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Oracle PeopleSoft ERP

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What is Oracle PeopleSoft ERP?

Oracle's PeopleSoft ERP (or PeopleSoft FSCM) is a software solution used to reduce costs by automating and centralizing global transactional processes and the enterprise entire supply chain. Oracle states they have extended support for PeopleSoft to 2034.

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A True ERP System

10 out of 10
October 15, 2019
Incentivized
PeopleSoft Financials and supply chain product is being used as an enterprise-level product within our HR, Finance and Supply Chain …
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PeopleSoft Financials

9 out of 10
September 18, 2019
Incentivized
We use HCM, AP, GL for all of our financial transactions and reporting needs. It helps us accurately report based on a consolidated trial …
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  • Role-based user permissions (24)
    10.0
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  • Custom reports (25)
    10.0
    100%
  • Accounts payable (25)
    8.1
    81%
  • Standard reports (25)
    8.0
    80%

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What is Oracle PeopleSoft ERP?

Oracle's PeopleSoft ERP (or PeopleSoft FSCM) is a software solution used to reduce costs by automating and centralizing global transactional processes and the enterprise entire supply chain. Oracle states they have extended support for PeopleSoft to 2034.

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Features

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

6.2
Avg 7.2

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

10
Avg 7.3

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

10
Avg 8.1

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

9.3
Avg 7.0

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting

8.3
Avg 7.6

Inventory Management

The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.

6
Avg 7.9

Order Management

The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.

7.8
Avg 7.8

Subledger and Financial Process

Revenue management solution including capabilities for subledgers and financial processes

8.1
Avg 7.4

Project Financial Management

Project financial management solution including capabilities for project budgeting, cost control, billing and contract management.

7.4
Avg 7.6

Project Execution Management

Project execution management solution including capabilities for project scheduling, resource management, and team member task management.

6.9
Avg 6.8

Grants Management

Grants management solution for higher education, public sector, or non-profits with capabilities for managing financial awards for program and project funding

9.3
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Procurement

Procurement management solution with capabilities for sourcing, contracting, procure-to-pay and supplier management

6.5
Avg 7.0

Risk Management

Risk management solution with capabilities for managing controls, assessing control effectiveness, certifying controls, and addressing deficiencies

5.2
Avg 6.5

Logistics

Logistics solution with capabilities for transportation planning, transportation execution, trade compliance, customs management, warehouse management and warehouse workforce management.

9
Avg 6.9

Manufacturing

Manufacturing solution for managing manufacturing processes and costs.

8.7
Avg 7.5

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Planning solution with capabilities for planning, performance monitoring, change responses and execution.

7.4
Avg 7.2

Product Lifecycle Management

Product Lifecycle Management solution with capabilities for innovation management, product development

8.9
Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is Oracle PeopleSoft ERP?

Oracle's PeopleSoft ERP (or PeopleSoft FSCM) is a software solution used to reduce costs by automating and centralizing global transactional processes and the enterprise entire supply chain. Oracle states they have extended support for PeopleSoft to 2034.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Oracle's PeopleSoft ERP (or PeopleSoft FSCM) is a software solution used to reduce costs by automating and centralizing global transactional processes and the enterprise entire supply chain. Oracle states they have extended support for PeopleSoft to 2034.

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Reviewers rate API for custom integration and Single sign-on capability and Role-based user permissions highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Oracle PeopleSoft ERP are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PeopleSoft Financials is being used across our entire organization in many facets. It is used to solve numerous problems and facilitate most of our processes in some regard and to some degree. We use PeopleSoft for HR, Financials, CRM, Contracts & Grants, Capitalized Asset Management - you name it - PeopleSoft plays a role in every process and procedure. The biggest problem the system solves is bringing all of our locations together on a single chart of accounts and platform, therefore tearing down silos that exist previously, and standardizing all data entry and sharing of information.
  • Integrating with other systems
  • Providing a consistent user interface
  • Automating workflow
  • Standardizing added and updated modules
  • Updating old modules with newer UI and features
  • Adding more in-application help
You really need a big enterprise to take advantage of PeopleSoft. It is not entirely user-friendly, and it often requires massive amounts of customization to make it work for layers if you will. Business experts can figure it out, but if you are expecting someone to easily learn how to use the timekeeping modules without heavy customization, it's really not for you. You need to know going in, that this is not for a small business at all, and not even a medium-sized enterprise. It's geared to massive organizations that need to integrate business processes over geographic areas and multiple departments.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

PeopleSoft Financials is being used as our consolidated accounts payable sub-ledger to pay over 10,000 vendors and we use it also for travel expense reports, auditing, administration, and payment through our two global disbursement banks based in the U.S. It is also linked to our procurement system with the vendor master file. We used PeopleSoft Financials to build in strict controls around the vendor master file. The system addresses vendor payments worldwide in multiple currencies.


  • Process vendors' payments globally in multiple currencies
  • Secure and protect the vendor master file and interface with procurement functionality
  • Provide standard and ad-hoc reporting and security administration
  • Process employee travel and expense reports
  • User interface and user feel could be better
  • Fewer steps and clicks screen to screen; screen efficiency is important
  • Standard reporting is fine but ad-hoc reporting is just OK
Using PeopleSoft Financials for accounts payable is well suited to processing domestic and global vendors and employee payments for expense reports. It has deep functionality and integration across the entire U.S. organization, and the database has been easily kept up to date after we purged 20,000+ aged vendors. It has been scalable as we have changed size and gotten larger. We also are pleased with its interfaces with banks. It has good functionality out of the box, using the excellence of the system provider rather than dropping in customizations that have to later be deleted.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PeopleSoft eProcurement is being used by one of our business units to invoice customers and manage contracts.
  • Makes invoicing streamlined and orgainized
  • Manages contracts with ease and fluidity
  • No suggestions for improvement
October 15, 2019

A True ERP System

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PeopleSoft Financials and supply chain product is being used as an enterprise-level product within our HR, Finance and Supply Chain departments. It streamlines the entire procure to pay process as well as financial reporting for our organization.
  • Procure to pay process.
  • Journal generation and financial reporting.
  • Seamless integration within the modules like AP to GL.
  • The user interface could be made more intuitive.
  • The procurement module has a lot of room for improvement like all the other eCommerce websites out there like Amazon etc.
The entire ERP product has a great built-in integration across the modules. It's heavily dependent on the batch processes which take the data across the modules.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our Finance department is in charge of using Oracle PeopleSoft SCM. We are using Oracle PeopleSoft SCM to fully manage our inventory, and to track all the resources that we are purchasing and receiving from our suppliers. Not only do we use it as to make actions needed in the present, but we also use it to plan how many resources we will need to purchase over the next year.
  • Great documentation, training, and certification programs for new users. We had no problem in finding Oracle-certified training courses for our finance department. Even after the training process, many of our team's queries were quickly resolved from the well-documented guides released by Oracle.
  • Oracle PeopleSoft does a great job in helping us identify the possible pitfalls in our business processes and logic. The ability to analyze all your processes in one place provides a birds-eye view of your workflow.
  • Integrates well with Oracle Database. Most of our mission-critical and confidential data that is being used with Oracle PeopleSoft SCM is stored in Oracle Database, so it was crucial for us to need an integration between the two products.
  • Inability to view the results of multiple queries at once in the Query Viewer.
  • Although there is excellent integration with Oracle's other products, there is an unacceptable amount of support for other third party vendors.
  • Personalization Feature for a Quick-Access Menu. Due to the abundance of features in PeopleSoft SCM, it sometimes takes a while to find that one option as there are so many others in the same menu. It would be nice for a user to be able to drag and drop some options they use frequently into a Quick-Access menu.
If your infrastructure is already using other Oracle products, has a large enough budget to afford the costs of running Oracle PeopleSoft SCM, is fine with the strict licensing/compliance requirements of Oracle, and are willing to possibly spend money on training or recruiting people with PeopleSoft experience, your organization should use Oracle PeopleSoft SCM. If all these don't check out for your organization, you may be better off finding another solution for your needs.
October 02, 2019

We love PeopleSoft FSCM

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PeopleSoft FSCM is used across the church for tracking expenses. It is integrated with several subsystems.
  • We love using provided tools for customizing the processes to match our existing business processes.
  • The reporting package (nVision) is fairly complex for end-users to use.
This application is great for integration with other applications.
September 23, 2019

PeopleSoft is great!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PeopleSoft Financials is used by Corporate Finance Group for bookkeeping.
  • Easily customizable for business needs. We were able to build several bolt-on applications on PeopleSoft. If not, we would have implemented the same function on new software and spent on integration with PeopleSoft.
  • PeopleSoft cloud will be a good enhancement for us.
PeopleSoft has user-friendly features such as spreadsheet journal import, and the Excel to CI feature to upload contracts, assets, etc. It is also easy to debug any failures.
September 19, 2019

End-to-end ERP solutions

Madhavaram Ramu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using PeopleSoft Financials and HCM, and they are being used across the whole organization for managing books and human resources. It addresses business processes in the supply chain, financials and in HCM areas. Helps users in performing end to end business processes required in the accounting world, supply chain world and also in the human resources world.
  • Performing purchasing related business processes
  • Performing payables related business processes
  • Performing ledger related business processes
  • Lease accounting
  • Workflows
  • Analytics
It is very suitable for medium to larger sized organizations who need to carry out their business processes related to both HR and Finance. It is not suitable for small-sized organizations.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It helps to manage resources and benefits for employees. More employee need to use it in my company so that fewer resources are needed to answer employee general questions. We have rules in place that can answer the majority of employee benefits questions. This product helps my company to streamline, process, and improve productivity. We need to continue educating users broadly to use this product.
  • Budget tool needs to be simple enough for general users' usage.
  • They need to make it more streamlined in the process.
It's more appropriate when more users use it on a regular basis. I see that we still have users pop in to ask generic questions. It can be further improved with more online in-house training. We need more podcasts or videos to help users to find ways to learn how to use this software.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to consolidate data in GL and report to SEC. We are using different modules such as AP, PO, Lease administration, AR, and Billing. It also helps us to pay our suppliers on time. We are using it to streamline our finance and accounting processes. We are using PeopleSoft globally.
  • Pay rent through lease module
  • Pay suppliers through AP
  • Track and monitor expenses through expenses module
  • Consolidate and report through GL module
  • Nvision reporting needs to be improved.
  • Project costing and customer contract processes need to be streamlined.
  • Caching of the pivot grids to display data to end-users should help.
  • Lease admin work center should be added.
Ease of use from a financial perspective. The UI for lease admin needs to be more user-friendly. Processes in project costing and contracts module need to be streamlined. User training should be accessible from within the application. It works well with respect to the query tool. The user's interface needs to be optimized in AR.
September 18, 2019

PeopleSoft Financials

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use HCM, AP, GL for all of our financial transactions and reporting needs. It helps us accurately report based on a consolidated trial balance. From manual journal entries, source interfaced data, and general ledger allocation, Peoplesoft aids in a timely close function. Its flexibility and collaboration across modules give us comfort in having accurate financials.
  • Integration across modules
  • Well delivered reporting
  • Drill down capability with query manager
  • Data latency is always a concern across modules.
  • Easier allocation rules and processing within modules.
  • Ease of use for the regular business user.
Peoplesoft Financials is well suited for the smaller company not yet ready for cloud and has the time to do their own upgrades and patching. Nvision reporting is not for the regular user. Job aids are necessary today and not necessarily standard for Peoplesoft implementation. Allocations are not handled within the modules before they reach GL and customers are looking for that flexibility.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, we are using PeopleSoft Financials to take care of financials and accounting. Considering the size of our company and multiple locations, it was very important to use a software that takes care of all our needs. What works for us is that we have accounting, P2P, budgeting, travel and expense that can be taken care of in one application. So, it acts as one stop shop for all our business needs.

It is also very user friendly and intuitive for financial users who are otherwise not very technology friendly.
  • One of the best thing it does is it is customizable. You can implement any business logic you need. This is one of the very key assets of PeopleSoft Financials.
  • PeopleSoft Financials's accounting methods are in line with industry standards. You can use the process as is and ledger will be taken care of.
  • It supports multiple ways to integrate with other systems.
  • Whenever new updates are released, please do thorough testing.
  • Please implement mobile friendly version. I mean we need an app version also.
  • Improve the performance of some of the slow pages.
PeopleSoft Financials really fits well for us because it is one stop solution for all the problems. For example, our offices are in India, US, UK and we do business in multiple geographical regions. With the help of Multi currency set up we are able to post everything to ledger in one currency and do our accounting.

The only place where it doesn't work is Services Procurement because there are multiple way to pay Services.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It Is used for invoicing and contract management integrated with Ariba.
  • Invoicing
  • Contract management
  • Real-time reporting
  • Better integration
Strong tool for invoice management and integrates well with Ariba. PeopleSoft holds our accounts and users and replicates to all our integrated applications.
September 16, 2019

My PeopleSoft Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use PeopleSoft for our full financial suite. We have a general ledger, accounts payable, inventory, asset management, project costing, and materials management. It is the best product that I have seen in my 40 years of working in accounting. It is easy to use, easy to teach and it delivers the results we want. It has been a good partner to our hospital.
  • Ease of use
  • Ease of obtaining analytical data
  • A winning partnership with our industry
  • Better dashboards, but existing ones are good. I'd like to see trends on the top 10 inventory items we're buying so we could see if we needed to expand relationships with our suppliers. That data could help us drive cost savings.
  • Expense module needs improving - it's not as good as Concur's. We compared both of the products and Concur was the winner in this regard.
  • Commitment control needs to be more user-friendly - it's a pain to use! Setups are complex, as we just went through one. There's room for improvement in making this easier.
This product delivers results in a fast-paced environment. You can get real-time data - how you want it and when you want it. The team can all be looking at various spins on similar data and not slow the speed. We have been able to add bolt on's for scanning and drive, increasing processing times and speed in accounts payable.
August 28, 2019

Administrator Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PeopleSoft is used by multiple business functions and departments. It has a very easy interface to pull reporting and or payroll information from the system.
  • It is perfect for delivering detailed payroll information.
  • Reporting and queries.
  • Flexible and robust.
  • Tracks newly hired associates.
  • Once a customization is in place, it is difficult to change it.
PeopleSoft Financials is well suited for large companies. It provides management with access to data and reoccurring reporting. I am able to provide different levels of security unique to the specific job function or user. The user-friendly reporting can be automatically scheduled and distributed to teams.
December 21, 2018

PeopleSoft Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Used to automate flow across the whole organization. From purchasing raw material, to issuing that material to a production ID producing a finished product, to moving to our inventory control area and finally distribution to the customer. There are several more steps in-between to complete these tasks but that is high level.
  • PeopleSoft handles the purchasing of material, storing that material, and issuing of that to production IDs pretty seamlessly.
  • Once in production, it is a pretty straightforward process for shop floor individuals to complete the production IDs.
  • Then moving production to inventory so we can get the customer flow works pretty good as well.
  • Shop floor data collection could use some enhancements.
  • Streamlining order entry could be another place for enhancements.
From build to stock and order, it handles well. Custom configuration and special tool type scenarios are more challenging as well as creating the item, BOM, and routing.

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PeopleSoft Financials is currently being used to house payroll/compensation data as well as provide back-end transactions relating to payroll/compensation. Currently, PeopleSoft Financials is only being used by our Finance dept for payroll/compensation purposes. PeopleSoft Financials currently allows us to address regional issues with various payroll vendors we're currently using by providing the ability to house all vendor data within a single system. This single system allows us to better streamline processes and ensure vendor information is up-to-date and centrally managed.
  • Central system to house multiple vendor data
  • Cross-regional security access features
  • Intuitive UI for Payroll team
  • Reporting capabilities for audit/self-check purposes
  • Ad-hoc reporting capabilities
  • Integration capabilities with various HCMs/CRMs could be better
  • UI is not sleek/well designed. Looks pretty basic as an end-user
PeopleSoft Financials is well suited as a global platform to integrate multiple vendor data across regions/countries and provide payroll services. Where PeopleSoft Financials falls short are the integration capabilities with other systems, and an inability to integrate broader employee data to the extent other financial systems can (i.e. Workday).
John Pavarini | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PeopleSoft eProcurement is used at the department level across the organization for all purchasing needs outside of materials managed through our supply chain. This can include miscellaneous office supplies to order catering on advanced notice. The organization outgrew the ability to efficiently expense or justify monthly P-Cards, and automating the payment through ePro with the thousands of cost centers, restricted fund, and grant accounts eased burden on all end users. Although a delay between a department request and actually ordering will now occur, the overall benefit to stream line the financial management piece significantly outweighs any increase in timing. This review and all other details provided are my opinion alone, and not of my employer utilizing the system.
  • System allows for quick ordering from preferred vendors or past orders. This can expedite the process for frequent users.
  • PeopleSoft communicates with our finance department so allows for quick lookup and linking to the thousands of accounts that can be used fro purchasing. This reduces error in entering incorrect numbers that do not exist.
  • Streamline flow to the direct supervisor or account control to approve the ePro request. Triggers a direct email with link to the request, and the review/approval is less than a few clicks.
  • Once the initial approval is granted the current system is not setup to send any follow-up notification around additional approvals or order completion. This creates somewhat of a surprise effect on when an order will actually be made or delivered.
  • Due to the volume of accounts that can be entered, there are limited restrictions for someone to entered an incorrect cost center or even one they do not own.
  • Is not mobile friendly and must be logged into the organization's network to access the internal PeopleSoft platform.
Large organizations can benefit much more than smaller businesses. This is especially true with a centralized finance/purchasing department for a multi-location, statewide, or nationwide company as it streamlines the process to order and deliver where the request originated from. Requesting purchase on the fly or as needed make ePro and excellent choice both for management or front line staff. Having preferred vendors and vendor codes established in your organization make using eProcurement much easier for record keeping.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used across the organization to manage the accounts of the various academic and administrative departments, accounts payable and student financials.
  • Single source of record for financial information
  • Manages payroll
  • Student financials
  • User interface
  • Reporting
  • Data access, searchability and visualization of information
  • Mobile friendliness
While it is a good source of information, the query interface needs to be made more user-friendly, so people can get to the data that is in the system.
Cassandra Rayne Gross | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PeopleSoft Financials is used at our organization as the primary ERP solution (accompanied by Peoplesoft's HCM and Campus Solutions products). It is used across the whole organization and ensures all areas of the university are integrated and that business processes are standardized across the institution (and automated as much as possible).

We have a few niche products that accompany/interface with PeopleSoft for pieces of business functions such as creating requisitions for purchase orders, creating and approving travel requests, and overseeing admissions applications. However, core business operations and recording to General Ledger remains within PeopleSoft exclusively.
  • Integrations. It is relatively easy to integrate and interface with other systems to maximize your solution.
  • Flexible. PeopleSoft works for smaller and larger organizations and works well module-by-module.
  • Mature. PeopleSoft is a mature product and is well vetted and documented.
  • The system could be more user-friendly and more visually striking. Its interface (although improved greatly with FLUID) appears very outdated, years behind its technical capabilities. It would be more impressive to users if it were more modern and intuitive.
Well suited for established, large organizations with a large user base and the ability to devote significant resources to design and implementation of a vetted, long-term solution for business processing.

Not well suited for very small businesses or businesses whose business processes are changing continuously. Changing PeopleSoft for business process changes/modifications requires significant time and resources due to the design, testing, and implementation tasks involved.
March 01, 2018

PeopleSoft SCM Review

Courtney Holgate-Champney | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Oracle PeopleSoft SCM (PS SCM) is being used across our entire organization to manage our procurement and inventory management needs. We use it for purchasing and receiving activities, for ordering products from our end users and for managing our vendors and reconciliation process. We also use PS SCM for inventory purposes for both our perpetual inventories and our periodic par level inventories.
  • Intuitive product for current generations
  • Looks nice and well organized
  • Processes work and adapt well to different modalities
  • Missing functionality for multiple inventories and ship to sites, needs custom work to manage that process
  • Contracting storage is very time consuming to maintain on an item level
  • Time intensive for organizations to maintain fully
I think with a company that has a deep and educated developer pool and had a view of what they want their ERP to flow would really do well with Oracle PeopleSoft. I think smaller organizations could also benefit using an out of the box product like PeopleSoft, however for our mid-size organization we don't have the bandwidth to support it at times and customize it to make it work optimally for us.
Bennett Walker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PeopleSoft Financials is being used across the whole organization as the system of record for financial transactions. We heavily utilize the General Ledger, Asset Management, Purchasing and Accounts Payable modules to track and record all financial transactions within the organization. We utilize the Accounts Payable module to track and pay our vendors and connect that with the General Ledger to facilitate budget planning and ensure the financial health of the organization.
  • Customizable - PeopleSoft Financials allows for an incredible amount of flexibility and customization which is well suited to many industries including the healthcare and utility sectors.
  • Platform Agnostic - PeopleSoft Financials has adapted to the shifting environment of multi-form-factor devices and the challenges that arise with mobile browsers and desktop power users by implementing a "Fluid" interface that can be used across all devices
  • Feature Rich - PeopleSoft Financials includes settings and configuration for virtually any situation that arises within an organization's financial model, with most transactional settings being more than is required by the industry which ensures tracking to the level the organization requires
  • PeopleSoft Financials does not address the needs of small organizations that do not have a large enough staff to maintain the software or utilize the features it provides as it requires a moderate staff to keep track of all of the transactions and processing
  • PeopleSoft licensing costs are significant, which are relative to the features provided but in many cases those features may not be necessary
  • PeopleSoft licensing structures can be frustrating at times when certain modules would allow you to perform the complex task needed but it would require the entire module to be licensed for just that one feature (e.g. Cash Management for loading bank statements in certain formats)
Large organizations that require a moderate amount of customization to business processes can leverage the PeopleSoft Financials system to suit the needs of the organization. This flexible framework allows for virtually anything to be customized, allowing the business to fit the system to their needs instead of changing business processes to fit the models imposed by an ERP system.
Christina O'Steen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PeopleSoft Financials is a good program. I use it to balance my budget, purchase items and follow up on items ordered. This program is very useful in tracking orders and items ordered.
  • You are able to see the process from ordering to delivery
  • Easy to run budget reports
  • Helps with end of year spending
  • Reports are a little difficult to read
  • Would be better if they could make the font bigger when printing our reports.
I like the program, if a company wanted to use this program I would feel good recommending. Most employees could learn the program in a short period of time.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use PeopleSoft Financials as our ERP system, across the entire company. Modules that we use are Billing, Contracts, Project Costing, ePro, sPro, Purchasing, Payables, Expenses, and GL.

Due to our business needs, we have customized each module to varying degrees in order to accommodate different lines of business or services that the company provides. We are not bound by limitations imposed by PeopleSoft Financials, but have the flexibility to customize as needed to meet the changing needs of our business.

My review is mainly from technical perspective due to my experience supporting PeopleSoft Financials.

  • With a good technical support team, PeopleSoft Financials can do just about anything that a business needs. In my experience, there is no limit to what can be accomplished, but good requirements from business is a must (yes, this applies to any software customization) in order to achieve good outcome and to prevent development from spiraling out of control.
  • Integration with external/3rd party systems can be accomplished somewhat easily. From using the standard integration method of using flat files (easy) for batch processing to web services (challenging) for real time data sync is all possible and all necessary elements are available with any implementation of PeopleSoft.
  • PeopleSoft's development platform, PeopleTools, gives developers access to every aspect of PeopleSoft Financials in order to meet the needs of end users. Tweaks can be made to control the look and feel of any component and page. If needed, how data is presented on online pages can be easily controlled without altering the backend data. Flexibility that is made available in PeopleSoft is tremendous.
  • PeopleSoft is owned by Oracle so any issues or bugs need to be logged through a service request (SR) via My Oracle Support. It is cumbersome to log a SR and support that is provided isn't always helpful, particularly since Oracle will not help with any customization issues. Typically lots of trace files or documentations are required before a support engineer can provide relevant input.
  • Users often got frustrated with pages that weren't as user friendly as it could be. Users want similar experience of easily navigating through Amazon web sites, but many components/pages in PeopleSoft requires user training. Then again, the ERP system is technical in nature so it shouldn't be like buying books on Amazon...
  • I mentioned the many ways to perform data integration, but web service route takes a highly skilled technical developer to do it well. There are so many pieces to the puzzle that it can be quite challenging. Also, using RESTful web service is limited by PS not supporting OAuth authentication protocol.
PeopleSoft Financials is well suited for mid to large size companies that need flexibility in how their ERP system can be molded to meet their business needs. Out of the box can probably meet most business needs, but if a company has specialized products or services, then customization is probably in the picture. End users that are highly motivated and like to work efficiently are a great audience for this product, but if not, then this product might be overwhelming to them.
November 01, 2017

My 2 Cents

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OMG Peoplesoft Financial is the product made of unicorn farts and pixie poop. It's magical in every way imaginable. It's used company wide to help standardize our transaction process for our exhibitors.
  • The dev team is constantly improving the functionality the PFM features.
  • Its free flowing and transparent
  • Increases productivity business wide
  • Its not easily customizable
  • The implementation can be a pain
When an organization needs better financial information and real-time access PFM is the tool of choice. PFM helps the business gain a deeper understanding of costs, revenue, and profitability in a way few applications provide. It's a step closer to solidifying that squishy world which is financial management.
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