PeopleSoft HRMS 9.1: An Exploration (Part 1)

Now that Oracle has announced the general availability of PeopleSoft HRMS 9.1, I would like to take some time over my next three blog posts to discuss some of the mainline enhancements that are relevant to PeopleSoft shops.  This is a widely-anticipated release, and there’s some powerful stuff in the 9.1 version.

Before we get too deep, I would like to outline the organization of the HCM product line so that PeopleSoft customers are aware of the various products that make up the suite of products.  Simply stated, Oracle has grouped the products into three core suites:

• Foundation Applications – Core HCM, Global Extensions and Workforce Management
• Service Delivery Applications – Self Service, Help Desk and HR Portal
• Strategic Applications – Integrated Talent Management

Let us begin by identifying the point products that make up each suite.

Foundation Applications – Core HCM, Global Extensions and Workforce Management

Is comprised of:

• Human Resources
• Payroll for North America
• Global Payroll Core
• Global Extensions for HR and Payroll
• Absence Management
• Time and Labor
• Pension Administration
• Oracle Workforce Scheduling

Service Delivery Applications – Self Service, Help Desk and HR Portal

Is comprised of:

• Employee and Manager Self Service
• PeopleSoft Portal 9.1 – Enabling Employee 2.0
• PeopleSoft HelpDesk for HR
• PeopleSoft Workforce Communications 9.1

Strategic Applications – Integrated Talent Management

Is comprised of:

• Profile Manager
• Recruiting Solutions
• ePerformance
• Enterprise Learning Management (ELM)
• Plan Careers
• Plan Successions
• eCompensation
• eCompensation Manager Desktop

This Week’s Focus: Enhancements That HCM 9.1 Provides for the Foundation Applications

At a high level, the primary focus of HCM 9.1 as it relates to the Foundation Applications has been on improving the applications to handle today’s realities by ensuring that PeopleSoft HCM meets the needs of organizations and their global footprints. With HCM 9.1, Oracle has increased the number of countries that are supported out of the box and built a single system of record for all employee information.  It’s literally a unified foundation, and it’s been requested by many existing PeopleSoft customers.

Some key enhancements are identified below.

Payroll for North America

The following items have been improved/added to the Payroll for North America technology:

• Additional Contract Pay Options
• Increased Retro-Pay flexibility
• Real-time Budget Checking
• Improved Chartfield Integration

Military Rank Change

Increasing the capabilities originally introduced in PeopleSoft 9.0, Oracle has again delivered a key piece of functionality in the area of managing service members of any military organization. Some key changes include improvements to templates and the workflows to manage rank changes intelligently.

Smart Hires

This core HR functionality expands on the Smart Hires process introduced in HR 9.0.  The details of this expansion are out-of-scope for this blog post, but suffice to say that the overall fit-and-finish of this functionality has been considerably polished.

Global HR Enhancements

Increased support for various countries:

• HR for China
• HR for the UK
• Global Payroll for Argentina
• Global Payroll for China
• Global Payroll for France
• Global Payroll for Thailand

Integration with Oracle Workforce Scheduling (OWS)

As many of this blog’s readers might know, Oracle Workforce Scheduling is a solution for forecasting the demand for labor and scheduling to meet customer service and cost objectives. OWS can be run as a standalone application, but has been integrated into the PeopleSoft HR applications to enable organizations to make better use of each application’s strengths and leverage worldwide best practices.

This post is meant to be a high-level overview of how Oracle has arranged the 9.1 applications into strategic product suites.  In my next two posts, we’ll ratchet up the focus on particular parts of the 9.1 HRMS release.  In the meantime, if you’d like more information on the improvements introduced in 9.1, please contact me and I can walk you through them.  We get many, many requests about PeopleSoft 9.1, and now that we’re seeing products go GA, I expect inquiries to ramp up as organizations consider upgrades or new implementations.

Of course, you may also access the content using Oracle’s “My Oracle Support” to download the release notes by searching for the “HCM 9.1 Documentation Home Page” using their search tool .

Next up: part 2 of this series, which will be focused on the improvements to the HCM Service Delivery Applications.  Hang around.

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Previously:

Oracle’s New Continuous Delivery Model for Campus Solutions
A New Settlement Method for PeopleSoft Payables
PeopleTools 8.5 Now Available
What Drives Clients to PeopleSoft Real Estate Management (REM)
Quantifying the Value of Integration With PeopleSoft Maintenance Management: A Real Life Example
Quick Look: PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) 9.1 Enhancements
PeopleSoft ‘Edge of the Enterprise’ Applications: eSupplier Connection & eSettlements
PeopleSoft Financials: Source-to-Settle 9.1 Enhancements
PeopleSoft IT Asset Management: A Deeper Look
PeopleSoft Maintenance Management: A Deeper Look
PeopleSoft Real Estate Management: A Deeper Look
An Introduction to PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management
Sneak Peek: PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 9.1
PeopleTools 8.5: A Look Inside

Related whitepapers (PDF):

PeopleSoft Maintenance Management: An Introduction and Overview of Benefits

Related web content:

MiPro Consulting: PeopleSoft Services
MiPro Consulting: Resources