HRIS Blog Four- Cloud and its risk and benefit/opportunity, Onboarding and background verification

"What's the cloud?" "Where is the cloud?" "Are we in the cloud now?!" These are all questions you've probably heard or even asked yourself. The term "cloud computing “means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of your computer's hard drive. The cloud is just a metaphor for the Internet. Cloud computing comes in three forms: public clouds, private clouds, and hybrids clouds.  Public cloud is basically the internet. Service providers use the internet to make resources, such as applications (also known as Software-as-a-service) and storage, available to the general public. Private cloud is owned by a single company that provides flexibility, scalability, provisioning, automation and monitoring.  Hybrid cloud is companies can maintain control of an internally managed private cloud while relying on the public cloud as needed.        

          But the cloud may also mean loss of control, and potential security, compliance and privacy concerns. Like most things in life, the benefits come with risks—it’s just a matter of knowing if the benefits outweigh the risks and vice versa.

Let’s take a look at some grounded facts about cloud computing to help you decide if you are ready to go up, up, and away.

Risk	Benefit
Network dependency	Flexibility
Difficulty in creating hybrid systems	Cost Reduction and Increased Efficiency
Centralization	Reliability
Data Integrity/Security	More timely and effective and efficient updates                       and defaults

Corporate spending on third-party-managed and public-cloud environments will grow from $28 billion in 2011 to more than $70 billion in 2015, according to IDC. In addition, according to recent McKinsey research, 63 percent of business leaders who responded agreed that the cloud can make their entire organization more business agile and responsive.

And we also discussed about the success factors of onboarding. Onboarding is a critical part of HR to handle it without the help of advanced technology. Loads of paperwork, missed details and busy managers often fail to make new hires feel welcome; it creates a poor first impression, and slowing down time to productivity. For an efficient embedding is important to solve these challenges by making the hiring process more efficient and personal. For a successful Onboarding process it needs to take a fresh approach to ramping up with new hires by more strategic onboarding activities – connecting, informing and empowering new hires with the right people, tools and content they need to start contributing in record time.

SuccessFactors Onboarding is one of the IT solutions that provides a more structured and efficient support for onboarding by providing:

·         Improved process efficiency and compliance 

·         Faster time to contribution

·         Better employee engagement and retention

Similarly, SilkRoad's RedCarpet, the global onboarding software, is an easy-to-use cloud-based HR solution that has helped organizations of all sizes, and from all industries, to onboard over a million employees while saving millions of dollars.                                                                                            

Lastly, we looked at background checks and verifications. The HR may want to make sure that candidates are telling the truth. It's estimated that up over 40% of resumes can contain false or tweaked information, so, HR wants to ensure that what they are getting from the candidates is true and reliable.    

Sterling global background check is a company that helps to make the right hiring decisions. It offers employment verification services offered by Screening Direct online portal provide the most accurate results with the fastest turnarounds, securely and privately, in real-time . Having a system and advanced  techcnology like this helps HR prfessionals save a lot of time and paper work & its also beneficial for a new candidate to get their result faster.