Industry News
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Workday Update
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Being that Workday is announcing their Fall 2008 update today, I figured it was a s good a time as any to get this site back up and running again. As probably the most hyped vendor in the HR space this year, they have still had impressive growth with 67 current total clients and 35…
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HR Technology Conference
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There are a few conferences that I think are great. There are others I think are pretty mundane. The great ones are about content, the mundane about sales, vendors, and vendor presentation. One of the great ones is the HR Technology Conference in Chi-town annually. We’re always interested in things like the vendor shootouts, but…
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CedarCrestone 2008-2009 HR Systems Survey
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It’s not often that you get to see the results of a survey before the submission deadline is up, but Lexy Martin shared a few preliminary numbers with me. While these are very preliminary numbers, it’s interesting to see the directionality of the numbers. She was thinking that with the down-economy, that some of the…
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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 waited expectantly for either a set of Fusion applications to be as half baked as…
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Better Recruiting Through Social Networks?
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Jobvite released their new survey on the utilization of social networks for recruiting. Most of this is not a surprise as recruiting seems to be the early adopter for some new HR technologies well ahead of everyone else. Remember recruiting systems was a major market before any other point solutions (outside of benefits and payroll). …
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What HP’s Acquisition of EDS HRO Means
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I haven’t written about HRO for a very long time. Part of it could be just my simple disillusionment of the space. The outsourcing of payroll and benefit transactions make total sense to me as they are complete commodities. If we talk about F&A (finance) the transactional side of procurement, AP and AR at the…
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SystematicHR’s Thoughts for 2008
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I suppose that I do need to put together a list of things I’m especially interested in this year. Many of these are already trends. Some of these will never be, but are things perhaps only I am interested in. Other ideas might actually emerge in 2008. The War for Talent: People will realize that…
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Rumors and News in the HR Technology Space
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So I took a brief 3 week pause from writing in December and quite a bit happened. Here is a brief summary of the news: December 4: Reuters reported a rumor that Microsoft was looking at a possible acquisition of SAP. While I find this highly unlikely, and while rumors of this also happened back…
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SuccessFactors ULTRA
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Out comes a new release of SuccessFactors popular talent management system. My general opinion is that the leading talent management systems are all playing on a fairly level playing field. They are all pretty well integrated, they all have good functionality, and most are operating on a SaaS model. When you’re looking at feature-functionality, everybody…
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McKinsey: How Businesses are Using Web 2.0
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Respondents to a recent McKinsey survey show widespread but careful interest in this trend. Expressing satisfaction with their Internet investments so far, they say that Web 2.0 technologies are strategic and that they plan to increase these investments. But companies aren’t necessarily relying on the best-known Web 2.0 trends, such as blogs; instead, they place…
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IBM to Buy Cognos
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Right on the heels of SAP and Business Objects is the IBM and Cognos announcement. Once again and like SAP, IBM didn’t need the capabilities. They are in all probability doing this to pick up market share and taking a major competitor off the market. On November 12, 2007 IBM announced that it has signed…
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McKinsey on SaaS
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“Several factors are spurring the growth. New software design and delivery models allow many more instances of an application to run at once in a common environment, so providers can now share one application cost effectively across hundreds of companies—a vast improvement on the old client-server model. Bandwidth costs continue to drop, making it affordable…
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CedarCrestone 2007 Analytics Report
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CedarCrestone recently pushed out their 2007 Analytics survey. While I’m not sure my own experience matches theirs, there are some interesting trends to at least be noted. You can find their full version of the survey here. In general, when we’re talking about HR metrics and analytics, I’m perfectly happy with a definition that includes…
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Redefining HRO
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Jason Corsello recently posted a great analysis of the state of HRO. His take is that the industry is on it’s 3rd generation of development, and the description of these 3 generations is so priceless that I thought I’d repost it word for word: I think we have officially entered our 3rd wave of HRO. …
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We Don’t Have the Infrastructure to Develop Talent
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A recent New York Times article ran a story about the increasingly large volumes of college applicants and the decreasing rates of admittance rates for college bound high school students. While this trend has been going on in the U.S. for several years, many of us in HR have been having a concurrent discussion about…
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More Changes at Hewitt
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In case you missed it, HRO Today recently reported the following: “A former president of national accounts at competitor ADP, Jay C. Rising, 50, has been named president of Hewitt’s HRO business. Additionally, former acting president Julie Gordon has been named president of client and market leadership, a newly created position.” The announcement isn’t surprising…
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Taleo Love Fest (But…)
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Jason wrote about Taleo a few weeks ago, and in a rare moment I completely agree. Actually, I usually do agree with Jason which is a bit disappointing since I like picking fights. My only concerns with Taleo are 1) they are showing up late to the broader talent management party and 2) talent management…
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Upheaval in Time Management
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Last week Jason Corsello noted that Kronos was being acquired by a private equity firm. I honestly didn’t take too much notice of it, but echoed his thoughts wondering why an ADP didn’t move first. ADP has had a very long relationship with Kronos, and if anyone was going to take them, I thought ADP…
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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) which I think might be the strongest warehouse around. But the point is if Oracle…
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Equifax to buy top payroll-service firm
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That was the headline that greeted me when I opened up my Atlanta Journal Constitution Business section last Thursday. Right there below the fold. Plain as day. My heart began to race a bit. Who could it be? Equifax is big, certainly. With a $5 billion market capitalization they could probably make a run at…