{"id":144,"date":"2009-03-23T07:15:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T07:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hr-softwareblog.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2012-06-05T21:05:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T21:05:57","slug":"interview-hr-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/blog\/interview-hr-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"My Interview with HR Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past December I was flattered to be interviewed by HR Magazine about Open Source\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\">HRIS<\/a>\u00a0solutions. After having an initial conversation, but before the interview, I did some research and wrote out a number of comments.\u00a0\u00a0Most of my comments were opposed to the open source applications on the market. Before my interview, I included three pages of quotes regarding issues I had with these systems. Frankly, I was honored to be interviewed by HR magazine. That pretty much all ended when I read the article.<\/p>\n<p>In the last couple of issues of HR Magazine, there have been articles or statements that have led me to the opinion that HR Magazine needs to stop writing about HR technology or they need to find writers with experience with these systems and the profession as opposed to a career journalist.<\/p>\n<p>My opinion on open source\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\">hr systems<\/a>, based on what I have seen and heard from others, was not favorable. In time, these systems may be a viable alternative but that is not the case today. The exact comments which I forwarded to the author of \u201cOpen-Source Solutions for HR,\u201d are contained in this earlier post,\u00a0<a href=\"\/blog\/source-%E2%80%9Cfree%E2%80%9D\/\">Open Source \u201cFree\u201d HR Software<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what was written in the article.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\"><em>HRIS<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0analyst Clay Scroggins has seen no demand for open-source\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\"><em>HR software<\/em><\/a><em>. \u201cI have done needs analyses over the last 15 years for 1,000 to 1,500 organizations,\u201d says Scroggins, president of\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\"><em>CompareHRIS.com<\/em><\/a><em>, a web site and consulting firm in Seminole, Fl., that offers comparative analysis of about three dozen HR management systems and generates leads for vendors. \u201cThere has been no interest expressed in open source, and rarely does anyone ask about getting access to the source code of commercial products.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are many issues with this article:\u00a0\u00a0First, my name is Clay Scroggin not Clay Scroggins. If there are two or more of us, then I guess it\u2019s correct. I am not an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\">HRIS<\/a>\u00a0analyst. I am the President\/Owner of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\">CompareHRIS.com<\/a>. Truthfully, I have no idea where the author got this one because I have never been an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\">HRIS<\/a>\u00a0analyst or labeled myself as such. We don\u2019t have three dozen\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">HRIS vendors<\/span>\u00a0on the site, we have 15. Maybe these glaring mistakes would bug others but truthfully, they don\u2019t bother me. I am going to write a letter asking for a retraction but if they don\u2019t, it\u2019s no big deal.<\/p>\n<p>What bothered me most was that I presented the author of the article with two pages of notes on mostly cons I had regarding Open Source\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\">HRIS<\/a>\u00a0solutions. Basically, what I said was that these systems, as of today, do not present a viable option to the large number of extremely well written\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\">HRIS<\/a>\u00a0systems on the market. About a week after the interview I spoke with someone who had used\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\">CompareHRIS.com<\/a>\u00a0and decided to go with an open source application. They came back to the site because he realized that the open source application did not offer any government compliance capabilities which are standard with most, if not all,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\">HRIS systems<\/a>\u00a0on the market. He asked the open source software company about adding that functionality for government compliance and the programming cost exceeded the price to actually buy a system that already contained those features. He also indicated to me a number of additional issues pertaining to support of the product and documentation. These were all issues I presented to HR magazine. He dumped the open source system and went with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/HRnetSource-HRIS\/\">HRnetSource<\/a>\u00a0for his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\">HRIS<\/a>\u00a0needs. He dumped the open source application for many of the same reasons I presented in my prior post and which I presented to the writer of HR Magazine. However, all of my concerns, which I presented for the article, were ignored.<\/p>\n<p>I think this a question of media bias. I am not talking about right or left political party bias. Open source seems to be the darling of journalists. You know, the small company beating corporate America type of thing. This is all well and good.\u00a0\u00a0But take a look under the hood and you will see what I have seen.\u00a0\u00a0These systems are not yet ready for prime time. I believe the author of the article approached the article in favor of open source applications and did not listen to, or present accurate arguments from, the industry expert he contacted for help with the article.\u00a0\u00a0That is what bothers me.<\/p>\n<p>I have worked as an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\">HR software<\/a>\u00a0consultant for 15 years. When I presented my comments to HR magazine, I presented them as a consultant. I presented the very real and glaring items that are currently missing from\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">open source HRIS<\/span>\u00a0systems. If a company had hired me as a consultant and asked about open source, my answer would have been the same. In time, open source may be a viable alternative but in my honest opinion, I think that is at least several years away.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is unfortunate because HR magazine is seen as an expert source of information pertaining to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\">HRIS software<\/a>\u00a0industry.\u00a0\u00a0In my opinion, this article damaged the trusted information reputation with anyone who has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comparehris.com\/\">HRIS<\/a>\u00a0industry experience. I truthfully believe this article is a disservice to their subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past December I was flattered to be interviewed by HR Magazine about Open Source\u00a0HRIS\u00a0solutions. After having an initial conversation, but before the interview, I did some research and wrote out a number of comments.\u00a0\u00a0Most of my comments were opposed to the open source applications on the market. 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