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Join us at The Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, June 9-13, 2014, for:
• Exceptional Education: 150+ sessions presented by Oracle, including breakouts, Meet the Experts and road maps.
• Networking Opportunities: With more than 1,600 attendees, the OHUG Global Conference is the place to be to interact with industry experts.
• Exhibit Hall Novelties: See the latest products and services available.
• Social Activities: Enjoy the company of like-minded professionals in the "Entertainment Capital of the World."
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Headlines
News from OHUG
Spotlight on New Board Member Zain Farooqi
Meet Your Keynote Speakers
OHUG Global Conference Attendee Testimonial
Upcoming Webinars
INNOVATE14 Is This Week!
Participate in an Oracle Usability Feedback Session at the OHUG Global Conference
Oracle Invite: Join the Oracle Customer Advisory Panel (CAP) Program
Share a Success Story with OHUG Members
Industry News
Oracle Will Allow Customers to Swap On-Premises Software for Cloud Services
Changing the Dynamics of Learning and Benefiting From an IT-Savvy Workforce
Three Tips for Getting the Cloud You Want—on Your Own Terms
An Exercise in Trendspotting
Product of the Month: Oracle HCM Cloud 8
Low Confidence in HR's Ability to Support Organizations: Survey
Why Companies Need a More Holistic Approach to Managing Talent
5 Ways Chief HR Officers Can Impact the Bottom Line
Change Management Critical in HR Systems Implementations
Bridging the Gap Between Global Mobility and Talent Management
Buyers on the Rise
#GoodJob: Social Recognition in the Digital Age
News from OHUG
Spotlight on New Board Member Zain Farooqi
Zain Farooqi recently joined the OHUG Board of Directors to serve as the voice for the Taleo community and assist with setting the strategy and goals for the HCM community.
 We caught up with Zain to ask him a couple questions about himself and the role of Taleo within OHUG in hopes to gain some insight on his volunteer position on the OHUG board.
Q: Where do you work/what do you do?
A: I work at Marriott International, which is located in Bethesda, Md. In my current role as the director of talent acquisition systems, I oversee global talent acquisition and screening systems and provide consultative leadership in the evaluation, integration, development and implementation of global talent acquisition system solutions.
Q: Is there anything particular you are currently working on that excites you?
A: Searching for creative ways to accomplish goals and overcome business challenges is exciting every day. Marriott International, with its diverse and complex processes across its 19 brands in 72 countries, allows me to do just that. We recently launched a mobile apply solution (to search and apply for jobs) globally in 10 languages, which was a very exciting project.
Q: How long have you been involved with OHUG?
A: I have worked with Taleo since 2008 and with OHUG since 2012.
Q: Why is it important for Taleo to be represented on the OHUG board?
A: Taleo has a very strong user community. It benefits almost every organization in some fashion that uses Taleo. Prior to being acquired by Oracle, Taleo did a great job supporting the user community and helping it develop. Being represented on the OHUG board will allow the community to remain intact, its interests represented, and continue to grow.
Meet Your Keynote Speakers
For more information on each speaker, click the presentation title.
Your Journey: Modern HR Using the Oracle HCM Cloud
Date: Tuesday, June 10
Time: 8:45 a.m.
Speaker: Steve Miranda, Executive Vice President, Application Development
Nuts and Bolts of Your Journey to the Cloud
Date: Tuesday, June 10
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Speakers: Chris Leone, Senior Vice President, Oracle Applications Development; Cliff Godwin, Senior Vice President, EBS Applications Development; Paco Aubrejuan, Senior Vice President, PeopleSoft Development; S. Y. Shenoy, Group Vice President, HCM Applications Development
   
A Tale of Transformation
Date: Wednesday, June 11
Time: 9 a.m.
Speakers: Joyce Westerdahl, Senior Vice President, the Oracle Human Resources team; and Mark Sunday, Chief Information Officer, Human Resources
 
OHUG Global Conference Attendee Testimonial
We know how great the OHUG Global Conference is, but don't just take our word for it.
Greg Brigman, HRIS manager at Sonoco, has been to a handful of OHUG conferences. "OHUG has consistently helped Sonoco learn great things while attending the conference," he said.
"Since 2008, we have built an HR portal from ideas found at OHUG. We have become a member of the PeopleSoft Customer Advisory through direct networking at OHUG. We are now venturing down the path everyone seems to be taking to look at Oracle Cloud. I know OHUG can help us make the right decision as we research this path."
Don't you want a similar experience? Register now.
Upcoming Webinars
Oracle HRMS Reporting and BI for the Budget-Challenged
Date: Wednesday, June 4
Time: noon to 1 p.m. CT
Speaker: Kiran Pasham, EiS Technologies
In today's difficult economic times, where budget cuts loom over most enterprises, we're all a little budget-challenged. Doing more with less has become a common practice among organizations. Attend this webinar to learn about approaches to Oracle EBS HRMS/Taleo Reporting and BI that will fit within your budget constraints. We'll discuss how HR with 360-degree reporting can provide efficiency and productivity to your bottom line. We'll discuss how security options and samples of ready-to-use, prebuilt content of Oracle EBS HR/Payroll/Benefits/OLM/OTL/CWB and Taleo. HRMS reporting has never been this powerful and simple.
Register now.
Create & Update Oracle HCM Data From Excel
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 15
Time: 1-2 p.m. CT
Speaker: Brad Sayer, More4Apps
Do you need to load large numbers of employees (and related information) into Oracle HR? Is employee maintenance causing you a data-entry headache? Having accurate and relevant employee information is a fundamental requirement of any ERP. Loading and maintaining this information can be an ongoing struggle for companies. More4Apps has the tools to enable the loading and maintenance of core employee and assignment information, ensuring that you can have confidence in the accuracy of your employee information. Learn about tools that enable companies to load employee, assignment and related information from Excel into Oracle HR.
Register now.
INNOVATE14 Is This Week!
Registration is live for INNOVATE14! In partnership with the Northeast PeopleSoft and NY-NJ JD Edwards RUG, the E-Business Suite and Hyperion/EPM/BI Oracle Applications User Group of New Jersey (OAUGNJ) and the Oracle Financial Services Industry User Group (FSIUG), OHUG is co-sponsoring an exciting joint Oracle user group meeting (aptly named INNOVATE14), on Friday, May 16, 2014, at the Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel in Iselin, N.J.
In addition to access to Oracle ERP-specific HCM sessions, OHUG is presenting a complete track of HCM content applicable to all product lines. Check out the full agenda.
The Greater Philadelphia PeopleSoft and JD Edwards User Group (PHRUG) is the newest INNOVATE14 partner. This event, with its expanded PeopleSoft and JD Edwards content, will serve as its spring meeting. PHRUG members should be delighted with the benefits of “going the extra mile” to get to INNOVATE14.
You can access an overview of the complete May 16 INNOVATE14 program by visiting the official INNOVATE14 event site.
Questions or requests for more information may be directed to Event Coordinator Joanne Brennan by email or phone at 617.510.2578.
Participate in an Oracle Usability Feedback Session at the OHUG Global Conference
Get the most from your OHUG conference experience by participating in a usability feedback session, where your expertise will help Oracle develop unbeatable products and solutions. If you sign up to attend one of the user feedback sessions during the OHUG conference, you'll learn about Oracle's future design trends involving mobile and traditional applications, and how these trends will affect your users down the road.
Oracle's usability experts will guide you through practical learning sessions on the user experience of various business applications, middleware and more. Participants will get a preview of Oracle HCM product designs for Oracle HCM Cloud, PeopleSoft, Taleo and more. All customer feedback sessions will be conducted June 10-11 at The Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas.
Seats are limited for Oracle's customer feedback sessions, so sign up now by sending an email to Jeanette Chadwick. For more information about customer feedback sessions and what you can learn from them, please visit the Usable Apps website.
Oracle Invite: Join the Oracle Customer Advisory Panel (CAP) Program
CAP is an opt-in network of Oracle customers that provides targeted input into Oracle's product and services strategies. This feedback is given directly to Oracle executives, product development teams and various Oracle lines of business to inform future decisions that affect your experience with Oracle products and services.
How does CAP work?
Customers will opt in to the program via this URL. During this registration, you will provide your specific areas of interest, and Oracle will tailor its content to you based on these preferences. Oracle conducts focus groups, surveys and polls across its customer base as part of the CAP program, but you will never be invited to provide feedback more than once per month.
What are the benefits of joining CAP?
CAP panels are sponsored by the respective product development general managers for the product families. These GMs and their teams have committed to using your feedback to inform future product and service roadmaps. In return for your valuable input, Oracle leadership will share feedback results, insights and planned initiatives with you.
How do I join CAP?
Simply click here and you will be directed to a registration site. Upon completion of this one-page form, you will receive an email requesting additional information that will help us tailor the CAP experience to your needs.
Share a Success Story with OHUG Members
We are looking for new and exciting Oracle customer content to add to our popular iParticipate Webinar Series! This series offers information, tips, and training on topics that are trending now in your industry. Webinars are available to all OHUG members and the recordings are available for download following each presentation. This is a wonderful opportunity to share your organization success story with the OHUG membership. To get started, please visit our iParticipate Webinar Archives and view what other members have presented in the past. Submit your topic here.
Industry News
Oracle Will Allow Customers to Swap On-Premises Software for Cloud Services
IDG News Service (05/01/14) Kanaracus, Chris
Oracle announced that it will allow its customers to swap on-premises software subscriptions for software-as-a-service apps. The Customer 2 Cloud program permits clients employing Oracle's on-premises human capital management and customer relationship management software to migrate to cloud versions, and eligible users include E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customers. In addition, Customer 2 Cloud incorporates Oracle's Cloud Express rapid implementation services, while hybrid on-premises/cloud apps also are available. Oracle says the program offers customers "a practical path for extending their on-premise applications with high value cloud applications, versus wholesale replacements." Constellation Research chairman Ray Wang sees the program as benefiting customers, as "many...need a defined methodology to go from on-premises to cloud. Basically, the feedback from customers not in the cloud was, how do we get there most easily?" Constellation analyst Holger Mueller also sees Customer 2 Cloud as supplying "a fast way to [turn] shelfware into cloudware." He says it is a good move for Oracle. "It's a proactive way to get more customers live [in the cloud]" while skipping long sales cycles that have indeterminate outcomes, Mueller notes.
Changing the Dynamics of Learning and Benefiting From an IT-Savvy Workforce
The Nation (Thailand) (05/06/14) Han, Shaun
Companies require intelligent operation to stay competitive, and a recent Oracle white paper says although a majority of human resources professionals know a learning culture is critical to the organization's health, few know the reason why, or what it means to have a learning culture, writes Oracle's Shaun Han. A learning culture is a foundational series of organizational values, principles, processes, and practices that encourage individuals and the organization to gain knowledge, competence, and performance. Employees learn more effectively via a problem-solving methodology innate to dynamic work processes. High-impact learning organizations (HILOs) can foster skills and talent with greater proficiency through their adoption of the new learning concept. HILOs that have implemented such a robust learning platform tend to significantly overtake their peers in terms of market share, employee productivity, delivery of quality products, and response to customer needs. Han says Asian organizations ought to consider establishing high-impact constructivist learning programs where IT plays a significant role to bolster knowledge acquisition and leadership and skills development. The first stage in engaging a workforce is knowing them better, and technology solutions encourage this by capturing and managing a profile of each employee. The organization can then develop and deliver a highly configurable learning experience that mirrors organizational culture, and that addresses the learning needs of organizations across the entire employment cycle. The final stage involves aligning the learning culture with the business strategy.
Three Tips for Getting the Cloud You Want—on Your Own Terms
Forbes (05/08/14) Erickson, Jeff
Oracle's Rod Johnson attributes the migration toward cloud-based technologies to a basic divergence between how rapidly industries change and IT's response rate to those changes. “We have found that the gap between business change and IT response has been growing, to the point where there’s now about an 18-month lag time between when a business unit needs something and when IT can respond,” he notes. Oracle's Jeff Erickson offers strategies to help technologists influence the adoption of cloud solutions, starting with CIOs functioning as cloud ambassadors and handling relationships between third-party vendors of software as a service and existing on-premises solutions. IT response rates are often depressed because hidden or shadow IT spending only worsens cloud migration challenges. Johnson says finding ways to modernize within the system itself is critical, and technology partners are obliged to evolve the customer experience in service of this objective. For example, Oracle's Customer 2 Cloud program helps customers shift their investment ratio within certain Oracle application families by refocusing components of their installed on-premises solutions to Oracle application cloud services within the same family. The program is open to all existing Oracle customers of CRM and HCM solutions in Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle’s Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards product lines to help them adopt the capabilities within Oracle Customer Experience Cloud and Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud.
An Exercise in Trendspotting
Human Resource Executive (05/08/14) Boese, Steve
Human Resource Executive HR Technology Conference co-chair Steve Boese outlines several important and transformational trends that can be inferred from this year's HR Tech speaking proposals. One trend he notes is the growing prominence of applying data to HR and people management, which has reached unprecedented heights. The conference will air the views of HR and recruiting leaders on how this trend is manifesting itself in many HR and talent management processes, as evidenced by the growing use of predictive assessments in the candidate screening process, more refined algorithms to find better matches between jobs and people, and the use of data on hours worked and compensation to inform Affordable Care Act compliance awareness and strategy. A second trend Boese cites is the advent of a new marketing emphasis for C-suite collaboration. "With the increased competition for specialized and in-demand talent, especially as the U.S. economy continues to rebound from recession, HR and recruiting leaders have to be ever-more concerned with branding, messaging, engagement, and image," he says. A third trend Boese observes is the abundance of choice of modern HR technologies, which means companies of all sizes can avail themselves of powerful HR solutions. "For many organizations, even small and medium-sized, the need to drive competitive advantage through people is propelling investment of time and resources toward more modern and innovative HR technologies," he points out.
Product of the Month: Oracle HCM Cloud 8
SearchFinancialApplications (04/24/14) Snider, Emma
Oracle's Human Capital Management Cloud release 8 includes more than 200 new features to further enhance the Oracle HCM platform, which integrates Fusion core human resources and Taleo talent management modules to offer a cloud-based HCM suite that supports large, global implementations. Release 8's features support social sourcing, time and attendance, workforce modeling, performance management, and succession planning. They also offer support for Canada, and the expansion of mobile capabilities to manage additional processes and provide more analytics. "It's highly functional, easy to use and built in such a way that it is highly likely to make an everyday user [like a manager] happy using it," says Constellation Research analyst Holger Mueller. The updated release includes a new user interface, and the platform's support for the iPad has drawn praise. "I travel quite a bit, and now that I have access to this application on the iPad, I can handle the executive referral issues that come up from an airport or a hotel," says Cengage Learning's David Muller. "It has added efficiencies to the most challenging and time-consuming escalation issues I get. In terms of quick access [and] routing, it has far exceeded my expectations."
Low Confidence in HR's Ability to Support Organizations: Survey
Canadian HR Reporter (04/25/14)
Although human resources and non-HR executives acknowledge the need for action on critical organizational issues such as leadership, employee retention and engagement, and workforce capability, many are uncertain about their level of preparation, according to Deloitte's 2014 Human Capital Trends survey. In addition, more than 50 percent of respondents assessed their HR and talent teams' current performance to be less than good. "The greatest challenge for the human capital management profession is how to manage a rapidly globalizing workforce, while at the same time keeping pace with shifting demographics and ever-evolving technology," says Deloitte's Heather Stockton. The survey identified key challenges for business and HR leaders, with leadership cited as the biggest and most urgent challenge. Thirty-eight percent of respondents perceive their talent programs as having less-than-adequate ability to cultivate existing and future talent, while 73 percent of HR leaders describe their ability to exploit emerging tools and approaches as weak. The second major challenge is holding on to and engaging workers in light of evolving employee expectations, and 25 percent of HR professionals and their non-HR peers say they are not ready |