Oracle HCM Cloud Release 25B: Exciting New AI features & a Big Redwood Push!

Redwood Experience Everywhere

Oracle is going all-in on Redwood, their sleek, modern interface. With 25B, you’ll see Redwood showing up in even more places:

HCM Data Loader and HSDL

Redwood updates make these tools more intuitive, so you can get things done faster.

HCM Data Loader and HSDL

• Redwood updates make these tools more intuitive, so you can get things done faster.
• Redwood updates make these tools more intuitive, so you can get things done faster.
• Custom Shift & Break Times: No more being stuck with 15-minute increments! Now you can set work and break durations to the exact minute-super handy for unique schedules.
• Add Notes to Job Changes: Making changes to assignments or transfers? You can now add notes right in the process, so everyone stays in the loop.
• Assign Journeys to Multiple Employees: HR can now assign journeys to lots of people at once with just a few clicks. No more tedious one-by-one assignments!

Better Benefits Administration

• Smarter Rules: New business rules give you more control over how benefits pages work.
• Cleaner Self-Service Pages: Hide post-enrollment regions to keep things tidy for employees.
• Custom Life Event Reporting: Choose which options employees see when they report a life event, making the experience more relevant.

Compensation: More Control, Less Hassle

• Save Your Progress: You can now save your place in the Redwood Salary and Compensation flows-no more losing work if you get interrupted.
• Fine-Tuned Compensation Plans: Exclude plans or options using business rules, not just eligibility settings.
• Manage Compensation Zones: Easily create and update compensation zones right from the new tools.

Recruitment: Career Site improvements

• Career Sites: As an admin, you can now give users access to the Career Sites Configuration page without granting full access to Setup and Maintenance.
• Candidate Experience: You can use the candidate's citizenship information in fast formulas as conditions in candidate selection processes.
• Reporting: Transactional Business Intelligence for Recruiting enhancements

Talent Management: Smarter Career Tools

• Career Development: Employees can now see exactly what skills they need for their next role, plus get AI-powered role suggestions.
• Performance Management: Better control over who can see feedback and performance ratings, with more options for HR to tweak.

Other Cool Updates

• Public Worker Search: Fine-tune who shows up in Oracle Search for better privacy and relevance.
• Autocomplete: Oracle extending autocomplete in Redwood across more regions.

Oracle HCM Cloud Release 25B: Even Smarter with New AI Features!

Lots of great new features are landing in Oracle HCM Cloud Release 25B-and this time, AI is taking center stage right alongside the Redwood Experience! Oracle is making it easier than ever for HR teams and employees to work smarter, not harder. Here’s a look at the coolest AI-powered updates you’ll find in 25B.

AI Features in Oracle HCM Cloud 25B

• AI Assist for Compensation Plans: Need to generate instructions for individual compensation plans? Let Oracle’s AI lend a hand. With the new AI Assist feature, you can quickly create clear, tailored instructions, saving time and cutting down on manual edits.
• Manager Survey Analytics with Generative AI: Managers now get AI-powered analytics for survey results, making it easier to spot trends, understand team sentiment, and take action where it counts.
• Learning Description Enrichment Agent: AI now helps enrich learning item descriptions, making course content more engaging and relevant for employees.
• AI Assistance for Role and Capability Guides: When building out role and capability guides, AI can now suggest summaries and descriptions, speeding up the process and ensuring consistency.
• AI Assistance Enhancements for Manager Evaluations: Performance reviews just got smarter. AI now helps managers with evaluation comments and feedback, making reviews more insightful and less time-consuming.
• Job Application Matching Scores: In Recruiting, AI now generates matching scores for job applications, helping recruiters quickly identify the best-fit candidates.
• AI-Driven Recommendations in Activity Centers: The new Activity Centers, tailored for employees, teams, recruiters, and payroll, now surface AI-driven recommendations and alerts to help users focus on what matters most.
• Generative AI for Content Creation: Across HR, generative AI assists with tasks like writing job descriptions, creating performance reviews, and drafting feedback-automating repetitive work and freeing up time for strategic initiatives.

Why AI Matters in This Release

Oracle’s AI enhancements are designed to:

• Automate repetitive tasks (like drafting documents or analysing surveys)
• Deliver personalised recommendations and insights
• Speed up decision-making for HR teams and managers
• Make the whole HCM experience more intuitive and engaging

Ready to Experience the Future of HR?

Ready to Experience the Future of HR?

For more information on this release refer to Oracle website.

OR you can find this information in Oracle Cloud Success Navigator!

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