I would like to see a chatbot in PeopleSoft as part of artificial intelligence. Moreover, there are already a few things in the cloud. In the market, all companies and entities are moving to the cloud, whether it is Oracle cloud or AWS cloud. The cloud is the most secure platform where we can also have Fusion. Few companies have migrated from PeopleSoft to Fusion or Oracle Cloud, or AWS cloud based on their organization's requirements. Some organizations are moving from PeopleSoft to upgrade their tools or application versions, while others are moving from PeopleSoft to HCM Cloud if they are into HCM. The cost of the product depends on the enterprise's size, and some enterprises are moving in quantity due to the current market.

Additional areas that need improvement are the add-ons to the fluid pages and additional features in SCM and finance, both functionally and technically.

The UI is bland and lacks engagement in terms of the aesthetic appeal that might encourage a user to explore further. The product was complicated when it came to navigating through multiple places and the search filters weren't great. In the context of the whole end-to-end solution, I'd like the system to have pointers showing where you are in the organization. There's something lacking in the way they've done the BRD. My team was driving the BRD and the design section including something called 9-box grid, a built-in feature of SuccessFactors. PeopleSoft wasn't able to properly implement that feature which is one of the reasons we moved to SuccessFactors. 

The solution was also lacking in performance management and recruitment. We needed to have all the benchmarking data or commercials sitting on a different platform. I think there were too many sub-modules or independent functions supporting or integrated with PeopleSoft. Although PeopleSoft was the big HCM, there was still a lot to configure and maintain for a lot of things. 

The Work Center feature in PeopleSoft is a step in the right direction in consolidating someone's role-based interaction with the system. This enhanced functionality streamlines workflows and improves efficiency. Additionally, it's worth noting that PeopleSoft's founders later created Workday, a cloud-based human capital management and financial management software vendor. If PeopleSoft could adopt more elements of the intuitive and user-friendly graphical user interface that Workday offers, it would likely enhance the user experience and make PeopleSoft more competitive in the market.

The failure rate is high. Failures can range from minor issues like interface glitches to more significant problems like extreme customization negatively impacting system performance upon upgrades or new feature additions. This observation isn't limited to PeopleSoft; it's a common challenge with other ERP systems like SAP and Oracle. Implementing these systems is complex and requires expertise, unlike simply downloading an app like TikTok

For HCM the editing criteria, especially for the time and labor section, the editing tool needs improvement. The 9.2 Time and Labor came with a lot of features. People didn't use them, instead, they used their own.

The financial interface should be optimized. It's not the best way to do an interface between HCR and financial. It runs like it was a patch job. In the past, the financial was separate and HCR was separate. When they came out with a new interface, people were too lazy to undo their current work.

Commitment accounting also needs improvement. 

If there is another release, they should look at going to mobile computing to stay competitive.

There are thousands of issues and challenges faced by businesses, but we need to understand what the priority is first. Then, on the basis of priority or on the basis of impact on business, we need to create a business case.

Stability is an area where the solution lacks and needs to be improved.

It would be nice if it became even more declarative in its development so that, basically, you don't have to write any code like with Salesforce. 

It's pretty much fully featured right now. They're mostly bringing out small improvements to existing features and then expanding the product set.

In my opinion, it needs more performance, maybe something technical related, because it's very slow for us and even small activities take a while.

PeopleSoft lacks integration capabilities. From an improvement perspective, I would like PeopleSoft to offer more integration capabilities to its users. PeopleSoft can also offer more abilities with API.

In one of my previous organizations, PeopleSoft was used at a global level, during which I felt that the job ID creation and the master data creation were slightly strenuous. Earlier, the analytics elements were there, but I feel that now, a lot of improvements might have been introduced in the tool.

After the transition phase that PeopleSoft went through after its acquisition by Oracle, I think a lot of changes and improvements were introduced in PeopleSoft. A lot of changes in data analytics are required since it was an area of concern when I used to work with the product.

The learning and development side of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required.

One aspect where PeopleSoft could see improvement is in its level of customization. While it offers easy configuration, the ability to create entirely new pages and make extensive customizations is limited. This is in contrast to older client-server technologies where we had more control over the software and could tailor it extensively to our needs. Nowadays, many cloud-hosted solutions prioritize standardization to serve a broader customer base, which can limit the extent of customization. This flexibility in customizing the product is something I appreciate in other software, such as Microsoft's offerings.

We are in the process of migrating from PeopleSoft, Oracle HCM Cloud, and Taleo.

Their greatest challenge is how customizable it is because the more you customize, the more the total cost of ownership increases.

We have already deployed it and we have had it for several years but we are switching to a modern HCM SaaS cloud product. We chose Workday, and we are in the process of implementation.

It's an old system, so we want to upgrade or move into Oracle Fusion or SAP. It's a little outdated. The UI and user experience are not great, and it's not as feature-rich as today's systems. Furthermore, our implementation does not include all the components we need, like payroll or some other functions. We also have a hard time integrating multiple third-party systems. We are now looking for a platform that covers most of our requirements in a single integrated suite of products to facilitate implementation and use.

I do like the Work Center concept. It consolidates tasks based on user roles. However, I believe PeopleSoft could enhance the Work Centers concept further still. 

Additionally, PeopleSoft's user interface could be more intuitive and user-friendly, similar to Workday's graphical user interface.

At present, many clients are moving from PeopleSoft to Oracle ERP. However, to be completely honest, I believe that we should conduct a need-gap analysis in our company to determine if we must move away from PeopleSoft.

Regarding additional features of PeopleSoft in the next release, I am uncertain when it transitions to a SaaS product. Currently, PeopleSoft is more of a PaaS product. I expect PeopleSoft to eventually become a complete cloud solution to compete with other ERP products, including Oracle's ERP products. In short, I would like to see PeopleSoft's integration with ERP improve.

PeopleSoft should be more flexible with the configuration. There should be less coding and more configuration.

The main issue we have with the solution is that it is very expensive. This presents an issue when it comes to tabulating the many tariffs which exist in Mexico. 

We find the technical support to be very difficult, as it is not local, and we tend to receive a response only the following morning. Response time takes very long and requires a person to be awake night and day to benefit from it. 

This solution could be improved by lowering the cost of support.

The documentation is very easy but it becomes an issue when users don't know how critical it is for them to follow that documentation. If users don't follow the documentation, it is useless. And as soon as they have an issue, they blame PeopleSoft. As soon as they cannot figure something out, they play the blame game. 

There is always room for improvement, but I find that people are moving over to working on the cloud more now. So now developers don't have any more to add because cloud is like the place to go. But perceptions differ, and I still feel that it's better if it were on-premises, because there is always the possibility of errors while working on the cloud. Data might get lost, for instance.  

The solution could improve by offering PeopleSoft site licenses. Currently, Oracle is pushing for everyone to transition to the cloud, but clients are discontent with this approach. Offering new PeopleSoft site licenses would be the most beneficial for our clients.

The needs and preferences vary for each industry and client, but a recurring request has been for improved data analytics capabilities. The work centers have provided a useful tool for customizing the navigation, however, I believe the code needs to be optimized to increase efficiency. Clients often have demanding workloads, and when they all have customized work centers, it puts a strain on the system.

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.

I'd like PeopleSoft to be like on the cloud and more mobile-friendly. If I try to access it from a cell phone, it's a bit difficult, so it would be great if PeopleSoft could improve these features.

PeopleSoft can improve by having proper connectors. It's very difficult to change some interfaces with the other systems.

In the next release of PeopleSoft, they should provide multiple connectors to support the latest systems, such as connecting with the Mule and Kafka. Additionally, they should be more reliable.

It requires more technical expertise to weed through code and see what’s happening behind the scenes to actually deliver a solution that the end user is happy with. They are trying to make it more flexible. It certainly requires more technical savvy expertise than in the past.

One of the areas that could improve is the capability of utilizing mobile for some of the self-service activities that are missing. They are running on the older platform. What is happening is people are focusing on the cloud. PeopleSoft is a good provider and should into the cloud. That could be an advantage for them. Customers would not have to go find another solution that is a completely different platform that has different functionality altogether.

The solution is not that effective for mobile devices.

Scalability is not there in PeopleSoft. Its performance and resilience are also very bad. When you're trying to stretch it, it breaks. It is not resilient. 

It is also not stable. It is stable as far as data is concerned, but the infrastructure is not stable.

Oracle is always working with its customers by using focus groups to improve the product. I think this works well.

The last conference I went to presented product enhancements that alleviated some of the end-to-end processing gaps we worked around with all the applications noted below, especially in the area of reporting.

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• The quality of service has gone down after Oracle took over and this can be restored, and scope for online search could be improved.
• Tools could be simplified and added for more auto typing and improving the current Java support.

It's a real contrast between things like Workday and Oracle cloud. The biggest challenge we see as consultants from an Oracle cloud and Workday point of view is that you cannot customize those systems to better fit your business processes. Companies that are smaller and that are less complex tend to go with Oracle and Workday. The big advantage there is they don't have to do any upgrades. However, they're almost forced into the changes if there are new versions for these cloud systems. The good news is you don't have to upgrade them. The bad news is it may not support all your business processes as you want. Therefore, you have to change your business processes to fit the software.

The biggest disadvantage with things like PeopleSoft is that they do continuous support and fixes and upgrades. You get to choose when you want to implement that upgrade. However, in order to keep up, you have to upgrade. The biggest challenge with PeopleSoft is it's a trade-off between feature functionality and the pain of going through those upgrades. And when you upgrade, you've got to do some work. You have to look at what's available in the new version, figure out whether we're going to use that or not, and turn it on or not. On top of that, it's got to go through an implementation process.

Most people do about one upgrade per year. Some people do two, and some people get way behind. However, in order to take advantage of what they buy and pay for, they need to really do probably at least one upgrade a year. And it's a minor upgrade. It's not the kind of upgrade we used to think of that people did once every five years that was almost a reimplementation. In upgrade terms, it's a minor upgrade, however, it is an upgrade.

The difference in PeopleSoft and cloud version is the trade-off between not being able to do any customization and being forced into upgrades almost monthly. You don't have a chance to take your time. You don't have a choice when you do it. It just happens.

I think the inventory part it should be simplified. There is the GR, or Good Receipt note, which is the time that the materials come in, and the workdays, etc. There is a lot of shuffling through pages, which creates a lot of problems for our users. They don't know which page to go to, where to create a GR, or where to create a stock entry. In other words, all the information is very daunting. It's very easy for people to understand and get better clarity over it.

I would like to see order management or purchase order screens, with all of the information there on a single line, so you just have to scroll the page to the right side to view all of the information. If you work in inventory, however, you have to keep on changing the screen, one after another. I think that is not perfect, so improvement can be done here.

In terms of additional features, I would like to see a list of employees entered into the organization, their attendance, payroll, and other things that are more linked to Oracle. Only the name of the employee which is entered into the Oracle Master is there, but the in and out system of an employee and other things like payroll, salary, etc., are not included in Oracle. For those things, we have to use another software or ERP.

For human resources, we have one ERP and for daily transactions, we have another ERP. I think Oracle can take this part of the detailed system and attendance into Oracle so that it is right there in one ERP. Oracle could handle all of the transactions, whether they are in human resources, accounting, supply chain, or any other department.

The reporting needs to be improved. 

It would be helpful for the end-user if the reports were customized. They would be able to select the fields while generating their reports.

In the next release, they can look at reducing the price.

We've had to build all our data warehouses and datamarts in order for PeopleSoft to do the detailed reporting that we need. I really wish we didn't have to do that. I think that if PeopleSoft had more detailed reporting we wouldn't have to do all this work. That's the real pain point for me, especially since we have to provide support for all of it. It's not a part of PeopleSoft, so we've had to create a whole other piece that connected.

The product is not intuitive, and finding the right candidate can be arduous. 

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

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'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.

I would like to see a better UI.

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

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 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.

I would like to see it become available again in Mexico. 

I would like to see better support, bug fixing, and documentation.

There should be more analytics, monitoring analytics, and also machine learning should be incorporated into the core product. Right now, machine learning is outside of the ERP domain; bring machine learning into the domain.

If they could provide reports for various organizations, especially global ones. Currently, the report fields are mostly US centric, and do not support other regions. That would be a nice feature to add. I think I’m looking for more data validitation.

Reports can definitely be improved. There are very few core reports. Every time you have a request for information, you need to customize a report. It would be great to have a report generator that could bring more flexibility and speed to delivering information to end users.

PCM, the procurement side, is weak and is far from the strongest product. It leaves a lot to be desired with the integration of the contract management module along with the purchasing. There isn't really a strong way to allow folks within the organization view access to contracts without bringing that down to low-level security. It's just not flexible.

There are a couple of areas for improvement, including better overall performance as well as an even quicker update process so that we have as minimal of downtime as possible. Again, it's very important that we maintain our workflow.

I think this is coming along as we speak, but mobility isn’t the greatest. PeopleSoft on mobile devices has been a bit of an issue, but now there’s a new interface that is able to better function for that need. It’s still in initial stages, but that’s one area that I see for improvement.

I would like for the initial rollout process to be completed faster so that it can be implemented in a more efficient manner.

The whole systematic flow of any query raised to HR should be improved. For example, if I raise a query, I cannot see the status. I don't know if it's under review, or if someone is reviewing it or not. If it is taking quite a long time and you're worried about it, then you can't see if somebody has had the chance to review it or not.

In the future, I'm expecting to see a complete user flow. It should be a complete flow of the process for the end-user and it should connect with the line managers, as well as others in the same area.

Having applications which provide more enhanced features and user-friendly elements.

My developers want to use more HTML instead of the specialized tool, PeopleTools because, they say, it's better from a user perspective. 

Also, making it more configurable would be an improvement, so that users can modify it the way they want so that we don't have to customize it. What my team has to do is make customizations because, let's say, if you have HCM work and a work list from HCM and FSEN, when the user sees that, it's all in one window so that they can see what application that was from. If you don't have to customize, your upgrades are easier. You don't have to retro-fit all of your customizations if they can use the delivered functionality. When they deliver PeopleSoft, they could make it so that it's just a flip of a switch, instead of an actual code change.

I know we're looking at the cloud, and I think we're tying to become more progressive, but I think that's just a cultural thing where it might be a little slower for a company like ours in that we're very concerned about security. Our company is in a paradigm switch where we were the quiet company, but now we're trying to become more outward-facing. We're doing more spots for, like, hosting the NCAA, advertising, and things like that. So I think they're pushing the solution out and trying to see how we feel, and I think culturally it's going to be a little slower for us. It's just a comfort level that we don't have yet have with PeopleSoft in cloud.

But as for specific features, I'd like to see integration of chart-fill requests so that I don't have to put it on a shared point and so it's readily available for a new account. I'd also like to see Financial Close Management sit on top of PeopleSoft instead of as a separate Oracle product.

I'd like to have a dashboard on a mobile app where I can check the health of all the servers and middleware, where I can get alert notifications if there are any critical services going or not going up at all.

I also think it needs to be a little bit more robust as we have faced some issues such as thread counts with stuck threads. These issues came up basically because of the huge volume of data transactions, so if something could be enhanced so as to make it capable of handling more data, that would be good.

There are load also issues with OSB, and it doesn't provide logs. What this means is that I cannot go and check what happened to my incoming or outgoing transactions.

It needs a better interface on the financial side because there have been more improvements to the RMS interface than the financial one.

I think that Oracle is making a lot of improvements right now with fluid implementation, new tools in the release of 8.5.5 and version 9.2, and the fluid interface. We just need to upgrade to the latest version. But in terms of what I'd like to see, I think it needs better integration with other parties. Right now, it's limited only to partners and it needs to integrate other technologies.

I think PeopleSoft should focus on enhancing the tools and the UI, and making it a more updated app as opposed to the old, tiny, older look and feel. That's where they should put their efforts.

Reporting is easy to create, even for complex ones. Visualization is almost nonexistent and can be improved. It's good to be able to eport to PDF and excel with fast timing.

There are many areas in this product that can be improved, especially in regards to the EPM side since they have different products doing that. I would not go on the HR side but they have tools such as the EPM or CRM tools which need to be improved and become a little bit better than the other competitors.

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The problem we have is the customization. We've gone a bit overboard with customization. That’s problematic during upgrades, which is a common problem with PeopleSoft. That's why our company is deciding to replace it. We’re in the phase of looking for something else. We don't know yet what will replace it, but it'll be in the cloud. That's the only criteria we have so far. It will be some software that should not be customizable. We also don't want to do any upgrades; we want it to be continuous.

More/better reporting tools and ease of testing effort.

I would like to see improvement in the UI.

Processing speed and user-friendliness.

It needs more reconciliation between the modules.

We needed to do a lot of integration with third-party applications in order to get the functionality that we needed.

The API integration could be better.

Upgrades are lengthy and costly.

I work with the end users. I manage big projects, multimillion dollar projects. I work as a business analyst, or as a functional lead, finance lead. I find that technology is great, technology is always great. Oracle improves it in terms of integration, porting, better tools, better user interface. But, if you go and talk to the lowest level of the users – the people who enter the invoices, the vouchers, the general entries, add an asset, create a PR requisition, or enter the employee information – they still think that they do not have the tools to enter the data in a much more easier way. There still is a big complaint. They cannot go and get a report that easily. They cannot go in and see the information they want that easily. There is a lot of room for improving the user interface.

Every time we see a new PeopleSoft release, either an application release or a tool release, people get excited to see what is in it. That is fine, but you see that they're not offering anything for the end users to easily enter the data, or easily go and edit the data. That is one area there is a lot of room for improvement.

I rate it that the only area they can improve is the user interface.

There are some small things I'd like changing, but the big thing that needs work is their technical support. They're really lacking in terms of timely responses to our trouble tickets.

An area for improvement would be that it's quite difficult to learn how to use this product, and the documentation provided isn't helpful in giving you practical advice.

There is room for improvement in the Operation Module, such as Time Labor, and Global Absence, where every country has different regulations. That's the challenge for Oracle: to bridge the customization.

The main area for improvement would be with performance in some cases, specifically with migrations. We've had to address some of those issues recently.

From an administration perspective, I think Oracle needs more clarity on their road map as to where they are going to improve the product. This would helps us with planning future customizations to make it fit our needs better. Right now, there's just not enough clarity to what the product will feature in the future.

I think the reporting can probably be improved; probably more detailed financial reports.

I know they have come up with some good analytical terms in the latest version, but I would like to see it improved further.

The payroll aspect of the solution needs improvement only because a lot of the enhancements with PeopleSoft are obviously geared towards the North American region. It's not geared well towards us as a small market in Southeast Asia. A local market model that's easily configurable and can be deployed as quickly as possible to different companies here in Southeast Asia would be very helpful. If we could integrate a lot of localizations that would apply it to areas in Southeast Asia that would be much better.

The solution needs to work on its mobile technology. We're hoping in the next version we're working on implementing, 9.2, will have more of this.

There are some compatibility issues that the solution should address in future releases.

The UI and appearance of People Soft needs a lot of upgrading and modernization. The current flow in the UI feel very clunky in comparison to the UI's of other sites.

Mobility is an area that has evolved a lot in recent years at PeopleSoft, so I think it would be an area of product improvement. The performance in specific transactions for payroll processes linked to time control would also help to improve the product.

The solution could have better processes and automation, or features that allow for a paperless environment.