WorkCenter essentially mitigates the efforts in navigation and maintenance of pages and tasks. It provides an intuitive, homepage like view of navigation, tasks, reports or queries, analytics, and transactions that a user may use throughout his or her day. Centralizing all activities for the user by streamlining and organizing all their daily work onto one page. The development of PeopleSoft WorkCenter is the result of PeopleSoft’s growing advancement in providing portal capabilities to simplify tasks for its users. The concept of WorkCenter can be traced back to PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal where developers can create pagelets using templates, PeopleCode and Pagelet Wizard to simplify tasks at hand.

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PeopleSoft WorkCenters: Meeting User Demands For
Simple Intuitive Business Applications
Alice Zhang, July 24th, 2014

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Agenda
Introductions & Save the Date
Work Centers Overview
Explore the Value of Work Centers
Work Centers for Functional Users
Lessons Learned
Q&A
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Introductions

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Introduction: About The Presenter
Alice Zhang | PeopleSoft HCM Business Analyst
Alice.Zhang@emtecinc.com
– HCM 9.2 Implementation Experience
– Workforce Administration
– Payroll
– BenAdmin
– ePerformance
– Smart HR
– Supported PeopleSoft Position Management Implementation
– HCM Cloud Implementation Support
– Taleo Implementation Support
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Introduction: About Emtec
Emtec… ‘ Big enough to do the work, small enough to care’
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Excellence
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In-House
Infrastructure
Team
PeopleSoft
LAB
In Chicago
10+
Average Years
of Functional
Experience
EMTEC
• Serving clients for nearly 50 years
• 12 locations, including 6 development centers
• Over 500 full-time professionals
• Voted One of the Top 100 Places to Work by
Crain’s Chicago in 2012
• Emtec has completed more than 1,100 ERP,
CRM & EPM engagements, including:
- 400+ Oracle clients with more than 700
engagements
- 200+ PeopleSoft clients and over 300
engagements
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Save the Date: Collaborate15
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PeopleSoft users at
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(PeopleSoft Vice President)
• Breaking News Around PeopleSoft’s
Roadmap and Strategy
• Education Around PeopleSoft with Edge
Products, macro-level content and high-
level strategy
• More then 230 Solution Providers across
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WorkCenter Overview

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WorkCenter Overview
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WorkCenter Requirements
•PeopleTools 8.52
–Work Centers were purely configuration based in HCM
9.1/PeopleTools 8.52
•Introduction of homepage pagelets
–Further developed in HCM 9.2/ PeopleTools 8.53
•Prebuilt WorkCenters
•Better design for homepage and dashboards
•Pre-configured by user roles
•Activity Guides, Breadcrumbs
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Differences: Work Centers, Dashboards, and
Interaction Hub
•Purpose
–Interaction Hub aggregates content from multiple applications
–WorkCentersDashboards are for specific user roles within an
application
•Dashboards can display pivot grids (good for high level view for managers)
•WorkCenters consolidate tasks to one page
•Licensing
–Work Centers and Dashboards are a part of PeopleTools
–Interaction Hub (previously PS Application Portal) is a separate
product
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Explore the Value of Work Centers

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Overall Benefits
•One location
–Consolidated delivery of actionable info
–Less navigation, fewer open windows
•Interruption mitigation
–All PeopleSoft work saved on one page
–Less work lost upon interruption of a task
–Increased efficiency in switching tasks
•Within and outside of PeopleSoft
•Complete picture view
–View transactions throughout entire process
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What Roles Benefit from a WorkCenter?
•PeopleSoft to deliver the following HCM WorkCenters
–Time and Labor WorkCenter
–ePerformance WorkCenter
•Roles that manage data and transactions
–Exception processing
–Focus on daily tasks
•Roles that require multiple windows open
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WorkCenters for Functional Users

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Business Processes & Testing
•To design a WorkCenter the following must be clearly
understood:
–True business process requirements
–Exception processes
–Reporting requirements
–Up and down stream requirements/impacts
–Security requirements
•Testing must include positive and negative scenarios as
well as exception processing
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WorkCenter Personalization
•Users can personalize their WorkCenters
–Users can create their own Work Centers using delivered or custom
templates
•Personalization includes
–Setting pagelets to be minimized or open when entering the
workcenter
–Setting the display order
–Ability to reset to PeopleSoft defaults
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Time and Labor Work-Center
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Lessons Learned

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Lessons Learned
•Planning is Vital
•Focus on Core Business Processes
•User Personalization Increases Value
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Q&A

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Questions?
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