Technology for technologies' sake is a surefire way to use up 3+ year's worth of HR Projects budget in one, painfully long, failed systems implementation. New systems are likely the biggest investment a HR Function will make so the business case has to be robust and the real drivers for achieving the anticipated benefits have to be traced through the HR Function well beyond the boundaries of the system itself into changed processes, roles, teams, ways of working and behaviours, bothin HR and increasingly (through Self Service) across the whole Organisation. Quality HR data is a huge enabler for HR Functions looking to provide more Strategic value but the stability and maturity of systems and processes needs to have been established and running for many quarters before HR Analytics can start to deliver.