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Unified Compensation and Performance Management: Wells Fargo’s HCM Cloud Story
The business world has always been dynamic, with the ever-present threat of disruption lurking around every corner. This is especially true in financial...
Recent Posts
4 Essential Employer Branding Trends to Know
Written by: Pete Jaradeh, Product Marketing Manager If you’re looking to succeed and stand out in 2018, employer branding cannot be optional. Year after year,...
Why Culture Matters – 3 Steps to Building a Winning Culture
When I hear the word culture, I think about people collaborating to produce great work—like an orchestra performing Beethoven's 5th Symphony or architects...
Focus on Talent
10 Benefits of Moving Your Workforce to the Cloud
HR organizations deal with massive amount of talent data and financial data which must be accurate, efficient, and compliant with all regulations imposed on it...
Global HR
Tomorrow’s HR Today: Building a Business Case for HCM Cloud in 4 Steps
For many human resource leaders, the reasons to move human capital management (HCM) to the cloud are plentiful and clear. From the importance of using data and...
5 Tips to Engage & Retain Young Professionals
Written by Shelby Aprile, Senior Marketing Campaigns Manager, Oracle HCM Cloud In today’s workforce, millennials and young professionals often get a bad rap –...
Tips on Aligning Retail Talent and Technology to Deliver Outstanding Customer Experiences
Written by: Rocky Mitarai, Senior Director Product Marketing at Oracle The face of retail continues to experience unprecedented disruption as digitization fuels...
Are Your New Hires Looking for a New Job Already?
Last week I was headed to Las Vegas to present at our annual user conference at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Resort. Three days prior to my arrival, the hotel...
Employee Engagement
The Art of Performance Reviews: Empowering Your Management Team
Companies today are throwing large investments to acquire, manage, reward and nurture the engagement of “best employees” as part of their workforce strategy....
5 Steps to GDPR Compliance
Written By: Alessandro Vallega, Security Business Development Director, Oracle EMEA General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may be just around the corner, but...
Customer Stories
How AutoZone Jumpstarted its HCM Transformation
Let’s face it. No industry is immune to the talent shortage. The need for top talent is especially acute in retail where stores rely on frontline associates to...
Employee Engagement
How Oracle and the Golden State Warriors Empower Girls on the Run
The 2018 NBA Playoffs are here! It’s one of my favorite times of the year where I spend a lot more time in front of my TV than I probably should—watching and...
5 of the Most Innovative Office Environments You've Ever Seen
Written by Pete Jaradeh Associate Product Marketing Manager, Oracle HCM Cloud For many, your office is practically a second home, so it should come as no...
Customer Stories
10 Reason Why Our Customers Chose Oracle HCM Cloud
1 | PERSONAL AND MODERN USER EXPERIENCE It's not unrealistic to desire your consumer technology experience to be the same or similar to your B2B software...
Customer Stories
Moving to the Cloud: 10 Lessons Learned from XL Catlin Executive
So you want to move to the cloud? The decision has been made but you are laden with legacy systems that are heavily customized across the globe. Now you have to...
Customer Stories
Fearless Decisions: How Cummins Moved to the Cloud
During Oracle’s HCM World 2018, we strived to bring fearless leadership to the keynote stage. Fabio Fukuda, our customer keynote, took stage and inspired the...
Employee Engagement
Constellation Video Series: Bridge the Productivity Gap
Recently, Holger Mueller of Constellation Research and Gretchen Alarcon, Oracle’s GVP of Product Strategy, got together for an illuminating series of six videos...
Customer Stories
Follow Your Guiding Principles to the Cloud: A Cloud Transformation Story with Mary Kay
For more than 55 years, Mary Kay has inspired women to achieve their entrepreneurial goals in nearly 40 countries. It’s no wonder Chief People Officer Melinda...
Events
Visit COLLABORATE 18 for the Latest on Oracle HCM Cloud
By Wincy Ip As Oracle's Cloud solutions continue to expand across SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS, customers are eagerly evaluating how these offerings can help transform...
Focus on Talent
5 reasons you should move your recruiting and onboarding solutions to the cloud
The recruit-to-onboard stage can be a risky and costly process for many businesses. The search for new recruits, agency fees, interviewing, and onboarding all...
Customer Stories
HCM World 2018 Recap, Part 3: Meet Oracle HCM Cloud’s 2018 Rubies Awards Winners
“It is expensive to be mediocre in this world.” - J. Irwin Miller, former CEO of Cummins, a quote shared by Rubies award winner Fabio Fukuda of Cummins during...
Employee Engagement
HCM World 2018 Recap, Part 2: Tools and Strategies for the Future of HR
With customers, partners, and HR luminaries coming from all over the globe to congregate and strategize, it's no wonder that last week's HCM World conference...
Events
HCM World 2018 Recap, Part 1: What the Press Is Saying
Another HCM World is in the books, and surely attendees are pondering how the best strategies from breakout sessions can be applied to their own HR departments....
Employee Engagement
Top 3 Questions to Consider for Your Career Site
By Pete Jaradeh Your career site is the face of your company to candidates. A great candidate experience will determine whether or not they click that “apply”...
Focus on Talent
Key Feature of Talent Acquisition for Midsize: Investment in Modern Talent
By Pete Jaradeh Technology is constantly redefining the talent industry. As more and more HR leaders try different solutions for their sourcing, recruiting and...
Events
Spring Update of Oracle HCM Cloud Aims to 'Make Work More Human'
Amid all the economic banter about taxes, regulations, and national debt levels, the underlying reason for stalled productivity growth worldwide comes down to...
Events
Transition to Future of Work with Multi-Dimensional Digital HR Transformation
By Sriram Ramanujam & Ananth Viswanathan, Oracle Consulting at Cognizant Technology Solutions TGIF! It has been commonly observed that the HR business function,...
Future of Work
Celebrating the Union of Finance and HR
By Dee Houchen A special union was celebrated in London recently. Invited guests witnessed two partners ‘tie the knot’. Speeches praised the couple’s future...
Future of Work
No Cash, No Bank Account, No Problem
Six interesting facts from a survey of Millennials & Gen Z on the future of worker pay By Jonathan Soffin, Sr. Director, Pay Card Product Marketing, ADP When it...
Future of Work
Organizing for digital maturity: Why it matters, how to start
By Anthony Abbatiello, Sarah Vassy, and Nathaniel Paynter Digital disruption has been a true game-changer for organizations, taking many of them from a “survive...
Customer Stories
Experience the Future of HR at Oracle HCM World
Oracle HCM World, March 20–22 in Dallas, is a thought leadership conference featuring inspirational speakers, over 80% customer-driven content, unparalleled...
Events
Human Capital Harmonization: a Playlist for Success
Article written by Jeff Haynes, Director Human Capital Consulting, Baker Tilly and Spencer Varney, Senior Consultant, Human Capital Consulting, Baker Tilly Does...
Events
The Inflection Point in Enterprise HR: Why Artificial Intelligence is a Game-Changer
Article written by Paul Seo, IBM Global Business Services Talent & Engagement Converging Forces Dramatically Change the HR Landscape The traditional career...
Future of Work
Seeking Better Collaboration Between Finance & HR
Have you ever wondered why seemingly simple things like getting information or working across teams is so hard? You are not alone. It’s why Oracle is focused on...
Events
Hi From the Sky: HCM Customer Insight from 35,000 Miles Up
Reporting from Oracle CloudWorld, NYC For anyone that knows me, they know how much I love my office in the sky. Aside from the T-Rex arms needed for middle-seat...
Future of Work
Why Companies Need to Build a Skills Inventory
Article written by Jeff Hesse, PwC Here’s a question every leader should answer: Do you have a clear understanding of your people’s skills, and where the gaps...
HCM Cloud Product Updates
What You Need to Know about Workforce Health and Safety Incidents
Co-author: Glen Walton, Senior Manager, Product Management at Oracle What comes to mind when you think about safety at your workplace? At Oracle headquarters, I...
Future of Work
2018 – The Year When AI Will Humanize the Workplace
As we enter 2018, there are two competing forces that are impacting the world of HR. On the one hand, the rate of social and business changes is accelerating,...
Focus on Talent
6 Talent Management Trends for 2018
We are currently in the golden age of HR. Modern technology has enabled HR leaders to provide their workforce with a better employee experience. Emerging...
HCM Cloud Product Updates
How to unify your workforce and stay on course for growth
Oracle’s Oscar Lausegger explains how companies can harness the power of a unified workforce to keep the wind in their sails It’s difficult to recruit the...
Future of Work
The Future of Business is Talent—and the Future of Talent is AI
By guest author: Duke Daehling, Director of Talent Management, Analytics and Strategy for IBM Smarter Workforce The pace of business change is currently the...
Focus on Talent
The Future of Learning is Here
Employee expectations regarding organizational learning mirror their experiences in how they consume content outside of work. In a study conducted by CEB of...
Events
2 Things I Learned about HR Technology in 2017
This past October, I attended two of the most prominent technology conferences in the industry – Oracle Openworld and HR Technology. I had the opportunity to...
Focus on Talent
4 tips to help you reduce churn and inspire young employees
Mervyn Dinnen, Author and Talent Acquisition Analyst Speak to almost any HR professional and they’ll tell you the same thing: today’s employees, especially...
Future of Work
How Financial Services companies can find the right balance between people and machines
Is financial services a people industry? The rising popularity of Artificial Intelligence and Process Automation suggests the answer is “no”. Recent research...
Focus on Talent
The Modern Campus: Challenges and Opportunities for HCM
By Joseph Clay, Vice President – Human Capital Management Transformation at Oracle The landscape for higher education is changing rapidly with greater emphasis...
Why even content employees may not be giving their all
Meet ‘Malcolm the employee’. Malcolm sits at his desk at 4:50pm and checks his to-do list: Yes, that report has been sent. Yes, he’s finished his slides for...
Future of Work
How HR can get over their love/hate relationship with metrics
Andy Campbell, HCM Strategy Director at Oracle HR leaders have a love/hate relationship with metrics. Let’s begin with the positive: metrics add structure to...
Are your employees engaged, or just playing the game?
Oracle’s Andy Campbell explains why HR and managers must work together to drive the right kind of engagement Here’s a scenario that will be familiar to any of...
Oracle HCM
Modern HR for modern manufacturing
Andy Campbell, HCM Strategy Director at Oracle Human resources (HR) teams in the UK manufacturing sector must feel they are walking the wrong way up an...
Focus on Talent
Why it’s time for HR teams to stop focussing on HR
Most employees don’t care about HR, at least not until they have an issue they need to resolve. It’s not that people feel strongly against human resources, it’s...
2018 Rubies Award Nominations Are Now Open
Its that time of the year again! Time for our second annual Oracle HCM Cloud Rubies Award nominations. We launched the Rubies Awards last year to recognize and...
Future of Work
What HR can learn from DevOps culture
Melanie Hache outlines five ways HR can become more lean and agile According to the Gartner glossary, DevOps represents a focus on rapid IT service delivery...
Future of Work
3 Unexpected Benefits of Unifying HCM and ERP in the Cloud
Moving information systems to the cloud is hardly a novel idea; each year, the percentage of businesses who move their HCM and ERP systems to the cloud grows....
Future of Work
What Do Your Peers Really Think About HR in the Cloud?
Guest Author: April Mazon Like their colleagues in the C-suite, chief human resources officers are under increasing pressure to add value to the enterprise. As...
Future of Work
The robots are coming. Quick, everyone get better at your jobs!
The CIPD’s David D’Souza busts some common myths about AI and the future of work As a species we owe evolution a great deal. And perhaps it is evolution...
Future of Work
Meet the Modern Learner
The global Learning Management System (LMS) market is anticipated to experience seismic activity in the next 5 years. Based on research conducted by a global...
Focus on Talent
What HR teams can learn from football analytics
Andy Campbell, HCM Strategy Director at Oracle When it comes to team-building, don’t just focus on high achievers Who are your most valuable employees? ...
Future of Work
5 Signs It’s Time for an HCM Cloud Makeover
Do your candidates, managers and employees say things like: “Your career site looks so… 2012.” “Why do I have to click 27 times to update my address?” “Our...
Customer Stories
Spotlight on Rubies Award Winners: Cummins Inc
This is post 3 of 8 that shines the spotlight on our Oracle HCM Cloud Rubies award winners. Today's post is our winner for the award "All in the Numbers". As...
Customer Stories
Spotlight on Rubies Award Winners: American Tower
This is post 2 of 8 that shines the spotlight on our Oracle HCM Cloud Rubies award winners. Today's post is our winner for the award "Happily Ever After". ...
Focus on Talent
Onboarding: What’s the Big Deal?
Written by Vanessa Mariscal and Jeffrey Haynes, Baker Tilly Human Capital Services In today’s marketplace, a modern talent acquisition experience is essential...
Future of Work
Take the First Steps to Building Your Future Workforce: Move HCM to the Cloud
By Anje Dodson, VP of HR, Talent Development, HR Technology, and Operations at Oracle As a vice president of HR at Oracle, I’ve seen a lot of changes in...
Future of Work
The Results Are in from PwC’s Annual HR Technology Survey
By Guest Author: Dan Staley, Principal, PwC We all know the transition to human capital management (HCM) in the cloud has been widespread and transformational...
Customer Stories
Spotlight on Rubies Award Winners: Save the Children UK
This is post 1 of 8 that shines the spotlight on our Oracle HCM Cloud Rubies award winners. Today's post is our winner for the award "Game Changer:...
Events
Get Ready to Get Inspired: What We Learned from Our 2017 Oracle HCM Cloud Rubies Award Winners
The Oracle HCM Cloud Rubies awards recognize and celebrate HR “gems” who have helped their organizations shine using Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud. ...
Future of Work
5 Steps to Thrive in Today’s Dynamic Healthcare Environment
This post is guest authored by Mike Andrus, Vice President HCM Transformation at Oracle. Keeping pace with today’s ever-changing healthcare environment poses a...
Events
Modern Business Experience in Sydney: Insights and Anecdotes for HR Professionals
On May 4, Oracle presented the 2017 Modern Business Experience (MBX) in beautiful, sunny Sydney, Australia. Company leaders from all over the Asia-Pacific...
Focus on Talent
Succession Planning by the Numbers: 3 Best Practices
Most years, 10% to 15% of global corporations replace their top leaders because of resignation, dismissal, retirement, or health problems, and in 2015, more...
Considering Cloud-Based HCM Applications? Start With a Transformational Journey
Guest post written by Cognizant & KBACE, Oracle Cloud partners and sponsors of Oracle HCM World 2017. Making the transition to Cloud applications is not a...
Events
Oracle HCM World 2017: Day 1 Keynote Recap - Growth and Game-Changers
There’s never been a more exciting time to be an HR professional, and ample proof of this was on display at last month’s annual Oracle HCM World conference....
Focus on Talent
4 Steps for Building an Effective Talent Pipeline
As the role of HR professional rises in strategic importance, so does the need for a formidable talent pipeline, the pool of talent ready to fill open...
Future of Work
8 Steps for a Successful Workout Plan to Strengthen your Core (HR)
Guest post written by Jeff Haynes and the team at Baker Tilly's Human Capital Services practice. Has your core seen better days? Has it been several years...
Future of Work
Make Your Voice Count! Take the 2017 HR Transformation Survey
Oracle, on behalf of KPMG’s Management Consulting practice, invites you to participate in the 2017 HR Transformation Survey. The survey provides key insights...
Future of Work
Digital HR: A Revolutionary Leap Forward
Guest post written by Michael Stephan and Michael Gretczko of Deloitte Consulting LLP and originally published on the Deloitte HR Times Blog We (Deloitte...
Focus on Talent
5 Things You Need to Know About Gen Z
Just when you’d adapted your workplace to millennials, it’s time to prepare for Generation Z, those born between about 1996 through 2011. More than a quarter of...
Events
Honor Innovation at the Rubies Awards—Vote Now!
The past few months have been unbelievably inspiring and educational for me and my team members as we reviewed the Rubies Awards nominations. We’ve read about...
Design Thinking Meets HR Process Transformation
Guest post written by Kraig Eaton, Katy Norris, Maribeth Sivak, and Lauren Seidman of Deloitte Consulting LLP and originally published on the Deloitte HR Times...
Future of Work
HR and the Information Agenda
Human resources leaders are more sophisticated than ever in how they use information to increase the business impact that talent, leadership, and culture have...
Future of Work
5 Steps You Need to Take for HR Analytics Success
HR executives have a wealth of information at their fingertips: data on employee performance, onboarding, recruiting campaigns, and much more. You would assume...
Focus on Talent
Make Employee Experience the Heart of Your HR Strategy
Guest written by Yazad Dalal, Head of HCM, Oracle APAC A business can’t thrive without delivering the right customer experience. But what about the experience...
Focus on Talent
Welcome to the Business of GO for Oracle HCM Cloud
At Oracle, we believe that modern HR goes beyond managing the members of your workforce and also empowers and engages them. An engaged and empowered workforce...
Focus on Talent
8 Easy Steps to Build a Culture of Engagement
As the labor market tightens, retaining key employees often depends on how well you keep them engaged. The Oracle Human Capital Management Global Survey shows...
Customer Stories
Hitachi Consulting Realizes Significant Value with HCM Cloud Transformation
Written By: April Mazon Not long ago, Hitachi Consulting was running multiple disparate HR systems across many countries. Managing the complexity of system...
Focus on Talent
6 Ways to Reward and Recognize Employees
Picture this: Your executive team wants to roll out a campaign to raise awareness of your brand’s charitable efforts, great company culture, and other things...
Events
CloudWorld 2017: 3 Takeaways for HR Professionals
Last week’s annual Oracle CloudWorld conference in New York City was its usual blend of technical deep dives, industry-specific insights, and thought leadership...
Focus on Talent
Death To The Performance Review! Long Live The Performance Review!
This article, written by Rob Preston or Oracle, was originally published on Forbes OracleVoice The business press is rife with stories declaring the demise of...
Focus on Talent
Follow the Leader: 6 Ways to Forge Relationships between Employees and Managers
If your employees aren’t engaged in the workplace, it’s time to talk with their managers. While nobody can force employees to feel engaged and committed to...
Focus on Talent
Top Five 5 HCM Thought Leadership Articles From 2016
Human capital management continued to be a hot topic in 2016 for companies of all sizes and across industries. Although some concerns carry over from year to...
Future of Work
5 Steps to a Modern Campus
Written by: April Mazon It’s an exciting time in higher education, with technology innovations, globalization, changing demographics, and evolving workforce...
Events
You May Already Be a Winner—Just Choose Your Category
In my last post, I shared the exciting news about the launch of the Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Rubies awards. These awards celebrate our innovative...
Events
Here’s Looking at You, Oracle HCM Cloud Users, for Inspiration
As the leader of the Human Capital Management Transformation practice at Oracle, I’m lucky enough to meet with HCM thought leaders and organizations from all...
Focus on Talent
Hiring for the Retail Holiday Season Shows the Future of Digital Human Resource Management
Like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, retail is leading the way this holiday season and shining a light on the future of digital human resource management....
Focus on Talent
5 Tips for Giving Employees a Total Compensation Statement
With the “War on Talent” causing most companies to re-evaluate their practices around employee retention, this is a good time to take a look at the total...
Focus on Talent
You Can’t Manage Performance with Annual Reviews. Try This Instead
For most HR executives, it’s been clear for years now that annual performance reviews alone are no longer the single source of truth for engaging and motivating...
Focus on Talent
A Workforce Without Boundaries: Why Flexibility Is Key to Keeping Employees Happy
Company culture encompasses far more than social causes and charitable work. It also involves the values and overall lifestyle we want our brand and our...
Future of Work
How Oracle HCM Cloud is Delivering the HR User Experience of the Future
More than 40% of organizations are looking to improve or develop a new strategy for enterprise HR systems this year, according to the results of a recently...
Focus on Talent
Making Work Matter: Why Your Organization Should Support Social and Environmental Causes
People used to see their jobs as a means to an end—a method of earning a salary and putting food on the table. But for the most recent generation of workers,...
Focus on Talent
How HR Leaders Can Successfully Manage Veterans and Other Employees with Unique Needs
Each November 11, the United States pauses to recognize the veterans who’ve served in our armed forces. Throughout the year, many employers go further, offering...
Customer Stories
4 Reasons Why Investing in Onboarding Makes Sense
Written by Michael Windham and Jeffrey Haynes, Baker Tilly Human Capital Services Much has been written about the benefits of onboarding—the reduction in manual...