PeopleSoft Federal Wins Contracts With Two Cabinet-Level Departments in U.S. Federal Government; Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Justice Choose PeopleSoft HRMS

Business Wire, Feb 12, 1996

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 1996--PeopleSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSFT), a leading supplier of client/server business software, today announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Justice have both licensed PeopleSoft's commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) HRMS for Federal Government package.

Veterans Affairs and Justice are the first two cabinet-level departments to license PeopleSoft HRMS for Federal Government, the federal version of PeopleSoft's industry-leading client/server human resources management suite, to streamline, modernize and improve their respective internal HR processes.

VA will utilize PeopleSoft as part of one of the largest implementations in PeopleSoft's history. PeopleSoft HRMS for Federal Government to track more than 250,000 employees spread across nearly 230 field facilities nationwide. Justice will initially use PeopleSoft to provide automated personnel service to its Offices, Boards, and Divisions (OBDs) located in the Washington, D.C. area. In addition, the Department's license allows its branch, the United States Marshals Service (USMS), to use PeopleSoft technology to service its workforce throughout the U.S.

Jeffrey Carr, director of PeopleSoft Federal, said, "PeopleSoft is excited to be working with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Justice, and we believe this to be a solid endorsement of our federal product strategy. We have invested the resources to `federalize' PeopleSoft HRMS to address the unique human resource management needs of the Government at a time of unprecedented change in federal administration.

"Our workflow-enabled solutions, plus our willingness to support ongoing changes to federal regulations and policies, have generated a tremendous amount of interest by agencies who, in the past, have chosen to either build solutions or be cross-serviced rather than buy COTS software."

Other Federal agencies who have licensed PeopleSoft HRMS include Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Library of Congress, Navy Exchange Service Command, Tennessee Valley Authority, U.S. Enrichment Corporation, and several Department of Energy sites.

VA To Implement Entire Suite of PeopleSoft HRMS Products

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the second largest cabinet department, is the country's largest public health care provider comprising 171 hospitals and clinics, the National Cemetery System, and the Veterans Benefits Administration. VA has licensed PeopleSoft's Human Resources, Benefits Administration, Payroll, and Time & Labor products.

PeopleSoft will be implemented on the Informix relational database running on a DEC Alpha server at the VA Automation Center in Austin, Texas. The system will incorporate new state-of-the-art employee self-service capabilities along with PeopleSoft's cutting edge workflow technology to allow VA to push system access out to supervisors, managers, and employees themselves. PeopleSoft will be rolled out to VA sites beginning in the second half of 1996.

VA licensed PeopleSoft because its robust product functionality and open systems design fulfilled an extremely high percentage of VA's business requirements, and because the market-leading HRMS product was available on a wide variety of computer platforms.

PeopleSoft HRMS for Federal Government, which encapsulates into its core product the best human resources practices across numerous industries, will track VA's job applicants, administer individual training plans, manage employee benefits, process the department's pay services, and provide employee access to personnel, benefits and payroll records.

Sandra Weisman, associate deputy assistant secretary for financial systems at VA, said, "PeopleSoft is a vital part of our ongoing, internal Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and modernization efforts. Our 30-year old legacy personnel and payroll systems can't meet the growing demands of our increasingly decentralized user base to immediately access, query, and change personnel and payroll-related data.

"PeopleSoft HRMS for Federal Government's specialized automation of federal processes and new workflow architecture will empower our employees toward self-service, help streamline paper-intensive operations, and reduce related administrative costs."

Justice To Automate Personnel Service With PeopleSoft

The Department of Justice, comprising approximately 100,000 employees, has licensed PeopleSoft Human Resources and Benefits Administration for Federal Government. Justice will also utilize PeopleSoft Federal's Payroll Interface product to link with and transmit its payroll data to the Department of Agriculture's National Finance Center, a New Orleans-based organization that provides Justice and other federal agencies with payroll support through cross-servicing agreements.

Justice chose PeopleSoft over several other COTS packages because of its software products' comprehensive support of all personnel functions, integration of workflow processes, forward-engineered design, and experience with more than 700 client/server HRMS implementations. Justice will run PeopleSoft applications on a Sun Sparc client/server platform with the Oracle 7 database to meet the OBDs' needs. Other branches of Justice are currently considering PeopleSoft applications to meet their own specific personnel needs.