Thomas Otter

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Where does all the data come from?

by Thomas Otter  |  November 8, 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 [...]

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Integration is like weather

by Thomas Otter  |  October 31, 2009  |  Comments Off

(photo via cc attribution licence. ms4jah thanks. 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 [...]

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Pondering Integration

by Thomas Otter  |  October 30, 2008  |  6 Comments

Photo from the excellent cc stream of pupski.thanks. 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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