Derive Maximum Value from Data in Oracle Cloud HCM with Orbit’s Data Pipelines

As enterprises have become increasingly global and embraced hybrid work, it has become absolutely essential to digitally transform a wide range of HR processes and workflows. Over the years, one of the most popular Human Capital Management (HCM) applications, especially at large companies, is Oracle’s Cloud HCM Solution.

Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) Solution includes several features and capabilities to streamline HR processes from “hire to retire”.

Key Features and Capabilities of Oracle Cloud HCM

Some of the most important capabilities of Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM include:

• HCM Communicate: A digital platform to increase collaboration and communication amongst a particular team or specific group of employees.
• HR Helpdesk: A digital helpdesk to answer questions from employees. It includes a series of AI-powered intelligent solutions so some questions can be answered with little to no human interaction.
• Journeys: Oracle Cloud HCM’s Journeys functionality offers contextual and personalized data and information relevant to a specific employee. Their entire “journey” at the company is mapped with easy access to any information that needs to be accessed.
• Talent Management: This module includes tools to automate and streamline performance management, learning and development, appraisals, etc.
• Payroll: This includes a payroll management system, including seamless integration with global payroll services providers as needed
• Workforce management: This module includes features for strategic workforce planning, time and labor management, health & safety management of the workforce, etc.

Reporting Tools for Oracle Cloud HCM – To Capture HR & People Data

While Oracle Cloud HCM comes with a few in-built reports, HR leaders are looking for more sophisticated reporting tools to derive full value from their investment in Oracle Cloud HCM. Some of the tools that are popular include BI Publisher, OTBI, and even Oracle Analytics for HCM data.

• OTBI: OTBI is a flexible tool that enables HR leaders to generate their own reports from Oracle Fusion. They can do this without relying too much on the IT department, thanks to its self-service features. It provides real-time insight into all HR and people-related data. Often, IT departments set up HR departments with pre-built dashboards with various OTBI reports.
• BI Publisher: Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher reporting solution helps to separate data extraction from report layout using common desktop applications such as Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat to render XML data. A single template can be used to generate reports in many formats, including Excel, HTML, PDF, and RTF, and in many languages.
• Oracle Analytics for HCM: In addition to the above two tools, there is also Oracle Analytics which is a tool suitable for extracting data and reports from Oracle HCM. But this does not work well when one needs to unify data from non-Oracle data sources, like say Workday or Success Factors.

Why Orbit’s Data Pipelines are ideal for data integration from Oracle Cloud HCM

We believe that Orbit’s Data Pipelines is a simple, flexible, and intuitive solution to move data from Oracle Cloud HCM to a centralized data warehouse for reporting, analytics, and BI. 

Orbit’s pre-built connectors seamlessly integrate with Oracle Cloud HCM. Subsequently, this data can be moved into the centralized warehouse (if you don’t have your own, Orbit offers a warehouse as well) using our Data Pipeline.

Once the data is in the central warehouse, business users can use Orbit’s Reporting and Analytics solution or they can use other solutions like Tableau, Power BI, etc. 

Orbit’s Data Pipelines enable the following:

• Combine data from various HR and other applications, databases, and business processes.
• Ensure data integrity and avoid slippages such as corrupted files, partial migration, and broken records.
• Increase ROI from your SaaS and other investments in digital tools by efficiently linking data and operations across applications.
• Schedule data sync jobs that have built-in capabilities to retry failed sync jobs.
• Eliminates the need to invest in expensive data warehouses or extract, transform, load (ETL) tools
• Comes with an intuitive UI to control the frequency of data synchronization
• Offers the ability to extract data not only from Oracle Cloud HCM but also from other business applications including SCM, ERP, CRM, and even on-premise sources.
• Our ELT pipelines are designed for highly reliable data delivery. Our engineers have designed these pipelines to offer pre-built schemas and handle schema and API changes
• Our pipelines are built to maintain data integrity and avoid slippages such as broken records, corrupted files, or incomplete migration
• Finally, with Orbit’s Data Pipeline it is possible to schedule data sync jobs that have built-in capabilities to retry failed sync jobs

Once the data is moved, Orbit’s Reporting and Analytics solution make the following simple and intuitive.

• Truly Complementary: Orbit Pipelines can truly be complementary to your existing BI ecosystem. Even if you run several strategic BI initiatives on Power BI or Tableau, you may want to use Orbit BI for Operational Analytics. With our pipelines, data can be replicated into both these BI systems. The biggest advantage of Orbit’s Data Pipeline is our ability to easily connect and integrate with several BI tools.
• Easy Reuse of old Reports: If you want to continue to use BI publisher or OTBI for some of your reports, it is possible to run these reports directly from inside Orbit
• Pre-Built Reporting: Orbit includes more than 300 pre-built reports that are certified for Oracle ERP Cloud. These reports cover key areas, including Oracle Financials, Supply Chain, and HCM in addition to ERP data
• Modern Data Visualization: It is possible to analyze data with the help of graphs, charts, pivots, and web-based tabular output data
• Excel Reporting: It is also possible to generate HCM-specific reports (with live data) from within Excel, using your Excel Add-in

For more information on Orbit’s ability to integrate with Oracle cloud applications, visit: https://www.orbitanalytics.com/oracle-cloud-applications-integration/