I remember entering my very first public speaking contest in 2014. The hardest part was not figuring out how to fill 7 minutes. It was figuring out how to start it. As I pitched page after page into the trash, a friend sat me down and said, “Kerry, the opening needs to be a ‘grabber’.” That …
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Background: Saudi Telecom Corporation(STC) is a largest provider of landline and fixed infrastructure, mobile, and services in the Middle East. With annual revenues of over $15 billion annually, they are a publicly traded company on the Tadawul exchange. Situation: STC had disparate solutions running their financials(Oracle EBS) and Recruiting and Onboarding(in-house built). With processing over …
Do you feel your HCM/HRIS solution needs an upgrade or overhaul? Do you know what to expect from a new system? When looking, here are three things that a truly modern HCM system will give you. 100% Paperless Recruiting/applicant Tracking and Onboarding. Yes, a modern system will remove manual workflows and paper, guaranteed. A modern system …
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By: Riwan Uquaili Organizational culture is hugely important to your company’s success, your people, and your customers. So it’s helpful to spend time considering why your company’s culture is the way it is, and why it’s important. Your organizational culture defines for you and all others, how your organization does business, how your organization interacts with …
The city of Hendersonville is in the far western part of the great state of North Carolina, just south of Asheville. It is a vibrant mountain city where the government and citizens work together for a high quality of life and the City is committed to providing quality, efficient services to all citizens, visitors, and …
When it comes to a complete upgrade/overhaul of an enterprise business application, there’s probably not a more stressful and complicated adventure on the planet. I often say, we’re not delivering babies, but we’re darn close”. The following are three nuggets of gold to better ensure you and your organization have a successful digital transformation journey. …
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The last and 5th characteristic of cloud computing is Metered Services. Metered Services allows instant transparency into usage of resources. This allows the flexibility for the provider to offer pay-as-you-use pricing models vs a flat fee, subscription model. In the enterprise SaaS application world, such as ERP and HCM, you don’t see this characteristic being …
Picking up on our 5 part series of what constitutes a SaaS solution, we move to characteristic #4, Rapid Elasticity. According to our good friends at NIST, Rapid Elasticity is: “Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released, in some cases automatically, to scale rapidly outward and inward commensurate with demand. To the consumer, the capabilities available …
Resource pooling is simply allowing multiple customers onto the same infrastructure. Each customer only needs a small fraction of the infrastructure in terms of memory, storage, and network bandwidth. Because of this, it’s much less expensive for a customer to contract with a SaaS provider to just use a small portion of their resources vs …
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As we continue our series on the five characteristics of SaaS, today, we delve into number two, Broad Network Access. Out of all the characteristics, this is probably the easiest one to understand. In short, it means you can access the application from anywhere, anytime, from any device. All you need is internet access. In …
