Help determine the roadmap for your PeopleSoft Human Capital Management product
These PeopleSoft HCM focus groups give you the opportunity to meet with PeopleSoft Development and Strategy leads and other users to shape the future of features within PeopleSoft HCM. Get more information about active focus groups below and contact the focus group leader to get started!
Active focus groups
PeopleSoft Chatbots – Partners
Ongoing | Led by Samidha Rege
Area of focus
Partners only focus group, to address PeopleSoft chatbot framework and features, enhancements and roadmap.
PeopleSoft Chatbots are developed across products and pillars and uses a variety of tools for integration with the chatbot technology platform. This group will assist in developing prioritized list of chatbot features, address bot service enhancements and review long term strategies
Participation is limited at this time.
Customer profile
Partners interested in implementing or in process of implementing PeopleSoft chatbots for customers.
Commitment level
60 min conference call scheduled as needed.
Must make every effort to attend each call or send a delegate
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Samidha Rege
[email protected]
PeopleSoft Health and Safety
Ongoing | Led by Julie Alonso
Area of focus
Product specific focus group to address enhancements and new functionality to the Health and Safety module. Note: Health and Safety module is part of Human Resources and module is used to track details on employee’s illness or injury, preventive and correction action need, immunization results, legislative reporting (ex. OSHA) plus much more.
Customer profile
Prefer customers to be on HCM 9.2 and using Fluid Self Service
Participant Profile
PeopleSoft Human Resource knowledge (health and safety reporting experience a plus)
Commitment level
Calls as needed (usually 1hr/month)
Must make every effort to attend each call or send a delegate.
Must actively participate in discussions and provide feedback.
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Julie Alonso
[email protected]
PeopleSoft HCM Chatbot
Ongoing | Led by Samidha Rege
Area of focus
Strategic Focus Group to address enhancements, new features and roadmap for PeopleSoft HCM Chatbots;
Chatbot integration framework (CIF) updates and enhancements
Chatbots designed across products
Plan and review roadmap
Customer profile
Customers interested in implementing or in process of implementing PeopleSoft chatbots.
Participant Profile
Chatbots elementary knowledge
Business Analysts, Project Managers/leads, Functional PeopleSoft HCM SME’s
Commitment level
Monthly 60 mins call occasionally followed or preceded by surveys.
Must make every effort to attend each call or send a delegate.
Must actively participate in discussions and provide feedback.
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Samidha Rege
[email protected]
Human Resources
Ongoing | Led by Julie Alonso
Area of focus
Product specific focus group to address enhancements, new functionality, and roadmap;
Self Service
HR Analytics
Job and Personal Data
Customer profile
Prefer customers to be on HCM 9.2
Participant profile
PeopleSoft Human Resource knowledge, (HR Specialist, Business Analyst…)
Commitment level
Calls as needed (usually 1hr/month).
Must make every effort to attend each call or send a delegate;
Must participate in the discussions and surveys by providing feedback
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Julie Alonso
[email protected]
HR Helpdesk
Ongoing | Led by Sharmaji Kesavamoorthy
Area of focus
Product specific focus group to address enhancements and new functionality;
Knowledge Management Enhancements;
Case Creation Enhancements;
Enhance and convert Employee 360 to Fluid;
Self-Service Integration with PeopleSoft Chat
Customer profile
Required to be on 9.2 or in the process of upgrading to 9.2 by end of 2016;
Preferably global in nature with a shared services model for HR Service delivery;
Non-financial sector is preferred
Participant profile
Call Center Manager;
HR Service Delivery Manager;
Employer Relations Specialist
Commitment level
90 minute conference call every two weeks at our peak;
Survey and “homework” as needed that could require about 30 min in advance or after a call;
Must make every effort to attend each call or send a delegate
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Sharmaji Kesavamoorthy
[email protected]
US Federal HR – Customers
Ongoing | Led by Venkatesh Kotikalapudi
Area of focus
Industry specific focus group to address enhancements and new functionality;
Core features that impact US Federal;
Federal specific functionality;
OPM compliance and Regs/Legs
Customer profile
Required to be at least on 9.1 and using the PAR processing functionality in production
Participant profile
HR Specialist
Commitment level
60 – 90 minute conference call scheduled as needed;
At least 2 weeks notice will be provided;
Must make every effort to attend each call or send a delegate
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Venkatesh Kotikalapudi
[email protected]
US Federal HR – Partners
Ongoing | Led by Venkatesh Kotikalapudi
Area of focus
Partner focus group;
Core features that impact US Federal;
Federal specific functionality;
OPM compliance and Regs/Legs
Customer profile
US Federal HR partners, system integrators only
Participant profile
Project Managers, Business Analysts, Functional SMEs servicing US Federal Agencies on Federal HR business requirements and implementing PeopleSoft HCM
Commitment level
90 minute conference call scheduled as needed;
Monthly call
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Venkatesh Kotikalapudi
[email protected]
Analytics and Visualizations
Ongoing | Led by Tammy Boyles
Area of focus
Strategic Focus Group to address enhancements, new functionality and roadmap for PeopleSoft HCM Analytics and Visualizations. Analytics and visualizations may encompass a variety of tools and cross many different products and a variety of user types. These may include query, pivot grids, simplified analytics and Kibana. This group will assist in developing prioritized list of features, developing requirements and designs for the features.
Customer profile
Required to be on 9.2 or in the process of upgrading to 9.2 within the next 6 months
Required to be on a minimum of 8.57 or moving to 8.57 within the next 6 months
Familiarity with PeopleTools Pivot Grids; willingness to learn Kibana (https://www.elastic.co)
Customers that have an end-user community with an interest for self-service analytics and visualizations
Participant profile
HR IT Specialist
HR Business Analyst
HR Generalist
Commitment level
60 minute conference call as needed
Survey and “homework” as needed that could require about 30 min in advance or after a call;
Must make every effort to attend each call or send a delegate
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Tammy Boyles
[email protected]
Onboarding/Offboarding
Ongoing| Led by Jeremy Pelley
Area of focus
Understanding enhancements and needs for PeopleSoft onboarding and off-boarding as well as looking at future requirements for pre-boarding.
Customer profile
None specified
Participant profile
None specified
Commitment level
Calls as needed (usually 1 hr/month);
Complete homework assignments (1 hr/month)
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Jeremy Pelley
[email protected]
Recruiting Solutions
Ongoing | Led by Tammy Boyles
Area of focus
Product specific focus group to address enhancements, new functionality, and roadmap;
TAM enhancements;
Analytics/reports;
FCG enhancements;
Screening enhancements
Customer profile
Prefer customers to be on 9.2 or in the process of upgrading to 9.2 within the next 6 months.
Participant profile
HR Generalist;
Recruiting Administrator;
HR Specialist
Commitment level
60-90 minute calls scheduled as needed;
Must make every effort to attend each call or send a delegate;
Must participate in the discussions and surveys by providing feedback
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Tammy Boyles
[email protected]
Enterprise Learning Management
Ongoing | Led by Jeremy Pelley
Area of focus
Product specific focus group to address enhancements and new functionality;
Fludization of Manager and Administrative functions;
SCORM and AICC Content related issues;
ELM/HCM Integration issues;
Feedback on Roadmap enhancements;
QA/Knowledge Share across participants
Customer profile
Prefer customers to be on 9.2
Participant profile
ELM Administrator or Learning Specialist;
ELM Systems Administrator
Commitment level
Monthly call on the second Thursday of each month (some months may differ due to schedule conflict)
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Jeremy Pelley
[email protected]
Time and Labor
Ongoing | Led by Lisa Chow
Area of focus
Product specific focus group to address enhancements and new functionality in Time and Labor;
Fluid and enhanced user experience for time reporters, managers and administrators;
Customer profile
Required to be on 9.2 or in the process of upgrading to 9.2 by the end of 2019;
Required to have Time and Labor implemented
Participant profile
Time Administrator;
Knowledge of the Time Reporting process;
Knowledge of Time Entry requirements
Commitment level
60-90 minute calls scheduled as needed;
Must make every effort to attend each call or send a delegate;
Must participate in the discussions and provide feedback on calls, through surveys, and emails;
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Lisa Chow
[email protected]
Compensation
Ongoing | Led by Lisa Chow
Area of focus
Working with customers on improvements in the Compensation area, which includes Base Compensation as well as eCompensation Manager Desktop;
Working with customers on developing the roadmap and requirements for enhancements and new functionality;
Customer profile
Prefer that customers be on 9.2 or upgrading to 9.2 by the end of 2019
Participant profile
HR Manager/Analyst;
Compensation Manager/Analyst
Commitment level
60-90 minute calls scheduled as needed;
Must make every effort to attend each call or send a delegate;
Must participate in the discussions and provide feedback on calls, through surveys, and emails;
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Lisa Chow
[email protected]
Payroll for North America
Ongoing | Led by Rick Delaney
Area of focus
Working with customers to develop a prioritized list of features to develop;
Once the list of features is established will work on developing requirements and designs for the features
Customer profile
Customers should be on Release 9.2, using Fluid, and adopting Tax Updates regularly.
Participant profile
Payroll Manager;
Payroll Director;
Payroll Administrator
Commitment level
60-90 minute calls scheduled as needed to discuss list of features, requirements and designs;
Must make every effort to attend each call or send a delegate;
Survey and “homework” as needed that could require about 30 min in advance or after a call
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Rick Delaney
[email protected]
Benefits
Ongoing | Led by Tammy Boyles
Area of focus
Working with customers to develop a prioritized list of features to develop;
Currently working on design of Fluid Benefits Confirmation and Enrollment;
Addition of Trust to Fluid Dependent Beneficiary pages is on roadmap;
Does not include ACA
Customer profile
Required to be on 9.2 or in the process of upgrading to 9.2 within the next 6 months.
Participant profile
Benefits Manager;
Benefits Director;
Benefits Administrator;
HR Specialist
Commitment level
60-90 minute calls scheduled as needed to discuss list of features, requirements and designs;
Must make every effort to attend each call or send a delegate;
Must participate in the discussions and surveys by providing feedback
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Tammy Boyles
[email protected]
Absence Management
Ongoing | Led by Lisa Chow
Area of focus
Product specific focus group to address enhancements and new functionality in Absence Management;
Working with customers on developing the roadmap and requirements for enhancements and new functionality;
Customer profile
Customers in recent releases, preferably on recent releases or upgrading to 9.2;
Customers using Absence Management standalone;
Customers using Absence Management with Payroll for North America, Time and Labor, or Global Payroll;
Customers using Absence Management with a Third Party Payroll Systems and/or Third Party Payroll Provider;
Participant profile
Absence Administrator;
Timekeeper;
Absence Clerks;
Absence Rules Developers;
Commitment level
90 minute calls scheduled as-needed;
Must make every effort to attend each call or send a delegate;
Must participate in the discussions and provide feedback on calls, through surveys, and emails;
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Lisa Chow
[email protected]
Performance Management
Ongoing | Led by Jeremy Pelley
Area of focus
Product specific focus group to address enhancements and new functionality;
Discuss new ways of doing performance management and what enhancements are needed in the ePerformance system to enable changing paradigms on performance;
Modernization of ePerformance system;
Customer profile
Must be on 9.2
Participant profile
Performance Administrators;
Upon request we will need participation of managers or users who can share the perspective of managers and end users (employees)
Commitment level
60 minute call (every other month);
Meetings will be set early morning Pacific Time for customers in North America, EMEA, and LATAM Regions, and late evenings Pacific Time for customers in the JAPAC region
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Jeremy Pelley
[email protected]
Profile Management
Ongoing | Led by Jeremy Pelley
Area of focus
Work on enhancements to profile management and the increase use of profile management within the HCM and HCM Talent management landscape;
Work with ePerformance and employee snapshot focus groups to enhance visibility and use of profiles in those areas;
Customer profile
Use of Profile Management
Participant profile
None specified
Commitment level
60 minute call (every other month)
Meetings will be set early morning Pacific Time for customers in North America, EMEA, and LATAM Regions, and late evenings Pacific Time for customers in the JAPAC region.
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Jeremy Pelley
[email protected]
Employee Snapshot
Ongoing | Led by Jeremy Pelley
Area of focus
Look at and work on enhancements that are desired to make employee snapshot a useful tool within the enterprise;
Determine new use cases and data needs for employee snapshot;
Customer profile
On current release 9.2;
Prefer to utilize at least one talent management piece of PeopleSoft
Participant profile
None specified
Commitment level
Every 2 months for 1 hour
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Jeremy Pelley
[email protected]
Position Management
Ongoing | Led by Jeremy Pelley
Area of focus
Enhancements to Position Management
Customer profile
On 9.2;
Using Position MGMT
Participant profile
None specified
Commitment level
Calls as needed (usually 1 hour every other month)
May be required to complete homework assignments prior to the call.
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Jeremy Pelley
[email protected]
Approvals and Delegations
Ongoing | Led by Lulu Hernandez
Area of focus
This is a new focus group to enhance our Approvals and Delegations Modules across PeopleSoft HCM
Customer profile
Customers in recent releases, preferably on recent releases or upgrading to 9.2;
Customers that use Delegations and that have recently customized our develop their own Delegations module;
Customers that have uptaked the Mobile Approvals App either using MAP or the New Fluid Page Composer
Participant profile
Managers who delegate Authority for several functions such as Absence, Time, Learning, Recruiting, HR Functions, etc
Approvers;
Those who need to approve Absences, Expenses, Promotions, Salary Ad Hoc Changes;
NOTE: Time Keepers and Time Approvers may have separate sessions to discuss approvals with the Time and Labor Focus Group
Commitment level
90 minute call (once or twice per month);
Meetings will be set early morning Pacific Time for customers in North America, EMEA, and LATAM Regions, and late evenings Pacific Time for customers in the JAPAC region
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Lulu Hernandez
[email protected]
PeopleTools Testing Framework PTF
Ongoing | Led by Rick Delaney
Area of focus
This is a new focus group to enhance our PeopleTools Testing Framework
Customer profile
Customers should be on Release 9.2 and supported Tools Release.
Participant profile
QA;
Testers;
Developers interested on using PTAF to automate Unit testing
Commitment level
Calls as needed (usually 1 hour every other month)
May be required to complete homework assignments prior to the call.
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Rick Delaney
[email protected]
GP Australia SIG
Ongoing | Led by Srilakshmi Ramachandra
Area of focus
This is a Special Interest Group meeting focused on the Legislative Updates and Roadmap for the Australian Payroll, in particular “Single Touch Payroll”
Customer profile
Customers and Partners engaged with Global Payroll for Australia
Participant profile
Payroll Administrators;
Payroll Managers;
HR/Payroll IT
Commitment level
30-60 minutes call every month
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Srilakshmi Ramachandra
[email protected]
GP New Zealand SIG
Ongoing | Led by Srilakshmi Ramachandra
Area of focus
This is a Special Interest Group meeting focused on the Legislative Updates and Roadmap for the Australian Payroll, in particular “Pay Day Reporting”
Customer profile
Customers and Partners engaged with Global Payroll for New Zealand
Participant profile
Payroll Administrators;
Payroll Managers;
HR/Payroll IT
Commitment level
30-60 minutes call every other month
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Srilakshmi Ramachandra
[email protected]
GP Mex and Arg SIG
Ongoing | Led by Lulu Hernandez
Area of focus
This is a Special Interest Group meeting focused on the Legislative Updates and Roadmap for the Argentinean and Mexican Global Payroll
Customer profile
Customers and Partners engaged with Global Payroll for Argentina and Mexico
Participant profile
Payroll Administrators;
Payroll Managers;
HR/Payroll IT
Commitment level
45-60 minutes call every month
Current status
Open
Contact for participation
Maro de Lara
[email protected]
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