Q: What did you learn & what do you hope to learn next class? Anything that your can apply right away personally or professionally?

A:  After reading the Forrester Wave: Human Resource Management Systems, Q1 2012 article I found out that I not only have a 5.00 on my hands but that the potential for adding a suite of integrated products down the road looks promising!!  At my company I am currently implementing Ceridian's InView time and attendance product.  I was thrilled to see that it ranked 5 out of 5 on the evaluation, and here is why.

Prior to this class I had no exposure to the project management process.  The key steps of Discovery, Defining the problem, and Designing a solution were loosely completed but the decision to purchase InView was based mainly on the fact that it was 1) affordable and 2) integrated with Ceridian payroll on the US side of our operations.  Because our data on the Canadian side was not integrated we knew it would not be a perfect product for all our needs but we knew it would be "good enough".  The back-end user (namely myself) can rest assured that the vacation accruals are accurate and that wage & hour requirements are compliant.  The end user is able to update some of their personal information, create/send time off requests in real time, and managers are able to view the time off for their employees 24/7 (not to mention run user friendly reports!).  Even though InView has it's limitations this article made me feel like, however accidentally, we picked a great product.

If I were to be able to go back in time and start the process over I most certainly would.  I am not sure that the outcome would have been any different but at least I would know exactly what this technology can do and what additional HR technology products will be available in the future.  My class charter is around a SOR.  After reading this article I need to evaluate if it makes sense to move forward with a stand alone product and make sure it integrates seamlessly with Ceridian Payroll and Time & Attendance OR if we should hold off to see what Ceridian has in store down the road.  As Ceridian has bought Dayforce it sounds like it could be worth the wait!!