Vendors
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Ceridian Goes Private
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I’m a bit late with this one, but I wanted to provide some analysis as to what I think this means for Ceridian and their clients. The Ceridian Corporation, a human resources company, said last night that it had sold…
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Workstream Talent Update
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The mid-market is an interesting place to be. Depending on how you define that market, it is either a place where services and products are converging, or is grossly underserved. My take is that the mid market is somewhere around…
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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…
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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)…
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The Struggles of Vendor Integration
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Oracle owns PeopleSoft, Sieble, and countless others. Kenexa takes Brassring and Webhire. ADP acquires someone every year or two. There are some obvious things these vendors need to do to integrate the acquired companies. Bill Kutik of HREonline has a…
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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…
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Top HRO Deals
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Who’s paying attention? Did the value of HRO deals go down in 2006? Sure, there were much fewer $1B deals, but what was the cause of that? Were there overall fewer deals as well? I’m thinking that deals are starting…
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Who will own performance management?
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Dave Lefkow asks “who will own performance management?” I have several responses. Finally, a talent acquisition guy who realizes that talent management is not just recruiting. For ages, the talent acquisition vendors have been calling themselves talent management. Sure, it’s…
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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)…
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Considerations for ERP and SaaS
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Jason Averbrook over at the Knowledge Infuser recently wrote: Many of our customers are currently in the process of implementing best of breed “OnDemand” HR/HCM/Talent Management technology solutions for business processes such as Goal Alignment, Compensation Planning, Performance Management, Learning…
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ADP on SOA Leading Edge?
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ADP’s product and vertical mix of multiple products to multiple market segments has always been problematic. Combine this with their philosophy that they can seel everything HR from payroll and benefits administration to portal and background checks to any single…
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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…
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PeopleSoft Updates
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Much of this is old news, but a few interesting tidbits crossed my path and I thought I’d do a fuller update. Of main interest and something I didn’t really know until recently is that Oracle has actually integrated the…
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Where are the HRO Successes?
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Because much of my practice focuses on helping companies and HRO providers improve the outsourcing relationship for cost, quality and service levels, in my job I see many broken HRO relationships. It’s the nature of the business. So it comes…
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HRO: Profits, or Business Model?
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Jason asks if we can just get past the HRO profit (loss) thing. I think he’s right. What’s important in the equation is not if the HRO’s are making money or not (and chances are that none of them are),…
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How Did They Get Here – ExcellerateHRO
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In March of 2006, a study by Forrester Research was released which ranked ExcellerateHRO as a “Leader” among HR BPO providers. Excuse me? I mean who were these guys? Anyone not paying close attention might have missed that ExcellerateHRO had…
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ADP Ranked As Most Innovative
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Actually, ADP was ranked 2nd. This however, is quite impressive considering they are an HR company and just a scant 5 years ago they barely knew what XML was. The 2006 InformationWeek 500 list of most technologically innovative companies. “Unique…
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How did they get here – ADP
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Next in our “How did they get here” series, I take a look at ADP, perhaps the most acquisitive organization in the payroll / HR / benefits space. As such, I certainly cannot begin to recount all of the activity…
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HRO Market Leaders
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It’s interesting that only several vendors hold a large majority of the market share in the HRO world – almost an 80/20 rule. If you look at the top 3 (Hewitt, Accenture and ADP) you are probably getting close to…
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How Did They Get Here – Hewitt Associates
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The other day I was trying to remember what happened to a company in the benefits administration space I used to deal with quite regularly. Of course, as been happening with increasing regularity, it had been acquired some years ago…