This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:
| Date | Feature | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 29 MAR 2019 | Time and Labor: Exception Handling Enhancements |
Updated document. Revised feature information. |
| 22 FEB 2019 | Time and Labor: Diagnostics and Corrections Introduction | Updated document. Revised feature information. |
| 21 DEC 2018 | Absence for Mexico: Unpaid Absences | Updated document. Delivered feature in update 19A. |
| 07 DEC 2018 | Created initial document. |
HCM Cloud applications have two types of patches you can receive that are documented in this New Feature Summary:
- Release Updates (19A, 19B, 19C, and 19D)
- 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.
Oracle HCM Cloud release documents are delivered in five functional groupings:
Suggested Reading for all HCM Products:
- HCM Cloud Common Features (This document pertains to all HCM applications. It is the base human resource information for all products and HCM Tools.)
- Global Human Resources Cloud (Global Human Resources contains the base application in which other application use for common data such as workforce structures and person information. Regardless of what products you have implemented you may want to see the new features for Global Human Resources that could impact your products.)
NOTE: Not all Global Human Resource features are available for the base Talent and Compensation stand alone applications.
Optional Reading for HCM Products (Depending on what products are in your cloud service):
- Talent Management Cloud (All Talent applications)
- Workforce Rewards Cloud (Compensation, Benefits, Payroll and Global Payroll Interface)
- Workforce Management Cloud (Absence Management and Time and Labor)
Additional Optional Reading:
- Common Technologies and User Experience (This documents the common features across all Cloud applications and is not specific to HCM)
NOTE: All of these documents can be found on the Oracle Help Center at: https://cloud.oracle.com/saasreadiness/hcm under Human Capital Management Release Readiness.
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Oracle Absence Management is a configurable and flexible global solution that enables organizations to manage absences of their workforce. The framework provides ability to define both complex and diverse absence plans. It integrates with the Oracle Cloud Global Payroll and Time and Labor products and provides dedicated work areas for the roles of Administrator and Employees. Simplified user interface is provided for employees’ absence data entry.
Leave Donation Privacy Enhancement
Protect the identity of leave donation seekers in your organization by assigning an alias to them. Employees intending to donate some of their accrued leave balance will view and select the alias instead of the actual name of the donation recipient.
Delete Withdrawn Absence Records
Empower your administrative users to physically delete withdrawn absences. You can continue to maintain withdrawn absences as needed and remove those without value.
Streamline management of open-ended absences. When you enter an open-ended absence, entitlements are calculated for 365 calendar days for all qualified entitlements. You can extend the calculation in 90 calendar day intervals until an end date is entered for the absence.
The features below are Absence Management features for Mexico.
Set up absence types and plans for unpaid absences based on the legal rules for maternity, sickness and other unpaid leave.
Oracle Time and Labor is a comprehensive, easy to use, rule-based time recording and management application. The calendar-based time entry interface and fully configurable time card layout easily address simple and complex time recording needs. Rule templates and the real-time rules engine provide an extensible and robust method to validate time entries and automatically apply pay rules, such as overtime calculations. Time and Labor now integrates completely with the following Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management applications: Global Human Resources, Absence Management, Global Payroll, and Project Costing. This integration insures accurate and consistent data for payroll processing and costing as well as project management billing.
Improve web clock by validating the device time with the network time while clocking, with an allowable time disparity. If the device time does not match with the network time, then the network time is used on the time event and the device time is saved as additional information.
Exception Handling Enhancements
Enable managers to partially fix a time card with a status of incomplete or in error.
Account for related time attributes with enhanced matching of In and Out events received from clock devices. For example, an In event received for starting a regular hourly shift cannot be completed by an Out event received for ending a meal break.
Account for event chronology with improved time entry generation from device events. An Out event that should complete the morning shift time entry can be received after all other events for the day, such as the In and Out events for the afternoon shift time entry. This final Out event automatically completes the time entry for the morning shift.
Diagnostics and Corrections Introduction
Enable administrators to run diagnostic processes on time cards, time events, and layout sets to identity issues and optionally correct them automatically. Use time cards corrections to unblock time cards with data issues. The issues can be due to invalid assignments, mismatched absence data, multiple statuses, version statuses, or transfer failures. For example, a time card might have two statuses in the database and the correction process keeps just the most recent one. Time event correction can be the deletion of unprocessed time events or the reset of statues for failed time events. Time event corrections can be done by either a process or the manager. Layout set issues typically involve unused time attribute mappings.
Time and Labor Redesigned User Experience
Increase user satisfaction with the redesigned pages that now have the same look and feel on desktop and mobile devices. These redesigned pages are both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. Clutter-free pages, with clean lines and just the essential fields, can be personalized to suit.
Team Schedule for Employee and Manager Self-Service Pages Redesigned
Increase employee and manager satisfaction with the team schedule self-service page that has the same look and feel on desktop and mobile devices. This redesigned page is both responsive and easy to use on any device, with a modern look and conversational language. The clutter-free page, with clean lines and just the essential fields, can be personalized. Line managers can view schedules of either their direct reports or the whole organization including public holidays, absences, employment schedules, and published schedules.
Workforce Management Transactional Business Intelligence
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.
New Subject Area - Absence Management - Leave Donations Real Time
Augment your reporting on worker absences with the addition of the new Absence Management - Leave Donations Real Time subject area, that allows you to report on the leave donations that are made between the workers in the organization.
Enhanced Time and Labor Subject Areas - Time Dimensions
Enhance your reporting on the Time and Labor subject areas with the new role playing time dimension based on the earned date column. Also, the existing role playing time dimension based on reference date was renamed to better reflect the use.