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HCM for the Large and Complicated Enterprise
April 10, 2018

HCM for the Large and Complicated Enterprise

Teal Sexton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle PeopleSoft HCM

UC Berkeley uses Oracle PeopleSoft HCM across the whole organization, as the enterprise Human Resources (HR) system of record for all HR and Payroll actions.
  • 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.
  • This system achieves its purpose which is to track our extremely complex workforce. I don't think there is another system out there that could handle our needs.
It is well suited to a very large enterprise with a lot of Employee actions, turnover, benefit packages and other details to track.
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.

Oracle PeopleSoft HCM Feature Ratings

7.9
Employee demographic data
10
Employment history
10
Job profiles and administration
10
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
5
Organizational charting
10
Organization and location management
5
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
5
7.5
Pay calculation
10
Support for external payroll vendors
5
Benefit plan administration
10
Direct deposit files
10
Salary revision and increment management
5
Reimbursement management
5
8.3
Approval workflow
5
Balance details
10
Annual carry-forward and encashment
10
6.5
Update personal information
8
View job history
5
10.0
Tracking of all physical assets
10
5.0
Report builder
5
Integration with other HR capabilities ()
Not Rated
Performance Management ()
Not Rated
Not Rated
Create succession plans/pools
Not Rated
Candidate ranking
Not Rated
Candidate search
Not Rated
Candidate development
Not Rated
Not Rated
New hire portal
Not Rated
Manager tracking tools
Not Rated
Not Rated
Corporate goal setting
Not Rated
Individual goal setting
Not Rated
Line-of sight-visibility
Not Rated
Performance tracking
Not Rated
Not Rated
Job Requisition Management
Not Rated
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
Not Rated
Applicant Tracking
Not Rated
Notifications and Alerts
Not Rated

Using Oracle PeopleSoft HCM

It is not at all easy to use, but once you understand it, it gets the job done.
ProsCons
Well integrated
Consistent
Do not like to use
Unnecessarily complex
Difficult to use
Requires technical support
Slow to learn
Cumbersome
Feel nervous using
Lots to learn
  • The system is not elegant or easy but it does allow for very detailed tracking of a complicated workforce.
  • There are many effective dates, pages, options and fields that you will need a metadata dictionary to understand and use correctly.
  • It is not intuitive, like printing is very strange, you can't just easily print a page unless you use a screenshot tool.
  • Reporting is challenging unless you bring the data into a data warehouse and use another application to create reports, such as OBIEE, which works extremely well.