Is your organization leveraging Oracle Cloud HCM to manage its workforce? If so, get ready — the Oracle Cloud HCM 24D Release is right around the corner, with a tentative rollout scheduled for November 2024. As part of Oracle’s quarterly update cycle, this release brings essential enhancements, new features, security updates, and compliance improvements that help ensure your HCM environment remains modern, secure, and efficient.
In this blog, we’ll walk you through a high-level overview of the key highlights included in the Oracle HCM 24D update. We’ll also explain why a well-prepared rollout and post-update validation are crucial for a seamless transition. As a trusted Oracle Cloud HCM implementation and support partner, Kovaion is here to help organizations adopt and adapt to these updates with minimal disruption and maximum business impact.

Oracle Cloud HCM 24D New Features and Updates
Oracle’s 24D HCM Cloud release brings a suite of enhancements aimed at streamlining HR operations, improving user experience with Redwood UI, and embedding AI-driven capabilities across key HCM modules. At Kovaion, we help organizations stay ahead by ensuring a smooth adoption of every quarterly update. Here’s an in-depth look at what’s new in Oracle Cloud HCM 24D:
Global Human Resources (Core HR)
Oracle continues to refine the Journeys framework, offering employees and HR teams a more intuitive way to manage personalized onboarding, transitions, and learning paths.
- Edit Task Action in My Tasks: Users can now directly edit assigned journey tasks from the My Tasks tab—eliminating the need for navigation to other pages.
- Extended Expiry Duration: Journey task expiry can now be set for up to 365 days, offering greater flexibility for long-term HR workflows.
- New Task Types: Oracle introduces Learn Enrollment and Learn Community as task types, enriching the connection between learning and employee journeys.
These updates aim to create seamless task tracking and better learning integration, empowering HR to deliver holistic experiences.
Redwood Experience Enhancements (VBS Pages)
Oracle advances its Redwood Experience, promoting visually engaging, consistent, and simplified UIs across HCM Cloud.
- New Pages Developed Using VBS: Document Types Page, Document Type Delivery Preferences Page
With these updates, employees and admins enjoy a faster, modern, and mobile-responsive interface, increasing usability and engagement.
Benefits
Oracle has recreated critical benefits pages in the Redwood design system, preserving functionality while modernizing the interface:
- Self-Service: Report a Life Event
- Benefits Service Center: Benefits Billing Page, Court Order Page
These enhancements ensure HR teams can handle life events and compliance-related benefits administration with ease.
Compensation
Oracle Cloud HCM 24D streamlines compensation planning and administration with better data consistency and Redwood redesigns:
- Standard Working Hours Integration: Compensation plans can now align with the working hour configurations from Core HR.
- Redesigned Pages: Administer Compensation, View Compensation History, Individual Compensation Plan, Compensation Info, Change Salary Page
- Attachments: Now attach supporting documents directly within Redwood Individual Compensation actions.
Kovaion helps you adopt these enhancements to deliver faster, more accurate compensation cycles while improving transparency and compliance.
Talent Management
1. Profile Management
AI now supports HR admins in creating job and position profiles by suggesting:
- Job summaries
- Descriptions
- Qualifications and responsibilities
Additionally, AI helps write more structured, relevant feedback—enhancing the quality of performance data.
2. Goal Management
- Revive Cancelled Goals: Canceled performance goals can be restored and reused.
- Team Goal Center: Managers now have a consolidated view to manage team performance and development goals.
- Outcome Alignment: Goals can now be directly linked to pre-subscribed outcomes.
3. Performance Management
- AI-Assisted Summary Generation: Managers receive AI-driven suggestions for performance summaries based on feedback inputs.
- New Evaluate Performance Page: Rebuilt with Redwood VBS for a cleaner, more intuitive review process.
At Kovaion, we help HR teams activate these capabilities to drive smarter evaluations and align individual goals with business strategy.
Recruiting
Oracle Recruiting Cloud gets a significant usability upgrade in 24D, including AI enhancements, better candidate experience, and administrator controls:
- Auto-Creation of Category Tiles: Select job categories now generate category tiles and landing pages automatically.
- Job Fit Metrics Bar: Helps candidates quickly assess how well they match job criteria.
- Candidate Self-Service Enhancements: External links now open in a new tab, Better job search and interview schedule views, “Exit Conversation” button added
- UI Improvements: Button size customization, New templates for career sites
- Maps Update: Oracle Maps now fully replaces Google and Bing Maps.
- Scheduling Enhancements: “Completed” status visible post-interview, Configure .ics calendar events, New “Interview Title” field
Kovaion helps you integrate these tools to enhance employer branding, reduce time-to-hire, and optimize candidate experience.
Learning
Oracle Learning gets smarter and more learner-centric in 24D:
- Bookmark Learning Items: Users can save items for future completion via Journeys task list.
- Automated Learning Recommendations: Based on skills users are developing, or popular among peers and managers.
- Outlook Integration Alerts: Prevents duplication in instructor-led activities.
- Enrollment Visibility: Learners can immediately see if they are already enrolled in a course.
- Badge Color Updates: Improved badge visibility and clarity under “My Learning.”
Kovaion ensures your workforce development is aligned with business growth through intelligent learning delivery.
Absence Management
- Accrual Flexibility: Accruals can now occur at the start or end of repeating periods.
- Enhanced Error Messaging: Displays absence type and start date to simplify troubleshooting.
- Assignment Display Enhancements: Redwood pages now show assignment numbers with business titles during absence transactions.
Time and Labor
Oracle improves compliance and clarity around time tracking:
- Attestations Panel: A new drawer-style panel clearly displays required attestations.
- Improved Approval Tasks: More information displayed for faster timecard approvals.
These upgrades empower organizations to reduce errors and maintain audit readiness.
Payroll
The 24D release delivers robust payroll flexibility, control, and scalability:
- Override LDG Calculation Values: Tailor payroll at legislative levels.
- New Database Views: Easily retrieve value definitions and range items.
- Selective Absence Uploads: Only updates relevant to timecard entries are pushed to payroll.
- Element Security Profiles: Tighten access controls with HCM data roles.
- Payroll Cost Allocation: Now integrates with Oracle Project Financial Management.
- Retry or Rollback Cancelled Flows: Better error handling and retry capabilities.
- Enhanced Bank Search: Search banks by branch ID on the personal payment method page.
- Extended Country Coverage: Oracle Payroll Core expands to support more countries.
Kovaion’s payroll experts ensure you implement these changes accurately, reducing processing errors and enhancing compliance.
How Does Kovaion Accelerate Your Oracle HCM 24D Rollout?

Oracle Cloud HCM quarterly updates introduce essential features and improvements—but they can also disrupt your workflows if not properly validated. Manual testing is often insufficient to keep pace with evolving configurations and business processes.
Kovaion’s managed Oracle Cloud certification service helps your organization confidently adopt the 24D release by streamlining validation, minimizing risks, and ensuring business continuity.
Here’s how Kovaion supports your update success:
- Pre-built Oracle HCM test accelerators tailored to your modules and use cases
- Detailed change impact assessments that highlight key areas for validation
- Release advisory documentation aligned with Oracle’s update structure
- Expert-led testing execution to detect issues early and optimize performance
Whether you’re running Core HR, Payroll, Talent, or Recruiting modules—Kovaion ensures your Oracle HCM system stays resilient, compliant, and fully optimized after every release.
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