Overall the keynote showed that Ceridian delivers on what it says it will deliver, in this case we had the insight into the product plans from the earlier analyst meetings this year – and the team around Ossip delivered what they previewed back then in March. Overall the largest impact for Dayforce customers will be the new Employee Self Service user interfaces, which looks modern and easy to use.
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| Ceridian new ESS User Interface Screenshot from keynote. |
Here are my other top takeaways from the Day 1 keynote:
- Ceridian continues to complete Talent Management - Ceridian keeps completing its Talent Management roadmap with Succession Management being the last member of the Talent Management family coming in 2016. In the meantime I see the offering being pretty competitive with good and solid Recruiting and Performance Management capabilities.
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| Ceridian Talent Management Roadmap. Screenshot from keynote. |
- Payroll Innovation - Ceridian does not forget about its roots and one of the few innovations in Payroll has been to move away from large schedules Payroll runs, but to ad hoc, single employee centric payroll runs. These are key both for employees and managers to see work’s direct impact on the take home pay of an employees. Ossip showed that with an employee being scheduled for overtime and then previewing the employee’s paycheck.
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| Direct Payroll Impact of possible, planned overtime. Screenshot from keynote. |
- Document Management – One of the dirty little secrets of day to day HR practice is that there are way too many documents with personal employee information – outside of the systems of record. And with that they are in most cases not stored, handled and accessed with the latest PII regulations. Seeing a HCM vendor like Ceridian taking care of it – with the HCM system being the system of record anyway for who can and should have access to employee information – is a very good innovative step in the industry.
MyPOV
A very good start of the Ceridian INSIGHTS 2014 user conference. Customers and prospects are excited about the vision on one integrated HR core, Payroll, Talent Management and Workforce Management system.
Now it is time to learn more in depth about the views of customers and prospects and to feel the pulse from the ecosystem. Stay tuned.
Also on Ceridian
- Progress Report - Ceridian makes a lot of progress - but the road(map) is long - read here
- Ceridian transforming itself and with that the game – read here
And unrelated to Ceridian - but how important payroll can be for HCM innovation:
- Could the paycheck reinvent HCM - yes it can - read here
- And suddenly... payroll matters again - read here