How Siemens took its HR IT into the cloud

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Spandas Lui.

Like many large enterprises, Germany-based Siemens AG had been suffering from numerous complexities and inconsistencies with managing its gargantuan workforce across the world. Finally putting its German practicality to good use, the electronics engineering company decided to seek out a technological solution to its human resources (HR) management woes.

Siemens AG embarked on its HR software-as-a-service (SaaS) journey in 2008, and went hunting for a vendor to provide such an offering. The company’s head of employee development, Juergen Siebel, had avoided involving himself in HR IT for a long time, but went along with the plan, anyway. "After having gone into this, I’m quite grateful I was forced into it," Siebel said at the SAP Cloud SuccessConnect Event in Sydney…

With over 400,000 employees globally — 63,000 employees across Asia and Australia alone — Siemens was suffering the effects of having multiple offices across the globe, but no practical way to manage all of its employees in a cohesive manner. There were HR systems in place for human capital management, but their reach generally didn’t stretch beyond their respective borders. Instead, different Siemens offices resorted to sending Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with employee data to each other. Data-entry fields on those spreadsheets were not standardised, either…

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