{"id":1399,"date":"2013-05-31T17:30:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T17:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hr-softwareblog.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2013-05-31T17:30:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T17:30:04","slug":"hr-find-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/blog\/hr-find-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"What HR will find in the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HR<\/a>There was a time, not that long ago, when all records were kept on paper in file drawers. A good business practice was to purge those files each spring. The Human Resources staff would audit each file and arrange the documents in a preferred order. When the HR manager was satisfied, the files would go back in their respective drawers, and some would be moved to storage. Oh, the agony!<\/p>\n

When employers brought computer servers into the business, HR was their last consideration. The company\u2019s computer gave preferential service to the financial functions and to the departments that interacted with finance, such as purchasing and operations.<\/p>\n

The advent of desktop computing made things easier for HR. Files became data, easier to sort and edit. More staff could access the data simultaneously. And, discs could backup and store the files.<\/p>\n

It took some time before HR realized there was information in the data. The data was live because there was something organic there. If you listened, it would tell you something about the present and future. Some HR people forget to monitor this information once they have outsourced their HR information to HRIS<\/a>. As always, if the HR professional does not ask the right questions, the system will not answer.<\/p>\n

Now, we are moving to the Cloud\/SaaS<\/a> \u2013 or some version of it. The Cloud can only be described through analogies. But, it appears to be an apparently inexhaustible \u201cplace\u201d where the whole world\u2019s data swims. It does not breed there unless told to do so. It remains allegedly secure and immediately accessible. It takes up no office space, and it is accessible to everyone with permission. And, those permissions can be distributed by authority level, function, and need.<\/p>\n

HR leadership needs to shape the Cloud to its needs<\/strong>, not those of IT or Finance:<\/p>\n