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SAP Announces Business Suite on HANA
For the past couple of years I’ve been pointing to the importance of in-memory computing to the future of business applications. It’s an integral part of Ventana Research’s business and finance...
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Joining Ventana Research to Inspire Human Capital Management
Hi; pleased to meet you! I’m tremendously excited to be joining the team here at Ventana Research, and I’m looking forward to adding my experience, observations and opinions to this team of very...
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The Big Deal is in the 2013 Business Analytics Research Agenda
Did you catch all the big data analogies people used in 2012? There were many, like the refinement of oil analogy, or the spinning straw into gold analogy, and less useful but more entertaining ones,...
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The Rationale and Agenda for Why Human Capital Management in 2013
Human capital is most organizations’ largest investment and one of their largest differentiators against the competition. So it follows that those that take advantage of the compelling, game-changing...
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SAP Business Analytics Strategy Built on SAP HANA and Delivers Better...
SAP just released strong annual and quarterly results, which in many ways can be attributed to a strong strategic vision around the HANA in-memory platform and strong execution throughout the...
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Technology Innovation in 2013 is a Business and IT Priority
The proper use of technology enables businesses to be more efficient. Our recent research into technology for business innovation found that 56 percent indicate innovative technology is very important,...
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Making Payroll Management a Strategic Part of Human Capital Management
Managing payroll has long been viewed as an administrative task, time-consuming and focused on ensuring that everyone is paid correctly and on time. In fact, in the American Payroll Association’s most...
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IBM Provokes Social Collaboration and Smarter Workforce Revolution
IBM held its 20th annual IBM Connect conference (previously known as Lotusphere) as part of its IBM Social Business efforts at the end of January. The conference focuses on business and social...
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Turning a Spotlight on Human Capital Analytics
Human capital analytics is an area increasingly under discussion in businesses today as the linkages between employee performance and company success become increasingly clear, as do the roles...
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The Evolution of Social Learning for Human Capital Management
Learning management software (LMS) has evolved over the past 25-plus years from a classroom scheduling tool that helped streamline instructor-led and classroom training to a rich, integrated enterprise...
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Why Business Intelligence Software is Failing Business
Business intelligence software is supposed to help businesses access and analyze data and communicate analytics and metrics. I have witnessed improvements to BI software over the years, from mobile and...
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Use – Don’t Abuse – Spreadsheets
I’ve been using electronic spreadsheets for more than 30 years. I consider this technology among the 20th century’s top five most important advances in business management. Spreadsheets have...
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Cornerstone Making Talent Management Simpler to Use
Improving how employees and managers can improve talent management activities through changes in process, technology and better access to information is both a theme of my research agenda this year. It...
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Spreadsheet Denial is a Big Issue
Our recent benchmark research project, Spreadsheet Use in Today’s Enterprise, demonstrated that some companies have made modest progress in addressing spreadsheet issues, but there’s still much left to...
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OrcaEyes Delivers a Whale of Workforce Analytics and Planning
Human capital analytics used to be simple. It focused on compliance reporting, showed basic information and was an afterthought in most applications. Today analytics is the centerpiece of many human...
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A Profile of Strategic and Long-Range Planning
Ventana Research recently completed an in-depth benchmark research project on long-range planning. As part of the research we had discussions with CFOs and those involved in financial planning and...
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Saba Doubles Down on Dedication to Empower People and Collaboration in 2013
Saba held its annual People 2013 customer and analyst conference recently in San Francisco, with approximately 700 customers in attendance. At the conference the company provided analysts a...
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Ultimate Software Takes HCM Global
Ultimate Software held its annual global customer conference and analyst day recently in Las Vegas, where more than 1,300 attendees got to hear about the company’s plans for 2013. Ultimate, founded...
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Business Leads the Way to Cloud Computing
Cloud computing has given business a new way to improve the effectiveness of business processes and ultimately the outcomes of their efforts. In the last five years, business across marketing, customer...
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Tidemark Leads New Wave of Innovation in Planning and Performance Excellence
Organizations succeed through continuous planning to achieve high levels of performance. For most organizations planning is not an easy process to conduct. Planning software is typically designed for...
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