{"id":180,"date":"2005-04-18T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=180"},"modified":"2005-12-02T21:39:45","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T21:39:45","slug":"sap-and-hro-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"SAP and HRO platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A few weeks ago I stated I thought SAP would end up being the default HRMS platform for HRO\/BPO vendors.<span style=\"\">  <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sap.com:80\/about\/newsroom\/press.epx?PressID=4467\">Looks like they have started the ball rolling<\/a>.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>Instead of getting into HRO administration, they are doing what they do best \u2013 market software.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>This is huge for them because these agreements virtually guarantee their status over Oracle in the BPO space.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>Certainly for HRMS, they are a logical choice over Oracle anyway.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>If Oracle were smart, they would offer the PeopleSoft platform, because (IMO) HRO vendors would prefer a platform with a higher embedded adoption rate.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>However, since Oracle has no idea what they are doing with PS in 5 years, that simply doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">However, what\u2019s really surprising about the article is that they are partnering with ACS, EDS, and ADP.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>ACS makes sense.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>So does EDS as Towers Perrin has a large SAP consulting arm.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>However, it seems ADP will be going away from the Enterprise HRMS platform they purchased from PeopleSoft ages ago?<span style=\"\">  <\/span>This also means that ADP might be thinking in-house payroll for these large BPO deals which seems to be a major flip in philosophy.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>I can see how ADP would prefer leveraging SAP for global payrolls, but I\u2019m just not sure how in-house payroll fits into their model.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I stated I thought SAP would end up being the default HRMS platform for HRO\/BPO vendors. Looks like they have started the ball rolling. Instead of getting into HRO administration, they are doing what they do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hro","category-sap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}