data sheet ORACLE HUMAN RESOURCES 11i Oracle Human Resources (HR) is a powerful tool for optimizing the use of the human assets of your business, whether you operate in the private or the public sector. It allows you to adopt structured approaches to attracting, retaining, developing and using the critical skills and knowledge needed to improve the capability of your business to meet new challenges. Oracle HR is part of the Oracle E-Business Suite, an integrated set of applications that are engineered to work together. Oracle HR is a key component of the fully integrated Oracle HRMS suite of Applications, comprising of Oracle HR, Oracle Payroll, Oracle HR: Self-service, Oracle Time and Labor, Oracle irecruitment, Oracle HR Intelligence, Oracle ilearning EBS, Oracle Advanced Benefits, and Oracle Labor Distribution. Oracle HR also provides a foundation of workforce information leveraged across the E-business suite, to support processes such as professional services automation, sales incentive management, asset allocation, financial management, and approvals. Oracle Human Resources includes local extensions for more than 19 countries contain legislative and cultural functionality for each country. Align your workforce to corporate objectives With increasing demands to optimize the use of the workforce in a dynamic global business environment, businesses are rapidly adopting new e-business practices to succeed in an increasingly competitive environment. These practices enable companies to align the workforce to business objectives, and to systematically grow and reward talent as strategic resources. Oracle provides this via collaborative, internetenabled capabilities. Together with Oracle HR: Self-service you can: Rapidly implement jobs, positions, grades and steps using tools designed to help setup your organizational structure. Create and manage evolving business structures; quickly redirect the workforce to meet new goals via mass changes to organization structures, compensation, and work terms. Manage flexible working arrangements using permanent, short-contract and contingent workers to staff new projects quickly and at the appropriate level of cost and skill. Plan to meet business objectives by identifying current and future job capability requirements and increasing staffing capability through job pathing and structured learning. Use automation to identify required skills and qualifications and help fit and deploy people to jobs or projects.
Measure and monitor performance to personal goals and corporate objectives. Continually monitor personal performance and use structured career development methods, such as on-line appraisals of objectives and competencies, to ensure that employees continue to develop and utilize skills. Motivate the workforce and influence performance through targeted total compensation, including adjustments to performance-based pay, bonuses, non-cash, and benefits. Achieve efficiency gains while increasing workforce productivity Oracle HR allows you to automate all aspects of workforce management to achieve drastic productivity gains and cost savings throughout your workforce, while ensuring that confidential data is maintained electronically and securely. You can streamline your business processes with self-service, workflow and policy automation, speeding up transactions and reducing overheads and error. At the same time, Oracle HR: Self-service dramatically reduces the cost of permitting access to all employees in the business, as well as the costs of HR support and interventions. Consequently, HR services to employees and managers are improved, and everyone has access to better real-time workforce intelligence from a single consolidated source. Oracle HRMS enables you to: Automate basic policy rules, ranging from eligibility for compensation to rules about placing people into funded positions, and security access. Use predefined policy rules and dynamic eligibility determination to manage a person s career and salary advancement through grades and/or steps. Seamlessly integrate with the rest of the Oracle E-Business Suite, including Financials for payroll and Projects for project-based staffing and deployment. Route approvals automatically to shorten the time to complete workforce related changes. Ensure timely transactions with no errors, and eliminate many unnecessary process steps. Use total compensation to attract and retain people Increased global competition for scarce skilled resources mean that every business has to become more innovative in offering total compensation packages that meet the many and varying needs of the people it is trying to attract and retain. At the same time, organizations need to exert strong control over employment costs. You can adopt the latest thinking based on benefits best practices as well as comply with governmental regulations by using our full featured, rules-based compensation system. Oracle HR delivers a highly flexible, configurable approach to designing compensation and benefits programs to meet any degree of complexity, as well as wizards to make plan design implementation fast and error free. Use of Oracle Advanced Benefits provides additional features to automate detection of critical events, to support flexible benefits schemes using flexible benefit plan credits, and to allow the employee to make appropriate enrollment changes. Use Oracle HR and Oracle HR: Self-service to:
Support employee enrollment and choice in benefits programs, guided by an Oracle HR: Self-service interface, which exactly reflects the choices that they are eligible to make Reduce administrative costs and reduce errors through policy automation Reduce implementation time and chance of setup errors using the templates and process flows based on commonly used plan types and benefits best practices Automate grade step progression process Allow managers to undertake specialized activities during compensation review cycles such as issue budgets and allocate compensation using wizards to calculate budgets or allocations based on criteria such as performance or length of service, for example. Create and manage leave plans for different employee categories that are finely tuned to the needs of the organization and of the individual. Flexible program definition Manage Globally, act Locally to meet corporate compliance guidelines To function efficiently, companies need to consolidate global business information real-time. However, it is usually inappropriate to conduct transactions in a single manner, because legal requirements, language, and cultures demand variation. With Oracle, companies benefit from global features such as multi-lingual, multi-
currency capabilities, all operating on a single global instance. This enables business to be conducted globally within the same database (consolidating common information), yet still allows users to conduct transactions in a style and language natural to them, which is compliant with local regulations. Additionally, the consolidation of information makes it possible to deliver truly global daily business intelligence. Oracle HRMS global and local capabilities allow you to: Manage recruitment, hiring and deployment on a global basis to ensure that you can hire the right talent no matter where they are located. Hold information in the correct format with full validation of addresses, currency, and data formats, banking details, payment methods, and office locations for any country. Record home and host country compensation in any currency as well as perform euro conversions. Use pre-delivered menus and forms for many countries as extensions to the global application. Each delivered country has extra information, new functionality and reports needed to meet legislative reporting requirements or cultural needs. Meet corporate compliance obligations through local legislative reporting and analysis of workforce statistics Use 'global' menus and forms that can be configured to meet the needs of additional countries. Supervise, analyze and perform transactions and approvals on a workforce dispersed across the world within a global security environment. By logging on to Oracle HR: Self-service, a manager can see all of their global reporting lines at a glance, and can perform appropriate legislation specific transactions for each person. Consolidate information across countries or lines of business using reports such as global headcount/fte reporting or global HRMS business intelligence. Oracle HR streamlines many global functions such as international transfers by ensuring that information about an employee that applies worldwide, such as competency profiles, is held only once. Improve workforce capability and develop leadership through structured talent management Oracle HR offers you a complete framework for developing the skills and knowledge of your workforce, and a systematic method for assessing and rewarding their use in meeting business objectives. Combined with Oracle HR: Self-service, you can Define or upload a library of competency definitions together with appropriate measurement scales, and apply these to job requirements, to people, and to training. Use on-line appraisals to measure objectives, assess competencies, test strengths and weaknesses, and conduct competency gap analysis for recruiting, employee development and planning of learning
Link directly to learning plans, and then to on-line learning delivery Link performance directly to pay through compensation workbench Control workforce costs and overheads In order to meet increasing commitments within tight budgetary constraints, you need to manage workforce costs tightly. Use Oracle HR to: Budget different components of the cost of each post, and track expenditure against committed activities. Use our automated approach to controlling spending means to require approvals prior to the creation of new posts, Control the hiring of new people to existing posts outside budget limits, according to your policies. Cascade the allocation of budget and spend through the management chain, and retain control by reviewing how budgets and expenditure are taking place throughout the organization. Monitor utilization, absence headcount and costs on a global basis. Control your workforce costs on a real-time basis
Flexible to Adjust to new business processes and structures Oracle HR is flexible to change with your business practices as your business evolves into an e-business. Oracle s pre-defined HR business processes, whether workflow approvals or the flow of activities, are designed to be configurable so that they can change over time. Use Oracle HR to: Manage mass change processes for rapid reactions to changes. A change to reporting structures, or a business acquisition, can all be incorporated quickly into your business processes. Use rapid data upload facilities combined with mass change processes to implement changes to high volumes of information, such as employee job data, security, new departments, or new work relationships. Expand to meet your changing needs for managing information, and grow with your business using standard, upgradeable configuration capabilities Connect People, Content, and Community The amount of corporate and external information is often overwhelming. Therefore to ensure productivity, timely information must be organized via job relevancy and accessible anytime, anywhere. Using Oracle HRMS you can: Use role-based portals for secure access to reports, analysis, and transactions relating to specific job functions; e.g., a line manager may view or approve salary transactions, but only for his or her direct reports. Define what are 'newsworthy' metrics or events that require action, and to whom these events should be notified. Leverage partner links that deliver specialist advice embedded in relevant transactions; e.g., use of GeoAccess data to deliver information on HMO providers at the time of benefits elections. Enable multi-channel (phone, PC, etc.) access to multiple content sources (voicemail, e-mail, web, calendar, etc.). Integrate daily business intelligence with human resource management Oracle HRMS Daily Business Intelligence is part of Oracle Daily Business Intelligence, a suite of business intelligence tools for the Oracle E-Business Suite. It is fully integrated with Oracle HR. This integration allows you to deliver business metrics and reports to the appropriate decision makers in your business as and when the system detects that your measures need review. Oracle E-Business Suite The Complete Solution Oracle E-Business Suite enables companies to efficiently manage customer processes, manufacture products, ship orders, collect payments, and more all from applications that are built on a unified information
architecture. This information architecture provides a single definition of your customers, suppliers, employees, and products all aspects of your business. Whether you implement one module or the entire Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite enables you to share unified information across the enterprise so you can make smarter decisions with better information. RELATED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES For more information on related HRMS Applications, please see product announcements and data sheets on the following: Oracle Payroll Oracle Training Administration Oracle HR: Self-service Oracle Advanced Benefits Oracle Time and Labor Oracle irecruitment Oracle ilearning Oracle HRMS Business Intelligence Oracle Project Accounting Oracle Federal Human Resources (US) Oracle Labor Distribution In addition, product announcements and data sheets are available which detail country-specific extensions for Oracle HR and Oracle Payroll.
KEY FEATURES Flexibility to Support Your Business! Design custom views of data for each user or workgroup! Security profile options to meet your organization s needs! Drag and Drop User Configurable Folders! Configure to meet your needs! Rapid implementation tools to support set up of organizations, jobs, positions, grades and steps! Display dates and times in user s time zone! Descriptive and Key Flexfields! User task 'flows'! Menus! Use of 'people manager' configurable templates for rapid data entry! Configurable mass update processes! Open interfaces Highly Automated People Management Processes! Management of multiple worker types including employees as well as contingent workers! Rules based budgetary control! Highly configurable rapid data entry templates for managing people! Deployment to multiple roles! Termination! Absence administration! Competency profiling! Suitability matching of jobs/positions to workers as well as workers to jobs/positions! Qualifications tracking and links to competencies! Collective agreement maintenance Highly Automated Compensation Processes! Keep information on any type of cash or noncash compensation! Define whether compensation is paid via payroll! Define start and stop rules ahead of time! Compensation can be in any currency! Euro-ready! Define eligibility rules! Grant bonuses or allowances automatically or via manager discretion! Change amounts for groups of employees easily by changing a single default value # Easy to use batch entry interface # Set limits for warnings and errors # Use Oracle Fastformula to provide guidance to end users for complex rules # Specialized salary planning mass update processes # Automatic progression between grades/steps and optional automatic salary updates # Rules-based leave management processes Attracting Key People # Create and monitor job requisitions # Track recruitment costs # Track rates and supplier information for contingent workers # Advertise openings and allow nominations via Oracle HR: Self-service # Track progress of internal and external applicants # Mass update applicant information # Generate recruitment letters # Track applicant history # Use HR: Self-service for offer generation and approvals # Easily convert applicant to employee when hired # Use single repository of applicant and workforce data for business questions # Integration with Oracle irecruitment Workforce Planning # Create multiple, dated, organization and position hierarchies using graphical diagrammers # Define different hierarchies for different business needs # Include external organizations to track supplier chains # HR budgeting facility reconciles actual workforce against planned targets and enforces cost control as and when you need it Comprehensive Benefits Management # Program-based enrollment for fixed and coreplus-options arrangements # Dependent and beneficiary designations # User-defined plan eligibility definition, augmented with rules-based plan eligibility # Administrative notices to participants! Third party administrator data export and import facilities! Premium reconciliation reporting! Special record keeping for US customers, involving continuing benefits payments (COBRA),
spousal consents, family support orders, and qualified domestic relations orders (QDRO)! Integration with Oracle Advanced Benefits! Plan Design Wizard and copy process enabling quick and easy implementation with fewer setup errors Extensive Reporting Capability! Operational Reports are supplied to assist decision making and compliance including Discoverer End User Layer! Legislative compliance reports for many countries, such as EEO-1, EEO-4, 5 reports on individuals, such as personal details, and assignment details reports on groups of employees Integration with Oracle HRMS Business Intelligence People Information for all your Needs! Global information on all current and potential workforce members, including applicants, employees and contingent workers! Information on everyone covered by, eligible for, or receiving, benefits! Includes personal and background data such as qualifications, school attendance, bank details, communication data, benefits eligibility data! Includes deployment data such as work choices and restrictions, competency profiles! Full history of all deployment information, such as organization, grade and job changes Ability to make future-dated changes for up-todate information Integration with Oracle HR: Self-Service! Employee Direct Access allows update of personal, background, dependent, career and work-related data, as well as on-line job and training applications! Line Manager Direct Access allows managers to undertake day to day deployment, salary, career and termination decisions, either directly or subject to approval! Line Manager Compensation Workbench allows managers to distribute budgets and compensation allocations for groups of employees and submit for approval! Individual Compensation distribution allows managers to make compensation changes for individuals. $ On-line views of information, such as employment, application and absence histories $ On-line talent management using appraisals and suitability matching $ Self-service and manager self-service access for contingent workers $ Employee directory accessibility April 2004. This document includes functionality up to and including 11i10 Oracle Corporation World Headquarters 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA Worldwide Inquiries: 650.506.7000 Fax: 650.506.7200 http://www.oracle.com Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest independent software company. With annual revenues of more than $10.1 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 145 countries around the world. Features and screen shots shown may not correspond exactly to the released product. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. All other company and product names mentioned are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright 2002 Oracle Corporation All Rights Reserved