Read about Accero in HR Executive Online

27-Jul-2009

Our Software Jurassic Park

The mainframe HRMS dinosaurs of 20 to 30 years ago continue to roam our earth, most being used by large companies for their bulletproof payrolls. If it ain't broke, why replace it? But one, Cyborg, after a painful recent history, is being brought back to life as Accero.
By Bill Kutik

I treasure, but can rarely find in my office, a large-company HRMS market-share report by Computer Intelligence in 1989, the year I started following HR technology. It shows McCormick & Dodge and MSA -- before being combined into Dun & Bradstreet Software, purchased by GEAC and then by Infor -- with a combined market share of more than 60 percent. Read more.