Employees expect more today, seeking employers that share their values, listen to them, help them grow, and equip them with modern technology. Human resources (HR), finance, and operations leaders have a critical role to play in managing these growing expectations and redefining their best practices. They must guide organizational investments in new technologies that provide deeper visibility across the organization. Leaders must also attract the right talent with the skills needed to drive a culture of inclusivity and innovation and elevate the employee experience to retain their workforce.

As you consider the benefits of achieving a unified view of your enterprise or increased information sharing and improved employee experience, it’s important to ask the right questions. Here are ten questions to ask while assessing your current human capital management (HCM) cloud solution.

  1. Do your HCM and finance solutions share a common process and data model?
  2. Can you quickly assess and track key performance indicators across your business, including finance, HR, and supply chain?
  3. Do you have a unified view of your financial, operational, and workforce planning applications?
  4. Is there an HR help desk that delivers quick, consistent, and intelligent HR services to every employee, including multi-channel HR inquiries, services request assignments, an intuitive knowledge base, and analytics?
  5. Is health and safety incident management part of your core HCM solution?
  6. Do your recruiting capabilities include personalized careers sites, candidate engagement with native CRM tools, and candidate recommendations using AI?
  7. Is the security consistent across your applications and at every layer of your technology stack?
  8. Can its digital assistant provide seamless communication and guidance to all employee questions with conversational AI support and cross-channel communication such as SMS, Slack, or Microsoft Teams?
  9. Does a designated communication tool deliver relevant messages to specific groups while presenting employee engagement metrics and workforce data?
  10. Is there a continuous listening and action channel, including direct listening, engagement analysis, and continuous engagement, that is a natively developed part of the complete solution?

Keeping score

If your organization answered “no” to one, or several, of these questions, it is time to consider a new cloud provider.

Turning change into opportunity

Oracle Cloud HCM provides a consistent experience across devices, enables one source of truth for HR data to improve decision making, and empowers you with market-leading innovation to address your needs today and into the future.

With Oracle’s complete suite of integrated SaaS applications and innovative products, you can run your entire business on a single platform that enables teams to collaborate and plan with speed and confidence, spanning HR, finance, CX, and supply chain management.

Discover how Oracle Cloud HCM customers are redefining their innovation expectations and how they choose their cloud solution, including choosing Oracle Cloud HCM over Workday.

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