OOW17 Day 4 Wednesday

OK..... so it's taken me a little while to complete my writeup for the final day of the 2017 OpenWorld conference. For some reason when I got back to the RealWorld from OpenWorld I had a million and one things to do and ended up a bit busy.

Anyway, for what it's worth let me try and outline highlights from the final day.

One of the things I most enjoy and value about all PeopleSoft events, including OpenWorld, is the opportunity to meet people from the PeopleSoft community.
A recent and rapidly growing part of this community, focused on PeopleSoft technical administrators, has been organised by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson from http://psadmin.io . They run a blog, weekly podcast, training on things like DPK and facilitate the psadmin.io Slack channel. Drop them a line here if you want to join in.
To round of the conference this year they hosted a podcast featuring several PS techs from around the world and I was honoured to be invited to join in. You can listen in on this fascinating discussion here http://psadmin.io/2017/10/20/103-oow-2017-all-star-recap/

psadmin.io podcast in the basement of the Marriott

Some of the many PeopleSoft admins

The other community that I enjoy being part of is the My Oracle Support Community (MOSC) site. You'll need an Oracle account to access it but it's a great place to engage with customers and Oracle support staff to get help, discuss issues and submit and vote on enhancement requests (ideas) to Oracle development teams.
The PeopleTools MOSC site can be found here https://community.oracle.com/community/support/peoplesoft/peopletools_-_psft

HR OnBoarding

During the afternoon of the final day I sat through some excellent presentations on enhancements to Core HR including the new OnBoarding feature. Not a new module to buy but included in your core HR license. Oracle Product Management made a point of this fact and we should start to see more and more new features being delivered in core HR. If you get it as part of your core license then it's more likely to get used is the thinking. I like it !

This nice new feature that can help customers implement more consistent and audited processes for bringing new staff into their organisations and ensuring they know what to do, where to go, who to meet, what documents are needed, etc. It may also help customers who already have on-boarding systems become more efficient by bringing it into PeopleSoft where integrating with core HR data should be much easier.

Read it in PeopleBooks

Watch it on YouTube