Thanks to those who attended yesterday’s webinar, Demystifying ESBs for HR System Stakeholders, and many thanks to the presenter Larry Fulton.
Larry has made available a copy of the slide deck from his blog. Full replay of the session is available in the two video embeds that appear below.
Another resource that you may find valuable [...]
Saturday, December 27, 2008
A well-conceived data model is a necessary foundation for any service oriented architecture (SOA). Architects looking for proven data model templates and best practices will find few resources more valuable than the The Data Model Resource Book series. In the recently published third volume (Universal Patterns for Data Modeling), data modeling experts Len Silverston and [...]
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
While the pace of business change is never slow, many observers note that the current economic downturn, far from slowing the pace of innovation, is certain to increase the pace of change within many sectors. The growing attention given to “cloud computing” is one example of economic constraints driving such change.
In recent a post, I [...]
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Along with the growing cloud-computing hype is growing push back along the lines that cloud-computing is merely a new way for vendors to pitch the same offerings wrapped up in the latest buzzword. Shally Steckerl, a recruiting strategist and consultant, delivers a blistering post along these lines on ERE.net.
It is easy to sympathize with Shalley [...]
Thursday, December 4, 2008
The non-profit National Bureau of Economic Research officially announced on Monday what everyone has known for a long time – that the U.S. economy is in a recession. As the economy and stock market spiraled downward over the past year, at least one thing on the rise was “Cloud Computing” as a technology meme. [...]
Friday, November 21, 2008
Links to a few HR interoperability-related items:
LETSI: HR-XML Consortium Seeks Cross-Domain Interoperability“Learning, education, and HR standards communities have very little to show in terms of cross-domain standards interoperability and convergence despite significant investments over a period of more than a decade.” Chuck Allen, Executive Director of the HR-XML Consortium, made this assessment of standards that [...]
I’ve written in the past about HR-XML 3.0’s potential as a common information model. But what if you aren’t really so interested in a “component library,” as much as you are interested in just few key interfaces with trading partner — for example, an HR-XML-based interface for accepting assessment or screening orders. Don’t worry – [...]
In our next webinar, we are going to be taking a look at a platform and methodologies for interoperability testing. If you’ve followed HR-XML this past year, you know that our current work more than ever before incorporates best practices of peer standards organizations. For example, readers of this blog know that HR-XML’s 3.0 release [...]
The Atom Publishing Protocol (“AtomPub”) is an HTTP-based approach for creating and editing “Web resources.” These resources could be things like blog entries, podcasts, wiki pages, calendar entries and so on. However, there is nothing that says resources can’t be things like job postings, candidate profiles, competency definitions, position profiles, performance results, or other HR [...]
From Joe McKendrick on his ZDNet Blog: Burton Analyst Anne Thomas Manes finds that SOA is still siloed within the IT organization and the transformative effects have not yet spread to the business. Line of business managers, she observes, are not ready to share services, the crux of SOA value.