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2010-2011: Two momentous years of consolidation in the HR space

Ahmed's Universe

Sure, we are still a quarter shy of the end of 2011 and many choice morsels have already been gobbled up and are being digested. The average number of deals has been at least one per month (reaching in April 2011 a high-water mark with no less than 4 acquisitions announced in the same month, two of them by SuccessFactors).

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Error 404: Oracle Fusion not found

Ahmed's Universe

When it was demoed at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago a year ago (see my post on it) release was announced for early 2011. Then it was pushed to the second quarter of 2011 and only in the summer was "something" finally made available.

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Time for the Academy to honor non-English-speaking films with Korea's "Parasite"

Ahmed's Universe

It is noteworthy, that, if in its 92-year-long history, the Academy has never awarded the top prize to a foreign- language movie, it did pick a foreign movie when Best Picture (along with Director and Actor) went to 2011's The Artist", a French film. In other words, for Hollywood the best foreign language is the one we don't hear. -Dec.

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Fighting political corruption - Brazil vs France

Ahmed's Universe

Back in 2011 I wrote a blog post denouncing France's Real crimes, Fake justice when former President Chirac was condemned to 2 years in jail but.never set foot in one! As the below diagram shows, Brazil isn't shy about firing its leaders or putting them behind bars when caught rend-handed.

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Dead software walking: PeopleSoft 7 years after its acquisition by Oracle

Ahmed's Universe

For a detailed analysis of Fusion, read my post "Error 404: Oracle Fusion not found" from November 2011.) OPTION # 2: Switch to Oracle Fusion The main reason Oracle stopped investing in PeopleSoft is that it has been throwing all its R&D firepower on the successor product, Fusion.

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Desperately Seeking SaaS: Oracle buys Taleo

Ahmed's Universe

First, Taleo is itself busy integrating other products such as the recently acquired Jobpartners and Learn.com (see my blog on "2010:2011: Two momentous years of consolidation in the HR space" ) Second, You also have to take into account that Taleo is not fully multi-tenant since of its two offerings (Enterprise and Business) one is NOT SaaS.

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How the world’s 25 best workplaces reached the top (2011-2019 data)

Hppy

With the data stretching back to 2011, Resume.io came up with the idea of showing how the top 25 companies have evolved over the last decade. The team trawled through the Great Place to Work best workplaces rankings from 2011 to 2019 and traced the path taken by the top 25 workplaces throughout the years.

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