Today, the opportunity for human resources to impact shareholder value is far greater than in the past. Most human resources organizations have made tremendous strides in maximizing the efficiencies of back-office workforce management processes and automated and extended their services delivery directly to the workforce via self-service solutions. Additionally, many HR organizations have deployed organizational alignment solutions like Talent Management applications (e.g. performance management, succession planning). Most of the effort thus far has been towards internally optimizing the human resources organization and its operating costs and processes. Yet to drive the greatest enterprise value, human resources organizations must insert themselves into the enterprise value-chain. Leveraging composite applications enabled by enterprise SOA architecture will result in leading-edge, intelligent enterprise-wide solutions that create newfound business value.
