Features and services related with information technology are changing more often than ever before. Users are being affected due to the frequent changes in information technology. A new and better application comes in when they have just begun to get skills over its previous versions. Consequently, they remain ignorant of many software applications and lack full knowledge over them. In fact, advances in technology affect deployment decisions also. Frequent advancement in technology can affect process implementation in addition to making the operations and results difficult to scale and measure.
In the wake of cloud computing and Software as a Service
(SaaS), the difficulties seem to have multiplied. The HR community consists of
non-technical professionals and, therefore, lacks insight to choose the right
technology from many. They look for such an HRMS application that could be
comprehensive, easy-to-use and flexible in customization of features anytime.
They are fully aware that managing the deployment of software application is no
simple undertaking. It entails a number of information acquisition and
execution, programmers, and circumstances. Moreover, the deployment decisions
should be characterized by timelessness. To overcome in structuring successful deployment
of HRM software, a series of considerations are to be taken into account along
with focusing on how to develop solutions to leverage the needs and priorities
of the target organization.
Consider Needs &
Priorities of Organization: While a technology for an organization is being
deployed, there are some areas which need to be looked into. Those areas
include the size of the organization, its texture, its budget for HR or IT, its
business priorities, future plans for growth, the extent to which it centralizes
or de-centralizes business process. These factors have impact on technology
deployment and the optimization planning for them. All the more, geographic
locations where the organizations have their operations also influence the
decisions about the deployment of technology types. Also, the country and
government mandates and regulations, and industry are the core issues that
influence the data management, security, and other related things affecting how
deployment of technology will be structured.
Provider
Functionality & Structure: One or more types of technology providers
are generally used by the organizations. Those organizations tie up with
third-party HRMS vendor, point vendor, or BPOs. However, it is common these
days for many organizations to use varied combinations of providers, technology
deployment types and applications to fulfill HRMS needs. Using services of more
than one service providers can be good as long as this maneuver supports all HR
needs, and buttresses organizational structure and various business
requirements.
Technology Types:
There are mainly three technology types. They include self-managed software
application, web-based software application, and SaaS-based software
application. In self-managed software application, internal IT team of an
organization develops and manages such application. Assistance of third-party
developers is sought for online HRMS implementation and maintenance.
End Users: End
users are employees, partners and candidates, besides HR executives. Technology
has enormous impact on these people. While deploying such a technology,
understanding of the needs of these end users helps to ensure that the
technology is being deployed successfully across all geographies, regions and
business units. A thorough knowledge would certainly help the developers to
customize the automation process and features of the software in accordance
with the needs of the end users.
HRM software can be the backbone of an organization when it
matches with the needs and priorities of the user organization. With using such
software application, a user can dramatically alleviate the work-flows of human
resource department. But, it turns out to be true only when all these
technology deployment factors are taken into account.
