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Get Exclusive Access to Oracle Experts at the OHUG 2016 Global Conference
Next month, the OHUG 2016 Global Conference is bringing the best in Oracle HCM to New Orleans. Don't miss this opportunity to meet face-to-face with the experts who can help solve your most pressing HCM issues.
- SIG/RUG Day on Monday, June 6, for the topics that mean the most to you
- Meet the Experts for face-to-face networking and solutions
- User Feedback Sessions – Have an impact on the future of HCM Cloud applications
- One-on-one report building at the Report Jam Session
- Oracle Support Central is on-site to discuss crucial milestones, upgrades and configurations
Did we mention the 150-plus education sessions, over 60 vendors in our Product Solutions Center, countless networking opportunities and an inspiring keynote from author and journalist Lee Woodruff? It truly will be a conference like no other in a place like no other. Don't miss this opportunity to join OHUG down in the Big Easy. Discounted rates end May 27, so register today.
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Optimizing Your Recruiting Process with Oracle Business Intelligence
Date: Thursday, May 19
Time: noon CT
Speaker: Sebastien Nadeau, Modulus Data
In this webinar, you will learn how to leverage Oracle Business Intelligence reporting tools to hire faster, improve retention and save money.
Talent acquisition metrics industry heavyweight Sebastien Nadeau will cover leading practices and cases studies of successful recruiting process improvement through HR Analytics.
Attendees will see the most valued metrics and how to build them within Taleo reporting.
Register here.
Be Counted! Participate in the 19th Annual Sierra-Cedar HR Systems Survey
Sierra-Cedar invites you to participate in the 19th annual Sierra-Cedar 2016-2017 HR Systems Survey, the longest running, most widely distributed, and most highly participative research effort in the HR industry, annually tracking the adoption, deployment approaches and value achieved from HR technologies.
The survey investigates:
- Strategy, process and structure
- Adoption of all HR technology applications
- Deployment roadmaps, resourcing and budgeting
- Implementation, maintenance and integration
- Emerging and innovative technology
- Outcome-driven HR
The first 100 respondents will receive a $5 Starbucks card, and $100 Visa gift cards will be awarded to the 19th, 119th and 1,019th respondents.
Take the survey today!
Emerging Tech and the Enterprise
Wearables — your Apple Watches, Fitbits and Misfits — are finally coming out to play in the world of enterprise applications. The Internet of Things (IoT) is also changing the game, so adopting a smart strategy is key. If you haven't yet, check out this post on the Voice of User Experience (VoX) blog, "Wearables, IoT push Oracle's emerging tech development."
Enterprise use cases can be hard to come by for some technologies, such as voice and gesture as input, but Oracle needs to keep up with the latest developments in those fields anyway so that it's ready when an enterprise use case comes up. Another post on VoX, "New ways of input still on the verge of the enterprise," explains how Oracle is doing that.
Interested in how Oracle researches, designs and develops for these emerging technologies? It has three new emerging tech articles that describe the challenges and provide insight into how the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team gets it done. For a look at how this technology influences Oracle's cloud user experience strategy, head to this recently updated article from Jake Kuramoto, director of the AppsLab, the OAUX Emerging Technologies team.
Customer Connect Webinars
Oracle's OAUX team has several new webcasts to share. Please take a look. You must be a member to view the webcasts:
Winning with User Experience in CPQ Cloud, by Shirin Lange and William Gobber, Oracle
Oracle Applications User Experience - Emerging Technologies, Building Tomorrow's Experiences, by Jake Kuramoto, The AppsLab, OAUX
Oracle's Investment in Cloud Application's User Experience, by Julian Orr, OAUX, and Basheer Khan, Knex Technologies
Cloud UX Rapid Development Kit (RDK), with Julian Orr and Karen Scipi, OAUX
Register for the Best Practices for Background Screening & Taleo Integration Webinar
Date: Thursday, June 16
Time: noon CT
Speaker: Wallace T. Davis, President and CEO, Peopletrail
Register here.
Industry News
Take Charge of Your Employment Brand and Stand Out
SHRM Online (04/18/16) Maurer, Roy
In an interview, Oracle Director of Global Recruitment Branding Celinda Appleby discussed the value of employment branding, especially as people spend a significant amount of time online or on social media. "I think it is critical to use employees in your recruitment marketing campaigns, for the same reason that Ford uses trucks in their ads," Appleby said. "People identify with visuals. Featuring an employee and his or her career story outperforms a job ad by a long stretch." Appleby said Oracle has little difficulty keeping employee testimonials aligned with company message, as "the employees are genuinely excited about life at Oracle, their roles and their future here." Appleby said an organization must have a strategy tied to a business outcome prior to launching an employee branding campaign. "If you are unclear as to the why, [then] the what and the how will not come together as nicely," she said. Appleby said each social media outlet used for employee branding has yielded different outcomes for Oracle. "We ran a quiz over the winter holidays, and that campaign did amazing on Facebook, with a little bit of spend behind it," she noted. "LinkedIn does remarkably well in all regions for targeted ads aligned to professionals. It also does [particularly] well in Latin America." Appleby also said the performance of user-generated Instagram content has been impressive, noting "the site is increasingly popular, and it's easy for the employee to share a great story without having to write a ton of words."
Mary Kay Gets Facelift from Taleo Cloud Recruitment Software
SearchFinancialApplications (04/29/16) Ring, Dan
Mary Kay cosmetics deployed Oracle Taleo cloud for recruitment in the U.S., Brazil and China to substitute for paper applications and email notifications for applicant tracking. Mary Kay's Danelle Rowley said her company selected Oracle Taleo Recruit due to its functionality and because Mary Kay is "an Oracle shop" that uses PeopleSoft for core human resources applications. Rowley said she made a convincing business case for Taleo by demonstrating the solution would pay for itself by reducing the use of recruiting agencies. She also noted Taleo's integration with LinkedIn is another favorable capability, as is its ability to remove a lot of duplication of effort as Mary Kay staffers no longer have to enter data on spreadsheets and in core HR in Oracle PeopleSoft. According to HRchitect's Tom LaMarre, a key lesson from Mary Kay's Taleo deployment in China is the U.S. team should have made an effort to ensure the Chinese team was more "hands on" with Taleo. He also said U.S. leaders should have strove for greater feedback to guarantee the Chinese team understood Taleo as much as they needed, but language and cultural differences constrained communication. LaMarre noted these insights were carried over to the Brazilian implementation, where the local team was provided more hands-on practice to build experience with Taleo.
The Compelling Business Case for Driving Employee Engagement
Forbes (04/07/16) Soat, John
Employee engagement by organizations is a tool for enhancing productivity, said Oracle CEO Mark Hurd contended in his opening keynote address of the Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) World event. "The team with the best help for their business model typically wins," Hurd noted. He observed engagement fuels productivity, and making engagement imperative transforms human resources into the organization's "lifeline." Essential to this is knowing what motivates employees, and Hurd cited research conducted among 60,000 Oracle employees showing millennials do not necessarily desire flexibility in their careers above all else. Instead, Oracle's millennials ascribe as much importance to career development, job clarity, feedback and rewards and recognition as workers in earlier generations. Hurd said millennials desire less bureaucracy, swifter decision making and authority pushed further down in the organization. Of paramount importance to millennials is being engaged in their work to the same degree as non-millennials. "More highly engaged employees do more work, they do better work, they care more about the results of the business, they care more about your customers, they perform better, and so does the entire entity," Hurd said. He described HR as a process encompassing a series of engagement-driving steps, including recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training and retaining the best possible workers. Oracle HCM Cloud can aid immeasurably by offering a full suite of HR functions and business intelligence and data analytics. Hurd also noted it demands less infrastructure and fewer resources than on-premises software.
The New Buzz Words in HR: Gamification, Big Data Analytics and Employee Experience
Business Today (India) (05/02/16) Khetarpal, Sonal
People, process and technology should function in parallel for organizational development, stressed thought leader Jason Averbook in his keynote address at the Society for Human Resource Management Tech Conference 2016. He cited a need to migrate from HR technology to workplace technology to ensure staffers are well-served. "HR has 47 processes, but employees don't have to know all of that," Averbook said. "In HR, we have got to create that single experience or platform that addresses all the issues and is holistic, user-friendly and personalized." Averbook also said most HR tech investment is concentrated in payroll operations, and it is vital for companies to have a three-year HR plan in place that employs technology, storytelling and design thinking. The changing role of technology in HR also was raised by participants, with IDFC Bank's Madhura Dasgupta Sinha noting user experience via design thinking, gamification and appification should be pushed forward. Averbook recommended organizations create and drive mobile-first technology as well as personalization. Meanwhile, Ericsson India HR Director Sameer Khanna emphasized the need to gain the participation of employees' families.
'Digital HR' a Win for IT
CIO Journal (04/13/16)
Chief information officers (CIOs) can save money and expand the digital capabilities of their information technology (IT) organizations by deploying technologies desired by human resources to simplify operations, enhance employee engagement and redefine the work experience, according to Deloitte's Michael Stephan. He said digital HR can enable end-user applications that reproduce the intuitive experiences and mobile capabilities employees have come to rely on from consumer technologies. "Achieving the vision for digital HR ... involves new thinking, not to mention a host of activities, including building new or adapting existing technology platforms to support social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies," said Deloitte's Erica Volini. "It also involves developing apps and integrating technology and processes in a way that improves the overall employee experience, maintains data integrity and prevents the complex point-to-point integrations of the past that have caused so many headaches for IT." Volini said a key obstacle is the onus on HR to make a business case for digital technology investment. Benefits for IT are included in the business case, and Volini predicted "with digital transformation sweeping across functions ... CIOs and their IT organizations will be repeatedly called upon to assist with these initiatives."
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