Vendors
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Relationship Management II – Managing Expectations
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Last week I wrote, in part, about outsourced service providers’ client satisfaction programs which monitor how satisfied clients are with performance. At any given point in time, there are a number of clients who don’t believe their service providers are…
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Top HR Technology Vendors by Function
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I always have my list of top vendors, but it’s nice to see what the surveys are saying as well. For HRMS, this lines up 100% with what I always thought domestically for enterprise HRMS. (see chart at bottom of…
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ExcellerateHRO Ranked An HRO Leader
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I thought it interesting that ExcellerateHRO was recently ranked a leader among the HRO vendors. Recently winning their first large contract with Cardinal Helath, they may have more coming.. “Being one of the most global of all HR BPO providers,…
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SAP Mid Market HR Offering
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I ran across this company offering a mid market SAP offering. The HCM LaunchSuite™ solution provides essential SAP HR functionality for SMB clients including: managing HR master data, integrated whole-enterprise solution, security and SOX compliance with separation of duties, organizational…
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Mid Market HRMS – The Players
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I’ve long ignored mid market HRMS – to some of your dismay as many of you have e-mailed to me. Here’s my list of players in no particular order: Abra Suite – In here mostly because they are the dominant…
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Relationship Management – Part I
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Back in January, Double Dubs posted an article titled Vendor or Client – Who’s Fault Is It? The question is not an academic one, as companies spend a combined fortune greater than the GDP of many countries in search of…
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Vendor Selection the Wrong Way
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After a week of ERP, I thought this was a humorous way to select a vendor. There are times that I can difinitively say “that’s wrong” and this is one of them. The premise of this vendor is that small…
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Oracle Fusion point counterpoint
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Over at the Parallax blog, a wonderful evaluation of Oracle Fusion and in it, some nice comparisons between Oracle Fusion and SAP NetWeaver. Myth #1: Fusion is a Bad Idea: But both Oracle and SAP sounded the alarm long before…
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SAP and Oracle ERP News
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So who’s winning the ERP war? SAP has stronger market momentum, better articulated value for next-generation apps, and a better partnership strategy than Oracle. But Oracle’s strong middleware platform and greater support of standards make it a better choice than…
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Oracle versus SAP – 2008
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I’m pretty comfortable giving my stack ranking of current enteprrise HR vendors. PeopleSoft HR, SAP HR and then Oracle might make the list. Everyone else in my opinion is a tier 2. (Oracle might be a tier 2, but We’ll…
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HRMS Implementation? or just Outsource?
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After writing about the #1 and #2 factors for successful implementations last week, I received this comment from Eric on the ability of smaller organizations to understand and focus on good business process. Eric’s comment linked back to a post…
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Authoria Introduces Recruiting
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Authoria Recruiting is big news simply because it expands the reach of the talent management suite. Most vendors claiming to be TMS have either been talent acquisition without the rest, or talent management without the aquisition. Recruitmax was the notable…
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Is Oracle’s Best Good Enough?
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This article from Baselinemag.com takes a look at Oracle post PeopleSoft aquisition. It’s a good question as Oracle has never been good enough if we talk about HR. Their financials have always been highly rated, but for the major ERP’s,…
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What is Oracle Fusion?
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Here’s my attempt to simplistically explain what Oracle Fusion is all about. I’ve noticed that most people seem to have misperceptions regarding what Oracle Fusion is all about. This is actually for good reason: When Oracle purchased PeopleSoft and thus…
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Workstream Product Enhancements
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The Talent management space is always a complex market. If you think about the talent management suite, you’re talking about workforce development, learning managmeent, performance management, compensation management, succession planning, and probably a few more I can’t think of off…
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Top HRO Deals of 2005
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I might be a bit behind on the news and it’s entirely possible this has been posted elsewhere. However, HRO Today Magazine posted their top 22 HRO deals of 2005 in their January/February issue. Personally I’m positive this is nowhere…
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Taleo Version 7 – updates to my scorecard
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With Taleo’s next release, they regain my number one spot for Talent Acquisition vendors. While they’ve always been at or near the top of my list, Taleo has been slipping for a few years due to their inability to execute…
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It’s all about the user – Part 3
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So in part 2, I stated that point solutions usually have both better functionality and usability. So why would anyone buy an ERP? Contrary to the title of this post, I’ll now state that it’s not always about the user. …
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It’s all about the user – Part 2
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I’m not going to surprise many people by saying point solutions generally have better usability than ERP solutions. Yeah – now I’ve pissed off all the SAP and PeopleSoft users out there. If you think about an ERP, they are…
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Mid Market HRMS
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I got an e-mail a couple weeks back noting that I don’t post any content on mid market HRMS. While this is generally true (and I am not intimately familiar with this space), it appears from my survey that many…