In this episode of The PeopleSoft Connection — a Quest On Air podcast — hosts and PeopleSoft users Brooke Repine and Stephen Valentine are joined by Sasank Vemana, Director of PeopleTools Strategy at Oracle. Their conversation explores how PeopleTools 8.63 is helping organizations modernize the user experience, improve productivity, enable AI securely, and strengthen access to PeopleSoft.

AI Enablement for PeopleSoft Customers

PeopleSoft’s AI strategy is centered on providing the infrastructure needed to connect securely with the AI services and agentic platforms that fit each organization. A new natural-language search service can expose secured PeopleSoft search results to an external AI agent, authenticated as the user. The PeopleTools 8.63 Model Context Protocol server can also give agents a structured way to discover configured PeopleSoft APIs and use them as tools. In this model, PeopleSoft remains the secure system of record: search retrieves information based on the user’s permissions, while APIs can complete supported transactions.

Key Capabilities Highlighted in this Episode

  • Modern Landing Page: A configurable starting point that can bring notifications, suggested actions, announcements, and Continue With links directly to users.
  • Smarter Search: Semantic search and typo tolerance designed to help users find what they need by concept, even when they do not use the exact term or make a spelling mistake.
  • Magic Button for AI: A configurable AI button beside text fields on Fluid pages that can assist with use cases such as drafting performance-review comments.
  • App Designer AI Assist: A way for developers to connect a customer-selected coding assistant to an App Designer project to understand PeopleCode, trace related logic, produce documentation, and much more.
  • Standards Based Security: Delivered SAML 2.0 single sign-on and native TOTP two-factor authentication options that can reduce the need for custom authentication solutions.

Take Action

  • Explore PeopleTools 8.63 capabilities and identify the improvements that support your modernization goals.
  • Review your homepage and search strategy for opportunities to modernize the user experience, guide users to tasks faster, and reduce navigation friction.
  • Identify AI use cases that could benefit from secure natural-language search, API-based transactions, or App Designer AI Assist.
  • Assess your authentication approach and consider delivered SAML 2.0 single sign-on and two-factor authentication where they fit your security strategy.

Closing Thoughts

The episode’s message is clear: a PeopleTools upgrade can be more than a technical maintenance project. By staying current and adopting the landing page, search, AI-enablement, AI developer-assistance, and security capabilities, organizations can make PeopleSoft easier to use, maintain, and extend.

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