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In today’s data-driven business environment, executives rely heavily on analytics to make informed decisions. However, the sheer volume of data generated by enterprise systems can be overwhelming, making it challenging to extract insights quickly and easily. Fortunately, FourthSquare services using Oracle Cloud (ADW, OAC, and OIC) can offer a comprehensive and efficient solution. By
You step onto an elevator and after requesting, “Lobby, please”, someone says, “So, what do you do?” Hence the term, the elevator pitch. The elevator pitch can be used in multiple ways to quickly build your brand awareness and deliver a sales message via a short “commercial”. The elevator pitch
“So, what’s your story?”, I was once asked at a cocktail party. You may not know it, but in business, you and your organization are being asked that exact same question every single day. The question is, are you telling them a compelling story which is powerful and memorable or do
Workforce Planning Organizations have engaged in Workforce Planning throughout history. Workforce planning was known as “manpower” in the 1960s and later as “human resource” planning. The need for a comprehensive ability to plan has grown given today’s workforce challenges in a post Covid pandemic world. It is important that
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
From my previous post, we committed to detailing the 5 characteristics of true SaaS. In this post, we’ll look at the first characteristic; On-Demand Services. Saas solutions are designed from the ground up for maximum network performance, which can mean better application availability than traditional on-site systems. Saas solutions also
As a consumer of software applications, do you find it confusing as to how applications can be delivered; On-premise, hosted, SaaS? Further, with SaaS being the newest of the models and all the rage, do you find yourself asking, “What the heck is SaaS?” In this article, we’ll explain the