From HRIS Sprawl To A Clear Tech Roadmap with Matthew Hamilton

Your HR tech stack can feel like a living creature: new tools arrive, contracts renew, integrations sprawl, and suddenly you are paying multiple vendors for the same capability. We wanted a grounded conversation on how to regain control, so Bill Banham brought back Matthew Hamilton , VP of People Analytics and HRIS at Protective Life, to talk about building a guiding HR tech strategy that actually drives decisions when the pressure is on. We dig into why consolidation is not automatically the goal and how the real win is finding the right balance between an all-in-one platform and a maze of point solutions. Matthew shares how his team sets a clear vision, then makes it actionable with guiding principles that serve as a North Star when leaders disagree. From there, we get specific about what to document in your HR technology roadmap: a clear inventory of vendors and capabilities, centralized visibility into spend, an ecosystem map that reveals overlap, and a long-range plan built around subscription renewals so you do not accidentally box yourself into bad timing. If RFPs have ever felt like a procurement checkbox exercise, you will like this part. We talk about owning the process inside HR, partnering effectively with procurement and IT security, and writing capability-based requirements that invite better vendor responses without creating a 900-item monster. We also cover how to build an HR tech business case and ROI story that resonates with executives by tying benefits to what matters most right now: cost savings, reduced complexity, employee experience, better analytics, and risk control. Plus, Matthew shares how market research resources and even generative AI tools like Microsoft Copilot can help validate a shortlist faster. If you want to stop being a passenger in HRIS and HR tech decisions, listen,

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From HRIS Sprawl To A Clear Tech Roadmap with Matthew Hamilton is an episode from HRchat Podcast by The HR Gazette.

This episode is 24:46 long.

This episode was published on Apr 7, 2026.

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