Over the past couple of months we worked on a business case for an upgrade to PeopleSoft HCM 9.1. In this blog, we like to share with you a few of our first experiences and impressions about PeopleSoft HCM 9.1. The obvious new features like ‘mouse over menu’, ‘type ahead’, ‘partial page refresh’ and ‘in context search window’ are very user friendly, but there is more! Below we will state in short the pro’s and con’s of the new HCM version. 

UPK is a handy tool to create documentation for the various phases in a (big) project. Often, projects are unfortunately not quite in the outlined phases. What about the project while the system is still in developing?

(source: Oracle)

What is the best way to create and maintain workers to PeopleSoft CRM? The correct way to synchronize workers to PeopleSoft CRM is using the Workforce services. This works fine when using PeopleSoft HCM, but what about when your HCM application is non-PeopleSoft? In our case where are integrating PeopleSoft CRM HR Helpdesk with SAP HCM and P&I HCM.

When the client has a problem with the efficiency  of his administration like a lot of waiting time or long processing time, it is useful to describe the current processes in the administration. Those description can made by himself or better by an experienced business analyst. The description can be done in simple MS Word or MS Visio. The business analyst should use either more sophisticated BPM tools like ARIS (by IDS Scheer) or similar Oracle BPA suite 11gR1.

After the long-awaited and quite revolutionarily PeopleTools 8.50, Oracle announced PeopleTools 8.51. With this release Oracle will enhance PeopleTools and add some new features that will be a great markup for PeopleSoft in general.

Here are some snippets from the RVP, which I think will have a great added value to the PeopleSoft application.