With input from:
Anuj Dwivedi, Director, Oracle Application Lab
Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence (FDI) is a family of prebuilt, cloud-native analytics applications for Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications that provide ready-to-use insights to help you improve decision-making. It‘s extensible and customizable, allowing your organization to ingest data and expand the base semantic model with additional content.
Successfully launching FDI within Oracle is a critical milestone—not only validating the product’s effectiveness but also laying the foundation for broader market credibility. After all, there’s no better endorsement than using it in our own backyard.
This article is part of the evangelization of FDI within Oracle (FDI@Oracle) series.
Introduction
During a general planning session, the Global Operations Head of HCM Systems at Oracle casually asked, “Hey, I have a business need—can we build something to help People Leaders track compliance learning?” The core team said yes—without realizing the full scale of what was coming: a rollout to 25,000 People Leaders across Oracle in about five weeks!
At first glance, the request appeared simple enough, and the core team quickly agreed, eager to support a business-critical initiative. What they didn’t fully grasp in that moment, however, was the true magnitude of the challenge ahead.
What started as a straightforward ask soon evolved into a global rollout impacting 25,000 People Leaders across Oracle. Even more daunting, the timeline left little room for error—just five weeks to design, build, test, and deploy a solution that would scale seamlessly across geographies, business units, and existing HCM processes.
This wasn’t just a project—it was a race against time, requiring precise coordination, rapid development cycles, and close partnership with business stakeholders to ensure success. The initiative quickly transformed from a casual request into a high-stakes program that would test the team’s agility, technical expertise, and ability to deliver under pressure.
Business Requirements
At Oracle, compliance training is more than a checkbox; it’s a cornerstone of building a culture of integrity, trust, and accountability across our global workforce. With employees spread across regions, functions, and time zones, we needed a way to ensure every individual completed the required training on time while giving leaders the insights to guide their teams effectively.
The first step in our journey was to clearly define and articulate the business requirements. This was critical to ensure that the solution not only met all functional needs but also empowered end users to take timely, informed action.
The Learning HR business team identified a set of functional requirements:
- Compliance visibility: The FDI dashboard should provide a clear summary of the Global Compliance Training completion status across the logged-in user’s organizational hierarchy.
- Flexible filtering: Users should be able to filter data by Year, Direct Reports, and Country. The dashboard should support toggling between the status of the entire organization and the completion status of direct reports only.
- Actionable insights: Users should be able to drill-down from charts to detailed employee-level data presented in a tabular format. Additionally, they should be able to export employee information for timely follow-up and to drive completion.
Alongside the functional scope, several non-functional requirements were also defined, each playing a key role in ensuring adoption and effectiveness:
- Performance: Visualizations needed to load within ten seconds, regardless of the leader’s organizational size. Quick responsiveness was essential to maintain user trust and encourage daily use.
- Data security: Logged-in users should only be able to view data for their own organizational hierarchy. This was crucial to safeguard sensitive information while still giving leaders the insights they needed.
- Ease of use: The dashboard had to be directly accessible from the Oracle Fusion Applications home page. This seamless integration reduced friction, making it part of the user’s natural workflow.
- Timeline: The dashboard had to be production-ready within two months to meet the deadline for the Global Compliance Training launch.
Objectives of the Global Compliance Training Dashboard Rollout
Our first objective was to make compliance oversight simple and transparent. People leaders needed complete visibility into the training completion status of their teams—whether across their entire organizational hierarchy or just their direct reports.
Equally important was enabling timely action. The dashboard had to do more than present static numbers; it needed to provide drill-down views and exportable reports so leaders could quickly identify gaps, follow up with employees, and drive completion well ahead of deadlines.
Finally, the speed of delivery was critical. The dashboard had to be production-ready within two months to align with the launch of the Global Compliance Training program. This ensured that leaders had actionable insights from day one and that the business could reinforce compliance expectations globally without delay.
Together, these objectives set the foundation for how we approached the dashboard’s design and implementation.
Implementation Strategy
A rollout at such short notice and time for such a large intended audience required meticulous planning and execution. What made it simple and achievable was adhering to best practices outlined in the Fusion Data Intelligence Implementation guide.
Below are some of the highlights from the implementation:
- Kept it effective and simple
- When you are rolling out a dashboard across many teams with varying skill sets and expertise in using a dashboard, the strategy is to keep it simple.
- Follow the documented best practices for dashboard layouts.
- Ran a pilot launch for a handful of users
- Initiate rollouts with a small target audience.
- Solicit feedback to ensure the requirements were met.
- Planned a performance testing cycle
- Ran a quick round of performance testing for the custom dashboard once finalized, following UAT.
- Testing was conducted for various personas, which helped align some performance expectations with executives early on.
- Performance results were tabulated, evaluated by the core team, and tweaks in the dashboard were made to optimize for better performance.
- Focused on security
- Sticking to the objective of keeping it simple, factory job roles were used (Seeded Line- Manager Role), making the implementation of security completely seamless and automatic.
- This helped setup security for 25000+ Line People Leaders in no time.
- Put support in place for deployment
- Feedback mechanisms were incorporated.
- Power users were established within each department.
- Twice per week sync met for the core team to monitor rollout.
- Offered office hours to provide additional support for people leaders.
- Monitored performance metrics and key success indicators.
Summary
With a streamlined reporting dashboard, People Leaders were able to effectively track compliance and significantly improve completion rates within the mandatory period. The successful FDI rollout for Compliance Training demonstrated that implementation can be both fast and effective when several critical factors are addressed early:
- Keep rollouts small, focused, and incremental.
- Design simple dashboards that follow best practices to accommodate all users.
- Begin with a pilot launch to gather feedback from a select user group.
- Conduct thorough performance testing to drive user acceptance and adoption.
- Utilize standard security frameworks for rapid and automated setup.
- Appoint power users in each department, establish robust feedback channels, and maintain regular monitoring meetings.
This approach not only ensures high adoption rates and a seamless rollout across Oracle’s People Leader community, but also empowers leaders to foster a culture of integrity, trust, and accountability throughout our global workforce by providing timely and actionable compliance insights.