Early Bird Registration Ends Soon for Global Partnering & Integration Summit!

The Global Partnering and Integration Summit's early bird registration ends July 31, so Register Today to save up to $150. The Summit is being held at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Chicago on October 13-14, 2008. The HR Technology ® Conference is located in Chicago immediately following HR-XML’s Global Partnering & Integration Summit. The two complementary [...]

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Article - Using Microsoft SharePoint for Acculturation Onboarding

An article written by our company Vice President of Product Management, Jeff Hayden. This article explores how Microsoft's popular SharePoint portal server (both SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) can be used to implement a complete onboarding portal that achieves acculturation and socialization goals.

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Requisitioning the Right Way: Staff Service Request

During the past 10 years I’ve spent in Human Capital management, I’ve noticed that most companies do a less than satisfactory job of requisitioning items for a new hire by their first day of employment. Most of these same companies rely on manual processes to ensure that all of the requisitioned items are ready [...]

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Article - 7 Buy vs Build Considerations for IT Managers

An article written by our company President, Chuck Ros, explores the classic Buy versus Build decision that faces IT managers evaluating whether they acquire off-the-shelf functionality or write it. A common sense framework of 7 considerations is defined.

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Emerald Software is Finalist for 2 AeA Awards

Emerald Software of Alpharetta was selected as a finalst for 2 AeA Spirit of Endeavor awards.

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Emerald Software Announces Outreach Program

Emerald Software of Alpharetta announces its Emerald Outreach program offering gift-in-kind technology for children's healthcare organizations.

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HR Onboading - My role at Emerald Software Group

Emerald Software Group provides paperless Human Resource Onboarding solutions that are unmatched in the industry . Give our system a look: Click Here! Please submit your contact information on the link provided above and someone will contact you to schedule a demo of our onboarding solution.

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UPDATED: HR-XML 3.0 Preview: A Next Generation in Standards for HR Services

UPDATED: Sorry - I goofed the registration URL in the first version of this. This problem has been corrected. Don’t miss this important update on the forthcoming HR-XML 3.0 release. HR-XML 3.0 Preview: A Next Generation in Standards for HR Services Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT (10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT) https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/953322662 The HR-XML [...]

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Let's All Go Back to Dialup, and While We're At It...

NetZero has a television spot running featuring their chairman, Mark Goldman, advocating that American families could save money by ditching broadband Internet and returning to dialup (naturally, NetZero dialup).   American families could save billions!   Okay, okay at first this seems somewhat opportunistic on NetZero’s behalf given the current economic climate, and I can picture a conference [...]

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Emerald and iCIMS Sign Partnership

Emerald Software Group announced today that it has signed a strategic partnership with iCIMS, Inc. of Hazlet, NJ.

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Automate your Form I-9

In October 2004, President Bush signed Public Law 108-390 which for the first time authorized employers to store Employment Eligibility Verification Forms (Forms I-9) in an electronic format. The law took effect in April of 2005 and employers began to manage their Forms I-9 electronically. There are many reasons why a company should choose [...]

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Emerald Software Announces Promotions

Emerald Software of Alpharetta, announces today the promotion of two Vice Presidents

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Silver Linings

I’m back from a 4 week hiatus; did anyone miss me?   While our presidential candidates were jetting from battleground state to battleground state, I was also on the road visiting with clients and prospects, though without the luxury of a private jet.   A few good books on CD and meeting with great people was award [...]

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Top 10 Reasons for Onboarding

Recently, I started watching a 1987 Classic NBA game between the Atlanta Hawks and Boston Celtics. Being  the  long time Georgia native that I am, it dawned on me that some things never change.   The Hawks lost in 1987 and 21 years later, they are still losing to the Celtics!   I wonder how many of you that [...]

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Acculturation Onboarding: Measure (part 1 of 3)

In “New Employee Acculturation: Measure, Engage, Immerse” (link to article on hr.com),  Jay Torrence and I establish the 3 aspects of an acculturation onboarding system: measure, engage, and immerse.   Our competitors call the acculturation aspects of new employee onboarding “socialization”, but we think their approach–rooted in providing  a standalone, outward-facing, workflow-driven onboarding portal–is  an incomplete and  wishful  approach;  our view of  new [...]

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Article - New Employee Acculturation: Measure, Engage, and Immerse

This article, written by our company President, Chuck Ros, and our VP of Client Services, Jay Torrence, establishes a business framework for new employee acculturation, which we believe to be considerably different than onboarding. The article promises to establish a new standard in employee onboarding, socialization, and acculturation.

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Follow-Up:Streamlining Testing, Trading Partner Integration, and Certification

For those that missed our most recent Webinar, you can find a recording embedded below. Some of the video qualityisn’t great, but the sound is quite clear. As the Webinar explains, HR-XML's forthcoming Version 3.0 release is informed by almost 10 years of industry contributions and is architecturally more consistent and robust than ever before. [...]

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Emerald and TaxBreak Sign Partnership

Emerald Software Group of Alpharetta, and TaxBreak of Gadsden, Alabama, announce today the formation of a strategic technology partnership

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Acculturation Onboarding: Immerse (part 3 of 3)

The end of year has turned out to be surprisingly busy for us (despite the doom and gloom of the media and all the talk about the “Great Recession”), so my apologies first for this blog–the 3rd in my 3 part series on acculturation–taking so long.   Since part 2 I’ve been to Europe to visit [...]

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Acculturation Onboarding: Engage (part 2 of 3)

In "New Employee Acculturation: Measure, Engage, Immerse" (link to article on hr.com),  Jay Torrence and I establish the 3 aspects of an acculturation onboarding system: measure, engage, and immerse.   In this 2nd of 3 blogs I’m going to dive more into the “engage” aspect of acculturation.   Forgive me a moment of complete geekness as I admit [...]

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