Saturday, October 27, 2007

Why You Can Love An Integrated Talent Management System...



You need a Great Services & Support Team

Get a vendor where each person, each department is devoted to providing the highest level of service. Service and support for customers is the highest priority to ensure continuous subscription renewals and helps to ensure subscription renewals.


On-demand, Software as a Service (SaaS)

There is no hardware, software, middleware, databases, or business intelligence tools to buy, install, maintain, and upgrade. The multi-tenancy model means that customers securely share one physical instance of software without ever seeing each other’s data.

Seamless No Pain Upgrades

With traditional on-premise applications, many customers often fall drastically behind the latest technology & feature releases. With SaaS, all software updates and upgrades are seamless delivered each month to all customers at one time.

Best Available Technology

Make sure your product is built on a next-generation architecture (using .NET 2.0 and AJAX) that enables the deliver of services faster – deliver implementations & integrations through the use of Web services - so they can easily interact with other applications

Systems Integration

Get a solution built to transparently integrate with your existing solutions (ERP, HRMS, ATS, and Financials) whether they are on-premise or on-demand. Make sure services have been designed at the core to support and utilize today’s standard for integration – web services


Configurable Not Customizable

Get a system’ designed so that workflow, forms and processes can be configured to meet the needs of your individual group, business unit, department, or country – or simply, by organizational unit

Global Reach and Scale

Have a multi-tenant architecture that is maintained by a Tier 1 hosting facility with redundancy and failover capabilities, making the best use of content acceleration technology to move the most frequent content out to the edges of the Internet to service global locations. Having access to multiple languages (with more coming) and global date and currency formats allows for a decentralized and extensible environment.

Flexibility In Approach

Whether you are a centralized or decentralized organization, or a hybrid, your system should allow for total flexibility in establishing how you use it. Each organizational unit should be allowed to fully decentralize capabilities to configure their process, workflow and forms. Centralized control can be managed through the use of role-based permission groups. These tools provide the flexibility needed to manage organizations with 10's of thousands of users.

Usability & EngagementA single user-friendly interface should be as easy and intuitive to navigate as today’s consumer web sites. Having a unique roles-based user experience for executives, managers, employees, and administrators will allow for a single integrated portal, building engagement and adoption, no matter how few or how many modules have been rolled out

A Single Point of Ownership

Make sure you have a single point of contact, one vendor who designed it, built it, and supports it.