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Lessons from Twenty Years on PeopleSoft. Wells Fargo’s Journey with PeopleSoft HCM. Teresa Swanson Paul Brand. The Past. The Future. . 0. The other Future. PeopleSoft Value Proposition. Continuous Delivery. PUM. SaaS/On-Premise. Customization. PTF. Total Cost of Ownership.
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Lessons from Twenty Years on PeopleSoft Wells Fargo’s Journey with PeopleSoft HCM Teresa Swanson Paul Brand
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The other Future PeopleSoft Value Proposition Continuous Delivery PUM SaaS/On-Premise Customization PTF Total Cost of Ownership
Who we are: Wells Fargo • One of America’s premier financial services providers. • Provide services to one in three US households. • #1 mortgage originator and servicer • #1 Small Business Administration lender • #1 agribusiness lending and crop insurance • 70 million customers, $1.4 trillion in assets. • Most valued banking brand in the world: $224B
Who We are: Your Presenters Teresa Swanson Paul Brand VP, Technology Manager Joined Norwest in 1992 Working on PeopleSoft HR since 1992 • VP, Payroll Manager • Joined Norwest in 198x • Working on PeopleSoft HR since 1993
Where we were in 1993 • Norwest Corporation, a super-regional bank • $51B in assets, $653M annual profit • 35,000 team members in 50 states and two countries • Regional HR and benefits representatives • No HR Service Center • No HR self-service of any kind • Payroll confirm ran for about 30 hours (~1200/hour)
Where we are now • Wells Fargo Bank, the fourth-largest bank in the US • $1.2 trillion in assets, $22 billion annual profit • 281,000 team members in 50 states and 38 countries. • Three HR Service Centers handling 1.2MM calls/year. • Extensive self-service offerings • 60,000 manager self-service transactions/month • 18,000 employee self-service transactions/month • 670,000 job application transactions/month • Payroll confirm runs for 39 minutes(361x throughput)
How We Got Here • Selected PeopleSoft for HR and Payroll in 1990. • Implemented March 1, 1993 on version 2.0. • Upgraded seven times over 20 years. • Implemented new modules along the way: • Ben Admin in 2002 • ePay, eBenefits, eProfile in 2003 • Manager Self-service and eRecruit in 2003 • Grew our PeopleSoft IT shop from 15 to 65 FTE.
We have changed. • Size • 8x team members • 200+ acquisitions • Complexity • More businesses • More locations • Much, much more regulation • Sophistication
Service expectations have changed. 1993 2013 Constant availability Auto-fill Instant transaction Immediate validation Perfection • Convenient hours • Simplified paperwork • Timely transactions • Timely acknowledgment • Good service
PeopleSoft has grown with the changes. • Technology • Client server to PIA to HTML5/CSS3. • Support for scalability, security, availability, etc. • Continuous development of PeopleTools, especially recently. • Applications • Addition of pillars: FIN, CRM, ESA, Campus Solutions, etc. • Addition of HR modules: Ben Admin, ELM, etc. • Addition of features within modules.
Wells Fargo’s Vision and Values • Vision • We want to satisfy all our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially. • Values • People as a competitive advantage • Ethics • What’s right for customers • Diversity and inclusion • Leadership
Quality Focus: HR Service Delivery • Team members expect a lot from HR: • Perfection with every HR transaction. • Nice treatment • Wide range of HR services. • We use PeopleSoft to meet team member expectations. • Payroll accuracy has been at 99.9%+ since 1999. • Service centers have aggressive SLAs and meet them. • We strive to make it easy for team members to get easy access to hundreds of HR services.
Quality Focus: Functional Quality • Team members expect applications to work perfectly every time, in every obscure circumstance. • We have used process and structures to improve quality. • Requirements, design, development, QA, implementation • Standards, process, review • Process and structure have become increasingly important: • More people working on the system • More regulatory oversight • Lower tolerance for errors
Quality Focus: Non-Functional Quality • Team members expect our PeopleSoft system to be usable, available, secure, and fast. All the time. • Our PeopleSoft system has strong bones. • Fully redundant architecture • Monitoring and alerting, automated scheduling • World-class service desk and operations model: less intrusive to people’s lives. • Results are clear: • Our Team Members rate our apps very high. • We have exceeded 99.8% uptime for 4+ years.
Quality Focus: Team Member Perceptions FOCUS ON FIRST MAINTAIN High Pay tools TAM Mgr. Self-Service Personal info Learning Center Time Tracker EPRS Job family search Importance WageWorks Candidate Gateway eCards Lifecare TW@home HCR CSC Polls TMCS Matching Gifts My Volunteer Time Corporate Library Low EKODS Forms Online High RETAIN/RETIRE CONSIDER Low Opportunity 24 Virtual classroom
We Focus on Efficiency. • We bring efficiencies to HR operations. • We bring efficiencies to managers and team members. • We bring efficiencies to IT. • We keep a sharp focus on total cost of ownership.
Efficiency: Operations • We optimize processes for operational efficiency: • Uploads, rapid entry, what else?
Efficiency: Operations • PeopleSoft has helped with operational efficiency: • Self-service applications • Functional improvements • We have rolled our own efficiencies. • Retro pay modifications • Terminations automation • Ben Admin automation • Uploads process • Mass update process for acquisition, reorg, focal review, etc.
Efficiencies: Team members • Self-service revolution drove huge efficiencies. • Timeliness • Handoffs • Accuracy • Don’t confuse cost-shifting with cost reduction.
Efficiencies: IT • IT resources tend to have high fixed costs: • Platform • Process • Competency • We get efficiency by deriving more and more service from our existing platform, process, and competency.
Efficiency: Total Cost of Ownership • PeopleSoft HCM TCO is $64/year/team member.
Efficiency: Total Cost of Ownership • We use TCO to fitness of our system. • Allows for comparison to benchmarks. • Allows for comparison to peers. • Allows for comparison of options. • Allows for comparison to ourselves over time. • TCO is difficult. • Which costs do we include? • Which services are we using? • How do we express the cost?
We Focus on People. • People are Wells Fargo’s competitive advantage. • We live that motto in HR operations and systems. • We focus on attracting, developing, and retaining the best PeopleSoft talent in the world. • Source people with curiosity and drive. Talent over skill. • Hire people with diverse talents, approaches, and backgrounds. Embrace eclecticism and eccentricity. • Hold them accountable for collaborating to solve tough problems. • Result has been innovation, efficiency, high engagement.
PeopleSoft Value Proposition • PeopleSoft value comes from two sources: • Rich functionality • Empowering technology • It’s up to us to make the most of the functionality and technology.
Maximizing the Delivered Product • Take advantage of product strengths. • Core HR model • Person model and JPM • International extensions • Payroll and Benefits processing • Know what’s in the box. • Easy to miss delivered functionality. • Understand full range of configuration options.
Exploiting the Technical Possibilities • The ability to customize has been key selling points for PeopleSoft. • Key to our decision to go with PeopleSoft back then. • Key to our decision to stay with PeopleSoft now. • Customization is important for creating value. • Modifications to delivered functionality • Extensions • Integrations
The Power of Customization • Customization is powerful: • Meet your unique needs. • Overcome gaps in the delivered functionality. • Create valuable differentiation. • Customization is dangerous: • Waste resources on customizations that don’t add value. • Create an unmanageable code line. • Create stuff you already bought or built.
Making Customization Work for you • Only customize for the right reasons. • Insist that customizations cut cost, reduce risk, create advantage. • Set priorities collaboratively at higher levels. • Use process to eliminate pet projects. • Do fewer, more impactful customizations. • Maintain and apply design and development standards. • Reuse, reuse, reuse. • Keep customizations abstracted. • Collaborate and review. • Maintain and revisit customizations.
The Future: PeopleSoft or SaaS? • Software as a Service has a lot of cachet: • Viable providers have emerged • Replacement solutions: Fusion, Workday • Extension solutions: Fusion, TAM, LMS,T&A, CRM • Investors love SaaS providers. • SaaS has an aura of inevitability.
The Future: PeopleSoft or SaaS? • SaaS presents compelling advantages: • HR as a commodity. • Predictable, subscription-based cost model. • Rapid delivery of new feature and function. • Reduced IT complexity. • SaaS has some serious drawbacks: • Reduction of flexibility and extensibility. • Reliance on third party for service, security, innovation. • HR as a commodity.
The Future: SaaS + • We become our own “SaaS-Plus” provider. • The advantages of SaaS • Rapid delivery • Predictable cost model • Plus the advantages of traditional on-premise PeopleSoft • Control over our data • Complete flexibility and extensibility • Ability to use HCM for differentiation.
The Future: Continuous Delivery • Continuous Delivery makes SaaS + approach possible. • Faster delivery • Higher uptake of new functionality • Dramatically lower upgrade costs • Getting to Continuous Delivery is not simple. • PUM takes some work. • Processes, roles, and org structure change. • Mindsets must change.
The Future: Continuous Delivery Requires Change • We need to change how we manage PeopleSoft to do continuous delivery: • Adopt product management mentality. • Invest in staying current. • Put effort into understanding and incorporating new function. • Re-imagine testing.
Future: Quality and PeopleSoft Test Framework • Continuous Delivery requires fast, effective, and affordable testing. • Testing is currently very expensive. • Testing is slow. • Test effectiveness is limited by so-so traceability.
The Future: Quality and PTF • We need PTF to change cost and speed of quality dramatically. • Reusable test cases • Traceability using PTF, Change Assistant, and Usage Analyzer • Implementing PTF is not a simple endeavor. • Takes effort to set up. • Takes discipline to manage.
The Future: Value • We need a cost-competitive HR solution. • TCO must remain low and continue to improve. • No one will want to pay big $ for future upgrade. • We need continuous expansion to meet demands: • Feature and function. • Channels: Mobile, social, etc. • Integration. • Better, faster, cheaper analytics.
The Future: Why PeopleSoft? • To remain relevant, our PeopleSoft solution has to outperform alternatives in five categories. • Cost • Functionality • Quality • Risk • Differentiation