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HR specialist asks Oracle: where's the 'fusion'?

In an analysis of last week's announcement at Oracle OpenWorld that Oracle would finally be releasing its Fusion Applications next year, HR technology specialist Bill Kutik wondered out loud where and when we'll see Fusion HCM Human Capital Management emerge in an SOA-ready configuration. Despite Larry...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Human Resources Inc., SOA, Larry Ellison, HR Specialist, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Human Capital, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-10-19

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News to know: Apple; Alex; Microhoo; Droid; FCC

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales Jason D. O'Grady: Apple announces most profitable...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Federal Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Government, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?

Shutting down your PC: Frugal fact, or financial fiction?Dave's is closerHowever 10 minutes and 5 minutes are a bit of an exaggeration unless you are using 5+ year old equipment. Which most workers do not. The actual number of minutes is probably half that, maybe less. However that still puts...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Shutting Down, Frugal fact, financial fiction, Frugal, computer, PC, financial, Dave

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

Reed.co.uk Enlists Brookcourt Solutions to Provide Breach WebDefend for Enhanced Online User Experience and Protection of a Distinguished Brand

The UK's leading specialist recruitment and HR services provider, Reed has been providing recruitment solutions to employers and jobseekers for 50 years. Business was booming; with unprecedented levels of site activity a robust web application security solution to monitor, protect and report on activity surrounding reed.co.uk's extensive web site and...

Tags: Web, Brand, Web Application, Breach Security, Reed.co.uk, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing

Case studies 2009-01-13

The Unix sysadmin salary premium

The Unix sysadmin salary premiumThe non-obviously conclusions I draw...The non-obviously conclusions I draw from this is that organisations looking fron Windows admins could do well by bring in guys with Unix experience.(I can hear someone say "No self respecting unix guy would take the job", to which the answer is...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix skill, Unix, salary, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

SAP 'Mittelstand' customers upset at new maintenance charges

Following on from yesterday's announcement of a hike in SAP maintenance charges, the German title Computerwoche implies that the powerful 'Mittelstand' group in the German SAP user group are far from happy. Under the title: "Higher maintenance costs upset SAP customers ," Computerwoche interviewed Gunther Rheinhart, executive member of  the...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Mittelstand, Gunther Rheinhart, Auto-renew, Software As A Service (SaaS), Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Auto Time Premium 6.0.5 (Windows)

Auto Time Premium is one of the UK's best selling attendance software packages and offers a comprehensive solution to all of your attendance and absence recording problems. Forward plan your employees absences and check for cover during critical periods, plan your shift rotas or have patterns automatically allocated according to...

Tags: Software, Absence, Microsoft Windows, Auto Time Solutions, Auto Time Premium, Lateness, Workforce Management, Tools & Techniques, Tcp/Ip, Human Resources, Management, Networking

Software downloads 2008-06-02

Workday: a tipping point?

Larry Dignan is enthusiastic about Workday's 200,000 person deal it won to supply Flextronics with HR functionality, adding in the Chiquita 26,000 person deal as validation for what he suggests is a 'tipping point' for Workday. I'm a little more cautious. Next week, Workday will release update...

Tags: Workday, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Getting data OUT of Facebook

One of the ongoing criticisms of Facebook is the perception that you can't get data out. This goes down well with the open source crowd who love nothing better than a walled garden. That perception may be wrong. Here's how.SAP's Craig Cmehil scared the living daylights out of me yesterday...

Tags: Facebook, Data, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-08-08

Cement Australia Transforms HR Services Online With IBM Lotus Technology

Cement Australia is the nation's leading supplier of cement products and services with specialist expertise in lime, slag and fly ash. Cement Australia wanted to build an online portal to transform its Human Resources HR services. It wanted to reduce its reliance on paper documents and manual processes and provide...

Tags: Human Resources, Australia, IBM Corp., Portals, Web Technology, Internet

Case studies 2007-05-09

Ethics? what's that gonna cost me?

It seems to me that IT fraud comes in two main forms: those perpetrated for money or power, and involving failures to act ethically. The first kind are generally easier to spot and deal with. Consider, for example, these three illustrations of different kinds of buyer fraud: ...

Tags: RFP

Blog posts 2007-01-16

Seeking the true meaning of SaaS

As has happened with so many terms in the IT industry, the definition of software-as-a-service, or SaaS, has been stretched this way and that as vendors compete to make marketing capital out their use of it. As the model evolves, some vendors on the leading edge are trying to redefine...

Tags: Saas, basics, Web 3.0, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-12-04

Billion dollar SaaS sectors

The drawback of having Salesforce.com as such a dominant figure in the SaaS industry is that many casual observers form the erroneous impression that SaaS is just a handful of companies, largely confined to the CRM sector. Nothing could be further from the truth. To see the full extent...

Tags: Saas

Blog posts 2006-09-24

Development work and team size

Development work and team sizeBe careful what you wish for...In principal I agree that a programming language that is at a high enough level of abstraction effectively is the specification. I don't think any current languages at least not any widely used ones are up to this however.If the code...

Tags: Team management, team, software, specification

Discussion threads 2006-09-18

Old software weakening Net's backbone, survey says

Old software weakening Net's backbone, survey saysISPs, get a clue!Most ISPs have severely underpowered and/or misconfigured name servers. This often leads to their clients (business, mostly) setting up their own name server, which *will* make "the internet" seem faster (although if not done right leads to problems laid out in...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), INTERNET, server, Old Software, Internet Service Provider, backbone, survey

Discussion threads 2005-10-25

From Gartner Symposium: IT news of the weird

From Gartner Symposium: IT news of the weirdBeen there, done that[i]Then, he mentioned how he's now hearing about companies that ask their employees to not only buy their own comptuers, but take on the responsibility of managing them as well.[/i]Which massively beats dealing with a totally clueless IT "help"...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, own comptuer, IT Support, comptuer, about company, PC, information technology, Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-10-17

Net pioneer muses about Google role, broadband

Net pioneer muses about Google role, broadbandThese are the kinds of people that can help Google, but won't work for MSCombine that with Microsoft being contrained by the need to protect their twin cash cows at all costs, and you can see Google will be giving Microsoft all kinds of...

Tags: Network technology, Google Talk, broadband, Google Search, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-09-14

Hardware strategies and programming models: What's coming

Hardware strategies and programming models: What's comingRemarkableFirst reaction was to look at Microsoft and basic strategy.Are you looking at Vista as part of XP?It's going to be out long before any X360 changes could be moved to Windows.What of backward compatibility?That's an essential sales point for them.Running older applications might...

Tags: Processors, Operating systems, UNIX, Desktops, programming model, strategy, IBM Corp., Hardware strategy, Linux, CPU, programming, Cell, hardware, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-09-13

OdysseyHR 2.08 (Windows)

OdysseyHR is a complete HRMS application that provides a strategic toolbox that assimilates the key aspects of HR management -compensation, benefits, staffing, training, development, complaint tracking into a single database empowering strategic HR solutions. OdysseyHR is your HR-on-a-Budget, providing the features to manage your human capitol assets with the strength...

Tags: Database, Staffing, HRM, Microsoft Windows, OdysseyHR International Inc., Human Resource Management (HRM), Organizational Structure, Human Resources

Software downloads 2004-10-13

TEKsystems Case Study: A Leading Property and Casualty Insurance Provider

Headquartered in the Midwest, the client is an insurer who has over 25,000 employees and is served by more than 10,000 agents nationally. With an extremely critical and highly visible project already in progress, this large insurer had an urgent need for a very high-level data-warehousing specialist experienced with Microstrategies...

Tags: Insurance Company, TEKsystems, Casualty Insurance, Insurance, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Software

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