At BLUEPRINT 4D 2025, Sasank Vemana, Director of PeopleSoft Product Strategy at Oracle, delivered an energized and insightful update on the future of PeopleTools. With a focus on user experience, lifecycle management, search, analytics, and cloud readiness, the session offered a glimpse into the latest features transforming how organizations use and manage PeopleSoft.

A New Era of the PeopleSoft User Experience

PeopleTools 8.62 brings a significant evolution in how users interact with PeopleSoft, starting with a completely redesigned landing page experience. Moving away from the traditional role-based homepages, the new model consolidates everything into a single, highly personalized landing page. Users are presented with only the most relevant actions, insights, and announcements—right when they need them—making navigation easier and more intuitive.

Sections and tiles, long a staple of PeopleSoft UI, now take on new life with enhanced layout controls, CSS extensibility, and dynamic content rendering. Administrators can configure different sections with unique styles and formats, offering a more visually engaging and functional experience without sacrificing the flexibility that PeopleSoft users expect.

Smarter Navigation with Enhanced Search

Search is no longer a nice-to-have—it’s core to the PeopleSoft experience. The global search bar now supports faster, more context-aware navigation across the application. It includes recently visited items, smart suggestions, and access to all searchable categories without needing to navigate away from the search bar.

PeopleTools 8.62 also introduces favorite searches and saved search views, allowing users to quickly access frequently used queries from a centralized “My Favorite Searches” page. These enhancements streamline repetitive tasks and help users move more efficiently within the system.

Actionable Insights, Right Where You Need Them

Insights powered by OpenSearch dashboards continue to gain traction, offering organizations a powerful way to turn raw data into business intelligence. Embedded directly into fluid pages, work centers, and nav collections, these dashboards provide real-time visualizations that are both secure and contextual to the user’s access level and current task.

With PeopleTools 8.62, embedded insights become interactive—users can drill down from charts directly into transactional data grids, enabling faster decision-making.

Customization and Usage Insights for Smarter Lifecycle Management

Customization remains a fact of life for many PeopleSoft customers, but Oracle is making it easier to understand, manage, and rationalize those changes. The new Customization Insights tools compare your environment with a pristine image, surfacing which customizations are active and how frequently they’re used in production.

Usage Monitor, now easier to implement in production, helps organizations identify which parts of the application are heavily used—and which are not—informing upgrade planning and test coverage strategies. Together, these tools enable smarter decision-making and better resource allocation.

Cloud Manager: Automating PeopleSoft Administration

For organizations considering infrastructure refreshes, Oracle’s Cloud Manager continues to be a game changer. Built on OCI and delivered at no additional cost, Cloud Manager automates many of the complex tasks involved in PeopleSoft administration—from patching and environment refreshes to password rotation and disaster recovery setup.

With OCI’s full stack visibility, Cloud Manager allows for innovations like point-in-time environment refreshes, automated password management, and faster, more secure deployments—all tailored specifically for PeopleSoft.

Better Search Indexing, Less Overhead

Real-time indexing has matured over the past few releases, and PeopleTools 8.62 introduces automated incremental indexing, which only runs when needed to handle rare corner cases without overloading process schedulers. This intelligent indexing model ensures that data is always fresh and searchable, with far less administrative effort.

New system-level configurations also simplify the management of configurable search—allowing for label overrides, keyword search toggling, and field customizations without manual updates to every component reference.

A Simplified Support Policy

Finally, Oracle is clarifying its PeopleSoft support communication with a single end-of-support date and a streamlined explanation of what’s included in the final year of support. The last year remains quarterly-cadence, including both security and critical non-security fixes—just as it always has—now simply easier to understand.

Conclusion: Reimagine What’s Possible with PeopleSoft

From user experience and insights to cloud automation and smarter search, PeopleTools 8.62 represents a leap forward for PeopleSoft customers. Whether you’re looking to streamline workflows, reduce administrative overhead, or get deeper value from your data, the latest PeopleTools capabilities offer powerful new ways to modernize your ERP experience—without sacrificing the control and flexibility PeopleSoft is known for.

Now is the time to reset and reimagine how your users experience PeopleSoft.

Want more?

Explore more content and resources to help you get the most from your PeopleSoft investment:

• Be sure to check out the BLUEPRINT 4D 2025 Event Hub for presentation slides – available exclusively to Quest members.
• Visit the Quest Learn Library for blogs, how-to demos, and on-demand sessions.
• Connect with peers in one of our Quest PeopleSoft Community User Groups to swap stories, ask questions, and share tips with other users facing the same challenges.

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