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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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    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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    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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    The #1 Factor for Successful HRMS Implementation

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    Every HRMS vendor on the face of this earth will assert increased productivity, enhanced process efficiency and a plethroa of other incredible benefits your company will attain by purchasing and implementing their software. Each one of them is probably correct…

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    Implementation Critical Success factors

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    Eric Kimberling recently wrote about increasing success factors in an ERP implementation ((Thanks to the Oracle Apps Blog for pointing this one out.)) Each section has Eric’s personal commentary, but here’s the list without it. Link to his article for…

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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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    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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    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…

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    HRMS Comparison Tool

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    I went through an HRMS comparison tool on-line with some pretty interesting results. Just thought I’d let you all know it’s out there. The tool walks you through a number of questions (size, # of users, required modules like ESS,…

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    Oracle Fusion Progress

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    Thanks to Systematic Viewpoints for this heads up. I’m quite entertained that Oracle President Charles Phillips thinks “Oracle is already halfway to achieving its Fusion promise … and the company’s developers have defined necessary software functions for the suite.”Songini, Marc…

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    2005 HRMS Buyers Guide

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    Just a quick post to put this out there for the sake of publicizing a resource. This is from Human Resource Executive Magazine. The buyers guides are not terribly complete, but it’s about the best I’ve seen. HRMS Buyers Guide…

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    Value of Mid Market HRMS = Not Much

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    John Enyedy of Track-it.com HR solutions wrote this paper for HR.com. I really need to stop reading things in HR.com and SHRM as I’m never terribly impressed. As usual, I have a difference of opinion. Perhaps the below quote is…

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    The ERP Graveyard Scorecard

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    For those of you who track ERP outside of the HRMS/HCM space, I found this fun graveyard: The ERP Graveyard Scorecard. I’ll think about doing this for HRMS and point solutions. This could take a while…

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    ADP’s On-Demand HRMS Direction

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    I saw this press release and got to thinking about ADP’s direction with HRMS. Why do I keep talking about ADP and why are they important? Being the 10,000 lb. gorilla in the payroll market, they are actually also one…

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    CFO Magazine Survey on Employee Performance

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    As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I found this article at CFO.com on employee productivity. CFO Staff, September 15, 2005. “Our Assets, Ourselves,” CFO.com. Retrieved December 8, 2005 from CFO.com. First of all, many of the 170 CFO’s surveyed came…

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    Has Oracle Forgotten About the HR Suite?

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    Jason posted the same topic on SAP. Corsello, Jason, December 12, 2005. “Has SAP Forgotten About HR?” The Human Capitalist. Retrieved December 12, 2005 from http://jasoncorsello.blogs.com. If anyone was at Oracle World a few months ago, you’ll recall seeing all…

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    HR/PR Outsourcers – New Rankings

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    A reader recently wrote to me requesting my thoughts on payroll outsourcers and their HR products. This was written for a 500 employee organization. I’m posting because I don’t think I’ve ever ranked payroll outsourcers. Here are my verbatim comments…