Oracle continues to innovate with each new release of PeopleSoft, and Update Image 53 for PeopleSoft HCM is a milestone in user experience, functionality, and administrative power. Let’s dive into the highlights:

Introducing the Unified Landing Page

A core highlight of this update is the new landing page – a modern, content-rich homepage that offers every user a tailored experience, whether they’re an employee, manager, recruiter, or administrator. Leveraging the latest in PeopleTools 8.62 styling, organizations now have full control over the look and feel of tiles, sections, and navigation components using CSS. Features such as textured backgrounds, custom section shapes, and button-like tiles easily bring a fresh, contemporary feel to the application.

Sections Tailored for Productivity

  • Welcome Section: Greets each user, with options to display photos and celebratory messages like birthdays or work anniversaries.
  • Dynamic Notifications: Integrates tightly with Notification Composer, letting you push targeted announcements, tasks, and alerts—individually dismissible or auto-expiring—to the landing page.
  • Suggestions & Continue With: Guides users to pending tasks, approvals, onboarding items, or anything left unfinished. Tasks disappear once completed, helping users stay organized.
  • Announcements & Quick Access: Promotes urgent news, and connects users to the most common actions or organization-wide links.
  • My Work & Role-Based Navigation: Quick links for managers, analysts, or administrators, supporting daily tasks and team management.
  • Reporting, Favorites, and Footer: Easy access to reports, recently visited/favorite items, and organization-specific footer content.

Enhanced Dashboards for proactive Task Management

Dashboards and landing pages now share organizational capabilities. Newly delivered dashboards – like Benefits, Pay, and Time, or Personal Details – give users consolidated, self-service access to everything from payroll to compliance. Managers and HR teams benefit from specialized team and HR dashboards, all focused on streamlining day-to-day tasks and reviewing relevant insights.

Notification Publisher

With PeopleTools 8.62, notifications can go beyond email or SMS—they now appear directly on landing pages and dashboards. The Notification Publisher framework supports scheduling, targeting specific audiences, and rich formatting, ensuring all users see timely, relevant updates as soon as they log in.

Customization Insights

The new Customization Insights dashboard combines your local customizations with PeopleSoft Update Manager data, helping administrators see precisely which changes are in use, impacted by updates from PeopleSoft, or need attention post-maintenance.

Additional Feature Highlights

  • Remote Worker Embedded Insights: Visualize workforce location and days in or out of the office directly in approval workflows for better workforce management.
  • Modernized U.S. Federal HR Functions: Fluid, guided pages for adding and modifying personnel, including new flexibility for tracking federal-specific data.
  • Enhanced Payroll for North America Paid Family Leave:  Paid Family and Medical Leave programs migrate to a more flexible, standardized configuration.
  • Fluid Paycheck Modeler:  Now available for payroll admins, making it easier to simulate and troubleshoot paycheck inquiries.
  • Automated Incremental Indexing in Recruiting: Keeps recruiting data up-to-date automatically, reducing manual scheduling of processes.
  • Administrator Notifications for Set-Up Table Changes: Ensures no data updates are missed – administrators receive notices to update search indexes after relevant changes.

Learn More

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