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Of cars and HR software: Metaphor-based HRIS tips

Ahmed's Universe

Well, for the past couple of decades that I have been in the HR technology industry, I have been asking myself a similar question: Why can't my HR software be like a car? Note that most would apply to enterprise software, not HR only; however, since I am an HR technology person through and through, you'll be hardly surprised that's my focus.

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Desperately Seeking SaaS: Oracle buys Taleo

Ahmed's Universe

Oracle, by just announcing last week its acquisition of talent-software leader Taleo, showed it was enforcing the same principle. In addition, the pressure had been growing since December when the US-based giant''s nemesis, Germany''s SAP, bought the other talent-software leader, SuccessFactors. How can that fly? (in

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

Ahmed's Universe

Since the Fusion product will only run on Oracle database, that means these customers will either have to switch technologies to adopt the Fusion application (something most are loath to do, since underlying-technology choices take precedence over the business software that sits on top of it) or they will have to look at other options.

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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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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. More control. Key considerations.

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Who Will Inherit PeopleSoft's Crown?

Ahmed's Universe

And I''m talking here not only about their SaaS architecture (nobody has ever tried a SaaS payroll before) but also about their unique customer orientation which has all the marks of transforming the industry. Could the other ERP behemoth, SAP , take over? What about the latest kid on the block: Workday ? What about outsourcing vendors?