Dale Jakes

UKG and Workday are a pair of human capital management (HCM) software companies that understand that workforce management is a complicated and delicate process. Both vendors pull HR management data, payroll solutions, and talent management into a single data source. While they each offer similar services, each HCM has its particularities. Comparing and contrasting the […]

Making yourself layoff proof is a skill that has become increasingly important in recent years. Economist Robert Reich notes in his piece at The Guardian “profit-sharing with regular employees all but disappeared in large US corporations.” When profit-sharing was a more common practice “it… reduced the need for layoffs during a recession because payroll costs […]

Rapid7 Insight IDR and Crowdstrike Falcon are a pair of cloud-based security information & event management (SIEM) platforms designed to drastically reduce local computing overhead related to SIEM, allowing IT operations to spend more time on the work that matters. Crowdstrike Falcon assists by providing precision-targeted anti-virus services while Rapid7 InsightIDR focuses more on collecting […]