HCM CLOUD WHITE PAPERS

Seven Steps to Building a High-Impact Learning Culture

Employees increasingly value a workplace that nurtures learning. But what, exactly, is a learning culture—and why does it matter?

Leadership Development: Seven Steps to Success

By employing consistent, organization-wide talent management programs at all levels, companies can develop effective leadership and return significant business value.

Social in the Oracle HCM Cloud

Leverage the potential for social technologies to generate superior business performance for your company.

Social Networking with a Purpose: Acquire More Talent by Combining Referrals with Social Media

Most recruiters face tremendous pressure to fill open positions from limited talent pools. They post jobs, search networks and sift through résumés. Meanwhile, those that use social networking tools may see thousands of unqualified applicants respond with little accompanying increase in quality. However, there’s a silver lining that lies in your employees’ social networks. The way to access and harness that power is to combine a company-wide referral strategy with social networking tools that make it easy for your employees (and alumni) to refer the most qualified, talented recruits within their social networks.

A Framework for Implementing World-Class Talent Management

The highest performing businesses are re-focusing on talent management. Here’s how.

A Global HR System Built for Business

The deployment of multiple HCM systems has weakened vital core HR functions for many companies. Inconsistent and inaccurate data have plagued payroll and benefits reporting in addition to more strategic efforts, such as training and career development. Read this solution brief to see how Oracle HCM helps our customers streamline their global HR processes, operate across 200 countries and jurisdictions, and leverage data-driven insights to make better business decisions.

5 Benefits of Having ERP and HCM in a Single Cloud Platform

Why in the world would you keep two systems of human resource data? To support a system governing enterprise-wide business operation, coordinating the configuration and maintenance of Human Capital Management (HCM) data is a critical component.

Oracle Cloud Expenses Co-existence and Integration Options

You can implement Oracle Expenses Cloud Service while co-existing with your current financial system. This provides you a low risk phased cloud adoption approach with minimal implementation effort and without disrupting your current financial management processes. You can leverage Expenses Cloud Service for mobile expense entry, corporate card integration, policy enforcement and auditing expense reports and continue to rely on your current financial system for employee payment processing and accounting.

This white paper discusses implementation steps and considerations for implementing Expenses Cloud Service to co-exist with your legacy financial system.

Transfer Budgets from Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud to Oracle ERP Cloud for Budgetary Control

Budgets prepared in Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud can be transferred to control budgets in Oracle ERP Cloud. This paper describes how to use Data Management in Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud to transfer budgets prepared in a planning application to Oracle ERP Cloud for budgetary control validations.

Oracle ERP Cloud Period Close Procedures

Oracle ERP Cloud customers have a need to close their books every period, quarter and/or year. This whitepaper provides guidance on the period-end close procedures for Oracle Cloud Application modules, across Financials, Procurement, Projects, Inventory, and Payroll.

Oracle ERP Cloud Budgetary Control - A Case Study

This paper describes the key implementation decisions a small city makes in configuring Oracle ERP Cloud Budgetary Control to manage its finances.

Integration with Oracle Financials Cloud Service

With Financials Cloud Service your integration requirements can easily be met with ADF Services, ADF Desktop Integration, File Based Data Import, and Reporting Tools.

Reporting Tools in Oracle Financials

Find out about the different reporting options available in Oracle Financials and their suggested uses.

Oracle Financials and Hyperion Performance Management Applications Integrations

This white paper discusses integration of Oracle Financials Cloud with Oracle Hyperion Performance Management Applications including the following:
– Oracle Data Relationship Management
– Oracle Hyperion Planning and Budgeting
– Oracle Hyperion Financial Management

Oracle Financials Cloud Introduction for CFOs and System Integrators

This document is a discussion of the considerations for implementing Oracle Financials Cloud for a small public company and its subsidiaries on the Cloud, and is also applicable for on-premises customers. It is addressed to the Chief Financial Officer and the lead partner at the implementation consulting firm.

Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud Service Implementation Leading Practices

This white paper provides implementation leading practices to system integrators who are about to assist customers with their Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud Service implementations.

Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud Service Implementation Leading Practices (R10)

This white paper provides implementation leading practices to system integrators who are about to assist customers with their Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud Service implementations.

Financials Cloud and Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service

This white paper describes how to use Oracle Financials Cloud Service with Oracle Hyperion Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service.

Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud: Modern Tools of the Trade

This white paper explores how the project-driven organization must embrace technology advances for successful project delivery, and highlights why the changing nature of the project management function is necessitating a new set of tools to manage projects.

Why Projects Fail: Avoiding the Classic Pitfalls

Organizations across industries are challenged to deliver an increasing number of projects and programs, while maintaining flat (or decreasing) budgets and resources. This white paper examines the most common causes of project failure to highlight root causes and suggest avoidance measures to help fellow project managers reduce the number of barriers on the path to success.

Integration with Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud Service

Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud Service is built with Oracle’s Application Development Framework (ADF) and provides four primary methods of integration with other applications: ADF Services (commonly referred to as Web Services), ADF Desktop Integration, File Based Data Import, and Reporting Tools. This white paper provides a conceptual overview of each type of integration and identifies the associated functional area for each integration point.

Integrating Project Management with Sales Cloud

This white paper explains how you can integrate Oracle Sales Cloud with Oracle Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Cloud to create projects directly from opportunities in the sales pipeline.

Oracle Warehouse Management Cloud

The New Fulfillment Economy doesn’t have room for bloated systems, costly upgrades, and long complex integrations. It requires a single, 360° view of your warehouse operations that can only be achieved by introducing greater efficiencies into the fulfillment platform. This also means a safer place for data, a shorter path to multichannel commerce, and smarter way to do business.

Oracle Transportation Management Cloud

Oracle’s cloud-based transportation management solutions span all modes and geographies to provide robust capabilities for transportation planning and execution.

Oracle Global Trade Management Cloud

Orders and shipments, customs and regulations, trade agreements—these activities are the bedrock of international commerce. Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) Cloud—enriched by integrated global trade management solutions—can optimize the movement of goods, with lower costs and greater accuracy, across all transportation modes in any country.

Why End-to-End Visibility Is Key to a Modern Manufacturing Process

Knowing what’s happening—or what’s not happening—is critical to your manufacturing organization and to your business. But in addition to visibility, you also need an integrated supply chain so you can communicate situations quickly and efficiently to other supply chain stakeholders, such as procurement and order management.

Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud Plan to Produce Solution

To be competitive, manufacturers need to increase agility, make insightful decisions, and achieve more with fewer resources. You require visibility and control in your manufacturing process, and Oracle can help you achieve it. With Oracle planning and manufacturing, now available in the Oracle SCM Cloud, you can achieve maximum business value with minimal risk, and improve your overall manufacturing operations.

5 Benefits of Having ERP and HCM in a Single Cloud Platform

Why in the world would you keep two systems of human resource data? To support a system governing enterprise-wide business operation, coordinating the configuration and maintenance of Human Capital Management (HCM) data is a critical component.

Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud Service Implementation Leading Practices

This white paper provides implementation leading practices to system integrators who are about to assist customers with their Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud Service implementations.

Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud Service Implementation Leading Practices (R10)

This white paper provides implementation leading practices to system integrators who are about to assist customers with their Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud Service implementations.

Oracle Product Hub Cloud Infographic

Discover how a modern Item Mastering process can accelerate your business transformation to the cloud and provide you with clean and accurate product data.

Oracle Product Hub Cloud Executive Brochure

Learn how your journey to the cloud begins with a simplified and accurate Item Master that provides your business transformation with the controls necessary to commercialize faster and increase customer satisfaction.

Oracle PLM Cloud Executive Brief

Download a brief, 2-page overview of the Oracle PLM Cloud solutions. Learn how a modern approach to PLM can drive revenue, protect IP, and get products to market faster.

Aberdeen on Innovation Management

Based upon the experiences of over 600 respondents, this report examines how successful companies systematize the fuzzy front-end of ideation to portfolio and execution processes to outperform their peers.

Getting Great Ideas to Market - Fast

The most innovative companies grow faster—and they grow bigger. But finding great ideas, choosing which to invest in, and then getting them to market quickly is far from easy. Check out this iPaper and learn how the top performers get it right consistently.

Case Study by Kalypso: Deliver and Measure Sustainable Innovation with Innovation Management

View this one page case study to learn how you can optimize your company’s innovation portfolio, evaluate the alignment of the innovation portfolio to company strategy, and support data-driven decision making with Oracle Innovation Management Cloud.

Improve How IT Invests in Innovation

Learn how you can offer your business higher returns by focusing investments on the most valuable projects.

Commercialization in the Consumer Goods Industry: Accelerating Product Change

Responding quickly to the wants and needs of consumers is fundamental to success in the consumer goods industry. Often responses may spark an initiative to develop new products, modify existing products, offer new formulations, or change packaging and labels. However, converting these types of consumer-driven initiatives into marketable products in a timely manner is a common challenge–a challenge that can be worsened by a strict deadline, which may be imposed on an organization to comply with a governmental mandate or major customer requirement. Each product change affects commercialization, the process in which a company readies a product for market. As an organization mobilizes its commercialization process, meeting these deadlines can spell success or failure.

iPaper: Innovation Management for the Modern Age

Check out this short brochure for a brief overview of today’s innovation challenges and how you can overcome them with an aligned, repeatable, scalable, and strategic innovation infrastructure.

Kalypso and Oracle Report: How to Manage Innovation as a Business

Download your copy of How to Manage Innovation as a Business: Understanding the Best Approaches and Tools to Manage the Complexity of Innovation to learn how other businesses are confronting innovation and learn valuable strategies to make innovation work for you.

Commercialization in the Consumer Goods Industry: Accelerating Product Change

Responding quickly to the wants and needs of consumers is fundamental to success in the consumer goods industry. Often responses may spark an initiative to develop new products, modify existing products, offer new formulations, or change packaging and labels. However, converting these types of consumer-driven initiatives into marketable products in a timely manner is a common challenge–a challenge that can be worsened by a strict deadline, which may be imposed on an organization to comply with a governmental mandate or major customer requirement. Each product change affects commercialization, the process in which a company readies a product for market. As an organization mobilizes its commercialization process, meeting these deadlines can spell success or failure.

More Data, More Channels, Fewer Problems: Using PIM to Drive Business Performance

Inside and outside the corporate firewall, there has never been a greater demand for product data. Customers are clamoring for more channels to access and digest information through, employees need to share data across departments, and software applications must connect to data sources internally, in the Cloud, and from business partners.

Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud Plan to Produce Solution

To be competitive, manufacturers need to increase agility, make insightful decisions, and achieve more with fewer resources. You require visibility and control in your manufacturing process, and Oracle can help you achieve it. With Oracle planning and manufacturing, now available in the Oracle SCM Cloud, you can achieve maximum business value with minimal risk, and improve your overall manufacturing operations.

Territory Management Concepts

Territory Management is a foundational component of Oracle Sales Cloud that enables many key Sales Force Automation (SFA) processes. This document will introduce fundamental concepts of Territory Management. It will provide an overview of key capabilities and explain how these capabilities can improve the overall performance of your sales organization to make your sales force more effective and productive.

Nucleus Research Announces 2014 Tech ROI Award Winners

Nucleus Research announced the winners of its 11th annual Technology ROI Awards, highlighting organizations that have successfully leveraged IT deployments to maximize value per dollar spent.

Oracle Sales Cloud ROI Case Study - Batesville

Batesville deployed Oracle Sales Cloud to replace an aging custom application that didn’t support managers’ need for greater visibility into the company’s evolving product mix. Nucleus found the deployment enabled Batesville to increase the productivity of sales people and managers and enable managers to have more visibility into the pipeline to increase coaching opportunities.

The Customer View on Oracle Sales Cloud - Constellation Research

Many potential customers and partners of Oracle Sales Cloud would like to understand from third parties if the claims Oracle makes about the product are accurate. Conducting extensive research, including interviewing customers, systems integrators, and others with firsthand experience of the application, has allowed Constellation to provide an objective view through three customer case studies. This report offers insights into four of Constellation’s primary business research themes, the Next-Generation Customer Experience, Technology Optimization and Innovation, Digital Marketing Transformation and the Future of Work.

Elavon Experiences with the Oracle Sales Cloud - Nucleus Research

The shift in computing towards the cloud and away from being within the four walls of an organization creates an opportunity to more closely align CRM projects with business needs, as Elavon’s experiences with the Oracle Sales Cloud demonstrates. This can also require business users to assume some of the project responsibilities IT organizations have traditionally performed. Being able to build and rely on a strong internal and external team can overcome this difficulty in ways that have a positive benefit for one’s career.

A Closer Look at Oracle Sales Cloud - Nucleus Research

The accelerating release cadence of cloud CRM vendors are often about playing catch up with the features and functions of competitors, not on the ultimate goal of sales force automation: more sales. In looking the latest Oracle Sales Cloud release, Nucleus found that a focus on sales productivity and addition of key capabilities to simplify, focus, and automate tasks for both reps and managers is likely to drive better adoption, more effective use, and better sales results.

The Future of Sales Performance Management - Nucleus Research

Sales managers have faced the same challenges since long before CRM applications were invented. However, new tools and technologies are making their jobs easier. The future of sales performance management is integrated with CRM and social collaboration. It helps managers provide real-time coaching and motivation in context to drive better sales behaviors and, ultimately, better sales results.

Best Practices for Large Deployments for Oracle Service Cloud

The Oracle Service Cloud is powerful and easy to use. This is especially true when customers implement best practices for deploying their Service Cloud presence, learn how to manage their data, and understand limits of the various features of the Service Cloud.

Bring Your Own Device

Employees are already bringing their own high-tech devices to work, hoping to use familiar technology to be more productive. Encouraging that trend can slash IT costs, raise morale, boost productivity, and help your company project a cutting-edge image to customers.

Field Service and Customer Care

Within the field service industry, the customer service function is traditionally viewed as a cost center. It’s necessary to maintain customer-facing operations in order to deliver, install, or maintain products. Customer service is an essential part of doing business, particularly in the business-to-business (B2B) space or within maintenance organizations.

Field Service Management in the Cloud

Since the introduction of cloud applications for customer relationship management in 1999, cloud architecture has become a driver of business innovation. Over the years, industry perception about on-demand solutions has changed from risky and inferior to viable and cost-effective. Today, cloud solutions run many mission-critical tasks for enterprises large and small.

Integration Concepts for Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Field Service Cloud Service

The concepts set forth in this document provide guidance for customers interested in integrating Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) and Oracle Field Service Cloud in order to achieve maximum efficiencies in field service operations.

Oracle Knowledge Implementation Guide for Knowledge Centered Support v8.6

The Consortium for Service Innovation (CSI) has developed a KCS verification program, which is a formal process for assessing vendor tools and verifying their ability to support KCS practices. Oracle Knowledge v8.4 has been KCS verified for KCS v4 for many years and recently its latest version 8.6 has become verified for KCS v5. This guide describes how to implement KCS v5 using Oracle Knowledge.

Oracle Service Cloud Knowledge Foundation Implementation Guide for Knowledge Centered Support

The Consortium for Service Innovation has published a set of practices for implementing Knowledge Centered Support (KCS) and they have created a software verification process to validate that software is capable of implementing KCS. Oracle Service Cloud Knowledge Foundation has been KCS verified for KCS v4 for many years and has just recently become verified for KCS v5. This guide describes how to implement KCS v5 in Oracle Service Cloud Knowledge Foundation.

Questions You Should Ask Your Field Service Management Vendor

Choosing the right field service management solution is an important decision that can save your business time and money and affect your customers’ satisfaction. You need to make sure your field service management solution has all the right features to enable success. So how do you start?

The Moneyball Method of Field Service Management

In this white paper, you will learn the general concepts behind predictive analytics and how they can be applied to a field service organization. The paper will cover the basic metrics that should be tracked, the use of performance pattern profiles, and how these principles can predict future events.

The New Connected Mobile Workforce

This white paper explores past trends that have led to the enablement of the connected workforce and provides insights into how a highly functioning connected workforce can operate with today’s commonly available technology (such as smartphones and tablets). This paper also provides examples of how a connected workforce can incorporate disruptive future technologies and trends, such as the Internet of Things, wearable devices, or self-driving cars.

The New Rules of Field Service Management

Field service managers are required to do more than ever. Corporate leaders ask that front-line managers control costs and increase customer satisfaction—without cutting corners on safety and quality. Reading between the lines, the goal is to optimize service efficiency.

Time-Based Routing for Field Service

In a comparative analysis of three routing methodologies for mobile workforces, time-based routing yielded more-accurate travel times than either linear-distance or street-level routing. Time-based routing outperformed street-level routing in a test case with a large sample size (more than 6,000 trips) in urban, suburban, and rural environments. Consequently, time-based routing results in schedules that are more stable throughout the day and more thoroughly optimized across an entire enterprise, while consuming minimal computing power and eliminating a single point of failure.

Aligning Your Sales Process to Increase Speed, Accuracy, and Revenue

This white paper examines how sales process optimization contributes to establishing a customer-centric value stream, and describes several key performance indicators (KPIs) by which a company can measure the success of implementing a streamlined sales initiative and its impact on overall business performance.

Do You Have the Right Workforce for the Future?

Corporate strategy is only as good as the organization’s ability to execute. Corporate teams can create strategy, but if the organization cannot execute, then everyone loses.

Reinvent Narrative Reporting

Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud Service enables organizations to streamline internal and external reporting processes, combining data plus narrative in a single, secure, collaborative environment.

EPM Comes of Age

When key information is made accessible to everyone who has a stake in it—something that can’t be said for spreadsheets—better, faster decisions can be made and the whole enterprise benefits. So it’s no wonder people are now looking at new application areas where the same change might happen.

Modern Cloud for a Modern Government

Packaged planning and forecasting solutions can help alleviate these difficulties, yet may remain out of reach for many organizations which do not have adequate IT resources or capital budgets to justify the investment. New Cloud­based solutions, such as Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service, Oracle’s first Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solution for the Cloud, opens up opportunities for organizations of all sizes to streamline planning and forecasting, accelerate deployment and reduce costs.