At least for HR, right? I mean, unless it was installed in the 90\u2019s, 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 beginning with major recruiting solutions like Taleo, Vurv and Kenexa (RecruitSoft, RecruitMax and Brassring) up to a decade ago. The reality is that Oracle and SAP know the industry is changing and delivery of applications won\u2019t always stay with them. If fact, there was no greater statement of admission than their support and development of the SOA technologies.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s interesting is the these best of breed applications are spreading out so far that it\u2019s arguable they are no longer best of breed. You have companies like Kenexa and Vurv who produce products across the entire talent management suite, plug the whole thing into a portal and deliver an analytics engine with it. Really the only thing they are missing is core HR. So while they are not ERP, they are potentially diluting the specialist expertise they had 5 years ago when they only focused on 1 or 2 things.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d like to take a few seconds to argue that the functional ERP modules are about to make a comeback. While there may be some admission that they will lose HR market share to point solutions, they are fighting back with programming dollars with every spare resource they have. Talent is being taken seriously, and with the lynchpin of integration, the ERP\u2019s have a great value proposition to sell. For example, a performance score is fed to a merit increase which goes right to payroll and the general ledger. Can any group of point solutions make that process flow as well as an ERP? I talk highly of a lot of technologies, and I like to pretend that everything works the way they should, but the truth is that no group of point solutions can make the above example work the way an ERP can.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s even better, the ERP\u2019s seem to be taking design and usability seriously as well. This was really what the point solutions built their success on. ERP\u2019s were so unsatisfying in their user interface capabilities that point solutions effectively moved in on the basis of slightly better functionality and much better UI. In a few years, this may no longer be true as ERP\u2019s close the gap on functionality and greatly improve UI as they focus on their own portal presentations.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m a big proponent of the point solutions. But I\u2019m also waiting for Fusion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At least for HR, right? I mean, unless it was installed in the 90\u2019s, 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…<\/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":[8,2,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","category-hr-technology","category-hrms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","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=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}