Last week, I was part of a panel at Cornerstone’s Convergence customer conference. Bill Kutik, the moderator of the panel, tossed out the first question to me. It is a good question – a question that is on everyone’s mind today – and, as you can imagine, I had a lot to say. The question was:   “What impact has the economy had on the talent management and general HR technology market? Are companies buying new solutions or just adding on to what they already have? Unfortunately, I only had less than three minutes to respond and could not share everything I felt was needed to understand the current state of affairs.   So here is the more comprehensive response.
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Last month, NorthgateArinso launched euHReka OnDemand, a multitenant, software-as-a-service (SaaS) application based on SAP’s global Human Capital Management (HCM) solution. It is the first truly global solution delivered “in the cloud” today to support both HR administrative processes as well as full-fledged talent management capability (including recruiting, performance management, learning management, and compensation). While it is an SAP HCM application at its core, it is delivered with a much improved, Ajax-based user interface and pre-configured with HR and talent management best-practice processes.   Some History:  For several years NorthgateArinso, one of Europe’s leading HR services providers, has been successful delivering SAP HCM implementation services for on-premise solutions as well as a business process outsourcing (BPO) service based on SAP’s HCM solution.  The success of these services is due to the many add-ons the company has developed to accelerate and improve SAP implementations and lower the cost of delivery.
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