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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
- School District of Manatee County Empowers Users With Upgraded IT System and Purchasing Capabilities
- School District of Manatee County wanted to upgrade Oracle's JD Edwards World application suite to take advantage of new application functionality, streamline business processes, and optimize the district's technology investment and enable the district to save money by better leveraging its spend across suppliers. School District of Manatee County upgraded...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Information Technology, School District, Human Capital Management, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- GoodHope Asia Holdings Gains More Purchasing Power, Generates Financial Reports Faster
- GoodHope Asia Holdings Ltd GAHL is the holding company for overseas oil palm plantations run by Carson Cumberbatch PLC, an organization with interests in a diverse group of businesses in Colombo, Sri Lanka and across South East Asia. GAHL owns and operates plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia under the "Agro"...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, GAHL, Human Capital, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Live Webcast: How AOL Analyzes Human Capital Metrics to Drive Strategy
- Every part of every organization has heard the cry for more metrics, more analytics, more fact-based decision-making. For some functions, it can be difficult to get your story heard if you are not talking about sexy metrics that are directly impacting things like revenue. But that doesn't mean your story...
- Tags: Strategy, Metrics, Webcast, America Online Inc., Tableau Software, Human Capital, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts 2009-08-28
- Human Capital Management Vendor Charts Growth Path With Technology Support Services
- API Healthcare builds its software completely on Microsoft server software and technologies and develops the software by using Microsoft development tools. API Healthcare staff had to devote considerable time to support issue resolution. The company wanted to improve and expand training opportunities, and expedite and streamline problem resolution. API Healthcare...
- Tags: Support Services, API, Human Capital Management, Microsoft Corp., API Healthcare, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Forrester survey: Enterprises taking aim at legacy apps
- Large enterprises plan on replacing their old applications this year, holding their software budgets steady and aiming to improve integration to save money, according to a report from Forrester Research. In a survey of 2,200 IT executives in North America, Forrester found the following: ...
- Tags: Software, Legacy Application, Information Technology, Survey, Enterprise, Forrester Research Inc., Human Capital, Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- State of Kansas Reduces Costs and Continues to Drive Value With Automated Human Resources Processes
- The State of Kansas wanted to manage budget limitations by maximizing operational efficiency and getting the most from existing applications and deliver detailed data quickly to fulfill requests from the legislature, press, and public. The challenge was to support position in the global economy, as employees work worldwide for state...
- Tags: Kansas, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- SuccessFactors lands big deployment, new cloud computing VP
- SuccessFactors, which offers on-demand human capital management software, said Wednesday that it has landed a deployment of 300,000 users bringing its user base to 4.5 million. In addition, it has named former eBay exec Tom Fisher as vice president of cloud computing. The 300,000 user deployment was...
- Tags: SuccessFactors Inc., Human Capital, Retail, Cloud Computing, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Diversified Global Company Standardizes on Softscape
- ALFA is the world's leading manufacturer of high-tech aluminum engine heads and blocks; One of the world's largest producers of PTA, a petrochemical product; The Mexican leader in the production of processed meats and cheese; One of the most important telecommunications services companies in Mexico. ALFA was looking to establish...
- Tags: Softscape Inc., ALFA, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2009-04-07
- Q&A: Kronos CEO Aron Ain on ERP, Saas and the joys of being privately held
- Kronos, a human capital management software company, revolves around good timing. For starters, it tracks employee work time, scheduling and other work processes to improve productivity. It also managed to go public back in 1992, make a bunch of acquisitions and then go private in 2007 just before the economy...
- Tags: Kronos Inc., ERP, Human Capital, Recruitment & Selection, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Douglas County Streamlines Financials, Reducing Budget Book Creation Time by One-and-a-Half Months
- Douglas County wanted to streamline operations to reduce costs while delivering increased constituent service and create an enterprise architecture that will enable effective delivery of services in the midst of robust population growth. The challenge was to centralize enterprise processes despite geographically-dispersed employees. Douglas County implemented Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Financial, Human Capital, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- ZDNet Undercover: How IT Helped Goldman Sachs Step Back from the Mortgage Mess
- How Goldman Sachs managed to swim against the tide as rivals forged ahead with collateralized debt obligations is a tale of the willingness to act and think independently, reports Tom Steinert-Threlkeld. The firm used computer models of its own creation and built sophisticated databases to follow the money at risk...
- Tags: Capital Structures, Finance, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Human Capital, Human Resources, Information Technology, Management, Mortgages, Security, Strategy, Workforce Management
- White papers 2009-02-06
- KONE Elevates Business Efficiency With SAP ERP and IBM DB2
- KONE is one of the world's leading suppliers of elevators, escalators, and innovative solutions for modernization and maintenance. KONE made a strategic decision in 2003 to move its SAP application environment from its existing Informix database to a new platform, to enable support for Java and Unicode ahead of a...
- Tags: KONE Corp., SAP AG, ERP, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Web Services, Human Capital, Enterprise Software, Portals, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Middleware, Databases, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- News to know: Windows rot; Touch PCs; Palm Pre sales guesses; Apple
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows bit-rot - fact or fiction? Jason O'Grady: Has Apple gotten lazy? Apple quietly releases iLife '09 hardware up-to-date program ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, High Tech Computer Corp., Software-as-a-service, PC, Palm Inc., Health Care, Apple Inc., Sales, INQ Mobile, Human Capital, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Cloud Computing, Healthcare, Microsoft Windows, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Workday builds out SaaS bellwether for human capital management services and costs controls
- The new services offer richer costs and compensation management features, more business services like payroll, and also improved access to global process insights and analytics. These additions are designed to effectively and swiftly help guide employees through change and to improve business productivity and responsiveness. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Compensation, Payroll, Human Capital Management, Workday, Benefits Network, Human Capital, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software As A Service (SaaS), Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Enterprise Reporting: Embeddable BI for Mission Critical Applications
- What's coming into focus more clearly, however, is the fact that Open Source BI is - literally - embedded in the enterprise. Early adopters found that Open Source is much easier to embed in mission-critical applications, such as ERP, CRM, or Human Capital Management applications. Open Source BI products tend...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, JasperSoft, Open Source, Human Capital, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software
- White papers 2009-01-07
- IBM Workplace Recovery: The Human Side of Business Continuity
- It's important to build resiliency into the business operations, but it's just as important to build resiliency into the human capital. One way to achieve human capital resiliency is to ensure that the organization has addressed the people-related components of business continuity planning. This webcast will outline risks related to...
- Tags: Workplace, Recovery, IBM Workplace, Business Continuity, IBM Corp., Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- Workplace Recovery: The Human Side of Business Continuity
- Natural and manmade disasters have costly, far-reaching impacts on businesses. And organizations of all types are making business continuity plans that protect their data, networks, core business applications and facilities. But it's important to build resiliency into your business operations as well your human capital. This Web seminar on Workplace...
- Tags: Workplace, Recovery, Business Continuity, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Webcasts 2008-12-03
- HP vs. IBM: The looming IT services war
- HP and IBM want your services business and the jockeying for position has already begun. Later today, HP holds its analyst meeting where CEO Mark Hurd will provide a new financial outlook including the EDS purchase, which just closed, and outline the company's enterprise plan. In a...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Analyst, Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp., Shope, Human Capital, It Services, Outsourcing, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Northwestern University Delivers Superior Service to Constituents and Improves Operational Efficiency
- Northwestern University wanted to improve operational efficiency to minimize increases in tuition and maintain the quality of academic programs and student services to meet student demands. The challenge was to ensure the highest levels of security and compliance. Northwestern University implemented Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management and PeopleSoft Enterprise...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Northwestern University, Recruitment & Selection, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2008-09-01
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