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• UKG Betting Big on AI and Global Reach

  Jun 03, 2024, by Elizabeth Rennie

    I recently attended the 2024 UKG Spring Analyst Day, the theme of which was helping organizations become a great place to work through human-centered technology. The event provided clear demonstrations of what the company has delivered as well as a preview of what’s to come. UKG also demonstrated an innovative approach to ensuring client value is at the heart of its product roa[...]

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• ADP Showcases Innovations Making HR ‘Easy, Smart & Human’

  Oct 09, 2023, by Jeanine Crane-Thompson

    ADP recently held its 2023 Analyst Day (#ADPaday) event at its Chelsea Lab Innovation Center in New York City, where ADP leaders and clients shared strategies, product roadmaps, transformational impacts, and industry insights related to the human capital industry. As the company nears its 75th anniversary in 2024, ADP President & CEO Maria Black shared the company's three [...]

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• Technology & People Analytics Evolving to Support the HR Lifecycle

  Sep 28, 2022, by Jeanine Crane-Thompson

  Earlier this month, the 2022 HR Technology Conference saw more than 400 vendors and 5,000 participants descend upon the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Hotel & Conference Center. Attendees presented industry trends, learned from colleagues, viewed demos of the latest technologies, and met face-to-face in what felt like a pre-2020 setting. Several key observations from this year's conference [...]

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• DE&I as a Core Business Strategy: ADP’s Internal Initiatives & Client Services

  Aug 18, 2022, by DeeAnna Warrington

    Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) has become an important focus for HR in recent years and is increasingly part of organizations’ core business strategy. This blog takes an in-depth look at ADP’s current DE&I strategies, both internally and as relates to its client service and offerings. ADP’s Corporate Social Responsibility ADP currently has ~6[...]

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• isolved: Innovation, Platform Maturity & Client Development

  Sep 24, 2021, by Elizabeth Rennie

  This past week I had the privilege of attending isolved’s Connect annual user conference at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida. The event marked a few firsts for me personally: my first time attending isolved Connect and the first time I have traveled for an in-person event in 18 months. It was great to get back to meeting and connecting with vendors and buyers face to face [...]

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• HR Approaches to Building Resilience - Time to Expand the Concept of Employee Experience?

  Jun 23, 2021, by Elizabeth Rennie

    The last two years have challenged employees and HR teams in ways we could never have imagined, and many now have a new outlook on what “work-life balance” means. 2020 and 2021 have seen heightened resignation levels, and companies are only now starting to reflect on the impact of burnout on their employees. While vaccines are being rolled out, and with the threat of loca[...]

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• Futureproofing Payroll Services, Part 2: Vendor Innovations

  Apr 08, 2021, by Elizabeth Rennie

  This is Part Two of a three-part blog series covering my perspectives on the payroll market based on NelsonHall’s latest annual market analysis, Payroll Services: Globalization and Digitalization. Part One features the payroll buyer perspective, including the buyer view of the impact of innovation available today. In this part, I look at the managed payroll service providers currently pu[...]

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• Capgemini & ServiceNow Taking Digital HR Experiences to a New Level

  Jan 04, 2021, by Elizabeth Rennie

    As expectations of what is possible in the digital world have grown exponentially, Capgemini is aiming to close the widening gap between consumer experience and employee experience.  It is looking to digitalize workplace interactions while keeping the warmth, emotion, and uniqueness underpinning company culture. It has built a Digital Employee Operations (DEO) practice over t[...]

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• OSVAtmosphere: Removing the Mystery from HR & Payroll Service Delivery

  Oct 07, 2020, by Elizabeth Rennie

    The recent impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic exposed many HR and payroll service delivery models as being unequipped and unprepared to pivot to remote work, access the data needed to obtain government support, and move money to employees in a timely and compliant fashion. The pandemic also accelerated an already intensifying push toward digital HR and payroll adoption, particularly as[...]

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• Kronos Doubles Down on HCM Platform Development

  Nov 27, 2019, by Elizabeth Rennie

    Earlier 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 Rennie

    This 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 Rennie

    This 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 Rennie

    Last 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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• OneSource Virtual Delivers Turnkey RPA with RPaaS.com

  Nov 06, 2018, by Elizabeth Rennie

    Organizations 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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• Ceridian Dayforce: Client Results, Opportunities & Challenges

  Oct 26, 2018, by Gary Bragar

    by Gary Bragar & Pete Tiliakos This past week at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Ceridian held its 31st annual client event, Ceridian INSIGHTS. The event attracted ~3k attendees and consisted of 150 sessions, many presented by clients highlighting the capabilities of the Dayforce HCM platform and the outcomes achieved following its adoption. In this blog, we highlight a few of th[...]

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• Advances in HR Tech: The View from The Strip

  Sep 19, 2018, by Elizabeth Rennie

    This 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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