{"id":523,"date":"2006-09-04T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2006-09-03T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T02:54:06","slug":"building-your-own-hrms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Building your own HRMS"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 5 years ago, Qualcomm in <\/span>San Diego<\/span> was presenting at various meetings nad user groups to show off the employee self service module they had built in-house. At the time, it made sense – self service UI’s were still maturing, functionality was not well deployed, and interactivity and workflow were immature.<\/span><\/p>\n

5 years later, Qualcomm is still one of the few who hold most of their HR development in-house<\/a>. While I refuse to condemn this practice, it truly doesn’t make much sense to me, and I’ll have to admit that Qualcomm’s HR department seems to be doing something right: “MySource has been a factor in earning the company a spot on Fortune magazine’s list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” eight years in a row, Morlock says.” ((Frauenheim, Ed, <\/span>July 17, 2006<\/span>. \u201cHomegrown HR Technology.\u201d Workforce Management Magazine.))<\/span><\/p>\n

The fact is that in the 90\u2019s and early parts of this decade, the entry costs to getting a good ERP system were significant, and I could see where creating the software yourself could be attractive. However, as technology has advanced, I can\u2019t see an organization re-tooling an application from the ground up every time there\u2019s a new leap in technological innovation and capability. <\/span><\/p>\n

A newer approach to this problem is the use of a “rules engine,” which is a layer of software that allows business managers to change a policy once and have it automatically update all the necessary parts of the system. “I wish we would have had a rules engine in the very beginning,” Hemry says. ((Ibid))<\/span><\/p>\n

A similar example would be XML and web services where re-tooling the entire application to be compliant with the newer web standards would be incredibly time consuming and costly. While it may have been cost effective for the first years, not being able to spread out upgrade costs over many hundreds of clients would absolutely explode any TCO you originally anticipated.<\/span><\/p>\n

The plusses of an in-house built system is that you can be responsive to your business needs and specifically target functionality and design to the way your organization operates. This is assuming however, that you have an army of programmers at your beck and call.<\/span><\/p>\n

By making virtually all its HR tech in house, Qualcomm is taking an ever-more lonely path. Just 10 percent of the Fortune 500 choose to build a significant amount of their workforce management software these days, down from 25 percent five years ago and 70 percent 10 years ago, Knowledge Infusion’s Averbook estimates. ((Ibid))<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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