HCM Data Loader and Implementation Scenarios

You can implement Oracle HCM Cloud in either full or coexistence mode. In a coexistence implementation, you use Oracle Fusion Talent Management or Oracle Fusion Compensation, but continue to use your existing HR applications.

For both full and coexistence implementations, you implement Oracle HCM Cloud by performing the tasks that appear in your implementation project or for selected functional areas. This topic describes how HCM Data Loader supports these implementation types.

Full Implementations

If you're performing a full implementation of Oracle HCM Cloud, then you can use HCM Data Loader to bulk-load any existing HCM data at appropriate stages in the implementation. Typically, you load each type of data once only for this type of implementation. Following successful upload, you manage your data in Oracle HCM Cloud.

Coexistence Implementations

In a coexistence implementation, you use Oracle Fusion Talent Management or Oracle Fusion Compensation, but maintain your existing HR applications. For this type of implementation, you:

• Move talent data permanently to Oracle HCM Cloud, which becomes the application of record for talent data.

• Upload other types of data, such as person records, periodically to Oracle HCM Cloud. The source system remains the application of record for this data.

To implement an HCM coexistence scenario, for any source system, you can use HCM Data Loader for data upload. Follow the general instructions provided for HCM Data Loader. Oracle doesn't supply tools to extract data from your source systems. Work with your implementation partner or develop your own process for extracting the source data.

HCM Data Loader provides a Compensation Changes extract. You can extract assignment, bonus, and salary changes for a specified compensation run if you're using Oracle Fusion Compensation in a coexistence scenario.