At COLLABORATE 19, the Oracle team announced the next class of PeopleSoft Innovators. The organizations that were included in this group completed projects and implementations that showcase the kind of rapid change and responsiveness that is possible with today’s PeopleSoft. These customers are leading the way and driving strategic transformation initiatives in an attempt to continuously evolve their systems, processes, and how they do business. Whether they are adopting Cloud technologies, improving user experience, eliminating and isolating customizations, or implementing new products, these innovators are using PeopleSoft to change their organizations for the better.

April 2019 PeopleSoft Innovators

The April 2019 PeopleSoft Innovators include:

Alameda County

• Rollout of PeopleSoft ERP and HCM Fluid user interface
• Improved ease of use and productivity
• Elasticsearch for portal content
• Page and Field Configurator and Event Mapping for customization isolation and elimination
• A defined Selective Adoption strategy

Alaska Airlines

• Modern user experience and efficient navigation for PeopleSoft Financials users
• Fluid user interface
• Mobile approvals for Requisitions, Vouchers, and Suppliers
• Enhanced search capability through Elasticsearch
• Supplier Portal
• A defined Selective Adoption strategy

Alliant Energy

• PeopleSoft Mobile Inventory Fluid user interface on iPhones and barcode scanner sleds
• Converted custom inventory pages to the Fluid UI
• Consistent, modern user experience on mobile
• Easy completion of inventory transactions at any time, from anywhere

Anne Arundel Medical Center

• Multi-phased IT and business transformation program
• Migrated PeopleSoft environments to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Elasticsearch
• A new Grants Management solution using PeopleSoft Grants
• Project Costing and Contracts integrated to PeopleSoft Financials
• Fluid user interface
• PeopleSoft Expenses and Mobile Inventory

Clerk & Comptroller, Palm Beach County

• User-friendly, branded PeopleSoft HCM capabilities with Fluid UI
• Manager and Employee Self Service
• Paycheck Modeler
• PeopleSoft Health and Safety functionality
• Page and Field Configurator
• Event Mapping
• Pivot Grids with Fluid tiles and configurable Home Pages
• Elasticsearch
• Used PeopleSoft Deployment Packages to drive patching and lifecycle management efficiencies and time savings

Dick’s Sporting Goods

• Implemented technology innovations using PeopleTools platform
• Configurable approach for automating and simplifying critical setup activities when environments are refreshed
• Automated approach that monitors long-running processes and possible JobSet failures in Process Monitor
• Automated approach to monitoring Integration Broker that includes notification routing and handling that accounts for the time of day and other conditions

Endeavour Foundation

• Changed approach for managing PeopleSoft solutions
• Rapidly adopting new functionality as it is released
• Fluid UI in PeopleSoft HCM
• Employee and Manager Self Service
• Fluid Timesheet
• Employee Snapshot
• Global Payroll banking functionality
• Eliminating customizations

Hackensack Meridian Health

• Fluid UI for PeopleSoft Financials including Requisitions, Worklists, and AP Voucher status
• Custom scheduling system using PeopleTools and Fluid UI that is integrated with PeopleSoft HCM
• Converted all team members from ADP, Kronos, and Lawson systems to PeopleSoft Payroll and the custom scheduling system
• Provide a seamless, responsive, mobile user experience for all

Hays Specialist Recruitment

• An engaging, one-stop learning center using PeopleSoft ELM and new Mobile Learning capabilities
• Branding to align with corporate branding guidelines
• Custom National Equality Standard (NES) survey built in PeopleTools using Fluid UI
• Fluid UI across full PeopleSoft HCM and ERP estate
• Utilizing more features and key frameworks like Activity Guides
• Streamlined, guided user experience

Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities Company (KU) Services

• PeopleSoft HCM Fluid UI for Employee and Manager Self Service
• A defined Selective Adoption strategy to get current annually
• Evaluating and using newly delivered functionality

Lone Star College

• Fluid user interface
• Emphasis on user personas to tailor the experience and unique custom “side bar”
• Design scale across PeopleSoft HCM, Financials, and Campus Solutions
• Native, mobile self-service experience resulting in a 30 percent increase of mobile device usage

Medifé

• Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environments
• PeopleSoft Global Payroll for Argentina on the Cloud
• A faster and less expensive project that has simplified the software implementation and integration to Oracle Cloud application

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.

• Strategic initiatives to increase return on software investment
• PeopleSoft HCM Fluid UI capabilities
• Fluid Home Pages
• Uniquely configured navigation for administrative functions
• Employee and Manager Self Service
• Workforce Administration
• Payroll for North America Fluid WorkCenter
• Selective Adoption for rapid adoption of desired features

Saint-Gobain UK Ltd.

• Use of REST services, specifically API messages in JSON format
• Integration of PeopleSoft with a third-party document management system for handling electronically signed offer letters

T&C Sports

• New production implementation of PeopleSoft Global Payroll on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Oracle ERP Cloud
• Oracle Planning and Budgeting
• Oracle Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities

University of Florida Health

• PeopleSoft Mobile Inventory Fluid UI
• Non-invasive bolt-on customizations to address unique needs
• Use of Oracle BI Publisher to create bar code labels that print to portable printers
• Use of web services through Integration Broker to interact directly with shipping vendors to streamline receiving

WNS Global Service Pvt. Ltd.

• Extension of mobile capabilities and transactions beyond PeopleSoft
• Chatbots and third-party applications
• Encapsulating business logic in REST services
• Supporting JSON objects
• Load balancing through Integration Broker

Congratulations to the April 2019 class of PeopleSoft Innovators!

If you, or someone you know, are using the latest capabilities in PeopleSoft to deploy new features and transform your organization, submit a nomination to be included in the next class of PeopleSoft Innovators. The next class will be announced at Oracle OpenWorld 2019.

Additional Resources

For more information about this class of PeopleSoft Innovators, check out Oracle’s blog and the full collection of PeopleSoft Innovators from over the years attached below.

To learn from the experiences of your peers within the Quest Oracle Community, check out the PeopleSoft Customer Stories page that houses 30+ PeopleSoft customer stories about Selective Adoption, user experience, PeopleSoft in the Cloud, PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning, and PeopleSoft tools and technology!

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