Update 23C

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.

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Talent Management

Talent Management

Features under this section are available to all talent applications.

Default Goals Sort Order

Define the default sort order for performance goals in a goal plan and a performance document in which they’re included, if you are the administrator. Note that the default sort order is applicable only for performance documents that have synchronization of goals enabled.

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.

Introducing Oracle Grow

Oracle Grow is a brand new, unified talent experience that brings together learning, skills development, and career mobility. Grow processes your employee's data and delivers the most relevant learning recommendations and development opportunities to each individual. Grow provides your employees with everything they need to excel in their current role and achieve future aspirations. Grow provides employees:

• Hyper-personalized learning, skills, and development journey recommendations to excel in their role, as well as to grow in their career, based on their growth preferences.
• The ability to discover development resources, such as, skills, learning, and development journeys, that are popular with others.
• The ability to specify growth preferences through skills, learning topics, careers of interest etc. that drive the personalized recommendation feeds.

Employee Views HR-Defined Career Path on Career Pages

Enable employee to view the HR-defined career path for their role on these pages:

• Explore Careers
• Career Details

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.

Management Level Talent Review Filter Enhancement

Do a partial search when using the enhanced Management Level filter for searching talent review population and find the right management level. This helps you to easily find the management level you want to use as a search filter.

Additional Comments Support in Potential Assessment

Enhance the usability of the Talent Review potential assessment by configuring your potential assessment to include comments for multiple choice responses. Reviewers now have the option to provide comments when responding to multiple choice questions in a potential assessment.

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 Organization Chart User Experience Changes

See the direct reports of a person on these 2 tabs of the succession organization chart:

• Directs with Plans: On this tab, you can see direct reports who have succession plans created for them.
• Directs without Plans: On this tab, you can see direct reports who don’t have any succession plans created for them. You can then select a person and create a succession plan if required.

HDL Audit and HDL, HSDL Support for Talent Pools Security Configuration

Leverage HCM Data Loader (HDL) Audit to identify when and who created or modified security profiles of talent pools.

Leverage HDL and HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader to create or modify your custom security profiles configuration for talent pools. Note that you can’t delete or modify the delivered security profiles for talent pools.

Succession 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.

Enhancements to Add to Succession Plan Quick Action Redwood Version

See the Redwood version of the Add to Succession Plan quick action page now also supports these features:

• Display incumbent information.

• Display flexfields.

• Display risk of loss and impact of loss (delivered as hidden fields).

• View the count and list of other succession plans that a person is also a candidate.

Enhancements to Create Succession Plan Quick Action Redwood Version

See the Redwood version of the Create Succession Plan quick action page now also supports these features:

• Display incumbent information.

• Display flexfields.

• Display risk of loss and impact of loss (delivered as hidden fields).

• Add candidates by selecting members of a talent pool.

• View the count and list of other succession plans that a person is also a candidate.

Enhancements to Create Talent Pools and Add to Pools Quick Actions Redwood Version

The Redwood version of the Add to Talent Pool and Create Talent Pool quick action pages now also support these features:

• Display flexfields.

• Display risk of loss and impact of loss (delivered as hidden fields).

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.

HDL and HSDL Support for Dynamic Skills

Create or update the core skill assignment within dynamic skill application using HCM Data Loader (HDL) and HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader (HSDL).

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. You can now:

• Reorder content sections for person profile type and model profile type
• Use Descriptive Flex Fields (DFF) for Profile Rating Models and Item Catalogs
• Define evaluators configuration after the newly created competency section is saved

Performance Management

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

Mass Recalculate Manager Ratings in Performance Documents

Facilitate mass recalculation of manager section ratings for overall, performance goal, development goal and competency sections in performance documents using HCM Data Loader. You can use this when changes have been made to ratings and recalculation is required to avoid manual recalculation of manager section ratings in individual performance documents.

Deduplication of Competencies in Performance Documents

Eliminate duplicate competencies from populating an employee's performance document when it's created or updated. You can avoid manually removing the duplicate competencies.

Deep Link for All-in-One Evaluations

Simplify the navigation for managers performing their manager evaluations by providing a deep link to the All-in-One Evaluations page.

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.

Profile Management

New Attributes Related To Skills Dimension In Person Profile Real Time Subject Area

Enhance your reporting on the Skills dimension in Person Profile Real Time subject area to include attributes that help determine the details of the skills that are assigned to the workers. With this enhancement, you can address the reporting requirements like:

• List the workers and the skills that are flagged as Core/Role
• Provide the count of worker profiles that possess required and non-required skills
• Report on the count of skills that are assigned to the workers based on the selection type like organization, person, role etc..