PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 55 Recap

Enhancing Manager Experiences, Employee Engagement, and Administrative Efficiency

Organizations continue to look for ways to streamline HR processes, empower managers, and improve the employee experience. With the release of PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 55, Oracle delivers a collection of enhancements designed to simplify workforce management, increase visibility into key HR activities, and provide greater flexibility for administrators.

Below, dive into the latest features introduced in PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 55, including enhancements to time and absence management, employee recognition, approval monitoring, profile management, and activity guide functionality.

Team Time Dashboard for Managers and Card Traversal

One of the most significant additions in Image 55 is the new Fluid Team Time Dashboard for Managers. This centralized interface brings together employee time reporting and absence management activities into a single, intuitive workspace.

Managers can quickly search for and select employees, review time exceptions, approve reported time and absences, and perform critical workforce management tasks without navigating between multiple pages.  

Digital Badges

Employee recognition remains a critical component of engagement and retention strategies. PeopleSoft Update Image 55 introduces Digital Badges, enabling organizations to formally recognize employee achievements, certifications, skills, milestones, and accomplishments.

Administrators can create, manage, and award badges through the Recognition and Digital Badges Dashboard. Badges can be distributed to individuals or groups, with flexible assignment options that include manual selection, group-based awards, and file uploads.

Managers can also incorporate badges into employee recognition activities, reinforcing positive contributions and achievements within the organization. Once awarded, badges become visible across multiple PeopleSoft HCM experiences, including:

• Employee Recognition

• Directory

• My Team

• Team Snapshot

• Career Snapshot

• Talent Profile

• Team Talent Profile

These enhancements help organizations strengthen recognition programs while making employee accomplishments more visible across the workforce.

Absence Management WorkCenter

PeopleSoft HCM Update Image 55 modernizes absence administration through the new Fluid Absence Management WorkCenter.

Designed as a centralized workspace, the WorkCenter provides administrators with a single location to manage absence-related activities, approvals, insights, reports, queries, and work items.

The delivered Work Management Framework enables organizations to efficiently process large volumes of absence transactions through:

• Bulk action capabilities

• Work item management tools

• Approval tracking

• Error and warning monitoring

• Absence-related insights

Administrators can quickly identify issues requiring attention, review pending approvals, and access key absence management components from one streamlined interface.

Approval Insights for Administrators

Approval bottlenecks can delay critical business processes and create unnecessary administrative burden. To address this challenge, PeopleSoft Update Image 55 introduces Approval Insights for Administrators.

This new dashboard provides real-time visibility into approval activity across the organization, allowing administrators to monitor pending requests, delayed approvals, and overall workflow performance.

The dashboard includes configurable filters that enable users to analyze approval activity by:

• Area of work

• Requester

• Approver attributes

• Transaction types

• Approval categories

Key analytics are organized into three primary focus areas:

Performance and Efficiency

Provides visibility into how quickly approvals move through the system and highlights potential delays.

Workload Management

Helps administrators understand approval demand, identify workload imbalances, and monitor trends across the organization.

Quality and Root Cause Analysis

Identifies approval bottlenecks, delayed approvals, high rejection rates, and other process inefficiencies.

With these insights, organizations can proactively improve approval workflows and enhance operational performance.

Non-Talent Profile Data Enhancements

Image 55 expands profile management capabilities by allowing organizations to capture employee information outside of traditional talent profiles.

Administrators can now create profile types for non-talent information such as:

• Hobbies and interests

• Clothing sizes

• Meal preferences

• Other organization-specific employee data

Using the Tile Wizard, administrators can configure page access, placement, audience, labels, and default imagery before publishing dedicated tiles for employee use.

This enhancement provides organizations with greater flexibility to collect and manage employee information while keeping non-talent data separate from talent management processes.

New Window for Fluid Personnel Actions History

For U.S. Federal organizations utilizing Guided Personnel Action Requests (PAR), PeopleSoft Update Image 55 introduces an important usability enhancement.

Administrators can now access an employee's personnel action history in a separate window directly from PAR pages. This allows users to review historical personnel actions while continuing to update current requests without disrupting their workflow.

The functionality is also available from pending approval pages, providing greater flexibility and reducing the need to navigate away from active transactions.

By improving access to historical information, organizations can increase efficiency and create a more seamless experience for personnel action administrators.

Page and Field Configurator Enhancements

Update Image 55 continues to strengthen configuration capabilities with enhancements to the Page and Field Configurator.

Administrators can now implement prompt overrides, allowing them to replace the record or view used by a prompt field. This provides greater control over the values presented to users and supports more tailored business processes.

Additionally, the user experience for event mapping has been simplified. Event mapping is now automatically generated upon save, eliminating the need to use the Map to Portal Registry page.

These improvements help reduce configuration complexity while providing greater flexibility for organizations customizing their PeopleSoft environments.

Activity Guide Composer Enhancements

The Activity Guide Composer receives several valuable enhancements focused on process management and user engagement.

Prior to PeopleSoft Update Image 55, due dates could only be assigned at the individual step level. Organizations can now define due dates for entire activity guide processes, allowing for more comprehensive tracking and management.

Additional enhancements include:

• Automatic process due date calculations

• Overdue process notifications

• Activity Guide tiles for landing pages

• Enhanced landing page experiences

• Notification Composer integration for reminders and alerts

These updates improve visibility into process completion timelines and help users stay on track with assigned activities.

Additional Features and Enhancements for HCM Image 55

Image 55 also includes several additional enhancements across the HCM platform:

Landing Page Improvements

New notifications and announcements can now be displayed on employee landing pages for benefits-related activities, confirmation statements, and other key communications.

Position Management Notifications

Organizations can generate reminders when positions are created with inactive status, helping administrators complete necessary activation activities.

Emergency Contact Controls

Employees can designate emergency contacts for specific situations such as medical emergencies, detention, or death. Organizations can also configure additional contact types based on business requirements.

Payroll for North America Enhancements

New drop zone capabilities have been added for Earnings Table, Deduction Table, and General Deduction Table components, providing additional flexibility for payroll configurations.

Ready to Maximize Your PeopleSoft Investment?

Elire helps organizations evaluate, implement, and optimize the latest PeopleSoft updates to ensure they realize the full value of their software investment. Our experienced consultants work alongside clients as trusted advisors, helping them navigate new features, streamline business processes, and align technology with organizational goals.

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To learn how your organization can take advantage of the enhancements available in PeopleSoft HCM Image 55, contact our team at PeopleSoft@elire.com.

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