Before 2022

A summary of updates from 2017 to 2021. In reverse date order, with the most recent release at the top.

Winter 22: October 2021

  • Mobile: new Sage People app for Android and iOS.

  • US Benefits: early adopter release.

  • People Management Workflow: attachments now supported in HR Request Types.

  • Performance Review: enhanced support for Conversations and Continuous Feedback.

  • Performance Management: enhanced support for action events.

  • Absence Accrual Rule: wizard interface to simplify rule creation.

  • U.S, compliance reports: EEO-1 reporting updated to align with 2019/2020 requirements.

  • Resumes and cover letters: now fully accessible through Salesforce Lightning.

  • Payflow: Enhanced security for Payflow Services.

  • Customer and internally reported bug fixes.

Summer 21: July 2021

  • Feedback: General availability release.

  • Delegated Access: option to exclude assistants from approving their own Time Off requests.

  • Absence Day Records available for a day-by-day breakdown of absence records.

  • Enhanced Objectives: new features including flagging Objectives needing review; basing an Objective for multiple Team Members on a template; adding watchers at Objective creation; Action Events and Email Templates for key events.

  • Time Off booking now defaults to using descriptive dialogs.

  • Partial day indicators for absence now on by default.

  • Compensation Planning support for HR Manager access to Team Member records.

  • I-9 and E-Verify support: General availability release.

  • Hungarian and Romanian added to available languages for HCM, Performance Management, and Time packages.

  • Customer and internally reported bug fixes.

Spring 21: February 2021

  • WX self service portal enhancements.

  • Partial day absence feature now fully available.

  • Enhancements to time off booking process now fully available.

  • Enhanced Objectives process now fully available.

  • Configuration changes for older sites supporting US Tax Forms.

  • Candidate Portal: changed registration page from tabbed form to single page.

  • Candidate Portal: enhanced filtering for candidate emails.

  • Enhancements to the file previewer for Talent Acquisition.

  • Unused Talent Acquisition configuration options removed.

  • Date override available for bulk Performance Review.

  • Compensation Planning now enables the base salary for calculating bonus payments to be defined.

  • The general Sage People API Permission Set has now been replaced with permission sets specific to each API endpoint.

  • Customer bug fixes.

Winter 21: October 2020

  • People Management Workflow general availability.

  • Enhanced Summary Process general availability.

  • Survey Confirmation messaging.

  • Using CAPTCHA on the Candidate Portal Registration page.

  • Enhanced security for Guest User access to Talent Acquisition portals.

  • API endpoint-specific Permission Sets and data filtering.

Summer 20: July 2020

  • Updated browser compatibility for Microsoft Edge Legacy.

  • Compensation Planning general availability.

  • Display partial day absences in the absence calendar.

  • People Management Workflow early adopter release.

  • Enhanced Objectives early adopter release.

  • Sovren resume parsing service urls updated.

  • Summary Process enhancements.

  • U.S.Forms package adds support for I-9 and E-Verify.

  • Enhancements to the Change User process.

  • Beta release of API endpoints for Absence, Absence Balances, Bonus, Salary, and Timesheet.

Spring 20: March 2020

  • Updated browser compatibility for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge.

  • iCalendar downloads for absences - beta release.

  • Generate Accrual Absences batch to create Accrual Balance records.

  • People Management Workflow pilot release updated.

  • Compensation Planning beta release 3.2.

  • Employee API general availability.

  • U.S. Country Pack updated with Component 2 of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEO-1 report.

  • Skill names and ares now translatable with Skill Library Languages.

Winter 20: October 2019

  • Conversations beta release.

  • People Groups general availability.

  • Browser compatibility update for Microsoft Internet Explorer.

  • Absence Accrual Log pagination and enhanced generation.

  • Delegated Access to the Timesheets process.

  • Time Off Calculator available to replace the Absence Calculator outside WX and in Payflow.

  • Enhanced HR Requests Approval page.

  • Hiring Manager Vacancy Table field set.

Triton: June 2019

  • People Groups pilot release.

  • Compensation Planning beta release.

  • Know Your People pilot release.

  • Enhanced sharing controls.

  • Future Dated Job Histories - enhanced configuration

  • Timesheets - automatic calculation of hours for Pay Code entry.

  • Timesheets - manager approval for managers without the Timesheets process.

  • Timesheets - switch to version 2 from iframe complete.

  • U.S. Tax Forms.

  • Localization - support added for Croatian, Danish, and Norwegian.

  • Payflow support for Multiple Bank Accounts.

  • Talent Acquisition - Hiring Managers can move Applications to the next acquisition stage.

  • Talent Acquisition - search engine support with robots.txt for the Candidate Portal.

  • Talent Acquisition - structured Vacancy data added to source code for the Candidate Portal.

  • Talent Acquisition - location mapping for Vacancies now requires a Maps API key from Google.

  • PDF template enhancements.

  • Telemetry turned on by default.

Serenity: March 2019

  • Automatic Timesheet entry saving.

  • Additional Pay Codes available in Timesheets support on-call or stand-by time.

  • Timesheets version 2 enabled by default.

  • Performance Overview as a standalone process, with access to previous performance reviews..

  • Performance Review Templates tab replaces Template Library.

  • Candidate search in Recruit can now exclude criteria.

  • Recruit Site Guest User Permission Sets.

  • Enhancements to Compensation Planning pilot release.

  • HR Noticeboard notices can now be collapsed in WX.

  • U.S. Tax Forms package now available.

  • In-product telemetry introduced.

  • Lightning ready update: Salesforce files in place of attachments.

  • Lightning ready update: impact on Salesforce Classic pages.

Resolution: December 2018

  • U.S. Country Pack: automated reports for U.S. compliance.

  • Enhanced social media visibility for vacancies using metadata.

  • Compensation Planning pilot release.

  • Timesheet data drives absence accruals for time off entitlement.

  • Work schedule days off now shown in the absence calendar.

  • FTE changes resulting from work schedules now calculated automatically.

  • Time off requests allow for non-working days.

  • Internal Communications can be configured to display only in the Mobile app.

  • Payflow enables creation of new Training records where none existed.

  • Lightning ready update: Salesforce files in place of attachments.

  • Lightning ready update: impact on Salesforce Classic pages.

Poseidon: June 2018

  • WX user interface enhancements: navigation and text title hiding.

  • Work schedules.

  • Talent Acquisition: resumes as links to stored files in place of attachments.

  • Talent Acquisition: Candidate Portal unique reference extended to 20 characters.

  • Talent Acquisition: enhanced security for Agency Portal links.

  • Talent Acquisition: candidate conversion to Team Member simplified.

  • Enhanced time off calculator.

  • Performance Review Templates selectable as Policy defaults for all assigned Team Members.

  • Continuous feedback reviews supported by new Action Events and the Next Performance Review Date field.

  • Policy page enhancements: tooltips, removal of unused fields, field naming improved.

  • Enhanced Profile assignment for the User creation process.

Odyssey: March 2018

  • Enhanced onboarding: pre-boarder status can be assigned, with Configure page and Policy options, enabling restricted access to WX.

  • Timesheet comments can be enabled for all Team Members assigned to a Timesheet Pattern.

  • Combo box support for HR Requests, providing an alternative to picklists.

  • New fields added to HCM and Payflow to support US payroll.

  • Enhanced validation for the Social Security Number field on the Team Member object.

  • Controls for the Form Reminder Email Batch and the Benefit Enrollment batch added to the HCM Configure page.

Nautilus: January 2018

  • Pulse Surveys now available.

  • Enhancements to Performance Management with continuous feedback and a new Performance Overview process.

  • Multi-filters for Internal Communications.

  • Enhanced Team Member transfer between departments and managers with a Transfer wizard and filters accessible from the Organization page.

  • Job Description can now be linked to Job Library Item.

  • Enhancements to the WX organization chart.

  • Enhancements to the Timesheet interface in WX.

  • Absence 'end date provisional' setting now toggled from the Absence Accrual Rule.

  • Russian translations added for all generic terminology, including tool tip help.

  • Benefits enhancements: extra requirements for linked beneficiaries or dependents, and more triggers available for Action Events.

Mirny: September 2017

  • Performance Review templates with versioning.

  • Objectives: extended Policy options and more status settings.

  • More social feed options for WX tile and detail views with support for Twitter, YouTube, and image click through.

  • Hiring Manager enhancements including Application pagination and action badges for Application and Vacancy lists; access to bulk assessment; simplified access to Application details; Actions for Stage Assessments requiring completion; access to approval history for all Vacancies.

  • Absence balance snapshot data for display through WX Reports and standard HCM reporting.

  • Training data available for download through Payflow.

Liemba: June 2017

  • People Groups.

  • Pulse Surveys pilot release.

  • Performance Management enhancements including more information available for Objectives and Performance Review; the option to delete draft Objectives through WX; Job Profiles as a basis for bulk Competency Assessment.

  • Mobile Android launch, with access to the full range of processes.

  • WX user experience enhancements including masthead expansion to include Actions; hamburger access to Navigation Bar; options drop down with links to logout, help, and administration.

  • More image options in WX including a responsive image tile type and dedicated image notice types.

  • Hide org chart configuration option for WX.

  • Automated updating of the number of direct reports for each manager.