Is a cloud HR management system as useful as it seems?

July 19, 2016 Off By David

Grazed from HumanResourcesOnline. Author: Jerene Ang.

While cloud-based technologies have the potential to revolutionise the HR function, this requires more than simply plugging into the cloud – people, processes and technology need to be successfully integrated in order to realise the greatest benefits from a cloud HR management system (HRMS).

According to the recently released KPMG 2016 Global HR Transformation Survey, of 854 HR executives from 52 countries surveyed, 42% are intending to replace their current HR system with a cloud-based one. However the survey also pointed out that HR’s high expectations for cloud computing to deliver revolutionary business benefits are largely failing to materialise…

While 69% of organisations said they looked forward to better functionality and 63% of respondents expected improved “value-added” benefits to the business, only 24% reported that cloud HR brings the ability to reconfigure the HR function to drive great business value…

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