People Data Chaos: Impasse Along the Journey to the Future of Work, with Jeff Tremblay, Chief Technology Officer of The Cloud Connectors

Today marks the announcement of an agreement to merge between The Cloud Connectors, an integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) in enterprise HR technology, and Joynd, a provider of HR technology integration solutions. In an on-demand webinar, members of TCC's and Joynd's leadership explain the merger's rationale and many benefits. And the news makes today's episode of "Small Talk Window" all the more special. Host Brent Skinner's guest is none other than TCC's chief technology officer — Jeff Tremblay. And a potentially brand-new industry buzzword emerged from their discussion: People Data Chaos — or PDC, for short. What is PDC? Depending on the complexity of an organization's HCM and HCM-adjacent tech stack, people data sprawls across multiple systems and applications -- sometimes, far more systems and applications than anyone would care to count. The many, many integrations holding all this together are flimsy. They break, and with ever increasing frequency as the tech stack grows. That is the very definition of people data in chaos. And, yet, vendors of technology for HCM continue to regale us with visions of a future of work. They promise exciting, fancy things like self-evolving workforce skills ontologies fusing with artificial intelligence, modern psychometrics and learning content and more to produce ever deeper, more insightful and accurate people analytics. It all sounds great. We'll never reach the future of work with PDC in the way. Listen in to hear Jeff and Brent discuss PDC and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices