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Position Yourself on the Cutting Edge of HR Technology at the OHUG 2016 Global Conference
Building metrics to monitor overall performance is a complex component of our ever-changing industry. Get the answers to your questions with the "Excel in the New World of HR" sessions at the OHUG 2016 Global Conference, June 6-9 in New Orleans.
Plan your schedule now to hear from Oracle experts and get solutions on:
- Going beyond traditional performance management - What have people tried? What's working and what isn't?
- How to leverage workforce intelligence to inform better business decision making.
- Extending HCM Cloud Help to include customer customized help, policies, external websites and videos.
- The future of enterprise experiences and the latest emerging trends in the consumer market.
- How to strengthen your HCM business case for cloud and support outcomes that keep your company competitive and drive positive impacts to the bottom line.
- HR's ability to attract, engage, retain and motivate employees across the entire talent ecosystem.
Register today.
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Exclusive Event: Oracle Hosts User Feedback Sessions at the OHUG 2016 Global Conference
Make a difference in the usability of Oracle HCM applications and sign up for one of the user feedback sessions at the OHUG 2016 Global Conference. You can preview new product designs for Oracle HCM Cloud and talk with Oracle's usability engineers. Your input will help Oracle continue to develop intuitive and easy-to-use applications. If you're attending the OHUG 2016 Global Conference, don't forget to sign up.
Oracle's usability experts will guide you through practical learning sessions on the user experience of various Oracle HCM applications. All user feedback sessions will be conducted on June 7-8 at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans.
This event fills up quickly, and seats are limited. Advance registration is required. In order to reserve a spot for yourself and your colleagues, or to get additional info, please contact Jeannette Chadwick.
To learn more about the Oracle Applications User Experience team, visit UsableApps.
Oracle Learn at the OHUG 2016 Global Conference
Don't miss the OHUG 2016 Global Conference for an unprecedented amount of Learn content. We've pulled out all the stops to bring you the latest information in the hottest Learn topics. It starts with the "Basic Training for Learn Administrators" workshop on Monday morning, followed by the Oracle Learn SIG "UnMeeting," where you will have an opportunity to talk with the Oracle Learn Product team in person. In the main conference, we have over 15 hours of Learn content to choose from. Join the conversation on Twitter with #OHUGLEARN.
Updates from the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) Team
Looking to the Enterprise Future: The OAUX team reports on wearables and IoT devices as well as Oracle's investment in the challenges of bringing them to the enterprise in a new post on the Voice of User Experience (VoX) blog. Wearables lie at the center of many IoT discussions, and the possibilities they create when they work in tandem are endless. The OAUX team has been keeping an eye on both areas for several years and is investing heavily in research and development behind the challenges of interweaving the capabilities of both types of devices and bringing them to the enterprise.
UX Strategy: We know you're craving the latest in Oracle's UX strategy, and we must deliver. Learn more in a new VoX post with a bird's-eye view on our new strategy ebook, or dive right into the (free!) download.
RDK: We recently announced updates to the Cloud UX Rapid Development Kit (RDK) on the Usable Apps website, and we're so excited by it that we're still talking about it. Check out the following posts:
- Get a tour of the Cloud UX Rapid Development Kit for Release 10 in Overview of the PaaS4SaaS User Experience RDK, including the new Microsoft PowerPoint-based wireframing tools and the software templates and components that are available for developers on OTN and GitHub.
- In Integrating Google Maps, IFTTT, and OpenWeatherMap APIs into the Oracle Cloud UX Rapid Development Kit, Lancy Silveira writes about APIs used in the Release 10 Cloud UX Rapid Development Kit and how they are integrated into the RDK simplified UI pages, encouraging partners and developers to explore more possibilities that will enrich the Cloud UX for customers in simple, fast ways.
- Silveira also talks to Customer Connect's Frank Cowell about the Cloud UX Rapid Development Kit. If you're a member of Customer Connect, access is easy through the website. HCM Talk Radio, a regular podcast where experts and guests share the latest in HCM Cloud best practices and knowledge, is also available directly. If you haven't tuned in yet for these informative podcasts, go to Oracle's Podcast Center or to iTunes and sign up for the feeds to receive and listen to the talk shows regularly.
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Oracle Updates HCM Cloud With Help Desk App, Offline Mobile Support
ZDNet (04/06/16) Gagliordi, Natalie
Oracle announced updates to its Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud at the Oracle HCM World event, including the addition of a help desk application that gives human resources managers greater visibility into the workforce and employees a more user-friendly portal for accessing HR resources. The Oracle HR Help Desk app boasts full-case management and escalation capabilities for complex issue resolution, and has the same workflows, analytics, social capabilities and user interface as the HCM Cloud. Employees can seek volunteer opportunities in the My Volunteering portal included in the HCM Cloud. Oracle also enhanced its Oracle Learning Cloud with new features. The platform promises to deliver contextual and social learning functions, educating users in real time with tailored recommendations according to job types and skills. The enhancements include new capabilities enabling the embedding of learning content within the context of business processes. Oracle Learning Cloud also features an offline mobile app to facilitate training activities in the absence of Internet or broadband connectivity. "With the latest additions to Oracle HCM Cloud, Oracle continues to help organizations drive digital transformation by creating highly effective and modern HR departments," said Oracle HCM Development's Chris Leone. "As a result, Oracle HCM Cloud gives organizations the ability to drive positive business outcomes through their HR functions."
How the 'Gig Economy' Offers Flexibility for Employers and Employees
Personnel Today (03/31/16) Campbell, Andy
Freelancing is becoming an appealing option in the modern workforce, and "the traditional view of a job for life died years ago, and it is likely that the 'portfolio career' will become increasingly popular, if not the norm," according to Andy Campbell, Oracle UK's Senior Director of Human Capital Management Strategy. He noted the emergence of this trend creates an imperative for organizations to apply some of the lessons of the "gig economy" in managing their permanent employees. "There is, of course, a time to use contract workers, but businesses should first look at the skills within their own organization, as many employees possess skills that go beyond their daily role and they are keen to put them into practice," Campbell said. He cited Oracle research indicating 34 percent of workers find working on exciting projects to be most important to their sense of engagement. Forty-three percent of employers surveyed said this practice was most critical to engaging the people in their organization. Moreover, 47 percent of employee respondents said they would like the option of assuming a new job role within their company but are unable to. Opening up project-based roles to full-time employees calls for a subtler strategy for human resources planning, according to Campbell. He said this may require changes to the company's existing systems, structures and ways of working.
Golden Age of HR Predictive Analytics on Horizon, Report Says
SearchFinancialApplications (03/10/16) Ring, Dan
Organizations are entering a "golden age" of human resources predictive analytics, and progress could ramp up in several areas, including talent recruitment/retention and employee scheduling of workers, according to a worldwide study of business and HR leaders by Deloitte. The report cited the advent of analytics as one of the top 10 HR trends, and this year should witness significant progress in terms of capabilities. "We are seeing tremendous growth," noted Bersin by Deloitte founder Josh Bersin. "Many companies have taken HR software and put it on the cloud, so they have better access to data. They also have analytics teams. Being an HR analytics person is now kind of a cool job." The percentage of companies that are fully able to use HR predictive analytics increased year-over-year from 4 percent to 8 percent, while the number of companies ready, or somewhat ready, for analytics rose from 24 percent to 32 percent. Moreover, Deloitte found HR leaders are cultivating stronger skills, becoming more innovative and more often teaming with business leaders to help enhance profits. The report also found organizations are using HR predictive analytics to spot the risk of top talent quitting and prescribe ways to retain them, develop profiles of top salespeople, localize the traits of the most productive employees, reduce bad hires and find patterns of unplanned absences.
What Is Digital HR All About and How Is It Changing How We Work and Live?
Anthill Magazine (04/01/16) Green, Aaron
The growing interconnection of work and life has made human resources management the most pressing challenge in the enterprise, and it faces a formidable task ahead with looming skills and internal capability shortages, according to Aaron Green, vice president of HCM, Oracle APAC. Green said organizations must enable digital HR if they are to survive, and it goes beyond process automation and digitization. Digital HR serves as the platform for organizational transformation to prepare it for the future, taking advantage of new-age sciences to embed intuitiveness within HR transactions and decisions to facilitate organizational efficacy. Digital HR can drive workforce engagement by establishing HR transactions that are manageable from "always on, always available" mobile-enabled devices. In addition, digital HR can effect cultural transformation in the contemporary digital workplace, and support much higher empowerment and transparency by enabling the transfer of various processes to managers and employees. Moreover, organizations stand a better chance of drawing and retaining higher-quality talent when they can deliver an employee value proposition via digital channels. In addition, the smooth combination of real-time employee data, inbuilt analytical capabilities and referencing to big data enables digital HR solutions to supply meaningful insights. Finally, digital HR can boost the HR department's strategic value to the rest of the organization.
Cloud HRM for a Digital Workforce
CXOtoday.com (03/22/16)
In an interview, Oracle's Shailesh Singhla discussed the helpful effect cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions are having on human resources teams' talent management and retention efforts. "The upgrade cycle for cloud-based HCM is much faster than that of traditional on-premises software, so companies must be able to embrace change in order to take full advantage of the new features," Singhla noted. He stressed a need for HR and business leaders to engage with millennials and digital natives by simplifying the employee experience and facilitating connections anywhere via any device, tailoring information and communicating it in a way that is relevant for their job and supporting a culture that encourages workers to share their knowledge and engage with each other. "Oracle has recently launched the Oracle Learning Cloud to help shift the corporate learning paradigm to one that enables employees at all levels to learn contextually and socially regardless of their location," Singhla said. "The new Oracle solution helps companies provide employees with a consumer-like experience to help retain and develop the talent they need to be successful." Singhla noted the Oracle HCM solution stands apart by offering a comprehensive and end-to-end employee experience. He also said it "displays the conversations in the application platform [user interface] shell that are contextually related to the business process or business object being manipulated in the application."
The Big Issues Facing HR
HR Magazine (03/16) Vol. 61, No. 2, P. 58 Schramm, Jen
The Society for Human Resource Management's Special Expertise Panels anticipate tighter labor markets, economic uncertainty and globalization will influence the workplace and the HR profession in the years ahead. Organizations are finding it tougher to attract top talent due to improving labor market conditions, making it imperative that HR help build a strong employer brand. Smart HR professionals are emphasizing cultures that incorporate the basics of a great place to work, including corporate social responsibility initiatives, robust worker safety and security measures and an overarching ambiance of civility and respect in the workplace. Another trend is the increasing use of new technology to improve productivity and workforce flexibility, which also is supporting a virtual workforce that adds challenges to employee management and team building. The combined threat of data breaches or risks to global supply chains and physical safety concerns for employees is contributing to a growing sense of insecurity, while hiring strategies and other HR decisions will be shaped by economic pressures. Moreover, changes in demographics, including an aging workforce, multiple generations working together and greater cultural diversity will have a mounting impact on many HR practices. Finally, HR practitioners are confronted with both opportunities and challenges inherent in big data, with business leaders pushing HR professionals to use metrics and in-depth analysis to make good decisions and show the return on investment of major expenditures.
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