Northwell Health: two Oracle awards, one engineering partner.
In 2024 Northwell won Oracle’s HR Innovation Award, with Occamonics named as Service Partner. In 2026 the AI Agent Studio work we built took the global title.
- Workforce
- 87,000 employees
- What we built
- The employee assistant, the payroll agent, the UKG automation and Ops Platform
- Built on
- Oracle Digital Assistant, Oracle AI Agent Studio, Oracle Fusion HCM and UKG Pro WFM
AskHR, the front door to employee service.
Northwell’s workforce of 87,000 employees needs a clear route to information and support. We built AskHR on Oracle Digital Assistant, with 170 custom intents that connect each question to the relevant assistant, workflow or person.
Employee question
How do I change where my pay is deposited?
Matched intent
Change direct deposit
1 of 170 custom intents
Routed to
- AssistantAnswers in the conversation
- WorkflowCompletes the task in HR
- PersonBrings in a support colleague
90%
of 2,000 daily conversations handled without human intervention.
Each mark: 100 conversations a day
17,000
questions answered the day after go-live.
12%
fewer HR tickets during Open Enrollment.
The payroll agent behind the global title.
Pay questions are personal, exact and urgent. The payroll agent we built on Oracle AI Agent Studio answers them from the employee’s own payroll records, and explains the answer in plain language.
Our payroll agent
52
Big-SI alternative
30
6
payroll data services, read-only and scoped to the signed-in employee.
About 75% more functionality than a big-SI alternative.
See the short-pay demonstrationJudged the best in the world.
Global Winner, 2026 Oracle Excellence Awards: Fusion Applications Suite AI Agent Studio Excellence Award. Northwell Health’s AI agents were built by Occamonics on Oracle AI Agent Studio.
Raised in Oracle, applied in UKG once a person confirms.
Managers’ UKG access requests start in Oracle. Our live automation carries each one to the workforce system where the work happens, and an operator confirms the change before it is applied.
- 01Oracle A manager raises a service request
- 02Oracle HCM People and department codes are validated
- 03Automation The exact UKG change is prepared
- 04Operator A person reviews and confirms the plan
- 05UKG Pro WFM The change is applied, with a one-step revert
An operating loop that keeps the agents improving.
Each conversation is reviewed by a person, fixed by an engineer and re-tested before it is marked done. Ops Platform keeps that loop in one place.
| Phrasing | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| when do I get paid for the holiday shift | ||
| holiday pay date | ||
| what is my holiday pay rate |
Build the next useful process.
Bring us your users, systems and business outcome. We will show you the relevant work and define the engineering scope.
