Update 21D

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 (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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Talent Management

Questionnaire

Survey employees with our Questionnaires.

Create Generic Surveys using Questionnaires

Create ad hoc, generic surveys using questionnaires. You can now create these questionnaires for collecting feedback or responses without linking them to HCM product flows. For example, you can create an organization-wide annual survey to gather employee feedback on specific functions or organization metrics.

Career Development

Oracle Career Development provides tools for workers and managers to manage their career interests and development plans. These tools include recommendations on roles based on workers’ qualifications, comparisons to target roles and required development needs for workers. You can establish development goals and manage development progress, by managing the roles of interest for the worker and comprehensive development plan for workers.

You can now manage your near and long-term career development strategies using a development plan. Based on your role permissions, you can create and manage your development goals within your development plan. You can tag goals with Development Intents. Development Intents are tags that allow you to organize and track your goal towards future development.

Add Contextual Notes to a Development Goal

Enable Development Goal Notes feature in the Setup and Maintenance work area to allow Career Development users to add contextual notes directly to an employee's development goal. You can also notify managers and employees when notes are added to or deleted from an employee's development goal.

Add Learning to a Development Goal When Approvals Are Enabled

Associate learning with a development goal even when approvals are enabled for Career Development.

Career Development Approval Transaction Aging Policy

Determine as an Administrator the aging policy for maintaining development goal approval transactions that haven't been submitted for approval by the initiator or acted upon by Approvers.

Talent Review

Oracle Talent Review is an analytic product enabling your organization to review and evaluate data from the profile, performance, goals, career development, and compensation management solutions.

View All Ethnicities of a Worker on the Dashboard

Leverage the enhanced ethnicity display option on the talent review dashboard and view all ethnicities of members of the review population. If a reviewee has more than one ethnicity defined in their human resources record, you can see all ethnicities when you select the Ethnicity display option.

Succession Management

Oracle Succession Management helps to create succession plans to replace key personnel. Succession plans identify workers who are ready now, or can develop the necessary skills, for jobs and positions that aren't currently vacant, insuring, a smooth transition and help you to manage candidate development.

Send Succession Notifications Based on Data Security

Limit the recipients of succession notifications by sending notifications about assignment changes of plan candidates only to the plan owners who have data security access to the candidates.

Additional Design Studio Support for Succession Plan and Talent Pool Pages

Use the additional succession plan and talent pool attributes that are now included in Transaction Design Studio and enhance the configuration of succession plan and talent pool pages according to your organizational needs.

Section-Level Save on Succession Plan and Talent Pool Pages

Use the section-level Save buttons to immediately save the changes that you make in each section when you edit a succession plan or talent pool. Note that the section-level Save buttons replace the page-level Save button on the succession plan and talent pool pages.

Profile Management

Oracle Profile Management provides a common foundation for the talent suite of products and other Oracle Cloud applications to retrieve, insert, and update talent profile information. Profile Management also supports the HR specialists, line managers, matrix managers, and employees in performing critical HR talent functions. Managing people and job profiles, career planning functions, managing, and tracking talent data can be also done through Profile Management.

Provide Feedback for Other Workers Quick Action and Deep Link

Encourage your workforce to provide feedback for other workers by leveraging the Provide Feedback quick action. Using this feature, workers can easily search for other workers and quickly provide feedback for them. Additionally, leverage the deep link for the Provide Feedback quick action.

Goal Management

Oracle Goal Management enables you to transform business objectives into goals across various organization levels, providing a clear line of sight from managers to employees. Business leaders can communicate high-level initiatives which managers can translate into goals for their employees.

Goal Management Approval Transaction Aging Policy

Determine the aging policy for maintaining performance goal approval transactions that haven't been submitted for approval by the initiator.

Enhanced Goal Plan Sort

Locate goals in a goal plan easily by taking advantage of the additional sort options. You can now also sort goals in a goal plan by goal category and priority.

Performance Management

Oracle Performance Management supports features and functions for measuring and reporting worker performance.

Substitute Performance Document Evaluators

Facilitate HR Specialists completing manager evaluations and other tasks on behalf of managers without transferring performance documents. You can also complete self-evaluations and other employee tasks on of behalf of employees who don't have access to the system.

Multi-Threaded Eligibility Batch Process

Speed up the performance of your application using the new multi-threaded Eligibility Batch Process for performance documents and check-ins. Previously, the process was single threaded and if you're a large organization or one with complex eligibility, then it probably took a long time to complete.

Information Banners on HR Admin Pages

Provide an extra bit of help for HR specialists by displaying an information banner on the administration pages for Performance Management. The banners include guidance on how to use the pages to perform certain actions.

Notification for Automatically Populated Matrix Manager Participants In Performance Documents

Improve communication to automatically populated matrix manager participants in performance documents, so that they can start providing feedback, with a new notification. The application sends a notification when the employee's performance document is created.

View More Details for Goals In Check-Ins

Enhance the user's experience for goals included in a check-in by viewing all the goal details, including the notes added in other check-ins or those added directly through the goal. You can also now edit goals in the check-in and trigger or show approvals, if enabled.

Request Feedback from Peers and Direct Reports

Select from a list of peers and direct reports easily when sending a feedback request. Workers can see a list of their peers while managers can see a list of their peers and direct reports. They can decide whom to select as feedback providers from these lists.

Allow Workers to Choose to View Requested Feedback

Allow workers to decide if they want to view the responses received for requested feedback. At the time of sending a feedback request, they can decide if they want to view the responses received from feedback providers on the Feedback page.

Control Managers Visibility of Employee Performance Documents

Decide if managers can view all the performance documents of employees they have access to using the Manage Performance Document Data privilege. Without this privilege, managers can access the performance documents they manage only.

Create Performance Documents For Worker Assignments Without Associated Jobs

Create a performance document for employees who don't have a job associated to their assignment, and avoid creating a dummy job for them.

Transactional Business Intelligence for Talent Management

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.

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.

Reporting on Talent Review Meeting Notes

Enhance your reporting on Talent Review meetings with the inclusion of meeting notes to the subject area.

Controlled Availability for Talent

Talent Controlled Availability

Features under this heading are under the Controlled Availability Program. The Controlled Availability Program is a program for early testing and feedback of features, before they are included into the product line. You must request and be accepted into the Controlled Availability Programs to use these features. Please see the What's New for more information on being part of these programs. NOTE: These features are not generally available to customers, customers must be approved to use these features. When these features are generally available to all customers they will be announced under their product area headings.

Oracle Search-Based Explore Careers

Enable your employees to explore a wide range of career opportunities within your organization using Oracle Search powered by search term suggestions.