The Breakout of SaaS

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According to Nick Carr of "IT doesn’t matter" infamy, McKinsey is set to release a study suggesting widespread and robust adoption of SaaS, even at Global 2000 companies.

"Large companies appear to be jumping en masse onto the
software-as-a-service bandwagon, according to a new survey of CIOs by
management consultants McKinsey & Company. The survey found that
61% of North American companies with sales over $1 billion plan to
adopt one or more SaaS applications over the next year, a dramatic
increase from the 38% who were planning to install SaaS apps in 2005."

Talent management,  a subset of human capital management (HCM), is already experience such robustness.  According to a study we did earlier this year, we estimated that over 65% of new talent management deployments in 2005 occurred in a SaaS model. 

  • http://donaldhtaylor.wordpress.com Donald H Taylor

    Jason,

    I agree that SaaS implementations of Talent Management applications are attractive, but they have to be up to the job. Talent Management isn’t a stand-alone application like payroll or CRM. Ideally, a hosted TM application should be able to share information with the rest of your HR processes, to allow the real benefits of understanding your skills base. Not linking TM to the rest of HR is like keeping your sales contact information in your CRM software and not giving your marketing department access to it.

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