Oracle Talent Management 26C Release Intelligence
Oracle delivers 35 features for Talent Management in 26C, drawn straight from Oracle's official readiness documentation as of 16 July 2026. Every feature below is Oracle's own — names, impact ratings and enablement actions unchanged.
Every Talent Management feature Oracle ships in 26C
35 features across 8 Oracle modules: Goal Management, Performance Management, Profile Management, Succession Management, Talent Management, Talent Review, Touchpoints, Transactional Business Intelligence for Talent Management. Larger scale items are where Oracle itself tells you to focus acceptance testing. Opt In items will not appear until you enable them — which also means they will not break anything until you do.
| Oracle Feature | Module | Impact | Action to Enable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conversion of Generative AI Prompts and Supervisor Agents to Goal Management Workflow Agents | Goal Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Configurable Library Goal List of Values | Goal Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Enable HR Administrators to Publish Organization Goals on Behalf of Executive Leaders | Goal Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Enable Mass Actions for Development Goals from Goals Center | Goal Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Notification for Worker Deleting Own Goal | Goal Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Notify Employees When HR Specialists Mass Share Performance Goals | Goal Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Restrict Matrix Manager Access to Goals | Goal Management | None | Setup Required |
| Task and Measurement Attributes Support for Goals Agents | Goal Management | None | Setup Required |
| Additional Attributes Inclusion in Fast Formula | Goal Management | Small scale | None |
| Conversion of Performance Document Evaluation Generative AI Assist Prompts to Workflow Agents | Performance Management | None | Setup Required |
| Enhancements in All-in-One Evaluations | Performance Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Evaluation Preparation Task in the Performance Document | Performance Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Hide Participant Types in Manage Participant Feedback Page | Performance Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Hide Performance Improvement Plan Performance Documents Until Shared with the Employee | Performance Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Performance Document Participant Role Displayed In Feedback Center | Performance Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Set Default Review Period for Employee and Manager Performance Landing Pages | Performance Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Time-Based Autosave in Redwood Performance Documents and All-in-One Evaluations | Performance Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: VB Studio Page Properties for Granular AI Assist Enablement in Evaluation Topic Summaries | Performance Management | None | Setup Required |
| AI Agent: Intelligent Talent Profile Search | Profile Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Support Showing Model Profile Descriptions on Career Role and Know your Role Page | Profile Management | None | Setup Required |
| AI-Assisted Authoring and Skill Guidance for Profiles and Skills | Profile Management | Small scale | None |
| Redwood: Support Business Rules on Profiles DFFs | Profile Management | Small scale | None |
| Redwood: Succession Planning Guide Workflow Agent | Succession Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Support for LinkedIn URL and Attachments for External Candidates of Succession Plans | Succession Management | None | Setup Required |
| AI Agentic App: Team Talent Calibration and Review Workspace | Talent Management | None | Setup Required |
| Conversion of Feedback Generative AI Assist Prompts to Workflow Agents | Talent Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Talent Management Assistant AI Workflow Agent | Talent Management | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Consolidated View of Talent Review Tasks for Managers | Talent Review | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Enhanced Rating Display Options in Talent Review Dashboard | Talent Review | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Enhanced User Experience for Reviewers | Talent Review | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Hide Comments Column for Facilitators | Talent Review | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Upload and View AI-Generated Talent Review Meeting Summaries | Talent Review | None | Setup Required |
| Redwood: Timestamp Support for Talent Review Meeting Date Attributes in HCM Data Loader and HCM Extracts | Talent Review | Small scale | None |
| Enhancements to Team Sync Agent | Touchpoints | None | Setup Required |
| New Attributes for Talent Review Meeting Date in Multiple Subject Areas | Transactional Business Intelligence for Talent Management | None | Setup Required |
Impact ratings and enablement actions are Oracle's own classifications. “Larger scale” = higher potential user impact; “Small scale” = minor field/validation changes; “None” = not delivered enabled.
Where to focus Talent Management regression
Source & Method
Every feature on this page is taken verbatim from Oracle's official Cloud Applications Readiness “What's New” documentation, as of 16 July 2026. Oracle republishes these documents as the release approaches, so counts can change.
Know What 26C Changes in Your Tenant
SyntraFlow Release Intelligence maps every Oracle 26C feature against your live Talent Management configuration, narrows it to what actually applies to you, and auto-composes the regression pack to validate it.
How SyntraFlow Release Intelligence Works
Release Intelligence is a SyntraFlow module that is licensed and priced separately from the core SyntraFlow test automation platform. It pinpoints exactly what each Oracle Fusion quarterly release or critical patch will affect in your tenant — and produces the test scenarios needed to validate it. The workflow runs in five connected steps:
- Connects to your Oracle Fusion environment. A secure read-only connection to your live Oracle Fusion tenant ingests setup data, security model, and live transactions — no manual exports, no spreadsheets.
- Scans your complete configuration with Config Intelligence. Config Intelligence snapshots every setup object (FSM tasks, profile options, BPM rules, descriptive flexfields, security policies) and compares it against the incoming release.
- Reads master & transaction data via DataVault. DataVault profiles your real master data and live transactions so impact analysis is grounded in what your business actually runs — not generic Oracle samples.
- Produces a detail-level Impact Map. Cross-references the release notes against your configuration and data to highlight which features, flows, integrations, and reports are at risk — down to the line-level setting or seeded role that changed. See Release Impact Analysis.
- Generates test scenarios & remediation report. Outputs ready-to-execute test cases targeting each impacted area, plus a remediation report with the exact steps to update your setup or data so the patch goes live with minimum disruption. Run them with Patch Testing Automation.
Licensing note: Release Intelligence is a standalone SyntraFlow module available as its own subscription, or as an add-on to the SyntraFlow test automation platform. Pricing is separate from the core platform — contact us for module pricing and bundling options.