September 5, 2012
Kenexa Learning Suite 3.0 provides social networking, collaboration and knowledge sharing capabilities as part of its new Social LMS
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 15 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!
The Learning space is reinventing itself as formal training for the workforce moves toward collaborative, social-learning based solutions, according to a recent Bersin & Associates research report. Kenexa (NYSE: KNXA), a global provider of business solutions for human resources, today released the first and only Learning Suite that incorporates an enterprise-grade Social Learning Management System (LMS).
The LMS’s social features include complete networking, collaboration and knowledge sharing capabilities, as well as interactive elements that allow users to rate learning content and share their experiences with other users. Other components of the suite include a Learning Content Management System (LCMS) and Mobile Learning capabilities.
“Social Learning has been touted as contributing to as much as 80 percent of learning that takes place within an organization. Until now, organizations have not been able to initiate, leverage or participate in this component of learning,” said, Rudy Karsan, CEO and co-founder of Kenexa. “Our new Kenexa Learning Suite with a Social LMS fuses social capabilities with the formal learning process, adding networking, collaboration and knowledge sharing to the online formal learning process. This fusion helps employees perform better in their roles, and provides greater job satisfaction as well as better overall performance for the company.”
Kenexa LMS’s Social capabilities enhance the company’s overall Learning Suite, which was ranked as the best in the market by industry analyst Brandon Hall in December 2011. Brandon Hall conducted an unbiased evaluation of all the major Learning Suites on the market, ranking each on 57 unique criteria. Kenexa’s Learning Suite received the overall top score.
The Kenexa Learning Suite, with a Social LMS, includes several new features, including:
- A student User Interface (UI) that manages all curriculum needs, both formal and informal.
- A home page that provides a quick view of all courses, assignments, groups, workspaces and transcripts for the student and a search box for easy access to all learning content.
- A Learn and Schedule page that provide access to all formal learning with a more detailed view of assignments, Instructor Lead Training (ILT), curricula, quick links to transcripts and access to course catalogues.
- An Ask an Expert feature that allows users to ask questions and then automatically routes these to subject matter experts.
- An Explore tab to provide access to all documents, files, expertise exchanges, postings, courses and training videos for both formal and informal learning content.
- A Managers Only function that allows managers to get feedback and access to HR systems, and will automatically connect to other Kenexa-based solutions.
“Having looked at the way our employees learn on a daily basis—referring to existing materials and job-aids; relying on colleagues for answers; searching for a document online; providing feedback through discussions or email; and collaborating with peers,” said David Stachura, manager of global sales enablement at AMD, “we see a real advantage to the Kenexa Learning Suite 3.0. The new social features of the LMS will contribute to the overall learning process of our organization. It will allow our employees to benefit from both their formal learning experiences as well as the social aspect of networking, sharing knowledge and collaborating. This fusion of formal and social learning will benefit our organization by making answers more readily available to employees, allowing them to collaborate in a way that has become very familiar to them and allowing them to share knowledge, and have that knowledge captured for future learning. These advantages will help our teams leverage our shared organization knowledge and expertise to increase our overall productivity and enable us to be more responsive to our customers and partners.”
As an enterprise-grade solution, Kenexa’s Learning Suite 3.0 can now be used by organizations that are Fortune 1,000-sized companies (at least 10,000 employees). With this solution, organizations can fully customize their learning solutions, set up multiple levels of review and approvals, support virtual classrooms through Adobe Connect Integration, enhance curriculum that is capable of including “super curriculums,” which are courses within curriculums, and improve access to various reports. This allows organizations to quickly educate their workforce in a cost-effective way that reduces time of delivery and time of completion.
“Today’s corporate learning organization is no longer just the source of training for the organization,” said David Mallon, vice president of research at Bersin & Associates. “It is also facilitator and enabler, connecting employees to the best content, expert or even peer to meet the learning need. Forward-thinking learning organizations, therefore, are rethinking their entire perspectives, processes and approaches to best support the natural flow of organizational knowledge—and they are looking for technology solutions that support a holistic approach to learning. Unfortunately, so far, most buyers have struggled to find what they need. There remains significant skepticism as to whether the LMS, often unpopular for its typically learner-unfriendly experience with traditional learning, is the right answer. And, while most LMS providers realize that their continued relevancy demands support for management of both formal and informal learning in all of their forms, few have delivered on the promise of true continuous learning support.”
For more information on Kenexa, please visit www.kenexa.com
To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting. As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 2000 successful engagements for more than 900 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.
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June 29, 2012
Social Talent Management Solution Enables Organizations to Identify Centers of Influence
HRchitect featured SilkRoad 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. SilkRoad competed in the HRchitect Beauty Pageant on Onboarding Systems in January 2009, and the HRchitect IRONMAN on Mid-Marketing Talent Acquisition Systems on June18, 2010, where they were crowned the winner of each. Brian Platz, EVP and COO of SilkRoad also appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on March 20, 2009. Finally, HRchitect attended the SilkRoad user conference, SilkRoad Connections, in May 2010, May 2011 and is a proud sponsor of the June 2012 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 15 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!
SilkRoad Technology, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based social talent management solutions, recently announced the general availability of Point. The employee-centric social talent management solution connects employees to each other and their organization by uniting the popular features of social networking with talent management. SilkRoad Point gives employees the forum they need to share expertise and be recognized by peers and leaders while simultaneously helping companies to better understand what and who is driving their business. SilkRoad Life Suite customers Clear Channel Communications, Inc. and Northwestern Michigan College are among the first to implement Point.
“Our research shows that organizations which adopt peer-to-peer learning, recognition, and knowledge sharing dramatically outperform their peers in customer service, time to market, and employee engagement,’ said Josh Bersin, Chief Executive Officer and President of Bersin & Associates, the leading provider of research-based HR best practices that drive business results. ’SilkRoad Point represents a new breed of consumer-like social talent tools that organizations can use to easily leverage the power of social connections in corporate learning, collaboration, and project management.’
Employers often have a limited view of what employees are actually doing as job descriptions and performance reviews don’t always accurately depict employees’ knowledge and contributions across the organization. With Point, organizations can increase knowledge and insight through the use of social collaboration and learning. Employees identify centers of influence by contributor, content and topic. As a result, organizations create a self-motivating culture where employees can be identified and recognized for their influence and recognize others for their contributions.
“HR has struggled to understand how knowledge and information flows across the organization,” said Lisa Rowan, Program Director for HR, Learning, and Talent Management Strategies, IDC. “With Point, organizations now have the ability to reveal not only the connections between its employees but the meaning behind them and how it impacts the company. Point enables companies to share goals, inspire innovation, and increase efficiency to drive organizational change and success.”
Features include:
People and Connections – Increase collaboration and connections to share links, files, questions, photos, polls, announcements and feedback across the organization.
Groups – Connect people with like interests by creating Groups. Groups can be used to align a team around a particular topic or set of goals encouraging knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Content – Share content in the form of articles, thoughts, Q&A and files by posting on either a personal landing page or a group home page. Comment, reply and discuss to build better solutions through collaboration.
Points and Influence – Tag topics with a ‘Point’ to help categorize content for more efficient search strategies. By identifying Points, which can include thoughts, documents, files, etc., influential content and its author(s) will emerge.
Integrated Learning Platform – Allow users to easily access and manage their learning plans directly from Point. Informal social learning supplements the knowledge gained by the learning programs found in GreenLight.
“With Point, we’ve closed the gap between social networking and talent management by converging them together to drive even higher levels of employee engagement and performance,” said Brian Platz, COO of SilkRoad. “Using Point, companies can more easily encourage and increase knowledge sharing for greater productivity, innovation and collaboration. Organizations are enabled to better engage and retain employees using social networking features already familiar to employees while decreasing risks with greater insights into strategic workforce planning.”
For more information on SilkRoad Technology, please visit www.silkroad.com
To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting. As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.
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June 27, 2012
Company to Offer Yammer’s Private Social Network Capability as Part of Its Unified Talent Management Platform
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 15 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!
PageUpPeople™, a Multinational Talent Management solutions provider, recently announced details of its integration with Yammer, Inc., the leading provider of Enterprise Social Networks. Through this integration, PageUp People will include Yammer’s social networking functionality in its Onboarding module, helping its multinational clients to improve their onboarding strategies.
Research from Bersin & Associates suggests that 90 percent of employees make a decision to stay with a company in the first six months of employment. Therefore, it is crucial that organizations implement successful onboarding processes that engage new hires right from the start. Internal social networking has proven to be a powerful tool in engaging employees and fostering collaboration. PageUp People recognizes that value by including Yammer’s unique enterprise social networking solutions as part of its unifiedtalentmanagementplatform.
PageUp People will be offering Yammer as an option to clients setting up new onboarding portals, and existing clients can include this value-added functionality in their programs as well. Customers using PageUp People’s Onboarding module will benefit from a seamless integration with the Yammer embedded widget, allowing new employees to connect with their new colleagues almost as soon as they accept the job offer.
Such functionality is especially useful for PageUp People’s multinational clients, many of whom are expanding into high growth markets and increasing hiring across different geographies. Through enterprise social networking, these organizations can improve their onboarding processes and allow their employees to feel a part of the team, despite geographical distance and cultural differences, and hit the ground running even before their first day.
“A positive onboarding experience will ensure employees are engaged right from the start, and in turn increase the value of the employment brand to attract top talent to the organization,” said PageUp People Senior Vice President of Global Marketing, Pamela Bartz. “PageUp People has been using Yammer internally for a number of years, and it has greatly improved not only the way we onboard new hires, but also how we communicate across the company. We realized that our clients could benefit from enterprise social networking as well, and we are pleased to be able to provide this functionality to customers seeking a more effective onboarding strategy.”
For more information on PageUp People, please visit www.pageuppeople.com
To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting. As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.
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May 25, 2012
Comprehensive Platform Now Includes Learning Management; Enables Organizations to Manage the Entire Employee Lifecycle, from Pre-hire through Retire
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 15 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!
ADP ®, a leading provider of talent management solutions, today introduced an integrated end-to-end platform designed to enable organizations to acquire, develop and retain top talent, while ensuring that they remain leading performers. Crowning a multi-year strategic development effort to create the industry’s leading integrated talent solution, the new ADP platform leverages advanced learning management tools, insightful learning content from Bersin and Associates, as well as an enterprise competency framework to significantly improve the talent management processes of leading organizations.
ADP unveiled the fully integrated ADP Talent Management suite at the WorldAtWork Total Rewards 2012 Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Florida. To view a video on ADP’s new integrated Talent Management suite, click here.
Specifically designed to enable organizations to seamlessly integrate their talent acquisition, compensation, performance management, succession, and learning processes into an end-to-end solution, ADP’s new Talent Management solution is ideally suited for clients seeking to meet the increasingly complex challenges of growing and developing their workforces.
“Talent Management is a critical component of every organization’s human capital management strategy, yet most organizations don’t have an end-to-end solution in place to execute their strategies in a completely integrated fashion,” said Don Weinstein, Senior Vice President, ADP Product Management. “ADP has extended the definition of integrated Talent Management, by combining Talent Management with other critical HCM functions. The integration of ADP Talent Management with ADP’s Payroll and HCM solutions provides a complete end-to-end cloud based HCM solution for any organization looking to simplify and enhance their human capital management strategy.”
The new ADP Talent Management Suite includes Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, Compensation Management, Succession Management and Learning Management modules.
In addition, ADP announced today the availability of expanded insight from BersinBasics™, the first research-based multimedia learning solution that enables business leaders and HR professionals to rapidly learn the fundamentals of successful talent management in a ‘just-in-time’ learning format.
To view a new infographic from ADP entitled “The New Science of Talent Management,” click here:http://www.adp.com/talent-management/infographic.aspx?cid=soc_PR_TLMInfograph_20120503.
“Fewer than 25 percent of line managers feel fully comfortable with the practices of coaching, goal-setting, performance assessment, development planning, leadership assessment, and other critical areas of talent management,” said Josh Bersin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Bersin & Associates, a membership-based research and consulting firm in Oakland, Calif. “The combination of BersinBasics and ADP’s integrated, end-to-end Talent Management system enables managers to access easy-to-use training on all aspects of talent management to help drive business performance.”
ADP’s new, integrated Talent Management solution is uniquely positioned to provide a pipeline of personnel for organizations to consider during the hiring process and a robust way to track them and to assess their lifetime productivity for the business, based on the tools and administrative services that only ADP can deliver. Clients around the world can now count on the completeness, strong integration and insightful expertise of ADP’s Talent Management Suite.
For more information on ADP, please visit www.adp.com
To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting. As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.
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April 28, 2012
Company’s Industry-Leading Talent Management Software Reviewed in New Bersin & Associates Research Report
HRchitect includes Peoplefluent in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors 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 15 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!
Peoplefluent™, an industry-leading Talent Managementsolutions provider, today announced that its groundbreaking talent management solution for the iPad® has been profiled in a new research report by Bersin & Associates, the premier research and consulting firm empowering Human Resources organizations to drive bottom-line impact. Titled “Talent Management on the iPad: Peoplefluent Delivers Breakthrough Solution,” the report highlights key advantages of using the company’s integrated talent management software.
Peoplefluent has a history of developing highly innovative user experiences, having delivered one of the first-ever integrated talent management suites. The company remains on the forefront of the latest technology, recently releasing Peoplefluent Mobile, its new solution for the iPad. Continuing a tradition of innovation, Peoplefluent Mobile is one of the first solutions in the market that totally reimagines how people will use HR software on a mobile device, leveraging the features and user experiences built into the iPad platform.
Peoplefluent Mobile was designed to enable a number of functional areas, including performance management, succession management and compensation. Rather than re-hosting its existing applications on the tablet, Peoplefluent started from scratch to develop Peoplefluent Mobile, using the iPad’s native design to make the system fun, fast and easy to use.
The Bersin report outlines a number of key benefits that Peoplefluent Mobile provides over other systems, including:
- Peoplefluent Mobile’s Workforce Explorer module offers dynamic click boxes, tabs, graphic filters and graphical views to dynamically display employee data, allowing managers to access and interact with key information about their employees at their fingertips.
- The software allows managers to drill down on hundreds of data elements about their employees, providing them with key information needed to determine high performers and flight risks.
- The Workforce Explorer Flip Book, designed to mirror the visuals of the best mobile applications for the iPad, gives managers access to the talent story of each individual, enabling them to flip through and understand their talent profiles, including details of their performance, compensation and career aspirations.
- Supervisors, managers and executives can use the information in their talent management systems to make real-world, rapid decisions easily, without the need for an HR specialist or IT professional to help them find data.
- The compensation analysis module allow managers and executives to quickly compare and analyze compensation, helping leaders understand how they can optimize their budgets through embedded intelligence such as budget statistics and guidelines.
“We are delighted and honored to be recognized by Bersin & Associates as a pioneer in the tablet-based talent management field,” said Doug Ring, Chief Technology Officer for Peoplefluent. “Although talent management on mobile devices is a relatively new concept, Peoplefluent has been a trailblazer in the industry, long recognizing the unlimited potential that mobile technology can provide.”
Peoplefluent has made the Bersin & Associates research report available for complimentary download for a limited time at: http://www.peoplefluent.com/sites/default/files/resources/files/Bersin – Peoplefluent Talent Management on the iPad – 040212.pdf
To learn more about Peoplefluent, please visit www.peoplefluent.com
To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting. As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.
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March 22, 2012
Saba People Cloud Enables Organizations of All Sizes to Thrive in the 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. 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 and the Saba Global Summit 2012 in Miami, FL.
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 15 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!
To meet the demands of today’s changing world of work, Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier provider of people-centric enterprise solutions, recently announced the availability of its next generation social enterprise platform, Saba People Cloud. The platform combines social, real-time and mobile technologies with modern people processes to allow organizations to engage, develop and inspire all the people they work with – co-workers, partners, suppliers and customers. By creating a more transparent, better connected and highly collaborative way of working, Saba is empowering an organizations most critical assets-its people-while enabling the social enterprise to be more agile, competitive and responsive to market demands.
“Email changed the way we work. Now we’re doing it again by putting people, not information, at the center of the organization,” said Bobby Yazdani, founder and CEO of Saba. “To truly transform the way people work, social collaboration technologies must replace disconnected hierarchies and silos. This is what we’ve accomplished with the Saba People Cloud, the industry’s first people-centric social enterprise platform delivered as a service.”
IDC predicts the emerging social platforms category, which includes enterprise social software products, will reach nearly $2 billion by 2014, for a compound annual growth rate of 38.2 percent over five years. Saba plans to take advantage of this rapid market growth by introducing the industry’s only social enterprise platform to have a truly unified enterprise people profile, which unifies the formal profile from a system of record such as a Human Resource Information System (HRIS) and certified credentials from Learning Management and Talent Management workflows with the social, community powered, profile for a full view of expertise across the organization. Saba People Cloud introduces the industry’s first People Quotient (pQ) score, a ground-breaking technology that helps people measure and improve their influence, reputation and impact at work. Saba People Cloud is also the only unified platform with real-time chat and HD video for instant meetings that can be easily recorded and shared.
Key Differentiators:
- A People Profile for the Enterprise: Combines a formal and social profile with analytics, making the Saba People Cloud the only social enterprise platform that gives you complete visibility into an organizations entire people network.
- Scores an Individuals Impact on the Organization: First and only social enterprise platform to measure and improve individual impact at work with the pQ score, a ground-breaking patent-pending technology that helps people measure and improve influence, reputation and impact at work.
- Shows Influence in the Workplace: Dynamic Network Analysis (DNA) enables organizations to visualize relationships, influence and reputation in the entire people network.
- Unifies Real-time Collaboration: Seamlessly integrates high definition (HD) video meetings, chat and Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) with ’1-click” publishing to social video channels.
- Extends Social Collaboration: Transforms the way people collaborate using social technologies with activity streams, groups, discussions, intelligent recommendations and ideas, with social engagement features that draw from the best of gamification, social dynamics and social rewards.
- Supports Modern People Processes: Supports modern people processes, such as social and formal learning, goals and objectives, and succession management.
- Enables New, Social Intranet: Delivers on the promise of a truly social, always up-to-date intranet for wiki-style collaboration and simple corporate communications.
- Powerful Unified Search: Powered by industry-leading search technologies, Saba’s unified search puts information discovery at your fingertips.
- Simplifies Goal and Task Management: Enables people to create a personal or organizational plan to align people and get work done.
- Real-time Sentiment Analysis: Allows people to put a finger on the pulse of the organization and understand employee engagement in real-time.
- Streamlines Document Management: Easy to upload, share, version and track analytics around content without all the costs, headaches and silos of a traditional content management system.
Key Benefits of Saba People Cloud:
- Saba’s social enterprise platform helps the most innovative organizations in the world transform their business by enabling:
- Rapid innovation to increase revenue and decrease time-to-market
- Highly connected customer communities to increase customer insight
- Informed partner communities to accelerate channel pipeline
- A social intranet that’s always relevant, engaging and inspiring
- Faster product development with direct feedback from customers
- A social meeting, webinar and classroom solution
- A modern learning solution that transforms social and formal learning
- A modern people solution that transforms traditional talent management
Open and Extensible Social Enterprise Platform:
- Saba People Cloud is an open, extensible, trusted and scalable platform that is built for the new world of work. It puts people, not information at the center of the enterprise architecture. It is the only social enterprise platform with the security and information architecture to model true private and public networks to help connect and collaborate with co-workers, partners, suppliers and customers.
- With an integration architecture that supports OpenSocial and Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Program Interfaces (APIs), Saba People Cloud can integrate data from enterprise systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Sharepoint, Lightweight Directory Active Protocol (LDAP), Active Directory (AD) and data warehouses. With a well defined set of APIs and services, Saba People Cloud provides an open and extensible development platform for the next generation of enterprise applications.
Supporting Quotes:
“Businesses are looking for a way to integrate all their communication, knowledge sharing, and collaboration systems. The Saba People Cloud has the potential to connect the dots between all these different forms of communication and truly redefine the way people work.”
Josh Bersin, President and CEO of Bersin & Associates
“The way most organizations are managed and run these days is out of step with our times. Social enterprise platform technology offers the possibility for organizations to be large but not bureaucratic, focused but not myopic, disciplined but not disempowering, and most importantly fit for the future and fit for human beings. At the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) we have experienced the transformative effects of using Saba’s social platform to collaborate globally to reinvent the future of management in a social community of over 700 management experts and practitioners at mix.sabapeoplecloud.com.”
Professor Gary Hamel, cofounder of the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) and world-renowned business author
“The Saba People Cloud unifies vital business processes and capabilities unlike anything else on the market. We started using it recently because our firm will reap significant benefits from the evolution it will drive in how we work. Our clients engage us to benefit from our collective expertise. So for us, there’s nothing more essential than a platform that enables our people to continuously connect, share, learn, and align with one another.”
Charlie Kauffunger, Founding Partner, The Educe Group
“Disruptive emerging technologies that draw from the best in gamification and social dynamics are transforming the traditional definition of the social enterprise platform. Innovative vendors will incorporate social analytics, including influence and reputation into their overall social enterprise platforms.
“R” Ray Wang, principal analyst and CEO at Constellation Research
Availability and Pricing
Saba People Cloud is available now for organizations to experience the product via a free trial athttp://www.sabapeoplecloud.com/.
For more information on Saba, please visit www.saba.com
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March 16, 2012
Talent Management Leader Continues Global Expansion with Sydney Office
HRchitect featured Halogen Software 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. 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 15 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!
In response to global demand for its award-winning talent management solution, Halogen Software today announced the opening of a new office in Sydney, Australia to better support the needs of the Asia Pacific market. Halogen has seen 86% growth in annual recurring revenue from international deals and the company more than doubled the number of Australian-based customers in 2011. The opening of the Sydney office will allow Halogen to more easily market and sell to this region, while maintaining its commitment to deliver a world class customer experience.
Research from the Australian Human Resource Institute (AHRI) confirms that the issue of talent attraction, development and retention remains the number one priority for organisations in the country1. With the projections of skills shortages through to 2020, the lack of qualified professionals for available positions makes talent management a key imperative for HR and executives in both the public and private sector. As an industry-recognised leader, Halogen Software is well positioned to help HR professionals in Australia and New Zealand address these challenges.
Teachers Credit Union, Australia’s third largest credit union and soon to become Teachers Mutual Bank, has been a long-standing Halogen Software customer. “As a result of using the Halogen system, employees have full visibility into their job responsibilities and performance objectives, which has contributed to high employee satisfaction,” said Marco Sicurella, Senior Manager, Human Resources, Teachers Credit Union. “Halogen provides excellent support, the system is user-friendly and their product range is continually improving with each update.”
Halogen Software is firmly committed to delivering a world-class customer experience and has consistently been rated with the highest levels of customer satisfaction amongst talent management vendors by analyst firm Bersin & Associates. The company offers an integrated, organically built suite of talent management products which cover the full lifecycle from hire to retire and are designed to drive value for HR, managers and employees. Built based on extensive research into customers’ needs and industry best practices, the Halogen Talent Management Suite™ delivers a consistent and intuitive experience for all users.
“Opening an office in the Asia Pacific market fits our business model as it emphasises a local presence backed by a powerful global network of offices, support professionals and capabilities,” said Paul Loucks, President and CEO, Halogen Software. “Operating locally in the markets we serve enables us to gain an intimate understanding of the challenges of the area and best work with our customers to help them leverage their talent management investment to its full potential.”
For more information on Halogen Software, please visit www.halogensoftware.com
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September 22, 2011
New Cornerstone OnDemand white paper shares best practices for helping healthcare HR leaders evolve their people management and development strategies
HRchitect featured Cornerstone OnDemand 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. Charles Coy participated in the HRchitect WebMingle on January 16, 2009. Cornerstone OnDemand participated in the Talent Management Systems Beauty Pageant in December 2008, where they were crowned the winner.
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!
Changes in the healthcare industry, such as consolidations, nursing and IT staff shortages, and increasingly detailed regulatory compliance needs, are requiring healthcare HR leaders to evolve their employee development and management strategies. A new white paper from Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD), “Talent Management for Healthcare: Facilitating Organizational Excellence and Outstanding Patient Care,” shares how leveraging talent management software, combined with the right strategies, can help healthcare providers better meet compliance requirements, address skill gaps, streamline processes and improve the quality of patient care.
Compared to other industries, Bersin & Associates research shows that healthcare has traditionally been slow to adopt and implement talent management automation and processes. This includes processes for training and development, performance management, onboarding and succession management.
“Today’s comprehensive HR software solutions make it much easier to establish common processes and track and report on employee information across even the largest, most dispersed health systems,” said Julie Norquist Roy, VP of marketing for Cornerstone OnDemand. “From blended learning and real-time performance observation to compliance assessments, organizations now have the ability to automate and integrate processes that tend to be paper-based or conducted in silos. And by empowering employees with appropriate training and development support, we’ve seen our clients improve working environments and boost staff retention.”
One organization that is successfully managing the compliance needs of its medical community is the St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare. BJC uses Cornerstone’s learning and development platform, as well as Cornerstone’s performance observation checklist functionality, to standardize clinical competencies across its hospital system and observe and measure competencies and performance in the field in real-time. This helps to ensure superior patient care and safety, as well as compliance with accreditation standards and requirements imposed by Joint Commission, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and state agencies.
To jump-start learning and talent initiatives in a healthcare organization, Cornerstone’s white paper recommends these five steps:
- Build with an eye toward integration. A strong learning management system will benefit from onboarding, performance and succession initiatives. To maximize the value of your investment, consider targeted, formal development programs for employee supervisors.
- Automate job descriptions with a foundation of competencies. Standardize job descriptions and competencies to create a common culture in large healthcare systems and build job profiles that will guide career development, training and performance improvement across your organization.
- Build internal talent pools. Grow your own talent by implementing appropriate talent management and learning tools. This makes identifying high-potential employees and developing critical skills easier to accomplish.
- Collaborate to build a comprehensive succession strategy. HR can and must play a crucial role in facilitating the next generation of leadership. Technology can identify the gaps and assign development plans for designated successors.
- Leverage the power of software-as-a-service (SaaS). Healthcare employers can now rapidly implement talent solutions at a far lower cost and with greater operational efficiency. Other advantages include less time to ROI.
Healthcare organizations such as Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Sanford Health and WellSpan Health use Cornerstone’s comprehensive SaaS solution to streamline their people management processes. To learn more about talent management best practices for healthcare or read more about BJC HealthCare’s initiatives, download the white paper at http://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/talent-management-healthcare-facilitating-organizational-excellence-and-outstanding-patient-care.
For more information about Cornerstone OnDemand, visit www.cornerstoneondemand.com.
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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September 14, 2011
Sale brings together two best-of-breed solutions to deliver a more comprehensive talent management platform
HRchitect includes Hodes iQ in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Hodes iQ competed in the HRchitect Beauty Pageant on Talent Acquisition Systems in August 2009, where they were crowned the winner. Jeremy Shapiro, Senior VP with Hodes iQ appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on September 18, 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!
Bernard Hodes Group, an Omnicom company, today announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its award-winning talent acquisition product, Hodes iQ, to Technomedia, a leading provider of integrated talent and learning management solutions for global organizations. The newly combined company will operate under the name Technomedia-Hodes iQ in the US, and Technomedia elsewhere in the world, and serve hundreds of customers across the globe.
The transaction builds on Hodes iQ’s leadership position in the talent acquisition marketplace and Technomedia’s dominance in learning and performance management, giving the newly formed company a broader product set and the development resources, scalability and expertise required to meet the growing market for comprehensive talent management solutions.
“This was not an easy decision to make. In Hodes iQ we created a fantastic software tool and grew it into the market leader that it is today,” said Alan Schwartz, CEO, Bernard Hodes Group. “However, we always strive to do what’s best for our clients and merging Hodes iQ into Technomedia will do just that, providing our customers with a stronger product suite that is still seamlessly connected with Hodes. Technomedia is a software company that will continue to grow and improve the iQ technology, allowing Bernard Hodes Group to dedicate all of our focus to servicing our valued customers. What is best for our clients is best for us.”
Technomedia was recently cited as the leader in Customer Satisfaction in the Global Enterprise segment of Bersin & Associates’ Talent Management Systems Customer Satisfaction survey. Hodes iQ has also been profiled in Bersin & Associates’ leading Talent Acquisition Systems report for many years, including the latest study released in April, 2011 where it was ranked highly for its candidate management capabilities, social media recruiting innovations, and intelligent search technology via TalentScout.
“In Hodes iQ we found a partner that shares our passion for the customer and our vision for the future of talent management for global organizations,” said Alain Latry, President and CEO of Technomedia. “Together, we can deliver a more robust end-to-end solution allowing companies to not only recruit and source the best talent, but see how those tie back into other areas of the talent lifecycle and truly assess quality of hire.”
For more information on Hodes iQ, please visit www.hodesiq.com
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September 3, 2011
Open SaaS Platform Aggregates Wide Range of Job Sites and Social Networks to Streamline the Hiring Process and Give Companies Improved Access to Talent
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!
SmartRecruiters recently announced the company’s official launch and debuted its flagship offering, free online recruiting software that meets the needs of small to medium businesses (SMBs). The job posting and applicant tracking Software as a Service (SaaS) comes out of its public “beta” phase with 10,000 companies, 200,000 job seekers and 25,000 job openings already processed, proving that its new approach to recruiting gets results.
“We’re committed to changing recruiting through innovation and access,” said Jerome Ternynck, CEO and founder. “For most businesses, recruiting today is lengthy, painful and expensive. Why are more than 4 million jobs left vacant, while 10% of the workforce is unemployed? That needs to change. Recruiting needs to change. We live in a connected world in which hiring should be easy — especially for small to medium businesses who are the backbone of our economy.”
“More than 80% of the small businesses we survey (those with fewer than 2,500 employees) tell us they are struggling to find great talent,” said Josh Bersin, President and CEO of Bersin & Associates, a leading research and advisory firm in corporate talent acquisition. “In fact the slowing economy has actually made this problem more difficult as small companies are flooded with resumes and often understaffed to deal with the deluge of applicants. By bringing advanced recruitment technology to small businesses at a no cost, SmartRecruiters can dramatically help companies better find great talent, leverage social networks, and improve their quality of hire in a highly affordable way.”
Small businesses agree. “SmartRecruiters’ recruiting software has really helped organize, streamline, and effectively manage our busy Internet recruiting process,” said Fred Holt, VP Human Resources at Photobucket. The company, which hosts uploaded images and videos, also leverages SmartRecruiters site architecture to create its own branded Careers page.
Key Software Benefits
Post Jobs. Companies can post jobs to leading paid, free and niche job boards with one click. SmartRecruiters’ recommendation engine provides analytics that help hiring managers decide which sites are likely to provide the best results. This allows hiring organizations to substantially improve both the speed and quality of its job posting process
Leverage Social Networks. Managers and HR staff can promote jobs on social media sites and tap into the power of their networks on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Track Applicants. Managers can review applicants, take action using robust applicant tracking features. Managers can generate detailed reporting to measure sourcing effectiveness and cost per hire. Managing the applicant tracking process in one place makes hiring more efficient.
Collaborate. The hiring team can share, rate and review candidates throughout the process, enabling cross-departmental input and decision-making. Feedback is collected and consolidated in real time. SmartRecruiters’ unique social collaboration tools promote team-based decision-making.
Career Site. The company can also use SmartRecruiters to easily display jobs and collect applicants from their own corporate website and Facebook page. Hiring organizations get a professional, branded career site that consolidates its applicants in one place.
To sign up for SmartRecruiters, companies simply go to www.smartrecruiters.com to create their free account.
The company launch is timed in advance of this September 5 Labor Day and in conjunction with Zero Unemployment Movement’s #GiveLabor campaign, which encourages everyone to give 15 minutes on Labor Day to help a friend find a job and get America back to work. Participating individuals and businesses will be posting their activities and sharing their accomplishments at http://www.ZeroUE.org , on Twitter at #GiveLabor or on Facebook.
For more information on SmartRecruiters, please visit www.smartrecruiters.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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July 19, 2011
HRchitect includes Kronos in our list of Talent Acquisition Systems 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!
Kronos Incorporated today announced availability of the latest version of its selection and hiring solution. Workforce Talent Acquisition™ 8.8 reflects a continued commitment to provide Kronos® customers with a unified hourly and salaried, role-based solution to meet their recruiting needs, resulting in superior return on their hiring technology investment.
News Facts
Workforce Talent Acquisition 8.8 includes a variety of new features and functionality focused in four strategic areas:
- Unified Hourly/Salaried Solution – Enhancements supporting unified hourly and salaried hiring include the ability to: move candidates from one requisition to another; upload resumes from a third-party system; preview resumes from search results; and generate a pre-populated offer letter from a variety of branded templates.
- Integration with Employee Scheduling – Hiring managers can filter and sort applicants by their schedule availability, making hiring for hard-to-fill shifts significantly easier. For example, a hiring manager trying to hire for a Friday night shift can sort applicants by their availability. The information is configurable by location and/or position. Integration is possible with Kronos Workforce Scheduler™ or other third-party scheduling systems.
- Outlook Integration – Users have visibility into the Microsoft Exchange calendar to enable easier scheduling of interviews; an enhanced email framework that is optimized for mobile devices; and customizable email templates to maintain an organization’s distinct branding while communicating with applicants during each step of the hiring process.
- Improved Reporting – The selection and hiring product continues to turn hiring data into business intelligence with new reporting capabilities such as showing candidate activity to assess effectiveness of an organization’s recruiting efforts, or identifying locations with potential compliance issues based on hiring trends.
Supporting Quotes
- Nick Ordon, vice president and general manager, hiring solutions, Kronos
“We continue to deliver on our promise to provide customers with the very best unified hourly and salaried selection and hiring solution available. Enhancements in this version make Workforce Talent Acquisition easier to use and more powerful than ever, providing organizations with superior return on their hiring technology investment.”
- Sarah White, principal analyst, Bersin & Associates
“We expect the traditional talent acquisition market to grow 12 percent to an estimated $937 million this year. Kronos is well positioned to take advantage of this market growth with the launch of Workforce Talent Acquisition 8.8, a unified hourly and salaried solution that also includes integration to workforce management.”
For more information on Kronos, please visit www.kronos.com
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July 7, 2011
Company Advances Leader Position in Strategic Human Capital Management and Raises the Standard for Complete Talent Management
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 the acquisitions of CyberShift, a leader in strategic workforce management and expense software, and Accero, experts in payroll and benefits software. These acquisitions advance and accelerate SumTotal’s vision and expand Talent Management to link mission critical processes across the broader strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) market. With over 3,400 global customers and 43 Million users, SumTotal represents the most complete strategic HCM solution delivering greater value to customers with cross-functional best-in-class capabilities.
Increasing labor costs have put additional pressures on organizations, driving the need for improved, global visibility of how organizations manage their workforce to reduce operational costs. The workforce is typically the largest expense to an organization (40-70 percent of costs), and how employees are acquired, on-boarded, trained, deployed, assessed, and rewarded directly impacts an organization’s ability to achieve its business goals and maximize profits. At the same time, the shift from simply managing transactional HR functions to enabling integrated HR processes is compelling organizations to simplify and improve their technology deployments to contain costs and eliminate silos of fragmented information. Significant cost reductions are achieved not only through the automation and optimization of related workforce processes, but also with the integration of functions to a single HR solution that leverages the latest cloud-based technologies.
“SumTotal has proven its ability to rapidly integrate multiple acquisitions in a short period of time while delivering real value to customers,” said Josh Bersin, president and chief executive officer, Bersin & Associates. “The acquisition of CyberShift and Accero gives the company a total end-to-end set of solutions for all elements of strategic human capital management.”
CyberShift, an industry leader in strategic workforce management and expense management software, offers innovative visualization and mobile solutions for time and attendance, advanced scheduling, absence management, and Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and leave management. CyberShift is the only enterprise solution vendor in Workforce Management with a true Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. Accero has a long demonstrated history providing payroll and benefits software with advanced workforce intelligence capabilities for mid-size and large enterprises internationally, and specializes in complex corporate environments.
Collectively, these acquisitions add an additional 1,000 new customers with millions of global users making SumTotal one of the largest Talent Management providers in the industry and one of the most complete strategic HCM providers. With customers such as Dell, Google, Sony Electronics, AstraZeneca, HBO, Tommy Bahama, Aer Lingus, US Airways, British Airways, and Rolls-Royce, SumTotal maintains a market leader position with global presence in every market segment and deployed in over 160 countries. Customers gain the value of the most complete solution available, a larger customer community to share best practices, increased vertical domain expertise, and best-in-class functional capabilities. In addition, SumTotal will continue to support and innovate all product lines and ensure existing customer investments remain secure. This proven customer-centric model galvanizes SumTotal’s commitment to customers as the company rapidly integrates and advances its best-in-class capabilities.
SumTotal now offers customers the most complete HR solution that manages strategic HCM functions including Talent Acquisition (acquire to onboard), Talent Management (perform to reward), Talent Development (assess to develop), and Workforce Management (schedule to pay), including integrated core system of record. Customers achieve the benefit of a single comprehensive solution that addresses strategic HCM processes, at a lower total cost of ownership and with best-in-class capabilities and a superior user experience.
“Customers are requiring more end-to-end solutions for enabling strategic, high-value HCM processes across their entire organization, while having ‘one-hand-to-shake’ with their delivery partner,” said John Borgerding, CEO of SumTotal Systems. “We have raised the bar for how organizations manage their workforce by providing complete visibility and strategic planning in a single solution that enables better decision making. Traditional vendors only touch the surface and focus on process automation or record keeping, and point solutions only address process silos and don’t scale to all organizational models. SumTotal is the only vendor that can provide this new level of breadth and depth for customers.”
For more information on SumTotal Systems, please visit www.sumtotalsystems.com.
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July 4, 2011
Eighteen-Year Monster Worldwide and First Advantage Executive Brings Deep Market Expertise, Proven Product Vision and Talent Industry Thought Leadership to Company
HRchitect includes Peoplefluent in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors 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!
Peoplefluent™, formerly Peopleclick Authoria, offering a unique combination of best-of-breed suite solutions for Talent Management, Vendor Management and Workforce Compliance and Diversity, recently announced the appointment of Neal Bruce as the new Vice President of Product Management for Talent Management Suite. In this role, Bruce, a longtime proven veteran with executive roles in operations, sales, marketing and product management at First Advantage and Monster Worldwide, will be responsible for driving the product strategy, roadmap, schedule and vision for the company’s Talent Management Suite. His purview will include the Company’s breakout Talent on the Move mobile line, which received strong industry acclaim during its launch earlier this week. (See Company’s Talent on the Move June 27, 2011 press release and industry analyst reviews).
“Neal brings more than 18 years of deep market expertise, proven product vision and Talent industry thought leadership to Peoplefluent’s Talent Management SaaS and mobile Talent Management product suite,” said Charles Jones, Chairman and CEO of Peoplefluent. “We are focused on innovating new and powerful products designed to help our customers amplify the contribution and emotional connection of each member of their teams through the most engaging and immediate technology in the market. Neal will play an integral role in developing and driving customer-centric solutions that help our clients address the total workforce and align talent management strategies with their overarching business goals.”
Prior to joining Peoplefluent, Bruce served as the senior vice president of Product at First Advantage where he was responsible for overseeing a broad set of human capital management product offerings. He has also held several senior management roles for Monster Worldwide, including Vice President of Global Innovation, Vice President of Alliances, and director of Enterprise Products & Alliances. Earlier in his career, Bruce spent more than 11 years in Human Resources progressive staffing roles from recruiting manager to director of Global Staffing, including leadership positions at Parametric Technology where he managed global staffing, and at Ernst & Young where he served on a management team directing the worldwide MBA recruitment program.
Commenting on his new position, Neal Bruce said, “I am very excited to be driving the product management agenda for the industry’s broadest and deepest integrated Talent Management suite. Thinking about these products in conjunction with each other, rather than in silos, enables Peoplefluent’s undeniable leadership in workforce analytics. This is an incredibly exciting time to be joining Peoplefluent. The innovation, momentum and inspiration are palpable, and I am delighted to be on this driven team and on this winning trajectory.”
For more information, please visit www.peoplefluent.com.
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June 27, 2011
New Corporate Identity Results From Broad Industry Focus Group Research and Comprehensive Brand Identity Engagement
HRchitect includes Peopleclick Authoria in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors 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!
Peopleclick Authoria, offering a unique combination of best-of-breed suite solutions for Talent Management, Vendor Management and Workforce Compliance and Diversity, today announced its emergence under a new vision-driven brand as Peoplefluent™. The new corporate identity launches following a three month brand engagement, commencing first with its 650 employees then through extensive focus group research with top Human Resources executives from a range of geographies, industries and disciplines. The research findings represent views from both mid-sized organizations and large global businesses. The Peoplefluent™ image, logo and website will be formally launched today at Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Conference in Las Vegas, running from June 26-29, 2011 (visit the Peoplefluent™ at booth #2117).
Commenting on the name and brand, Charles S. Jones, Chairman and CEO of the new Peoplefluent, said, “We are very pleased with the direction provided to our new brand by a comprehensive group of senior HR management professionals that comprise our target audience. It is a powerful endorsement of our long-term vision and the true potential of the changing integrated Talent Management Suite.”
This broad Talent Management endeavor demands a level of fluency about individual employees far greater than what has been realized in the marketplace today. With the new Peoplefluent brand, the Company sets out to establish a new identity that better reflects the customer-inspired vision it conceived and began to build more than a year ago.
In the past two years, Peopleclick Authoria has deftly executed a deliberate and calculated evolution of its vision to engage and understand the total workforce. Fueled by the needs of its customers, the Company has dramatically expanded its product lines and capability through strategic acquisitions investing almost $200 million. The Company has also spent more than $61 million over approximately two years on research and development with a targeted focus on analytics, collaboration and mobile applications. In addition to the traditional components of a Talent Management suite, which would include, recruiting, compensation, performance management and succession planning, the Company’s solutions also enable the broadest view of the entire workforce. This workforce view is inclusive of employee and non-employee workers, and addresses the complex needs of compliance and diversity and it offers unmatched visual data and workforce analytics.
“Ultimately, one of the greatest values of Talent Management software is its ability to deliver actionable information about people to line managers and executives – essentially making the organization ‘fluent about the people’ part of the business,” said Josh Bersin, CEO and President of Bersin & Associates. “Peoplefluent has always had one of the most powerful and complete solutions for workforce analytics and decision making, so the new name captures this strength of helping organizations unlock and leverage knowledge about their people.”
In the coming weeks, Peoplefluent intends to announce a new ‘Fluency Methodology,’ a structured customer engagement model built around five essential Talent Management assessment criteria. This new methodology is being developed to assist customers in understanding their own workforce environments and opportunities, to help them address the changing market conditions that are impacting the total workforce landscape, and to support them with proven expertise in the deployment of collaborative and mobile initiatives. In addition, this week, Peoplefluent will be introducing its new Fluency on the Move mobile product line, broadly expanding its product reach and capability.
Visit the Company’s new corporate website at www.peoplefluent.com.
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June 24, 2011
HRchitect featured Cornerstone OnDemand 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. Charles Coy participated in the HRchitect WebMingle on January 16, 2009. Cornerstone OnDemand participated in the Talent Management Systems Beauty Pageant in December 2008, where they were crowned the winner.
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Learning and talent management software provider Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD) today announced that the company’s president and CEO, Adam Miller, has been honored as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 Greater Los Angeles Award winner in the technology category.
Miller was selected among other leading entrepreneurs by an independent judging panel made up of previous award winners, leading CEOs, private capital investors and other regional business leaders. Awards are given to entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Winners were revealed at a gala event Tuesday evening, June 21, at The Beverly Hilton.
“It is an honor to be recognized by Ernst & Young as an Entrepreneur of the Year Award winner,” said Miller. “Over the years, I’ve found there are four keys to successful entrepreneurship: persuasiveness, persistence, perseverance and a great team. The support of friends, family and team members has been essential over the years in building Cornerstone OnDemand into one of the world’s fastest growing publicly-traded SaaS companies.”
Since Miller founded Cornerstone OnDemand in 1999, the company has enjoyed rapid business growth, an expanded global presence and industry-leading product innovation, resulting in an initial public offering in March of this year. Cornerstone is recognized among the leading SaaS-based talent management solution vendors by top industry analyst firms such as Gartner, IDC, Forrester and Bersin & Associates. The company also has been ranked among the fastest growing companies in North America by organizations such as the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and the Inc. 5000.
Miller also is the chairman of the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation, which leverages Cornerstone’s expertise, solutions and partner ecosystem to help empower communities. With a focus on education, workforce development and disaster relief, the Foundation has developed strategic partnerships with Teach for America, the New Teacher Project, Feeding America, Oxfam, Save the Children, the Taproot Foundation and many other leading non-profits.
“Ernst & Young has honored outstanding entrepreneurs like this year’s winners for the past 25 years,” said Brian Ring, program director for Ernst & Young LLP Entrepreneur of the Year Greater Los Angeles. “These business leaders have accomplished so much and contributed a tremendous amount to the community. They give us hope for what the next 25 years of entrepreneurs will bring.”
As a Greater Los Angeles Award winner, Miller is now eligible for consideration for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 National Award. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the overall national award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala November 12, 2011 in Palm Springs, Calif.
For more information about Cornerstone OnDemand, visit www.cornerstoneondemand.com.
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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