Monday, November 24, 2008
A successful standards initiative must influence as well as open itself to be influenced. I’ve mentioned in recent posts how HR-XML 3.0 advances the maturity of HR standards by incorporating design best practices and content developed by other groups (Open Applications Group, Inc. and UN/CEFACT). While OAGi and UN/CEFACT have much to offer, there are [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
Earlier this year, I wrote a couple posts about the “problem with people” — that is the problem of modeling people within HR processes and systems. Broadly speaking, the problem is that a single person associated with an employer or an employer-sponsored program has a certain set of intrinsic characteristics, but also has characteristics that [...]
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 [...]
In some of my recent presentations, I’ve talked about where HR-XML has enjoyed uptake within the broader HR services ecosphere and where it hasn’t. See slides 11 and 12 from the deck embedded below (or if the embed is giving you problems, view here). Simply stated, HR-XML has had some success as a starting point [...]
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Someone just asked me to review what the 3.0 library has related to competencies, so I thought I’d write a post as I’m sure others are interested. I also will offer a related opinion or two based on some discussions at last week’s HR-XML Partnering and Integration Summit.
There is quite a lot that is [...]
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
At the recent HR-XML Partnering and Integration Summit I was asked about the timing for the release of HR-XML 4.0. To clarify, version 4.0 would be the “next, next-generation” of HR interoperability standards. Version 3.0 is only just about to make its debut as a candidate release. My answer was that implementers do not yet [...]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
If you’ve worked in standards development for any time, you’ve likely seen skirmishes as well as major battles. Some prove to be worthy fights, while some have proven to be an absolute waste of everyone’s time. Few produce absolute, bright-line resolution, but many do influence the directions of all parties – often for the [...]
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 [...]
Last year, I wrote a post and provided some links to a site where IBM had demonstrations of using industry standard XML schemas within “pureXML” databases. As mentioned below, how to work with HR-XML and databases is likely at the top of our all-time list of frequently asked questions. If you haven’t looked at [...]