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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. The HR Admin, Payroll, Benefits modules may look good in demos (but what product doesn''t?)

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

Ahmed's Universe

The only feature of note was the three localized payrolls (Argentina, China, Thailand - in the case of Argentina it was a partner-developed solution which was productized in 9.1.) is hardly any better in terms of features of value (unless you are a global company with a significant workforce in the three countries that got a new payroll.)

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Desperately Seeking SaaS: Oracle buys Taleo

Ahmed's Universe

Oracle EBS and PeopleSoft HCM cover the whole gamut of HR: from HR administration/ payroll/ benefits/time to the various components of talent management (albeit not as well as Taleo.) The two JD Edwards products: JDE World and JDE EnterpriseOne , each with its own HR product line, some payroll and limited talent management.

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Of cars and HR software: Metaphor-based HRIS tips

Ahmed's Universe

2011 article, " Can sof tware dinosaurs reinvent themselves as cloud-based vendors?" ) One concept that, surprise, surprise, dinosaur vendors try to push is the hybrid system of on-premise + SaaS system supposed to work in perfect harmony like hybrid cars. See my Jan. Will you really buy half of a Porsche and couple it with half of a Ferrari?

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Land of the Morning Calm: Tips on implementing a global HRIS in Korea

Ahmed's Universe

Compensation and Payroll Interface Since it is most likely you'll be interfacing your Core HR tool with a Korean payroll (none of the three global HRIS vendors - for whom I coined the acronym SOW - has released a Korea cloud-based payroll), figuring out where to place the cursor between Core HR (Compensation) and Payroll will be quite a challenge.

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Romania: Between HR technology and childhood memories

Ahmed's Universe

Tier-1 vendors include the usual suspects we know, with SAP on top (the only one with full localization including payroll) and Workday the #1 cloud HR vendor with limited localization (and the need to improve its Romanian translation).and and their lei Tier-2 vendors cater to the other Romanian companies: smaller in size but more numerous.