HRMS
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Future State: The Business Analyst as Coder
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Will the need for someone writing code ever disappear? Perhaps the real question is not if, but when this will happen. We do things today that we would not have dreamed of just fire or six years ago. Today, our…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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2007 HR Technology Conference In Non-Review
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I’m writing this one in response to Jason Corsello’s conference in review post. Mine however, is a non-review since I was not there. This kills me as I was registered, had a hotel room and everything, but was distracted at…
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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…
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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…
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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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HRIT: I Thought ERP Was Dead
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At least for HR, right? I mean, unless it was installed in the 90’s, how many new organizations are going up on core HR, portal, benefits, payroll, talent, recruiting, compensation and the others? Specialist applications have really penetrated the markets…
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Cedar Crestone HCM Survey 2006
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Cedar recently released their 2006 HCM survey with some interesting results and interpretations. I’m not going to regurgitate their findings, but here are a few items I though worth thinking about. Five applications cause operating income growth among publicly traded…
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ERP – Vendor Updates
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I did a thing back in August about SAP versus PeopleSoft. (Parts 1 and 2) I really should have done an SAP versus Oracle. To be honest, I have no intention of doing in depth comparisons of technology or functionality…
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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…
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PS vs SAP: Part 2
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In the last entry I wrote “that the only HR departments that go on SAP are the ones that are forced to do so by their CEO.” While there’s some truth to this, I’ve also written in the past that…
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PS vs SAP: Part 1
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There are lots of snobs out there: those that won’t outsource to anyone but ADP, those that think they are superior because they work in compensation, and consultants who think their way is better before they even consult. The snobbery…
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An Interview with Employease
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I’ve been quite up front in my admission that I don’t know much about the mid-market for HRMS. As part of my education, I had the opportunity to speak with one of the absolute leaders in the mid-market HRMS arena…
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HRO IT Platforms
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HRO Today has an article out there descrbing their take on the technology platform evolution within the HRO space. They pay particular interest to Oracle and SAP which is quite predictable. While not mentioning that SAP is the clear leader…
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The Future of HR Technology
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I’m looking at a convergence of talent, portals and business intelligence. The next wave of technology is not around any specific functionalty. The next wave is going to be about integration with the rest of the business. Talent, portal and…
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Does HR Technology Define HR Strategy?
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Or does HR strategy define HR technology? The honest answer is probably both, but I’m going to argue that HR technology leads more often than not. It isn’t that strategy does not contribute to new functionality, but technology opens so…
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SAP Offers On-Demand
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Is Software as Service in the realm of possibility for SAP? Probably not. Even though I’ve written about SAP in a vanilla, hosted model, I don’t think much of this approach. To be totally honest, if you are complex and…
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SOA and SaaS – The Future of Enterprise HR
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Is ERP dead? Well, not really. At least not in the enterprise HR market. Net yet anyway. cryptic enough?) The truth is that there isn’t anyone out there looking to compete with Oracle and SAP over the enterprise HR market…