RE: HR/Payroll Systems

The people who make these decisions don't do data entry, they do PowerPoint
and Excel...

Evan Harris

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Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2008 5:18 p.m.
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
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Subject: RE: HR/Payroll Systems

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Why do The Users assume that an application with a GUI and a mouse is
better than a green-screen application? Salesmanship! And, perhaps,
poor green-screen design. A properly constructed green-screen
application is much faster for pure data entry than a GUI. Maybe
it's because the system only needs to ship about 2K (that's 2000)
bytes of data down the line to refresh the screen!
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--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


At 9:17 AM -0500 1/2/08, James.Hawkins@xxxxxxxxxx wrote (in part):

A company that I used to work for went through a couple of iterations of
trying to get away from the payroll/HR package that we were using.
The second attempt, HR says, "We don't like the DOS (green screens)
system, we want a GUI system" after reviewing a few GUI systems "Why do
they take so much mouse work, I don't want to use a mouse all the time for
data entry". Go figure.