People Tools 8.54 is available with lot more capabilities

People Tools 8.54 is now generally available for the customers. Oracle has released its landmark release of People Tools (version 8.54) on 11th July 2014.

With the release 8.54, PeopleSoft is bringing in fluid UI capabilities which could render on any devices and specifically targeted for mobile devices. There are many improvements and capabilities in reporting features available with the newest release.

For new implementation the tools 8.54 is ready to use and for upgrade customers, they may have to wait until patch 02 is available.

Apart from the major fluid UI capability, PeopleSoft has brought up improvements in the below mentioned functional areas.
• Branding Framework
• Activity Guides
• Related Content/Actions
• Search
• Introduced Global Temporary Tables
• Materialized Views
• Meta SQLs
• PS Query
• Pivot Grids
• BI Publisher
• nVision
• Application Designer Capabilities

To see what has improved over your current version of People Tools, visit Oracles Cumulative Feature Overview site.

Watch interview with Willie Suh, Vice President of PeopleTools Development, for more information on fluid UI.