Consumer grade User Experience with built-in AI, Redwood streamlines existing work processes in an intuitive and beautiful suite of applications.
Oracle is enhancing the Fusion Applications user experience by delivering consumer-grade aesthetics and functionality with its new Redwood UX. With an initial emphasis on HCM, Redwood is now available across an ever-increasing list of Fusion Applications. Now is the time to act for those still using non-Redwood processes, if you want a seamless transition to a new user experience, and to ensure you are ready to exploit Generative AI and RAG (retrieval Augmented Generative) AI Agents that come with recent quarterly updates.
Namos can help with the challenge of planning the timing of your Redwood rollouts based on Oracle’s release schedule and the needs of your business, and we will assist with the reapplication of any customisations your users need.
There are deadlines for enabling Redwood functionality throughout 2025 so come and talk to our team. We’ll share our experience with Redwood and collaborate with you to craft a pragmatic, well-organised plan where you and your team takes as much or as little of the tasks within as you wish, setting you up for a seamless implementation of the new functionality.
The time to act on your Redwood transition is now.
Quarterly Updates – There are several workflows that will now be included in the Redwood UX – Change Assignment, Promote, Change Position, Employment and Transfer. We have released several update blogs that cover these in a bit more detail – so make sure you take a read.
Redwood isn’t just aesthetics. It’s a new technology capability that not only delivers an improved UX, but an overhaul of processes and workflows, and it is the enabler for AI. Redwood will not only improve your system’s look and feel, but it will also increase efficiencies, update processes, and introduce more automation.
What this means, is that workflows could change and customisations will need to be transitioned in. Therefore, additional training and support will be required. In order to avoid disruption, it is essential that these changes are planned for in good time.
Oracle understands that users of its business applications are still people, and that in the present day they expect a modern look and feel, coupled with well thought out layouts, seamless processes, and where possible, supplemented with AI. This reflects how people use applications outside of work. These innovations allow users to get work done quicker, with greater accuracy and more efficiency. The only way to take advantage of these recent AI innovations is by transitioning to Redwood.
Redwood incorporates embedded AI technologies, which speed up processes by pre-populating fields, generating suggested text, and providing predictive insights. The most recent updates to fusion also include RAG (retrieval Augmented Generative) AI agents, which can be embedded into the flow of work and use your organisation’s documents and processes, to provide contextualised, hyper personal, AI Agents. These AI Agents are then tailored to you, your role and your organisation’s specific ways of working. This means that the AI Agents are grounded in your organisations policies, reducing AI hallucinations and increasing trust in its guidance.
Embedded AI, either predictive, Generative or RAG Agents are now widely available throughout the fusion suite of applications . The sooner you are on Redwood, the sooner your organisation can begin to use game changing innovations, that will aid productivity and efficiency.
As well as Embedded AI, Redwood also radically improves efficiencies as Oracle re-imagines screen layouts and processes. Many actions now require fewer clicks, and new automations can now be found in certain modules. In many cases, processes that before took 2 or 3 separate flows to complete can now be merged into a single easy to follow workflow that gets things done faster.
As pages load faster and work is done more efficiently, and where relevant aided by AI, employee experience is improved and ultimately, your organisation runs better.
It will depend on the modules you have and how much you have customised certain areas. Different modules have different functionality changes. Some modules like EPM it is simply a matter of switching it on because all that is changing for now is the overall look.
New functionality will come through with each update across 2024 and now 2025 – with Oracle wanting everyone to be fully on Redwood by the 26B update. The deadlines for some areas of functionality are sooner with deadlines in 2024. The timeline for other elements have been moved later , such as Learn, OTL and Journeys having deadlines in 2025 and 2026.
It will depend on the modules you have and how much you have customised certain areas.
If you have not enabled the functionality by the deadlines, Oracle will turn on the Redwood UX for you.
No. Redwood is part of your Cloud HCM Applications licensing.
Yes. Customers can opt into portions of Redwood when it makes sense for them.
In this informative webinar, speakers, Katy Baker – Core HCM Practice Lead at Namos, Danielle Evans – HCM Consultant at Namos, and Sobitha Venkatraman – Solution Architect at Namos, take us though some of the more important updates relating to Oracle Redwood.
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Read our update blogs for more details…