Vendors
-
IBM’s inability to capitalize on HRO
.
Well, maybe tier inability to capitalize on IT services and BPO in general seem to have tripped up the entire stock market, and especially the U.S. market. IBM has…
-
Lawson Systems Review
.
OK – so I never mentioned Lawson until the last post. They are definitely one of the major vendors in the enterprise HR space, but I’ve always had concerns…
-
Oh My God!!! Payroll Outsourcing
.
Ultimate is not the best payroll outsourcer. In fact, do they even really qualify for this category? Let’s talk Paychex, ADP and Ceridian. Now these are outsourcers. What’s the…
-
The ATS Market
.
OK – so I’m writing a lot about ATS vendors lately and I thought I’d do an overview of the market. As usually, this is my opinion of the…
-
ATS News
.
In an “it’s about time” one of the major ATS vendors is finally rolling out a hiring management solution for the lower end market. For all the people who…
-
Good bad and sad vendor news
.
In an interesting vendor day, there’s good news, bad news and depressing news. First the good news. Oracle has released patches and fixes for the PeopleSoft products. Many organizations…
-
Internets, networks, and recruiting technology
.
Funny that Michael from another HR blog should mention Jobster. I’ll feed off of that for this post. This is a great tool for recruiters and should help them…
-
BrassRing and staffing HRO
.
I thought it would be a cool thing to spotlight either vendor services or software functionality every now and then. Generally I won’t look at “the normal stuff” but…
-
Outsourcing employment verifications with Talx
.
Every time I go visit clients to think about new HRMS systems, one of the topics that comes up most often (functionally) is how software can automate all the…
-
Plumtree portals and ROI
.
Plumtree has just made it much easier to substantiate the ROI on your portal investment. Of course, your organization has to be using the Plumtree portal, but this is…
-
Oracle and PeopleSoft
.
Looks like Oracle’s aquisition strategy is generally working out. While Oracle’s net profits are down due to increased short term expense, it looks like they will be hanging onto…
-
Does Kronos own Kronos HR?
.
I’m posting this because I’m fairly ticked off about a “conversation” I had with someone on another bulletin board. During this conversation (with many other people) I expressed some…
-
Single sourcing HRO?
.
What’s up with HRO vendors revisited. As sort of a follow-up to my last post on HR Consultancies, here’s an interesting article about HRO and the wisdom of single…
-
Mercer is still the biggest, but are they the best?
.
Yesterday’s Business Insurance Magazine survey on biggest HR and Benefit Consultancies named Mercer as both the largest worldwide and U.S HR consultancy. Among tier 1 HR consultancies (I’d say…
-
Implementation glitches and huge clients
.
Apparently Fidelity’s benefit administration services division screwed up 22,000 GM employees and retirees who no longer have benefits (temporarily). Now, I don’t usually comment on benefits administration, but as…
-
Sungard is going private
.
In a surprising move (to me) Sungard is going private with the purchase of the company by a group of investors. Why is this important to HR? There are…
-
Aon’s self serving press release and ROI
.
I promise I will do a post on ROI in the near future. This is a bit of a rant about consutling company studies that are publisehd in trade…
-
RecruitMax pushing the envelope
.
RecruitMax Article Really randome thought here… One of these days I’ll write quite a bit more about my opinions on ATS/HMS (applicant tracking or hiring management) or whatever you…
-
Mellon HRO purchased by ACS???
.
ACS Deal For Mellon Unit Shows HR Outsourcing’s On A Roll My first thought was “who the heck is ACS?” Word on the street was that Watson Wyatt was…
-
What’s up with HRO vendors?
.
The human resource outsourcing industry may be the fastest growth segment of BPO. However, the US HRO (HR BPO) market is in complete dissaray. Nobody has the entire service…