Customised HCM Cloud Content
At this year’s Oracle Applications Day, Version 1 provided multiple sessions tailored for the Oracle HCM Cloud community. Chris Leone, Oracle’s Senior Vice President of Development for Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud, opened the day with his highly anticipated keynote on “The Art of Agility in the Age of Disruption”.
Yazad Dalal, Human Capital Management (HCM) Strategy Leader at Oracle Corporation, presented a keynote focusing on “HR on the Frontline“. Within this talk, Yazad spoke with attendees on how Cloud technology can help organisations adapt and create operational efficiencies to be in a strong position post economic recovery.
Yazad highlighted the importance of HR to stay resilient and support their more mobile, global and remote workforce more than they may have ever needed to before. The start of all of this is having flexible solutions and processes in place – with real-time insights to guide these critical decisions.
“We should never return to the ‘old ways’ of doing business.”
Yazad spoke about the importance of Empathy, putting your people first, Resilience, living in the land of yes, and Partnership, relying on a strong partner.
Version 1’s Oracle Applications Day HCM Cloud agenda showed attendees the latest from Oracle industry experts along with customer stories.
You can view the full list of Oracle Applications Day HCM Cloud sessions below, as well as being able to watch them back by filling in the form at the end of the page.
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Opening Keynote Speaker
Chris Leone
Chris Leone is senior vice president of development for Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud, including Oracle Global HR Cloud and Oracle Talent Management Cloud. In this role, Leone is responsible for the strategy, product management, product development, and product go-to-market functions that deliver modern HR in the cloud to global users. Recently, he was named #16 on Business Insider’s Most Important People in Cloud Computing list.
For more than 20 years, Leone has developed enterprise software applications for large and midsize companies. He came to Oracle via its acquisition of PeopleSoft, where he was responsible for the product management activities for the company’s financial and project management and enterprise performance management product lines. Prior to joining PeopleSoft, Leone was vice president of products at Hyperion, where he was responsible for business performance management applications.
Leone earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance and an MBA from Loyola Marymount University.

HCM Cloud
Yazad Dalal
Yazad Dalal is a Human Capital Management (HCM) strategy leader at Oracle Corporation. He is responsible for overall strategy and business growth of Oracle’s HCM Cloud solutions across the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. He is also passionate about identifying and sharing future trends in all areas of Human Capital Management. Yazad and his team work with HR and business leaders to deliver technology solutions that enable them to transform their organizations and modernise their workforce tools. He was previously Head of HCM Cloud Applications for Oracle Asia Pacific.
Prior to joining Oracle in 2015, Yazad was EVP, Asia, of TMP Worldwide, the world’s largest independent HR communications and technology firm. He held various leadership roles at TMP in both North America and Asia, working in New York, Bangalore and Singapore.
Yazad has spent 20 years working in the human capital space, including senior positions at Vault.com, the leading career information resource for high potential students and young professionals, and at Monster Worldwide, where he led the Global Sales Development group. As a Human Capital expert, he has lectured at INSEAD, given keynote presentations at major national and international HR forums and has appeared in over 20 mainstream, business and HR publications in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Yazad is based in London.
Oracle Applications Day HCM Cloud Sessions Included;
Version 1’s CEO Tom O’Connor will kick off the event with a welcome and opening remarks before introducing your opening Keynote speaker, Chris Leone.
The world was turned upside down a few months ago, with the ripple effect of the pandemic impacting every country, every business and every person. To survive and get back to growth, businesses have to stay nimble, updating existing processes and creating new ones while keeping employees engaged and productive. Learn how Oracle is partnering with our HCM customers to successfully adapt and navigate the new world of constant change and disruption.
20D brings some changes that will impact a lot of customers. We’ll step through each of the Cloud HCM modules, showing the key changes and how they might impact your business. We’ll also look back at some of the optional items in 20A, 20B and 20C that we believe are worth deploying.
The ways communities and social learning can be used with Oracle Learn. The beauty of access groups.
Over the past several months, the pandemic has hit the world hard – impacting every industry, organization, and worker. Every business around the world is now faced with making new, important decisions to stay resilient during this challenging time. For HR, this means supporting a more mobile, global, and remote workforce than you may have ever needed to before. Employees and leaders are looking to HR to lead the way and support their organizations through massive amounts of change. You are helping guide the critical workforce decisions that are happening in response to crisis. You need to quickly adapt to regulatory changes, ensure health and safety for your workforce and workplace, while answering all of the questions your employees have.
In this session we will share how you can react quickly and make intelligent predictions that will sustain your business. How cloud technology will help you adapt and create operational efficiencies to be in a strong position post-economic recovery. It all starts with having flexible solutions and processes in place and real-time insights to guide these critical workforce decisions.
As the refresh cycle of Cloud Applications such as Oracle Cloud ERP or Oracle Cloud HCM/SCM moves to quarterly updates, it is important that this update approach is absorbed into the run and operate fabric of the organisation as seamlessly as possible. This means that every quarter each organisation needs to perform resource consuming regression testing on their implementation to ensure nothing has broken due to the changes within the quarterly update. The requirement to undertake expensive, resource intensive, manual regression testing every 12 weeks means that highly skilled employees are not performing their business-as-usual value add roles. This can prove to be a costly overhead that most businesses would like to reduce or remove.
Since the testing performed every quarter utilises the same set of manual test scripts, an automated suite of tests could be developed to optimise the execution of this suite and executed on a quarterly basis. These automated test scripts can be modified as needed if the business need changes. Version 1 aims to solve this problem with the Maximise: Automated Testing solution, which can be developed to automate tests on Oracle Fusion Cloud and more.
In this session, we explore how your organisations Recruiters can get instant access to candidates LinkedIn profile information for a more robust pool of candidates— without leaving their Oracle Cloud Solution (Taleo or HCM Cloud). We also see how integrations between these Oracle Cloud Systems and LinkedIn allows candidates to import their entire LinkedIn profile with the click of a button rather than manually filling out application fields or cutting and pasting from resumes or profiles.
Join us to find out more about the benefits of this integration as well as our top 5 tips for ensuring a smooth implementation.
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