Overview
What is Oracle PeopleSoft HCM?
Oracle's PeopleSoft HCM is a complete, customizable suite including Global Core Human Capital Management, Workforce Management, Workforce Service Delivery, and Talent Management. PeopleSoft can be integrated to run on the Oracle Cloud.
PeopleSoft HCM review by Indian banking major
Good integration options for HCM software
Efficient and intuitive!
All encompassing HR software
- Used system wide for employee management and record keeping.
- Employee records are kept in Oracle PeopleSoft HCM, including job and benefits …
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM - Review
PeopleSoft HCM Review
HCM for large enterprises covering multiple labor jurisdictions
If it does your payroll why not your everything else?
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PeopleSoft HCM Product Review in OpenWorld19
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PeopleSoft at a glance!
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Popular Features
- Update personal information (67)10.0100%
- Job profiles and administration (66)10.0100%
- Employment history (64)9.090%
- Employee demographic data (66)7.070%
Pricing
Benefits
$85.00
Pension Administration
$85.00
Human Resources
$185.00
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Features
Human Resource Management
Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.
- 7Employee demographic data(66) Ratings
Administrators have the ability to enter detailed demographic data for each employee.
- 9Employment history(64) Ratings
Employment history is the ability to track previous positions held.
- 10Job profiles and administration(66) Ratings
Job profiles and descriptions can be created and edited.
- 9Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.(64) Ratings
Employee move workflow provides the ability to move employees to different positions and apply pay raises.
- 8Organizational charting(56) Ratings
Organizational charting is the ability to create hierarchical charts.
- 8Organization and location management(61) Ratings
Organization and location management allows employees to be managed across multiple geographical locations.
- 6Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)(54) Ratings
Compliance capabilities ensure full compliance with federal workplace regulations by capturing required data in central database.
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 10Pay calculation(57) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 9Support for external payroll vendors(41) Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.
- 10Off-cycle/On-Demand payment(4) Ratings
Provide employees access to wages accrued during the pay period before the end of the pay cycle.
- 9Benefit plan administration(52) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 9Direct deposit files(55) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 9Salary revision and increment management(53) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 9Reimbursement management(40) Ratings
Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.
Leave and Attendance Management
Streamlines communication between HR and employees and facilitates efficient management of employee leave including requisitions, approvals, balance calculation, and annual carry-forward.
- 9Approval workflow(41) Ratings
Approval workflow is the process for approving employee paid time-off requests.
- 8Balance details(47) Ratings
Balance details is automatic updating of paid time-off balance to reflect time taken.
- 9Annual carry-forward and encashment(37) Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment enables unused paid time-off days to be carried forward to new year, or paid in cash.
Employee Self Service
Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.
- 10View and generate pay and benefit information(59) Ratings
Employees can view pay and benefit data and print pay stubs.
- 10Update personal information(67) Ratings
Employees can update personal profile with change of address, dependents, or other personal data.
- 8View company policy documentation(46) Ratings
Employees can review company handbook, and corporate policy documents.
- 9Employee recognition(39) Ratings
thank a team member
- 9View job history(63) Ratings
Employees can view all positions held at the company.
Asset Management
Maintaining a record of assets such as laptops, pagers, cell phones, etc. issued to employees. Record typically includes asset type, number, serial number and date of issuance.
- 9Tracking of all physical assets(27) Ratings
Tracking of track laptops, pagers, phones, and other company equipment.
HR Reporting
Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.
- 8Report builder(62) Ratings
Report builder allows custom reports to be created using a GUI.
- 7Pre-built reports(60) Ratings
Pre-built reports is the provision of a variety of canned reports on employee retention, and other key metrics.
- 8Ability to combine HR data with external data(55) Ratings
Ability to bring data from external systems like CRM and combine with HR data.
Onboarding
Employee onboarding is the process of orienting new hires to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so that they are able to function in their new roles as quickly as possible.
- 9New hire portal(46) Ratings
New hire portal eliminates printing and mailing with a personalized portal of all required reading, corporate information, and all forms and other paperwork, online.
- 9Manager tracking tools(42) Ratings
Tracking tools allow hiring managers to check status on individual hires for all onboarding activities.
Performance and Goals
Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.
- 8Corporate goal setting(33) Ratings
Corporate goal setting is the ability to define corporate goals, and/or vision statements in the system.
- 9Individual goal setting(35) Ratings
Individual goal setting is the ability to define individual goals that align to organizational and subordinate goals.
- 8Line-of sight-visibility(33) Ratings
Line-of-sight visibility is the provision of line-of sight visibility for each goal to see how goals support overall corporate objectives.
- 9Performance tracking(35) Ratings
Performance tracking allows managers to track individual progress against goals as a component of overall performance.
Performance Management
Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.
- 9Performance plans(39) Ratings
Supervisors have ability to build individual performance plans including, goals, competencies, etc..
- 9Performance improvement plans(38) Ratings
Supervisors can track disciplinary actions such as performance improvement plans.
- 9Review status tracking(38) Ratings
Supervisors can monitor and track review status completion with dashboard showing milestones and status.
- 9Review reminders(33) Ratings
System can generate reminders to ensure review completion timeliness.
- 7Multiple review frequency(36) Ratings
System supports multiple review types including annual, quarterly mid-year and anniversary reviews.
Succession Planning
Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.
- 8Create succession plans/pools(30) Ratings
Managers can create and manage pools of potentially high-performing individuals.
- 7Candidate ranking(29) Ratings
Candidate readiness for key business positions can be ranked and assessed.
- 6Candidate search(30) Ratings
Candidate search provides search capabilities for potential candidates based on attribute or other profile data.
- 9Candidate development(27) Ratings
Candidate development is the ability to assign learning and development goals.
Recruiting / ATS
Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.
- 8Job Requisition Management(33) Ratings
Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily
- 7Company Website Posting(31) Ratings
Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website
- 7Publish to Social Media(29) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites
- 8Job Search Site Posting(32) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites
- 9Duplicate Candidate Prevention(25) Ratings
Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added
- 9Applicant Tracking(34) Ratings
Applicant tracking allows recruiters to assign applicants to various stages so others can see status at a glance
- 9Notifications and Alerts(33) Ratings
Notifications and reminders inform you of tasks to be completed
Product Details
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What is Oracle PeopleSoft HCM?
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Oracle PeopleSoft HCM Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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- 5Likelihood to Renew10 ratings
- 9Availability1 rating
- 9Performance1 rating
- 9Usability6 ratings
- 9Support Rating4 ratings
- 9Online Training1 rating
- 8Implementation Rating3 ratings
- 10Configurability1 rating
- 9Product Scalability1 rating
- 9Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 9Vendor post-sale1 rating
- 10Oracle University Experience1 rating
Reviews
(1-25 of 32)PeopleSoft HCM review by Indian banking major
- Leave and Absence
- Customizations
- Payroll
- Benefits administration
- Look and feel
- Alerts in mobile
Good integration options for HCM software
- Easy to use and learn
- Good customer support
- Ability to write custom reports for ongoing projects
- The UI is a little antiquated
- Somewhat expensive leveraging the app
- Security concerns with recent vulnerabilities being exposed
Efficient and intuitive!
- Mobile interface really helps complete tasks on the go.
- Secure authentication.
- Good workflow.
- Fast performance.
- Some issues in mobile compatibility.
- Analytics could be better.
- Navigation can be difficult for new user.
All encompassing HR software
- Used system wide for employee management and record keeping.
- Employee records are kept in Oracle PeopleSoft HCM, including job and benefits information. Additionally, we use it to process new hires, transfers, terminations, etc.
- Oracle PeopleSoft HCM is also used to track job code information, including reports of incumbents, and a variety of queries such as equity, pay rates, etc.
- Essentially, it is used for almost all HR related information.
- Employee Self Service - links to tax, paycheck, time off information, etc.
- Tracking job data - descriptions, pay ranges, reports for a specified job code.
- Linking with integrated software, such as Kronos for timekeeping and vemo for workforce insight reports.
- Updated User Interface - there is a lot of unused space.
- More intuitive navigation, although the search feature helps offset some of that shortcoming.
- Suggestions for useful links and reporting tools you may find helpful based on job title.
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- Easy to use and learn.
- It's inhouse and hence we can write code or SQL or modify or generate integrations using custom SQL.
- Ability to view multiple screens at once was a great plus, which we see in many systems, however first saw that on PeopleSoft.
- Great customer support.
- Compensation module definitely needs improvement.
- Talent management - Goals and Performance management module needs improvement.
- Running of ben interface overnight everyday consumes timeout each day. There should be no service interruption while running ben interfaces. It was maybe only us due to many customizations.
Menu navigation may be difficult for new users.
Very compatible and stable application.
Multi tab feature is excellent.
Analytics is a powerful feature.
Database access gives us ability to create or generate custom integrations or SQL.
Needs to be mobile friendly.
If it does your payroll why not your everything else?
- Easy to use and learn
- Easy to assign multiple users
- Easy to transfer information from one HCM to another
- The LMS inherent in this system needs improvement.
PeopleSoft HCM
- One of the examples that we can provide for HCM is the Recruiting Module where candidate attachments and searching the candidates for internal and external job posting. Integration with Elastic search made it much more easy for the users.
- Another example is N/A Payroll. Running the jobs and viewing the paystubs is much easier with 9.2 implementations. Oracle will be on top of regular tax updates so that the application will be current with the current government norms.
- As a PeopleSoft administrator, we heard some complaints about Pivot Grid's performance. For example, the recruiting users in Pivot Grid gets late responses.
- One more thing is that not all pages are being delivered in fluid and the development team went ahead to build some custom fluid pages. If Oracle provides all the pages in fluid that would reduce the effort of the client.
PeopleSoft HCM Product Review in OpenWorld19
- Solid payroll system
- Customization is allowed (good )
- User-friendly
- Stable product
- Customization (bad) which will be an obstacle to move to HCM cloud
- Technology update and improvement including latest technology
- Commitment and continuous support from Oracle
- UI improvement - Look and feel modern user experience
On the other hand, PeopleSoft is considered a legacy system due to the old data model and lack of investment and support from Oracle. PeopleSoft is not a good candidate for a cloud product since it does NOT offer flexible configurable options compared to Oracle HCM Cloud.
PeopleSoft at a glance!
- PeopleSoft security features are awesome.
- Nice integrated development environment.
- Easy customization.
- Workflow capabilities.
- Find references - Give all SQL references, views using views, records/views used in SQLEXEC's, etc.
- More data analytics capabilities.
- Easy way to troubleshoot AWE issues.
Requires additional cloud support
- New fluid UI that has been introduced with PT 8.53 has been really great for UX.
- Seamless integrations and creating web services using out of the box templates by component is really useful.
- Faster processing of transactions and moving away from COBOL has been great.
- PeopleSoft does not provide out of the box methodology to utilize DevOps.
- PeopleSoft should support Kubernetes cluster implementation and automated configuration management systems.
- PeopleSoft should be able to deploy in docker container setup.
Awesome Product
- Accurate payroll processes.
- Reporting.
- Integration services.
- Security.
- Self-service.
- Data masking features.
- Approval framework.
- Notification framework.
- Support of two-factor authentication.
HCM Review
- Compensation management.
- Employee self-service.
- Better reporting, particularly dashboards.
- Better user interface. It could be more intuitive.
Oracle HCM Rocks...
- Ease of Use
- Rich Functionality
- Payroll Integration
- The screen could have fewer buttons
- Allow for simpler upgrades
- Voice integration when running reports would be great
PS HCM review
- All employees in the organization can consistently use the same HCM to track employee payroll data
- We used to have problems in getting technical support from PeopleSoft. We hired a consultant to support us.
Non-technical value of PeopleSoft HCM
- The effective dating feature of PeopleSoft is especially useful in tracking the life cycle of an employee's relationship with the organization, from the time they apply for an opening until the time they decide to retire from the company. Every transaction can be tracked within the system so you have the historical data needed to support any type of reporting that may be required.
- Security is another thing that PeopleSoft does well. The ability to have row level security in addition to page security is very useful when you need to provide access to the data for various categories of employees. For example, we can set security permissions so that it allows a payroll clerk to see only hourly employees since that is the pay group for whom they're responsible for processing.
- The Employee Snapshot in Manager Self-Service is an awesome new feature! It allows managers at any level to see specific data not only about their direct reports, but also 2nd and 3rd+ level direct reports as well. using a graphical drill down capability to get the details.
- I also like that you can use many types of devices to work with PeopleSoft HCM. I can see the same information from my laptop, tablet or phone as needed.
- The Dotted Line Reports feature of Company Directory will be an added bonus for our organization since many of our teams function as networked teams rather than hierarchical ones.
- We really need to have more flexibility with the number of leaders for teams. We have many cross-functional teams that have more than one team leader. The ability to identify multiple leaders who can access their team members' data would be extremely helpful with how our staff work in a team environment.
- Better documentation on the set up steps is needed. The wizards have helped a lot but they are still sometimes hard to use. Vidoes are helpful too, but often don't go to the level of detail necessary to completely set up a new feature or function.
- Security is often confusing. Whenever new functionality is made available or a PUM update is done, the roles/permission lists to use it is sometimes difficult to find. Having a better way to search for that would be helpful.
- The UX for Security needs needs to be redesigned. It is difficult to figure out all of the necessary steps to implement a change to a user's role or a permission is made. You often have to go to another place in the system to finalize the change such as running the SJT class update, which leads to that step being missed until you don't see your change in the system hours later!
PeopleSoft HCM - solid, but what does the future hold?
- Payroll processing has been stable for the entire time we've used HCM and generally has the flexibility to handle a variety of situations we encounter in paying students, faculty and staff, including many cases of multiple jobs.
- Self-service using the classic pages has worked well for us and has relieved HR staff from answering many questions individually.
- The PeopleTools technology framework has allowed us to add new capabilities not supported by the product, including creating a way for managers of student workers to hire them without HR involvement.
- We have issues with students using Time & Labor for multiple jobs, where time is incorrectly calculated, including negative balances where none exist.
- The application is complex and some areas, especially Time & Labor, are very difficult to troubleshoot. The overall level of complexity has increased over the years.
- We also use Campus Solutions and had to split apart HCM and CS, significantly increasing our maintenance overhead and creating inter-system issues that aren't always resolvable.
- Campus Solutions has developed a solution for managing preferred names and gender identity that is missing/ incompatible with the HCM product.
PeopleSoft HCM
- Thoroughly Tested and developed to adhere to industry needs in the US.
- Great technical support staff that can be contacted to help by filing service requests.
- Helpful manuals in the form of PeopleBooks with loads of useful content to gain technical and functional knowledge about PeopleSoft.
- Great way to not only customize a particular solution but also provides a great way to integrate with third-party solutions.
- Some modules need in-depth functional knowledge to work as configured. This can lead to some issues if set up is not configured properly.
- Hard to recruit, train and retain technical and functional staff. Employers are always on the lookout for new people interested in PeopleSoft.
- Customizations made by clients can also cause a hindrance to what Oracle can deliver. This is the major reason why it isn't able to catch up to the level of some of its other competitors.
So PeopleSoft has a 'soft' spot in my heart!
- Automation of payroll process
- Automation of benefits events and link to job changes
- Queries, WorkCenters
- Fluid tiles
- Implement new ideas based on user suggestions. Example, primary job flag updates.
- Provide more options in Leave Accrual process
- A better process for retroactive benefit deductions
Less appropriate - Occupational Health
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM Review
- Employee Payroll is divided into weekly and monthly, and we have different employees such as contingent worker and temps. All these are properly and tactfully handled by Position Management.
- We keep our system up to date with latest tax update versions. Our payroll is smooth flawless since the introduction of Payroll for NA.
- Base benefits allow proper maintenance of employee and dependent health benefits as well as vacation and leave accruals.
- There is not much self-correcting ability in BAS Benefits, if Ben Admin can be more robust and informative it can help operation smoothen further.
- COBOLS can be a concern and at times depends on running certain DMS, a clearer instruction can help admins and developers to troubleshoot. At times we need to spend hours in MOS to find the proper documents. If all these docs are combined in an ordered way it could become a one-stop point for troubleshooting.
Taleo-PeopleSoft integration
Ease of customization
PeopleSoft - Just Okay..
- The system allows for a lot of customization. Our talent acquisition platform is almost completely customized to communicate with our financial and compensation teams who aide in the position request and approval process. While the updates certainly take time, we utilize Oracle support to make our systems our own in order to meet business needs.
- The dashboards are user-friendly both for employees and managers. The self-service features are great tools for allowing employees to set up their payroll and tax preferences, distribute pay stubs, and monitor PTO. For orders or invoice pay requests this is all built in to communicate with our procurement and accounts payable teams. This is a great tool to help effectively get requests through and approved in a hierarchy format.
- As a large organization, there is a plethora of information stored and made available to the organization. Having the ability to house so much data and have the system run as quickly as it does is certainly impressive. With such emphasis on less paper trail, this has certainly been a cost-effective means to make information available electronically.
- Although the customization is a strength, this is largely due to some business systems of PeopleSoft being out of date. The HR system for talent management is pretty poorly designed out of the box. There are updates from Oracle that may have the system more comparable to other popular applicant tracking systems, but ours is fairly bare bones. As a result we’ve customized this entirely, and unfortunately deal with a fair amount of internal errors. Luckily from the outside our applicants and candidates do not face issues.
- Our current PeopleSoft version is not mobile compatible and overall they were behind the ball in implementing mobile friendly systems. As a business and society of always on the go, the inability to effectively utilize all services from a tablet or phone is disappointing. Again, there are rumors of mobile compatibility upgrades, but the upgrade is too pricey for us to take on at this time.
- The performance management function was very old fashioned. It was difficult to manage and utilize by both team leaders and employees. Our organization recently removed the performance management function and went with an entirely different system. As a rapidly changing and evolving business strategy the check a box and numerical rating on individual performance was not adaptable to a more personalized goal setting performance review process.
Oracle PeopleSoft is probably best suited for employee self-service functions such as benefits enrollment, payroll tax preferences, and other similar HR related features. The financial features and the applicant tracking system are behind other competing business systems. The UI of the system as a whole is not very modern, and not being mobile friendly is a factor here. At the same time, this system is still very comprehensive and best suited for a 1000+ employee organization both due to cost and services. While there have been hiccups over the years of utilizing PeopleSoft our developers and Oracle support have always been available to assist.
Peoplesoft HCM Review
- Selective adoption where users can upgrade in frequent intervals
- Fluid User Interface - Supporting mobile and rendering based on device
- Continuous upgrade of features and enhancements
- Simplified Analytics - Enables users to create their own reports
- Company directory can be more configurable
- My Team in MSS can be more configurable
- Add more fields in Guided Self Service
PeopleSoft set the standards and continues to shape the market
- PeopleSoft has invested heavily to improve the User Interface that is both accessible on a device and on a desk-top. PeopleSoft is one of the few HRIS systems that provides an identical user interface irrelevant of the device, thus resulting in less training and change management effort.
- PeopleSoft Talent Management modules are integrated out of the box with PeopleSoft Core HR/Payroll modules and requires no data extraction, updates or migration requirements either as a part of the implementation or on-going. It also requires no additional intervention to enable Single Sign-On, as when the employee is logged onto access their pay or update personal details, they have the ability to look at their talent profile / performance templates and compensation details
- PeopleSoft provides the ability to Personalize, Configure and Customize your application. Today’s PeopleSoft is rich in functionality, that most Talent requirements are met with out of the box functionality requiring configuration
- The Employee Snapshot feature provides managers with a comprehensive view of talent data related to an individual employee through the use of dashboards and tiles within the PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface pages.
- With Employee Snapshot, managers have access to an employee’s talent data from one location instead of accessing several components separately.
- Integration to Oracle's Taleo ATS could be much improved
Easy to use and Highly Scalable HCM Tool
- The tool since it used by employees across organization, there should be minimum cost involved in training about the tool. Oracle Peoplesoft HCM is such a tool which is quite self explanatory in nature and easy to navigate and use, thus reduces any training cost involved.
- This tool provided various options for Time reporting and leaves reporting. The attendance system can be integrated with the swipe system so as to have accurate time reporting. Various Timesheet options available for billing under project, holidays, leaves etc.
- It has a training calendar based on the available slots, one can book for their preferred training. This is seamless in nature and one can book training as per his/her requirement.
- Country specific Localisation or legislation needs to be well supported.
- Sometimes occasionally we would have system hanging issues or some other errors. The errors should be self explanatory instead of reaching out to the system administrator.
PeopleSoft is here to stay, your decision to keep it or evolve
- Solid ERP, with a strong record for mid to large companies. Includes most required HCM and payroll business capabilities with good ratio cost versus functionality.
- Easy access to knowledge and availability of consultants to help evolve, upgrade, and manage. Oracle vision for support including C2C (customer to cloud).
- No more major upgrades after version 9.2, only incremental ones as per customer needs. Long term support policy from Oracle.
- Strong attachment from existing customers. Market analysis indicates significant number of clients choose to stay with PeopleSoft despite a significant list of new offerings in the HCM space.
- Not a user-friendly interface, it needs getting used to. Version 9.2 improved the user experience.
- Talent Management function is sub-optimal especially in the ability to create and revise descriptions, and flexible compensation systems (some functions need to be developed externally and integrated). Acquisition of Taleo by Oracle may indicate no plans to improve this further in PeopleSoft HCM.
- Oracle's roadmap for PeopleSoft needs to be better explained. Present communications created confusion related to future of PeopleSoft.
- Well suited for companies where HR environment is stable, no competition for talent and with capital budget constraints. Also for companies that customized the environment so much, that moving to a new platform requires significant investments.
- Not perfect for companies in fast-moving industries fighting for talent and companies that need very good analytics regarding the workforce.
Make PeopleSoft HCM yours
- Solid Core HR business processes for position management
- Fluid UI helps in making the software mobile friendly
- Great Self Service features
- Very stable and scalable payroll module
- Delivered ACA related features could improve
- Would like to see concept similar to Flex fields in PeopleSoft
Software is ideal for large organizations and also for healthcare organizations which work by position management.
Not very well suited for smaller organizations due to the cost involved.