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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Talent Management

Talent Management

Features under this section are available to all talent applications.

Talent Management Redwood Expereince

Redwood Experience for Review Periods Setup

Check out the new Review Periods setup page that can be used to complete your Redwood experience.  This page has been recreated in the Redwood toolset Visual Builder Studio (VBS) to improve the user experience by having the same backend functionality. This page is turned on by default.

Talent Management Replaced or Removed Features

From time to time, Oracle replaces existing features with new features, or removes existing features.

Replaced features may be put on a path of removal, the features below will let you know what update you will have to have moved to the newer feature. As a best practice, you should move to the newer feature as soon as possible for full support and to stay up with the latest updates that the product offers.

Any feature that is removed, will have an Update in which that feature is no longer available. Please make necessary plans to move off the feature by the Update indicated, as it will no longer be available.

Talent Management Classic Pages Removed

Oracle Cloud HCM Talent Management customers who are still using the Classic pages must transition to the modern, feature-rich, intuitive Responsive UX in 23B. Customers using the Classic pages in one of the following Talent Management applications are affected: Career Development, Goal Management, Performance Management, Profile Management Classic Version, Succession Management, or Talent Review.

Beginning with Update 23B, Talent Management will be delivered with Responsive UX enabled by default. Customers will not have the option to revert back to the Classic UI.

If you have not already enabled Responsive UX, please take the following steps now:

• Evaluate your Classic page personalization and determine what to reapply after the transition to Responsive UX
• If you use Goal Management and Career Development, you must close out “in transit” transactions and create new approval rules for the approval framework used in Responsive UX
• If you are still using Profile Management Classic Version, you must complete the migration to Profile Management Version 2 prior to the enablement of Responsive UX

Use the following resources to learn more:

• Moving to Responsive UX
  • HCM - Oracle Cloud HCM Goal and Performance Management Customers - Move to Responsive UX (Customer Connect Jan 2021)
  • HCM - Oracle Cloud HCM Talent Review and Succession Management Customers - Move to Responsive UX (Customer Connect Feb 2021)
  • HCM - Oracle Cloud HCM Career Development Customers - Move to Responsive UX (Customer Connect Feb 2021)
  • HCM Responsive Edit Page Demos (Doc ID 2399671.1) Attachment “HCM Responsive User Experience Setup 18B – 21C Profiles Options”
  • HCM Responsive User Experience Uptake Tool (Doc ID 2643052.1)
• Goal Management, Career Development – Approval Rules
  • Overview of Performance Goal Approval Rules
  • Configure Approval Rules for Development Goal Transactions
• Migrating to Profile Management Enhanced Talent Profile
  • Upgrading Oracle Cloud HCM Profile Management (Doc ID 2421964.1)
  • Troubleshooting Guide for Enhanced Profiles (Doc ID 2533116.1)
  • Customer Connect Office Hours (Jan 2020)
  • Customer Connect Coaches Corner (March 2020)

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.

Explore Careers Using Oracle Search

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

Career Development Diagnostics

Take advantage of the enhanced diagnostics for Career Development and generate reports that will help you to identify and fix issues in your Career Development implementation by yourself.

Run the Check Goal Data Integrity process to fix Classic Career Development transactions that are stuck.

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.

Profile Management 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 Profile Management

Check out the Profile Management pages and flows that can be used to complete your Redwood experience. These pages and flows have been recreated in the Redwood toolset Visual Builder Studio (VBS) to improve the user experience by having the same backend functionality. The pages and flows identified in this feature have not been through a full redesign, but they have been modified, to look and act like Redwood pages or flows, to help create cohesiveness through the application. All of these pages and flows will be turned off by default and you will be able to choose to enable them.

Touchpoints

Oracle Touchpoints is a continuous listening and action channel between employees and managers to create meaningful interactions that build trust, boost retention, and foster growth. Touchpoints is a separately sold product.

Delete Check-Ins and Discussion Topics

Delete Touchpoints check-ins and discussion topics based on who created them. Check-ins can only be deleted by the participant that created them and agenda items (discussion topics) can only be deleted by the participant that added them. 

Performance Management

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

Performance Management 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 Performance Management Setup

Check out the Performance Management setup pages that can be used to complete your Redwood experience.  These pages or flows have been recreated in the Redwood toolset Visual Builder Studio (VBS) to improve the user experience by having the same backend functionality. These pages will be turned on by default:

• Performance Document Types
• Performance Roles
• Check-In Templates

Redwood Experience for Feedback Template

Use the Feedback Template page for Requested Feedback to complete your Redwood experience. This page was built in the Redwood toolset Visual Builder Studio (VBS) to improve the user experience by having the same backend functionality. This page is modified to look and act like Redwood pages or flows, to help create cohesiveness through the application, and is turned on by default.

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.

View Other Goal Info in Completed Performance Documents

View these details of a performance goal in a completed performance document:

• Alignment details
• Name of the user who has shared the goal
• Notes history

Goal Management Diagnostic Process

Take advantage of the enhanced  diagnostics for Goal Management and generate reports that will help you to identify and fix issues in your Goal Management implementation by yourself.

Run the Check Goal Data Integrity process to fix issues such as:

• Duplicate goal plan assignments
• Locked Goals page when approvals are pending

Deleting Goals When Enforce Weight is Enabled

Users can delete goals that have a weight greater than zero even when enforcing weight is enabled for the goal plan.  

Enable Delete All Assignees Action for Goal Plans

Take note, as of  this release, the Delete All Assignees action won’t be immediately available for goal plans, because you can’t reverse this action. Administrators need to use Page Composer to enable this action. Use this action with caution to avoid deleting all goal plan assignees unintentionally.

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.

Succession Performance Improvements

Leverage the performance improvements to the succession information shown on the Succession Spotlight and Career Overview pages. As of this release udpate, the Succession Plan Incumbents process refreshes and updates the succession information on these pages. We recommend that you schedule this process regularly to see the latest succession information on these pages.

Succession Management 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 Succession Management

Check out the Create Succession Plans and Add to Succession Plans quick action pages that can be used to complete your Redwood experience.  These pages have been recreated in the Redwood toolset Visual Builder Studio (VBS) to improve user experience by having the same backend functionality. The pages identified in this feature haven’t been through a full redesign. They have been modified to look and act like Redwood pages, to help create cohesiveness throughout the application. Note that these Redwood pages aren’t enabled by default. You can opt to enable them.

Redwood Experience for Talent Pools

Check out the Create Talent Pools and Add to Talent Pools quick action pages that can be used to complete your Redwood experience.  These pages have been recreated in the Redwood toolset Visual Builder Studio (VBS) to improve user experience by having the same backend functionality. The pages identified in this feature haven’t been through a full redesign. They have been modified to look and act like Redwood pages, to help create cohesiveness throughout the application. Note that these Redwood pages aren’t enabled by default. You can opt to enable them.

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.

Facilitator View Access to Potential Assessment

Provide additional information about the review population during review meetings by allowing meeting facilitators to view potential assessments. Facilitators can view completed potential assessments while preparing for or conducting the talent review meeting.

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.

Profiles

Content Section Subscribers in Profile Subject Area

Enhance your reporting on profiles setup data with the addition of the dimensions related to content sections and content section subscribers in the Workforce Profiles - Library Objects Real Time subject area.

Succession

New Subject Area to Report on Changes to Succession Plans

Augment your reporting on succession plans with the addition of a new subject area Workforce Succession Management - Succession Plan History Real Time. This subject area allows you to report on all the changes that have occurred to plan details, owner details, and candidate details.

Secured Owner Dimension In Succession Subject Areas

Enhance your reporting on succession subject areas with data security changes. This secures the owner information from being displayed, if the logged in person has no access to the owner details.

Succession Subject Area Changes

Take note of a few attribute name changes and security changes in the workforce succession management subject areas.