HR Technology
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Is Oracle’s Best Good Enough?
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This article from Baselinemag.com takes a look at Oracle post PeopleSoft aquisition. It’s a good question as Oracle has never been good enough if we talk about HR. Their financials have always been highly rated, but for the major ERP’s,…
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What is Oracle Fusion?
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Here’s my attempt to simplistically explain what Oracle Fusion is all about. I’ve noticed that most people seem to have misperceptions regarding what Oracle Fusion is all about. This is actually for good reason: When Oracle purchased PeopleSoft and thus…
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Web Services & WSDL Definitions
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In a brief departure from my once a day posts, I wanted to point out a couple of nice pieces on WSDL over that the HR-XML blog. WSDL part 1: A starting point for web serives WSDL part 2: Patterns…
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Workstream Product Enhancements
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The Talent management space is always a complex market. If you think about the talent management suite, you’re talking about workforce development, learning managmeent, performance management, compensation management, succession planning, and probably a few more I can’t think of off…
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Scalability, Flexibility, Agility – Part 4
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A couple of days ago I mentioned that HR organization design was a factor in overall business scalability, flexibility and agility. As the HR industry has started to move towards shared services and HRO (ok, started may be a mischaracterization…
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Scalability, Flexibility, Agility – Part 3
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So what do flexibility and agility mean in an HR technology discussion? These two ideas may not always be in perfect synchronization as flexibility sometimes means customization and agility sometimes means the lack thereof. While flexibility does not necessarily mean…
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Scalability, Flexibility, Agility – Part 2
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Are these business requirements or technology requirements? Actually, they are both and indeed they are quite interconnected. Scalability from the technology side feeds scalability from the business side and the same can be said for flexibility and agility. So while…
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Scalability, Flexibility, Agility – Part 1
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Why? This is simply a critical topic in HR technology as “strategy” transforms into true business support. The modern HR department and it’s HR technology must be able to support these three conditions to be effective in today’s world. Businesses…
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The end of customization
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Possibly not the end, but configurability is reaching new levels of innovation and market demand. The growing demand to keep HRMS applications “vanilla” to limit upgrade expense, and the continued growth in HR functionality have really allowed employers to realize…
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XML Interfacing
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Chuck Allen over at the HR-XML blog has been writing for a while and a post on employee indicative data caught my attention. If you think about all your most common interfaces, employee indicative data is the one used the…
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The Role of HRIS – Part 2
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Last week we talked about a good HRIS analyst’s role in decision support. This week we are going to talk about the integration between process determination and HRIS. HRIS should be playing the same role in process support that it…
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PEO vs. HRO again.
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I got an e-mail from a reader about PEO v HRO: What is your advice to a company (100-1000) on what TYPE of outsourcing would be best for their company? Basically, PEO VS BPO. Pretty broad but there are all…
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Top HRO Deals of 2005
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I might be a bit behind on the news and it’s entirely possible this has been posted elsewhere. However, HRO Today Magazine posted their top 22 HRO deals of 2005 in their January/February issue. Personally I’m positive this is nowhere…
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The Role of HRIS – Part 1
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I’ve been thinking that HRIS is given too tactical a role in most organizations. This is not based on any real metric or survey, but just a gut feel from organizations I’ve visited over the last half decade or so….
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HR Technology Does Not Make Us Strategic
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I admit – I used to be one… A vendor that is. I was one of those people who told HR technology buyers, “Great HR technology will allow you to be more strategic!!!” I’m sorry. But actually (in my and…
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Taleo Version 7 – updates to my scorecard
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With Taleo’s next release, they regain my number one spot for Talent Acquisition vendors. While they’ve always been at or near the top of my list, Taleo has been slipping for a few years due to their inability to execute…
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Custom vs Config vs Vanilla
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I hear these terms all the time and I often hear them being misused. I’m going to provide a few simple guidelines today in an attempt to provide what I think are the industry standard definitions.
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It’s all about the user – Part 3
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So in part 2, I stated that point solutions usually have both better functionality and usability. So why would anyone buy an ERP? Contrary to the title of this post, I’ll now state that it’s not always about the user. …
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Web Services part 4: and Federated Identity Networks
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A while back I wrote about single sign-on. While the ability for users to log into multiple systems without actually performing the log-in task is wonderful, until very recently (sometime in 2005 IMHO) single sign-on only existed within a single…
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It’s all about the user – Part 2
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I’m not going to surprise many people by saying point solutions generally have better usability than ERP solutions. Yeah – now I’ve pissed off all the SAP and PeopleSoft users out there. If you think about an ERP, they are…