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Nov 11 11

SAP EHP5 HCM Breakfast Highlights – Presentations available now

Author: Daire O’Mochain, HCM Practice Manager

Extend Technologies recently drew a number of our senior consultants together to update our customers in relation to HCM and EHP5. read more…

Oct 27 11

What improvements and opportunities can Enhancement Package 5 offer for my SAP HCM solutions?

Author: Mark Wade, Human Capital Management Practice Lead

Each release of SAP Enhancement Packages offers the opportunity for companies to implement richer functionality and enhanced end-user experiences across a number of HCM processes.  How many times do we hear “can’t you make the screen more intuitive”, “surely you must be able to do …?”

Being able to establish exactly what benefits can be realised from an Enhancement Package implementation, versus the amount of effort, system dependencies and risks require considerable research that can be time consuming and frustrating.  read more…

Oct 14 11

Highlights from 2011 AHRI HR Technology Conference

 Author: Daire O’Mochain – HCM (Human Capital Management) Practice Manager

On Wednesday 12th October, Extend and our partners sponsored the AHRI HR Technology conference.

Our aim was to demonstrate the end-to-end capability of the SAP HCM suite, including the major extension products that are available.  We also wanted to show how SAP is leading the market in terms of adoption of new HCM technology trends.  To that end our stand included demonstrations on mobility applications for field service staff, hosted risk management, HR and Talent Analytics. read more…

Oct 12 11

How Flexible is SAP’s Flexible Template for Performance Management?

 Author: Marie Abigail Manlongat, Senior HCM (Human Capital Management) Consultant

When implementing Performance Management in SAP, there are essentially two choices of templates available: Predefined and Flexible.  Based on a number of recent implementation experiences, I wanted to highlight a number of points regarding the Flexible template. read more…

Sep 24 11

SAP Consultant’s Guide to Avoiding Social Awkwardness

 Author: Sabine Bennett, BI Consultant

My name is Sabine and I am a BI/BPC Consultant.

If you are still reading and nodding then you are a rare breed!

People often ask me what I do for a job and my initial response would be “I am a BI Consultant”.

Usually I can tell from the blank expression on their face that my counterpart is wondering if they have just been transported to an alternate reality where people speak a very strange foreign language. read more…

Sep 18 11

NSW Government Shared Services IT Requirements

Author: Laurence Green, Senior Account Manager

Like many organisations around the globe, the NSW Government faces an array of critical business challenges.  Economic conditions and other pressures require significant cost reductions, yet organisations are expected to continue serving growing user and constituent needs in a restricted funding environment. read more…

Sep 18 11

Salesforce and SAP can be friends!

 Author: Dominic Frost, NSW Branch Manager

Let’s face it – Salesforce.com has been the most successful Software as a Service (SaaS) platform on the planet.  It’s easy to use, easy to change and can be rolled out in days. 

Why and how is this possible?  read more…

Aug 26 11

SAP HCM Roadmap Update

Author: Daire O’Mochain, HCM Practice Manager

I attended a partner briefing at SAP Australia’s North Sydney office today. The core presentation was given by David Ludlow, SAP’s VP of Line of Business Solutions – HR. David covered a lot of ground in the available time, but the standout takeaways for me were as follows: read more…

Jul 13 11

ClickConnect 2011: SAP HCM Debrief

Author: Daire O’Mochain, HCM Practice Manager

The ClickConnect APAC user forum held in Manly, Sydney this year had a number of very interesting sessions.  The items that grabbed my attention in particular were: read more…

Jun 29 11

Nakisa Visualisation Tools and HCM

Author: Calvin Aquino, HCM Consultant

The recent updates on SAP Organization Visualization by Nakisa (SOVN) and SAP Talent Visualization by Nakisa (STVN) highlights the growing focus on building capabilities to organise and optimise an organisation’s HCM data.  I have been working with several organisations on HCM and self-service projects and can say that the functionalities offered by Nakisa will provide an answer to some of the frequently asked questions raised by HR professionals and managers.  Here are some FAQs and answers read more…