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Meet the Newly Elected OHUG Executive Team
OHUG is pleased to announce the executive board. strong>Douglas Reed, who was the treasurer and vice president of financial affairs, is the new president-elect of OHUG and will assume the president’s role in July 2014. In addition, current board members Jatinder Dhoot, Judy Hamilton and Kate Iantosca will serve on the executive board as vice presidents. They will partner with President Carolyn Hayden-Garner, Executive Vice President Ann Hansen, Executive Advisors Nov Omana and Stan Jakubik, and CEO Brian Langerman.
The executive board is excited to lead OHUG strategically in the coming year. Stay tuned in the coming months for more on OHUG’s 2014 strategic plan. In the meantime, let’s meet the OHUG executive board members!
Carolyn Hayden-Garner, MBA, CPP
President
Douglas Reed
President-Elect
Ann T.H. Hansen, PMP
Executive Vice President
Jatinder Dhoot
Vice President
Judy Hamilton
Vice President
Kate Iantosca
Vice President
Stan Jakubik
Board Advisor
Nov Omana
Board Advisor
Brian Langerman
CEO
Read more about the OHUG board.
Headlines
News from OHUG
Check out the September/October Webinar Pipeline
Attend the OHUG New England RUG Call on RUP 6
Spotlight on Scout
OHUG at Oracle OpenWorld
Participate in Oracle Usability Feedback Sessions at OpenWorld, Tour the Oracle HQ Labs
Payroll SIG Looking for Leader
Attend the OAUGNYC Oracle E-Business Suite and EPM/BI Meeting
Attend the Taleo Canadian Regional User Group (RUG) Meeting
Industry News
More Strings to the Bow: The Expanding Nature of HR
Oracle's Latest PeopleSoft In-Memory App Taps Unstructured Data for 'Complex' Projects
Companies Turn to Tech to Streamline HR
HR Departments Invaded by Data Scientists
Oracle-NetSuite Deal Benefits Users, Strengthens Vendors
We LOVE Big Data
New Software Helps HR Drive Business Decisions
CIOs Play Vital Role in the Emerging Science of Talent Analytics
HR Cloud/Saas Services: Considerations for HR Managers
Diversity Fades as You Move Up the Corporate Ladder
Insider HR: Some Things to Consider
Top Tips for Talent Management
News from OHUG
Check out the September/October Webinar Pipeline
When the Culture is Not to Clock - Honor Based Attendance Tracking
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 10
Time: 11 a.m. to noon PT / noon to 1 p.m. MT / 1-2 p.m. CT / 2-3 p.m. ET
Speakers: Dave Schulz and Andrew Ferguson, Softworks
In this webcast, we will examine honor based time sheets and how they can assist organizations where the culture is not to clock and/or enter times, with operational efficiency, cost control, regulatory compliance and employee empowerment. We look at how honor based time sheets make it easy for organizations to manage employee time without having to install hardware to manually record employee working hours and how they can complement Oracle HR and Payroll solutions. Furthermore, we explore how they can be configured to your organization’s unique rules, processes and requirements and give your employees full control over their own working day, thereby promoting employee satisfaction and retention.
Read more and register.
How to Successfully Manage a Time & Attendance Project
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 25
Time: 11 a.m. to noon PT / noon to 1 p.m. MT / 1-2 p.m. CT / 2-3 p.m. ET
Speakers: Dave Schulz and Andrew Ferguson, Softworks
In this webcast, we will share our top tips on how to successfully manage a Time & Attendance Project. We will offer advice based on 21 years of implementing time and attendance solutions that link with Oracle HR & Payroll Solutions. We will outline ways for you to measure your success and describe potential project pitfalls that can easily be avoided with a little forward planning and knowledge of what to look out for. We will show you how to maximize the success of this project implementation and how to get buy-in from employees, management and other stakeholders in your organization. We will demonstrate how each area within your organization can benefit from a successful project implementation.
Read more and register.
OHUG New Volunteer Orientation
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 25
Time: 12:30-1:30 p.m. PT / 1:30-2:30 p.m. MT / 2:30-3:30 p.m. CT / 3:30-4:30 p.m. ET
Presenter: OHUG Headquarters
This orientation is for all interested OHUG volunteers. During this presentation, a member of OHUG HQ will educate members of OHUG on everything from the overall history and origin of OHUG's existence to the requirements and responsibilities of what is expected of an OHUG volunteer.
Read more and register.
Comprehensive Background Screening
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 2
Time: 11 a.m. to noon PT / noon to 1 p.m. MT / 1-2 p.m. CT / 2-3 p.m. ET
Speaker: Jesse Berger, Pinkerton Employment Screening
Read more and register.
Tips to Getting the Most Out of Your Integrated Background and HRIS Projects
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 9
Time: 11 a.m. to noon PT / noon to 1 p.m. MT / 1-2 p.m. CT / 2-3 p.m. ET
Speaker: Jesse Berger, Pinkerton Employment Screening
Read more and register.
Attend the OHUG New England RUG Call on RUP 6
The OHUG New England Regional Users Group (RUG) is holding a networking call Tuesday, Oct. 8, from 2-3 p.m. CT to discuss the Oracle E-Business Suite RUP 6 patches released by Oracle. If you are applying the patches, thinking about applying the patches, or want to network and gather information, join the call!
Read more and register.
Spotlight on Scout
 You've heard the hype. Now it's time to get real about what big data can accomplish in talent management. If you’re going to be at Oracle OpenWorld this month, you can learn how to leverage big data to recruit better without ever leaving your Taleo instance. Scout, the world’s largest recruitment marketplace, connects employers with the specialized recruiters best suited to fill their jobs.
Leveraging big data, Scout is able to sniff out the best candidates for those hard-to-fill niche positions — enabling employers to spend their time with only the most-suitable candidates. Employers use Scout to decrease the amount of time it takes to fill a position as well as save on agency spending.
Hear Scout CEO Ken Lazarus speak Tuesday, Sept. 24, from 11-11:20 a.m. at the Palace Hotel’s Ralston Room during the Scene and Be Heard Theater Session at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, and learn about how big data is changing talent acquisition.
OHUG at Oracle OpenWorld
 This fall in San Francisco, you can focus on HCM trends, best practices and technology. Plus, you'll be able to experience everything Oracle OpenWorld 2013 has to offer.
Join OHUG and Oracle Sept. 22-26 for all things HCM at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Explore keynotes, general sessions, hands-on labs, product demos and networking opportunities tailored to HR executives and HRIT specialists like you.
Learn how to get the most out of your current investments. Discover what it takes to move to the cloud, and network with your peers.
Come by and meet the OHUG board members at our kiosk at the Oracle User Group Pavilion on the second floor of Moscone West Center and at the HCM kiosk at the Palace Hotel.
Register now.
Participate in Oracle Usability Feedback Sessions at OpenWorld, Tour the Oracle HQ Labs
Get the most from your Oracle OpenWorld experience: Participate in a usability feedback session, where your expertise will help Oracle develop unbeatable products and solutions. Sign up to attend one of the user feedback sessions during Oracle OpenWorld, and you'll learn about Oracle's future design trends including mobile applications and social networking, 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. All customer feedback sessions will be conducted on Sept. 23-25 at the InterContinental San Francisco Hotel, just a few steps away from Moscone West Center.
Seats are limited for Oracle's customer feedback sessions, so sign up now by sending an email to angela.johnston@oracle.com. For more information about customer feedback sessions and what you can learn from them, please visit the Usable Apps Website.
Sign Up to Tour Oracle's User Experience Research Labs
Hop on one of our special chartered buses and head to Oracle's headquarters in Redwood Shores. Oracle's usability labs will be open for one day on Thursday, Sept. 26, to allow customers and partners to see first-hand how Oracle tests future product designs using innovative technology, including eye-tracking equipment. You'll also get an early look at the direction the enterprise software is heading, including demos of designs for platforms such as the tablet and mobile phone.
Round-trip transportation will be provided from the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco to Oracle Headquarters. Return times are estimated depending on traffic. Advanced signup is recommended and spaces will be available on a first come, first served basis.
To RSVP your spot, please sign up here. For additional questions, please email gozel.aamoth@oracle.com.
Payroll SIG Looking for Leader
Do you ever think about becoming more involved in the OHUG community? Have you ever been interested in becoming a SIG or RUG leader? If you answered "yes" to either question, then we have an opportunity for you! The OHUG Payroll SIG is currently seeking a new leader. If you are experienced in this field and have a wealth of personal knowledge or ideas and business value for Oracle's Payroll Solutions, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you to direct and educate other members of the OHUG community about this topic.
For a full description of this SIG and all others, check out the OHUG Special Interest Groups SIG(s) page.
If you are interested in general volunteering opportunities with OHUG, please reference the volunteer submission form page.
We will be having a volunteer orientation webinar on Wednesday, Sept. 25, for all interested volunteers who fill out this form. After you have filled out the form, please make sure you register for this webinar. You may view details for this webinar and all other upcoming webinars here.
Attend the OAUGNYC Oracle E-Business Suite and EPM/BI Meeting
Attention all OAUGNYC E-Business Suite and EPM/BI Supporters. Mark your calendar for the next Oracle user group event.
What: The Fall Meeting of the OAUGNYC in Partnership with the NYC Hyperion and Oracle EBS HCM User Community
When: Nov. 7, 2013, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Where: The New York City Hotel Pennsylvania.
Educational Sessions: Two E-Business Suite tracks (a total of eight sessions) and one Hyperion/EPM/BI track (a total of four sessions)
Registration: Registration for the event is opening soon. Please direct all questions to RJ Linehan.
Call for Presentations
Customers are encouraged to share success stories, best practices and tips and techniques. Presentation abstracts (including title, presenter and a brief description of the educational breakout session) should be submitted to RJ Linehan by Friday, Sept. 20. One complimentary meeting registration will be awarded per accepted presentation.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Service and solution providers, please note that there are a limited number of exhibit, sponsorship and sponsored educational presentation opportunities, with the latter subject to planning committee approval. Inquiries about securing an exhibit table and information on sponsorship opportunities should be forwarded to RJ Linehan.
Spread the word among your colleagues about our user group and this meeting. Click here to join the group. Membership is free to all.
Attend the Taleo Canadian Regional User Group (RUG) Meeting
Join the OHUG Taleo Canadian User Group on Oct. 17-18 in Toronto for two days of networking, education and access to Oracle resources. Continue to check here for more information, and contact Nikki Palluzzi if you have any questions.
Industry News
More Strings to the Bow: The Expanding Nature of HR
Human Capital Magazine (08/27/13) Edmond, Cameron
The incorporation of marketing into the human resources space is not the only required path toward HR maturation, and Oracle's John Hansen observes a growing volume of corporate data that creates a yawning skill deficit, which is a serious issue for many CEOs. "Knowing our people is going to be critical to whether we are able to execute our strategies in the future and ultimately that lack of information and insight is what worries CEOs the most," Hansen says. He stresses that HR's penetration into an understanding of big data is complicated but necessary. "People are a little bit more nebulous in nature so we need to know a lot of data points," Hansen notes. "We need a lot of content to really understand what the talent program looks like, what is bringing us success and innovation today and what is going to be needed tomorrow." Among the tools that can aid HR professionals in their incorporation of big data is Oracle's predictive modeling. "It takes all the corporate data we have and it is able to look at trends and patterns in our workforce," Hansen says. "Then it projects that into the future to see when those trends and patterns might occur again." Oracle's tool can plot trends such as when certain workers are most likely to exit the organization, and what has been done in cases where they have not departed.
Oracle's Latest PeopleSoft In-Memory App Taps Unstructured Data for 'Complex' Projects
ZDNet (08/28/13) King, Rachel
Oracle has unveiled a new in-memory app from its PeopleSoft human capital management (HCM) app unit, designed to address business challenges requiring the review of unstructured data. The PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery is configured to render unstructured data as structured data, enabling users to analyze keywords, structured data, and unstructured data in Oracle's PeopleSoft Services Automation suite. The solution operates on Oracle's Exalytics in-memory machine and Oracle Endeca Information Discovery enterprise data platform. The new app enables users to facilitate actions such as searching and filtering on keywords that refer to projects and resources, refining filters, and displaying results graphically in other PeopleSoft project and resource management apps. Oracle also has pledged that HCM will be spotlighted at the upcoming OpenWorld 2013 hardware and software expo.
Companies Turn to Tech to Streamline HR
BenefitsPro (08/21/13) Cook, Dan
Companies are increasingly utilizing technology to simplify and rally human resources, according to Towers Watson's 2013 Service Delivery and Technology survey. The poll found that companies are integrating such technologies into their day-to-day operations in response to pressure from the head office, with enterprises desiring HR portals for internal use, apps for finding quality candidates, and other software solutions designed to boost HR's effectiveness and efficiency. "More than half of organizations (53 percent) indicated their investment in HR technology this year will match last year's investment levels, while more than a quarter (27 percent) will either increase or significantly increase their HR technology investment," Towers Watson reports. The poll also found that technology typically establishes a foothold in some other part of the company, and works its way to HR. More than 60 percent of respondents currently supply mobile access to employees via a smartphone, while 24 percent use tablets. Yet only about 10 percent of organizations currently use mobile apps for HR functions. Respondents' top HR improvement priorities include streamlining business processes, enhancing talent and performance management systems, and greater involvement in strategic business-driven issues. The survey also found that 49 percent are shifting toward a shared services environment with HR centers of excellence and HR business partners.
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