Tag: go live
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Consultant Spotlight – Natara Beaurem
Natara Beaurem is a Senior HCM Implementation Consultant at HRchitect where she leverages her years of HCM and payroll systems expertise to guide clients through successful system implementation projects. As a proactive and hardworking team player, Natara brings a focused mentality and rigorous approach to her client engagements. She is not only adaptable and driven Read Article »
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Pros and Cons of Big Bang vs Phased Rollout
By Brandon Long The most important time in any HCM implementation is system go-live. One of the most essential questions about go-live should be answered well in advance: Do I go-live all at once, or in phases? As with most questions in any software implementation, the answer is a solid “it depends,” but here is Read Article »
Tags: Big Bang , Brandon Long , go live , hcm system implementation , HCM Technology , HRchitect , Implementation , Phased out , ROI , Strategy , workforce -
Leaps of Faith: My Path to Becoming a Consultant
Steve Glaser took a leap of faith and joined the HRchitect consulting team in 2014. In this post, Steve shares his professional journey and what best prepared him to be a top-tier consultant. When I started my professional career, a friend recommended that I check out a Support Technician job at an Internet Service Provider. Read Article »
Tags: applicant tracking system (ATS) , ATS , COE , go live , HCM consulting , HCM systems , HCM Technology , HR technology , HRchitect , HRIS , onboarding , Oracle Taleo , Oracle Taleo implementation , recruitment , Remote System Administration (RSA) , SAP , Steve Glaser , talent acquisition , Taleo platform , Training and Change Management -
Why fear of Opening Balances shouldn’t dictate your payroll go live date
Opening Balances, often referred to as OBs, usually have a negative connotation in relation to HRIS and Payroll system implementations or conversions. Simply put, opening balances are the year-to date earnings, benefits and tax data for individual employees from a client’s legacy payroll system that needs to be loaded into the new HRIS system in Read Article »
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Reasons to Consider Post-Implementation Support
Written by Steve Glaser Completing an HCM technology project isn’t the same as ending the project management process. Did the project deliver a solution for a problem that it was designed to address? What lessons were learned during implementation to help improve a system or help with future implementations? Sometimes unforeseen issues can Read Article »
Tags: consulting , consulting services , data , Documentation , go live , HCM Technology , on ging support , Post Go Live , post-implementation , Project Management -
Go Live Phase – It’s Time to Go Live!
Written by Erica Niesse This is the last installment in a 5 part series that will take you through everything you need to know when you’re implementing a workforce management system. You’ve been through discovery, requirements gathering, configuration, and testing. Now, it is finally time to make the software you have Read Article »
Tags: cloud-based workforce management solutions , configuration , go live , Implementation Partner , requirements gathering , SME , support , Testing , Time & Attendance system , timesheets , UAT , workforce management , Workforce Management System -
Once Open Enrollment is Over: The Best Tips for Setting Up for Success Next Year
Written by Dixie Vaughan Each year after January 1st and June 1st, millions of HR professionals breathe a sigh of relief. That’s because the overwhelming majority of companies in the United States renew benefits plans at the start of, or mid-point of the calendar year. These HR professionals have been working hard in Read Article »
Tags: benefits , benefits consulting , data audits , dental , EE+1 , Employee only , Family , FSA , go live , HCM , HCM Technology , HDHP , HR , HRIS , HSA , medical , open enrollment , PPO , Vision -
Year-End or Mid-Year? Choosing a System Go Live Date
Written by Troy Robinson Many companies like to use the start of the new year as a point to kick off new initiatives or to put organizational changes into effect. Deploying a new HR system is no exception. For organizations who are unveiling a new HR system at the beginning of the new year, Read Article »
Tags: go live , HCM , HR system , Mid-Year , system implementation , Year-end -
HCM Technology Terminology: All About Implementation
Written by Samantha Colby Your CHRO announces that a new system has been selected and that you are part of the core team working on the implementation. You already know from part one of this series that implementation is the process of setting up a newly purchased software system so that the system is live Read Article »
Tags: configuration , discovery , go live , HCM implementation , hcm system implementation , Implementation , kickoff , support , UAT , user acceptance testing -
Celebrate Success (with your project team!)
Written by: Samantha Colby Kool & The Gang gave us all some good life advice in the form of their 1980s #1 Billboard hit song “Celebrate”. Almost four decades later, the message is particularly relevant to the change management work that we do with our clients at HRchitect. Regardless of which change management methodology Read Article »
Tags: Change Management , go live , HCM implementation , hypercare