PeopleSoft, a leading provider of enterprise applications software, announced yesterday at the 1997 International Association for Human Resources Information Management Conference and Exposition (HRIM) that 194 new customers licensed PeopleSoft HRMS during the six months ending March 31.
"PeopleSoft leads the US market with more than double the share of its closest competitor," according to a May 1997 report on client/server enterprise applications from International Data Corporation of Framingham, Massachusetts.
Building on its undisputed leadership in the United States, PeopleSoft HRMS continues to gain market share internationally, with increased global licensing and implementation activity.
"One of the most daunting imperatives in global business is the consolidation and implementation of worldwide human resources systems," said Row Henson, vice president for human resources product strategy, PeopleSoft. "By building and deploying global HRMS solutions, PeopleSoft is helping global companies meet this challenge."
Worldwide strength in HRMS
Demonstrating PeopleSoft`s worldwide momentum in human resources management applications, organisations selected applications from the PeopleSoft HRMS suite at an increasing rate, with 86 new license agreements in the fourth quarter of 1996, and 108 in the first quarter of 1997. These new customers include numerous organisations based outside the United States.
Deutsche Bank in Germany, which licensed PeopleSoft HRMS, is the largest bank in Europe, and the tenth largest in the world. With over 75,000 employees, Deutsche Bank will have 5,000 Peoplesoft users across its multiple holdings and subsidiaries. Other international companies that licensed PeopleSoft HRMS in the first quarter of 1997 include Caterpillar Brasil Ltda., SCOR (the first re-insurance company France), and British Aerospace Australia.
Among PeopleSoft`s well-recognised multinational HRMS customers is Siemens AG, the $60 billion technology company head-quartered in Munich. Siemens, a PeopleSoft Human Resources and Payroll customer since 1995, uses the PeopleSoft applications throughout its global operations representing 379,000 employees worldwide.
Other customers currently implementing or already in production with PeopleSoft HRMS are AT&T, Dade International, RR Donnelley & Sons, First Chicago, Ford Motor Company, Mobil Oil, Lucent, NCR Corporation, Radio France, Texas Instruments, Suncorp, and Woolworth Corporation.
Customers select PeopleSoft HRMS as best of breed solution
Many companies have interfaced PeopleSoft HRMS with legacy or third-party client/server applications. Customers with heterogeneous environments that have implemented PeopleSoft HRMS include Applied Materials, Dow Chemical and Eli Lilly, First Chicago, Lucent Technologies, Monsanto, New Brunswick Power, OSRAM SYLVANIA INC., Owens Corning, and Siemens,
"We continue to see companies choose PeopleSoft HRMS, even if their other corporate functions run on legacy or non-PeopleSoft applications, " said Henson. "This is true even with organisations that otherwise follow a single vendor approach. They still choose PeopleSoft HRMS for its depth of functionality and flexibility."
"PeopleSoft HRMS is clearly a favoured best-of-breed solution in today`s market," according to IDC, in a report entitled Senior Human Resources Manager Perspectives on Technology and Business Requirements. The report is based on 100 interviews conducted with Fortune 500 human resources managers in June 1996.
IDC found that PeopleSoft HRMS was implemented at 11 percent of Fortune 500 sites responding to IDC`s survey, and 16 percent reported intention to acquire PeopleSoft HRMS in the future. The closest client/server -based competitor was implemented at only two percent of the responding companies. Four times as many managers (16 percent) said they intend to acquire human resources software from PeopleSoft as from any other vendor (four percent).
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