Practice Areas

Three additional
practice areas.

Implementation leadership and advisory, covering both technology and platform guidance and HCM and payroll transformation planning. Each one is most often engaged alongside or following a lead practice engagement. The same senior delivery standard applies across all of them.

Implementation

HCM and Payroll
Implementation Leadership.
Senior-led from day one.

Full HR, payroll, benefits, and absence management implementations from discovery through go-live. These are the systems that have to work on day one for thousands of employees. The Cadence Partners leads that work at the senior level across every major platform in the HCM landscape.

This is not project management layered on top of an implementation partner. It is senior functional leadership doing the work, from configuration design through data validation through go-live support.

Who this is for
Organizations implementing a new HCM or payroll platform for the first time
Companies moving off a legacy system without a large internal team to lead the work
Organizations that need senior functional expertise, not just a project manager
Implementations where the configuration decisions will affect how employees work for the next decade
What the engagement looks like
I
Discovery and design. Business requirements documented. Configuration decisions made at the senior level with your team involved, not presented to them after the fact.
II
Build and configuration. HR, payroll, benefits, and absence management configured for how your organization actually works. Best practices enforced. Shortcuts flagged.
III
Data migration and testing. Parallel payroll runs. End-to-end testing involving the people who will use the system. Issues resolved before go-live, not after.
IV
Go-live and stabilization. Senior oversight through cutover. Stabilization support until the organization can sustain the system independently.

Platforms: Infor GHR, Lawson S3, Workday, Oracle Fusion Cloud, Ceridian, ADP, PeopleSoft, ServiceNow

Advisory

Advisory.
Independent. Before the RFP. Every time.

The Cadence Partners provides vendor-neutral advisory across two areas: technology and platform selection, and HCM and payroll transformation planning. No software affiliations. No referral arrangements. The guidance reflects your environment and your objectives, nothing else.

Most organizations make their biggest technology and transformation decisions before they fully understand the risk those decisions carry. This practice is designed to engage before the RFP, so the right questions are asked and the right scope is defined before any vendor is involved.

Technology and Platform Advisory
Organizations evaluating HCM platforms and unsure which vendor is the right fit
Companies that received an RFP response and want an independent read before signing
Leadership questioning whether their current platform is the right long-term choice
Boards or executive teams needing an independent assessment of a proposed technology investment
HCM and Payroll Transformation Advisory
Organizations whose payroll or HCM environment has outgrown its current platform
Companies managing complexity from years of acquisitions, with multiple systems and manual workarounds
HR and finance leaders who need an honest assessment of what transformation actually costs and takes
Organizations that have received vendor proposals and want an independent read before committing
What the engagement looks like
I
Environment assessment. Current state documented. Complexity, risk, and technical debt mapped before any vendor is involved.
II
Vendor evaluation support. RFP review, demo facilitation, reference check guidance, and contract risk identification.
III
Transformation planning. Scope, sequencing, resourcing, and timeline built on what the environment can realistically support.
IV
Recommendation and roadmap. A clear, documented recommendation with the reasoning behind it. Yours to act on however you choose.

Ready to talk through
your situation?

Every engagement starts with a direct conversation. No presentation, no process. You describe what you are dealing with and we give you an honest read on whether and how we can help.