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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.

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Chemmalar 25-11-2008

Not fully acceptable

Cvk 04-12-2008

Not Bad!!

Anuop 24-12-2008

Hi,

I think, i wil giv ` *** `

Niranjani 02-01-2009

Good information show the reality of the HR trend.

Dipak 16-01-2009

Not more usefuul

Sharad 30-01-2009

Great Show

Do share your thoughts and enlighten us with lot of Current HR concepts

SHARAD CHANDRA

Devender 26-02-2009

Great, its a very usefull if you can dig in...

Sandhya 03-03-2009

ok good i will accept some points

Devaraj 04-03-2009

I appreciate your interest at least you have tried put thoughts on HR automation.

It would have been better that if you would have highlighted best & flexible HRIS Modules and flow process.

But I don’t agree that excel has been moved out. It is main tool which help us in analysis report in day in day out.

Best of luck.

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