HRIS SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
According to Beaman, Karen V (2004), there are three basic systems architecture commonly found in HRIS and each of the system play a different role for an organization. They are Standalone System Model, Data Warehouse Model, and Single Integrated System Model.
But the most HRIS model that I was really interested with is The Single Integrated Model. According to Dr Nur, this was the system architecture that is the most advanced. By using this model, there are many advantages that an organization could get, such as there is no need for a saparate reporting database because everything was linkage between each other (networking). Eventhough that there is some other organization that rather chooses for another system in order to saparate transaction processing. Moreover, the other advantages that we can get by using this model are using the same screens worldwide, with appropriate changes for different languages in different countries.
Most company that will be using the Single-Integrated model is the Global and Transnational HRIS Company. In my opinion by referring to F.Warren McFarlan, and Brian J.Delacey (2004), Otis Elevator is one of the companies that use this model because they had more that 150 companies and at the same time, Otis needed to move from regionally driven product strategy to a global one. Otis was the larger manufacturer, installer, and services of elevators, escalators and moving walkways in the world. The companies of Otis Elevator operations were organized into seven regional businesses which are from North and South Africa, South Europe and Middle East, North and East Europe, the United Kingdom and Central Europe, North Asia, South Asia, and Japan. Besides, all of their engineering centers were reorganized to report centrally to a worldwide engineering function. If the reports that are receive from a different region, it will consist of different language. By using the Single-Integrated model system, it could simplify the process, because even the language is different. By using the system it could translate the language that they receive from the other region.This could be consider as one of the advantages of using this system. This is the reason why they need to use single-integrated model. It is the same with the airline company that typically use them for a flight operation.
References
Beaman, Karen V. 2004. Sourcing Strategies for the Transnational Organization. IHRIM Journal. Pp 29-38
F. Warren McFarlan, Brian J.Delacey. 2004. Harvard Business School ( Otis Elevator : Accelerating Business Transformation with IT.
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