Modern Day Enterprise Software: Workday Example
Even before cloud computing became the household name, enterprise software industry has started seeing disruption. Even though legacy software still holds enterprise market to ransom, companies like Salesforce.com, Workday, Netsuite, Google, etc. are carving out a path towards the modern day enterprise software. From my point of view, any modern enterprise software should offer social […]
Three Wrongs When it Comes to Profiles in HCM Technology
We have to admit it – the modern world loves profiles. Every major service that “sticks” has a profile component that is meant to describe us. HR technology isn’t an exception. Every major vendor has made at least some attempts to position their profile components as truly central elements of their suite. So why is […]
Oracle HCM (con)Fusion
Oracle HCM Fusion vs. Oracle HCM (con)Fusion – which one is it? Years of waiting, years of speculation – does the wait equal innovation? Is it real or is it still somewhat an imagination? I ask three simple, direct, important questions. Will Oracle an…
The Enterprise Social Goodness
Ever since the word “social” became a famous consumer token that is overused and overhyped every minute of every day, the business world started wondering about how to build an enterprise social network that had all the right and relevant component…
Social Recruiting – 3 Questions Answered
One of the pressing questions surrounding social media these days is it’s applicability to recruiting and other people management processes within an organization. Specifically, there is an ethics debate around how much of the Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter data are employers allowed to discover, request and use in the hiring process. Today I see organizations […]
Performance Reviews – Infographic
A simple Linkedin poll asked few questions about performance reviews and here’s the result – top management still thinks of performance reviews as “time consuming” and employees consider it to be one of the most stressful times of the year. Nobody fin…
Gartner’s HCM Magic
Gartner’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management is here! The most influential of all analyst reports in the HCM arena, Gartner ranks SuccessFactos as an absolute leader, moves Taleo into the Leaders Quadrant and leaves Workday off …
Business Recruiting 2.0
The world is changing. The technology has had a profound effect in the way we live our lives. From our personal habits like watching television programming to the way we do business collaboration to, if the Obama administration have their way, the way we can get the government to work for us, things are changing […]
Flowers and HCM Systems Architecture.
(The following is a Guest post by Thomas Otter, Research Director @ Gartner, and fellow Enterprise Irregular.) I’ve tried this metaphor on several client calls recently, so let me inflict it on you too. Cactus via Flickr, the cc licence of Rodolfo Cartas thanks. In this architecture, everything is from one vendor, and integration with […]
Recruiting by Video. Some Get It, Others Just Pretend
Since I just wrote a piece on how your Social Media participation is your new Resume, it’s only appropriate to look at the hiring side, on a lighter note this time. Both myself and Ben picked on a cool video produced as a side-project for Atlassian’s FedEx Day, which I’m sure becomes a perfect recruiting […]
