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SaaS

Cloud computing is not in a cloud

September 9, 2009

I have been dismayed recently at all the articles and blog posts I read these days that seem to indicate that we won’t need data centers anymore with Cloud Computing. That somehow Cloud Computing runs, well, in the cloud! Now I know you all are smarter than that. Right? You know that somewhere, someplace way [...]

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How HR SaaS Vendors can conquer the world

March 1, 2009

One of the biggest limitations preventing companies with an in-house HCM system (e.g. Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Lawson) from moving to a SaaS HCM system is customizations. Many companies have made significant customizations to their HR system and are not willing to let go of these customizations. I don’t want to get into a discussion of [...]

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Streamline My Upgrade Please

February 8, 2009

Having participated on many HCM and Talent Management upgrade projects in various roles such as Developer, Business Analyst, Architect and Project Manager I am dismayed at the amount of time, resources and money the traditional upgrades consume. Prior to the Oracle acquisition, PeopleSoft correctly determined that ERP upgrades were consuming the budgets of their customers [...]

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SaaS Disillusionment is your own making

January 13, 2009

While on Twitter the other day, one of my favorite HR twitter users, Jason Averbook, posted a link to an article on the InformationWeek blog about the SAP CEO, Bill McDermott, predicting SaaS Disillusionment. From the InformationWeek article: Meantime, McDermott says SAP is positioned to gain share in the business applications market as IT departments [...]

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Sass your SaaS

November 30, 2008

In other words, do talk back to your SaaS applications. Let me explain. Bahan Sadegh at Sandhill.com wrote an excellent article called 10 Questions To Ask A Potential SaaS Vendor. Number 10 on the list includes monitoring. Personally I think this needs to be a little higher on the list. What’s the point of having [...]

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