Oracle
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Is Cloud The Way To Go?
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So I had to upgrade my cell phone contract. I used to be on this thing where I had a bucket of minutes and text messages to use, and now I’m on exactly the opposite. I have unlimited phone and…
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Fusion HCM Website is Up
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Just an FYI since this appears to be about the softest launch we’ve seen in ages. Considering we’ve been waiting for Fusion for a while. Here’s an FYI that the website is up and perhaps the software is in GA…
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Bill Kutik and the Direction of HR Technology
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A recent Bill Kutik Radio Show featured Tom Keebler of Towers Watson. Tom is the Global Practice Leader of the TW HR Service Delivery Practice, and each year they run an HR Technology Survey that is probably the second largest…
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Will the Real Oracle Fusion Middleware Please Stand Up?
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It’s not mystery that Oracle’s Fusion Middleware product was really only a half baked cobbling of old products when it was released a couple years ago. Much like Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” sign, Oracle proclaimed “Half Way to Fusion!” We all…
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Developing an Application For Yourself
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Oracle coded their compensation workbench so they could use it themselves. It’s the best module in their HR suite. What a novel idea to create an application you think is good enough to use yourself. There are other models of…
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SAP to Buy Business Objects
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Perhaps this is in reaction to Oracles buying Hyperion. I always thought that SAP’s Business Warehouse product was pretty good. Then again, PeopleSoft EPM isn’t bad either, and Oracle felt the need to go out and continue their buying spree….
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Who will own performance management?
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Dave Lefkow asks “who will own performance management?” I have several responses. Finally, a talent acquisition guy who realizes that talent management is not just recruiting. For ages, the talent acquisition vendors have been calling themselves talent management. Sure, it’s…
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Oracle To Buy Hyperion
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So Oracle continues its spending spree. The ERP’s already have the best data warehouse products around. Oracle has PeopleSoft EPM and their purchase of Siebel also included components they could integrate with their other offerings. SAP has BW (business warehouse)…
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PeopleSoft Updates
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Much of this is old news, but a few interesting tidbits crossed my path and I thought I’d do a fuller update. Of main interest and something I didn’t really know until recently is that Oracle has actually integrated the…
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Cedar Crestone HCM Survey 2006
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Cedar recently released their 2006 HCM survey with some interesting results and interpretations. I’m not going to regurgitate their findings, but here are a few items I though worth thinking about. Five applications cause operating income growth among publicly traded…
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Changing the Game: Managing the HR Technology Suite
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I’ve always been an advocate of getting the best in point solutions and integrating everything together on the back end. This has always meant SAP or PeopleSoft for the HRMS, add a recruiting vendor and a talent suite, wrap around…
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SOA: SAP versus Oracle
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SAP and Oracle have been taking different approaches to service oriented architecture (SOA) and this article by Mark Brunelli pinpoints some of those differences: Experts point out that Oracle is focusing its SOA efforts on building an open infrastructure with…
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Changing the Game: SOA and Business Process
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Similar to the enablement of applications to the web in the late 90’s, service oriented architecture (SOA) is a major paradigm shift in how we do and think about business processes and the data that supports it. SOA is really…
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ERP – Vendor Updates
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I did a thing back in August about SAP versus PeopleSoft. (Parts 1 and 2) I really should have done an SAP versus Oracle. To be honest, I have no intention of doing in depth comparisons of technology or functionality…
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SAP Customers are More Profitable… or Not
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So I don’t actually subscribe to any of the advertising hype that says you’ll be significantly more profitable one way or another if you’re running SAP instead of Oracle instead of some other tier 1 applications. Basically I’d say that…
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PS vs SAP: Part 2
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In the last entry I wrote “that the only HR departments that go on SAP are the ones that are forced to do so by their CEO.” While there’s some truth to this, I’ve also written in the past that…
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PS vs SAP: Part 1
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There are lots of snobs out there: those that won’t outsource to anyone but ADP, those that think they are superior because they work in compensation, and consultants who think their way is better before they even consult. The snobbery…
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A Workflow Primer
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No content post today – I just wanted to introduce the readership to a resource I found. Actually, it’s an Oracle workflow primer, but it’s only chapter 1, and therefore a great overview on the topic in general. I found…
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Current Topics in Business Intelligence
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Siebel Analytics is the first step to Fusion While the Siebel acquisition brought market-leading CRM to Oracle’s portfolio, executives have repeatedly referred to Siebel Analytics, technology that Siebel itself bought with the acquisition of nQuire in 2001, as the “hidden…
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Business Intelligence Vendors
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Given my last post, I’m not going to talk about ad hoc tools. Rather I’ll cover the true BI suites that also encompass ad hoc tools. Here’s my list of vendors – these are all top vendors and all of…