We are attending ADP’s Meeting of the Minds (MOTM) in Nashville. The conference is well attended, targeted at ADP’s North American national accounts, with over 1100 client attendees from over 550 clients.
 
 

My top three takeaways

No change in the vision – It was good to see that ADP CEO Carlos Rodriguez used the same slide to walk the audience through the ADP HCM vision. It spans from Recruiting to Retirement with a focus on client’s largest investment, challenge and opportunity – people. Keeping the vision stable is key for a number or reason – as customers need to understand and endorse it, product development takes time etc. so good to see.

 
2014 ADP Roadmap
ADP CEO Rodriguez with the 2015 ADP Roadmap
UI & Analytics – ADP made announcements in both the User Interface and Analytics space a year ago and did a good job following up with customer testimonials that it has delivered on these. The most impactful is probably the new practitioner user interface – exposing more of the new functionality ADP has created to the HR professionals. 
 
Cambern presents the (still WIP) Practitioner UI
New ways of analyzing data – Probably the biggest announcement was ADP Data Cloud – allowing to bring together both internal ADP and external data for better insights. ADP did not share technical details on the keynote – and you can bet we will dig deeper during the conference – but if ADP gets this right – it will make a huge impact for their customers.
Masiero introduced the ADP Data Cloud

MyPOV

A good kickoff for the MOTM conference – with a lot of time spend showing that ADP has delivered on its premises, always a good development. But also good to see that ADP is not stopping here – and continues to innovate. We will try to look into more of the announcements in the next days –stay tuned.
 
More on ADP

 
  • Progress Report - ADP shows great vision, delivers product innovation - now it needs adoption - read here
  • Site Visit - ADP's new innovation lab in Chelsea - read here
  • News Analysis - ADP announces Spin-Off plans for Dealer Services, sharpens ADP's focus on HCM - read here.
  • Event Report - ADP's Meeting of the Minds - ADP has made up its mind (almost) - customers not yet - read here.
  • First take - 3 Key Takeaways from ADP's Meeting of the Minds Conference Day 1 Keynote - read here.
  • ADP innovates with with verve and good timing – read here.
 
And  more on the importance of the paycheck for HCM:
 
  • Could the paycheck re-invent HCM – yes it can – read here.
  • And suddenly, payroll matters again! Read here.

Find more coverage on the Constellation Research website here.
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