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Can Infor's acquisition of Lawson deliver on great HR technology?

Ahmed's Universe

It was developed (along with a payroll product called Sysper ) in the 1980’s by a French company called Presys (itself the resulting merger of two small IT companies) which in turn was bought by UK-based ERP company JBA in the late 1990’s (which also bought a small French HR-cum-payroll vendor called Logi-Soft ). Anybody remembers JBA?

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Changes Coming to Electronics, Dual-Wage Class Codes

InterWest Insurance Services

The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California will recommend changes to class codes for some electronics manufacturing sectors, as well as increases to the wage thresholds for construction industry dual classifications. per $100 of payroll for class code 3681 will apply to the new combined code.

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Desperately Seeking SaaS: Oracle buys Taleo

Ahmed's Universe

After so long in this industry, I am still flabbergasted by some vendors'' insistence on misleading the market: it is as if a submarine aircraft manufacturer insists their contraption is actually an aircraft. How can that fly? (in in the two senses of the expression.) Why insist that an offering is SaaS when it is just hosted?

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Faced with PeopleSoft Fading Away, What Are Customers' Choices?

Ahmed's Universe

If integration to an ERP system is important to you and you are part of the big proportion of PeopleSoft customers that run SAP for Financials, Manufacturing and other business functions, then start considering SAP HCM seriously. There are still plenty of choices.

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Changes Coming to Electronics, Dual-Wage Class Codes

InterWest Insurance Services

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on May 31 approved all of the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau’s recommended changes to class codes for some electronics manufacturing sectors, as well as increases to the wage thresholds for construction industry dual classifications. Starting Sept.

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Of cars and HR software: Metaphor-based HRIS tips

Ahmed's Universe

T here would be almost no learning-curve effects either from a manufacturing or a usability perspective. SaaS, a relatively new concept, is often confused with BPO (outsourcing the full process, be it payroll or recruiting.) Will you really buy half of a Porsche and couple it with half of a Ferrari?

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What are the pros and cons of digital self-service pay systems?

Employee Benefits

Quick and easy access to payroll information can also help employees see the impact on pay of benefit take up. With so many innovative and quirky ways of boosting employee engagement now in practice, reformatting a payroll system might at first seem like a very dull approach. They] might get some resistance.”.

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