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Kronos Doubles Down on HCM Platform Development
Nov 27, 2019, by Elizabeth RennieEarlier this month, Kronos held its annual client event, KronosWorks, in Las Vegas, drawing >3k attendees from around the globe. Much of the attention at KronosWorks centered on the launch of InTouch DX, an intelligent time clock offering that incorporates advanced digital capabilities including an LCD with touch-enabled access, facial recognition, and integration with Kr[...]
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Machine Learning at the Heart of Workday’s Next Wave of Innovation
Oct 24, 2019, by Elizabeth RennieThis past week Workday held its 13th Workday Rising client event in Orlando, Florida. The platform’s annual event continues to grow substantially, with more than 13k in attendance this year, up from ~10k attendees in Las Vegas at the 2018 event. The growth in attendance points squarely to the continued steady adoption of the Workday platform, which is now supporting >2.8k[...]
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ADP’s Next-Generation Platforms Have Arrived
Sep 19, 2019, by Elizabeth RennieThis past week ADP held its annual analyst day event at its innovation lab in Chelsea, NY, where its executive leadership provided updates on the progress of its latest portfolio of next-generation HR and payroll solutions. The event was noticeably more crowded than in previous years, not only from a strong analyst community turnout but also from the growing ADP product leadership te[...]
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OneSource Virtual’s RPaaS: Progress & Future Plans
Sep 16, 2019, by Elizabeth RennieLast October at Workday Rising in Las Vegas, OneSource Virtual (OSV) introduced RPaaS, a Robotic Process as a Service offering, and the first HR-focused robotic process automation as a service solution targeted toward the mid-market buyer. RPaaS is a 'turnkey RPA solution’ that eliminates the need for adopters to make substantial investments in developing advanced automa[...]
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Alight Solutions Boosts Global Presence & Cloud HR Capability with Acquisition of NGA HR
Aug 30, 2019, by Elizabeth RennieThis past week the payroll services market experienced yet another consolidation of major vendors, with Alight Solutions (‘Alight’) announcing its intent to acquire multi-country payroll specialist NGA HR. Although the deal terms were not disclosed, once approved (expected by Q4, possibly Q1 2020 at the latest), the acquisition will bring together two leading HR BPaaS [...]
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Safeguard Global Fuels its Future with Acquisition of Workfor
May 08, 2019, by Elizabeth RennieThis past week I had the opportunity to attend a private event hosted by Safeguard Global at Crewe Hall in the U.K., where the company celebrated its continued success in the global payroll space and made a major announcement that aims to fuel the company’s continued growth and support its vision for enabling simplified, compliant global expansion for multinational businesses. [...]
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CloudPay: Changing the Performance Mindset with Payroll Efficiency Index
Apr 24, 2019, by Elizabeth RennieThis past month, NelsonHall published its annual Next Generation Payroll Services report, which found that buyers and clients of managed payroll services are keenly focused on engaging ‘next generation’ technologies that can enable payroll operating model transformation. Thus, organizations are increasingly seeking out managed payroll services providers that can provide a[...]
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Excelity Global’s Digital HR Plans for 2019
Mar 21, 2019, by Elizabeth RennieWith the digital economy pushing businesses to pivot and reimagine the way they operate, HR is under considerable pressure to support new business models and shifts in strategic direction. Further, the workplace and the way we work is rapidly evolving, adding to the complexities and challenges HR must navigate to compete for today's top talent. As a result, organizations of[...]
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Global Payroll Steals the Show at ADP rethink 2019
Feb 01, 2019, by Elizabeth RennieThis past week I had the opportunity to attend ADP rethink, its global HCM client event in Berlin, where the theme was "Transforming the Way the World Works." With many organizations undergoing massive change and transformation brought on by digitalization, the selection of Berlin as the backdrop seemed fitting given the deep history and massive change the city has experien[...]
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OneSource Virtual Delivers Turnkey RPA with RPaaS.com
Nov 06, 2018, by Elizabeth RennieOrganizations of all sizes continue to pursue digital HR transformation to achieve an optimized HR delivery model – one that enables their leaders to focus their efforts on strategic activities associated with attracting, developing, and retaining top talent for the business rather than spending valuable time on repetitive administrative tasks. To a large extent, this is being [...]
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HCM & Payroll Integration: A Look at CloudPay Connect 2.0
Oct 09, 2018, by Elizabeth RennieAs organizations of all sizes continue to re-evaluate and address legacy HR and payroll systems and processes en route to enhanced digital operating models, cloud-based applications are increasingly being selected as the vehicle for HR transformation. With the introduction and increasing prevalence of advanced APIs, buyers are being afforded the ability to leverage a “best of c[...]
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Highlights from Workday Rising 2018 (vlog)
Oct 08, 2018, by Elizabeth RenniePete Tiliakos presents a round-up of the latest developments from Workday and the key discussion points from the Workday Rising annual user conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada.[...]
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Advances in HR Tech: The View from The Strip
Sep 19, 2018, by Elizabeth RennieThis past week, I attended two HR events at opposite ends of the Las Vegas strip: HR Technology conference and SuccessFactors’ SuccessConnect client event. Together, they attracted ~14k HR leaders, practitioners, vendors, analysts, thought leaders, and clients, and had the common theme and purpose of showcasing the latest HR technologies and innovations that are enabling employ[...]
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Payroll Services Clients’ Transformation & Innovation Expectations Not Being Met
Aug 21, 2018, by Elizabeth RennieAs part of NelsonHall’s recent Next Generation Payroll Services market analysis, in addition to interviewing 20 of the leading payroll services providers globally, our research extended to a survey of the vendors’ clients. We met clients of different sizes, from a variety of geographies and industries, and covering a range of services in-scope and levels of payroll sourci[...]
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Neeyamo: Easing the Move to the Cloud with UnBox HR for SuccessFactors
Jun 22, 2018, by Elizabeth RennieI recently attended Neeyamo’s analyst event in Atlanta, where I discussed the company’s cloud transformation practice with its leaders, and specifically the announcement of UnBox HR for SuccessFactors. Over the past 10 years, Neeyamo has developed its HR offering with the goal of “addressing the white spaces” in HR technology and services and focusing [...]
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Cornerstone Convergence 2018 Highlights
Jun 11, 2018, by Elizabeth RenniePete Tiliakos reports from Cornerstone Convergence 2018 on topics including the talent management company’s strategy, latest product developments, and extreme focus on CX.[...]
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SGWI’s GEO Employment Model: Enabling Agile Global Expansion
May 22, 2018, by Elizabeth RennieAs businesses today are increasingly operating at a global level, they face inherent complexity and compliance hurdles. Indeed, a recurring finding in NelsonHall’s annual payroll market analysis is that compliance is a key driver for organizations outsourcing payroll. And new regulatory directives such as GDPR are placing yet more compliance pressure on the HR and payroll leade[...]
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Next Generation HCM Technology: Report Overview
Apr 27, 2018, by Elizabeth RenniePete Tiliakos, Principal HR Technology & Services Analyst, talks about his recently completed global research project on ‘Next Generation HCM Technology’, which features analysis of 18 cloud-based HCM platforms from 16 leading vendors.[...]
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CloudPay’s Automation Roadmap for Optimizing Global Payroll
Mar 07, 2018, by Elizabeth RennieNelsonHall’s most recent Next Generation Payroll Services market analysis reveals that payroll service buyers are focused on access to transformation-enabling technology. The use of automation has become commonplace, with payroll vendors leveraging RPA, AI, and machine learning capabilities to eliminate manual effort in the payroll process. And payroll service providers are inv[...]
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ADP Updates on UX, Talent Management & Automation
Feb 09, 2018, by Elizabeth RennieLast week I attended ADP’s 14th annual ReThink multi-national client event in Monte Carlo, where the theme was ‘Transform the Way the World Works’. The lineup of guest speakers included journalist and media figure Tina Brown, who shared themes from Davos (including the importance of restoring trust and gender equality in the workplace), former British Prime Minister[...]
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HR Services: Takeaways From SD Worx InspireEurope 2018 (vlog)
Feb 07, 2018, by Elizabeth RenniePete Tiliakos reports from the SD Worx InspireEurope 2018 conference, where topics under discussion included the shifting global workforce and HR transformation, and SD Worx demonstrated some of its latest HR developments, including the use of AI and predictive analytics in payroll and recruitment. [...]
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Infosys’ Strategy to Ease HR’s Transition to the Cloud
Jan 23, 2018, by Elizabeth RennieWith digital transformation continuing to disrupt and force change across industries, cloud technology is at the heart of that disruption and is providing business leaders with the vehicle to transform operations. And this trend has trickled down to HR, where leaders are challenged with more change and disruption than most can accommodate, given their current legacy HR infrastructure[...]
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Excelity Enhances APAC Payroll Capability with Automated T&A Tracking and Cognitive Chatbots
Dec 21, 2017, by Elizabeth RennieA key finding from NelsonHall’s recently published Next Generation Payroll Services market analysis is that buyers are now much more focused on automation and other forms of transformative technology that will drive digitalization of their HR operating models. In payroll, as elsewhere in HR, this increasingly takes the form of automating manual transactional tasks and[...]
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Neeyamo Driving Innovation to Bridge the Gap Between Global & Local Payroll
Nov 22, 2017, by Elizabeth RennieAs globalization of the workforce continues its evolution, HR leaders today face the challenge of managing a more diverse, dispersed, and technology savvy human capital environment than ever before. Thus, acquiring, integrating, managing, and paying a borderless workforce is a major challenge for many multinational organizations today, driving the need to transform and digitize globa[...]
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The E.W. Scripps Company’s HR Transformation Journey
Oct 24, 2017, by Elizabeth RennieFor many organizations today, technology, and more specifically the internet, has changed the way business is conducted, and having the agility to pivot with the change is critical to remaining competitive and surviving. While the introduction of next generation technology has created a critical inflection point for many businesses, it is also providing HR leaders with n[...]