Update 22B

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Overview

HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this New Feature Summary:

• Release Updates (22A, 22B, 22C, and 22D)
• 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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Benefits

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.

Enhanced Enrollment Summary Page

Offer participants the ability to print an expanded view of the enrollment summary report so they can see more details. You need to turn on this feature in the self-service configuration page. Participants also print the enrollment summary that's applicable as on a specific date. Additionally, the "Your Benefits" now displays automatically open enrollment details if it's active. If not, the open enrollment choice won't appear in the list.

Add Text at Plan and Option Level in Self-Service Benefits

Provide additional instruction text for plan and option in self-service benefits. When grouping you group multiple plans within one plan type, it's beneficial if employers have the ability to provide additional text at the plan or option level.

Allow Participants to Add Eligible Contacts during Self-Service Enrollment

Offer more flexibility to participants by enabling them to add newly added eligible contacts during the benefits self-service enrollment flow. Previously, in some cases, you could configure the application to allow a newly added dependent to show up in the enrollment flow after you add them in the contacts section. With this new feature, the newly added eligible dependent record will appear in the enrollment flow even if there is no supporting configuration, thus improving ease of use.

You can turn on this feature from the self-service configuration page. This feature works only if your plan configuration doesn't have family member rules set up

Contact Person Number to Identify Benefit Contacts

Identify contacts easily with a new field called Contact Person Number in the Enrollment Results and People to Cover page. In previous releases, you could inadvertently create duplicate contacts and not be able to identify them easily to decide which ones to delete or retain. The new Contact Person Number field helps you easily choose which contacts you want to undesignate from the enrollment. You can then safely delete and end-date the relevant records without causing data issues.

Enhance Audit Purge Reporting Details

Take advantage of improved reporting capabilities in the purge processes, namely the Purge Participation Evaluation Audit process, and the Purge Backed-Out or Voided Life Event Data process. Most notably, these capabilities will help you better understand how often you need to run these processes, and how much data is held before and after each run.

Extend Benefits Employee Alerts

Configure benefits alerts to send a confirmation to the participant when a dependent is added to be covered by a court order. You can also send a confirmation alert to the participant when a new self-declared event is added.

Use Plan Copy for Only Rates

Spend less time using the Plan Copy feature by choosing to import only rates data from the plan and program zip. If you tend to frequently update just the rates, this feature allows you to import just those changes so you don't need to deal with all the other plan configuration objects, thus leading to improved performance. When you use plan copy, this feature provides an easy way to group all rate types by program or plan-not-in-program. This also means that there's less need to use the rate loaders to do the same task. You can change the rates in your staging environment and export. When you import the data in the production environment, the application imports only the rate changes, ignoring everything else you changed in the test environment. That leads to a reduced risk of inadvertently carrying over changes that you didn't want to see in your production environment.

Plan Copy Support for Multiple Set IDs

Use Plan Copy for objects, such as grade and job. As these objects are part of a set (or set enabled), you can use these objects even if their names are duplicated.

Allow Unrestricted Processing to Restrict to Once A Day

Configure the application to process the enrollment just once a day even if the employee visits the enrollment flow and makes changes multiple times during the day. You can now use the new unrestricted processing rule called Once a Day.

Benefits for the United Kingdom

UK Pensions Enrollment

Use the new page designed for UK Pension to support participants to enroll in an eligible pension scheme. Participants can now make changes to their contributions, leave a pension scheme if they’re already enrolled, or elect not to be in a pension scheme. They can also enroll into a different scheme, navigate to the Pensions tile from the benefits landing page, and print the enrollment summary.

Transactional Business Intelligence Enterprise for Benefits

Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence is a real time, self-service reporting solution offered to all Oracle Cloud application users to create ad hoc reports and analyze them for daily decision-making.  Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence provides human resources managers and specialists, business executives, and line managers the critical workforce information to analyze workforce costs, staffing, compensation, performance management, talent management, succession planning, and employee benefits.

Don’t want to start from scratch building a report or analytics? Check out the library of sample reports for all products on Customer Connect on the Report Sharing Center.

Program and Plan Attributes in Benefits Subject Area

Enhance your reporting on benefits with the addition of Program Name and Plan Name in Benefits - Action Items Real Time subject area.