The New Features I Love About Oracle HCM Cloud 19A

In this latest HCM blog, I am pleased to highlight a few of the new and improved features and functionality for Oracle HCM Cloud 19A. You will be excited to know that most of these new features are customer driven, customer focused, and customer supported. Here is a quick excerpt of the new features along with tips on how to get them enabled in your current HCM Cloud environment.

Global HR

Enhanced Talent Profile Management
The Talent Profile Management enhancements includes changes to the User Experience and Talent Profile Administration. While Profile Management has been enhanced to provide a more engaging and responsive interface design (mobile and web page capable), Profile Management Administration has been enhanced to provide increased product performance and extensibility. Please note that these enhancements only impact Oracle Recruiting Cloud Service and Oracle Learn Cloud customers, early adopters and newly provisioned customers. This feature must be approved and enabled by Oracle and your Implementation Partner.

New and Improved Advanced Person Search for HR Specialist Role
This enhanced feature allows the HR Specialists to launch the Advanced Search Feature using default transactions like Promote or Transfer. Once launched, the HR Specialist User can easily search for a person using the worker’s name, person number, work email, or business title. This feature does not require enablement.

Redesigned Photo Upload Feature
This feature allows you to upload your own photo from the Public Info page. This feature does not require enablement.

Compensation

Enhanced Compensation Spotlight with One – Time and Recurring Payments
Recurring and One – Time Payments are grouped into its own section allowing Line Managers to easily view these payments and details from the primary Compensation screen. This feature requires support or enablement by your Implementation Partner.

Streamlined Salary Approval Process
This feature prevents new salary proposals when a salary change is pending approval or a Line Manager transaction includes a salary change (i.e. promotion). This feature does not require enablement.

Time and Labor

Enhanced Team Schedule for Employee and Manager Self – Service Pages
The Team Schedule Self – Service page has been redesigned to provide the same look and feel for desktop and mobile devices. This new page is modern, streamlined, and can be personalized. This feature requires support or enablement by your Implementation Partner.

Cloud Payroll

Redesigned Payslips Page
The Self – Service and Professional Payslips page has been consolidated into one page allowing for a single landing page for all users and an enhanced responsive experience for mobile users. This feature requires enablement by your Implementation Partner.

New Security Feature for Year – End Documents
You can now secure access to all year-end documents. This feature does not require enablement.

Goal Management

Redesigned Goal Management Experience (Notifications, Target Outcomes and Approval Features)
In addition to new approval features, Goal FYI Notifications have been added as part of the redesigned Goal Management experience. This feature requires enablement by your Implementation Partner.

Performance Management

Request Feedback Feature
This new feature allows anyone in the organization (Managers, Matrix Managers, HR Specialist, Workers) can request feedback from one or more persons for themselves or for others. This feature requires support or enablement by your Implementation Partner.

Succession and Talent Pools

Quick Actions Support for Succession and Talent Pools
Quick Actions have been added to the Succession Planning and Talent Review Dashboard. Using a one click approach, Line Managers and HR Specialist users can now quickly add a candidate to a succession plan, add an employee as a member of a talent pool or create a succession plan. This feature requires support or enablement by your Implementation Partner.

To learn more about these new and exciting features in Oracle HCM 19A, Contact the HCM Practice at Apps Associates for assistance in enabling these new features within your current Oracle HCM environment.