PSPA Tech Enhancements

PSPA Tech Enhancement Lab approach to modernization, extension, and basic TLC for PeopleSoft Pension Administration

Objectives

• Better fit for your business rules and objectives.
• Reduce customization and maintenance costs. 
• Streamlined user experience and improved productivity.

Immediate Benefits of PSPA Tech Enhancements

Rapidly Complete Calculation Task – Define, Run, and Review Calculation in seconds with a more intuitive layout, defaulted easy date entry, display of additional member data, and configurable scenario types. Calculations run faster using the one-click Run Now option in the new convenient toolbar.

Calculation results are presented clearly and logically with additional depth and vivid benefit formula expressions.

Multitask on multiple cases easily by using recently visited employee ids, calculations, and list names included on search records and prompts.

Compare Multiple Calculation Scenarios – Create, Run, and Compare up to 3 Scenarios in just 15 clicks and under 60 seconds. Use configured scenario types to set up new calculation scenarios rapidly. Quickly define any calculation scenario you want, and run them all in one process with one click. Review results with side-by-side comparisons and optionally highlight differences.

Override calculation components with confidence and review results with clarity on where overrides were used.

Create group lists for batch processing with ease, based on PSQuery results or uploaded files, without custom processes, scripts, or tedious data entry. Rapidly modify lists with powerful tools like the ability to select members with processing errors.

Split Batch Processes into multiple concurrent jobs for faster processing with one click. Color charts show processing progress, errors/warnings, and projected completion. Enjoy faster batch processing times due to performance tuning enhancements.

Investigate calculation and processing issues rapidly with advanced capabilities, including fast navigation to trace settings and message/trace output, resolved delivered trace issues, additional trace output for error messages, dynamic SQL, and invoked enhancements.

Simplify configuration using direct and intuitive options that replace common workarounds and customizations. Get the analysis and design tools you need to effectively resolve issues in your backlog and efficiently implement new/changed rules.

Guiding Principles

Direct Enhancement Customization

• Leverage deep implementation and development experience to design solutions with the best fit for the broadest range of organizations, built consistent with software vendor approach.
• Bring excellent transparency to enhancements to enable easy upgrades and support, and increase user knowledge of new features and changes.
• Design backward-compatible solutions that minimize the impact on existing implementations.

Minimize Invasive Client Customization

• Fit More Rules with enhanced configuration capabilities.
• Fit More Client Data with a configurable participant and rules data store.
• Fix Bugs to minimize implementation and operational surprises.
• Solid foundational capabilities to support productivity and experience objectives.
• Expanded Functionality and Capabilities:
  • Wish Lists
  • Client Customizations
  • Innovative Ideas

Improve User Productivity

• Improved Navigation
• Improved Workflow
• Increased Automation
• Performance Enhancements
• Power over Simplicity
• Multiple Calculation Scenarios
• Split List Processing
• Better/Expanded Self-Service Capabilities
• Fun to Use

Reduce Operations and Support Costs

• Debug/Trace Capabilities
• Batch Performance
• Process Automation
• Process Management
• Audit
• Activity Tracking
• Analytics
• API/Web Services
• A platform for Continuous Improvement
• Universal, Integrated, Configurable Enhancements

Why Now?