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  • Social media under review at Defence

    Defence minister, Stephen Smith, has announced a review into Defence's use of social media as well as green-lighting two major new technology projects.

  • SuccessFactors alleges covert scheme by competitor

    SuccessFactors is alleging that rival human-resources-software vendor Halogen Software concocted a fraudulent and covert scheme in order to obtain competitive information from it, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

  • Oracle PeopleSoft payroll problems still peeve police

    Problems with an Oracle PeopleSoft ERP (enterprise resource planning) system that have resulted in faulty paychecks going out to police officers in Fort Worth, Texas, have persisted for months with no clear end in sight.

  • Social networking ever more critical to job search success

    Jobvite, a maker of recruiting software, released the results of its third-annual social recruiting survey this morning, and the findings underscore the many reasons job seekers need to incorporate online social networking into their job searches.

  • Public prosecutor shops for software upgrade

    The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) will upgrade its financial management and HR applications before the end of 2010 and has gone to market for the supply of software and support services.

  • HR Pros: Networking, Social Networking Best Job Search Tools

    Forget job fairs and spamming potential employers with your resume. If you're looking for a new job, networking should be your primary job search strategy, according to the results of a recent survey conducted by Challenger, Gray and Christmas.

  • Open source webERP takes on the big guns

    ERP software may be largely the realm of large enterprises, but little known open source application, webERP, is becoming more popular and fits into businesses of all sizes.

  • SaaS HR vendor lands global deal with Siemens

    SuccessFactors, maker of SaaS (software as a service) applications for employee performance and talent management, announced Monday that it has landed a global agreement with Siemens, in another sign of the on-demand model's growing acceptance by enterprises.

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