Oracle Cloud HCM
Connect people, work and insight. Make HCM change work.
Your HCM system and processes shape how your people join, work, develop, are rewarded and experience your organisation. Namos helps fit Oracle Cloud HCM to your business processes, increasing engagement, strengthening workforce decisions, reducing administration and supporting people in the moments that matter.
Whether you are replacing legacy HR or payroll systems, changing the shape of your business through acquisition or divestment, recovering a programme or getting more value from your existing Oracle investment, #TeamNamos brings the functional understanding, delivery experience and practical challenge to move you forward with confidence.
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What is shaping your HCM priorities?
Workforce challenges rarely sit within one process or system. Namos brings together deep Oracle HCM domain expertise and practical delivery experience to identify what is holding progress back and shape improvements that deliver value for employees, managers and HR teams. While every organisation is different, these challenges commonly emerge across five connected priorities:
Disconnected processes, manual work and avoidable queries reduce the capacity available for higher-value conversations and decisions. Namos helps simplify administration, improve self-service and create more consistent experiences without losing the human connection. In almost all cases this can be achieved by getting more value from the Oracle HCM tools and functionality you already license.
Skills shortages, changing roles and rising employee expectations expose gaps across recruitment, development and retention. Namos helps organisations connect recruiting, learning, performance, mobility, compensation and succession around the capability they need.
Weak data, inconsistent controls, not keeping abreast of compliance changes and disconnected processes can create pay errors, compliance exposure and poor employee experiences. Namos helps strengthen the foundations behind payroll, time, absence, benefits and workforce policy while keeping everyday interactions straightforward.
Fragmented records, structures and reporting make it difficult to understand workforce cost, capability, risk and opportunity. Namos helps connect data and processes so leaders can make decisions with greater clarity and confidence.
Automating fragmented processes or unreliable data can embed problems rather than solve them. Namos helps identify valuable AI and agent use cases, prepare the necessary data and processes, and establish the guardrails, security, governance and adoption needed to move forward responsibly.
Namos can help.
Namos specialists understand the workforce decisions behind these challenges, not just the Oracle application. We help organisations bring together the right Oracle HCM processes and capabilities, trusted workforce data, analytics, automation and AI, improving how they attract, develop, support and retain people while strengthening workforce planning, control and employee experience. Our insight helps identify which changes bring the most value, plan adoption properly and measure whether it made work better.
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Explore Oracle Cloud HCM
Core HR
Create trusted workforce data and simpler people operations across the employee lifecycle. Namos helps connect organisational structures, HR service delivery, journeys, absence, time, scheduling, controls, HR Helpdesk and workforce insight around the way your organisation works.
Talent
Connect recruiting, onboarding, skills, learning, performance, career mobility, compensation and succession so talent decisions support both individual growth and changing organisational needs. We also help organisations move from their existing ATS and redesign the surrounding operating model, data and experience.
Payroll
Protect accurate, timely pay while improving control, visibility and the connection between HR, time, benefits, compensation and finance. Namos combines Oracle payroll expertise with practical understanding of UK legislation, global operations, interfaces, testing and continual change.
Find the Oracle HCM capability you need
Hire to Retire
Core HR
Oracle Human Resources Foundation; Core Human Resources / Global HR; Workforce Structures; Journeys; HR Help Desk; Case Management; Benefits; Employee Experience / Oracle ME; Advanced HCM Controls
What it can help improve
Employee data quality, consistent HR processes, employee and manager self-service, HR service delivery, compliance and workforce insight
Planning to Deployment
Workforce management
Absence Management; Time and Labour; Workforce Scheduling; Workforce Labour Optimisation; Workforce Health and Safety; Workforce Modelling and Predictions
What it can help improve
Workforce planning, scheduling, time capture, absence control, labour optimisation, employee wellbeing and operational productivity
Recruit to Onboard
Talent acquisition
Oracle Recruiting; Recruiting Booster; candidate experience; onboarding; Taleo to Oracle Recruiting
What it can help improve
Candidate reach and experience, recruitment efficiency, hiring quality, onboarding consistency and time to productivity
Learn to Grow – Plan to Succession
Talent development
Dynamic Skills; Oracle Grow; Opportunity Marketplace; Learning; Performance Management; Goal Management; Talent Review; Succession Planning; Career Development; Compensation
What it can help improve
Skills visibility, learning participation, performance and goal alignment, internal mobility, succession readiness and reward decisions
Time to Pay – Perform to Reward
Payroll
Oracle Payroll; UK Payroll; Global Payroll; International Payroll Core; Payroll Interface; payroll costing, payments, balances, statutory reporting and analytics
What it can help improve
Payroll accuracy, statutory compliance, processing efficiency, payment control, costing transparency and employee confidence
Discover the right solution for you
Implement or recover
Oracle HCM
Explore enterprise transformation, flexible core implementation, programme recovery, solution health checks, and HCM Now.
Improve and evolve
Oracle HCM
Optimise live processes, adopt quarterly innovation and add capability as priorities move, complete Redwood change, and execute acquisitions and divestments.
HCM built around your organisation – and the people within it
HCM change rarely begins and ends with a system replacement. It may be driven by growth, a merger or divestment, workforce cost, fragmented data, poor employee experience, payroll risk or the need to build new skills. It may also begin after go-live, when adoption is low, workarounds have returned or newly released Oracle capability creates a better route.
Namos starts with that operating reality. Our specialists understand HR, talent, workforce management and payroll processes as well as they understand Oracle’s applications, helping you decide what to standardise across your organisation, what requires local variation, what to split across phases and where change will create meaningful value.
Whether you are establishing a new Oracle HCM foundation, bringing a programme back on track or evolving Oracle already in use, we keep process, data, security, integrations and adoption connected to the outcome.
Oracle HCM Now: a defined people foundation, ready to grow
HCM Now is Oracle’s implementation programme for mid-sized enterprise organisations seeking a faster, more defined route to Oracle Cloud HCM. It establishes essential HR capability first, while providing a clear path into Oracle’s broader, unified HCM suite as workforce priorities evolve.
As a participating Oracle HCM Now implementation partner, Namos delivers the programme through eNcapsulate®, our registered accelerator approach. It combines Oracle’s Base Plan, Oracle Modern Best Practice and AI Success Navigator with experienced UK-based specialists, proven solution designs and reusable delivery assets.
The Namos starting scope brings together Core HCM, Absence, Journeys, Base Compensation, Redwood employee and manager experiences, and agreed embedded AI and automation capability. It creates a trusted people and organisation data foundation while leaving room to add talent, workforce management, payroll, analytics and further AI capability through controlled phases.
Namos also brings adoption, knowledge transfer and customer ownership into delivery from the outset. The result is a defined, accelerated route to Oracle HCM that reduces avoidable reinvention without limiting how the platform can develop.
Establish trusted people and organisation data, consistent employment processes, absence management, guided employee journeys and a controlled foundation for compensation.
Embedded AI is considered as part of the solution rather than as a separate experiment. Namos helps identify appropriate use cases and assess the data, security, governance, adoption and human oversight required to use them effectively.
Oracle Modern Best Practice and AI Success Navigator provide the programme backbone. Namos adds HCM template designs, automated configuration and testing, migration and integration assets, reporting packs and experience-led HR process design to improve pace and consistency.
Suitability, scope, timeline and customer responsibilities are confirmed through discovery.
Bring HR, managers and employees into the design, make responsibilities visible and transfer knowledge throughout delivery. Namos supports change, training, testing, cutover and transition so customer teams are equipped to take ownership and operate the platform with confidence after go-live.
Extend Oracle HCM at the pace your organisation needs. Recruiting, Learning, Performance and Goals, Dynamic Skills, Benefits, Payroll, Time and Labour, Workforce Scheduling, Workforce Compensation, Succession, HR Help Desk, analytics and further AI capability can be added through a controlled roadmap, without replacing the original foundation.
Organisations can begin with the priority that matters most, people, core finance or enterprise planning, while establishing a roadmap for a more connected Oracle platform over time.
Part of the Namos Accelerator family
HCM Now forms part of the Namos Accelerator eNcapsulate® programme alongside ERP Express and EPM Express. Each provides a defined, Oracle-aligned starting point supported by Namos expertise, reusable delivery assets and practical adoption support.
Organisations can begin with the priority that matters most, people, core finance or enterprise planning, while establishing a roadmap for a more connected Oracle platform over time.
ERP Express
Brings finance, procurement, supply chain and manufacturing together. Shared data, connected workflows and embedded AI.
EPM Express
Establishes a foundation for Core HCM, embedded AI, Absence, Journeys and Base Compensation.
Keep Oracle HCM moving with your organisation
Go-live is a starting point, not the end of people change. Workforce expectations move, policies and regulation evolve, Oracle delivers quarterly innovation and the organisation learns what works in practice. Namos helps create a manageable roadmap to deliver improvement without overwhelming users or destabilising live services.
Improve what is already in place
Resolve persistent pain points, simplify approval and service processes, strengthen data and security, improve reporting, retire workarounds and rebuild user engagement.
Adopt quarterly innovation with purpose
Assess new Oracle HCM capability, embedded AI and agents against a real need, readiness and risk. A Now, Next and Later roadmap keeps change focused and measurable.
Add capability as priorities change
Introduce new modules, countries, workforce groups, integrations and experiences in controlled stages that protect pay, service continuity and user confidence.
Make Redwood work in practice
Plan the remaining experience change around real roles and processes, revisit rules and customisations, test thoroughly and support people through new ways of working. Redwood is treated as process and adoption change, not a cosmetic switch.
Move on from legacy HCM without carrying the past forward
From Taleo to connected talent acquisition
Replacing Taleo is an opportunity to rethink the end-to-end hiring experience, not simply move requisitions and candidates. Namos helps organisations review processes and data, decide what should be retained, redesign recruiter and hiring-manager work, connect onboarding and prepare teams for Oracle Recruiting, Redwood and evolving AI capability.
Extend Oracle HCM where standard capability stops
Standard Oracle capability should remain the first choice where it meets the need. When a sector or process requirement remains, Namos can bring Oracle Visual Builder Studio, APEX, integration and specialist product expertise together around the wider Oracle HCM architecture.
Connect Oracle HCM with analytics and AI
Workforce data only creates value when leaders, managers and employees can understand and act on it. Namos helps define trusted measures, improve operational reporting and develop richer workforce insight through Oracle HCM Analytics and Fusion Data Intelligence.
We also help organisations move from broad AI ambition to practical use cases: answering policy and entitlement questions, supporting recruiting and performance activity, identifying workforce or payroll exceptions, guiding managers and helping employees complete everyday tasks. The work begins with the process, data, security and human decision points – not with switching on technology.
Data & Analytics
ERP data only creates value when people can understand and use it. Namos helps you define trusted measures, improve reporting and extend insight through Oracle analytics and Fusion Data Intelligence.
AI Services
Oracle is embedding AI, agents and automation throughout Fusion Applications. Namos helps you move from interest to a practical adoption plan, identifying useful cases, assessing readiness, defining controls and helping people adopt new ways of working.
Customer Success
Start with the people outcome you need
Tell us what is driving change, what is already in place and where progress is proving difficult. We will bring the right Namos HCM expertise to help you define a practical next step.