Case Study: Sierra‑Cedar India achieves a 30% reduction in performance review workload and increased employee retention with Oracle HCM Cloud

Sierra-Cedar India Cuts Performance Review Workload by 30% with Oracle HCM Cloud

Sierra‑Cedar India Pvt. Ltd., a Hyderabad‑based Oracle partner and subsidiary of Sierra‑Cedar Inc. (about 250 employees), was running legacy PeopleSoft while needing to support local Indian HR processes—performance management, payroll, timesheets, and absence tracking—for its consulting workforce. The company wanted a modern HCM platform to automate processes, give managers accurate leave‑entitlement visibility, reduce administrative work on performance reviews, and minimize impact on concurrent IT projects.

By integrating PeopleSoft with Oracle HCM Cloud in a two‑phase rollout (including Absence Management, Performance & Goal Management, Workforce Predictions, and Policy Automation), Sierra‑Cedar cut performance review cycle time by 30% (from up to 8 weeks to 4–5 weeks), eliminated manual collation of roughly 250 spreadsheets, improved absence planning and compliance, enabled mobile leave approvals, and used built‑in analytics to boost employee retention and reduce HR workload.

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Sudhir Javangula

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