with emphasis on time & attendance, rostering and shifts. Scoring was kept simple on four measures: Fully Demonstrated, Partially Demonstrated and Not Demonstrated. Time allocated to each provider was strictly the same. If they wandered off script to show some fantastic feature not in the brief, they would be wasting their time and scoring no points. Decision time had been set for the end of May. My involvement would end after the second round of demos between the final two during the third week of May. I already had a new project warming up for June, which sounded like another good challenge! 5.32 p.m. Would you believe it? A WhatsApp invitation from Pilar Gutierrez to speak at an HR tech event in the US arrived… Las Vegas in October. That needed thinking about!
the integration being seamlessly orchestrated by using iPaaS (Integrated Platform as a Service) connections. An iPaaS is essentially a piece of infrastructure that allows different software systems to talk to each other, passing data back and forth automatically, without manual intervention or bespoke custom coding each time, and the connector is the specific component within an iPaaS that handles the relationship with one particular software application. Just as a travel adaptor lets you plug a UK device into a European socket without rewiring anything, a connector lets an iPaaS platform “plug in” to a specific system. So the decades-old dream of picking the best modules and linking them has arrived without all the heartaches associated with bespoke interfaces that fell apart while you used them.
The issue, of course, is that each of those individual providers needs to be certified, and that could slow things down. Demonstrating individually as unconnected elements was probably going to put that idea out of the running, for this client at least The first round of demonstrations was due to be held in the first week of May, and we had around eight scenarios we wanted to have demonstrated, and the score sheets were being drafted. I had been asked to attend the demos as part of my consultancy brief. It wasn’t strictly essential in my view, but they wanted me there as an extra evaluator. The score sheets varied according to attendees; users were going to mark on intuitive navigation and notification and workflow set-up, managers would be looking at reporting capabilities and functionality, operational representatives would look at how processes running on self-service worked,
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