PeopleSoft Reviews

PeopleSoft is mostly used for payroll and core HR functionality. Some customers use it for its finance module.

As a future improvement, this solution could be configuration-based for an easier setup. To fully customize this solution to implement core HR functionality would take eight to nine months.

This is a stable solution that has been on the market for many years. it was acquired by Oracle. 

This is a scalable solution. 

The implementation of PeopleSoft is quite complex and is not as easy as other cloud products such as SuccessFactor or Workday.

Annual subscriptions are offered from a pricing perspective. 

I would not recommend PeopleSoft over other solutions in the market that are easier to implement. 

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten. 

I have used the product for maintaining employee information for a bank. It is the best HR solution to maintain employee information.

Job data is a valuable feature. The business unit concept is also important.

The Time and Labor module is not that flexible. It's very cumbersome to create the rules.

I have been using the solution since 1999.

The product is very stable.

We had 160 members using the tool in our team. The solution is scalable if we do not complicate it with integrations.

The response time must be improved.

Neutral

I rate the ease of setup a seven or eight out of ten. It takes us weeks to get the proper structure implemented.

The tool is expensive. There are much cheaper products available in the market.

If someone has a license to the tool, I recommend utilizing it completely and reap its benefits. There are so many solutions available in the market on the cloud. Overall, I rate the solution a six out of ten.

My primary use case is for global HR and payroll.

PeopleSoft is well integrated and has excellent tools to enhance or amend according to business practices. You are also provided with professional help, which means everything can be done without too much consulting. The product includes effective dating, numerous data analysis tools, even for big data, and self-service to handle pages, screens, development, and so on.

The most valuable features are the functionality to take care of HR and payroll needs, SQR and SQL tools, and good security.

An area for improvement would be PeopleSoft's global payroll capabilities, which could be easier to use. In the next release, I'd like to see multifactor authentication for self-service be added as an inbuilt feature.

I've worked with PeopleSoft for twenty years.

PeopleSoft is a solid product - no other HR package gives the same flexibility.

PeopleSoft scales up very well.

The initial setup is straightforward and can be completed quickly, though a totally new implementation may take a little longer.

This is one of the cheapest solutions available, and it's also one of the best.

PeopleSoft is easy to develop and maintain. I would rate this solution as nine out of ten.

We are not deploying PeopleSoft for our internal process, but we are implementing PeopleSoft to other organizations. Clients primarily use it for their financials, for the HCM, and some of them do use it for their supply chain.

The financial capabilities are great.

We really like the HCM.

It's great for helping users deal with their supply chain.

The stability is quite good.

The solution has the potential to scale. 

It's very easy to integrate with other solutions.

I'm not a direct user. I'm more of an implementor. Therefore, I can't speak to what may be missing. If we do need to add something, we can do so for the client via extensions. I'm not sure what a client would like in future releases.

There can occasionally be complexity in the initial setup.

The pricing could be lower.

We have been working with this solution for almost six or seven years. It's been a while. 

The stability of the solution is excellent. There are no bugs or glitches. It does not crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

The scalability is fine. We don't have any issues if we need to expand. That said, we haven't had any situations where people wanted to expand anything. Of course, if it also happens it's fine.

We have about 15 clients on the solution so far.

Technical support has been fine. They are helpful and responsive. We're happy with the level of support we get. 

The initial setup can be straightforward or complex. We've dealt with both types of implementations. It really depends on the client and their requirements. 

We tend to implement this solution for our clients. 

This solution offers a perpetual license.

While I cannot compare the solution directly to others on the market, I can say that it would be ideal if the pricing was a bit less.

We are an implementor and a partner of Oracle.

In our client's environment, we are using the latest version of the solution. I can't speak to the exact version number.

I'd recommend the solution to other companies, however, it all depends upon the maturity of the customer, and its ability to adapt to this Tier 1 ERP's expertise.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.

A valuable feature is HCM.

I would like to see a better UI.

The setup was complex because we have a union and our benefits are so complex.

We implemented via a vendor.

We use PeopleSoft for most of the modules. For example, we use it for all our job data for all of our employees, E-recruit, time and labor, and performance.

The most valuable feature of PeopleSoft is the functionality that allows the ability to find all the data about employees that are needed.

PeopleSoft could improve by being more user-friendly. It's somewhat awkward to navigate.

I have been using PeopleSoft for approximately three years.

PeopleSoft is a stable solution. We haven't had any glitches or disruptions in utilizing it. They do updates fairly regularly and that usually seems to be beneficial.

The scalability of PeopleSoft is very good.

We have over 10,000 employees and all of the employees utilize the solution in some way.

I have previously used Oracle Taleo and it's far superior to the E-recruit feature in PeopleSoft. There's more functionality in Oracle Taleo than there is in E-recruit.

My advice to others is for them to do their research before they choose a solution.

I rate PeopleSoft a six out of ten.

For most of PeopleSoft's functionalities, everything is related to finance, to manufacturing, to service, and to sales and sales opportunities. The broad scope for most of the year includes these functionalities.

The feature that I have found most valuable is having the sources so that you're able to adapt the product to your needs. That was a big benefit. Then, when we chose Oracle, it was also for the graphical interface, which was already uploaded at that time. These are the two big advantages.

The area that could be improved is the upgrade process, it's not the easiest. Oracle stopped supporting our version. So we have to move either to the cloud or work in a non-supported situation. That was certainly a disadvantage. That's also the reason why we decided not to stay with Oracle. Now we are moving to SAP.

We have been using PeopleSoft for almost 10 year now.

Once the setup is done and it's tuned, it is very stable.

It is not that difficult to scale it. If you work in a virtualized environment it is easy to scale. You just have to add a CPU and memory and reboot the thing, and you have the necessary performance. In a RAC environment, you add another member in your cluster, and then you have more performance.

Technical support for the database, for the Linux environment, and for the virtualization layer, is great. However, for the functional PeopleSoft support, we were not that happy. The first thing they say is, "you have to upgrade to the next version, and if the problem is still there, please call us again." That was a little bit difficult. We weren't satisfied with the functional support. For the database, for the virtualization platform, and for the Linux, that was very good.

The initial setup is rather complex, depending on what you want. If you want to set up a RAC environment, then it's more complex and you need additional hardware. You need a skilled Oracle DBA. If you keep it to a single INSERT, it's simpler.

We have an enterprise agreement, which is great because you don't have to look to the number of users every year. You have to send the results of the company to Oracle, and depending on the limits that were defined in the contract by module, you see if you exceeded those limits or that you stayed within them. Then you have to buy additional products and support. It is a flexible model, but it only goes up. So if you come during a more difficult period, like last year with Corona, it never goes down.

On a scale of one to ten, I would give PeopleSoft an eight.

To raise that score they would have to improve the upgrade path to the cloud.

The advice I would give to others who are looking into implementing PeopleSoft is to go directly for the cloud product. Don't do it on-prem. Go directly for the cloud product.

The most valuable feature is the continuous roll-out of bug fixes, new features, and functionalities. Oracle really listens to the customers and provides valuable content for when those PUMS come out.

It empowers users to perform ad hoc analyses themselves rather than having to go to IT or somewhere else. That makes it much more efficient for our users to do their jobs because they have access to data analysis in front of them instead of having to find that information elsewhere.

We struggle with release notes. There's a lot of information, and I would love to see release notes broken down into compartments. For example, here's security, this is what you need to do; or, here's the business side or the functional side, and it gives us the technical stuff. I would like to see the release notes deconstructed and then parsed out into, for example, I'm a technical developer or I'm a super user and I need to understand how this is going to change my business processes. I think that's where we've had some detailed workshops where we've had to dig that information out. Not that it's not there, but it's time consuming to do so. So it would be nice to have a bit more user-friendly release notes for the user community.

For HR, we've been using it for four years, and for finance, we've been on it for two-and-a-half years.

We've had no issues with deploying it.

I'd say it's stable because one of the things that we do is we separate all of our testing cycles. We do all of the initial testing in one environment, then we do integration, and then we do a brand new copy and production for our user acceptance. We have a few small defects that we have to resolve once we go live.

When we get to that part through Hypercare, which is usually where we keep project people on-site to help with defects, and we transition over to our support vendor, we don't see a dip or an increase in tickets. That helps. Because of our business people that have committed to doing that, it helps us keep the stabilization where it should be.

We are so excited about how this can scale. We know that everything is kind of hinging on version 8.5.5, so we're excited about it. I've had so many of my colleagues come up and say, "Anne, when can we do this and when can we go on 8.5.5?" I don't know that we can go this year, but we want fluidity and elasticity. We want all of this stuff. We love how they've taken the fluid pages and you can choose. If you're a super user and you need to get your hands on a keyboard, you can go classic. It's nice for our people that are out across the country. All they really want is to be able to use their mobile devices. We're all excited about it. They see the scalability and we feel like we're just getting our feet wet with it.

I love Oracle support. When we were going through our first set of PUMS last year, we did zero to 13, so it was a huge amount that we took on to do that many images all at once. We had probably half a dozen hot fixes that Oracle provided. I love that they were willing to help us. They knew that we were under some critical time frames and some of it was for the very user-facing applications, like travel and expense.

When you've got 3,000 people who are out there trying to approve expense reports and they're getting errors, technical support understood that and they responded very quickly. I am very happy with Oracle support.

We were on JD Edwards previously. We had been on it for 12 years. We had never upgraded so we're still going through a cultural shift in being on a product that is progressive, that is continually changing. We're trying to keep up with the usability side of it, which is a struggle for our users, but they're seeing the value in it and they're letting go of the old, comfortable JDE system. It's been a little difficult at first, but it's gotten much, much better in the last year-and-a-half.

You need to understand your core business processes. What are you really looking to get out of a software application? The application can do whatever you want it to do. Look at what your core processes are, look at what the application offers, and change your processes to fit that software.

Also, the more vanilla you can go, the easier it is, the better it is and the more value you're going to see when you go do PUMS, when you go to DBK, and you add all those bells and whistles.