Technology – Page 20 – Michael Specht

Ok so I am a geek

I need to replace by ski gear and just found the perfect replacement, this way I can still listen to podcasts while I am on the slopes.

For all you SAP heads out there if you did not get to TechEd this year, or even if you did go, you can now purchase DVD’s of the events via the SAP Developer Network. On other SAP related items each time I visit SDN I find all sorts of interesting pieces of information. SuchContinue reading “SAP Tech Ed online”

Manageing digital identity & trust

Just listened to Phil Becker being interviews by Doug Kaye over at IT Conversation. Phil is one of (maybe the) organisers of the Digital ID World conference that was recently held in Denver this year. I am finding myself more and more interested in the whole area of digital identity, I have mentioned single signContinue reading “Manageing digital identity & trust”

Vote testing

I have just been reading Tantek’s Thoughts (via Scoble) where Tantek provides some feedback on Scoble’s Information Overload session at BloggerCon. Anyway I felt I might test out the voting that Tantek wrote about. So my choice for a vote is for Firefox. The rest of Tantek’s item is very interesting and worth a read,Continue reading “Vote testing”

Unlimited money?

I colleague asked me an interesting question a few days ago. “If you had unlimited funds what would you recommend to a medium sized organisation (3000-5000 people) as an HR/Payroll platform where today there are many different tactical tools in place and a trend towards an ERP platform in other portions of the business? WouldContinue reading “Unlimited money?”

Firefox Advocator

It is interesting to see the wave of public support for Firefox. I have been watching news articles pouring out all over the globe about Firefox and I personally now use if for most day to day browsing, although some sites do not support Firefox just yet. Chris Holland has a new term Firefox Advocator,Continue reading “Firefox Advocator”

Amazing story

I just finished reading an amazing story of Audion a MP3/Music player for the Mac (via Charles Arthur). Nothing to do with HR or HRIS just a really interesting story of how two guys in an appartment who’s software almost bacame iTunes.

Microsoft out of touch?

I was reading this item on Yahoo News and was amused by the comments of Steve Vamos and Ben English. Firstly Vamos is yet to use Firefox, I would have thought he would have at least been interested to give it a small go. However the bit I found interesting was the comment from benContinue reading “Microsoft out of touch?”

Microsoft to do payroll in Office?

Hmm, not sure what to make of this. Found this article on Information Week about Microsoft partnering with ADP in the Us to delivery payroll services to small business. (Via eHRMS) I am sure this is going to raise some eyebrows in the SME payroll market place, especially in the Australian marketplace if they decideContinue reading “Microsoft to do payroll in Office?”

Baby boomers and workforce applications

Over the last 5 years or so when deploying workforce applications, such as Employee Self Service, I have regularly dealt with organisations who are concerned that their workforce does not know how to use computers or have such limited skills that deployment will be and issue. Now for a generalisation, the organisations tend to beContinue reading “Baby boomers and workforce applications”