SOA powers HR

Human resource organisations are making strides to maximise the efficiencies of back-office workforce management processes, and automate and extend their services delivery directly to the workforce via self-service solutions, says Top Tech News.

Many HR organisations have deployed organisational alignment solutions like talent management applications (eg, performance management, succession planning). However, most of the effort thus far has been towards internally optimising the human resources organisation and its operating costs and processes.

To drive the greatest enterprise value, HR organisations must insert themselves into the enterprise value-chain. Leveraging composite applications enabled by enterprise SOA architecture will result in leading-edge, intelligent enterprise-wide solutions that create newfound business value.

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is helping Asian Paints attain its strategic objective of making its recruiting efforts more efficient and effective, by making its IT landscape more flexible, collaborative and process-centric, says Express Computers.

When Asian Paints experienced a dramatic increase in the number of people it needed to recruit to fill critical positions, it decided to eliminate the burden of countless interviews and paperwork by partnering with recruitment agencies to hire personnel for various positions.

The company also wanted to develop a Web-enabled solution that would map the entire recruiting process to a single, integrated solution for internal and external HR team members; this persuaded Asian Paints to implement SAP`s enterprise SOA.

Technology based HR systems are important to businesses, but when it comes to talent management, organisations place top priority on process design, according to a recent survey, states ITBusiness.

The use of HR systems ranked near the bottom of 62 processes studied in a recent poll of more than 750 companies whose executives were queried on issues such as workforce recruiting, performance management, training and succession planning.

"Technology`s value is in automation and streamlining of good HR programs, not creating them," according to Josh Bersin, principal and CEO of Bersin & Associates, a corporate learning and leadership consultancy firm based in California that conducted the survey.