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 …
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HCM for large enterprises covering multiple labor jurisdictions
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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%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
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
(26-50 of 77)PeopleSoft HCM should move to the could
- Ease of customization
- Well know table structure
- Acceptable UI
- Clear migration path to Oracle HCM Cloud
- Data security embedded at the row level to prevent unintended exposure of data to unauthorized resources
- Increased 508 compliance
ORACLE HRM PRODUCTS
- It allows me to see my employee credentials in one place
- It allows me to see "allowed" views of staff reporting to me
- It allows me to control and file leaves, sick leaves and vacations easily
- It allows me to plan my leaves tentatively
- It allows staff to apply for clearance on exiting the company
- It allows promotion requests online.
- Would want SMS integration for filing and approving leaves for those who don't have smartphones
- Email filing of leaves and approvals, not only in the system
- Easier integration with biometric devices
Best tool for schools, colleges, or any sized enterprises.
- PeopleSoft is very customizable to satisfy one's individual needs
- Can easily be connected to many different PeopleSoft applications
- Great permission and access controls, flexible to many different use cases
- Upgrades are very time consuming, and risky
- Not mobile compatible, or a supported app for Android or iOS--only browser, which does not render very well.
- Quite expensive and implementation is challenging.
PeopleSoft HCM is the mature leader of the market
- It has the most robust and mature functionality
- It has the best flexibility to configure and customize
- There is a huge community of users and consultants to share experience and help with support
- Improve the automatic updates of time and attendance regulatory rules
- Improve the mobile time entry configuration
PeopleSoft HCM Review
- It's fluid enabled
- Scaleable
- Oracle continues to advance the product
- Two-factor authentication
- View access audits
- Only starting to mass data. Would like to see more fields enhanced currently.
Ready to Retire?
- Can be connected seamlessly to other PeopleSoft applications
- All information can be accessed via a portal interface
- Share security management can be synced between all PeopleSoft applications
- Tax updates could be easier to apply due to frequency
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.
Over the years, our 34 colleges used the Legacy software system to create a variety of practices and processes to take care of business, from student financial aid reports to payroll processing. Each district developed different ways to do the same thing. So implementing Oracle PeopleSoft HCM helps in moving to a single HCM system for all the colleges which help in conducting business easily and reduce the cost immensely in maintaining the employees.
- Oracle PeopleSoft HCM is one of the best product and has helped implement the complex Business functionalities in the Higher Education business in a very streamlined process.
- Oracle PeopleSoft HCM helped in moving from 34 different legacy system to one centralized system which helps immensely in maintaining the data and reporting purpose.
- Oracle PeopleSoft HCM also helps immensely in data analytics and trend analysis which helps immensely in preparing for the resourcing and planning for the peak season in advance and be better prepared to handle the quarterly on annual activities.
- Oracle should bring back the Breadcrumbs navigation back to PeopleSoft Fluid screens.
- PeopleSoft Absence Management is also a Global payroll product which causes issues in processing absence for employees in multiple open calendars which is useful when processing payroll but not for Absence processing. So there should be an option when using this product for Absence Processing only. It should allow employees in multiple open calendars to be processed.
- In higher education, there are some employees where a "leave" belongs to the person and not each job. So it would be helpful to have the functionality of having employees working in multiple jobs accrue leaves from multiple jobs but all stored at the payee level(which is possible today) but they should get an option to select the supervisor to whom the leave request gets assigned based on all the active job records.
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.
Higher Education Review of PeopleSoft
It is NOT used as a CRM for tracking prospective students to the university though, Hobson's Radius is used for that. It also is not used for graduate applications; we use Terra Dotta for managing those applications.
- Handles alarge amount of students, employees, and people
- The system is not as intuitive for end users. They know their own functional areas after training, but needing to use other parts of the system can be a learning curve.
HCM for the Large and Complicated Enterprise
- PeopleSoft HCM captures detailed information about each employee in the organization, based on a variety of fields and effective dates.
- PeopleSoft HCM is able to capture and track Position information for budgeting and planning purposes, separate from the Employee information.
- PeopleSoft HCM can handle very detailed and complicated benefit plans.
- PeopleSoft HCM allows for flexible reporting off of relational tables.
- The reporting feature is not intuitive for basic users. It requires someone a little more advanced to set up queries and save them for other users.
- PeopleSoft HCM is very expensive and implementation is complex and challenging.
- PeopleSoft HCM is not very intuitive to use. It requires training and a well documented and defined business process to ensure the fields are used correctly to get the most out of the system, particularly when it comes to reporting.
It is not appropriate for a small or even medium-sized business with straightforward benefits and only a few job titles or actions to track.
For example, a University with hundreds of jobs and actions like Sabbaticals, paid leaves, administrative leaves, probation, etc. requires a system as robust and complex as PeopleSoft HCM. This makes it worth the expense.
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.
Insights in Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
- Flexibility in handling multiple concurrent assignments.
- ePerformance and Time & Labor are highly configurable
- We are also using Contract Pay for a group of employees. Once the bugs have been addressed, it is a great solution to our business needs.
- Limited functionality on Profile management and Career Development
- There should be better integration between core HR and Time and Labor
- Alert notifications are not easy to implement.
Well suited for large organizations where business change is managed well, and where there are minimal exceptions to policies and processes.
It is not appropriate for small organizations (less than 300 employees) because the cost of support is high.
PeopleSoft - A Well Integrated Suite
- Ease of use
- User-friendly
- The PeopleSoft suite of products is well integrated across all applications.
- Application update calendars are almost non-existent. You get notified as they are released, not 'planned' dates.
- Change Assistant and Virtual Machines are rather new and somewhat frustrating to work with. Needs step-by-step instructions for implementation and a training seminar in its use.
PS HCM Review
- Documentation has greatly improved over the years.
- Idea Space allows users to post enhancement requests and allow other entities to vote.
- Posting regulatory changes/patches or fixes in a timely manner
- Turn around time with SRs and getting the issue routed to the right technical expertise can be hit or miss at times.
- Improve integration capability between other Oracle Cloud products such as Fusion and Taleo.
PeopleSoft Experience
- Good development platform
- Good support Community
- Myriad of Features
- Modernize look and feel, I believe this is being done however
- Allow the ability to develop some things right from the environment instead of through PeopleTools
PeopleSoft HCM
- It stores all basic biodemo data for all persons in our HCM, CS, and Financials systems
- Effective dating logic is fairly robust, yet easy to understand
- Table structure is relatively straightforward
- Our users have expressed concerns about talent acquisition functionality, ended up going with another vendor
HigherEd Review
- Job Data works well within PeopleSoft. The payroll function runs smoothly.
- Batch processing runs smoothly and is easy to develop as we identify needs for tracking new information and asking our divisions to provide information for mass upload.
- The Time and Absence module is quite clunky and is definitely a place for improvement. Asking people to review, track, and approve time in the current module is hard to do. People have built many shadow systems to deal with this.
- The upgrade to 9.2 does not seem to have added improvements, and in some ways made the system less functional. The changes were not explained in a way that showed how they were positive.
- The system does not allow for the concept of a 0% FTE, which I think it more common than they think.
Smaller scale departmental use of PS HCM
- The navigation for looking up personnel data is intuitive.
- Closing combination codes is a very easy process.
- Query reporting tools are very powerful -- query manager, connected query, and BI Publisher.
- I don't know if this an institution issue or not, but the process of adding new combination codes is cumbersome at times. We do it through an Excel spreadsheet, and if we make a mistake/typo, it's a real pain to delete or inactivate it and insert a new row.
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
PS HCM Review
- The system is very customizable. We have a solution which has been tailored to meet our specific needs.
- Our PS solution is quite stable. Our dependency on the vendor is minimal with most 'issues' being handled in-house.
- The new 9.2 architecture has improved the way we upgrade. Our staff spends less time implementing new features and bug fixes. This allows us to focus on many of the things we've been unable to get to over the last few years.
- The UI for PS is not end-user friendly. It often comes across as clunky or technical in nature. We have deployed other products that sit atop of our instance to combat this.
- The future of PS HCM is short. We know we need to gear up for cloud but exactly what that roadmap looks like is not yet clear.
- Heavily customized PS HCM makes us vulnerable and often unsupported. New features are, at times, lengthy to implement as it causes significant re-work on our end. Visibility and alignment between Oracle Roadmap and our Roadmap is difficult.
PeopleSoft HCM review
- Houses all of our HR data in 1 central location
- Able to query the database for almost any piece of information you may need
- Payroll is able to interface with timekeeping vendors easily to load time files
- The benefit retro process is awful. It seems to have many flaws that are never addressed including refunding employees too much when their benefits are changed
- I believe this is in the works, but having terminated employees time records load to paylines would be great along with a log to show who the employees are
- When there are errors on the calculations, it would be nice if the error would provide more detail as to what the problem actually is
Review of Peoplesoft HCM
- Well known and long standing in the industry
- Making advancements in Cloud (Oracle)
- Having their modules all connected
- Easy to integrate
- Needs to have more focus on the future- especially cloud, and look at competitors like Workday in terms of User Experience (the system isn't as engaging and user-friendly as it could be)
- Needs better reporting capability