In recent years, changes in income tax and PRSI have placed an annual burden on the vendors of payroll software. These vendors have a very short window to update their products. With the budget now delivered in December, any taxation or other changes that have to be reflected in the following tax year need to be carried out before Christmas.
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Human resources (HR) is, by definition, one of the most sensitive areas in any organisation. Good employee relations are crucial to the performance, growth and success of a business. People are now properly recognised as key assets, which is why the term human capital management is commonly used.
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With more than 700 staff, Allianz in Ireland is one of the country’s largest general insurance companies. It has a reputation in the sector as an innovative user of ICT. In recent years, it has also been innovative in its management structure, moving from the traditional hierarchy to a flatter ‘team-based’ organisation.
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By Leslie Faughnan
Strandum is an Irish software company which has specialised in the development of HR and related systems since 2001. It originally worked on employee and manager self-service front-end applications for existing legacy systems, notably SAP and Oracle enterprise systems, and for clients such as AIB Capital Markets and EBS.
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By Leslie Faughnan
Intelligo Software is an established Irish software house with solutions for SMEs and larger companies in payroll and HR administration. It also provides outsourced services in these fields.
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Many companies are tripping over themselves to jump into the world of social networking. The growing popularity of sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter has persuaded companies that they need to get involved in ‘Web 2.0′one way or another. They can do this by creating a profile page, fan page, or by tweeting or blogging.
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There is a never-ending buzz around business technology and a constant queue of vendors anxious to upsell organisations to something smarter and slicker. Prospective customers have to separate the hype from the hard facts, and be mindful of emperors who wear new clothes.
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A debate for a growing number of businesses is whether to run their IT infrastructure from a public or private cloud.
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Last month, an e-mail was sent out from the government’s public procurement unit, warning the Irish public sector of pitfalls in cloud computing. Assistant director Tom O’Brien name-checked Microsoft (“among others’‘) when warning that vendor agreements were “little more than a string of disclaimers’‘.
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The mantra rattling around the aisles of data centres for the last decade has been about how they can host a company’s ICT infrastructure, take away their complexity and let them get on with their core business. With the onset of virtualisation and improved broadband infrastructure, the message has evolved and become the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) proposition.
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