http://blog.topazbridge.com Designed For People Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:34:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today, we're excited to share with you the culmination of our recent development cycles here at Topaz Bridge.  The following video is a demonstration of a SharePoint application that highlights all of the capabilities that I've been writing about in these last 12-13 blog postings.  Special thanks to a crew ... http://blog.topazbridge.com/2009/09/the-business-value-of-sharepoint-sap-hcm-self-service-delivery-the-real-thing/  In our final installment, I will summarize our findings and present a total comprehensive view of the ABC Corporation’s three year total cost of ownership model comparing ESS 1.0 to ESS 2.0, the associated net present value of those dollar savings, and a review of the cumulative annual ROI associated ... http://blog.topazbridge.com/2009/09/wrapping-it-up-driving-business-value-by-leveraging-%e2%80%9cess-20%e2%80%b3/ In this morning’s discussion, we focus on how ESS 2.0 drives significant cost savings relating to a unified portal implementation and associated development, deployment and on-going maintenance. SAP® Human Capital Management (HCM) and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® 2007 are industry standard enterprise software solutions that have been deployed in a broad range ... http://blog.topazbridge.com/2009/09/realizing-developer-and-deployment-savings-with-ess-20/ In this afternoon’s discussion, we focus on how ESS 2.0 drives significant cost savings relating to employee self-service application training. Training – Manual vs. ESS 1.0 vs. ESS 2.0 Training – Usability… The more you have of usability, the less you need of training. As previously discussed, ESS 2.0 sets a new ... http://blog.topazbridge.com/2009/09/end-user-training-with-ess-20/ In this morning’s discussion, we focus on how ESS 2.0 drives significant cost savings relating to the shared services /support HR help desk environment. Shared Services – Manual vs. ESS 1.0 vs. ESS 2.0 Now it’s time to drill down on the costs associated with traditional HR business process support. So, we ... http://blog.topazbridge.com/2009/09/saving-shared-services-support-with-ess-20/ In this morning’s discussion, we focused on how employee self service drives significant productivity gains from a bottoms up perspective. Now with our afternoon session we will take a look at how manager self service delivers similar levels of productivity gains. Manager Productivity – Manual vs. ESS 1.0 vs. ESS 2.0 As ... http://blog.topazbridge.com/2009/09/unlocking-manager-productivity-with-ess-20/ Unlocking Employee Productivity with ESS 2.0 In today's discussion, we focus on how employee and manager self service drives significant productivity gains from a bottoms up perspective. We will define “ESS 2.0” by contrasting it to “1.0” and then we’ll get into one of the five key areas of significant savings ... http://blog.topazbridge.com/2009/09/unlocking-employee-productivity-with-ess-20/ The vast majority of companies still gauge their overall performance using systems that measure internal financial results – systems based on metrics that don’t take sufficient notice of the real engines of wealth creation today: the knowledge, relationships, reputations, and other intangibles created by talented people and represented by investments ... http://blog.topazbridge.com/2009/08/driving-business-value-by-leveraging-ess-20-as-an-alternative-hcm-delivery-channel/ While it’s true that some companies spend a lot of time, energy and money figuring out their ESS / MSS strategy, it doesn’t have to be that way. By intently focusing on several key strategic decisions and building a strong business case, it is possible to come up with a ... http://blog.topazbridge.com/2009/08/myth-4-figuring-this-out-will-take-a-lot-of-time-and-a-lot-of-money/ So this week we take a closer look at the role of technology and how it may potentially hinder SAP/SharePoint interoperable HCM solutions deployment. Yes, corporations worldwide are standardizing on portal technologies such as Microsoft SharePoint® for their corporate-wide portal platform. And yes, SharePoint’s power in managing unstructured data, its ... http://blog.topazbridge.com/2009/08/myth-3-technology-alone-solves-this-problem/