ADP
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Is Cloud The Way To Go?
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So I had to upgrade my cell phone contract. I used to be on this thing where I had a bucket of minutes and text messages to use, and now I’m on exactly the opposite. I have unlimited phone and text and about 10 GB of data I can use every month. It really points…
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Bill Kutik and the Direction of HR Technology
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A recent Bill Kutik Radio Show featured Tom Keebler of Towers Watson. Tom is the Global Practice Leader of the TW HR Service Delivery Practice, and each year they run an HR Technology Survey that is probably the second largest in the industry (Lexy’s from CedarCrestone is significantly larger this year). The TW survey is…
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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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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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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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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 to move into the mid market and we’re seeing less of the multi-line multi-process deals…
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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 client and you have a user interface nightmare looming on the horizon. SOA makes it…
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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 among corporate rankings, the InformationWeek 500 spotlights the power of innovation in business technology, rather…
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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 that got ADP where it is in this space. I will however try to hit…
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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 70% of the total HRO market share depending on how you measure it. This piece…
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ADP Acquires Virtual Edge Talent Acquisition
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In a great move by ADP, they finally got their hands on a great talent acquisition system. Truthfully, they have been on the hunt for several years, but the deals seemed to keep falling through. This time though, ADP struck gold with a TAS that has great technology, great functionality, and is priced better than…
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Traditional Outsourcers – Vendor Updates
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Outsourcers: This is a rather boring category as there are only 2 traditional outsourcers worth mentioning. However, the last several years have been interesting for both of them, but I’ll back up an entire decade since many people I talk to are pretty far behind on their news (the below in alpha order): ADP Global…
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Russ Fradin: The New CEO at Hewitt Associates
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Last week I promised to write about measuring risk related to group benefit plans and techniques on evidence based cost avoidance (when I put it that way, it sounds so boring!) I’m sorry, but some other news broke last week that I felt compelled to comment on. I’ll get back to measuring risk next week.…
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ADP Aquires Employease
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OK, as ths Employease press release says, they only agreed to do so, but it’s a great move assuming it gets past all the regulatory stuff. ((Got this through Phoenix INformation Managmenet.)) The (pending) acquisition is a great move for ADP, but it’s not the one I would have necessarily made. It bolsters their mid…
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HRO Vendor Positioning (Scorecard)
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Accenture: Accenture is like ExcellerateHRO and Hewitt. With a great HR consulting group and an ability to execute the technology, Accenture was in the market early enough to capture great market share. Unlike Hewitt, they have great flexibility in their technology offerings and can also offer FAO (finance) and IT outsourcing. ADP: The clear leader…
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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 page) Peoplesoft ADP Enterprise SAP Oracle/Lawson (tied) ((CedarCrestone 2005 Workforce Technologies and Service Delivery Approaches…
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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 player in the small market and have captured significant market share in the mid market…
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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 on his site called “Another Reason Why HR Should Be Totally Outsourced?” and being the…
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cFactor Portal Review and ADP Portal Redux
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Back to the ADP portal discussion, I was invited to take a look at cFactor’s self service portal and came away pretty impressed. A very clean user interface that is obviously brand-able with whatever your organization needs. The standard package comes with employee, manager and administrator views. The surface functionality is a very nice employee…
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ADP Benefit TCO study
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ADP’s benefit TCO study presented some very interesting numbers as well as a few questions: First, I’m not at all surprised that outsourced benefit administration is less costly from a TCO (total cost of ownership) measure than in-house benefit admin. However, let’s look at some of the unspoken assumptions in the survey: The average size…