This post shares Fusion HCM Analytics sample content as part of Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence (FDI), a family of prebuilt, cloud-native analytics applications for Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. These sample artifacts are intended to demonstrate potential use cases, accelerate implementation efforts, and provide examples of how customers can extend and customize FDI content to meet their business needs. To explore additional reusable sample content, visit the FDI Content Library.
Content Description: An AI-enabled Workforce Time Intelligence analytics package that helps Time and Labor Administrators analyze timecard compliance, reported and processed hours, timecard status, absence activity, and time allocation across workers, managers, departments, business units, projects, tasks, expenditure categories, and payroll time types.
With the accompanying AI Agent, users can ask conversational, natural-language questions and instantly uncover meaningful trends - such as incomplete or rejected timecards, reported-versus-processed hours, absence activity, approval status, and time allocation by department, manager, project, task, payroll time type, or time period. This helps Time and Labor Administrators monitor workforce time processes, identify exceptions and processing gaps, and take timely corrective action.
Application: Fusion HCM Analytics
Fusion Module: Oracle Time and Labor
Target Persona: Time and Labor Administrators
Subject Areas: HCM - Time and Labor
Business Use Case/Questions: This Workbook along with the AI Agent can answer business questions like below-
Timecard Compliance
- Which employees need attention in the timecard process? Which workers have saved or entered timecards that have not yet been submitted?
- Which departments have the highest number of incomplete, in-error, or rejected timecards?
- How many timecards are saved, entered, submitted, approved, rejected, incomplete, and in error this month?
- Which departments have the highest number of incomplete or in error timecards?
- How are timecards distributed by status: saved, entered, submitted, approved, rejected, incomplete, and in error?
- Which managers have the most unsubmitted timecards in their teams?
Workforce Time and Cost Allocation
- Which departments, jobs, and grades have the highest reported hours?
- Which Payroll Time Types account for the highest reported and processed hours?
- Which projects and tasks have the highest reported hours?
- How are reported hours distributed across expenditure categories and expenditure types?
Time Processing and Trends
- What is the reported-versus-processed hours variance by Department, Business Unit, and Legal Employer?
- Which workers and managers are driving the largest reported-versus-processed hours variances?
- How have reported hours, processed hours, and timecard volumes changed by month and quarter?
- What are reported hours and processed hours by month?
- Show the weekly trend of reported hours and processed hours for the current month.
- How do reported hours, processed hours for the current month compare with the previous month?
Absence
- Which absence plans, absence types, and absence categories have the highest absence hours?
- What are approved and rejected absence hours by Department and Manager?
Overtime
- Which departments, jobs, or projects are driving the most overtime hours?
- Which managers have the highest overtime hours in their teams?
Pre-Requisites: Time and Labor Functional Area must be enabled
Download: Available in the FDI Content Library.
Best Practices:
Be specific about the time metric, timecard status, workforce dimension, and time period you want to analyze, such as reported hours, processed hours, incomplete timecards, rejected timecards, absence hours, overtime, or time allocation.
Good examples:
- Which departments have the highest number of incomplete timecards this month?
- Which managers have the most unsubmitted timecards in their teams?
- How have reported and processed hours changed by month this year?
- Which projects have the highest reported overtime hours this quarter?
Avoid:
- Generic questions like “Show timecard status.”
- Mixing timecard compliance, absence, overtime, and project allocation in one question.
- Using processed hours when asking about reported time unless you explicitly want a comparison.
- Using vague terms like “time anomaly” without specifying incomplete, in-error, rejected, overdue, or reported-versus-processed time.
We’d love to get your feedback and business use cases to help build more sample FDI Content.
