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SAP and Microsoft play Duet

After a year, the Microsoft/SAP "Mendocino Project" has finally yielded a product, Duet, which is slated to ship in June. As promised, users of Microsoft Office can access selected SAP business processes and data. For example, users of the Outlook calendar can automatically synchronize and update Outlook appointments with mySAP...

Tags: SAP AG, Microsoft Office, recruiting.The Duet

Blog posts 2006-05-02

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IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study

The skills needed to modernize core IT assets are in short supply, according to latest report from the application-management company The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernizing key IT assets, according to a survey by application-management company Micro Focus. ...

Tags: Skill, Information Technology, Micro Focus, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, IT management, jobs, skills, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2008-12-02

BearingPoint’s Q3 earnings call - part 1

BearingPoint’s Q3 earnings call - part 1More Reasons for TurnoverHaving worked there, I can point to 3 other major reasons that people left and/or continue to leave:1. Recruiting was focused on staffing from outside and they were incentivized by bringing in staff from the outside. Therefore, even if you were...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, earnings call

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

Tech czar job: CTO or CIO?

Is the national "chief technology officer" job promised by Obama going to be more of CTO or CIO job? The consensus seems to be leading towards the latter. The Washington Post quotes Gary Arlen of Arlen Communications: It seems to be much...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Salesforce to partner with Facebook

At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, and Steve Fisher, senior vice president of the platform division at Salesforce, demonstrate a recruiting program made possible by making Force.com's platform compatible with Facebook. When it comes to things like job recommendations, social networks are...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Sales Force Management, Sales, software, platforms, SaaS, cloud, computing, compatible, applications, Dreamforce

Videos 2008-11-04

Reengineering HR Solutions - #3

Case #3 – Jobs2Web third in a series of pieces discussing why HR solutions need radical reengineering There is a great maxim in IT circles called Fubini's Law. It goes like this: " 1. People initially use technology...

Tags: Job, Applicant, Job Board, Jobseeker, Re-engineering, Jobs2Web, Fubini, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-04

DreamForce clouds deluge San Francisco

Rock legend Neil Young surprised and delighted the audience at SalesForce's DreamForce conference today by having his electric and natural gas powered 1959 Lincoln Continental Mk IV convertible driven onto the stage silent and beautiful as the clouds above San Francisco unleashed intermittent torrential rain. ...

Tags: Facebook, Sales Force, Neil Young, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Salesforce partners with Facebook, Amazon to spark more app development

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff doesn't think companies should be worrying about things like servers and security, software updates and web hosting. In a keynote speech at the company's Dreamforce conference today, he explained that those sort of things are what he and his company should be worrying about. Instead, companies...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Job, Facebook, Sales Force, Amazon.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Facebook, Salesforce.com aim to create common developer network

Facebook and Salesforce.com today announced that the two companies will partner to make it easier for Force.com developers to utilize Facebook's API while creating hosted applications. According to Facebook, the new relationship is designed to create a more established development community between Facebook's 120 million users and Salesforce.com's 100,000 developers....

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Network, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Top 10 U.S. college programs for IT

This TechRepublic Special Report features our list of 10 "can't miss" undergraduate IT programs in the United States. These IT business education programs are aimed at students who want to get on the CIO career track, which includes IT professional roles such as support professional, network administrator, project manager, IT...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management

Download resources 2008-10-31

Reengineering HR Solutions

Case #1 – MrTed's SmartRecruiters The recent HR Technology show in Chicago reinforced within me the idea that many automated HR solutions have problems. Most HR products are first-generation attempts to automate the record-keeping, transaction processing and most tedious aspects of human resources. In fact,...

Tags: Job, Human Resources, Solution, Re-engineering, Small And Medium Business, MrTed, SmartRecruiters, HR Solution, Applicant Tracking System, Smb/Sme, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-28

OpenAir Leadership Summit

Maturity of Great Service Leaders At the recent OpenAir Leadership Summit, I had the pleasure of speaking with a number of service industry professionals. I also got to share speaking responsibilities with service industry experts David Maister (of "Strategy and the Fat Smoker" and other books) and...

Tags: Team, Skill, Leader, Industry, OpenAir Inc., Training, Service Executive, Team Management, Balance Sheets, Leadership, Management, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-22

Observations from the HR Technology show

Quick Trends in HR The HR Technology show is probably the most important HR technology event of the year. It attracts a significant number of vendors (approximately 225 by my count) and buyers. I spent a couple of days covering the latest (11th) HR Technology show...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Solution, Vendor, Software As A Service (SaaS), Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-20

All new HD camcorders use USB? Really?

Peter Kirn from Create Digital Music disagrees with Steve Jobs alleged statement that "all new HD camcorders use USB" in response to the death of Firewire kerfuffle. Whether Jobs said it or not, isn't the point -- the point it that it's wrong. All HDV cameras...

Tags: Camcorder, USB, FireWire, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-17

Reducing Recruitment Spend: Smart Steps To Find Great Candidates

Apply the tips from internet recruiting pioneer and recruitment marketing expert, Rob Humphrey, to strengthen your staffing program and lower costs now. Included in this report: effectively using free candidate source social networks to find quality candidates getting data to reduce and focus...

Tags: Recruitment, Candidate, Jobvite, Marketing Research, Internet, Social Networking, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2008-10-10

Where are all the programmers?

I was at a conference Wednesday that covered an awful lot of ground. There were some good sandwiches, too, and the cookies were first-rate. One thing that stuck out in my mind, though, aside from the deserts, was one companies inability to hire good programmers domestically. This...

Tags: Recruiting, Programmer, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Obama launches iPhone app; US election good for Twitter

The Obama campaign is hoping to turn Apple's iPhone into a political recruiting tool like none seen before, while Twitter usage and sign-ups received a healthy boost during last Friday's first presidential debate for the 08 campaign. by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Apple iPhone, Twitter, Obama, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, GPS, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Obama releases iPhone campaign tool

CNET colleague Stephen Shankland discovered a neat way that Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is using technology: political recruiting, direct to your iPhone. Styled much like his iPolitics-looking website, the tool has several features: one feature "organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Tool, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, GPS, Online Communications, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-02

News to know: Bailout bust and tech fallout; Cloud computing; Netgear; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: AP: Stunning Defeat for Bailout Plan Torpedoes Stocks; Dow Sinks Over 750. White House, lawmakers plan new bailout deal Larry Dignan: Is Apple really recession proof? Wall...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Sprint Xohm, Apple Inc., NetGear, WiMAX, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Open Source, Wireless

Blog posts 2008-09-30

UK secret service recruiting on Facebook

UK secret service recruiting on FacebookGood move.Now MI6 can have its operatives posting their comings and goings for all the world to see.

Tags: service recruiting, Facebook

Discussion threads 2008-09-29