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Great article from InformationWeek yesterday discussing the changed world of technology. For all of us in the HR technology space including HCM, Talent Management, HRMS and Business/Workforce Intelligence - take a read; this market is here to stay and our focus should shift from not if but READINESS around preparing our organizations, workforces and data for the next wave of innovation. A few excerpts:
[SAP|http://www.informationweek.com/#] will be forced to cannibalize its own customers by offering new software that is delivered over the Web as it adapts to a world irrevocably changed by Google, SAP's chairman said.
Plattner said search engine
[Google|http://www.informationweek.com/#] had changed the game by achieving something he had thought impossible a decade ago in delivering what users want over the Web without needing to customize its offering. * "Google has changed the world, and we all have to learn, and if we don't learn quickly enough and redesign our thinking ... then we might not be as successful as we were in the past." * Plattner railed against software designed by blinkered engineers without consideration for the people who would have to use it -- as he said most business software is. * SAP now recognizes that good design runs deeper than appearance, he said. "Design is not putting lipstick on a pig. Design is not just how things look and feel. Design is how things work," he said.
Take a read, as one of the largest software vendors in the world, these are powerful statements for all of us to read and understand. Vendors in the HCM space such as Workday and Successfactors have been touting this for the past year, look for many more to continue to architect their solutions in this manner. What should you do?
Understand the impact to your existing investment in ERP solutions # Learn about Web Services and Web 2.0 technology # Think INTEGRATION not INTERFACE # Think CONFIGURATION not CUSTOMIZATION # Know and CLEAN UP your existing data # Learn about your users and the demographic of the future
Take a read. We work with clients, such as a education session today in Atlanta, on this topic and how to prepare for the future.
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