Accounting & HR

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.

Going from five to 25 staff in three years and selling internationally has called for an enterprise-grade accounting and ERP system at Sydney-based manufacturer of the Skins label of sports clothing.

Workday customers will soon be able to tap the SaaS vendor's human resources and financial applications from their iPhone, the company announced Thursday.

Proprietary HR file formats and interchange mechanisms may eventually be rendered obsolete with the emergence of the open HR-XML standard being promoted by not-for-profit skills networking portal OpenSkills.

The government-appointed board at financially troubled Indian outsource Satyam Computer Services has decided to appoint an accounting firm in the next 48 hours to restate the company's accounts.

A group of US universities is blazing a new path in open source software. They're building a set of enterprise applications -- the big, important, mission-critical ones that have long been the exclusive domain of software companies such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft.

Queensland-based Spinal Injuries Association is replacing its financial and payroll systems as the organisation's legacy solution did not meet quality assured reporting standards.