PeopleSoft Campus Solutions customers should upgrade to 9.2 for the following reasons,

1. Adopt new features

a. Selective adoption using PUM. Starting with CS 9.2 users will have the ability to determine which patches should be installed. PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) will be leveraged to create this selective patching functionality.

b. New fluid user interface. Redesigned student self-service for mobile devices. CS 9.2 will leverage the PeopleSoft User Experience, Fluid, to simplify self-service. The new interface will be optimized for mobile devices (welcome to the 21st century Campus Solutions).

c. No further release of PeopleSoft Campus Solution will be there after 9.2. PeopleSoft is moving toward a selective adoption approach which will remove the need to create new releases. As discussed above, the selective adoption will be managed through the PeopleSoft Update Manager which allows users to select not only which updates they’d like to implement, but also when those updates should be implemented.

2. Oracle will stop supporting CS 9.0 by December 2019. If existing customer should continue to get support from Oracle, then they should migrate CS 9.2 before the aforementioned timeline.

3. Customers who have not upgraded their PeopleSoft CS application in a while can make use of this opportunity to migrate to the latest version. To upgrade to CS9.2, customer should be minimum on Bundle 34 of Campus Solutions 9.0 which was released on July 2014 and bundle 25 of HCM 9.0. Peopletools version should be 8.53 or higher.