Introduction to Cloud Powered HR
What is Cloud Powered HR?
Every HR organization has a people strategy. To execute it, organizational functions must be in alignment. To achieve its desired results, strategy and technology must be deployed in lock-step. To thrive, HR must adapt that strategy to be more agile than ever before. All of this must be done while you transform the way people work.
The traditional approach to HR has siloed the "people" strategy from the chosen technology resulting in low adoption, little satisfaction, and limited measurable business results.
In today's world, where technology is changing and business must innovate faster than ever before, your HR strategy cannot be separated from your people or your technology.
We believe the most powerful way to drive dramatic business change is to ensure organizations not only create great, innovative technology solutions, but that they put their people and strategy first as they do.
Characteristics of Cloud Powered HR

Solutions for Cloud Powered HR
Cloud-powered HR is more than just implementing cloud-based Human Capital Management applications in your organization. Together, Appirio and Knowledge Infusion offer technology-enabled services and strategic HCM guidance that support the transformation of HR business operations processes from tactical to strategic.
- Define Your HR and Talent Strategy Our strategy services provide clients with the insight and tools necessary to drive change and help their HR organization become a strategic asset to their business. With a holistic people, process, and technology approach, our services span from ensuring optimal HR and talent management strategy and alignment, to leveraging and optimizing technology in support of strategy and business objectives.
- Change the Way Your People Work With a focus on end-user value, we help you achieve rapid time-to-value through agile process change aligned with innovative cloud solutions. We develop comprehensive branding, messaging and communication delivery platforms to change behaviors, drive adoption, and ensure the structures, policies and skills are in place to ensure your strategy and technology move together at the speed of business.
- Successfully Migrate to Cloud HCM Solutions Successfully adopting a cloud HCM application is about a lot more than giving you employees a login. You need to rethink your processes, your data and your technology architecture to take advantage of the speed and agility of these new applications. We help HR teams successfully configure, integrate and migrate to cloud HCM applications like Workday HCM and SuccessFactors.
- Extend Solutions to Meet Your Unique Needs We help HR teams meet the unique needs of your business by developing custom applications on cloud platforms like Force.com that can be integrated with Workday. We have built custom extensions for everything from retiree benefits support to employee service to recruiting to project management.
- Thrive After Go-Live We help evolve your strategy and enhance your cloud applications over time enabling you to keep pace with the speed of business changes, and freeing HR to partner with the business as a change leader, innovation driver, and process enabler.
Our Results
Appirio and Knowledge Infusion have helped many of the world's largest organizations transform their HR organizations through a combination of transformational strategies and innovative cloud solutions.











