HR Technology
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It’s all about the user – Part 1
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How do you define the usability of an HR technology? Most people who have been through the RFP (request for proposal) process have felt the pain of selecting software based on functionality alone. We all want to have an application…
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Web Services part 3: Technologies Converge
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So probably more in the last few posts than anyone who reads this blog ever wanted to know (assuming anyone knows what I was talking about). In my “vision” diagram, I call the whole thing web service, but technically, web…
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Why I Love Compensation
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In all of the HR practice areas, in my opinion, compensation is the cornerstone of the HR function. Not only does it carry through the HR organization, but it also carries through the HR technology framework. When I talk about…
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Web Services Part 2
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We’ve talked a bit before about CORBA and data transfers between disparate systems, but we haven’t talked specifically about web services. In general, they perform about the same functions, about 90% of the technologies overlap. In fact, much of the…
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Web Services Part 1 – LDAP
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The foollowing few weeks (just this Tuesday series) is my attempt at covering a few important portal technologies at a very high level. It’s tough to do them justice, but in my conversations, I’m finding that many HR practitioners and…
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Mid Market HRMS
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I got an e-mail a couple weeks back noting that I don’t post any content on mid market HRMS. While this is generally true (and I am not intimately familiar with this space), it appears from my survey that many…
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HR Systems and Data Model
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Well, for my first post of the year, I thought I’d do a data model for HR service delivery. Having been a theorist for too long, I definitely have my own ideas of what HR service delivery should look like…
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Who’s an Internet Applicant? New OFCCP Rules
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ERE’s article on the new OFCCP rules for federal contractors outlines the recquirements that must be comlied with beginning today. Who’s an Internet Applicant? The individual submits an expression of interest in employment through the Internet or related electronic data…
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An Interview with Workstream
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Workstream has always been one of my favorite vendors. They have great depth and breadth in their TMS suite, but their financials have plagued them. In the last year, their competitors have made strong market moves and gained momentum. I…
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The future of the ATS
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Dave Lefkow recently wrote about the future of TAS systems and I’d like to put my thoughts down as well. Here are his comments: Where the industry will go and the strategies successful vendors will employ are dependent on a…
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Vendor or Client – Who’s Fault Is It?
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I was speaking with Donald Glade from Sourcing Analytics the other day and through our discussion I realized I needed to follow-up on my post about “HR Technology Does Not Make Us Strategic.” As I went through my bullets of…
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HRMS Comparison Tool
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I went through an HRMS comparison tool on-line with some pretty interesting results. Just thought I’d let you all know it’s out there. The tool walks you through a number of questions (size, # of users, required modules like ESS,…
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Oracle Fusion Progress
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Thanks to Systematic Viewpoints for this heads up. I’m quite entertained that Oracle President Charles Phillips thinks “Oracle is already halfway to achieving its Fusion promise … and the company’s developers have defined necessary software functions for the suite.”Songini, Marc…
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2005 HRMS Buyers Guide
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Just a quick post to put this out there for the sake of publicizing a resource. This is from Human Resource Executive Magazine. The buyers guides are not terribly complete, but it’s about the best I’ve seen. HRMS Buyers Guide…
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Shrinking Workforce is Good for Technology
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We’ve been talking about the workforce “crisis” and the drian of senior talent as baby boomers retire in droves. I thought I’d present another viewpoint – this one from the Economist. The crucial question is therefore what the effect of…
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HRO Superstars
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Through Hager Strategic I found HRO Today’s listing of 2006 HRO Superstars. Really quite a nice list of who’s who in HRO from a vendor and client standpoint. It also includes a list of advisors and advisory firms that I…
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Value of Mid Market HRMS = Not Much
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John Enyedy of Track-it.com HR solutions wrote this paper for HR.com. I really need to stop reading things in HR.com and SHRM as I’m never terribly impressed. As usual, I have a difference of opinion. Perhaps the below quote is…
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Great Talent Acquisition Systems Insight
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A while back I posted a TAS vendor “review” of sorts. Obviously I’ve also been doing some research for my series on talent (Part 1 &2 here). In doing the research, I re-stumbled on some of Talentism’s previous writings taht…
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cFactor Portal Review and ADP Portal Redux
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Back to the ADP portal discussion, I was invited to take a look at cFactor’s self service portal and came away pretty impressed. A very clean user interface that is obviously brand-able with whatever your organization needs. The standard package…
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The ERP Graveyard Scorecard
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For those of you who track ERP outside of the HRMS/HCM space, I found this fun graveyard: The ERP Graveyard Scorecard. I’ll think about doing this for HRMS and point solutions. This could take a while…