Comments for The HR Technologist

Comment on The Death of Privacy and Generation Y by Professionalizing a Facebook Profile

Professionalizing a Facebook Profile — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:35:45 +0000

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Comment on Shameless Self Promotion – See me at the HR Technology Conference by Bryon

Bryon — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:13:01 +0000

Looking forward to seeing you as well.

Comment on Shameless Self Promotion – See me at the HR Technology Conference by Chris Frede

Chris Frede — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:07:40 +0000

Hi Bryon, what a great event and I cannot wait for the sessions! See you there.

Comment on Shameless Self Promotion – See me at the HR Technology Conference by Bryon

Bryon — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:32:05 +0000

Michael – It’s going to be a great session and I’m excited to appear on another panel with you. Looking forward to the discussion with you, Laurie, Trish, and KD.

Comment on Shameless Self Promotion – See me at the HR Technology Conference by Michael Krupa

Michael Krupa — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:16:58 +0000

Looking forward to sharing the stage with you for the blogger panel.

Comment on Is Your Talent Management Solution Rotten To The Core? by Tim

Tim — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:53:45 +0000

Bryon:

Oh so true. I work on the Talent Acq side, and I am at the point now of thinking that I perhaps should write up a new position for a HRISPR, an HRIS Psychic Reader.

Comment on SaaS or Something Else? by gregg dourgarian

gregg dourgarian — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:02:10 +0000

Byron…as well written as your post is I’m astounded to find not just one but all seven of your SAAS attributes erroneous.

In #2 for example you constrain SAAS to software “accessible via an internet browser”. But clearly this is wrong as any 35-year-old non-browser ITunes or Kindle user will tell you.

To be blunt it seems you’ve started from the perspective of one vendor, Salesforce, who can be credited with popularizing SaaS as a marketing term, and have set about preaching their gospel.

A better title for your post would be “Salesforce or Something Else”.

Comment on SaaS or Something Else? by Ali Sadat

Ali Sadat — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:05:46 +0000

Technically speaking, you shouldn’t have to sacrifice customization capabilities because of multi-tenancy. Salesforce has proven that it is possible to provide a multi-tenant solution with seemingly infinite customization capability. Unfortunately, I don’t see of the vendors focused on HR provide anything comparable.

Comment on SaaS or Something Else? by Bryon

Bryon — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:44:48 +0000

@Dominik – I agree wholeheartedly. Multi-tenant SaaS is not the best option for everyone. In the case of the solution not being flexible to meet the change requests of the business, there are two ways to address that.

First, the reasons for the change need to be fully understood and agreed-upon by the business. Just because a recruiter doesn’t like the way a screen is laid out or how a process flows, doesn’t necessarily necessitate a code change. Strong system and process governance needs to be deployed in order to best address those types of issues.

Second, during the purchasing process, the buyers would be best served by performing as much possible due diligence prior to signing on the dotted line with a vendor. Knowing the limitations of the configuration options before committing to a 3, 4, or 5 year contract is critical to determining whether a SaaS solution is even an option.

Comment on SaaS or Something Else? by Bryon

Bryon — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:38:48 +0000

@Christian – Thanks for the comments. In a philosophical position I agree wholeheartedly. Buying a solution as a service is just simply a subscription. But, other than a nuance regarding licensing models, a single tenant solution is simply vendor hosted. To most buyers this point is a technical difference.

The point regarding multi-tenancy is simply this, if a solution isn’t capable of being run multi-tenant, it is something that can be be licensed and run on-premise regardless of whether the vendor offers it or not. Single tenant solutions enable customers to decide when to upgrade (or not at all). Single tenancy SaaS is a licensing decision, where as multi-tenancy is an architectural decision.

As for the ability of a vendor to make a profit being only their issue, I would have to disagree. The financial viability of a SaaS vendor is equally important to the functionality. After all, no one wants to deploy a solution which sits on servers in the process of being repossessed for non-payment by the vendor

With all that said, there is very much a time and place for a single tenant solution and for many customers anything but single tenancy wouldn’t allow them to satisfy their business objectives.