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- Zoho lands Swisscom as partner
- Zoho said Tuesday that it will partner with telecom company Swisscom to offer the company's business applications to its enterprise customers. Swisscom has 300,000 business customers and for emerging software as a service SaaS player Zoho it's a big win. Zoho said in a post that the...
- Tags: Swisscom AG, Zoho Business, Human Capital, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- A call for national innovation policy
- Bruce Nussbaum at Newsweek calls on Obama and McCain Hillary is excused to address a key issue facing American competitiveness – the need for an "innovation policy." Here's his list: Support the codification of design methodology and design strategy as being worked on at leading...
- Tags: Immigration, Human Capital, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Putting Workday on SAP's radar
- Now that SAP's SaaS project Business ByDesign has gone on the back burner, I've been wondering how I'm going to pass the time next week at SAPPHIRE Berlin. One thing I'll be asking the enterprise software giant is how it feels about losing out to SaaS startup Workday for a...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Radar, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Workday lands big Flextronics deal
- Flextronics will install Workday's on-demand human capital management software for 200,000 employees. According to InformationWeek, Workday beat out SAP and Oracle for Flextronics business in what Mary Hayes Weier described as tipping point deal for SaaS. Workday also won a 26,000 employee deal with Chiquita. ...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- The City of Espoo Improves Operational Efficiency and Financial Management
- The strategic goal of the City of Espoo, the second-largest city in Finland, is to provide excellent services to its constituents in a reliable manner and with optimum cost-to-quality ratio. In 2003-04, the city implemented a business development project, which aimed to improve the efficiency, simplicity, and uniformity of internal...
- Tags: City, Oracle Corp., Financial, Human Capital, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Software
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- Zoho steps up enterprise game; Launches Zoho People
- Zoho on Monday launched Zoho People, a human capital management tool that could be quite useful for mid-sized businesses. The move also shows how Zoho intends to reach well beyond its online office suite, which is really just a set of starter apps for broader enterprise ambitions. ...
- Tags: Game, Google Inc., Google Docs, Human Capital Management, Zoho People, Human Capital, Productivity, Performance Appraisal, Pricing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- American Crystal Sugar Company Upgrades Management System to Minimize Costs
- American Crystal Sugar Company is an agricultural cooperative that specializes in sugar and sugar-based products and byproducts. The company wanted to maximize shareholder profit and control variable costs, such as overtime. The challenge was to manage nonproductive time. American Crystal Sugar Company utilized Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Human Capital Management...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Human Capital, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Port of Corpus Christi Authority Accelerates and Simplifies Financial Operations With Rapid Upgrade
- The Port of Corpus Christi Authority owns and operates docks and freight handling facilities at the Port of Corpus Christi, which is on the Gulf of Mexico - approximately 150 miles north of the US-Mexico border. The Port of Corpus Christi Authority wanted to improve operational efficiencies and gain added...
- Tags: Accounting, Oracle Corp., Financial, Human Capital, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- It's 9:00am - Do You Know Where Your Critical Talent Is?: Retention Analytics for Human Capital Management
- Employee retention is an increasingly serious issue in many business sectors. Understanding which factors cause employees to leave and which actions retain them is an important Business Intelligence application. This paper demonstrates analytic methods to address this problem. Data mining and predictive modeling can be used to improve retention of...
- Tags: Talent, Analytics, SAS Institute, Retention, Human Capital Management, Employee Retention, Human Capital, Research & Development, Business Intelligence, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2008-02-18
- Fairfield Residential LLC Improves Information Access With Flexible Human Capital Management Solution
- Fairfield Residential LLC is a leader in the multi-family home industry and consistently ranks among the largest multi-family home developers, builders, and redevelopers nationwide. Fairfield Residential LLC wanted to facilitate payroll processing across the diverse organization and standardize HR processes to improve efficiency and compliance. The challenge was to provide...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Human Capital Management, Fairfield Residential LLC, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Mobilitie LLC Improves Business Agility and Scalability With Integrated Applications
- Mobilitie LLC, a US$600 million market capital company, is reinventing the way telecommunications assets - specifically communications towers and antennae - are managed for wireless providers. Mobilitie LLC wanted to manage multiple independent funds, as well as thousands of discrete properties and tenant relationships and focus on partnership approach with...
- Tags: Tenant, Asset, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Mobilitie LLC, Human Capital, Asset Management, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Wireless, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- SAP-BusinessObjects: what was unsaid
- The SAP-BusinessObjects go to market show was mildly interesting but left key questions unanswered. Colleagues Dan Farber and Mike Krigsman were on the call as was James Governor. I asked how the combined operation might incorporate non-financial measures into the new solutions. I was thinking about how...
- Tags: Opportunity, Hyperion Solutions Corp., SAP AG, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Human Capital, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Ingenio Carmelita Increases Sugar Production by 15.3 Million Pounds and Improves Operations With an Integrated IT Infrastructure
- Ingenio Carmelita S.A wanted to implement an integrated system of agroindustrial information to support the firm's rapid growth and establish a robust database to make up-to-date information available 24x7, facilitating timely decision making. The challenge was to eliminate manual interfaces to achieve operating efficiency and production efficiency for the sugar...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Ingenio, Human Capital, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Chang Hwa Bank Deploys E-Solution to Strengthen Human Capital Management
- Founded in 1905, Chang Hwa Bank is one of the oldest and most respected financial institutions in Taiwan. Chang Hwa Bank wanted to attract and retain talented personnel by developing attractive and competitive job packages and cultivate existing talent to ensure they have the skills and knowledge of senior staff,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance Evaluation, Human Capital Management, Chang Hwa Bank, Human Capital, Performance Management, Team Management, Human Resource Management (HRM), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- UPC Hungary Ltd. Improves Efficiency With Strategic Human Capital Management Solution
- UPC Hungary wanted to reduce the time, cost, and complexity of Human Resources HR management activities by migrating onto a single IT platform and automating business processes and improve efficiency by centralizing all HR processes - recruiting, onboarding, training, performance management, talent management, and reporting - on one system. The...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Human Capital Management, Training, Human Capital, Workforce Management, Human Resources
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Recognize Employee Achievement
- Increasingly, employees look for multiple rewards from their work - not just monetary rewards, but also opportunities for leadership, creativity, autonomy, and personal growth. Certainly all employees are attracted by competitive wages, but understanding what other rewards motivate the work force can help one build what may be the organization's...
- Tags: Reward, Human Capital, Asset Management, Leadership, Benefits, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Streamlining Human Capital Management With Identity and Access Management
- Extending Human Capital Management HCM deployments with Identity and Access Management solutions offers companies a unique set of capabilities to address business process, integration, and data management challenges across the enterprise in order to maximize productivity by ensuring that new employees have the tools and information they need to do...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Access Management, Human Capital Management, Identity, Human Capital, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Workstream prefers virtualization to multi-tenancy
- Among the product announcements at last week's HR Technology conference in Chicago was a major relaunch from Nasdaq-listed SaaS vendor Workstream. The unveiling of its flagship TalentCenter 7.0 marks the company's emergence from a period of much behind-the-scenes work. "We really went invisible for the past sixteen months while we...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Virtualization, Environment, On-demand, Vendor, Human Capital Management, VMware Inc., Workstream, Human Capital, Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- From Tactical to Strategic: Redefining the Role of the Chief Human Capital Officer
- An organization's people represent a significant component of its total value - and an equally significant component of its costs. Yet few organizations manage this enormous and essential asset in a truly strategic way. Human Resources HR departments have traditionally been mired in operational activities and viewed solely as a...
- Tags: SAS Institute, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-10-01
- New Era for HR Shared Services
- Centralizing benefits, payroll and other human resources functions not only saves money and improves customer service, it also frees HR professionals to provide more strategic support. Find out more in this report from BusinessWeek Research Services and SAP.
- Tags: Information Technology, SAP AG, Management, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Strategy, Human Capital
- White papers 2007-09-01
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