systematicHR

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    IBM’s inability to capitalize on HRO

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    Well, maybe tier inability to capitalize on IT services and BPO in general seem to have tripped up the entire stock market, and especially the U.S. market. IBM has been moving towards services over data center management for some time now. Word on the street is that morale in the traditional lines of business is…

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    Lawson Systems Review

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    OK – so I never mentioned Lawson until the last post. They are definitely one of the major vendors in the enterprise HR space, but I’ve always had concerns about them. My personal opinion is they are a prime takeover candidate by Oracle or SAP. Here’s why: 1) I haven’t seen their latest numbers, but…

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    Oh My God!!! Payroll Outsourcing

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    Ultimate is not the best payroll outsourcer. In fact, do they even really qualify for this category? Let’s talk Paychex, ADP and Ceridian. Now these are outsourcers. What’s the difference? A huge back room – the 3 REAL PR vendors above actually process taxes, submit NACHA (direct deposits), do garnishments, print checks, etc… Ultimate (I’m…

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    The ATS Market

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    OK – so I’m writing a lot about ATS vendors lately and I thought I’d do an overview of the market. As usually, this is my opinion of the market, and even some of the “facts and figures” in here are my opinion and may not actually be verified. The ATS marketplace has always been…

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    ATS News

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    In an “it’s about time” one of the major ATS vendors is finally rolling out a hiring management solution for the lower end market. For all the people who were sick of seeing $250K implementations for BrassRing and Taleo, Taleo is rolling out a solution aquired from RecruitForce.com. Also in ATS news, I noted a…

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    Good bad and sad vendor news

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    In an interesting vendor day, there’s good news, bad news and depressing news. First the good news. Oracle has released patches and fixes for the PeopleSoft products. Many organizations have been worried about the support Oracle would be offering, but it appears that Oracle is fairly committed to maintaining the satisfaction of the customer base.…

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    Internets, networks, and recruiting technology

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    Funny that Michael from another HR blog should mention Jobster. I’ll feed off of that for this post. This is a great tool for recruiters and should help them tap into the “not looking” or “inactively looking” candidate population. I’m especially interested in this because I use a networking tool called LinkedIn.com. This is a…

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    BrassRing and staffing HRO

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    I thought it would be a cool thing to spotlight either vendor services or software functionality every now and then. Generally I won’t look at “the normal stuff” but instead I’ll check out things that I think are new, in demand or unique. Here’s the first and second in a separate post for today. Last…

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    Outsourcing employment verifications with Talx

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    Every time I go visit clients to think about new HRMS systems, one of the topics that comes up most often (functionally) is how software can automate all the requests from mortgage companies for employment and salary verifications. Now, there’s a better way. Talx has a service called “The Work Number.” You provide them a…

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    Plumtree portals and ROI

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    Plumtree has just made it much easier to substantiate the ROI on your portal investment. Of course, your organization has to be using the Plumtree portal, but this is one of the best out there anyway. Portals generally allow you to maintain a single point of entry for a disparate user population accessing disparate systems,…

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    Oracle and PeopleSoft

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    Looks like Oracle’s aquisition strategy is generally working out. While Oracle’s net profits are down due to increased short term expense, it looks like they will be hanging onto the majority of the PeopleSoft clients. a very low percentage of those clients are open to leaving in the short to mid term, unlike what other…

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    Does Kronos own Kronos HR?

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    I’m posting this because I’m fairly ticked off about a “conversation” I had with someone on another bulletin board. During this conversation (with many other people) I expressed some opinions about HR software and particular vendors. I also stated that Kronos Workforce Central (the HR and PR modules) are in fact still owned by Best!…

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    Single sourcing HRO?

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    What’s up with HRO vendors revisited. As sort of a follow-up to my last post on HR Consultancies, here’s an interesting article about HRO and the wisdom of single sourcing your entire HR relationship to one vendor. I’m not actually sure that you can put all of your eggs in one basket, but you sure…

  • Mercer is still the biggest, but are they the best?

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    Yesterday’s Business Insurance Magazine survey on biggest HR and Benefit Consultancies named Mercer as both the largest worldwide and U.S HR consultancy. Among tier 1 HR consultancies (I’d say that’s Mercer, Towers Perrin, Watson Wyatt, Delloitte HR, Accenture, and Hewitt), Mercer may be the biggest, but are they the best? Let’s start with the easiest:…

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    Implementation glitches and huge clients

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    Apparently Fidelity’s benefit administration services division screwed up 22,000 GM employees and retirees who no longer have benefits (temporarily). Now, I don’t usually comment on benefits administration, but as this is part of Fidelity’s larger HRO offering, I will. I don’t have a link for you, but it’s an Associated Press article titled “Computer Glitch…

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    Sungard is going private

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    In a surprising move (to me) Sungard is going private with the purchase of the company by a group of investors. Why is this important to HR? There are a couple of aspects. First, they do provide some 401(k) technology services to 401(k) administrators we know. More importantly however, Sungard provides data back-up and disaster…

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    Aon’s self serving press release and ROI

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    I promise I will do a post on ROI in the near future. This is a bit of a rant about consutling company studies that are publisehd in trade magazines that are clearly not an attempt at objectivity. Aon is normally seen as an HR consulting company with an HRO arm. Their VP of HRO…

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    RecruitMax pushing the envelope

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    RecruitMax Article Really randome thought here… One of these days I’ll write quite a bit more about my opinions on ATS/HMS (applicant tracking or hiring management) or whatever you want to call it. For now, I wanted to comment on some new technology Recruitmax is rolling out. While I don’t completely understand it, it looks…

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    Mellon HRO purchased by ACS???

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    ACS Deal For Mellon Unit Shows HR Outsourcing’s On A Roll My first thought was “who the heck is ACS?” Word on the street was that Watson Wyatt was the front runner for the Mellon deal. I guess Wyatt didn’t offer enough cash or stock. It would have been interesting per the post below if…

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    What’s up with HRO vendors?

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    The human resource outsourcing industry may be the fastest growth segment of BPO. However, the US HRO (HR BPO) market is in complete dissaray. Nobody has the entire service offering put together in a package that provides functionality and service in a proven model. Traditional service providers such as ADP and Ceridian may have the…