For Yum! Brands, the parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, adopting Oracle HR Help Desk was the logical next step in the company’s Oracle Cloud journey. With a relatively aggressive timeline for an organization of their size, Yum! Brands went from its initial Oracle Cloud project kickoff in 2016 to the eventual go-live of HR Help Desk in under three years.

At COLLABORATE 19, Hunter Bohannon, the HR Oracle Cloud Support Analyst at Yum! Brands, spoke about how Yum! Brands conquered challenging payroll business requirements with Oracle HCM Cloud and Cloud Payroll.

There’s no question that the payroll manager plays a crucial role in the success of both HR and Finance. At COLLABORATE 19, there was discussion around the role of the payroll manager during a Cloud implementation, during readiness preparation, during go-live, and when business is simply moving along as usual. While the payroll manager has relatively similar daily responsibilities both on-premises or in the Cloud, there are several roles that the payroll manager additionally takes on during implementation, readiness preparation, and go-live.

Lori Pierson, Vice President of HCM Transformation at Oracle, laid out five dangers customers should avoid when upgrading their HR system to HCM Cloud. Moving on-premises human resources applications to the Cloud is continuously becoming more and more popular. If a company wants to take its HR applications to the next level, it’s important to take advantage of new technologies and deliver a better experience for current and future employees. Organizations need to prepare for what lies ahead before making the move to the Cloud and learn how to avoid the five dangers Lori listed when upgrading to HCM Cloud.

Sue Shaw, Director of IT Operations for ATCO Group, spoke at COLLABORATE 19 about how to manage change after you’ve made the move to the Cloud. Sue discussed the scope of ATCO’s Cirrus Cloud Project, the types of changes companies may face during Cloud projects, and tools that are available to help with Cloud implementation change management.

Dhvani Sheth, Solution Engineer at Oracle, showed how Oracle Analytics Cloud and Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse can provide useful data analysis and visualization to HR departments. Hiring the right people requires a lot of time, money, and effort. However, hiring the wrong people can be just as costly, if not more so. Without using data analytics to make data-driven decisions, HR departments may be prone to hire based on a cognitive bias that they aren’t aware of. Instead of using traditional techniques, HR can use data analytics and visualization to find patterns within large volumes of data to make insightful hiring decisions for the company.

At COLLABORATE 19, Nancy Estell Zoder, Senior Director of Oracle HCM Cloud Product Strategy, spoke about the latest investments made in Oracle HCM Cloud and how it can transform and optimize workforce management.

Oracle Recruiting Cloud is native to the HCM SaaS Suite. This application was designed to improve the quality and recruiting speed of your application process. Cecile Mallory, HCM SaaS Cloud Specialist at Oracle, explained that Oracle Recruiting Cloud brings many benefits to organizations.

Clarence Ondieki and Jim Lewis, Solution Engineers at Oracle, walked through Oracle Cloud Payroll—a solution within Oracle HCM Cloud—and how it can help organizations effectively manage payroll processes. Payroll is an important part of a public sector organization. Organizations need to be able to control the costs of their complex legacy systems. They need to simplify and standardize their current payroll processes and be able to accurately pay a broad range of employee populations. Oracle Cloud Payroll is a solution with broad reach and flexibility that can help organizations remain compliant with all regulatory needs from a payroll perspective. With this solution, you have real-time access to all of your information, full end-to-end visibility, and total control over all of your payroll processes.

Darshan Sapaliga and Ilya Osovets, two Solution Engineers at Oracle, walked through a blockchain solution that various organizations can use to check profiles of prospective employees with security and confidence.