Update 23B

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 (23A, 23B, 23C, and 23D)
• 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:

• HCM Common What's New - In this What's New you will find feature that are used across applications.
• 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.

• Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Functional Known Issues and Maintenance Packs (Document ID 1554838.1). These documents identify bug fixes and possible known issues. You will also need to review these documents based in the release update version you are currently on or will be moving to.
• Oracle Help Center  – Here you will find guides, videos and searchable help.
• Release Readiness – New Feature Summary, What’s New, Feature Listing Spreadsheet, Spotlights and Release Training

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Benefits

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 Search in Benefits Service Center

Use the enhanced sort options and attribute labels while viewing search results in Benefits Service Center.

Print Enrollment Document Anytime

Have the flexibility to print enrollment documents for participants anytime, even during an active enrollment window

Create and Analyze Fast Formulas in the Plan Configuration Work Area

Create fast formulas now from the plan design work area without having to go to the Payroll work area. Also, the fast formula analyzer has been now moved from the Evaluation and Reporting work area to the Plan Configuration work area.

Additional Unrestricted Processing Rule to Process Enrollments Once a Week

Use the new unrestricted processing rule called Once a Week. You can use this rule to process the enrollment only once a week even if the employee visits the enrollment flow and makes changes multiple times during the week.

Additional Attributes in BENXML Extract

Have the flexibility to use additional attributes and original date of hire (V3 seniority date) in the BENXML file. This enhancement also supports V3 seniority date for original seniority date.

Person Number as Input Parameter for Batch Processes

Allow Benefits batch processes to select a set of persons by using a list of comma-separated person numbers as a new input parameter. This enhancement reduces the need to write person selection rules.

Life Events

Prevent Detecting Life Events for Offer Assignments

Increase efficiency by configuring the application to not trigger life events when new offer is made to non-employees.

Enrollment Authorization as of Life Event Occurred Date

Display the enrollment authorization text as of life event date or effective date. This enhancement always displays the latest authorization text.

Life Event Setup Diagnostic Report

Use the new Life Event Setup Diagnostic report to get all the setup details of life events. This enhancement helps you troubleshoot common setup issues for life event definitions.

Data Loading

HSDL for Enrollments and Designations

Use the seeded HSDL templates to upload participant enrollments and designate dependents and beneficiaries. Also, the existing ADFDI spreadsheet loaders will be deprecated

Redwood Experience

These pages or flows have been recreated in the Redwood tool set Visual Builder Studio (VBS) to improve your user experience. The pages or flows look and act like Redwood pages or flows, to help create cohesiveness through the application.

Redwood Experience for Benefits Balance

Check out the Redwood experience with the Benefit Balances page when you enable these profile options:

• ORA_BEN_ADMINISTRATIVE_ENROLLMENT_REDWOOD_ENABLED
• ORA_HCM_VBCS_PWA_ENABLED

Redwood Experience for Benefit Groups

Check out the Redwood experience with the Benefit Groups page when you enable these profile options:

• ORA_BEN_ADMINISTRATIVE_ENROLLMENT_REDWOOD_ENABLED
• ORA_HCM_VBCS_PWA_ENABLED