Vendors
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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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Pet Peeves Translated to HR 3
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When you’re angry, it’s still better to be nice. Sometimes, I see people who are not angry over anything, yet they are still not nice. Here’s my message: some of the people we interact with in HR can have huge impacts on our workforce. My main example is interactions with consultants and vendors. I’ve seen…
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Taleo Goes Down Market
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“Recruiting and retaining talent is the number one challenge for SMBs, and job boards, Excel spreadsheets and Outlook fall short when it comes to competing for superior candidates,” said Jason Blessing, group vice president and general manager, SMB, Taleo. “With this alliance, Taleo and Paychex are empowering SMBs with a compelling and high-value offering that…
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Developing an Application For Yourself
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Oracle coded their compensation workbench so they could use it themselves. It’s the best module in their HR suite. What a novel idea to create an application you think is good enough to use yourself. There are other models of course. SuccessFactors and other SaaS organizations now have a healthy record of coding and being…
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Lawson – Moving Core HR to The Talent Suite
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Lawson’s introduction of their new Strategic HCM product heads into an interesting direction. I got the change to talk to Larry Dunivan at the Lawson CUE conference and also to see the product briefly. While I’ll admit that I’m never really negative when I see new product (hey – it should be good if it’s…
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An Update with Sum Total
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I’ll admit. It caught me completely off guard to find out that the major learning vendors (Saba and Sum Total) have been offering talent management systems for the better part of a year (or longer). I’ve been advocating this for some time as I’ll explain below, but they have been flying under the radar for…
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Another Interview with SuccessFactors
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It’s always good to talk to SuccessFactors. After all, like Kleenex and tissue paper, SuccessFactors has almost locked themselves and the brand most affiliated with talent management software. There is more hype than ever around talent management and implementations, but in the recent HR Technology show in Chicago, SuccessFactors seemed to lag in the hype…
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WorkStream 7.0 Demo
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I always like it when I get to see product. While I often do as part of my normal job, I don’t overlap meaning I won’t write about things I see when consulting for a client. In the upcoming months however, quite a few vendors are scheduling demos for me privately, and giving me a…
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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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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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SAP to Buy Business Objects
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Perhaps this is in reaction to Oracles buying Hyperion. I always thought that SAP’s Business Warehouse product was pretty good. Then again, PeopleSoft EPM isn’t bad either, and Oracle felt the need to go out and continue their buying spree. SAP AG has agreed to acquire software maker Business Objects SA in a tender offer…
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Vurv 4.0
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Ok – I admit it. I still hate the rebranded name, but they are still one of the leaders in talent. In October at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago, they announced their 4.0 release. It has some nice features, and although I haven’t seen it yet, I hope to do so soon. First of…
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The Long Awaited Taleo Performance
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Last week Taleo announced their long awaited performance management module. I’ve been waiting for their talent management release for about a year since systemaciHR first heard about it. I’ve always thought they would be late to the game, and even though they have one of the best brands in talent acquisition, the fact that they…
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Lawson Update
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I haven’t felt the need to write about Lawson in quite some time. Not because they are not a major player, or that they don’t have a decent mix of technology. The truth of the matter is that Oracle and SAP seem to be so dominant these days that I hardly run across anyone else. …
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An Interview with HR Smart
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A while back, I had the opportunity to speak with HR Smart, a talent management software vendor and service provider. As with many vendors, HR Smart has had applicant tracking since 1996 and they have been slowly building a suite of talent products around that ever since. The conversation intrigued me mostly because they have…
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What is SuccessFactors Doing?
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It’s probably time for me to get back on the phone with these guys and poke around a bit. After all, it has been a very long while since my last official conversation with them as the writer and publisher of systematicHR. Until then, Bill Kutik’s excellent analysis of his impressions from their user conference…
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Middle Market HRO Convergence
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We’ve long talked about the large HRO organizations trying to go after the middle market. After all, how many companies out there can afford a 10 year contract valued at $500M? With large HRO contracts closing in on 200 contracts, there isn’t nearly as much high end opportunity left out there, but there’s no question…
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Wyatt Gets into Talent Software
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Mercer once had a benefits administration offering that they ended up selling to ADP. Then they partnered with SynHRgy (spelling?) to get into HRO. That didn’t pan out so well either. Towers Perrin has a partnership with Excellerate HRO (EDS) in the HRO space. Hewitt went full bore into HRO and that’s been a mixed…