COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN HR MANAGEMENT

Computer Applications in Human Resources Management



Computer Applications in Human Resources Management

The general role of human resources information systems (HRIS) is to help an organization accomplish its overall mission by ensuring that human resources are managed properly. More specifically HRIS systems may help reduce costs, save time, increase profitability, and improve employee performance (Buhler, 2002). A human resources management system (HRMS) is a core enterprise application for managing administrative and strategic processes related to an organization's most critical asset, its people. The vast majority of large organizations use an HRMS from one of the three major human resource software vendors — SAP, PeopleSoft, or Oracle

PeopleSoft is software that provides enterprise resource planning, human resource management and customer relationship management software solutions to large corporations. It is ideally suited for financial, government, education, healthcare, and other services industries. It is also ideally suited for large, company-wide functions such as human resources, finance, IT, procurement, marketing, services and sales across all industries.

PeopleSoft is well known for its ability to be easily "customized” or tailor-made, to fit the specific business needs of each client, while still being generic enough to meet corporate and governmental tracking requirements. Its detractors decry the frequent bugs found in the system, which required patches and fixes. PeopleSoft — like most large software companies — spawned an industry-within-an-industry of PeopleSoft consulting, the implementation and maintenance of the product.

The whole software suite of PeopleSoft moved from the traditional client-server based design to web-centric design, called PeopleSoft Internet Architecture (PIA). The end result was that all of a company's business functions could be accessed and run on a web client. A small number of security and system setup functions, though, still needed to be performed on a fat client machine. It successfully weathered architectural changes from client-server to the internet due to its innovative meta-database design.

The architecture is built around PeopleSoft's own PeopleTools technology. PeopleTools is a proprietary development platform created by PeopleSoft. This platform includes many different components a developer needs to create an application including a scripting language, user interface design tools, standard security structure, and batch processing tools. The benefit of creating their own development platform allowed PeopleSoft applications to run under many different operating systems and database platforms. Once mastered, the PeopleTools development platform allows for rapid development and deployment.

This platform includes many different components a developer needs to create an application including a scripting language, user interface design tools, standard security structure, and batch processing tools. The benefit of creating their own development platform allowed PeopleSoft applications to run under many different operating systems and database platforms.

All of PeopleSoft's modules (Human Resources, Supply Chain, Financials, CRM, etc.) are built with the PeopleTools technology. A benefit of the technology is that all the code which makes up a module can be customized to suit the owner's business needs. The custom feature solution is more an object oriented and probably more elegant since it does not involve programming a loop and gives complete control over ...