Sage People roadmap overview
Slide 1: Sage People - FY25 Product Roadmap Overview
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Workforce Insights (Early adopters)
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WX2.0 Employee Documents, Payslips
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WX2.0 Objectives, Feedback, Conversations
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Admin and Comp Planning enhancements
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Sage Copilot for HR (Early adopters)
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Workforce Insights (General availability)
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In-app Content; Recruit enhancements
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WX2.0 Time Off, Org Chart, Hiring Manager, Timesheets
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Sage Copilot for HR (General availability)
Slide 2: Safe Harbor Statement
The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Sage’s products remains at the sole discretion of Sage.
Slide 3: Workforce Experience 2.0
Workforce Experience (WX) is Sage People's employee self-service portal. It is going through a transformation that brings the following:
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Best-in-class, accessible UI, increasing employee engagement
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Mobile-first page designs, leading to more intuitive user experience
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Powerful new capabilities, enhancing your employees’ productivity
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Increased system performance, scaling seamlessly as your business grows
Slide 4: Workforce Insights
Workforce Insights is a brand-new, AI-powered analytics tool available on WX to managers of all levels. It empowers them to:
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Receive actionable insights about their direct and wider teams
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Make data-driven decisions, increasing the likelihood of successful outcomes
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Uncover hidden risks and take proactive measures to mitigate them
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Anticipate future trends and capitalise on emerging opportunities
Slide 5: Voice of the Customer
With our Voice of the Customer initiative, we dedicate 40% of our resources to delivering key enhancements based on customer feedback we collect via our Customer Ideas Portal. It ensures we:
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Build trust and strong relationships by actively listening to our customers
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Shape the roadmap together via continuous conversations with our customers
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Deliver customer-centric solutions based on deep understanding of your needs
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Grow your usage of key features, continuously increasing the return on your investment
Slide 6: In-app Content
We will start sharing updates, communications, and documentation directly through Sage People’s HR Portal, so that HR users:
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Never lose important updates, maximising the value they get from the system
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Receive timely communications, staying ahead of new releases & features
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Can self-serve contextual help, reducing time spent searching through guides
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Remain engaged, informed, and confident, increasing their efficiency
Slide 7: Sage Copilot for HR & Payroll
After announcing Sage Copilot for Finance & Accounting in February 2024, we are excited to say it is also coming to HR & Payroll. For Sage People, the Copilot is a digital assistant that will enable you to:
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Receive guidance to perform activities faster
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Delegate simple but time-consuming tasks
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Automate repetitive, frequent workflows
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Create time & space to focus on your people
Slide 8: Release schedule
Please note that the dates and features outlined on this page are indicative and may change as part of our agile software development practices at Sage.
Winter '25 Release
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Workforce Insights (Early adopters)
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WX2.0 Employee Documents, Payslips
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WX2.0 Objectives, Feedback, Conversations
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Admin and Comp Planning enhancements
Summer '25 Release
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Sage Copilot for HR & Payroll
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In-app Content; Recruit enhancements
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Workforce Insights (General availability)
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WX2.0 Time Off, Org Chart, Hiring Manager, Timesheets
Upcoming releases
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Y24.2 (Production): October 2024
The Sage People Release Calendar can be found on the Sage People Community: https://sagepeoplecommunity.sage.com/s/article/Product-releases
Timeline for long-term initiatives
So far we have updated the following to WX 2.0:
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Navigation
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Homepage
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People Management Workflow
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Personal Details
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Work Details
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Dependents
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Emergency Contacts
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Visas & Passports
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Work History
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Education History
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Performance Overview (Enhanced Performance Review)
Throughout 2025 we aim to update:
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Enhanced Objectives
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Enhanced Feedback
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Org Chart
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Time Off
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Timesheets
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Hiring Manager
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Job Description
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Payslips
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Manager Notes
WX 2.0 estimated release and toggle timescales:
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Enhanced Objectives (toggled off by default): Y25.1
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Enhanced Fedback (toggled off by default): Y25.1
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Manager Notes: Y25.1
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Payslips: Y25.1
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Job Description: Y25.3
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Time Off (toggled off by default): Y25.3
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Org Chart (toggled off by default): Y25.3
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Timesheets (toggled off by default): Y25.3
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Enhanced Performance Reviews, Enhanced Objectives, Enhanced Feedback (toggle removal): Y26.1
To simplify user management for customers, Salesforce has announced that permissions through profiles are moving towards end of life. This means Sage People will be moving away from profiles completely, and will only be managing user access through permission sets and permission set groups. To enable this transition, we will make it easy for permission sets to be assigned to new users, and add the ability to automatically migrate existing users from a profile to the equivalent permission sets. This migration will happen over the course of FY25 for most customers.
To keep up with the demands of an increasingly digitized world and a higher volume of larger, more complex data sets, we will be migrating customers from our current SFTP server to a new, enhanced SFTP server with increased availability and better scalability. This migration will happen over the course of FY25 for most customers.