Organizations succeed through continuous planning to achieve high levels of performance. For most organizations planning is not an easy process to conduct. Planning software is typically designed for only a few people in the process, such as analysts, or organizations might use spreadsheets, which are not designed for business planning across an organization. Most technologies only allow you to examine the past and not plan for the future. For decades organizations have tried to focus planning on driving better results through higher participation, but they have usually failed, as technology has not advanced enough to support this business need.
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Topics:
Big Data,
Mobile Technology,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Operations,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Cloudera,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Business Planning,
CFO,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
finance,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Tidemark,
Workday,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
I attended Oracle’s annual OpenWorld conference this week. The company claims it holds the world’s largest technology conference, with 50,000 attendees and a million people viewing sessions online. It was a great opportunity to get close to the Oracle Fusion Applications, which the company presented as proven and ready, with customers using them on-premises and in private and public cloud computing usage methods. In keynotes from executives Larry Ellison, Mark Hurd and Thomas Kurian and application-focused sessions with executives Steve Miranda and Chris Leone, Oracle repeated the message that Fusion Applications are not just for cloud computing and web services but are also accessible through mobile technology called Oracle Fusion Tap that operates natively on the Apple iPad. The company left no confusion about its applications’ readiness for cloud and mobile computing, and provided insight into future advancements.
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Topics:
Sales,
Salesforce.com,
SAP,
Social Media,
Mobile Technology,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Social Collaboration,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CRM,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
SFA,
Workday,
Workforce Analytics,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
Competition in the human capital management market rages on, with application suppliers racing to provide sophisticated applications that operate in the cloud. Cloud computing is a key factor in advancing human capital management, included in our research agenda for this area, along with analytics, collaboration, mobility and social media.
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Topics:
SAP,
Social Media,
Sustainability,
Human Capital Management,
LMS,
Performance,
Recruiting,
Research,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Mobility,
Cloud Computing,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Mobility,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Compensation,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
HR,
HRMS,
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Talent Management,
Workday,
Workforce Analytics,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
The acquisition frenzy in the enterprise software market continues. The announced acquisition of Taleo by Oracle will remove the independence of another successful cloud-based software company. Publicly traded Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO) provides talent management applications on a rental cloud computing basis. Acquiring Taleo, which by all accounts has done a good job of growing the recruiting and applicant sourcing software business in a scalable cloud environment, was too good for Oracle to pass up. SAP’s much costlier acquisition of SuccessFactors, which I assessed clearly placed more pressure on Oracle to do something rather than nothing.
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Topics:
SAP,
Social Media,
Human Capital Management,
LMS,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Oracle Fusion HCM,
Peoplefluent,
Recruiting,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Mobility,
Cloud Computing,
Mobility,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Compensation,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
HRMS,
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
SumTotal Systems,
Talent Management,
Taleo,
Workday,
Workforce Analytics,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
In a move to invigorate adoption of its cloud computing and talent management applications, SAP has announced its intent to acquire SuccessFactors – a deal valued at US$3.4 billion . SAP’s years of development and business efforts have produced only mediocre results in customer growth and revenue in cloud computing for human capital management comparably to its expectations and others in the market. In a teleconference SAP and SuccessFactors executives hyped the potential of the combined organizations. SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott said that it will become a “Cloud Powerhouse” and a “Unbeatable Force” and “will become the number-one cloud computing HCM solution in the cloud – period.” This may overstate the case: SuccessFactors is unproven as a power in cloud computing beyond the appeal of its own applications for human capital and HR. It can’t compare, for example, to the reach of Salesforce.com and its Force.com and application ecosystems like that in sales, marketing and other people-related application areas nor provide a platform and tools supporting collaboration and mobility.
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Topics:
SAP,
Human Capital Management,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Mobility,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Mobility,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
HRMS,
Infor,
SumTotal Systems,
Talent Management,
Taleo,
Workday,
Workforce Analytics,
Workforce Management,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
I just attended the first-ever analyst summit (Twitter #SumAS11) of SumTotal Systems to learn more about the company’s people and products since my in-depth analysis from earlier in the year. This key player in the business applications market offers a portfolio of applications in HRMS, workforce management and talent management, pieced together over several years with financing from its owner, Vista Equity Partners. This has been a busy year, as SumTotal acquired GeoLearning, Accero and CyberShift to gain entry into the expense and workforce management application markets.
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Topics:
SAP,
Human Capital Management,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Mobility,
Cloud Computing,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
HRMS,
Infor,
SumTotal Systems,
Talent Management,
Workday,
Workforce Analytics,
Workforce Management,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
As Workday held its annual Workday Rising conference this week, it’s a good time to note the accomplishments of the company and to provide a fair and balanced coverage that has yet to be spoken by my industry peers for some reason. Co-founder and co-CEO David Duffield, who founded PeopleSoft, champions a set of core values in its culture and leads a workforce that has built a new generation of ERP applications for deployment in the cloud computing environment. The suite brings together human capital management (HCM) applications to manage absence, benefits, compensation, goals, performance, succession and career planning, along with payroll; accounting applications for general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable and cash management; and spend management applications for procurement and expenses including labor. Workday prides itself on the innovative design of its application technology, compared to the on-premises approach of PeopleSoft (now part of Oracle). It has received significant financial investment to support development, including $85 million in recent Series F financing, which indicates support for its approach.
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Topics:
SAP,
Human Capital Management,
Kronos,
NetSuite,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Recruiting,
Zuora,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Mobility,
Cloud Computing,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Cornerstone OnDemand,
Digital Interviewing,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Hiring,
HRMS,
Saba,
SumTotal Systems,
Talent Management,
Taleo,
Tidemark,
Workday,
Workforce Analytics,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
