PeopleTools provides a powerful set of capabilities to create an engaging, efficient, and intuitive user experience, and this session will show how to make the most of them. The University of California recently completed a transformative project that fully leveraged delivered PeopleTools features and Gideon Taylor's WebUX techniques to personalize content based on each employee's role, responsibilities, and circumstances. No additional system layer was required, just thoughtful design, optimized configuration, and a focus on minimizing clicks while maximizing usability.

This initiative not only elevated the user experience but also simplified the technical environment. By consolidating functionality and streamlining the interface, the team was able to retire legacy systems, resulting in measurable savings in operating costs and maintenance. In just a few months, the project demonstrated how a PeopleTools environment can deliver a sleek, app-like interface while staying true to delivered features. If you want to see how to unlock the full potential of PeopleTools UX, this session is for you.

Your team struggles with usability, support requests keep stacking up, reporting takes too long, and your best developer just retired. Sound familiar? Here's the good news: PeopleSoft can be your transformation launchpad. With the right tools and vision, you can turn the platform you already have into a modern, intuitive system that works beautifully for your users.

In this session, Gideon Taylor—an Oracle partner—shares practical solutions implemented for more than 200 PeopleSoft customers tackling similar challenges. We'll show you GT eForms transforming complex workflows into mobile-responsive forms that users love, AI digital assistants handling repetitive questions so your team doesn't have to, automated processes that eliminate manual data entry, and reporting tools that your teams can use with confidence.

This session is ideal for PeopleSoft managers, developers, and analysts who want to deliver tailored user experiences while maintaining system stability. You'll see live demonstrations, realistic implementation timelines, real ROI numbers, and actionable next steps—whether you're ready to move now or building your case for later.

When PeopleSoft performance suffers, users feel it first: slow login times, unresponsive pages, confusing error messages, etc. But when it's time to troubleshoot, even experienced teams can get lost in the weeds of log files, server layers, and cloudy assumptions about where the problem originates. This session exposes costly pitfalls: chasing the wrong log, presuming infrastructure is sound, and skipping basics.

We'll emphasize clear user input, architecture awareness, and the discipline to start at the beginning, applying an old-school mechanic's mindset: check assumptions and test fundamentals. Drawing on years supporting education, government, and corporate environments, we'll teach you to spot patterns, avoid rabbit holes, and navigate PeopleSoft's logging. We'll apply an old-school problem-solving mindset to a high-tech platform: check your assumptions, test the basics, and don't skip the fundamentals, because systems tend to break in predictable ways. You'll leave with a practical troubleshooting framework you can use immediately to improve uptime, responsiveness, and your team's ability to solve the right problems faster.

PeopleSoft delivers a wealth of built-in tools designed to modernize the user experience, streamline navigation, and reduce the need for customizations — yet many organizations never take full advantage of them. This session spotlights three of the most underutilized areas within PeopleTools that can quickly elevate usability and engagement.

We'll explore how you can make PeopleSoft not only more efficient, but also more visually aligned with your organization's brand and more adaptable to your business needs. You'll leave inspired to implement these tools and show your users that PeopleSoft can be both powerful and pleasing to use.

Key Topics:
1) Simplify and modernize navigation by effectively using Landing Pages, Dashboards, Workcenters, Tiles, PS Insights, and Global Search to create a more intuitive user experience.
2) Apply branding and design elements that align PeopleSoft with their organization's digital identity using PeopleTools' built-in configuration and branding options.
3) Leverage configurable frameworks such as Search Configuration, Activity Guides, and Notification Composer to replace customizations and tailor PeopleSoft functionality to unique business processes.

Take a deep dive into the transformative potential of object-oriented programming (OOP) in PeopleSoft. Build cleaner, more efficient, reusable PeopleCode by applying principles like encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. Learn how to read and follow delivered PS app package/class structures for better development, support, and maintenance of your PS implementation.

Maricopa County Community College District has 10 colleges sharing a single PeopleSoft instance. How do you take 10 sets of Financial Aid forms and consolidate them into one group inside PeopleSoft? GT eForms!

Covered Topics:
• Now You See It, Now You Don't – Controlling View Access (VisualIF)
• Routing (Augmented), Search Sets, Configured Segments
• Wear your Black Tie: Invitation to a Form(al) Event – Tokens and Contributors
• You've Got Mail – unique Notifications to A and B at the same time
• May I Assist You? Ida know, can you? – use case for GT eForms Assistant
• Let the Dev's Take a Vacation – Configurable CI (partially), Query Records and Query View Builder (fewer custom views)
• Mapping the Most Direct(ions) Route – Search Page Tile & Instructions

Staying current with PeopleSoft PUM images and Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) is essential, but limited resources, too many environments, and too little time make it hard. Without a clear plan, updates can cause downtime, missed features, and risk. This session shares tactics to streamline your updates: manage change packages, structure testing, and safely minimize downtime.

Drawing on years of experience across hundreds of environments—including complex efforts with a dozen+ PUMs—we'll share a refined playbook that delivers updates as fast as 30 minutes, averaging about 4 hours. You'll leave with an adaptable framework to reduce risk, shorten windows, and keep teams current without burnout—plus practical tools you can apply immediately, whether you're handling quarterly updates or simply want a better process.