What Would Help YOU with Your HR Technology Decisions?
By Alexia Martin
The CedarCrestone HR Systems Survey is the longest running survey on the state of HR technology adoption and the value organizations achieve.
As the director of this ongoing research, I am allowed – actually encouraged – to stay “vendor neutral.” But I work for an organization of ~750 talented consultants focused on implementing, hosting, and consulting around enterprise solutions. So over the years, the evolution of the survey has been with the idea in mind that the HR technologies we track are used by organizations at an enterprise/corporate level and not just within functional or operational levels. more »
Being Smart with your Smartphone
By Marquis Montgomery
If you’re like me, you’ve had your smartphone within an arm’s reach for the last few years straight. I can literally count on one hand the number of times I have not had my phone with me in the last two years. The reason is simple: my smartphone has become an invaluable tool for me to stay connected, stay organized, and stay entertained. My smartphone has all my contacts, calendar, corporate and personal email accounts, social networking hubs, and the majority of my photos. more »
Healthcare Human Capital Management (HCM) PeopleSoft Best Practice Guide
By Ricky Arredondo
CedarCrestone’s approach to process improvement for a healthcare client is to focused on “best practice” and what is required to take an health system from their current state to an optimized organization that fully utilizes the enabling technologies such as ERP software. CedarCrestone does this through assessment and validation of the healthcare entity’s requirements as the first crucial step. This approach is based on the premise that a healthcare entity’s needs cannot be fully serviced until a thorough understanding of the healthcare entity’s functional requirements is obtained. In addition to understanding requirements, the project team and the healthcare entity must establish a consensus understanding of deliverables, assumptions, and current (culture) environment. more »
Different Ways to Integrate with PeopleSoft
By Chris Judson
Over the years PeopleSoft has provided many different integration points to access data and execute business functionality. This is all made possible because PeopleSoft 8.x applications and above are built upon Components. Components represent real-world business objects and have keys that enable navigation to a specific instance of a business object. They are structured to encapsulate all the data, business logic, and functionality needed to perform a specific business function (i.e. Add/Update Names, Addresses, etc.). PeopleSoft has been able to leverage the encapsulation provided by the Component concept to provide many different ways to retrieve and update data while ensuring that all the necessary business logic is executed utilizing the data and security constraints defined in PeopleSoft. more »
Marketing Security through the KISS Principle
By Daniel Frye
As we know from our own life experiences, at times we need to be sold the idea that we need or desire a product, hence the birth of marketing. For those of us that are security practitioners, we are constantly challenged with finding the right method to get our message out to our organization. Ironically, it’s somewhat of a marketing problem and not at all unlike our own life experiences. The irony, of course, being that the social interactions of marketing are typically considered to be at the opposite end of the spectrum from the rigorous technical security safe guards we find ourselves preaching to our user base. And those sharp contrasts make the selling of security to our users a poorly executed process. more »
PeopleTools 8.52 – Oracle Announces Apple iPad Support
By Alexandra Lozano
A couple of years ago, I was at a medical center client whose medical school gave all of its incoming students an iPad during student orientation. It was a sign of the times as I noticed more iPads being used while interacting with doctors, real estate agents and many other individuals across the service economy. Most recently, for customers on PeopleTools 8.52, Oracle PeopleSoft now supports the Mobile Safari browser which runs on the Apple iPad (iOS version 4.3.3). more »
Are We There Yet?
By Dennis Bortolus
I.T. Projects are often a long, tedious and grueling journey. One of the more difficult decisions management has to make is to determine when to flip the switch and deploy new systems. It is easy to lose sight of the big picture when you are in the trenches or your critical path tasks and forget all aspects of the system. I use the following criteria to assess go-live readiness. more »
The Split: An Opportunity for Real Progress?
By Chris Lane
When it comes to IT technology trends and changes one thing is certain: “Change” is inevitable! The question then becomes, with this change, is “progress” merely optional?
For the past 10 years, Oracle and its customers have been discussing a big change in the works – Oracle’s strategy to split the HR and CS database into two separate standalone environments – commonly known as the “split.” How can institutions
facing the split maintain business as usual (albeit with little progress)? Better yet, how can they use the split as an opportunity to create significant and even far-reaching progress? more »
Organizations with a Variety of Talent Management Solutions Pay More for Their Business Intelligence/Workforce Analytics Due to Interface Complexities
By Alexia Martin
One of the findings of the most recent CedarCrestone HR Systems Survey is that a lack of an integrated HRMS and talent management solution is costly for delivering business intelligence. The average cost per employee for the BI solution set among those with integrated HRMS and talent management is $13 per employee. Those with a disparate set of talent management solutions, including a variety of best-of-breed talent management solutions, are spending $18 per employee this year, over 25% higher more »
Understanding Position Management for Healthcare
By Ricky Arredondo
Why use Position Management?
- Facilitate FTE budget tracking (Real Time Budget Checking – delivered in FMS and HCM 9.1)
- Accurately track vacancy in approved, budgeted headcount
- Encumber vacant positions immediately or upon requisition
- Enable a clearly defined approval process for new (transactions are only loaded to the database if you use “Full Position Management”)
- Improve data accuracy for job assignments
- Less data entry in hiring and recruiting processes
- Restricts creation of open job requisitions
- To associate with Talent Attributes in Profile Management
- To build an organization chart that represents roles and reporting relationships
- To support Succession Planning more »
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