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This was HR in 1960

1. The Era of Excel is over, its no more the most Powerful tool.
There was a time when Excel Geeks were highly in demand. Everybody will approach them for a solution. However, with the arrival of softwares like SAP, where HR can ask the software team to create personalized reports, Excel has been moved to the corner. With the amount of analysis and metrics that appear today, Excel is just insufficient. Added to it is the cost of acquiring MS Office. Open Office and Google Docs have appeared as the free alternatives to Excel. Sharing Excels sheets is fun with Google Docs. Though none of these serves as an alternate to customized HR software.

2. Locally developed softwares are out of fashion.

The technology is growing at such a pace that th small and one-room-run software vendors are unable to infuse the technology and dynamics that world of HR needs. Don`t you remember the important updates that you required but your software vendor was unable to do. People are changing, become more tech savvy, blogs are swarming all over – so how can you expect your employees to appreciate your locally developed software. And then there is no need to worry, the latest SaaS technology offers high degree of customization to develop a system meeting your specific needs.


3. Web based Software is the new affordable tool

The huge success of Monster.com, Salesforce, EmpXtrack, SuccessFactors, et ecetra is enough to prove that the era of web 2.0 has begun. Most of these, especially, EmpXtrack provides updates to the software at the fly, the price of these softwares is unmatched and no need to keep in-house support staff. So why would anybody keep the old, poorly interfaced software in HR. Would you? Click her if you want to see how a web-based HR software works.

Source:
http://www.citehr.com/121731-10-things-about-technology-every-hr-manager-should-

Amit 22-09-2008

Not at all useful information.
Mix of redundant points....
Everything boils down to using either web or web-based software for connectivity ... it figures..... the author is from one such company himself.

Rajalakshmi 24-09-2008

Quite useful. But highlight the mandate one

Pradyumna 24-09-2008

the article is quit interesting if it would given some deep knowledge over the HRIS softwares.....

Lakshmi 25-09-2008

Quite good information. But i wont accept with few points.

Krishnan 08-10-2008

Good in some points.

Ramanan 15-10-2008

I accept only few points.. and not all..

Kawaljit 23-10-2008

Hi i dont agree :-)

All that Glitters are not Gold.

Hari 31-10-2008

Not that much related.ok. but appreiciate to share these one

LINGARAJU.N 06-11-2008

Hi..
From the quoted messages, some are tastable, some are chewable and some are digestable, People always digestable, Your thoughts are some what tastable..

Regards
LR

Kalicharan2040 07-11-2008

i request you to modify and update the infrmation

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