How do you work today?
You probably have a specific action in mind as you reach for your phone, log in to your system, or access your email. You’ve got a small window of time to make requests, retrieve information, and move on to what’s next. Given so many demands on your time, you’ll leverage different ways to monitor key performance indicators across your business. You’ll likely work in short bursts to complete tasks throughout your day, making time-sensitive decisions while leveraging all the tools at your disposal.
Why should this change?
Time and efficiency are a part of the answer, but there’s so much more to it. People’s entire outlooks change when systems become easy to use. When interactions are consistent, information can be found quickly, transactions become simplified, and built-in intelligence can suggest, recommend, and drive smarter outcomes. People begin to enjoy using technology, which in turn makes it sticky.
When software becomes not just useful but a joy to use, it encourages users to be self-sufficient, increases the completion rate of their transactions, and rewards them for accessing their information on any device from anywhere at any time. In short, it makes work more human.
Modern solutions should, by default, adjust the rendering of web pages across different devices. By delivering a responsive web design, you can provide users with the same brand experience regardless of the different devices, browsers, and resolutions they may use. You’ll see examples of this throughout. Performance is another important consideration in responsive design. It impacts usability and engagement. Long page-load times mean that users grow impatient and abandon their tasks.
Oracle HCM Cloud is designed for:
Simplicity and consistency across the desktop, tablet, and phone
A single page flow with a vertical layout
Both single- and multicolumn responsiveness
Consistent, predictable, and intuitive navigation across devices
Persistent personalization across all channels, including hidden and added fields
This is a one-stop shop for HR. Everything you can do is clearly and simply laid out in sections in a newsfeed-style design. The user experience is more engaging, modern, and intuitive. The content will change depending on the access rights and roles given to the user.
You decide on the information that’s important to you. AI drives suggestions throughout the solution, prompting you to complete activities or propose the next-best course of action.
The modern user experience extends to scrolling vertical pages that provide a hyperpersonalized homepage. It guides users with quick actions to take, things to finish, and a dashboard that can be tailored to their key analytics. It’s easy to find what’s most important in one place, and the system learns and adapts with use.
Personalize the newsfeed for yourself, specific users, or specific roles. Refining and filtering content makes the system more relevant and useful. Make work faster, easier, and more manageable by seeing only the most appropriate content. Help people focus on the things that matter most and drive productivity by filtering out distractions.
Users expect to find what they need quickly and easily, then move on. Oracle’s Search functionality is designed for exceptional performance. It’s fast, natively built into the platform, and the results are contextually aware. And we went one step further: we made Search predictive. By offering suggestions on the best course of action, it can help guide users and drive productivity. Search and List of Values have been optimized for speed so that users can find what they need faster.
Smart caching
Search across multiple attributes
Suggestions of relevant actions
Smart filtering
Call-to-action (CTA) navigation enables users to go quickly and directly to tasks such as Add Time Card, Add Absence, and Change Contact Information. The list of Quick Actions varies by category for Employee, Line Manager, and HR Business Partner.
Quick Actions are also suggested to users based on their role-specific usage patterns, making actions even more personal. Managing and navigating directly to tasks has never been so easy.
Distinct app cards provide an easy way to navigate to a work area based on your most frequently used applications such as Learning, Career Development, Hiring, and so on. You can tailor content to make work faster by seeing what is most relevant.
Connections helps employees build better relationships, showcase their interests and skills, and share feedback on others’ wall space. It’s a revolutionary way to help workers fit in better with their fellow tribe members so they may collaborate more effectively and engage interactively.
We designed Notifications so that users can either take action within the notification or drill down for more details. Notifications are easily configurable, so you can personalize the information within them. Because we know that users will vary in their interactions with the system, we also enable notifications from outside the application. This means users can read and act on email notifications from anywhere, at any time, on any device.
Universal access to notifications helps users remain focused on their activities, regardless of whether they choose to act on their email or simply stay informed using their phone or other device of choice.
Approval requests, tasks, and informational notifications are presented to the user as individual cards in their newsfeed. For convenience, notifications can be easily cleared by dismissing the card. Users can act immediately from the card to approve requests, or go directly to the tasks or activities coming due.
Leverage companywide news and announcements to drive engagement and build brand awareness. Pique the interest of your workforce with insights about your shared success and achievements. Use images and links to communicate news, events, and other corporate announcements that build better brand appreciation and stronger relationships across your workforce.
Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to take the pulse of your business. You can push role-specific analytics to users to provide instant insights that support faster decision-making.
Summarize data via visual indicators
Understand trends with timely insights
Drill down for more details
Leverage predictive capabilities to advance the business
We know that getting all your employees on the same page means moving through self-service HCM transactions quickly and easily. We’ve done the work of simplifying them for you, so users see only the information they need without distractions. There’s no need to drill to another page for page edits. Consistent usability patterns make it easier to use, familiar to navigate, and certain to increase user adoption.
Providing employees with simple and consistent standard processes helps them complete their HCM transactions quickly and easily. Administrators can issue standard processes based on legal entity alone or legal entity plus role to drive common processes across the business.
Managers can select additional steps necessary to complete a transaction, for example when promoting someone. This drives further efficiencies and helps the line managers be more self-sufficient in running their business.
Consider a business process that dynamically generates a multistep process based on choices made by a user. Multiple sequential steps are displayed on a single page. Each step is clearly marked, so the user knows just where they are in the process and can easily navigate to and from previously completed steps.
Multiple sequential steps displayed on a single page
Easy navigation between previously completed steps
Ability to switch from one device to another without losing your place
Single-page design
Simplified data entry
Call-to-action (CTA) buttons to guide you through each step
Inviting, sticky headers
Theming capabilities allow customers to choose their desired colors, banner, background, logo, and more to tailor the user experience to reflect the organization’s brand and culture.
Make the system your own—represent your organization by using familiar artwork and imagery that your users will recognize and respond to. It’s quick and easy to do.
Technology will continue to evolve, introducing valuable new capabilities for everyone. Take chatbots, aka digital assistants. Already present today, they simplify the way people interact with their systems. Open your mind to creating experiences that were previously not humanly possible—because emerging technologies make things such as artificial intelligence our new reality.
What will tomorrow bring? Oracle will continue to innovate and create new technologies that have a meaningful impact on your business. You can already sift through thousands of applicants in a matter of seconds to find your best-fit candidates, get answers to your toughest questions, and increase the quality of your decision-making by leveraging deep insights and recommended courses of action.
Adopting Oracle HCM Cloud’s user-friendly technology allows you to:
Excite and delight your teams by keeping experiences fresh and creating emotional connections
Improve adoption by eliminating barriers to access, making the completion of tasks more efficient, and enabling your workforce to work the way they want to work
Take advantage of emerging technologies that simplify your interactions and create valuable experiences that were previously impossible