It’s become a habit for companies in their marketing to acknowledge the state of the economy today. It’s as if they believe that if they acknowledge that times are tough, then immediately they’ll bond with their customers and all will be well. Because, you know, customers will get that these companies understand. There’s more to
Read More...Below is a video that I think all of us could use as we live our lives and try to do what’s best for our businesses. No matter how difficult things are, it’s never the time to simply give up. Way too often a cliché with nothing behind it, here’s someone who is forced to
Read More...Over the last six months, one of the most frequent requests we’ve been getting is for low-cost, high-yield, quick-turnaround packaged services that tackle some main technical hurdles of PeopleSoft implementations. These aren’t standard, large-project based engagements: these are geared more towards productized services than traditional professional services. What we’re finding is that despite the slow
Read More...Relevant information to many of our clients. From the Oracle support FAQ: Q: What is Oracle announcing? A: Oracle’s PeopleSoft HRMS 8.8 customers will be able to purchase an additional year of Extended Support. This adds a fourth year to Oracle’s typical three-year timeframe and extends the overall Extended Support date from December 2010 to
Read More...Workforce Management: The bottom isn’t falling out of the HR technology market, according to a recent survey from the International Association for Human Resources Information Management professional group. Forty-two percent of the nearly 210 respondents reported that their human resources information technology budgets will remain the same in 2009 as in 2008, the association said
Read More...I try to keep internal events at MiPro (mostly) away from the blog unless they’re newsworthy on a broader level, because most internal gyrations have no context to our readership and therefore are a bit ho-hum. As an exception, I’d like to take a moment to announce a new addition to MiPro that we’re very
Read More...If you’re going to HRTech 2008 in Chicago this week, come by and see us. Mainly, we just want to hear how your business is doing. There’s a lot going on in our country right now, and we’re interested in how you’re dealing with your HRIT projects and the demands you’re hearing from your management.
Read More...The Story As we approach the year-end preparation season, we’re getting asked a lot about how to close the gap in 1099 reporting compliance. From what we can understand, there are several factors at play that you need to know about and that might re-prioritize 1099 reporting from whatever system you’re using. More specifically, the
Read More...What is the cost of a fumbled upgrade? For J. Crew it was $3MM in unanticipated costs which, according to J. Crew, contributed to their recently announced earnings miss of 4 cents a share. How did Wall Street respond? Typical overcorrection seems to be the response with shares trading 15% down in after hour activity.
Read More...Quite a bit, actually. This is one that you should look at deeper than the headline. Last week, Appirio announced that it bagged Series B funding upwards of $5M by Sequoia Capital. It’s worth noting that Sequoia is the same firm that underwrote upstarts such as Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn and PayPal. The pedigree is Midas-esque
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