Cloud HCM Customer Shares Insights on Journeys at BLUEPRINT 4D

Anastashia Alfred-Waller is the Lead HCM Analyst for Core HR, Absence Management, Compensation, and OTBI at Baylor University.  She’s also a Cloud HCM customer.  At Baylor, Anastashia is responsible for configuration setup, monitoring quarterly releases, and creating details reports to support system optimization.  She shared her insights she’s learned from her role delivering end-to-end support for both end-users and business process owners at this year’s BLUEPRINT 4D Conference in Dallas, TX!  Anastashia’s session, Transform Your Employee Experience By Uncovering The Potential of Oracle Journeys, was the top attended Cloud HCM session customer-led session.  In this session, Anastashia shared how Baylor utilizes customized, non-Oracle delivered Journeys to streamline and guide their employee Journey experience.  Using Oracle Journeys, Baylor works to their goal to diversify its employees’ experience to give applicants, employees, retirees, and those leaving the organization a customized, step-by-step iterative process designed for their success.  Baylor believes a successful and robust employee life cycle has five or six essential stages that constantly develop and transform for their end-users.  Anastashia hope that attendees left her session and the entire conference with a renewed sense of purpose and expanded vision for the future.

If you missed Anastashia’s session at the conference, you can watch the recording here: Transform Your Employee Experience by Uncovering The Potential of Oracle Journeys.

 BLUEPRINT 4D Highlights

In addition to her own session, we asked Anastashia to highlight which BLUEPRINT 4D sessions she found to be most informative.  Here were her top picks:

1. Cloud HCM Open Roundtable, presented by Quest Cloud HCM Community

In this session, members of the Cloud HCM Community were able to connect with their peers to discuss Cloud HCM hot topics, swap triumphs and frustrations, and ask questions.

Anastashia says that this session provided a platform for individuals from diverse backgrounds, industries, and perspectives to come together and engage in meaningful discussions.  By openly discussing challenges, strategies, and success stories, participants could gain valuable insights from others’ experiences and apply them to their own work or projects.

If you are a customer who would like to participate virtually with the Cloud HCM Community, consider checking out the Cloud HCM Community Group page or registering for their next virtual community meetup here.

2. Optimizing the Absence Module to Better Manage FLMA Time, presented by Brian Leong, Grant Thorton LLLP

In this session, Brian shared best practices Grant Thorton has implemented to manage plans for their employees and to track all FMLP properly.

Anastashia says that she learned that the Oracle Absence Module provides robust tracking capabilities, enabling accurate recording and monitoring of FMLA time. Additionally, she learned that this module can capture important details such as leave start and end dates, intermittent leave, and documentation requirements.  Ultimately, she left knowing that optimizing the Oracle Absence Module allows for the streamlining of processes related to managing FMLA time for employees.

You can view the recording of this session here: Optimizing the Absences module to better manage FMLA time.

BLUEPRINT 4D Key Takeaways

In addition to sharing her knowledge with other customers and attending the sessions mentioned above at BLUEPRINT 4d, Anastashia noted that BLUEPRINT was more than just a conference, but it was also a catalyst for change.  Anastashia appreciates that the BLUEPRINT 4D Community is centered around propelling attendees towards innovation, optimization, and sharing a better tech world.

For a full list of Cloud HCM sessions and recordings at BLUEPRINT 4D, check out the BLUEPRINT 4D Event Hub on the Quest website.

BLUEPRINT 4D is back in Dallas in 2024, May 7^th – 10^th.  Don’t forget to save the date so you can attend in-person next year!