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SAP Mid Market HR Offering

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I ran across this company offering a mid market SAP offering.

The HCM LaunchSuite™ solution provides essential SAP HR functionality for SMB clients including: managing HR master data, integrated whole-enterprise solution, security and SOX compliance with separation of duties, organizational hierarchy mapping and reporting, ADP payroll interface, integrated employee time entry, and 50 key business reports.

ERP Solutions notes that the HCM LaunchSuite™ solution is not for every business. “Businesses that are heavily unionized and businesses that are inflexible in their processes are not the best fit for the HCM LaunchSuite™ solution,” said Mr. Hillesheim. “Most small and medium enterprises, however, would be wise to strongly consider this alternative when moving to mySAP HCM.”

The basic idea seems to be to implement a totally vanilla application with perhaps some limitation on the functionlaity. I’m not sure this makes so much sense. If you’re really just going for core HR with an ADP interface, why not just implement ADP Enterprise or Ceridian?

As the press release wisely states, if you’re a complex organization, use something else.  I actually have a fundamental problem with installing a vanilla app when that application is known for requireing high degrees of customization.  Why not just install something that has less of a name and know you have great configuration options right out of the box.  This will often be more felxible and you might even get more functionality.  More functionality than SAP?!?!  Well, most of the additional functionality you’d get with SAP (which is considerable) requires customization.  Therefore you’d just be getting the base application.
Until then, might be an interesting vendor to at least look at if you think SAP is the way to go.  Otherwise, take a look at some of the mid market players I’ve been talking about.

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2 responses to “SAP Mid Market HR Offering”

  1. SAP Mid Market HR Offering May 11, 2006 on 3:00 am | by Systematic HR I ran across this company offering a mid market SAP offering. The HCM LaunchSuite™ solution provides essential SAP HR functionality for SMB clients including: managing

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