Well, for my first post of the year, I thought I’d do a data model for HR service delivery. Having been a theorist for too long, I definitely have my own ideas of what HR service delivery should look like from the systems standpoint. Last year we had some pretty long posts about strategies from engagement, onboarding, branding, HRO and vendors. I promise I’ll get back to that in a couple days. For now, I’d like to share my model for integrated HR technologies and service delivery.
The key to this is the ability to take the best of any possible point solution – TAS from Virtual Edge, TMS from SuccessFactors, HRMS from SAP, LMS from Saba. Then tie the whole package together within a single messaging platform and a single unified user interface. Everybody goes to the same website to see HR data.
If you’ve done any work with an HRO organization, you’ve seen something like this. If not, here’s your chance to see what we think the future looks like.
(readable version of the image here)
Over the next few Tuesdays, I’ll explain my thoughts on the technology pieces and why this is becoming increasingly possible in a series called “Web Services.” Stay tuned.
(don’t worry – I’m going to do this at a VERY high level)
11 responses to “HR Systems and Data Model”
HR Systems and Data Model
I like your high-level model. The model makes sense from perspective of the ultimate consumer of the HR services being delivered — which is understandably the perspective appropriate for your articles. The one comment I’d make is that web services are likely to have a role at several layers of your stack and amongst the components within a given layer.
So great model, terrific topic – I’ll just add my geekly asterisk that web services will have utility up and down the stack and especially between components at the application layer. In fact, much of HR-XML’s focus is connecting these components via web services (e.g., connecting Time & Labor Management with Payroll; Workforce Administration -HRMS – with Talent Management).
It also occurs to me that since more of the work of HR is being done outside the enterprise, the BI/Data Warehouse layer (whether or not it itself is outsourced) quite likely will make increasing use of web services to interact with, and source data from, outsourced applications and external services.
Thanks Chuck:
I actually have much more coming on the XML-SOAP/web services discussion in the coming weeks (This is really the intro to the series).
Agreed that there is much going on between the individual applications in an “integration layer” that I ignored.
There’s more to come in the next few weeks including active directories, XML, SOAP, web services, federated networks… I’ll be publishing on these topics every Tuesday for a while.
-Dubs
This is really a terrific technological representation of the various layers in a typical HR organization. It allows one to see there is so much more to just cutting payroll checks. An even greater challenge would be to bring each square down as its own model.
I look forward to the other pieces of this discussion.
Whew!!! Wow Sam, you want me to do this for each individual solution? Sounds good to me. Look for it in the upcoming months. I’ll try to tackle them, but it might take the rest of the year before I get through them all. Thanks for the idea!!! I love a challenge.
-Dubs
LOL….precisely my point. Most people don’t even understand the amount of effort behind human capital. As a Peoplesoft HRer and ADP HRer, I think at one point in time, the PS/ADP HR backend consisted of over 1900 tables. And this was over 50% of the structure of the PS Financials and Distribution system, at that time.
Sam, I had hear 1600 tables, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that grew to 1900 by PS v8.9 (current I think).
Forget about writing this stuff, do you have any idea how long it takes me to draw the stupid picture?!?!?! Looking at it you’d think it’s straight forward, but that thing took me several plane trips across the country to figure out.
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Dubs, great site here and interesting dialog between you, Sam and Chuck here; looking fwd to future entries.
This is my first visit to sHR and the visit has captured my attention for the past 60 minutes.
Keep the synapses firing and I’ll be back to review again!
Thanks Dave. If you get a chance, take my poll (link in the top right corner on the home page). My way of better knowing what you guys are interested in. Otherwise, thanks for the feedback and tell a friend!!!
-Dubs
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