform. Sorry for

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Thoughts on PeopleSoft, Oracle Fusion and Roadmaps

I wasn’t able to attend Oracle Open World (OOW) this year, but feedback from my colleagues indicated that there is still concern and confusion about how, why and when PeopleSoft users will need to move to Fusion.  What we heard is that PeopleSoft customers are still thinking they will be forced to move to Fusion.

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A Look Inside: PeopleSoft 9.1 Enhancements

With all of the talk focused on the new Oracle Fusion HCM applications with their on-premise, on-demand and SaaS options, it seems that the old PeopleSoft workhorse of 9.1 HCM applications may have been forgotten.  But wait!  Here comes the latest feature pack (v2.0) which shines some new light on the PeopleSoft HCM suite. PeopleSoft

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Observations About Fusion From HUG Attendees

I recently attended the Oracle Human Resources Group (OHUG) meeting in Orlando. As a consulting partner/vendor I had a chance to talk to a large number customers — both Oracle eBusiness and PeopleSoft HCM– about their current plans and their perception of Fusion. I have to admit, I was surprised by what I perceived to

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