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In a recent research note linked to below, Gartner made an interesting prediction that has caught the eye of the folks at Knowledge Infusion. At KI, we are involved in many software evaluations and selections where price is an issue, not the only issue, but still an issue. The latest research note from Gartner states that seven major things will drive costs down. A few of the biggies include Software as a Service (SaaS) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Some things to note about this and how it will effect the HR and talent management software space

 

  • More and more HR organizations are looking to Software as a Service solutions to drive their workforce facing solutions. The problem with this is that few HR organizations or vendors in the space are executing the deployment to acceptable customer service levels. This has to change during 2008 for SaaS solutions to continue to gain traction.

  • The ERP vendors such as Oracle and SAP are racing to change their software deployment models and architectures; the question remains, will they be able to do it in time.

  • Vendors such as Workday and Lawson have already invested heavily in the SOA model giving them a huge head start on the future of the core HR and foundation layers.

 

 

This topic will continue to gain attention over the next 12 to 18 months as the face of HR software changes forever (again). Stay tuned as the acronyms SaaS and SOA continue to replace the term ERP; and no, this doesn't mean Oracle and SAP are dead; just reinventing themselves.

 

 

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Knowledge Infusion Center of Excellence has been brining you updates from key sessions at HR Technology 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. A great event this year showcasing leaders, technologies and futures in the HR, HCM and Talent Management space.

 

The HCM Battle is between Workday, Lawson and Oracle - VERY INTERESTING TITLE

 

Bill Kutik opens session with lots of vendors, these arent the only three and not necessarily the best. Important to understand that there are many vendors out there.

 

  • Bill Kutik written scenario is #1

  • Vendor written scenario is #2

  • Best Cool Stuff by each vendor is #3

 

No SCORING will be done at this event

 

Segment #1

 

Lawson

Theme is space - What is your technology space

"You want to do your work where you work" - outlook, facebook, applications

VP of HR - lives in MS Outlook

HR Generalist - lives in Lawson User Experience

  • Within Outlook, the MS Outlook Plugin has added My Direct Reports - very cool future technology

  • VP using Outlook to Create Job Req - all with real-time integration to Lawson job tables

  • Lawson Smart Client - nice dashboard

  • User Interface of Smart Client - very text based

  • Tabs at top similar to Firefox, nice working model

  • Once again, UI not sexy but very workable

  • Very cool use of free-form text search

  • Spider diagram mapping comptencies to profile - very nice use of new graphical approach

  • Great group selection tool - puts people into groups

  • Synchronized Outlook and then now in Outlook, the VP can review candidates

  • VERY NICE APPROACH TO USING one business tool for the VP and one tool for the HR individual

  • VP actual operating within Outlook and automatically sends off request to HR generalist

  • VERY COOL to see information in both Outlook and Smart Client depending on role and preference of UI

  • Good use of Org Charting - dynamic changes based on what was done in Outlook

  • Very good use of SPACE - best place to do certain task based on the person performing the task

 

Oracle

  • Showing Oracle EBS Release 12

  • Good use of Portal - email, calendar - mention of RSS feeds

  • Conolidated worklist from all enterprise systems - nice to have in one place

  • iRecruitment - clean interface, very text based

  • Graphical review of embedded decision support

  • Nice ability to pull up performance data, resume all from one place, easy to access

  • Very little menu navigation - meeting todays new standards around taxonomy

  • Nice ability to store policy, procedures, forms within application

  • Good use of automatic workflow and processes without need for manual intervention

  • User interface overall very non-web 2.0 based, but very sound tactical

 

Workday

  • Role based homepage

  • Cool search capability to find "how to do a function" - create a team

  • Lots of use of Search - VERY VERY good search capability and ability to use search info

  • Nice use of windows allowing for good use of desktop - comparing side by side windows

  • Tab view again - Firefox like - Easy to navigate and use

  • Compare feature of qualified workers - could use graphical view vs. text view to make comparison easier

  • Create role on the fly based on eligibility - VERY powerful based on grouping capabilities needed today

  • No menus again making deployment easier - Not navigation based but task based - very web 2.0 looking

  • Nice organizational chart - creation of team and org view

 

Scenario #2

 

Oracle

  • Configuration Workbench - powerful tool for creating org structures and applying data

    • Interview based wizard

    • Powerful tool for guiance in the application

    • System recommended best practices - much needed in todays fragmented world

    • Import data from spreadsheets - well needed based on people using Micosoft in most cases

    • Very easy for end users

  • Great use of analytics and metrics in Daily Business Intelligence

  • Compensation Workbench

    • Very powerful tool to find all data in one place to drive compensation decisions

    • Visual indicators and budgeting - MUCH NEEDED today

  • Checklists

 

Workday

  • Great organizational charting and visualization

  • Ability to take actions right from charting

  • Cool sliding Inbox - Adobe FLEX

  • Dynamic currency conversion - big feature

  • Business Event Configuration - apply own rules based on business rules without hard coding - VERY POWERFUL

  • UI very clean even when much text on screen

  • Related Tasks - powerful - helpful with training / deployment in cutting costs

  • PDF, Excel, RSS feeds - powerful

  • Expose reports as web services - quite powerful for corporate directories, etc

  • Decent looking HR graphs and charts

 

Lawson

  • Desktop nice interface and broken up in easy to understand ways

  • Embedded filterning is powerful without needing to run reports

  • Very powerful talent functionality - similar to best of breed vendors

  • Smart Client allows for everything to be done within one form - nice selling point around deployment

  • Very dynamic form - stretch fields, columns

  • Succession SPACE - all in one place

  • Create PDF easily like Workday

  • One SPACE for transactions, content, metrics/analytics, and delivery

  • VERY GOOD DEMO - IMPRESSIVE

 

Scenario #3

 

Workday

  • Workday demos reorgs alot, clearly learned from PeopleSoft days - very impressive

  • Not only reorganized people, but the people that support them

  • Business Process framework - everything is an event allowing for tailoring

  • NO IT Involved, NO customization involved, configuration

  • Extend Workday - adding data elements

    • Looks very easy, not IT

    • SaaS yet very configurable, IMPRESSIVE

  • Very sound SaaS HCM tool with great future

 

Lawson

  • Showing FACEBOOK and using web services to put Lawson Recruiting on a person on Facebook page

    • Very Web 2.0* Very important in todays world of Millenials

    • Great looking interface from Lawson Recruiting from Facebook

    • Integration nice back into Facebook Community

    • Lawson gets where the market is needing to go by providing these Web Services

 

Oracle

  • Gretchen Alarcon starts with impressive Web 2.0 dashboard

  • Demonstrates ability to integrate RSS feeds, Instant Messaging, Tagging, Blogging

  • Oracle Labs doing a good job of staying up on Web 2.0 standards and looking for ways to embed into solutions

  • Certainly hope Oracle can take these technologies and embed into products without major upgrades

  • The power that Oracle might be able to provide combining enterprise data with Web 2.0 technology is staggering

  • Gretchen does a great job summarizing and does the great job showing how they may use Web 2.0 into the future

 

To vote on who won the Battle if you were in attendance, go to the KI Center of Excellence Community

 

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Larry makes a great post on his blog thanking his team at Lawson for all of their hard work. Take a read.

 

 

Another infusion of knowledge...

 

 

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