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The OHUG 2016 Global Conference Brought Out the Parade in New Orleans
Attendees of the OHUG 2016 Global Conference last week experienced the fun of New Orleans while connecting with both new and old friends and learning the latest Oracle HCM product solutions from peers and Oracle experts. Conference host and comedian Richard Laible led the conference with laughter, as he introduced keynote speakers, including the inspirational author and journalist Lee Woodruff, and played a few rounds of the OHUG Game Show.
When attendees weren't participating in Oracle HCM expert-led sessions or demonstrations, they could be found playing games and networking with thought leaders in the Product Solutions Center. And everyone joined in on the OHUG parade as a jazz band led attendees through the streets of New Orleans to the OHUG Member Appreciation Party.
Check out #OHUG2016 on Twitter to see the day-by-day conversations and the OHUG Facebook page for photos and updates.
A huge thank you to the OHUG Board and all of the volunteers who made this amazing event possible. We look forward to seeing you all next year at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando from June 6-9, 2017.
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Register for Tomorrow's Best Practices for Background Screening & Taleo Integration Webinar
Date: Thursday, June 16
Time: noon CT
Speaker: Wallace T. Davis, President and CEO, Peopletrail
Employers conducting employment background screening need to understand best practices when using background checks in hiring decisions. With focused regulatory oversight, a growing number of class-action lawsuits and the ever-present threat of data breaches, it's a good time to touch base on the trending topics impacting screening programs, and review best practices for Oracle Validated Integration.
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It's Not Too Late to Participate in the 19th Annual Sierra-Cedar HR Systems Survey
Sierra-Cedar invites you to participate in the 19th annual Sierra-Cedar 2016-2017 HR Systems Survey, the longest running, most widely distributed, and most highly participative research effort in the HR industry, annually tracking the adoption, deployment approaches and value achieved from HR technologies.
The survey investigates:
- Strategy, process and structure
- Adoption of all HR technology applications
- Deployment roadmaps, resourcing and budgeting
- Implementation, maintenance and integration
- Emerging and innovative technology
- Outcome-driven HR
The first 100 respondents will receive a $5 Starbucks card, and $100 Visa gift cards will be awarded to the 19th, 119th and 1,019th respondents.
Take the survey today!
Oracle Discoverer Support Is Ending, What Are Your Reporting Options?
Date: Tuesday, July 12
Time: noon CT
Speaker: Rick Hight, Reporting Solutions Specialist, Polaris Associates
You are not alone if you are concerned about Oracle's announcement to de-support Discoverer. This presentation will address the pros and cons of Discoverer, followed by some important tools in the Oracle space, and the migration process from Oracle Discoverer toward a new technology. We will focus on how companies around the world have taken advantage of the Reporting Workbench solution for Oracle EBS and its built-in utility to migrate Discoverer reports. We will also show how users can manage their common reporting needs using the 900-plus pre-built reports or by creating new reports while staying in compliance with Oracle security requirements.
Register now.
Sales Cloud UX Highlights on Forbes.com
Mobility is exactly where Oracle is focusing its cloud sales application design efforts today, says Jeremy Ashley, Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) Group Vice President. Read more about how Oracle is designing a user experience that encourages participation in the Oracle Sales Cloud application on the Oracle Voice blog.
Smart User Experiences
Bill Kraus of the OAUX Communications & Outreach team, kicks off a new blog post series on smart user experiences on the Voice of User Experience (VoX) blog. Read more to understand how the OAUX team has been exploring ways to leverage machine intelligence as part of Oracle's "Glance, Scan, Commit" design philosophy.
PaaS Impressions
Sten Vesterli — ACE Director, Oracle partner and friend of the OAUX team — cameos in this recent article on Profit Online. He discusses Oracle's Cloud platforms, which he predicts will become increasingly important as more companies that have embraced software as a service (SaaS) look to add unique elements that give their companies an advantage.
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How Data Will Disrupt Talent Management
Talent Management (05/27/16) Tambe, Himanshu; Payne, Brian
Organizations have long realized that emotional intelligence strongly correlates with star performance, but until now it has been difficult to collect real-time, accurate emotional and relationship data on employees and exploit it to enhance performance. A new generation of personal and environmental technologies, including wearables and predictive analytics, can glean immense volumes of information about social and emotional states at work. To leverage this opportunity, companies can take steps ranging from measuring emotional dimensions at work to amending how employees engage with peers and customers to improve performance. Using a pool of precise data, companies can experiment with interventions to raise performance. Examples include utilizing intelligent machines to model and anticipate emotions and behaviors to help guide such interventions. Machines also can employ analytics and cognitive computing to educate both workers and managers on how to improve their social skills or more accurately read others' emotions. The most refined technological application likely entails changing social and emotional behaviors in real time. The least intrusive option of this strategy is to have machines suggest actions while allowing humans to choose to execute them or not.
Ruby Tuesday Takes HR Digital to Better Engage Employees
Forbes (05/19/16) Murphy, Chris
A significant number of job applicants at Ruby Tuesday who quit before completing the hiring process prompted Lois Collins, vice president of human resources, to task her team to develop solutions. Revamping the hiring process is just one element of a wider digital transformation across the business, which includes migrating more of the company's marketing to digital channels. Within HR, the initiative includes deploying Oracle human capital management (HCM) Cloud to refine not only Ruby Tuesday's application process but also other HR processes so employees remain engaged. To fulfill the company's aim of promoting team members to managers, Ruby Tuesday offers both online and in-person training, with efforts to track employees' work more closely. The company provides employees the opportunity to complete some of their development courses online, and Oracle HCM Cloud enables managers to track who is taking those courses, and which employees have completed them. In addition, the cloud-based HR platform lets Collins see how many people are applying for jobs by region or city and notify the HR team if Ruby Tuesday should boost recruitment efforts. Collins also is more confident the Oracle HCM Cloud ensures consistent feedback to applicants, while the company has shifted to a more digital employee assessment process by using new HCM modules for performance, compensation and goal setting. Collins said Ruby Tuesday also is leveraging annual Oracle optimization reviews to see how well the HCM system is being used in comparison to other companies, and there is less need for app maintenance, giving HR room to concentrate on strategic goals.
Why Cloud Computing Is Crucial for HR
InformationWeek (06/03/16) Franklin Jr., Curtis
In order to keep up with a rapidly changing business environment, IT must help human resources departments move to the cloud. Moving to the cloud will help HR fulfill the new mission business has for the department. "The cloud is the ultimate long-range destination for everyone," said Deloitte principal Erica Volini. She noted moving to the cloud will enable HR to take the lead and drive a business strategy forward. Cloud services and applications are now required to effect any change in the business. The business wants HR to add value to the business instead of only supporting other functions as they add value. "The transformation comes from fundamentally changing the roles and function of the HR professional to use the technology," Volini said. Cloud technology enables those roles to change by impacting the HR professional, as well as everyone else in the organization. "One of the things that technology does is improve access to data, but you need HR professionals who have the skill set and be able to use the technology," Volini said. She stressed the goal of moving to the cloud and developing data expertise is not only to improve analysis. "In three to five years, when we look at the organizations that have been able to move forward through the disruptions, we're going to find the ones with strong HR," Volini said.
Oracle Global Human Resource Management Enables Agile Planning
SearchFinancialApplications (05/12/16) Ring, Dan
Executives must have the agility to accommodate surprises when planning and implementing a global human resource management project. HR leaders at XL Catlin and SGS demonstrated that ability in the course of implementing global Oracle human capital management (HCM) cloud projects. XL's merger with Catlin Group was a major disruption for the insurance firm's HR department, requiring a rethink of XL's Oracle cloud HCM deployment, according to XL Catlin's Olga Burke. "We decided we were still fully committed to going to the cloud," she said. "It became more important in light of the two companies coming together." The project was split into four phases and a "soft launch" was planned. Burke said she also wanted to sustain traction mainly because of new releases from Oracle HCM cloud. She noted rolling out the compensation module at XL was the first phase, followed by deploying the core HR at XL, and interfacing with payroll, benefits and Taleo recruit, then deploying the performance management, Taleo learning and onboarding module. The final stage included modules such as compensation at Catlin, absence management and succession planning. Meanwhile, SGS is deploying Oracle HCM for core HR, recruitment, performance management, learning and compensation for more than 80,000 employees in 150 nations. The firm's current emphasis is on implementing Oracle HCM cloud core HR in 44 countries to cover 90 percent of the workforce by the end of next year. SGS' Etienne Dolobel recommended HR execs leverage the cloud and exchange configuration and other tips with leaders from other companies.
The Anticipators
Human Resource Executive (05/13/16) Ramirez, Julie Cook
Although analytics were introduced to human resources departments several years ago, many continue to struggle with analyzing employee data. "The language of data is one that's being spoken across the organization and will become an underlying theme in everything HR does, but HR is simply not ready for the role," said Evan Sinar, director of Development Dimensions International's (DDI) Center for Analytics and Behavioral Research. "Even those [HR organizations] that have recognized the value of analytics are moving down that path slowly, if at all, and they are just as likely to try and fail at their analytics efforts as they are to try and succeed." A DDI/Conference Board survey found only 18 percent of HR executives considered themselves "anticipators" who "[use] data to predict talent gaps in advance and provide insights about how talent relates to business goals." Twenty-two percent identified as "reactors" who "[respond] to business needs by providing tools and systems when asked." PricewaterhouseCooper Principal Rishi Agarwal noted predictive analytics is "the holy grail" for HR, hindered by the nascent status of HR analytics. Sinar said the problem is twofold, in that many HR pros are missing both sufficient data skills and a willingness to acquire them. Organizations making progress in this area employ a multifaceted approach, which incorporates enlisting data specialists, building analytics teams inside the HR function and teaching HR staff how to use data to communicate a compelling story.
Making Employees Safer and More Productive
Director of Finance (05/31/16) Jarvis, Graham
With employee health and well-being a growing priority for many companies, it pays to use mobile applications and wearable technologies to empower and drive workers to take charge in this area. A Xerox survey found 56 percent of employer respondents are using mobile apps and related technologies to promote health engagement, with up to 74 percent using apps for gamification. The poll also found 47 percent of respondents are happy to use wearable sensors to diagnose health issues. According to Aon Employee Benefits' Tobin Murphy-Coles, the most lucrative opportunity from an employer's viewpoint is when a smartphone app, or one on a wearable device, permits real-time health and well-being data analysis. Meanwhile, Oracle Human Capital Management Strategy Director Andy Campbell said technology can motivate workers to structure their rewards and improve their health and well-being. "You need to have a portfolio of rewards that reflect the needs of different employees," he stressed, noting life circumstances dictate what motivates people. "Some U.S. organizations are saying that, if you give us access to your wearables data, we will offer you reduced health insurance, so the boundaries are now being pushed," Campbell noted. Because a failure to safeguard employee data will reduce uptake, it is essential that employers communicate from the start how they are going to use, store and retain that data, and for what purposes.
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