Much commotion was made about AJAX last year when it took hold in the web marketplace.\u00a0 Certainly the web applications of it are marvelous and bloggers like myself spent much time wondering where it would go and what forms it might take shape in.\u00a0 I personally held my opinion until I saw more of it and could really have a clear vision in how I thought it might impact HR.<\/p>\n
First however, perhaps not everyone is familiar with AJAX as a technology.\u00a0 Basically, it\u2019s asynchronous java script something or other\u2026 What all that really means is that when you load a webpage, a java script is loaded with the HTML calling additional data from the server.\u00a0 AJAX is asynchronous (meaning not real time) because the server side data is requested only once during the page load.\u00a0 What this data does is rather dynamic, but the possibilities are endless.<\/p>\n
One of the best examples is on the Google maps page.\u00a0 If you search for an address and then click the link for nearby businesses, each of those businesses will dynamically display over the map with pertinent information such as web links, reviews, and images.\u00a0 This is all done without calling for a data refresh because the data was prepared and made available when you originally loaded the page.<\/p>\n
Looking forward to seeing how AJAX can make HR pages more rich, the easiest place to start is employee and manager self service portal applications.\u00a0 Imagine loading your performance reviews and immediately being able to pop up new overlays of reports, prior review history, and workflow without having to wait the extra two or three seconds.\u00a0 All of this is possible because AJAX would keep loading data even after you\u2019ve finished loading the current page.\u00a0 Saving 2-3 seconds may not seem like a whole lot, but when you have 5 employees to review, and 10 pages to look at for each to gather data, it adds up.\u00a0 From an employee view, you might be able to provide better help and navigation assistance with AJAX, or simply more convenient pages rather than re-navigating through the menu tree.<\/p>\n
Certainly AJAX also holds much promise is HR applications as well.\u00a0 Consider an employee profile screen in your HRMS.\u00a0 This might have elements such as job, department, personal data, etc, but imagine if the detail of each of these continued to load and a simple click expanded the specific data you wanted to drill down into?<\/p>\n
I\u2019m fairly sure that my fellow bloggers will thing I missed the boat on this one, but I think that understanding where Google and Yahoo have taken AJAX give us much better insight into how our HR vendors might shape their development futures.\u00a0 Needless to say, AJAX is cool stuff and I look forward to seeing it in HR, hoping of course that I never realize it\u2019s there working in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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