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10 features Workday should deliver - yesterday!

Ahmed's Universe

Back in 2015, I wrote a critical open letter to Dave Duffield (whom I met and chatted with at the 2007 HR technology conference in Chicago when Workday was a 2-year-old infant) and Aneel Bhusri, Workday’s co-CEOs, about some issues that the company needed fixing in Europe. Today, I’d like to focus on the product side of things. But Google?

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Is Fidelity Still in HR Services Business? Bank of America Ends Outsourcing Contract

Ahmed's Universe

First, Fidelity, who had been using Oracle for a long time, decided to have their own technology on which they would offer outsourcing services and in 2003 they bought from IBM Paris-based software vendor HR Access. Fidelity HR HR Access outsourcing software' In view of these developments it is safe to predict the following : 1.

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Looming Clash of Titans: SAP Acquires Sybase

Ahmed's Universe

To counter Oracle''s rise in the enterprise-software business, I asked her, what was SAP waiting to give the Redwood Shores-based competitor what we French call " la réponse du berger à la bergère " and move into the database business. IBM Oracle SAP software' It is clear that we are entering an increasingly ferocious stack war.

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No SaaS please, we're bankers!

Ahmed's Universe

PARIS As traditional, on-premise corporate computing moves relentlessly to the cloud, especially its more sophisticated version, SaaS (software as a service)*, one business sector seems impervious to the march of History: the banking industry. Some of the new rules , especially in Europe, have to do with bankers'' compensation.

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8 company culture examples to follow

Achievers

Google has been carbon neutral since 2007 and aims to be carbon-free by 2030. Like a typical software company, Spotify uses a form of agile development, aptly called the Spotify Model. These values reinforce the concepts of doing good, working fast, and delivering excellent service.

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How in-memory technology could affect HR applications

Ahmed's Universe

FRANFURT Returning from my first Sapphire in years (working for several vendors such as PeopleSoft, Oracle and Fidelity in a row wasn''t the best way to get me an invitation to the world''s largest business-software event) I feel like sharing some thoughts about what could be a game-changer for HR technology.

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The $100,000 Bill: ALL Labor Law Changes Impact Your Bottom Line

HR Bartender

Over half of respondents (59%) said they rely on their HR/payroll software provider to learn about changes. Three-quarters of respondents (74%) said it’s more expensive than 2007. Survey respondents shared some eye-opening insights about labor law compliance: It’s complicated. It’s challenging. It’s costly.