As we seem to be moving past the initial enamoration of talent functionality, there seems to be more and more disillusionment with the lack of full integration that we are used to expecting with more mature applications like HRIS, payroll and benefits.\u00a0 (ok, that\u2019s fully debatable, I know\u2026)\u00a0 But the problem is that not only do talent applications within a \u201csingle suite\u201d, but they don\u2019t play nice with other application providers either.\u00a0 My experience is that integration is spoken of confidently by the talent vendors, but delivered minimally.<\/p>\n
At the very least, we\u2019d like to think that data integration exists between performance, compensation, and succession within a single suite.\u00a0 Generally, integration is ok between those functions.\u00a0 Where things fall apart is integration with core HRIS.\u00a0 While vendors say that standard integration exists, I have yet to come across an organization that is satisfied with delivered integration with no modifications to the program.\u00a0 And even with the modifications, integration is not sufficient.\u00a0 competencies, job, organization unit, and other data elements need to be better integrated.\u00a0 Certainly, there is a fairly consistent list of data elements we would want from any core HR system to talent, although the list is fairly robust.\u00a0 Similar to payroll and benefits, the lists are 90% predefined and should not be as hard as it is to integrate today.<\/p>\n
Second however, integration with user environments is completely non-existent.\u00a0 What I want to see is a portal environment that managers access not only for their core HR transactions, but also for their talent applications.\u00a0 This means that ultimately the talent functionality, data and workflows need to be brought forward into a unified portal environment.\u00a0 Raising the API\u2019s for workflow elements and notifications is probably not as simple as the theory sounds, but hopefully we\u2019re just a few years away from that.\u00a0 The idea that talent vendors have today around presenting a separate portal environment is nice, but at the end of the day, managers don\u2019t want to go to multiple applications to know what HR functions they need to perform that day, or to view multiple sets of metrics. As we seem to be moving past the initial enamoration of talent functionality, there seems to be more and more disillusionment with the lack of full integration that we are used to expecting with more mature applications like HRIS, payroll…<\/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":[2,41,7,20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hr-technology","category-point-solutions","category-portal","category-talent-management","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","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=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nMeg Bear writes a few nice thoughts<\/a> around integrated talent applications, but I\u2019d like to make sure we don\u2019t stop there \u2013 let\u2019s make sure that integrated talent applications also include the right API\u2019s to integrate with the rest of HR as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"