April 24, 2012
Global E-Learning Deliverable Locally ‘From the Cloud’ Anywhere in the World
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 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!
– Lumesse, a global leader in integrated talent management solutions, today announced the latest version of its award-winning Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) learning management system, Lumesse Learning Gateway 5.7, with a wide range of new capabilities that include enhanced reporting, additional languages, improved navigation and full integration with Lumesse ETWeb talent management.
The integration (announced earlier this month) with Lumesse ETWeb, delivered using the new Lumesse ETWeb Exchange service-oriented architecture, offers users fast and easy access to learning from a wide range of e-learning vendors anywhere in the world. Personalized, relevant learning content can be selected and delivered directly from the cloud within the familiar, web-based user experience of Lumesse ETWeb.
“Lumesse Learning Gateway takes the pain out of managing learning,” said Lumesse CEO Matthew Parker. “This release helps both learners and learning managers to find and manage the training they need. Learners can identify and start training that is directly relevant to their career goals and their company objectives through a familiar talent management environment. Training managers can control the process, workflow and reporting of learning with less effort and greater oversight. Organizations get better trained, more motivated people with lower costs and less administrative overhead.”
Lumesse Learning Gateway is a powerful and affordable cloud-based learning management system that delivers and manages sophisticated blended learning programmes that can include mobile and social learning, tests and assessments, personalized e-learning, and instructor-led training. Lumesse Learning Gateway is delivered as a SaaS solution configurable to exact needs to encourage high completion rates, and scalable for any number of learners and any amount of learning.
Among the improvements in Lumesse Learning Gateway 5.7 are:
- A new scalable reporting framework generates attractive reports — from a standard, categorized library — that are easy to understand and use.
- Added language support for learners: Chinese and Japanese for a total of 22 supported learner languages; and French and Italian for a total of seven supported administrator languages.
- A redesigned administrative portal offers simpler, more intuitive navigation of the powerful learning management capabilities in Lumesse Learning Gateway.
In addition, tight integration with Lumesse ETWeb talent management allows a learner-centric, consumerized user experience with single sign-on and a common look-and-feel that increases user adoption by making access and navigation simple and intuitive for all users. Users can quickly find best-match learning activities that support career development and objectives, start e-learning from within the talent management system, and easily identify recommended and mandatory training – supporting increased completion ratios. Direct access to development history and development plans from a Talent Profile give a clear overview of training taken and required, while integrated reporting measures and analyzes progress and completion against planned and mandatory learning, as well as cost breakdowns. Configurable workflows allow managers easy approval of learning activities.
Lumesse Learning Gateway 5.7 is available immediately.
For more information, please visit www.lumesse.com
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April 22, 2012
Software Easily Connects Employee Performance with Targeted Development
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!
Reviewsnap, the leading cloud-based performance management software solution, recently announced the latest addition to its growing performance management software platform — the Reviewsnap Learning Content Integration module. The new software complements its existing suite of integrated software solutions that includes performance management, 360-degree feedback and compensation.
“Our new Learning Content Integration module allows our clients to deliver on the promise of development-driven performance management for their workforce,” Reviewsnap President Dave Arringdale said. “By expanding our platform with the new module, we’ve automated the connection between employee performance and targeted learning and development activities.”
The Learning Content Integration solution automatically creates development goals and recommends coursework and activities based on an employee’s appraisal ratings for competencies specifically mapped to their role. Employees are then provided with a development path and have easy online access to the training they need to help them improve their performance and grow their skills.
“After you present learning opportunities that are aligned to an employee’s individual performance objectives and career goals, you give them the motivation to become more engaged in their overall development,” said Arringdale.
Reviewsnap’s Learning Content Integration module allows companies to easily upload all of their in-house, proprietary learning content and training activities in a variety of formats, including video and PowerPoint. Employees also have Web-based access to a full range of award-winning content provided by global e-learning provider, MindLeaders, including both soft-skill and technical courses. When an e-learning course is launched from the MindLeaders learning management system, it can be fully accessed and completed right within the Reviewsnap Learning Content Integration module.
The cloud-based Learning Content Integration module allows employees, managers and administrators anytime access to the development plans, learning content and activities, transcripts, and reporting analytics.
With Reviewsnap’s Learning Content Integration now complementing its performance management software, development plans are tailored to the unique needs of each employee, individual performance improves and employee engagement soars. Your organization will increase retention and improve business results.
For more information on Reviewsnap, please visit www.reviewsnap.com
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April 22, 2012
Company Continues Investment with General Manager Appointment and New Sydney Headquarters
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. 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 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!
SumTotal® Systems, Inc., the global leader in Strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, recently announced the appointment of Ross Bolden as General Manager of its Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) operation, as well as a move to new regional headquarters in North Sydney. These announcements signify further milestones in the company’s growth in the ANZ region following exceptional ongoing global performance and momentum. The company is also planning further expansion with office opening in Melbourne, and continues to hire in support of customers regionally.
Ross joins SumTotal as a veteran in the software market with close to 20 years’ experience with organizations such as Oracle, Infor, Manugistics, i2 Technologies and most recently SAP. Ross has worked on transformational Human Capital Management projects with organizations in the Manufacturing, Retail, Media, Financial Services, and Utilities industries and brings a wealth of high level experience to the SumTotal team.
“I am delighted to have joined the expanding SumTotal Australia and New Zealand operation. With low unemployment, retaining talent is a top concern for organizations along with performance management and succession planning. We have an exciting opportunity ahead and having a dedicated team on the ground in the region means that on top of providing the highest quality service for our existing ANZ customers, we are strongly positioned to further expand with new business”, commented Bolden.
“Ross’s strong background with global organizations, strategic development, executive leadership and customer-focused initiatives is a welcome addition to SumTotal and we look forward to further growth in our ANZ business”, said Malcolm Tinkler, Vice President of Sales ANZ, SumTotal Systems.
For more information about SumTotal, visit the company’s website at www.sumtotalsystems.com.
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April 19, 2012
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!
Meridian Knowledge Solutions’ new version of its learning management system now includes Meridian Social, an array of online tools for extending informal learning across an organization. The Meridian Global LMS, which delivers and analyzes the impact of online learning, is part of Meridian’s human-capital software platform.
“Ninety percent of Internet users spent time on social networking sites in December 2011, and we want to help organizations extend that usage toward learning too,” said Vinay Nilakantan, director of product development and research for Meridian. “We also want our customers to understand the strategies and benefits of social learning. With our expertise and technology platform, we can assist our clients to make the leap toward using the social learning tools that work best for their organization.”
The social module that is part of Meridian’s new LMS enables customers to integrate discussion forums, wikis, blogs, document sharing and chat within the learning management system’s collaboration spaces – the areas learners can use to share know-how or discuss courses they have taken. From within the new version of Meridian’s LMS, learners can also post comments and links about courses, videos or podcasts to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn for their networks to share and discuss.
Tailoring Learning
Meridian’s new LMS also includes an “assignment engine” for administrators to tailor blocks of learning based on more than two dozen parameters including a learner’s seniority, job title, location, language and training experience. When newly hired employees gain access to the LMS, the assignment engine can automatically put together a learning plan customized for each worker.
Once organizations have delivered education to learners, it’s critical to measure the results. Meridian’s team has upgraded the learning management system’s “ad hoc reporting,” so administrators can tap into the Meridian Global LMS to build a report based on what the organization needs. “Most LMS vendors claim to have ad hoc reporting,” remarked Nilakantan. “But, in most cases, users still have to go to their LMS vendor to ask for technical assistance to create a report tailored to the needs of their employer. We want our customers to not have that dependency.”
Conforming with SCORM
The 2012 version of Meridian’s LMS is also one of the few systems in the industry that has adopted the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) 2004 4th edition, an e-learning initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. SCORM helps vendors enable the interoperability of content.
“Given our large Defense Department and federal government footprint, we want to ensure our customers can take advantage of the latest from SCORM,” added Nilakantan.
For more information, please visit www.HRsoft.com
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April 18, 2012
Leading Global Financial Institutions Adopt Saba to Accelerate Performance and Improve Customer Satisfaction
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!
Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier provider of people-centric enterprise solutions, today announced that leading financial services organizations have adopted Saba as their trusted people platform. By providing award-winning solutions for learning management, talent management, and social networking, Saba is enabling the world’s largest financial institutions, including XP Investimentos and London Life Insurance Company, to create a performance-driven culture. With Saba, financial institutions can more effectively mobilize employees and respond to emerging marketplace needs, opportunities and competitive threats.
“The landscape for financial services organizations is changing rapidly with more intense regulatory scrutiny of content across the extended organization paired with the need to be more collaborative and responsive to changing customers’ needs,” said Karen Steele, senior vice president of corporate marketing, Saba. “We are committed to addressing these challenges and have proven that we can help financial institutions deliver higher customer value through the dissemination of learning across geographies and the more effective, secure, and collaborative sharing of business knowledge across the extended enterprise.”
People-Driven Financial Services Organizations Trust Saba
Saba’s solutions power leading financial service organizations, including:
- ACE Cash Express
- Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
- BVS Performance Systems
- The Co-operators
- The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
- London Life Insurance Company
- XP Investimentos
Empowering People and Gaining a Competitive Edge
Saba enables strategic people processes that help drive success for financial services organizations, including:
- Turning international compliance and certification into a competitive advantage
- Building a performance-driven culture
- Improving customer service through competency management and workforce development
- Driving better sales performance through timely training of new or complex financial products
- Accelerating the ability to drive success in new product or geographic markets through workforce planning and collaboration
- Managing risk from business disruption through succession planning and leadership development
- Reducing costs and complexity through consolidation of multiple learning and talent point solutions
- Ensuring higher business performance through the creation of a corporate-wide knowledge base
Saba offers comprehensive people management solutions — including learning management, talent management, and social networking — to help financial services organizations enhance shareholder value and market confidence. To learn more go to /finance-sector-people-management-solutions/.
For more information on Saba, please visit www.saba.com
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April 16, 2012
Lumesse Integrates Learning Management Into Talent Management Solution: Consumerizes Experience of Finding, Initiating E-Learning
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 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!
Lumesse, a global leader in integrated talent management solutions, recently announced that it is continuing to deliver on its innovative product roadmap with the full integration of its SaaS-based learning management system, Lumesse Learning Gateway, into Lumesse ETWeb V11.1, its enterprise-class talent management solution.
Organizations using Lumesse ETWeb, which include some of the world’s largest brands, will now be able to offer employees fast and easy access to learning, where personalized, relevant learning content can be selected and delivered directly within the familiar, web-based user experience of Lumesse ETWeb. This close integration, delivered using the new Lumesse ETWeb Exchange service-oriented architecture, has been completed less than five months after the acquisition of the technology with Edvantage Group.
“Our aim is to make learning easy again,” said Lumesse CEO Matthew Parker. “We know that people love to learn but sometimes the technology makes it harder. By integrating our SaaS-based learning management technology seamlessly into Lumesse ETWeb, we allow employees and managers to be presented with a range of learning options that are directly relevant to their career goals and their company objectives. We believe that great talent management must incorporate targeted, high-quality learning that appeals to people and is easy to start – Lumesse ETWeb 11.1 makes choosing and using your learning as easy as online shopping.”
ETWeb Exchange, a new Service Oriented Architecture introduced with Lumesse ETWeb 11.1, addresses the demand for advanced system interoperability and increasing flexibility in the integration of web-based services. As well as permitting the seamless integration of learning management, this scalable and customizable SOA technology can support a wide range of common integration standards.
Lumesse ETWeb 11.1 brings the power of a very advanced learning management system into the heart of a highly-intuitive talent management system. Key advantages that have been designed-in include:
- A learner-centric, consumerized user experience with single sign-on and a common look-and-feel (based on the all-new UX introduced with Lumesse ETWeb 11) that makes access and navigation simple and intuitive for all users and increases user adoption.
- Quickly finding best-match learning activities that support career development and objectives — whether classroom training, e-learning or blended learning activities.
- The ability to start e-learning from within the talent management system.
- Easily identifying recommended and mandatory training – supporting increased completion ratios.
- Direct access to development history and development plans from a Talent Profile, giving a clear overview of training taken and required.
- Integrated reporting and interactive analysis views to measure and analyze progress and completion against planned and mandatory learning as well as cost breakdowns.
- Configurable workflows that allow managers easy approval of learning activities.
Lumesse ETWeb 11.1 has a 100% web-based interface that now supports the latest version of major browsers, including IE9, FireFox and Safari. Almost 2,000 companies in over 70 countries, including major brands such as GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, PSA Peugeot Citroen, British Airways and Carlsberg, now use technology from Lumesse, Europe’s largest independent software vendor in the talent management market.
Lumesse ETWeb 11.1 is available immediately as an update to all new and existing customers for Lumesse ETWeb 11, and is fully supported worldwide in over 30 languages by Lumesse.
For more information, please visit www.lumesse.com
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April 2, 2012
High Tech Manufacturer Leverages SumTotal’s Cloud Solution to Drive Business Improvement
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. 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 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!
SumTotal® Systems, Inc., the global leader in Strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, announced recently that Tokyo Electron, Inc. (TEL) is deploying SumTotal’s Cloud-based learning solution in multiple languages to deliver exceptional customer service, increase satisfaction and drive business improvement.
Tokyo Electron is a leading global supplier of semiconductor production equipment, engaged in the development, manufacturing and sales of these products around the globe and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company also uses specialized technologies developed for the semiconductor production equipment market to engage in flat panel display (FPD) production equipment.
Tokyo Electron set a goal to provide a higher level of service to its customers across the globe. To help achieve this goal, the company implemented SumTotal’s Cloud Learning solution, which offers its customers web-based training content and courses about Tokyo Electron products, all directly accessible via online at any time. In addition, Tokyo Electron leverages the SumTotal solution to educate internal employees with easily accessible product training to deliver better customer service.
“We have customers all around the world, and providing direct access to product training in real time, and in a customer’s local language, enables us to offer a higher level of customer service,” said Mr. Ken Tanaka, Senior Manager of Global Service Group, Field Solution Department, Field Solution BU at Tokyo Electron Ltd. “The result is more effective customer engagement and greater customer satisfaction for our business.”
The SumTotal Learning Management System (LMS) offers a fully integrated global system for all audiences to access. As a result, Tokyo Electron more efficiently manages a single system to serve both employees and customers while reducing the cost to deploy and maintain the solution. In addition, using the advanced tools in the SumTotal LMS such as dynamic audiences, Tokyo Electron automatically completes otherwise complex tasks and ensures the right content is reaching the correct audience.
Tokyo Electron is also able to deploy a truly global solution that delivers a high quality user experience to various audiences anywhere in the world at any time. The solution scales to meet the company’s businesses needs without Tokyo Electron needing to manage complex IT, hardware or software environments – lowering the total cost of ownership while improving quality of service.
“We were pleased to leverage SumTotal’s Cloud platform for this solution as it represented the best choice for our business,” said Mr. Ken Tanaka, Senior Manager of Global Service Group, Field Solution Department, Field Solution BU at Tokyo Electron Ltd.” SumTotal has helped us stay focused on delivering high-quality content, rather than having to manage a complex hardware and software environment.”
With over 15 Million cloud-based users on SumTotal’s Cloud solution, customers reap the benefits of a robust Cloud infrastructure and achieve faster deployment, more rapid innovation, improved accessibility, and cost effectiveness.
“Our customers understand the power and flexibility that Cloud-based technology can deliver to their business,” said SumTotal’s CEO John Borgerding. “With our Cloud-based human capital management solution, there is never unexpected costs’ concerning labor or infrastructure. When businesses need to do more with less, and do it faster, our cloud solution is a complementary option to help them better manage key business processes.”
For more information about SumTotal, visit the company’s website at www.sumtotalsystems.com.
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April 2, 2012
Saba Customers Receive Awards for Unique and Innovative Use of Saba’s Solutions
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!
Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier provider of people-centric enterprise solutions, today announced the winners of this year’s Customer Excellence Awards at People 2012 — Saba Global Summit. The winners emerged from across many industry leaders including government, public utilities, hospitality, financial services and high technology. The annual Customer Excellence Awards program honors organizations that have demonstrated excellence in the use of Saba’s solutions, resulting in significant business improvement or humanitarian outcomes.
“This year’s recipients of the Customer Excellence Awards have demonstrated excellence using Saba solutions in unique and innovative ways to drive significant business benefits,” said Karen Steele, senior vice president of corporate marketing, Saba. “This announcement comes on the last day of Saba Global Summit, where 700 customers, partners, and Saba employees have come together, all sharing the message of using Saba’s solutions to transform the way we work.”
Learning Power Award - Honors Saba customers who have realized measurable business results and ROI in the areas of revenue, productivity, and the adoption of a people management strategy using Saba’s Learning Management solutions across a group, department, or entire enterprise.
Winner: Bose Corporation
Collaboration Power Award - Honors Saba customers who have realized significant business results and ROI in the areas of revenue, productivity, and the adoption of a people management strategy using Saba’s collaboration solution’s across a group, department, or entire enterprise.
Winner: Internal Revenue Service
Excellence in Talent Management - Honors Saba customers who have overhauled people management processes and implemented Saba’s Talent Management solutions in a commercial business, government agency, or academic institution. The winner has also established a learning or collaboration framework across multiple disciplines that is flexible, accessible, and relevant to meet the needs of the organization and its clients.
Winner: Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG)
Excellence in the Extended Enterprise - Honors Saba customers who have expanded beyond the organizations employees to extend people solutions to the entire value chain – including customers, partners, and suppliers.
Winner: H&R Block
Humanitarian Award - Honors Saba customers who have engaged in humanitarian services (local, national, or international) in a not-for-profit, charitable capacity using Saba solutions.
Winner: SMART Technologies
Transformative Learning Award -Honors Saba customers who have transformed their organization through the use of an exceptional learning program.
Winner: Santee Cooper
Innovation in Collaboration Award - Honors Saba customers who have achieved excellence in collaboration or social initiatives that increased organizational alignment, helped close knowledge or recruiting gaps, or raised brand and product awareness for employees, distribution channels or end users using Saba’s social or real-time collaboration solutions.
Winner: Itaú Unibanco
For more information on Saba, please visit www.saba.com
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March 29, 2012
Launch of natively social recruiting offering makes Cornerstone the first pure cloud provider with an organically developed, end-to-end talent management solution
- Fully integrates with Cornerstone’s Learning Cloud, Performance Cloud and Extended Enterprise Cloud
- Leverages the company’s ecosystem to power enhanced recruiting capabilities and offers integration with leading social networks, as well as digital interviews with HireVue
- Allows for seamless comparison of internal and external candidates to effectively fill open positions, enable talent mobility and build talent pools
HRchitect featured Cornerstone OnDemand in our first 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 and again on December 8, 2011. HRchitect attended and sponsored Cornerstone’s user conference in 2009 and 2010.
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!
Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ:CSOD), a global leader in cloud-based talent management software solutions, today announced the release of the Cornerstone Recruiting Cloud, making the company the first pure cloud provider with an organically developed, end-to-end talent management solution that helps organizations manage the entire employee lifecycle, from hiring through retirement.
The Recruiting Cloud will allow organizations to:
- Manage job requisitions;
- Post jobs across both traditional job boards and social networks;
- Create internal career centers and external career sites;
- Manage and enhance employee referral programs;
- Identify existing employee connections with candidates;
- Quickly assess candidate skills and competencies;
- Collaborate with hiring managers and employees throughout the screening process;
- Search and compare internal and external candidates;
- Build ongoing talent pools; and
- Efficiently onboard new hires and accelerate time to productivity.
The Recruiting Cloud is fully integrated with Cornerstone’s existing learning and talent management software suite. It was built using Cornerstone’s pure-cloud, multi-tenant architecture, leveraging a common platform, workflow engine, and reporting and administration model. This provides clients with faster deployments, greater flexibility to adapt and change the application without cost or risk, and a seamless user experience across all Cornerstone applications.
“Most recruiting solutions in the market today were built for the way people recruited a decade ago, before the rise of social networks,” said Adam Miller, President and CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand. “Today, most organizations want to leverage the power of social recruiting, and our solution was built to be natively social.”
The Recruiting Cloud capitalizes upon Cornerstone’s global ecosystem of strategic alliances to extend the solution’s capabilities, including resume parsing, job posting and distribution, and background screening. In addition, the Recruiting Cloud leverages Facebook’s social graph and LinkedIn® recruiting services’ “Apply with LinkedIn” capabilities, as well as digital interviewing with HireVue.
“Social networks have resulted in instant access to hundreds of qualified candidates. Companies need a faster and more consistent way to screen more of these ‘interview-ready’ candidates and drive efficiency in the recruiting process,” said Mark Newman, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of HireVue. “We’re excited to work with Cornerstone to deliver a solution that helps companies find the best talent. Our digital interview platform with mobile and social capabilities is the perfect complement to the Cornerstone Recruiting Cloud.”
Whereas most existing recruiting solutions tend to be deployed to hiring managers and recruiters, Cornerstone’s cloud solution is typically deployed to all employees in the organization. As a result, Cornerstone’s Recruiting Cloud is able to leverage all employees in the recruiting process to source and collaborate in the evaluation of internal and external candidates that best fit an open position.
“Our clients had asked us to extend our solution to support their sourcing and selection efforts, and we responded with the development of our Recruiting Cloud over the last couple of years,” added Miller. “With the market disruption caused by the recent consolidation in the talent management space, we believe the timing of our Recruiting Cloud launch couldn’t be better.”
For more information on Cornerstone OnDemand, please visit www.cornerstoneondemand.com
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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 22, 2012
Gives Managers Access to Key Process Steps, Employee Information in Multiple Languages From Their iPhones
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 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!
Lumesse, a global leader in integrated talent management solutions, has released a new version of its Lumesse Mobile app for Apple iOS, with an enhanced user experience, multi-lingual capabilities and improved usability.
The Lumesse Mobile app allows businesses worldwide using Lumesse TalentLink 12 to give managers access to key process steps and employee information in multiple languages from their iPhones (the app is also iPad-compatible). Designed as a true native iOS app to ensure a responsive, high-quality user experience on mobile platforms, Lumesse Mobile is available immediately from the Apple App Store.
The improvements in Lumesse Mobile, mostly driven by user feedback on the initial version, are designed to increase global adoption of Lumesse Mobile among the hundreds of businesses worldwide using the SaaS technology of Lumesse TalentLink 12.
“This is a great example of our promise to be the only global company making talent management work locally,” said Lumesse CEO Matthew Parker. “Our global customers told us they wanted more supported languages to help their local managers, an even better user experience to drive adoption across their business teams and extra capabilities aligned to their business processes. We listened, and we’ve delivered a great new app that we expect to substantially drive take-up of Lumesse Mobile.”
Lumesse Mobile now supports the following languages: English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, French, Chinese, Italian and Spanish. The new user interface is designed to be clearer, brighter and more intuitive, while extra functionality has been added in areas such as the job requisition approval process and the candidate selection process.
The launch of Lumesse Mobile comes shortly after the recent launch of Lumesse TalentLink 12, the SaaS talent management system from Lumesse. Lumesse TalentLink 12, available immediately, offers the clearest roadmap to a new generation of socially-focused, fully unified talent management solutions designed to drive universal user adoption, high-employee engagement and productive full-lifecycle talent management across all types of business processes. Lumesse TalentLink 12 also represents the first phase of the expansion of this market-leading talent acquisition system to a fully-integrated, full lifecycle talent management solution with the addition of HR Core, Performance Management and Career & Succession Planning capabilities. The new talent management functionality continues the true SaaS DNA of Lumesse TalentLink with multi-tenancy, multi-client, effective dating, self-configuration and a highly configurable workflow and user interface at the heart of the system. The talent management capabilities will continue to expand as the 2012 roadmap is executed, and they will be joined by exciting new capabilities in social collaboration and integrated learning based on the award-winning technology acquired in 2011 with Edvantage Group.
For more information, please visit www.lumesse.com
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March 21, 2012
Saba Meeting Delivers a Rich and Scalable Collaborative Environment Designed for New Generation of Social and Mobile Workers
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!
Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier provider of people-centric enterprise solutions, today unveiled Saba Meeting, the industry’s first unified social, mobile and video unified collaboration platform. Saba Meeting (formerly Saba Centra) is the first unified collaboration platform that enables users to view video in high definition (HD) across webinars, virtual meetings or classrooms on mobile devices, including the iPad and iPhone. Additionally, when combined with the social capabilities and an embedded people profile within Saba’s new Social Enterprise Platform – Saba People Cloud – users can collaborate and share knowledge and documents in real-time with other employees, customers and partners. By empowering an organization’s most critical assets- its people- Saba helps organizations be more agile, collaborative, competitive and responsive to market demands.
“In today’s age of collaboration, people want more than to simply share a video screen. The future of Web conferencing needs to support both synchronous and asynchronous interactions and enable a rich environment that integrates with other people processes,” said Shawn Farshchi, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Saba. “Saba Meeting is game changing for the Web conferencing industry. No other platform has such robust integrated collaboration capabilities, HD video, and anytime access on mobile devices, while being highly extensible.”
In a recent Gartner report, “Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing,” analyst David Mario Smith noted, “The worlds of social media, collaboration and enterprise applications are starting to merge, bringing real-time capabilities to business processes and personal productivity applications. Web conferencing vendors that fail to adapt and cannot ensure integration with adjacent markets will find it a challenge to compete in the long term amid this convergence.” Saba is addressing this need by introducing the only truly unified collaboration platform that combines video, real-time collaboration and mobile to increase levels of engagement and support the new way of work.
“Increasingly we are being required to look for more effective ways to share knowledge across the organization, yet often times people are working from home or on the road,” said John Kozyra, network support specialist, Contact North. “The ability to access HD quality video remotely is a huge benefit for our organization and the real-time collaboration features creates a more engaging environment that optimizes knowledge sharing.”
Key Highlights of Saba Meeting
- Video in High Definition: The only real-time collaboration platform offering highly scalable integrated HD video, voice-over-IP (VOIP) and content sharing for instant real-time meetings, webinars and virtual classes. Saba Meeting allows for richer interaction and collaboration in vivid detail using just a webcam and internet connection, with support for eight simultaneous live video feeds.
- Scalable without Limiting Bandwidth: Saba Meeting’s satellite architecture enables Web conferencing traffic to be routed efficiently across a company’s WAN, quelling bandwidth concerns tied to increased use of the platform and adoption of HD video.
- Optimized for Mobile: Viewing on mobile devices, including the iPad and iPhone, through a native application, enables users to access training or learning materials on the go. The new intuitive interface enables high interactivity and engagement, allowing users to not only attend the session but present and collaborate unwired.
- Powerful Social Collaborative Workspaces: Combines Social networking capabilities, groups and activity streams with unified communication and real-time collaboration capabilities such as HD Video, IM Chat and VoIP – to any online meeting, webinar or virtual classes. Users can also effectively collaborate before, during and after virtual meetings.
- Sharable Real-time Content: Simplifies the process of capturing, sharing and accessing valuable knowledge. To increase the ROI of live sessions, video recordings can be easily stored and published in YouTube-like video channels in the Saba’s Social Enterprise Platform, the Saba people Cloud, for future access from any device.
- Comprehensive set of Open APIs (application programming interfaces): Equipped with the industry’s most extensive set of Web services for embedding real-time collaboration capabilities into business processes, such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Learning Management and Sales Force Automation software.
- Intuitive User Interface: Intuitive new browser-based interface, requires no software download, allows users to conduct meetings, webinars and classrooms across any platform including Mac, Linux, and Windows. Easy-to-use features including emoticons and in-session presence indicators allow for increased engagement and interactivity for meeting attendees.
Availability and Pricing
Saba Meeting is currently in beta and is expected to be generally available starting in April 2012. To join the beta program for Saba Meeting, visit www.sabameeting.com.
Current Saba Centra customers will be able to seamlessly migrate to the new software when it becomes available.
For more information on Saba, please visit www.saba.com
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March 21, 2012
Newest Release Addresses Top-of-Mind Executive Talent Issues with Industry-Leading Organizational, Workforce and Succession Planning Capabilities
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!
Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier provider of people-centric enterprise solutions, recently announced significant enhancements to its Talent Management Suite. The latest release addresses market demand for executive talent visibility that gives insights into organizational health, builds strong leadership pipelines, creates bench strength in critical positions, and enables business agility by being able to quickly find the right talent to seize new market opportunities. With the most advanced organization, workforce and succession planning capabilities available on the market today, the new capabilities in the Saba Talent Management Suite allows organizations to focus on gaining strategic visibility into their talent in order to adapt quickly to changing market conditions.
Along with enhanced capabilities for talent reviews, workforce planning and succession planning, Saba also announced the acquisition of HumanConcepts. The addition of HumanConcepts will not only greatly increase Saba’s presence in the Talent Management market with its over 500 customers, but also provide powerful new organizational planning capabilities that will be seamlessly integrated into the Saba Talent Management Suite. These include intuitive visual analytics to assess organizational health, organizational planning and modeling to create “what if” organizational scenarios and the ability to streamline company transitions.
“One of the biggest risks to the success of any organization is not having the right leadership and talent in place to maintain your competitive advantage,” said Bobby Yazdani, founder and CEO of Saba. “The pace of business is so fast, that it is extremely crucial for organizations to understand the overall health of their organization, such as who their future leaders will be and what their bench strength is. We are making it easy to address these strategic initiatives by streamlining organizational workforce and succession planning in one powerful platform.”
Executives from around the world have identified talent shortages as the second largest risk to their businesses, behind losing customers; therefore, further illustrating the need for the Saba Talent Management Suite. Companies including IBM, InterContinental Hotels Group, Cisco and Pioneer Natural Resources are just a few of the companies using the Saba Talent Management Suite to gain strategic talent visibility.
Key Highlights of Saba Talent Management Suite:
- Comprehensive Dynamic People Profile: Contains all key data on people, including background, experience, education, performance review scores, compensation data and key talent indicators that drive strategic talent insights.
- Intuitive Visual Analytics: Delivers access to accurate and comprehensive organizational structure and workforce information that helps monitor organizational health and expose any workforce related risks.
- Organizational Planning and Modeling: Models and compares different people planning options, evaluates the impact of each and improves decision making.
- State-of-the-Art Talent Reviews and Calibration: Supports annual talent reviews to identify top performers, high potentials, solid contributors and areas for development within the organization.
- Advanced Talent Pooling and Slating: Creates talent pools for executive succession plans, open positions or critical roles that support new organizational structures or business initiatives.
- Transition Management: Streamlines and automates best practices and processes for organizational change, such as redeployment, reduction in workforce or realignment.
- Unification with Industry-Leading Enterprise Learning Suite:Ensures that skill gaps and areas for development identified in workforce or succession planning process are effectively addressed.
Supporting Customer Quotes:
InterContinental Hotels Group vice president of global talent development, Renee Stevens says: ”Saba is an instrumental part of supporting IHG’s business and brand strategy. Saba Enterprise Talent Management Suite provides us with the ability to identify our next generation of leaders and develop them into effective executives who will help us build great hotels that guests love.”
Pioneer Natural Resources organizational development manager, Ron Vega says: ”We have been experiencing explosive growth at Pioneer Natural Resources and we needed a strategic talent management platform that would help us minimize the gap between retiring workers and younger generations of leaders to ensure we could sustain our growth. Saba provides that strategic talent management platform.”
For more information on Saba, please visit www.saba.com
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March 20, 2012
Companies Combine to Deliver Customers a World-Class Solution for Unified Talent Management and Transition Management
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 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!
Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier provider of people-centric enterprise solutions, today announced the acquisition of HumanConcepts, a leading organizational modeling and visualization provider. The transaction closed March 19, 2012.
The acquisition signifies Saba’s continued focus on the human capital management (HCM) market and complements its unified talent management offering. Saba plans to integrate HumanConcepts’ unique Cloud technologies into its unified talent management suite to extend the value of Saba’s existing core products.
“Saba and HumanConcepts share a vision for unifying people processes to transform the way we work,” said Bobby Yazdani, founder and CEO, Saba. “The next generation of talent management is about people, not information, and delivering a fundamentally better way to plan, engage, develop and inspire people for competitive advantage.”
“Adoption of HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite continues to accelerate and gain traction in large enterprises,” said Luis Riviera, president, HumanConcepts. “Joining forces with Saba offers an exciting opportunity to revolutionize the HCM market by delivering a powerful interface to visualize, plan and model people and People Networks in a changing world of work.”
“The combination of Saba and HumanConcepts is a positive step forward for customers who want to improve their workforce planning effectiveness to support business performance,” said Mollie Lombardi, research director, human capital management, Aberdeen. “According to our research, visibility into talent, integration of people data, external validation of talent pools and workforce scenario planning are critical to ensuring that organizations have the talent plans to back up their business plans. “
Saba and HumanConcepts Value:
- Business Agility: The joint Saba/HumanConcepts Solution will enable companies to gain the strategic insights they need to adapt quickly to changing marketing conditions.
- One of the largest and best customer communities for strategic organizational and talent management: Besides its proven organizational planning expertise, HumanConcepts will add over 500 valued customers to Saba’s 1600-strong customer base.
- Strategic solutions delivered in the Cloud: Both Saba and HumanConcepts are pioneers in developing scalable platforms that can lower IT costs, support rapid innovation, and continually increase value to enterprises of all sizes.
- Single end-to-end solution for Strategic Organizational Planning, Talent Management, Learning and Collaboration: The Saba/HumanConcepts Solution will provide the ability to assess organizational health based on comprehensive metrics, collaboratively model, evaluate and plan for change with intuitive visual analytics, and execute on approved plans with talent pooling, succession planning and learning capabilities.
- Ability to manage global complexity for our customers: Both companies solve the challenge of deploying sensitive organizational information and communications on a global scale with process and security frameworks that meet the unique needs of sophisticated and geographically distributed enterprises.
With this acquisition, Saba will embed HumanConcepts’ next-generation features into its existing talent management products and also add elements to its new Social Enterprise Platform – Saba People Cloud – announced today (see “Saba Announces Revolutionary New Social Enterprise Platform”). Customers will be able to leverage a powerful interface to visualize, plan and model people and People Networks in a changing world of work.
For more information on Saba, please visit www.saba.com
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March 8, 2012
Acquisition Accelerates Cornerstone’s Strategy to Penetrate the Small Business Market
- Company capitalizes on disruption in talent management market caused by recent consolidation
- Products to remain separate, preserving Cornerstone’s 100 percent organically developed solutions for enterprise and mid-market clients
- Sonar’s cloud-based talent management solution to be rebranded as a Cornerstone solution specifically for small businesses
HRchitect featured Cornerstone OnDemand in our first 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 and again on December 8, 2011. HRchitect attended and sponsored Cornerstone’s user conference in 2009 and 2010.
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!
Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ:CSOD), a global leader in cloud-based talent management solutions, today announced that the company has entered into an agreement to acquire privately held Sonar Limited (“Sonar6”). Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Sonar6 is a leading provider of cloud-based talent management solutions serving small businesses globally. The acquisition will combine two of the talent management industry’s most innovative providers and allows Cornerstone to strengthen its ability to serve clients of all sizes. Additionally, Cornerstone expects that the acquisition will accelerate the company’s momentum in the small business (SMB) market.
Following the acquisition, Sonar6 will be rebranded as a Cornerstone solution specifically for small businesses. The companies will not integrate their products, and Sonar6 solutions will remain separate to preserve Cornerstone’s 100 percent organically developed solution for enterprise and mid-market clients.
Sonar6 will bring more than 375 global clients to Cornerstone. Cornerstone will continue to operate Sonar6 in Auckland, and Sonar6 employees are expected to remain in their current roles after the transaction closes. Sonar6 CEO and co-founder Michael Carden will be appointed as Cornerstone’s newly-created position of Vice President of Small Business Operations. In addition, co-founder Mark Hellier will continue his role driving innovation as Head of Products for Small Business Operations.
“The recent consolidation in the talent management space has disrupted the market and created many opportunities for Cornerstone,” said Adam Miller, President and CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand. “ERP vendors are now engrossed with integrating disparate enterprise systems, and we saw a clear opening to accelerate our growth strategy and penetrate the SMB market. Sonar6 has built a reputation as the leading talent management solution for small businesses. Together, we plan to expand Cornerstone’s global market opportunity.”
Sonar6 is renowned in the talent management industry for its distinct ability to engage employees with its highly interactive technology. Like Cornerstone, Sonar6 offers a completely organic, cloud-based solution. Sonar6′s innovative, graphical approach to talent management has won numerous accolades, including Gartner’s “Cool Vendors” and HR Executive magazine’s list of “Top Ten HR Products.”
“Cornerstone OnDemand and Sonar6 share a vision for empowering employees and creating an engaged workforce,” said Michael Carden. “We are extremely excited about joining the Cornerstone team.”
Under the terms of the share purchase agreement and subject to certain purchase price adjustments described therein, Cornerstone will pay approximately $13 million in cash and $1 million in equity for Sonar6 and enter into employment agreements with certain employees. Cornerstone does not expect that this transaction will have a material impact on its non-GAAP financial metrics in 2012. Cornerstone management plans to discuss additional details regarding this transaction on the company’s first quarter 2012 earnings conference call.
Cornerstone expects to complete the transaction within 45 days, subject to certain closing conditions.
For more information on Cornerstone OnDemand, please visit www.cornerstoneondemand.com
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