HOME DEPOT

Home Depot opened its first store in 1979, and has demonstrated tremendous growth in sales, profits, and number of stores. Their growth has demanded that the company feverishly develop and promote their employees through some type of automated system.

JDLR began with a "Succession Planning" file server application that tracked and identified high performance associates who had the potential to become new leaders for HD. The software, distributed to a mere 10 people, captured and tracked a magnitude of HR information including details on how to "grow" the skills and knowledge of existing District Managers and Merchants through very unique and specific development plans for each employee.

As HD continued to grow, JDLR moved the file server software to the WAN with a SQL server backend that spanned across 8 different divisional offices in the USA and Canada supporting roughly 150 users. Due to their continued growth, by 1999 HD needed to allow system access to additional HR managers, and also wanted employees to have "self service" access to their own personal data.

JDLR is currently gearing up to allow 130,000 associates access to their own information from a PC at home or work. This will be accomplished by re-engineering the software to run on HDs intranet. JDLR has consulted and provided services to HD on this project since 1997 and has been maintained by HD because of our continuous successes with each of these growth transitions.

Through the development of the intranet interface, JDLR is transferring knowledge to existing HD IT staff so that they will be able to maintain the system in the future.