Thomas Otter

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Where does all the data come from?

November 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments

 
I’d been meaning to write this for a while, but Jason’s post prompted me to stop surfing the interwebs and jot it down.
Data has three sources.
1. It is interfaced or integrated in from somewhere else.
2. It is derived from other data. For example net pay is derived from gross pay via some sort of [...]

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Tags: HCM · software design

Integration is like weather

October 31st, 2009 · No Comments

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Most of my working career encouraged me to chant the mantra, “we are integrated.”  I have spent the last year or so thinking about integration in a more objective light. Integration for me has undergone a de-reification process.
I was doing a presentation about HR technology recently, and I [...]

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Tags: software design · software industry

Pondering Integration

October 30th, 2008 · 6 Comments

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I’ve not posted much recently, I’d been meaning to post on HR tech, but several other blogs have done an excellent job of summarising the event(See Brian, Larry,Jim, Bill, Jason, HRmarketer and Zach for starters).
I have been thinking a lot about integration recently. I’m back from [...]

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Tags: Events · HCM · HR · software industry