Kahuna Workforce Solutions has partnered with Oracle to connect its skills and competency tracking platform directly to Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM), giving employers in healthcare, manufacturing and energy a single system to track whether frontline workers are qualified for their jobs.
The integration is meant to close a gap between corporate HR systems and the reality of day-to-day work on hospital floors, plant floors and job sites. Traditional HR platforms often can’t capture the detailed, constantly changing skills and certifications frontline staff need, according to the companies. The new integration feeds Kahuna’s skills data into Oracle Cloud HCM, giving employers one place to manage both long-term workforce planning and real-time staffing decisions.
“Enterprises shouldn’t have to choose between a corporate HR strategy and a bedside- or field-ready operational workforce,” said Jai Shah, chief executive officer of Kahuna. “By pairing Kahuna’s deep frontline competency mapping with Oracle Cloud HCM’s platform, we are giving companies the exact tools they need to run safer, smarter, and highly compliant operations.”
The companies say the integration will affect three regulated, frontline-heavy industries in different ways. In healthcare, it’s designed to track clinical competencies so hospitals can staff units with qualified clinicians and stay ready for regulatory surveys. In manufacturing, it gives plant managers visibility into machine-specific certifications, so they can spot skills gaps, schedule jobs based on who’s qualified to run which equipment, and get new hires up to speed faster. In energy, it’s meant to help dispatchers confirm that only workers with current safety certifications and the right competencies get sent into hazardous field environments.
The integration is now generally available to enterprise customers of both companies.
Kahuna is based in Houston and offers three products: Skills Manager, Ladder and CertIQ. The company says its software is used by operations, HR and learning leaders at organizations with frontline workforces ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of employees, in industries including healthcare, energy, field services and manufacturing.
