Empowering employees

Have you ever returned from a long business trip and spent a Saturday afternoon filling out expense reports? Opened your email account on Monday morning to find 16 messages that don`t pertain to your department? Poured over a gigantic Medical Aid Members` Guide to figure out how to add your new baby to your healthcare coverage? Spent half the morning scanning sales reports on your company`s intranet to find out which product line is the most profitable? Waded through a stack of resumes that don`t match the requirements you posted on your web site?

PeopleSoft employee-facing applications in the Employee Portal bring transactions and content together according to your role in an organisation. Reports, self-service transactions, merchant information, business news, and workflow to-do lists are all aggregated to improve effectiveness of employees.

The PeopleSoft Employee Portal - the first of the three pre-built collaborative portal solutions - combats these problems by filtering and personalising the vast amount of information people encounter each day. With a single sign-on, the Employee Portal gives employees access to information and transactions that are relevant to their needs, whether they`re full-time or a contractor, senior management or entry-level, working at headquarters or travelling the globe. Your Employee Portal might incorporate content from dozens of internal and external sources, so you can focus on business issues-whether you`re enrolling in a benefits plan, posting a job announcement, or analysing your organization`s worker retention rate.

Customise for greater efficiency

Getting accustomed to the Employee Portal is simple. Your portal home page is a personalised view of your organisation and the tasks you perform in it. The Employee Portal organizes the business transactions according to how frequently you perform them, so your daily tasks are more accessible than the tasks you perform quarterly. It also contains useful content such as email, to do lists, calendar, and business news. All tailored according to your role as defined in the human resources directory. So when you change responsibilities-from one department to another-the portal changes with you.

Empower Employees to make decisions

The Employee Portal links you to pre-integrated PeopleSoft 8 pure Internet applications that deliver business processes and content via the internet.

If you`re performing self-service tasks, you can use PeopleSoft`s new class of collaborative eBusiness applications to make informed decisions on personnel and job-related issues. Collaborative eBusiness applications guide you through transactions to help you get your job done efficiently and effectively whether you use the system once a month, or every day.

The Employee Portal in action

Suppose it`s the annual time to re-enroll in your organisation`s benefits plan. On your home page, you follow a reminder link to PeopleSoft eBenefits, a new collaborative eBusiness application. PeopleSoft eBenefits displays only the benefits plans for which you are eligible, making your decision simpler. You navigate and select options by clicking links and checking boxes, as you would on your favourite Internet shopping site. If you`re experiencing a major life-event such as getting married or adding a dependent, PeopleSoft eBenefits walks you through the process of changing your coverage.

But what good are options without any context? PeopleSoft eBenefits pulls up relevant content from your intranet sources as well as PeopleSoft MarketPlace merchants on the web, including plan providers and physician-finding web sites. The information you need is a click away.

A Multitasker`s dream

Most people wear three or four different hats in an organisation. The Employee Portal links you to the applications you need based on the tasks you`re authorized to perform. Suppose you`re a human resource administrator. As an administrator, you can use PeopleSoft Benefits Administration to manage benefits for your company. You can also determine what specialized benefits information can be sent to enrolled employees through the Employee Portal. And as an employee, you use PeopleSoft eBenefits to make your own benefits elections.

Working on your terms

PeopleSoft 8 includes new collaborative eBusiness applications that you can access through your Employee Portal. Whether you`re enrolling in stock purchase plans with PeopleSoft eEquity, reporting an address change with PeopleSoft eProfile, or logging hours and checking your schedule with PeopleSoft eTime, you`re doing so at your convenience.

You`re logging in from anywhere in the world, seeing only the information and transactions that pertain to you, and making your own decisions. No paperwork. No delays. No confusion. Need to get permission or approval to go forward? Automated workflow will notify your managers or colleagues when their input is needed to complete a task.

Tackling business issues

If you`re a manager, you have complex, multi-step business issues to solve. The Employee Portal understands your expanded role and gives you access to a wider range of transactions and information.

Perhaps you`re looking for a competitive edge in the recruiting wars. PeopleSoft eRecruit streamlines the recruiting process, increasing the chances that you`ll make the first offer to that star candidate. Click through the Employee Portal to screen applicants by qualifications and prevent "dead-end" interviews. Scheduling interviews, collecting feedback, and preparing offers are all part of this automated solution. Sure beats playing phone tag.

Or perhaps you`re trying to maximize the contributions of your current workforce. The Employee Portal connects you to PeopleSoft eDevelopment, which helps you arrange employee training and plan careers and successions.

You can also use the Employee Portal to keep your employees and contractors informed and motivated by sending role-relevant web magazines, company news, alerts, and event notifications. Receiving filtered, specialized information reminds employees that they are valued-even in the midst of mergers and acquisitions.

Taking a closer look

You can scrutinise departmental performance with PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management, delivering valuable management information that empowers you to make front-line decisions. With PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management, you can predict and respond to the daily changes in your business. Plan a competitive compensation package. Monitor the effectiveness of HR across your organization. Enter new markets to increase revenue. Grow shareholder value. Determine which of your product lines are the most profitable-and which loyal customers deserve a special price break. Employee on the Move

Checking your workflow items while you`re at a trade show? Working at a customer site? Need to know the department expense budget during a lunch meeting? No problem. Your Employee Portal home page is accessible through any web browser, so if you`re wired, you`re in the loop. The Employee Portal also has wireless capabilities, so you can submit those pesky international expense reports on your handheld before you even get through customs.

Improve your bottom line

As we lay the client/server paradigm to rest, we usher in an age of collaboration and frictionless decision-making. What does this mean for your bottom line? The Employee Portal harnesses the power of the internet to streamline day-to-day operations and increase profitability for virtually any organisation. But the Employee Portal also improves morale and empowers people to work together toward common objectives. The Employee Portal maximizes your most important asset: the people who power your organisation. The Employee Portal harnesses the power of the internet to streamline day-to-day operations and increase profitability for virtually any organisation.