This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
| Date | Product | Feature | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03 SEP 2021 | Created initial document. |
HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this New Feature Summary:
- Release Updates (21A, 21B, 21C, and 21D)
- Optional Monthly Maintenance Packs to each update
It is important for you to know what Release Update your environment is on. You can find this in your Cloud Portal.
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Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:
- Human Resources What’s New – In the Global Human Resources section you will find features on the base application in which other application are built upon.
NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for Talent and Compensation products.
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Oracle Benefits is a complete, configurable and flexible global solution that enables organizations to successfully evolve and adapt to the unique needs of their workforce. The solution enables setup of traditional 'one-size fits all' plans to highly complex plans that selectively target different workforce segments with different benefit packages. Self-service capabilities present the user with an out of the box intuitive guided enrollment process with contextual information and embedded analytics. Oracle Benefits is a complete, configurable and flexible global solution that enables organizations to successfully evolve and adapt to the unique needs of their workforce. The solution enables setup of traditional 'one-size fits all' plans to highly complex plans that selectively target different workforce segments with different benefit packages. Self-service capabilities present the user with an out of the box intuitive guided enrollment process with contextual information and embedded analytics.
Understand the new validation for changing the hire date. The new validation in Benefits prevents administrators and other professionals from being able to change the start date of a participant's work relationship if the participant is already enrolled in benefits.
Enable Participants to Change Beneficiaries at Any Time
Enable your participants to update beneficiary designations for the latest processed event outside of the enrolment window. Participants can adjust the percentages of allocation for existing beneficiaries. They can remove a primary or contingent beneficiary and adjust the percentages. Participants can add a new beneficiary or beneficiary organization and adjust the percentages, providing the beneficiary or beneficiary organization were added before the latest processed life event date.
All new designations start from the coverage start date on the plan. This ensures the 100% allocation for the entire period of coverage.
Because these beneficiary changes happen outside of the enrolment window, optional certificates required for the plans are not requested when participants change beneficiaries. So, no pending actions are generated.
Designating beneficiaries using this functionality will close existing beneficiary-related pending actions.
Track Participant Actions in Self-Service Benefits
Track participant actions in Self-Service Benefits. You’ll be able to tell if a participant viewed or reviewed their enrollments in Self-Service Benefits without making any changes. This feature captures page views and button or link clicks by all participants for certain actions in the Enrollments flow.
Using this tracking feature you’ll be able to answer participant queries, or address some participant challenges about enrollment selection. For example, a participant can claim that they selected plans at open enrolment and are querying why they are not enrolled in those plans two months later. The tracking feature can show that the participant entered the enrolment flow but that they didn’t make any selections.
Improved Performance of the Evaluation and Reporting Work Area
Benefit from the improved performance of the Evaluation and Reporting work area. This improved performance greatly reduces the time to load the page and time-out issues. So, this enhancement is especially useful for customers with large volumes of data.
The work area now displays the summary data for the last week, rather than the last month, by default. You can of course view data for any of the other periods in the list. We’ve also turned off counts related to processed events. This allows you to concentrate on what’s pending, rather than on what’s already completed. You can, however, enable the lookup code for processed event counts, if required.
Also, the Life Events tab which displays the number of life events now displays the smallest number of life events first. So the chart shows the smaller values by default.
The tab now renders all other task flows, such as batch parameters and benefits extract, only when you select them, which also improve performance.
Remove Incorrect Data Using the Delete Person Benefits Diagnostic Report
Delete incorrect data for a person in a non-production environment using the new Delete Person Benefits diagnostic report. You are removing a person’s life event and downstream transaction data, person by person.
Removing the incorrect data is a two-step process. Having a two-step process prevents data being removed by accident, because once the data is removed, you cannot recover it.
The first step is to run the report in Validation mode. This gives you the opportunity to obtain a snapshot of the person’s life event data and to check the data that you want to remove before removing it. It also generates the authorization key that you’ll need in the next step. The second step is to run the report again, but this time in Commit mode, using the authorization key to remove the data.
The diagnostic report is targeted for use in non-production environments only. Although you can run the report in a production environment, you can only run it in Validation mode to view a person’s data. You can’t run the report in Commit mode in production environments. The report won’t perform any delete function or provide the authorization key. This prevents you from accidentally deleting data in production environments.