Why Transition to Oracle Redwood Help Desk from Classic Now

Nizam Mogal

Nizam Mogal

Enterprise Applications Architect | Oracle ACE Pro

If you’re still using the Classic Help Desk, now is the time to start planning—and executing—your move to the Redwood Help Desk.

As Oracle continues to evolve its user experience strategy, the shift from Classic to Redwood across Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications is no longer just a visual upgrade—it’s a strategic transformation. Redwood delivers a modern, intuitive, and AI-powered interface that redefines how users engage with the platform.

Here's why:

Redwood isn’t just a facelift.

It’s a complete reimagining of the user experience—cleaner layouts, better accessibility, device responsive, and a unified look and feel across the Oracle Fusion Cloud suite.

Moving to Redwood Help Desk helps organisations align their HR and Finance support channels with the rest of the Oracle ecosystem—creating a consistent experience for employees, support agents, and administrators.

Redwood allows users to navigate more intuitively, interact with streamlined forms, and manage requests with less friction, ultimately improving user satisfaction and enhancing your operations.

The Redwood Help Desk brings built-in AI features that significantly elevate workforce support interactions. These capabilities are exclusive to Redwood and will not be retrofitted into the previous generation Classic Help Desk experience. Key features include:

  • Auto-Categorisation: The system automatically assigns the right category to incoming requests based on their content, enabling accurate routing to the appropriate teams and leading to faster resolution times.
  • Knowledge Suggestions: Relevant articles from Knowledgebase appear instantly while submitting or handling requests, helping resolve issues faster.
  • AI Summarisation: Helps summarising requests when forwarding to specialist teams and generates resolution notes at closure—making support tasks easier and more efficient.
  • Smarter Sharing: Shared knowledge articles are summarised for quick understanding, so users don’t need to read lengthy content.

With Redwood, Oracle introduces dedicated apps to manage different types of support more effectively:

  • HR Help Desk: Tailored for worker-related enquiries such as HR policies and payroll issues. It offers enhanced privacy controls, audit, and reporting—ensuring secure and compliant handling of sensitive requests.
  • Finance Help Desk: Designed to handle finance-related queries—such as expenses and credit memos—from employees or business users. It is kept separate from HR to ensure clarity, accuracy, and compliance.
  • Case Management: Supports complex cases involving employee relations, special investigations, security, privacy, and other sensitive matters. These cases often follow formal and unique procedures that lead to outcomes at both the individual and organisational level.

These dedicated apps help support teams organise and manage requests more efficiently, while providing clearer, more focused insights into trends, service performance, and areas needing improvement.

Redwood Help Desk and Case Management make it easier to capture structured data, manage workflows with approvals, track business context, and automate data processing through tailored forms and extensions.

Drawing from our implementations, here are some ways clients are using these capabilities effectively :   

  • HR Help Desk — Extend standard forms to capture details such as flexible working, course study requests, onboarding issues, ensuring requests are routed and actioned effectively. 
  • Finance Help Desk — Collect information related to invoice processing,  new supplier or customer setup, credit memo requests, and automating relevant processes up on approval. 
  • Case Management — Customise standard case forms to capture comprehensive details for managing employee relations cases or special investigations, tailored to your organisation’s specific procedures.   
 

These extensions help maximise the value of Help Desk—transforming it from a simple ticketing tool into a central platform for workforce support.

We have delivered Redwood Help Desk and Case Management solutions without the need for complex integrations by leveraging platform’s offering native flexibility. 

Whether you’re referencing employee data, linking service requests to transactions, or incorporating custom data points from across Fusion—such as HR, Finance, Customer, or Supplier data—Redwood simplifies the process. This eliminates the need for users to navigate multiple places and systems when handling requests, improving both efficiency and ease of use.

  • No New Features for Classic Help Desk Since 25B: Oracle has stopped enhancing the Classic Help Desk. Remaining on Classic means missing out on critical improvements.
  • AI Is Exclusive to Redwood: None of the AI features mentioned are available in Classic—and they’re rapidly becoming baseline expectations.
  • Consistency Across Fusion Cloud: As more modules move to Redwood, adopting Redwood Help Desk and Case Management now ensures a unified experience across your Fusion Cloud applications
  • More Time to Test and Train: Early movers can validate use cases, train users, and refine processes before the shift becomes mandatory or urgent.

The transition from Classic to Redwood Help Desk isn’t just a modernising UI—it’s an opportunity to reimagine how your organisation delivers internal support.

Starting the transition now, you’ll stay ahead of the curve, unlock more value from the Oracle Fusion platform, deliver a better and smarter experience for your workforce—sooner.

At iSmart Apps, we specialise in implementing workforce support solutions through Oracle Fusion Cloud. With proven success in Classic and Redwood Help Desk, Case Management, Intelligent Advisor, and Digital Assistant deployments for global organisations, we understand the nuances and challenges of your journey.

Whether you’re exploring transition options or ready to begin, our experienced team can help you design, customise, and roll out Oracle Redwood Help Desk and Case Management solutions that fit your unique business needs and drive real value.

Let’s connect to explore how we can help make your transition smooth, strategic, and successful. Email: hello@ismartapps.io

Nizam Mogal
Enterprise Applications Architect | Oracle ACE Pro

Nizam Mogal
Enterprise Applications
Architect | Oracle ACE Pro

Nizam Mogal

With over 20 years of global experience as an applications architect and consultant, Nizam specialises in enhancing employee, student, and customer experiences while streamlining business operations through Oracle products.

Nizam has a proven track record of implementing Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, covering both Redwood and Classic UX, for HR and Finance in global enterprises. He also held senior consulting roles at IBM, Oracle, delivering complex and large-scale transformation projects.

Leveraging his profound expertise in Oracle technology, Nizam brings invaluable insights and experience to ensure a seamless and successful implementation that aligns with your organisation’s unique needs.

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