Update 23D

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 features 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 applications are built upon.

NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for Talent and Compensation products.

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Talent Management

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.

Career Development Redwood Experience

Take advantage of our new Career Development experience through Oracle Grow, a part of the Oracle ME employee experience platform. Grow combines learning, skill development, and career mobility to drive individual and organizational success. It brings together all the elements that your employees need to excel in their current roles and for career growth including learning, skill development, gigs to develop competence and expertise.

Use the Goals Center to effectively create and manage development goals. You can also explore goals that are suitable for your role and add suggested goals.

Oracle Grow

Oracle Grow, a part of the Oracle ME employee experience platform, combines learning, skill development, and career mobility to drive individual and organizational success. It brings together all the elements that your employees need to excel in their current roles and for career growth including learning, skill development, gigs to develop competence and expertise.

Discover More Learning Resources

Check out Oracle Grow that now gives employees the ability to discover more learning items:

• Learning for their favorite gigs to excel in their current role
• Learning for their favorite gigs and jobs to grow their career 
• Popular learning topics in their role
• Popular learning their peers are undertaking 
• Featured learning items within learning topics they follow

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.

Talent Review Overall Competency Rating Selection

Configure your talent review template to include the overall competency rating that you want to appear on the talent review dashboard. If you have configured multiple content sections for competencies in Profile Management, from this release you can select the content section to include in Talent Review. Note that you can select only one competency content section.

Talent Review Redwood Experience

These pages or flows have been recreated in the Redwood tool set Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio) 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 Talent Review

Check out the following Talent Review pages that can be used to complete your Redwood experience:

• Facilitator Overview
• Manager Overview
• Talent Review Tasks
• Talent Review Notes
• Grant Access
• Data Submission Information

These pages have been recreated in the Redwood toolset Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio) 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.

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.

Redwood Experience for Succession Management

Check out the following Succession Management pages and features that can be used to complete your Redwood experience.

• Succession Overview
• Succession Plan History
• External Candidates
• Add Candidates to a Talent Pool
• Plan Info

These pages and features 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 following Succession Management pages that can be used to complete your Redwood experience:

• Talent Pools Overview
• Pool Info

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.

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.

Alerts for Expired or Expiring Licenses or Certifications Item in Talent Profile

Use Alerts Composer to send out notifications to a manager or worker when the licenses or certifications item is about to expire or has expired.

HDL/HSDL Support for Content Items

Upload the content items to the item catalog using HCM Data Loader (HDL) or HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader (HSDL) capability. 

Profiles Redwood Experience

These pages or flows have been recreated in the Redwood tool set Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio) 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 Give Feedback Quick Action

Complete your Redwood experience with the Give Feedback quick action page (formerly known as Provide Feedback). These pages are recreated in the Redwood toolset Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio) to improve your experience by using the same backend functionality. Although the page hasn't undergone a full redesign, it's modified to look and act like Redwood pages, to help create cohesiveness throughout the application.

This Redwood page isn't enabled by default, so remember to enable it.

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. The following pages are available in redwood version:

• Talent Profiles (Skills and Qualifications)
• Position Profiles
• Job Profiles
• Organization Profiles.
• Talent Notifications Setup

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.

Goals Redwood Experience

These pages or flows have been recreated in the Redwood tool set Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio) 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 - Introduction to Goals Center

Take advantage of the new Goals Center, which is a centralized space to efficiently set and manage performance and development goals. The Goals Center’s intuitive Redwood interface helps to streamline the goal planning and setting process. Here employees and managers are provided the necessary guidance to establish meaningful and actionable goals. 

In this release, the Goals Center supports these features:

• Performance and development goal plans
• Performance and development goal plans
• Goal Explorer that lists these goals:
  • Library goals
  • Manager-shared goals
  • HR-shared goals
• Colleague-shared goals (Development goals only)
• Goals with measures
• Goal tasks
• Goal notes
• Performance goal weights
• Enforcing performance goal weight to 100%
• Enforcing maximum performance goals in goal plan
• Manage assigned and created employee goals using these actions:
  • Edit
  • Update goal progress
  • Copy
  • Move (Performance goals only)
  • Delete
  • Align (Performance goals only)
  • Request feedback (Performance goals only)
  • Colleague Share (Development goals only)
• Default sort option for performance goal plan
• Manager accesses employee goal plans
• Manager cascade actions:
  • Assign goal
  • Share goal

Redwood Enhanced Goals Notifications

Use the Redwood enhanced performance and development goal notifications and take prompt action on your goals. Performance and development goals notifications can be sent for these transactions in this release:

• Goal assigned
• Goal shared
• Goal added
• Goal inactivated
• Goal completed
• Goal details edited
• Goal progress updated
• Goal notes added or deleted
• Feedback requested for goals

Goals HR Administrator Work Area in Redwood

Leverage the Redwood HR administrator work area interfaces for performance and development goals to be more effective, strategic, and efficient in managing the performance and development of your organization's workforce.

• Performance goals administration:
  • Manage performance goals
  • Manage goal plans
  • Set up performance goals mass assignment and mass sharing
  • Manage performance goal library
  • Schedule processes for performance goals
• Development goals administration:
  • Manage development goals
  • Set up development goals mass assignment
  • Schedule processes for development goals
  • Manage development goal library

Performance Management

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

Prevent Updates to Calibrated Performance Ratings in Performance Documents

Prevent the performance document manager from changing their ratings for employees once calibration using Oracle Workforce Compensation starts. Comments and item ratings can still be adjusted by managers in the performance document to align with the calibrated ratings. Managers can only share the performance document with its calibrated ratings, adjusted comments and item ratings after the calibration completes.

Set Minimum and Maximum Number of Characters for Evaluation Comments in Performance Documents

Determine the minimum and maximum number of characters users are expected to enter when providing evaluation comments in a performance document.

Manager Justification if Manual and Calculated Rating is Different

Ensure managers provide a justification when they give an employee a section or overall rating that's different from the calculated rating. This justification is only visible to the manager hierarchy and HR Specialists with access to the performance document.

Evaluate Goals, View Feedback and Other Enhancements in All-in-One Evaluations

Streamline the evaluation experience for managers and enable them to evaluate employee goals and view participant, interim, anytime and requested feedback all directly in All-in-One Evaluations, instead of navigating to each employee's individual performance document. Additional enhancements include indicating to the manager when an employee's self-evaluation is not complete and when an employee has provided a response to their questionnaire.

Performance Management Redwood Experience

These pages or flows have been recreated in the Redwood tool set Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio) 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 Check-Ins

Check out the new single page simplified performance check-in document. This page has been recreated in the Redwood toolset Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio) to improve the user experience.

Redwood Experience for Request Feedback Quick Action

Complete your Redwood experience with the Request Feedback quick action page and the feedback questionnaire. These pages are recreated in the Redwood toolset Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio) to improve your experience using the same backend functionality. These Redwood pages aren't enabled by default, so remember to enable them if you want to take advantage of these features:

• Request general feedback on the quick action page.
• Request feedback about a goal.

Redwood Experience for Performance Documents

Check out the new simplified performance document that includes automatically synchronized evaluation items in a single page. This page has been recreated in the Redwood toolset Visual Builder Studio (VB Studio) to improve the user experience.

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.

Talent OTBI 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.

Removing the Performance Ratings Distribution Subject Area and Corresponding Artifacts

Take notice that the subject area Workforce Performance - Performance Rating Distribution Real Time and the corresponding artifacts will be removed in Update 24C.