Upgrades, Patches, and PUMs
As you begin planning for your organization's HCM application or PeopleTools upgrade, WorkStrategy can help define your project roadmap, including budget and resource planning. Our upgrade specialists provide an overview of functional enhancements and new tools to improve your HR business processes.
WorkStrategy specialists will review upgrade best practices and ensure your staff is familiar with Oracle's approach to PeopleSoft enhancements, scheduled PUM releases, and PeopleTools maintenance and patch strategy.
WorkStrategy specialists will review upgrade best practices and ensure your staff is familiar with Oracle's approach to PeopleSoft enhancements, scheduled PUM releases, and PeopleTools maintenance and patch strategy.
Upgrade Planning and PUM Updates
Upgrade Analysis - 2-3 week functional analysis of existing HR/HCM processes and recommendations for leveraging new functionality and deploying self-service technology
Technical Upgrade - 45-60 day remote service to support upgrade of existing objects and elimination of customizations due to new features and functional enhancements
ESS/MSS Deployment - implementation of Fluid employee and manager self service including OnBoarding, Talent Profile, Remote Worker, Team Calendar, Benefits Enrollment and Life Events, eComp/Total Rewards, My Team/Employee Snapshot, ePay/W2s, Benefit Details/ACA 1095s, Update Team Information (Job Updates), Workflow, Kibana Analytics, Career Planning, and Fluid Performance.
Talent Management Analysis - detailed assessment of PeopleSoft Talent Management features including Employee/Job Talent Profiles, Search and Compare, Succession Planning/Talent Pools, Career Planning, ePerformance, Recruiting, OnBoarding/OffBoarding, Learning, and related reporting and Kibana Analytics. Any recent updates to Fluid navigation, functionality, and integrations will be covered during the TMA, e.g., eComp Annual Merit and Bonus Cycle and ePerformance Ratings.
Upgrade Analysis - 2-3 week functional analysis of existing HR/HCM processes and recommendations for leveraging new functionality and deploying self-service technology
Technical Upgrade - 45-60 day remote service to support upgrade of existing objects and elimination of customizations due to new features and functional enhancements
ESS/MSS Deployment - implementation of Fluid employee and manager self service including OnBoarding, Talent Profile, Remote Worker, Team Calendar, Benefits Enrollment and Life Events, eComp/Total Rewards, My Team/Employee Snapshot, ePay/W2s, Benefit Details/ACA 1095s, Update Team Information (Job Updates), Workflow, Kibana Analytics, Career Planning, and Fluid Performance.
Talent Management Analysis - detailed assessment of PeopleSoft Talent Management features including Employee/Job Talent Profiles, Search and Compare, Succession Planning/Talent Pools, Career Planning, ePerformance, Recruiting, OnBoarding/OffBoarding, Learning, and related reporting and Kibana Analytics. Any recent updates to Fluid navigation, functionality, and integrations will be covered during the TMA, e.g., eComp Annual Merit and Bonus Cycle and ePerformance Ratings.
Additional Upgrade Insights
PeopleSoft Upgrade Planning
Prior to starting an upgrade project, many customers are tasked with creating a “cost-justifiable” business plan for their PeopleSoft upgrades that produce tangible ROI results -- such as improvements in corporate goal alignment, workforce productivity, and executive communication. WorkStrategy's PeopleSoft upgrade methodology is a multi-phased project roadmap with quality assurance and progress checkpoints.
PeopleSoft Upgrade Analysis
WorkStrategy offers a comprehensive PeopleSoft HCM Upgrade Analysis designed to guide your team throughout the upgrade process. This 2-3 week assessment will provide you with process improvement recommendations, functional fit/gap sessions, configuration options, and delta training. You will receive the tools necessary to define a business case, build a resource plan, improve workstreams, and reduce costs.
Our PeopleSoft upgrade specialists can help you:
PeopleSoft Upgrade Planning
Prior to starting an upgrade project, many customers are tasked with creating a “cost-justifiable” business plan for their PeopleSoft upgrades that produce tangible ROI results -- such as improvements in corporate goal alignment, workforce productivity, and executive communication. WorkStrategy's PeopleSoft upgrade methodology is a multi-phased project roadmap with quality assurance and progress checkpoints.
PeopleSoft Upgrade Analysis
WorkStrategy offers a comprehensive PeopleSoft HCM Upgrade Analysis designed to guide your team throughout the upgrade process. This 2-3 week assessment will provide you with process improvement recommendations, functional fit/gap sessions, configuration options, and delta training. You will receive the tools necessary to define a business case, build a resource plan, improve workstreams, and reduce costs.
Our PeopleSoft upgrade specialists can help you:
- Review technical environment requirements
- Define impact of the new HCM functionality
- Identify opportunities for business process improvement
- Streamline maintenance and eliminate customizations
- Estimate costs and effort associated with the upgrade
- Create process flows / diagrams of current state workstreams
- Leverage PeopleSoft self-service, workflow technology and fluid mobile
- Build a detailed roadmap for the upgrade
- Assess talent management strategy