MULTI-MEDIA UPDATE: Oracle Unveils PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management 9.1 and PeopleTools 8.50

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News Facts

--  To help organizations drive employee effectiveness, Oracle today
unveiled the latest release of Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise, with 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.
--  This latest release was developed with feedback from more than 150
customers, and offers a broad range of new features designed to accelerate
business performance, increase user productivity and lower the cost of
ownership.
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PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM 9.1 is a core platform that addresses
end-to-end human resources responsibilities for global organizations. In
addition to best-in-class integrated talent management, workforce
management and workforce service delivery, the latest version includes
embedded Web 2.0 capabilities and new industry-specific enhancements.
--  Part of the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM suite of products, PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Management 9.1 enables
organizations to proactively manage their learning environment, ensuring
that employees acquire knowledge and skills consistent with corporate
objectives and regulatory compliance.
--  PeopleTools 8.50 is the PeopleSoft Enterprise technology
platform, offering a highly-flexible development environment for customers
to manage, customize, integrate and support their PeopleSoft applications.
This latest update features an enriched end user experience through the use
of new Web 2.0 capabilities, enhanced integration and expanded reporting
options. PeopleTools 8.50 is the foundation for PeopleSoft 9.1 applications
but is also backward-compatible for older releases, increasing the value of
customers' current versions without requiring an upgrade of their core
applications.
--  PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 9.1 helps organizations
promote engagement and collaboration through the deployment of online
communities and Web-based self-service sites for their
enterprises.

Most Comprehensive and Complete PeopleSoft Enterprise Release

--  Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.1 is one of the most robust and
comprehensive releases in PeopleSoft's history. It includes 21 new
solutions, 1,350 new features, more than 28,000 pages enhanced with Web 2.0
capabilities, 300 new Web services and 200 industry-specific
enhancements.
--  Reflecting an updated and enhanced User Interface, PeopleSoft
applications now incorporate Web 2.0 collaboration tools such as chat,
wikis, discussion forums and tagging to help users engage and connect with
others in their knowledge network.  In addition, feature-rich dashboards
and workbenches include embedded analytics to promote business insight and
user productivity.
--  The robust talent management features of PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 help define
and visualize organizational goals and cascade specific objectives to one
or more employee performance documents, creating organizational alignment
and enabling increased user productivity and accelerated overall business
performance.  The new Succession Planning solution helps identify key
talent, rate and rank high potential employees, and visualize results to
build an organization's leadership pipeline.
--  To enable stronger global workforce management PeopleSoft 9.1 includes
Extended Leave Framework to support extended country legislative leave
programs, HR and Payroll to support customers in China, Thailand, and
Argentina, and Leave Donation programs to support employee contributions to
humanitarian causes.
--  This latest release of PeopleSoft HCM includes more than 200 deep
industry-specific applications, specifically for education and research,
public sector, retail, and professional services.
--  With its compatibility to older applications releases, PeopleTools 8.50
helps reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by providing customers valuable
technology enhancements without requiring an upgrade to their core
applications.

Supporting Quotes

--  "PeopleSoft 9.1 appears to be the culmination of significant
development effort by Oracle and illustrates their commitment to PeopleSoft
applications," said Rebecca Vilsack, director information technology,
University of Central Florida.
--  "The new PeopleSoft user interface is cleaner and the navigation
friendlier," said Kiely Keane-Alt, IS supervisor -- applications, San Diego
County Water Authority. "Coupled with web 2.0 features such as hover over
content and type ahead searching, our users will find their PeopleSoft
experience enhanced and their productivity increased."
--  "Through Applications Unlimited, Oracle is continuing to make
significant strategic investments in PeopleSoft applications. With
customer-driven innovations and enhancements, Oracle's PeopleSoft
Enterprise 9.1 includes many new features that customers have told us they
need today," said Paco Aubrejuan, Oracle's vice president and general
manager of PeopleSoft. "This approach ensures our products continue to
drive real business value today, which has created unprecedented levels of
excitement from our customers and partners for this PeopleSoft
release."

Supporting Resources

--  Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications
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Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM
--  Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools
--  Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal--  Oracle HCM on Twitter
--  Oracle HCM Blog
--  Paco Aubrejuan
Talks About PeopleSoft 9.1 at Oracle OpenWorld 2009

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