The Content Catalog is a repository of the data that can be associated with person and non-person profiles. It provides a generic structure for setting up different types of
information. The Content Catalog contains multiple Content Types and each Content Type contain Content Items. For example, we have Content Types of ctcLink PeopleSoft Skills and Leadership Skills (displayed on the Competency tab) and Language Skills (displayed on the Qualifications tab). The structure of the content catalog enables us to easily add new content types to our profiles.

We already use Non-Person Profiles, which are data repositories that describe business entities rather than individuals. These are things like Job Code, Position, Job Family, or Salary Grade. The parts of Profile Management that we are adopting with this project are Person Profiles, which enable us to store key information about employees, such as their skills (competencies), licenses, certifications, languages and other key details about their experience, such as the projects they have worked on and trainings they have taken. Data in Person Profiles are used by PeopleSoft ePerformance, which relies on the underlying configuration in Profile Management.

Oracle provided a set of generic Content Types delivered as system data upon implementation. As a part of the ePerformance and Profile Management Project, a set of new Content Types are defined for our specific use. These configuration values are global, in that all colleges will use the same set of data, thus the HR community is key to the successful establishment of the underlying configuration for these modules.