HR Technology
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What’s up at Hewitt?
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Jason also posted this about Hewitt recently. I actually don’t have a further comment other than I’ve been seeing lots of laid off Hewitt associates filtering through other organizations. Anyone know the full extent of these layoffs and to what organizations? Are they really trimming the consulting business that much?
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Accenture’s place in HRO
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Jason of the Human Capitalist posted some analysis of Accenture’s seeming decline in the HRO world. While we differ slightly in our HRO rankings, I think we’ll see some interesting developments as Accenture begins to play in the mid market space. They are currently courting several prospects in the sub-20K employee market with what I…
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Oracel Fusion and the current Oracle HRMS
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I loved (and have also discussed) this from another blog: FUSIONI just wanted to make a few comments on the Fusion product. I apologize, but I’m still trying to get more clarity around the scope of this release/product, but it appears to be software that will be similar to middleware, where several applications can run…
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HRO Updates
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A couple of news items crossed my path that I thought were interesting. First, Arinso recently got certified in their SAS 70 Type 2. I’d like to just say that if you’re a public company in the U.S. going for full HRO (with benefits and payroll), please ask to see if your vendor has their…
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SuccessFactors TMS review
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So after being told that my talent management “scorecard” was incomplete and inadequate, I visited one of the SuccessFactors webinars and got a high level overview. Keep in mind that the opinions here are simply those gained from a 1 hour presentation and I don’t know what I don’t know – these are just first…
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HRO Buying Process Guide
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Prior Post updated to include real links to the publisher. I had the text of the entire series, but only 4 of 6 links below. You’ll have to look for the other 2. This is a 6 part series in The Edge’s Financial magazine – a daily and weekly magazine in Malasia. It was written…
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Is ADP HRO #2 in the industry?
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A recent ADP press release had a few interesting new facts. Apparently, 32 multi-national corporations have signed on for ADP’s HRO platform based on SAP. This is far more than I thought it would be, and in addition to ADP’s standard platform (ADP Enterprise) for U.S. domestic populations, I think this easily puts ADP in…
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HR/PR Outsourcers – New Rankings
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A reader recently wrote to me requesting my thoughts on payroll outsourcers and their HR products. This was written for a 500 employee organization. I’m posting because I don’t think I’ve ever ranked payroll outsourcers. Here are my verbatim comments below: I have not done any rankings purely on HR/Payroll outsourcers. Most of my knowledge…
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Follow-up on HRO providers
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In my post for Fidelity HRO, I listed my top 5 HRO vendors. A consulting colleague (of unknown firm) who works closely in the HRO space e-mailed me this follow-up: interesting view of the top 5 hro providers. i play heavily in this space as a hr consultant and not sure i would classify the…
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Fidelity HRO comments
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Edited on 11/03/2005: This evening, I received an e-mail from Workforce Magazine requesting that I remove some text of the Fidelity HRO article from my post. In my attempt to be a “good citizen” the text has been removed, but you can still hyperlink to the article. Here you go: I found this article on…
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Hewitt for sale?
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Somewhere in my last 100 posts I mentioned that Hewitt was in a fairly weak operational position and might be an aquisition target. I’ll have to admit that I didn’t really believe it, and honestly I still don’t. They are the undisputed leader in HRO at the moment, and their laser-like focus on this market…
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The HR Marketplace – Overview
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I wanted to comment on some interesting research from HRMarketer.com. They put out the “Marketing and Selling in the HR Marketplace: Winning Strategies and Tactics” paper this month which contains great insight. First a note on the marketplace:The top 0.1% (930 out of 1.2M) of companies employ about 30% of the workforce. These are organizations…
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New HR-XML Certifications
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There are many new names on the list. Some are quite surprising such as Oracle, Brassring and Recruitmax who all should have been on the list earlier. If you are unfamiliar with the HR-XML Consortium, they are publishing XML standards so that a single XML layout may apply to a large industry segment. For example,…
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Oracle Fusion – More details
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It appears that there is more information leaking out of Oracle these days regarding Fusion. First of Siebel CRM is not in the current plans for Fusion. The Siebel acquisition was made after the initial Fusion architecture decision and has not yet been included. Second, the first wave of Fusion applications that will be made…
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New HR Technology Products
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I won’t be there, but next week’s HR Tehnology Conference will be host to dozens of product unveilings and launches. Here’s just a peek of what’s coming: Authoria ( http://www.authoria.com/ ) The knowledge-based and Talent Management Suite vendor will make a major announcement, with details to be released at the show. CyberShift ( http://www.cybershift.com/ )…
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MS Windows Workflow
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Michael posted this on Moscrosoft’s beta workflow engine. Quite interesting I think. While I’m pretty sure I’m not quite technical enough and thus won’t download the entire beta for trial, the MS write-up on MSDN didn’t make me do backflips. I’ll admit this is a good start though, and that it’s hard to make me…
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Hewitt BPO leads the industry?
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While Hewitt clearly has the biggest name and the most large clients right now, I’m not so sure if they are the clear leaders as this Hewitt press release indicates. Let’s face it, Hewitt doesn’t seem to be making a great profit on this stuff yet they are still working out the kinks in their…
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Workday.com = Salesforce.com?
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Post edited on November 01, 2005. Workday.com actually contacted me about some inaccuracies in my original post. I recently wrote about Dave Duffield and how he intends to bring workday.com to the market in the same style that salesforce.com’s CRM has become a company to be reckoned with. I love “I told you so” moments,…
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Arinso Service Center diagram
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Arinso has a very nice whitepaper on service centers. They segregate the strategy and the service center organizations in a very nice visual. I just thought this was a very shareable pictoral. Here it is…
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SoftScape gets thumbs up from Gartner
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Having gotten some (light) criticism in the past about not including SoftScape in my talent management roundup, here’s some good thoughts on them: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/sep/1180540.htm “Softscape, an industry leader in strategic people management technology and services, today announced that Softscape received the highest rating of “Strong Positive” in Gartner’s 2005 MarketScope for Employee Performance Management (EPM)…