Oracle released an updated version of its personnel-management platform, PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) 9.1, which includes new Web 2.0 capabilities such as chat, wikis and discussion forums. New features to the platforms applications include Succession Planning, which helps identify key talent and visualize results to build an organizations leadership pipeline.
Oracle
released the latest version of PeopleSoft Enterprise, a handful of applications
designed to help manage workforces and the services they deliver, on Sept. 30.
Those applications within PeopleSoft Enterprise include
PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM)
9.1, PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools 8.50, PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning
Management 9.1 and PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 9.1. The tweaks to the platform
came after feedback from over 150 customers, according to Oracle.
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In sum, PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.1 contains 21 solutions,
1,350 new features, 28,000 pages with Web 2.0 capabilities such as chat and
discussion forums, and 300 new Web services. Oracles design includes
dashboards and workbenches with embedded analytics intended to provide a layer
of business intelligence.
The software includes features such as Succession Planning,
which helps "identify key talent, rate and rank high potential employees, and
visualize results to build an organizations leadership pipeline," Oracle said
in a press release. Another feature, Extended Leave Framework, supports country
legislative leave programs, HR and Payroll to support customers in China,
Thailand and Argentina,
as well as a Leave Donation program that supports employee contributions to
humanitarian causes.
Elements of the suite include:
PeopleSoft Enterprise
HCM 9.1: The core platform, which provides
end-to-end functionality for the HR departments of global organizations.
PeopleSoft Enterprise
Learning Management 9.1: Allows organizations to proactively manage their
learning environment, "ensuring that employees acquire knowledge and skills
consistent with corporate objectives and regulatory compliance."
PeopleTools 8.50:
A technology platform with a flexible development environment for PeopleSoft
applications. In addition to an enriched end-user experience, the application
offers expanded reporting options, and its backward-compatible with older
PeopleSoft releases.
PeopleSoft Enterprise
Portal 9.1: Assists in the deployment of online communities and Web-based
self-service sites for organizations.
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