Staying classic in PT 8.55 (for now)

As it is common with any drastic usability change, home page and navigation defaults in PeopleTools 8.55 has come as surprise to many customers. Support forums is awash with discussions and queries, which reminds me of ‘start menu in windows’ fiasco. For those who are not familiar, PeopleSoft applications version 9.2 running on PeopleTools 8.55…

Deployment Packages: Hands-on Review

PeopleSoft Cloud Architecture (PCA) is the most interesting and talked about feature of PeopeTools 8.55 that was released in December 2015. A key feature in this architecture is Deployment Packages (DPK) which is used to install and configure a PeopleSoft environment.HCM 9.2 Image 16 released couple of weeks back, is the first application release on…

Demystifying Configurable Matrices

Configurable matrices is powerful feature in PeopleSoft HCM application to define and maintain custom user data. Driven entirely thru configurations, this feature can be effective in reducing application customization. Probably due to the term ‘matrices’ and being delivered as part of ‘Compensation and Budgeting’ function, this feature has not been used to its potential at…