Cloud Wars Heating Up: Oracle : Taleo, Dassault Systemes : Netvibes
This past week virtually no one in the software world was surprised by Oracle’s announcement of intent to acquire cloud talent management vendor Taleo. The acquisition that was something of a surprise, and maybe you even missed, was the much…
Oracle Acquires Taleo (Resistance is Futile)
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, I am not sure, but this is what happens when I don’t have time to write:-) If you are in Enterprise Software, you know what’s coming at you … resistance is futile. Now, for the real news on Oracle’s acquisition of Taleo, I refer [...]
The Biggest Misperception in Talent Management
After digesting just about every blog post, discussion thread, and email predicting what will happen with SAP and SuccessFactors now that they are one, I’ve noticed a prevailing theme – the Talent Management market has changed overnight and even some are predicting the death of independent Talent Management vendors. While I believe the Talent Management [...]
There’s True SaaS, And Then There’s SaaS InFullBloom
Monet — Field of Flowers and Windmills near Leiden In my last post, I provided a minimum definition of true SaaS and described the potential benefits for both vendors and customers who adhere to this now well-established concept in enterprise software. But the potential benefits are only realized as vendors move from delivering the basics of [...]
What Just Happened To The Talent Management Technology Spend?
What Happened To The Rest Of My Pie? I’m still working on my magnum opus (perhaps never to be finished?) post on the SAP/SFSF/Jobs2Web/all things consolidation in the HRM enterprise software market, but one question keeps pushing its way to the surface, demanding a quick post. It’s a much broader question: what just happened to the [...]
The Scourge of HRM Software — Technical Debt
I spent a very intense week last July in Silicon Valley meeting mostly full days each with Workday, SuccessFactors, Taleo, Saba and SAP, and would like to start this post with a huge and very public thank you to all of these vendors for their time, their preparations, and their hospitality. I’ve also been doing [...]
What’s in a Cloud?
One of the biggest frustrations in my past life as a “customer advocate” (not consultant) was the complexity involved to buy and deploy talent management solutions. During the past few years, the demand for “integrated talent management suites” has accelerated. Unfortunately, the talent management vendors haven’t met the challenge. They continue to sell discrete “modules” [...]
Not All SaaS Is Created Equal
Let me preface by saying I’m a SaaS bigot. My SaaS bigotry stems from nearly every vendor that has rushed to plastered a “look at me, I am now SaaS” on their front door (metaphorically speaking of course). Borrowing a phrase from my friend Anshu Sharma of Salesforce.com, “…you can’t put a car on a [...]
HR Leaders: Do You Know How To Answer These Questions?
Dr. Naomi Is In! Unlike my good friend Ray Wang, there are no Naomi clones. Just this solo consultant trying to save the world from bad HRM and HRM delivery systems. And while I’m a pretty productive and hard worker, there aren’t enough hours in a lifetime to support every HR exec who comes calling with their [...]
Next Gen Strategic HR Software
One of the first payroll packages ever written was created in the 1950s for GE on a Univac computer system. I use this piece of historical trivia to point out one very important aspect of payroll and HR systems: they have been done to death. We are rapidly coming upon the annual HR Technology show [...]
