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11 hiring process best practices to improve recruitment

While there isn't one right way to approach the hiring process, certain best practices -- from using software to training everyone involved with recruitment -- can make it easier. Continue Reading
Adoption of HR onboarding software accelerating, says one study

HR onboarding is an area of talent acquisition that is getting a lot of focus. First impressions count, and there's a link between a bad onboarding experience and turnover. Continue Reading
Foot Locker improves its candidate experience and hiring

Foot Locker has upgraded its talent management systems to improve its candidate experience, automate some functions and sharpen its hiring process with data. Continue Reading
Talent assessment tool helps restaurants save in hiring and training

Restaurant operator American Blue Ribbon Holding uses cloud-based OutMatch pre-employment tests to predict candidates who will increase sales and remain on the job longer. Continue Reading
Cornerstone OnDemand recruiting and onboarding tools help fuel ResCare

Using Cornerstone OnDemand to connect recruiting, onboarding and learning, ResCare helps prepare new employees for the vital work of supporting the elderly and disabled. Continue Reading
Onboarding tools grow in importance for retention, performance

Software users confirm what industry analysis shows: Employee onboarding processes can be a powerful weapon in the fight for talent.Continue Reading
Company's project for new hires mirrors HRIS manager's personal journey

Hong Le knows what it's like to be in a strange land with little guidance. That's why she's trying to improve HR onboarding at her company.Continue Reading
MetroPCS calls on ServiceNow to automate HR case management

The ServiceNow system helped MetroPCS fill a gap in its Workday human capital management software and move away from an insecure email-based process.Continue Reading
Offboarding automation reduces risk, manual labor

With HR's focus on onboarding, the offboarding process often gets short shrift. But making do with checklists and spreadsheets can lead to problems.Continue Reading

SAP partner program promises to focus on customer happiness

SAP's partner program shifts from sales emphasis to customer happiness; to lead the efforts, SAP named Karl Fahrbach as the ...

Overview of SAP HANA features and how it's being used today

There has been a lot of hype around SAP HANA since it became available nearly a decade ago, but what is it exactly and what role ...

SAP executive board shuffle raises questions about its strategic direction

Some analysts believe SAP's recent executive changes mean the new leaders must prove their development credibility as the company...

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Oracle cloud adoption and hybrid cloud adoption pros and cons

More businesses are adopting cloud systems or thinking about it. But cloud and hybrid cloud setups have pluses and minuses that ...

Oracle Digital Assistant unifies use of enterprise chatbots

With Oracle Digital Assistant, users are able to create digital assistants with multiple chatbots that handle different tasks to ...

Oracle Database 19c new features and what users need to know

Oracle Database 19c is the last update to the 12c Release 2 line of Oracle's database software. This handbook examines its new ...

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How to integrate Power BI and SharePoint via embedded reports

Expert Brien Posey explains two methods for including Power BI reports on pages in SharePoint Online's cloud service: publishing ...

Data-rich organizations turn focus to ethical data mining

As data analytics have increasingly become a core component of organizations' strategies, concerns have arisen around how data is...

Cloud AutoML, BigQuery ML upgrades expand Google stake in ML

Google introduced a raft of updates to its cloud-based machine learning and AI products, including expanded capabilities for its ...

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Business objects are the future of content services platforms

The focus of enterprise content management must shift from a CSP-based approach to a business object services model in order to ...

5 unusual ways to use AI in content management

AI offers great opportunity for enhancing enterprise content management. Here are some more unusual use cases for AI that ...

Use data to create personalized content customers actually want

As customers demand authentic, personalized content, CX teams have turned to personalization engines. But without the right data,...

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Google takes a run at enterprise cloud data management

New Google Cloud boss Thomas Kurian is putting databases and data management at the forefront at Google. The vendor has forged ...

4 factors to consider in a Hadoop distributions comparison

Examine the key characteristics necessary to evaluate in a Hadoop distribution comparison, focusing on enterprise features, ...

Kafka at center of new event processing infrastructure

Events are as important as data in emerging applications underlying many e-commerce efforts. Streams of events tell a company ...

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Business software strategies strengthen the inbound marketing process

It's not enough to just purchase new marketing software. Your overall business strategy will determine your company's needs and ...

Sensible contact center infrastructure updates for 2017

Contact center infrastructure evolves quickly and updates are inevitably necessary. Here's how to identify and make the changes ...

Guide to call center operations

Call center operations have been affected in numerous ways by the growth of social media and mobile, particularly with new ...