New Release of Bullhorn’s Applicant Tracking Software Reinvents Candidate Search…from Bullhorn

December 15, 2011

 

Finds the best candidates faster and flattens the learning curve for new recruiters

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Bullhorn recently announced the Winter 2012 release of its applicant tracking software featuring all new Candidate Search. Candidate Search suggests the search terms most likely to produce the best matching candidates by continuously learning from millions of searches and resumes. More accurate results, plus a newly streamlined interface, saves time on each of the hundreds of resume database searches recruiters perform.

Candidate Search examines a job, candidate or user-entered keywords and suggests additional terms. For example, if a recruiter searches for “Java” and “J2EE,” it suggests related terms such as Java Server Pages, XML, web services, and object oriented. For “accounting” and “receivables” it suggests adding general ledger, payroll, reconciliation, billing and collections. Candidate Search arms new recruiters with domain expertise that would otherwise take months to gain and helps any recruiter asked by a client about a skill they aren’t familiar with.

“Almost every job starts by searching for candidates, so recruiters who execute faster and send out their very best candidates gain a huge advantage over less agile competitors” said Art Papas, CEO and Co-Founder of Bullhorn. “Accelerating recruiter effectiveness, especially for new hires, means filling more jobs and boosting profitability.”

Candidate Search further enhances recruiter productivity by providing:

  • Drag and drop search builder – Rapidly build searches by clicking and dragging search terms to include, prioritize, or exclude.
  • Personalization – Tailor the fields, columns and appearance of search results to maximize your personal productivity.
  • Collaboration – Save your best searches associated with a job, client or contact and share them with colleagues.
  • Unified searching – Save time by searching across resumes, notes and attachments all from one screen.

“Bullhorn Candidate Search will help our team find great candidates faster than ever,” said Wendy Kennah, Director of Recruiting at Procom Consultants Group, a leading Canadian IT staffing company. “The drag and drop search builder and suggested keywords for new recruiters combined with Boolean syntax for experienced recruiters, means that everyone on the team has the ideal toolset for candidate search. New hires can get up to speed quickly, and learn from what’s already working for us.”

In addition to Candidate Search, the Bullhorn Winter 2012 release delivers more than 130 updates and fixes including improvements to web response tracking that makes it easier to track candidates from first touch through to placement, as well as API updates, email and calendar integration improvements and much more. The Bullhorn Winter 2012 release will be available to all Bullhorn customers in early 2012. For additional information about Candidate Search and the Winter 2012 release please visit Bullhorn.com.

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Salesforce.com Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Rypple – First Step Toward Human Capital Management for the Social Enterprise…from Salesforce.com

December 15, 2011

 

Acquisition marks salesforce.com’s first step into Human Capital Management

Rypple’s next generation social performance management app to be re-launched as “Successforce”

New HCM business unit to be run by John Wookey

Rypple to extend value of existing salesforce.com products

Hundreds of companies like Facebook, Gilt Groupe, and Spotify embrace Rypple’s new social model to empower teams to share goals, recognize great work, and improve performance

 

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rypple, a cloud-based social performance management company. The acquisition signifies salesforce.com’s entry into the human capital management (HCM) market for the social enterprise. Salesforce.com plans to re-launch Rypple as “Successforce” and create a new HCM business unit, which will be run by John Wookey. Rypple’s unique social technologies will also extend the value of salesforce.com’s existing core products. The transaction is expected to close in salesforce.com’s fiscal first quarter ending April 30, 2012, subject to customary closing conditions.

Comments on the News
• “Salesforce.com and Rypple share a vision for extending the social enterprise to transform the way we work,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. “The next generation of HCM is not just about a cloud delivery model, it’s about a fundamentally better way to recruit, manage and empower employees in a social world.”
• “Our social enterprise strategy continues to accelerate, and is at the root of the broad-based transformation and innovation we are seeing from customers today,” said John Wookey, executive vice president, advanced applications, salesforce.com. “With the launch of Successforce, salesforce.com plans to revolutionize HCM starting with an exciting social performance management app that will delight millions of employees around the world.”
• “We chose Rypple to be the core of Facebook’s employee performance management platform because it’s designed from the ground up to be social,” said Tim Campos, CIO, Facebook. “We are delighted to see it become part of salesforce.com’s social enterprise strategy.”
• “Rypple was designed from the start to be fun, social, and mobile–an app that can delight managers and employees in entirely new ways,” said Daniel Debow, co-CEO and co-founder, Rypple. “As the leading social enterprise company with more than 100,000 customers worldwide, salesforce.com will allow us to not only strengthen our offering for the hundreds of high-performing organizations that use Rypple today, but also scale it to reach many more.”
• “We took the science of team performance and applied the collaborative, transparent, and real-time power of social networks to create a completely new model for managing people and the work they deliver,” said David Stein, co-CEO and co-founder, Rypple. “Salesforce.com gives us the opportunity to apply our expertise and extend our vision for Rypple with Successforce.”

Salesforce.com Redefines HCM for the Social Enterprise
Traditional HCM software that many businesses use today was designed 30 years ago for personnel departments whose goal was to minimize the cost and risk of employing people. While HCM software hasn’t changed in decades, the way people work has radically changed.

Today’s workforce demands new performance and leadership tools that are completely transparent and allow employees to be connected to their company’s mission and each other. Social enterprises and progressive HR leaders are embracing apps like Rypple, which focus on the inherent social nature of performance management—goal setting, feedback, recognition and continuous dialogue—to help employees align more effectively around the company mission.

The acquisition of Rypple and its planned re-launch as Successforce signify salesforce.com’s entry into the HCM market. The company plans to expand into other areas with a new social model that will revolutionize the way companies recruit talent, build teams, empower employees and achieve results.

The new HCM business unit, including Successforce, will be led by John Wookey, salesforce.com’s executive vice president of advanced applications. Wookey comes to salesforce.com with more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software, including senior leadership positions at Oracle and SAP.

Extending the Value of Salesforce.com’s Existing Products
A social revolution is taking place today. The number of social networking users has surpassed e-mail users. Nearly a quarter of all time spent online is spent on social networks like Facebook. People access the Internet more from mobile devices than from desktops. Today, companies must change the way they collaborate, communicate and share information with customers and employees to stay competitive. Salesforce.com is helping companies meet the challenge of this social revolution with its social enterprise strategy.

With this acquisition, salesforce.com will embed some of Rypple’s next-generation features into its existing products. For example, people will be able to thank colleagues, win badges and provide recognition – all from within Salesforce Chatter. And customers of core Salesforce products – the Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Force.com platform – will be able to connect with new employee feedback tools to help drive business goals and power the future of their employee social networks.

For more information, please visit www.salesforce.com

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Kenexa Expands Global RPO Business With Opening of New Center of Excellence …from Kenexa

December 14, 2011

 

Facility Will Bring Jobs to Cary, N.C.

HRchitect featured Kenexa in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems and top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Derek Bluestone, VP Product Marketing appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on June 17, 2010. HRchitect’s Matt Lafata, one of the industry’s leading talent management systems analysts, attended the Kenexa Analyst Day in 2010 & 2011 and the Kenexa World Conference from 2009-2011.

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Kenexa (NYSE: KNXA), a global provider of business solutions for human resources, today announced plans to expand its recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) operations with the opening of a Center of Excellence facility in Cary, N.C. The new facility adds 45 jobs to the area and supports Kenexa’s clients throughout North America.

The development of the Center of Excellence is a result of continued growth for Kenexa’s RPO business. By opening the facility in Cary, a suburb of Raleigh, Kenexa strengthens its position as a global leader in providing expert recruitment services for its clients. Kenexa’s Centers of Excellence are located around the world, with facilities in Shanghai, China; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Krakow, Poland; Vizag, India; and Frisco, Texas.

The Center of Excellence in Cary will include recruiters, coordinators and staffing consultants to enhance Kenexa’s award-winning recruitment services.

“We’re pleased to open this new Center of Excellence as it strengthens our global delivery footprint while giving Kenexa access to significant recruiting talent in the Raleigh-Durham area,” said Phil Stewart, president of Kenexa’s RPO business unit. “Our new Center of Excellence will also strengthen our relationships with many of our clients.”

Information about Kenexa’s RPO offerings can be found at http://www.kenexa.com/rpo.

For more information on Kenexa, please visit www.kenexa.com

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Lumesse Announces New Version of SaaS-based E-learning Authoring Platform: CourseBuilder V6.1…from Lumesse

December 14, 2011

 

Offers Customers Greater Speed, Availability and Enhanced User Experience Through Cloud-based Technology

HRchitect includes Lumesse in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems and Top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Lumesse, a global leader in integrated talent management solutions, today announced the latest version of its SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) e-learning authoring platform, CourseBuilder 6.1.

This version features a new software architecture that brings customers greater speed, availability and an enhanced user experience through CourseBuilder’s cloud-based technology.  This is the first product release of the award-winning CourseBuilder authoring platform following the acquisition of Edvantage Group by Lumesse.  The new version is available immediately to all customers.

CourseBuilder Version 6.1 includes major enhancements to the application architecture and database handling capabilities. Testing has shown that people using certain key functions can expect substantially faster response times, making it easier and faster to find, create, share and update e-learning content including tests, assessments, simulations and courses.

According to Lumesse CEO Matthew Parker, “We are delighted to deliver such a strong update as the first new release from our Learning division under Lumesse ownership. CourseBuilder is unique in combining a rich and powerful content creation platform with the benefits of a SaaS delivery model, making it fast and simple for customers to begin creating and delivering high-quality content from a secure, 100% Web-based system.”

To better serve more than 1,100 active users creating over 700 new courses/modules and adding more than 14,000 pages and 40,000+ media elements per month, CourseBuilder V6.1 is now provided as a multi-server, load-balanced solution with enhanced automatic failover capabilities. This minimizes any downtime during server upgrades, optimizes resource allocation and increases performance, scalability and reliability.

CourseBuilder V6.1 also adds new ‘archive’ functionality that will enable users to create a full backup version of courses that includes not only the content, but also the complete development record of the course including all media elements, comments, tasks and revisions. Archives may be stored either on the server or locally. This ability to create and store complete archived versions provides valuable back-up of project states and greater security for valuable content.

Sven Ove Sjølyst, VP for CourseBuilder at Lumesse, added, “The underlying architecture and the performance and scalability it delivers are important factors that organizations should evaluate when purchasing software systems – both are strong points of CourseBuilder. Our Software Oriented Architecture approach is the foundation that delivers high levels of security, scalability and usability. This new release delivers unparalleled performance and will enable us to quickly add advanced functionality and new features that will keep CourseBuilder leading in the market for authoring tool technology.”

The new release is available immediately to all customers. Existing users receive the upgrade automatically as part of CourseBuilder’s Software-as-a-Service regular release schedule. All features are included: no add-ons, additional software or installation are required.

For more information, please visit www.lumesse.com

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Saba Recognized as a Leader in Leading Analyst Firm’s Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing…from Saba

December 14, 2011

 

Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration Leverages the Advent of Social Media and Mobile to Enable Organizations to Meet the Challenges of a New World of Work

HRchitect featured Saba in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. A.G. Lambert, the VP of Marketing with Saba appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on August 14, 2009. Matt Lafata with HRchitect attended the 2010 Saba Global Summit and Analyst Day in Boston, MA. Matt Lafata & Tiffany Appleby attended the Saba Global Sales Rally FY12 in June 2011 in Redwood City, CA.

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier People Cloud provider, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Saba as a “Leader” in the 2011 “Magic Quadrant for  Web Conferencing” report. The report provides guidance for organizations that are looking to implement Web conferencing solutions for benefits such as increased collaboration, cost savings and reduced business travel. It positions vendors based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute.

Gartner Comments:
“The growth of Web conferencing has continued, driven by  cost-saving initiatives and improvements in the technology’s ease of use and  performance.”

“The worlds of social media, collaboration and enterprise applications are starting to merge, bringing real-time capabilities to business process and personal productivity applications.”

“Real-time and conferencing functions are appearing as components of larger collaboration platforms and portfolios. The market is shifting so that real-time and conferencing functions are becoming embeddable capabilities.”

“Bandwidth concerns are increasing as companies look to add video and expand the scale of conferencing sessions.”

Supporting Quotes
“With Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration, we can connect visually with our students to reap the benefits of face-to-face communications. Additionally, with a highly dispersed and mobile student body, it is critical for us to have the most forward-looking technology that works on mobile devices, such as the iPhone and iPad,” said Becky Vasquez, chief technology officer, Embry-Riddle. “Since our launch of EagleVision, our virtual classroom using Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration, the reviews from both faculty and students have been very positive and student participation has increased nearly 100 percent in the past year alone.”

“Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration allows us to easily connect with a large, dispersed audience of sales, management and technical training professionals. We conduct meetings, training sessions, virtual trade shows, sales events, and coaching for new hires, all of which are stored in a content library of recordings that employees can access anytime, anywhere from any device,” said Rick Vlahos, executive director, Hearth Patio & Barbecue Education Foundation. ”We have employees scattered all over the US and Canada, including in rural areas with marginal Internet connections.

Accessibility to content and the ability to collaborate are key requirements for our organization; employees have found Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration to be the most convenient and user-friendly solution.”

“With an increasingly global and dispersed workforce, real-time collaboration in a visual format is becoming key for enhanced engagement, collaboration and innovation,” said Emily He, vice president of product marketing, Saba. “Additionally, as the market evolves, we continue to leverage integration with Saba’s award-winning learning management, talent management and enterprise social networking solutions to provide customers with a unified platform that enables organizations to be better prepared for the new world of work.”

Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration Highlights
Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration is an industry-leading Web conferencing, online meeting, virtual classroom, and webinar solution that enables an organizations extended enterprise, including employees, customers, and partners, to interact, communicate, share, and exchange knowledge in real-time. By making it easy to capture and share knowledge as it happens, Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration increases the value of session content and improves collaboration among globally dispersed workforces and ecosystems.

Combining real-time collaboration capabilities (like video conferencing, VoIP audio conferencing, text chat, and application sharing) with enterprise social networking capabilities (including the ability to create collaborative groups, publish content to YouTube-like video channels, and access information through interactive mobile Apps on iPhone or iPad), Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration is transforming how work gets done beyond meetings in a next-generation collaboration platform. In addition, Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration provides seamless integration with Saba Learning Management, Talent Management,  and Enterprise Social Networking.

Its dynamic, interactive environment provides the experience of in-person sessions without incurring the costs of travel. Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration provides options to use VoIP, teleconference, or a mix of both in any session. Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration is available in the Cloud and on-premise. The solution is also available on PC, Mac, Linux, iPhone and iPad.

About the Saba People Cloud

Saba People Cloud Applications, including Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration, help organizations transform their business by enabling them to:

  • Accelerate innovation by tapping into social and mobile capabilities to engage and connect employees to the right people, information, and ideas throughout the people network to drive new innovation and faster time to market.
  • Mobilize their people network for speed and agility to seize new opportunities through complete talent visibility and mobility. The Saba People Cloud provides organizations with visibility into all of the skills, experience, competencies, and connections of the people in their people network, as well as the ability to quickly align them to new business initiatives.
  • Cultivate a development culture inside and outside their organization to arm their people network with the knowledge they need, when they need it, to excel at their jobs, develop in their careers, and drive higher performance.
  • Leverage the Cloud with a completely unified, multi-tenant SaaS solution architecture and infrastructure that reduces costs, speeds time to benefit, and provides the flexibility to scale globally and adapt locally to fit your operational and financial needs.

For more information on Saba, please visit www.saba.com

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Highmark Inc. Selects SumTotal to Strengthen Organizational Development and Retain Top Talent…from SumTotal Systems

December 14, 2011

 

SumTotal Systems to Deliver Integrated Talent Management and Learning Platform to Help Highmark Transform Performance Culture

HRchitect featured SumTotal Systems in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. SumTotal Systems appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on May 1, 2009. SumTotal Systems also competed in the HRchitect Beauty Pageant on Employee Performance Management Systems in February 2009, where they were crowned the winner. Dave Watkins, Softscape’s CEO and Co-Founder appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on June 19, 2009.

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

SumTotal® Systems, Inc., the innovator in strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, today announced that Highmark Inc., an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, has selected SumTotal to help it achieve an enterprise strategic priority to strengthen the organization. With the implementation of SumTotal’s integrated talent management and learning solution, Highmark will be more effective in managing the performance, development and retention of talent in order to sustain exceptional performance within the company.

Highmark provides health care benefits serving 4.8 million members, and is one of the largest Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in the nation. For more than 70 years, and now 19,500 employees, Highmark’s commitment to the community has consistently been among the company’s highest priorities as it strives to positively impact the communities where they do business.

“We are in the middle of a journey to transform our performance culture, and the ability to monitor and measure the entirety of our pay-for-performance process in one platform is critical,” said John Brothers, Director of Talent Management at Highmark.  “We need the ability to automate and standardize performance management, and ensure our total rewards and compensation decisions are tied to performance.  As well, the integration between performance, succession and learning will allow us to more purposefully manage our talent through the changes our company and industry are experiencing.”

As more and more organizations, across all industries, search for a competitive edge in an increasingly competitive marketplace and tight economy, strategic human capital management is making its place in the arsenal of tools employed by forward-thinking organizations that are planning not only for today’s success, but for continued growth and advancement down the road.

“SumTotal provides organizations like Highmark with an unparalleled solution for streamlining and integrating the functions and processes of strategic human capital management,” said Nadeem Sayed, Chief Operating Officer at SumTotal Systems. “When organizations choose our strategic HCM solution, they gain a visibility over their organization that allows them to make smarter business decision and excel in the marketplace.”

For more information about SumTotal, visit the company’s website at www.sumtotalsystems.com.

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Jobvite Appoints New CFO and CMO As Rapid Growth Continues…from Jobvite

December 13, 2011

 

Technology Veterans John Winkenbach and Kimberley Kasper Join Social Recruiting Innovator

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Jobvite, the leading recruiting platform for the social web, announced the appointment of two executives to its leadership team: John Winkenbach as the company’s Chief Financial Officer and Kimberley Kasper as Chief Marketing Officer. Winkenbach will oversee Jobvite’s finance, accounting, human resources and legal departments. Kasper will be responsible for all aspects of corporate marketing, including branding, messaging, corporate communications and demand generation.

The executive hires come as Jobvite continues its rapid expansion: the Software-as-a-Service innovator has grown its customer base more than 600% in the past two years. Earlier this year, Jobvite raised a Series C funding round of $15 million to support sales acceleration and continued technology innovation.

“The widespread adoption of social media is changing how people find jobs and reshaping the multi-billion dollar recruitment market,” said Dan Finnigan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Jobvite. “John and Kimberley have proven track records of driving growth at successful companies; their leadership will help us scale Jobvite to take advantage of the large and growing market opportunity for recruiting technology innovation.”

Winkenbach joins Jobvite from Technorati Media, an online media company, where he was Vice President of Finance and Administration. There he oversaw the launch of the company’s leading social media ad network, contributed to a tenfold revenue increase and led three acquisitions. At Yahoo! Inc., he managed the financial planning and analysis team for the Search Business Unit.; and prior to that served various senior finance roles at Inktomi Corporation.

“Market leading companies chose Jobvite for technology that solves a critical problem – how to find and hire the right talent,” said John Winkenbach, Chief Financial Officer. “I am delighted to work with the talented team here to continue developing a strategy for innovation and business operations that scale to support our growing customer base.”

Kasper most recently served as Vice President of Small-Medium Business and Talent Grid Marketing at Taleo, a talent management provider. In that role, she oversaw all aspects of marking for the Taleo Business Edition product line, including product marketing, messaging, communications, demand generation, and customer marketing. Prior to Taleo, Kasper was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at SumTotal Systems, a human capital management solutions provider. She has also held marketing leadership positions at Salesforce.com and WebEx.

“From the start, Jobvite has positioned itself as a forward thinker focused on meeting the needs of a new generation of job seeker and recruiter,” said Kimberley Kasper, Chief Marketing Officer. “There’s an incredible amount of opportunity to redefine the concept of the ‘job search’ and I’m happy to be a part of Jobvite’s extremely smart team at the forefront of this industry.”

For more information on Jobvite, please visit www.jobvite.com

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Technomedia-Hodes iQ Appoints Savio Pacifico as Director of Finance…from Technomedia-Hodes iQ

December 13, 2011

 

Seasoned Executive with Multi-National Experience  Assumes Key Role on Leadership Team

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Technomedia-Hodes iQ, a leading provider of Talent Management Solutions, today announced that Savio Pacifico has joined the company as its Director of Finance. In this capacity, he is responsible for the company’s financial reporting requirements along with overseeing its financial growth plans as it continues to expand internationally.

Most recently, Pacifico was controller at the investment firm, Barrontech Investments, a private company holding investments in various sectors such as high technology and real estate. Before that, he held responsibility for the finance function at Pivotal Payments Corporation, a debit and credit card processing services company; product compliance solutions provider Atrion International; manufacturer Biovet; and information services firm Datachest.com. Pacifico started his career in auditing and accounting at Deloitte and Touche. A certified public accountant, he studied at Concordia University, McGill University and University of Illinois. Pacifico is fluent in English, French and Italian.

Alain Latry, President and CEO of Technomedia said, “Savio’s experience in financial reporting across U.S. and Canadian companies is of particular relevance to our organization. His track record of driving operational efficiencies, strategic planning and forecasting will be invaluable as we continue our expansion in the U.S., Canada and European markets.”

In September 2011, Technomedia acquired the Hodes iQ talent acquisition solutions operating unit from Bernard Hodes Group, which is part of Omnicom Group Inc. As a result, Technomedia has intensified its U.S. market expansion, while earning industry recognition as a leading provider of Talent Management Solutions.

Pacifico commented, “This is an exciting time for Technomedia. I’m looking forward to playing an integral part of our organization’s continued success as we bring our solutions to new customers in new markets.”

For more information on Technomedia-Hodes iQ, please visit www.technomedia-hodesiq.com

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WorkForce Software’s Vision 2012 Event to Feature Bill Kutik…from WorkForce Software

December 13, 2011

 

Industry Expert to Moderate Client Panel at User Conference

Marc Moschetto, Vice President of Marketing, from WorkForce Software appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on August 12, 2010. HRchitect’s Matt Lafata, one of the industry’s leading Talent Management Systems analysts, attended WorkForce Software’s Vision 2010 conference.

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

WorkForce Software, the leading provider of workforce management solutions for organizations with complex labor policies and stringent compliance demands, today announced details of its upcoming client conference, Vision 2012. Vision 2012 will be held at the Loews Lake Las Vegas from April 22-25, 2012. This conference is designed to help clients of WorkForce Software’s award-winning EmpCenter solution maximize their investment and return to their companies with new ideas, novel concepts and ‘best practice’ strategies that can be put into use right away.

Vision 2012 will feature more than 30 informative sessions, including presentations by clients; keynote presentations by industry experts; networking events, roundtable discussions and other client-centric interactions; participation by WorkForce Software’s partners; and the opportunity to learn from the company’s subject matter experts.

One of the featured experts will be Bill Kutik, independent analyst and co-chairman of the HR Technology Conference since its inception in 1998. Kutik is making a repeat appearance as the popular moderator of the event’s client panel.

“Efficiently and cost-effectively managing the workforce has never been more important – from manufacturing to consulting,” commented Kutik. “We’re gathering executives from various industries for the panel to discuss their challenges and how WorkForce Software is helping to meet them.”

Kevin Choksi, CEO and co-founder of WorkForce Software, said, “We’re delighted to welcome Bill back to Vision. As one of the HR technology industry’s leading experts, our clients appreciate his insights and strategic predictions. Vision 2012 is designed to collaboratively advance our mission of driving measurable improvement in the areas of time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, and employee fatigue. With luminaries like Mr. Kutik on hand, the event promises to be educational, inspirational and highly interactive.”

The complete agenda can be viewed on the conference website. Additional featured experts and keynotes will be announced shortly. To register for Vision 2012, please visit www.workforcesoftware.com/vision.

For more information on WorkForce Software, please visit www.workforcesoftware.com

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Save the Date: Kenexa Announces Details of 2012 World Conference…from Kenexa

December 10, 2011

 

Annual HR Networking Event Returns to Disney October 17-18, 2012

HRchitect featured Kenexa in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems and top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Derek Bluestone, VP Product Marketing appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on June 17, 2010. HRchitect’s Matt Lafata, one of the industry’s leading talent management systems analysts, attended the Kenexa Analyst Day in 2010 & 2011 and the Kenexa World Conference from 2009-2011.

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Kenexa (NYSE:KNXA), a global provider of business solutions for human resources, today announced details of its 2012 World Conference.  The annual event, attended by senior executives and HR professionals, will take place Wednesday, Oct. 17 and Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 at Disney’s Contemporary Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

The full agenda for the event and the keynote speakers will be announced in 2012.  Previous speakers at the Kenexa World Conference include Google’s Executive Chairman Eric E. Schmidt, Oakland Athletics Vice President and General Manager Billy Beane, former Navy Commander Mike Abrashoff and author Malcolm Gladwell.

The 2011 Kenexa World Conference was such a success that company officials decided to return to Disney, a Kenexa client.  In 2012, the conference will be held at the Contemporary Resort, the only Disney hotel with monorail access and the closest one to the Magic Kingdom theme park.

“We’re thrilled to return to Disney for our 2012 Kenexa World Conference,” said Tim Geisert, Chief Marketing Officer of Kenexa.  “Not only is Disney a great customer, but they’re also a great host and will ensure an outstanding and memorable conference experience for our attendees.”

For more information on Kenexa, please visit www.kenexa.com

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iCIMS Breaks Record for Number of Clients Acquired in One Year…from iCIMS

December 10, 2011

 

Leading provider of HR software organically acquires 228 clients in less than 11 months

HRchitect featured iCIMS in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. iCIMS competed in the HRchitect Beauty Pageant on Talent Acquisition Systems in 2008 and mid-market Talent Acquisition Systems in 2009, where they were crowned the winner of each. Adam Feigenbaum and Susan Vitale from iCIMS previously appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle.

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

iCIMS, a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent management solutions, announced today that the company has surpassed its previous record for the number of clients acquired in one year. On November 29th, the company signed its 228th customer of 2011. The announcement came just weeks after the company announced the achievement of its 1000th total client milestone.

Client #228, Warbird Consulting Partners, is a consulting organization with approximately 100 employees. The company recognized a need for an efficient applicant tracking solution to propel immediate hiring growth in the next six months. Warbird chose iCIMS’ Talent Platform for its easy interface, intuitive requisition management tools and scalability to support the growing company’s needs.

Warbird Consulting Partners joins nearly 50 other organizations who have signed with iCIMS this quarter. Trends show continued momentum in the healthcare and retail industries, including such new clients as New Egg, University of Utah Healthcare, Waters Corp. and Totsy.

“We’re thrilled to reach a new record number of new clients with a month left to go in the year,” said Colin Day, iCIMS’ CEO. “Warbird Consulting Partners is a great representation of our customer base – they’re SMB, growing rapidly and value system ease-of-use and the customer experience above all else. We’re so pleased to welcome these 228 clients and are extremely optimistic about wrapping up one of our best years in iCIMS’ history.”

In addition to hitting a record number of new clients year-to-date, November marked an impressive month for iCIMS in other areas, as well. The organization was ranked the 30th fastest-growing company in New Jersey and also received recognition as a Champion provider of Talent Acquisition Systems in InfoTech Research Group’s Vendor Landscape Report for Talent Acquisition Systems.

For more information on iCIMS, please visit www.icims.com

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Saba Announces Learning Management Exchange Program for Plateau and SuccessFactors Customers…from Saba

December 7, 2011

 

Special Offer Provides Access to the Saba People Cloud to Leverage an Organization’s Most Valuable Competitive Advantage — Its People

HRchitect featured Saba in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. A.G. Lambert, the VP of Marketing with Saba appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on August 14, 2009. Matt Lafata with HRchitect attended the 2010 Saba Global Summit and Analyst Day in Boston, MA. Matt Lafata & Tiffany Appleby attended the Saba Global Sales Rally FY12 in June 2011 in Redwood City, CA.

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier People Cloud provider, today announced a learning management exchange program for qualified SuccessFactors learning customers (formerly Plateau). Available now, this offer is designed to give SuccessFactors customers the opportunity to switch, risk-free, to the Saba People Cloud platform, which includes its award-winning Saba Learning Management application. Saba delivers seamless blended learning in the industry’s only unified People Cloud platform to help organizations transform the way they work, thereby driving productivity to the extended enterprise, achieving greater compliance, mitigating risk, shortening time to productivity, and accelerating the pace of innovation.

Qualified SuccessFactors customers with active contracts will be entitled to a significant discount of Saba’s People Cloud platform, including equivalent subscription contracts at no charge for up to one year. Additionally, Saba will include Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration and Saba Social with these exchanges at no additional charge for up to one year. Migration programs, tools, and special services packages will also be available to reduce the time, expense and risk of moving to the Saba People Cloud platform. With enterprise social networking, informal learning and real-time collaboration all in one unified platform, organizations can improve ROI, enhance engagement, and cultivate a true talent development culture. This exchange program is in effect and available immediately; qualified SuccessFactors customers will have until May 31, 2012 to take advantage of this special Saba offer.

“Saba continues to focus on delivering exceptional customer success, as well as an innovative and compelling product roadmap, which is aligned with our vision to enable organizations to transform the workplace for competitive advantage,” said Karen Steele, senior vice president corporate marketing, Saba. “Through this learning management exchange program, we are making it easy for organizations to improve how all of their people learn, grow and meet the challenges of a new world of work.”

The Saba People Cloud

The Saba People Cloud is a unified, people-centric and social platform designed to transform the way people work. Saba People Cloud Applications include Learning Management, Talent Management, Enterprise Social Networking and Real-Time Collaboration, all of which help organizations become more competitive through increased visibility, speed and agility. The Saba People Cloud is highly scalable and interoperable with HRIS, financial, and ERP systems. Additionally, the platform is built to help organizations and their people be more competitive by enabling:

  • Global and local scale to the level, reach and complexity customers need from a single, open platform
  • Prescriptive analyses of past behaviours, training and performance for actionable insights
  • Always on, always accessible collaborative environment designed to work across the entire people network to ensure access to everyone in the entire value chain anytime, anywhere and from any device.

 

Market Leading Learning Solution

Saba Learning Management provides unique capabilities to support sophisticated extended enterprise learning. With its mobile and social learning capabilities, it allows employees, customers and partners to rapidly connect, share, and retain the knowledge. Saba has received numerous accolades for its Learning Management Application, including:

 

For more information on Saba, please visit www.saba.com

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Kronos Retail Labor Index Hits Three Year High…from Kronos

December 7, 2011

 

HRchitect includes Kronos in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems that organizations should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Kronos Incorporated recently announced the December release of the Kronos Retail Labor Index™, a family of metrics and indices that characterize the current state of the demand and supply sides of the labor market within the U.S. retail sector. The December report includes data for November 2011. The analysis and write-up is prepared by Macroeconomic Advisers LLC, and is available on the Kronos Retail Labor Index website.

News Facts

The Kronos Retail Labor Index: (This index is defined as the ratio of hires to applicants within a given month, expressed as a percentage. A level of 3.0 percent means that for every 100 applications received, three hires occurred). The Kronos Retail Labor Index rose to 4.2 percent in November 2011 from a downwardly revised 3.5 percent in October. This was the highest reading since October 2008 and the second reading of 4.0 percent or higher in the last three months.

Retail Hiring Level: The retailers representing 18,362 distributed locations across the U.S. that make up the Kronos® data sample made 34,491 hires (seasonally adjusted) in November 2011, up 7.1 percent from a downwardly revised 32,205 hires in October 2011. The level of hires in November was roughly 8 percent above the 2010 average, continuing to indicate modest improvement following sharp declines during the recession.

Retail Applications Level: The number of applications received by retailers included in the Kronos sample declined 10.8 percent to 812,673 in November 2011, from an upwardly revised 911,552 in October 2011, all on a seasonally adjusted basis. The decline in November brought monthly applications to the lowest level in more than four years, nearly 17 percent below the mid-2009 peak.

Retail 60-Day Retention Rate: The 60-day retention rate, measured as the number of hires who remain employed for at least the first 60 days divided by the total number of hires made in that month, edged up to 84.4 percent (seasonally adjusted) in July from 83.3 percent in June (Note: There is a four-month lag on this indicator as two months are required to measure whether a hire remained employed for 60 days and Kronos customers have two months to return data on separations.)

To learn more about Kronos, please visit www.kronos.com

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SuccessFactors (SFSF) to Acquire Jobs2web – A Multi-Channel Interactive Recruiting Marketing SaaS Company…from SuccessFactors

December 6, 2011

 

Creates recruiting experiences that don’t stink, and business execution dashboards that dramatically cut costs

HRchitect featured SuccessFactors in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Matt Lafata and Tiffany Appleby from HRchitect attended and sponsored the SuccessConnect event in San Francisco in May 2011 and the Insights event in San Diego in Oct 2011.

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

SuccessFactors, Inc. (NYSE: SFSF), the global leader in business execution cloud-based software, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Jobs2web, the leading recruiting marketing platform, delivering the first-ever Recruiting Execution Platform.

Jobs2web is renowned in the recruiting industry for its unique ability to “turbocharge” any Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and attract the very best candidates through social networks. By creating superb recruiting experiences for hiring managers as well as candidates, companies can save time and money, foster engaged communities, and enhance their brand reputation.

Jobs2web is a high-growth performer in the cloud industry with healthy revenue and an impressive roster of customers, such as 3M, Merck, PepsiCo, Rackspace and Taco Bell, among others, that have deployed an integrated multi-channel recruiting strategy with Jobs2web. For more details, please visit the Jobs2web testimonials page: http://www.jobs2web.com/resources/testimonials-video/.

With Jobs2web, companies can drive social and mobile recruiting programs across all potential recruiting channels like Bing, Facebook, Google, Indeed, Jigsaw, Juju, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo, Zoominfo, and other communities. Jobs2web works with all major recruiting vendors and ATS systems and will be immediately integrated with SuccessFactors’ Business Execution applications. SuccessFactors will combine its industry leading social, mobile and collaborative recruiting management solution with Jobs2web’s leading recruiting marketing platform to produce a transformational social recruiting engine with dynamic talent communities that minimize cost and maximize quality and speed. This new platform will help companies find the best people, drive more engagement with potential candidates and analyze program effectiveness.

“It was easy for SuccessFactors to pull the trigger on acquiring Jobs2web, despite an extremely competitive acquisition fight for them, because they have so many powerful assets. First, they’re growing incredibly fast. And they are completely disrupting the way companies can make social networks their friends in recruiting and not a distraction, helping hiring managers find people in ways they never could before. Lastly, the analytics dashboards provide quality insights not seen in this industry before,” said Lars Dalgaard, founder and chief executive officer, SuccessFactors. “There are 300 million job searches alone on Google each year, that companies don’t know how to get to, with Jobs2web SuccessFactors can help companies turn resumes into candidates, broadcasting their jobs in all social networks.”

New SuccessFactors Recruiting Execution Platform

The SuccessFactors and Jobs2web recruiting solutions complement each other in that Jobs2web’s recruiting marketing platform drives the process before the candidate application, and SuccessFactors drives everything from application to hire and beyond. Previously, companies had to piece disparate solutions together. Now, companies can leverage a comprehensive Recruiting Execution Platform as part of the SuccessFactors Business Execution Suite (BizX), starting with the modules that suit their needs and expanding as they are ready – all from a single cloud-based vendor.

As part of the Recruiting Execution Platform, Jobs2web helps companies to:

 

  • Find the Best People – Companies can bring the candidate network to the open job instead of the job to the network through a variety of channels, including search engines, social networks and mobile career sites. http://www.jobs2web.com/what-we-do/find-better/
  • Engage in a Unique Way – Managers can add insights and automation to their candidate relationship management process and create “talent communities” that will drive more engagement with potential candidates. http://www.jobs2web.com/what-we-do/engage-better/
  • Analyze Effectiveness – With targeted search engine optimization (SEO) and campaigns, executives gain real insights into recruiting advertising campaigns and overall sourcing strategy so that executives know what is and isn’t working and where to focus their investment. http://www.jobs2web.com/what-we-do/know-better/

“We chose to join SuccessFactors because of its clear market leadership. Our leadership team is ecstatic to join the SuccessFactors team with its focus on driving real business execution for its customers and the company’s mission to solve its customers’ biggest problems,” said Ken Holec, chief executive officer, Jobs2web. “Legacy ATS systems are not much more than electronic filing cabinets and job boards just aren’t enough. Companies aren’t using them, quality candidates aren’t using them. Simply trying to deploy a Facebook page doesn’t work, and neither does just buying LinkedIn licenses. We make LinkedIn better, Facebook better, your mobile recruiting better, every part of the recruiting process better. Hiring the best people can be complex and hard to manage, and we’re making it easy. Our joint Recruiting Execution Platform will offer customers an unmatched level of recruiting insights and knowledge to take the guess work out of recruiting.”

A Winning Combination: SuccessFactors and Jobs2web

SuccessFactors has continued to build on its core (BizX) suite and revolutionize the market through its R&D of new solutions and innovative product acquisitions. Like the company’s other acquisitions, Jobs2web is a strong strategic fit from a technological, functional and cultural standpoint:

 

  • Technology: SuccessFactors has focused on building multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS) software since day one. Similarly, Jobs2web’s solutions are true, multi-tenant SaaS. This will yield significant advantage in integrating the solutions and increase speed to market for new product updates.
  • Functionality: The two solutions complement one another to address the full recruiting cycle and provide robust analytics. Jobs2web will be a “candidate magnet” for SuccessFactors’ proven hiring engine and will add to SuccessFactors’ market leading analytics, providing more actionable insights for customers to continually refine their end-to-end recruiting processes. It introduces extremely dynamic Talent Communities, and allows for social recruiting. http://www.jobs2web.com/solutions/social-network-recruiting/
  • Cultural: SuccessFactors and Jobs2web are both leaders who have excelled in pioneering new markets with continued innovation and a relentless focus on customer success.

Jobs2web brings more than 150 new customers to SuccessFactors. After the deal closes, Jobs2web will operate as a business unit within SuccessFactors. Customers will have the option of purchasing Jobs2web to work as a deeply integrated solution with SuccessFactors Recruiting Management, to operate in conjunction with any other applicant tracking system (ATS) they may own, or to operate as a standalone solution. The pricing models for Jobs2web’s Recruiting Marketing Platform and SuccessFactors’ Recruiting Management Platform will remain the same.

Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, which is subject to various closing conditions, SuccessFactors will pay $110 million in cash for Jobs2web. The transaction is expected to close late in 2011 and is not expected to have material impact on SuccessFactors’ fourth quarter and full year 2011 results.

For more information on SuccessFactors, please visit www.successfactors.com

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Software Veteran Larry Dunivan Joins Ceridian…from Ceridian

December 6, 2011

 

Key strategic addition to Ceridian’s management team builds on company’s progress in delivering next generation human capital management (HCM) solutions

HRchitect includes Ceridian our list of top HRMS vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Ceridian Corporation, a leading provider of human resources, payroll, tax filing, recruiting and workforce management software and solutions, announced today that Larry Dunivan has been appointed senior vice president, Product Management and Technology, for Ceridian U.S., effective immediately. Dunivan’s deep industry knowledge and operating expertise developed over a 25-year career of bringing software products to market will be used to help Ceridian deliver next-generation solutions for the human capital industry.

“Strategically, this is a critical step in transitioning Ceridian from a traditional technology-enabled service bureau business to a cloud-based software solution company,” commented Stuart C. Harvey, Jr., Ceridian’s chief executive officer and president. “Larry is a proven executive with a record of delivering robust new products to market that helped establish Lawson as a key player in the HCM space.”

Industry analysts have applauded the move. “Larry Dunivan is a terrific hire for Ceridian as it continues to evolve its software offerings,” said independent industry analyst and co-chair of the HR Technology Conference & Expo, Bill Kutik. “In the 15 years I’ve known him, Larry has distinguished himself as a functional expert and thought-leader in the HR software industry. His breadth of knowledge across the HCM domain and technical expertise make him one of the most prominent and capable executives in the industry.”

Dunivan will be responsible for Ceridian’s product management and technology organizations, overseeing Ceridian’s current suite of human capital solutions and services including human resources, payroll, tax filing, benefits and recruiting. Additionally, Dunivan will partner with leaders across the organization to drive the strategy and execution of preparing and transitioning Ceridian’s customers to its next-generation SaaS platform, InView.

“I am excited to join Ceridian as it continues to build on its leadership in human capital software and services,” Dunivan said. “The company’s people, clear vision for the market, and commitment to innovation make this an extraordinary opportunity to have a significant and long term impact.”

This strategic addition marks another significant step in Ceridian’s commitment to investing in innovation and the integration of its technology offerings. On October 3rd, Ceridian and Dayforce, Ceridian’s exclusive partner for SaaS workforce management solutions, announced a major expansion of the InView solution to bring payroll, human resources, employee self-service, benefits administration and workforce management onto a single platform, backed by Dayforce’s award-winning technology. Additionally, Ceridian InView Workforce Management was named the leading workforce management solution provider by Nucleus Research in November.

Dunivan joins the company from Lawson Software, where he served as senior vice president of Global Human Capital Management Products. He was responsible for sales, services, product strategy, and development for the company’s HR products. Prior to Lawson, Dunivan held executive roles at Best Buy and Personnel Decisions International. An M.B.A. graduate of Northwestern University, he is a frequent speaker and regular blogger on HCM technology.

To learn more about Ceridian, please visit www.ceridian.com

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