Halogen Closes 2011 Fiscal Year with Significant Market Momentum…from Halogen Software

February 18, 2012

 

Growth in annual recurring revenue, international expansion and winning partnerships mark the best fourth quarter on record for talent management leader

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!

 

Halogen Software, a leading provider of talent management software closed its fourth quarter and 2011 fiscal year with significant market momentum and strong year-over-year growth. Marked by a 37% year over year increase in annual recurring revenue (ARR), including 86% growth in ARR from international deals, and strong customer retention and satisfaction, Q4 of 2011 is the company’s best fourth quarter on record.

Just a few of the new customers that joined Halogen in the fourth quarter include: The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Fisher Communications, The University of Ottawa, RigNet, Genesis Health System, Agriculture Federal Credit Union, Bruker Nano Services Division and Greater Madison Convention and Visitors Bureau, United Coffee, Artificial Solutions Iberia, Interra International, EC English Holdings and Addex Petroleum Services.

David Barbee, Director of HR for RigNet, explains why his company selected the Halogen eAppraisal™ and the Halogen eRecruitment™ modules for his organization’s talent management needs. “I’ve had previous experience using Halogen and brought it to RigNet because the end-user interface is intuitive and the overall functionality is better than any other product I’ve seen on the market,” said Barbee. “We like everything about Halogen – the organized process, the centralized access to employee and candidate data, the reminder system and the ability to easily track and manage appraisals, recruiting activities and more.”

Halogen’s recognition as an industry leader in talent management systems customer satisfaction is also a factor in the talent management leader’s business momentum. Customers see Halogen as a long term partner with both the best solutions and a brilliant customer experience that can help them build a world class workforce.

The human resources leader at Spain’s Artificial Solutions explains why they selected Halogen. “When we started researching a talent management solution, we were looking for a tool that would streamline the process, while being cost effective and simple to use,” said Óliver García Alemán, Head of HR and Organization, Artificial Solutions. “We have a number of offices across Europe, so being able to identify our people’s talents as well as making our appraisal, training and recruiting processes more structured and efficient benefits everyone. With Halogen our talent data is centralized in one system. This makes it easier to ensure consistency and accountability across groups, and to clearly link individual goals to our corporate objectives.”

Halogen’s success in the fourth quarter of 2011 capped off a year that featured product leadership and operational excellence:

  • The company released Version 11 of its Talent Management Suite and launched Halogen eRecruitment™, the first applicant tracking system (ATS) to fully integrate the recruiting process with all other talent management programs; making Halogen the first and only talent management vendor to provide a complete end-to-end solution organically built to drive performance.
  • Halogen’s suite allows HR and their organizations to experience talent management from a new perspective that aligns their workforce with their business strategy – something Halogen calls Big Picture Talent Management™. The suite is designed to ensure each talent management touch point – from recruitment to retirement – reinforces the organization’s culture and values and drives top level goals and objectives.
  • In response to the global demand for its talent management solution, the company announced the opening of a UK office that will allow it to more easily market and sell its solutions internationally.
  • The company was positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software”, which examined 20 vendors offering employee performance management software and positioned them in quadrants based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute.
  • Former Blackbaud Inc. CFO Timothy V. Williams joined Halogen’s Board of Directors.
  • Halogen announced strategic  partnerships with:  video learning provider ej4 via its seamless integration with Halogen eLearning Manager™; industry-leading sourcing technology vendor SmartPost, via its integration with Halogen eRecruitment; PDS, a leading developer of human resource, benefits, recruiting and payroll systems; and Logica Finland, a recognized leader in delivering Human Capital Services in the Finnish region.
  • Hundreds of Halogen customers from around the world participated in Halogen’s Sixth Annual User Conference in Atlanta, Georgia – the company’s largest user conference to-date.

 

For more information on Halogen Software, please visit www.halogensoftware.com

To learn more about HRchitect’s expertise in HR technology strategy, selection and implementation services, and how HRchitect can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com

 

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

December 14, 2011

 

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About the Saba People Cloud

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

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

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

To learn more about HRchitect’s expertise in HR technology strategy, selection and implementation services, and how HRchitect can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com

 
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Most Users in the Cloud, SuccessFactors Completes Acquisition of Plateau…from SuccessFactors

June 30, 2011

 

Combining two clear market leaders to create the broadest SaaS HCM suite, with the largest R&D budget and go-to-market force in our market

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

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

SuccessFactors, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFSF), the global leader in business execution software, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Plateau Systems, the leading learning management system (LMS) and Content-as-a-Service (CaaS) provider. Watch this video to learn more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFS_vFedfjA

“We have seen tremendous, four times bigger than expected, immediate deal interest from existing and new customers since we announced the acquisition, reinforcing our belief that this combination is an important tipping point for the industry, and will drive great growth for SuccessFactors. Since the announcement, large Plateau customers have invited us to meet with them from the West Coast of the US to Northern Europe because they were impressed with our combined scale, exclusive cloud-offering, and passionate, experienced team,” said Lars Dalgaard, founder and CEO, SuccessFactors.

“Now that Plateau and SuccessFactors are officially one, and what we believe to be the strongest cloud-HCM company, with what we believe is the largest R&D investment, the biggest cloud-operations, infrastructure, support, service and go-to-market force, our whole combined organization is ecstatic to accelerate delivery of products to our customers. Plateau’s people are such pros, we are grateful to be together, leading this combined once-in-a-lifetime platform, into one of the biggest remaining application markets, to accelerate the thrust to love work again, and to execute better on business strategies, through people,” Dalgaard continued.

Through its acquisitions and speed of innovation over the past 12 months, SuccessFactors has continued to build on its core Business Execution (BizX) solutions to revolutionize the market. Combining Plateau with SuccessFactors makes the company the only SaaS provider to offer a robust suite of recruiting, on-boarding, performance management, compensation, variable pay, 360 review, content-as-a-service, core HR as the employee system of record and foundation, workforce analytics and reporting, collaboration, and now with Jambok, and Plateau, formal, informal and social learning. This is a merger of two companies that are experts in serving large enterprise customers. From initial estimates, SuccessFactors and Plateau have combined subscription seats of approximately 15 million in the cloud, the most in our industry.

SuccessFactors Sets a New Standard in Learning

SuccessFactors Learning (formerly Plateau’s LMS) is a core part of SuccessFactors’ Business Execution (BizX) Suite, and it provides comprehensive learning solutions that uniquely combine formal and informal practices. SuccessFactors now delivers an unmatched set of formal, informal, social, collaboration, mobile, content management and analytics capabilities in the cloud to help business leaders advance the workforce by improving employee skills, ensuring compliance and aligning organizational objectives.

SuccessFactors Learning combines best-in-class LMS with: 

  • Social Learning and Collaboration – SuccessFactors Social Learning brings a Facebook- and YouTube-like experience to corporate learning, making it easy for anyone in the organization to share their expertise, connect with communities, and quickly find the information they need to get things done.
  • Content-as-a-Service – SuccessFactors iContent uniquely provides content distribution and management in the cloud as a service, taking the headache and hassle out of managing digital learning assets, from online courseware to on-demand presentations and video, and provide learners with reliable, high-quality on-demand access to both off-the-shelf and custom content.
  • Authoritative Insight – Comprehensive reporting and analytics gives HR and learning leaders authoritative insight about the state of their talent and talent development initiatives.

“I truly believe that we’re witnessing one of the most important changes in the HCM industry right now as Plateau is joining SuccessFactors,” said Paul Sparta, founder and CEO of Plateau Systems. “Never before have customers had the opportunity to completely integrate learning with talent management, recruiting and core HR, all in the cloud. I’m excited to be a part of this movement.”

SuccessFactors is a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management, while Plateau is a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems. Plateau is also the clear Learning Leader in the recent Forrester Wave for Integrated Talent Management.

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

 
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Saba Announces General Availability of Saba Social Learning…from Saba

June 25, 2011

 

Successful Beta Program Drives Active Engagement and Feedback From More Than 50 Organizations

HRchitect featured Saba in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. A.G. Lambert, the VP of Marketing with Saba appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on August 14, 2009. Matt Lafata with HRchitect attended the 2010 Saba Global Summit and Analyst Day in Boston, MA. Matt Lafata & Tiffany Appleby attended the Saba Global Sales Rally FY12 in June 2011 in Redwood City, CA.

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

Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier People Cloud provider, today announced the general availability of Saba Social Learning. Saba Social Learning helps employees, partners and customers better connect, collaborate and learn in a versatile and social environment, often referred to as ‘informal learning.’ In addition to the general availability of Saba Social Learning, the company is also providing a free 30-day trial, starting June 27th, to enable organizations to transform knowledge sharing in the workplace.

“Many organizations are struggling with how to address multiple learning styles and optimize informal learning that is the preferred by the “Millennial Generation,” such as video, podcasts, real-time feeds and other social networking tools. Saba Social Learning addresses this challenge, and customers are already telling us it will enable them to accelerate development and transform the way their people learn and grow,” said Laurent Pacalin, SVP and GM of People Cloud Applications. “In order to give other companies interested in adopting this approach a risk-free opportunity to apply the power of the platform and reap the benefits, we decided to make the product available for a free 30-day trial.”

Key Highlights:

By combining the best of today’s social networking features, coupled with world-class learning management capabilities, Saba Social Learning provides more collaborative, immediate and context-relevant learning methods. The seamless integration of formal and informal learning creates an environment that encourages and accelerates the real-time exchange of organizational knowledge among employees, partners, and customers to improve business results.

Following are some key features/benefits of Saba Social Learning solution:

User profile – Similar to popular consumer social networks, it enables users to highlight interests and expertise, share and tag content such as blogs and video, and connect with employees and community groups.

Search – Finds the most relevant and popular content, topic expert or training.

User feedback – With ‘Amazon-like’ ratings, reviews, comments, enables real-time feedback and recommendations for content, training or advice

Video and audio – gives people easy access to best practices, coaching and mentoring via short videos and podcasts. Additionally, subject-matter experts can contribute and share video, which reduces content-development costs and enables new learning experiences.

Mobile – Provides the industry’s only social learning solution “on-the-go”, via iPad or iPhone, giving employees more flexibility to gain real-time insight and save precious billable hours.

Web training – Enables instructors to host instructional webinars at scale, either live or on-demand, for a more flexible and efficient learning environment.

The powerful combination of innovative social learning and mobile delivery, with more traditional learning, enables a transformative workplace that accelerates employee development and engagement, increases performance and reduces content development cost, all while creating a more interactive environment. Saba Social Learning enables organizations to more quickly and efficiently develop their direct sales force, resellers and partner channels thereby accelerating sales readiness and increasing revenue productivity.

Supporting Quotes:

Approximately 85 percent of Saba beta customers noted they would recommend Saba’s easy-to-use Social Learning software.

“Traditional HR and learning processes don’t always capture the community aspect that creates an environment where we learn best—in an informal setting. Saba Social Learning is enabling us to build a stronger culture and gain unprecedented visibility into our workforce expertise and organization’s collective know-how.”
- Wayne Williams, Manager of Learning Systems at SMART Technologies

“With Saba Social Learning we have the ability to transform how our organization grows and shares knowledge. Tools like star ratings, tagging resources and recommendations are useful, intuitive and have become a part of everyday life. The platform’s networking capabilities allow for a more personal and engaging experience for each individual that will likely trigger higher levels of adoption.”
- Brandon Williams, New Business Development at The Educe Group

Recent Company Accolades

Saba Social Learning won Enterprise 2.0‘s prestigious Launch Pad competition, which recognizes the most innovative software that targets the enterprise 2.0 market.

The America Business Awards (STEVIES) recently named Saba Social People’s Choice for Favorite New Software as a Service.

Ranked as a visionary in Gartner’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software.

Received recognition by Forrester as a leader in Talent Management Software in the recent Forrester Wave, Talent Management, Q2, 2011 report.

Saba’s Social Learning is now generally available for purchase. A free 30-day trial will be available starting on June 27th, 2011 at www.saba.com/social-learning

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

 
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Cornerstone OnDemand Ranked as a Talent Management Software Leader in New Industry Analyst Report…from Cornerstone OnDemand

May 27, 2011

 

According to report, Cornerstone edges out the competition to become the strongest performance management software vendor; also receives high customer ratings

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!

Learning and talent management software provider Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD) today announced that the company has been ranked as a “Leader” in the May 2011 report, “The Forrester Wave™: Talent Management, Q2 2011” by Forrester Research Inc.   

“As a true multitenant, SaaS-only offering, Cornerstone edged out the competition to become the strongest performance vendor,” stated the report.  “Customers give Cornerstone high ratings for delivering a product that meets their needs.  Cornerstone is the only company we evaluated that has nearly equal numbers of customers deploying learning and performance.” 

Forrester’s vendor assessments covered three categories, including learning, performance, and combined learning and performance.  Assessments included evaluation of each vendor’s current offering, strategy and market presence. 

In recent months, Cornerstone has been recognized as a leader in three other vendor and market studies, including IDC’s 2011 Integrated Talent Management MarketScape report1, the 2011 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems report2 and the 2011 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software report.3  Strengths called out in the reports include customer experience, product capabilities and innovation, and the scalability of Cornerstone’s SaaS architecture. 

“Cornerstone is the only pure play, organically developed SaaS solution to be recognized in these recent analyst reports as a leader in both the learning and performance management categories,” said Adam Miller, president and CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand.  “Other vendors may be rushing to fill out their talent management functionality or make the switch to SaaS, but we’ve been there with an integrated SaaS solution from the beginning.”

For more information about Cornerstone OnDemand, visit www.cornerstoneondemand.com.
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StepStone Solutions Continues Strong Growth in First Quarter of 2011…from StepStone

April 29, 2011

 

Talent Management Firm Registers Almost 40% Increase in Revenue Over Q1 2010; Signs 79 New Customers

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

StepStone Solutions, a global leader in talent management, today announced continuing strong revenue growth and particularly high levels of new customer acquisition during the first three months of 2011.

StepStone Solutions signed 79 new customers in the period January 2011 through March 2011 and also contracted with 134 existing customers for increased commitments to the company’s products. StepStone Solutions now serves almost 1,700 businesses in about 70 countries, with well over a million active users of its Software-as-as-Service (SaaS) products.

The company signed new customers in the first quarter in Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US.

Matthew Parker, CEO, StepStone Solutions, said: “Our growth and global success in so many regions is a great start to the year. Including acquisitions, our business grew almost 40% over the equivalent period in 2010 as a result of both substantial enterprise wins worldwide, increasing use of our solutions by many existing customers and a continuing low level of customer churn.”

Among the highlights of the first three months of the year were the release of the latest version of StepStone Solutions’ MrTedTalentLink talent acquisition product, with major enhancements to the user experience and the web services API; the winning of a prestigious award — Best Talent Management Software Provider in Greater China 2010-2011; being again named as ‘Leader’ in Gartner’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management; and major successes with global customers such as Banque de France, RKW-Group, Knauf, and Peugeot Citroën.

For more information please visit www.stepstonesolutions.com
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Taleo Named an Industry Leader for Performance Management Software…from Taleo

April 2, 2011

 

HRchitect featured Taleo 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. Kevin Marasco, VP Brand Marketing with Taleo appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on November 6, 2009. HRchitect attended the 2010 TaleoWorld conference and HRchitect’s Matt Lafata, one of the industry’s leading talent management systems analysts, attended Taleo’s annual Sales and Services meeting in 2010 & 2011.

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

Taleo Corporation (NASDAQ: TLEO), the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions, recently announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the 2011 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software.

Gartner defines EPM (Employee Performance Management) as software that includes performance appraisal management, goals and objective management, succession management and compensation management solutions. The EPM Magic Quadrant analyzes vendors offering these solutions in terms of their completeness of vision and proven ability to deliver on that vision.

Taleo purposefully designed its solutions with the goal of transforming talent management from an HR process to a business process.

By focusing on making its solutions “everyday easy” for business users, Taleo is changing the traditional performance management process by creating continuous dialogue between managers and employees to help companies connect their strategy to the way they manage talent. This unique approach is driving phenomenal market adoption. Taleo’s EPM solutions are now used by more than 1.4 million people at 330+ companies of all sizes worldwide. Further, Taleo is increasingly selected as the solution of choice for some of the world’s largest financial, consulting, retail and communications organizations with anywhere from 25,000 to 280,000+ employees.

“We’re honored to be selected as a leader in EPM by Gartner. Taleo has the industry’s broadest, best in class Talent Management suite, spanning recruiting, performance, succession planning, learning and compensation management,” said Michael Gregoire, Taleo’s Chairman and CEO. “With growing organizational focus on talent as the most important corporate asset, companies of all sizes value our performance management solution as part of our broader offering for delivering Talent Intelligence on their people. This insight, in turn, drives better decisions and better business results.”

The Magic Quadrant takes market understanding, marketing strategy, sales strategy, offering (product) strategy, business model, vertical/industry strategy, innovation and geographic strategy into account when evaluating completeness of vision. Ability to execute is evaluated based on product/service, overall viability, sales execution/pricing, market responsiveness and track record, marketing execution, customer experience and operations.

For more information on Taleo, please visit www.taleo.com
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Cornerstone OnDemand Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of 2011 Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems…from Cornerstone OnDemand

April 2, 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.

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. 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 leading provider of a comprehensive learning and talent management software solution, today announced it has been placed by Gartner Inc. in the “Leaders Quadrant” of the 2011 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems report.  The Magic Quadrant positions vendors according to their “Ability to Execute” and “Completeness of Vision.” 

“We credit our recognition as a Leader by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems to the quality and innovation of our organically developed software solution, as well as our relentless focus on supporting the success of our clients,” said Charles Coy, Director of Product Marketing for Cornerstone OnDemand.  “Recent activity among other learning vendors to build out or acquire additional talent management functionality validates our long-held product strategy.  Learning has always lived at the core of Cornerstone’s integrated talent management suite, ensuring that performance, succession and career management don’t end with assessment or measurement.  Continuous learning tools can close identified competency and readiness gaps to ensure that organizations have the right people, in the right jobs, with the right skills.”

Cornerstone’s learning and development platform, Cornerstone Learning, helps businesses optimize their investments in people by delivering highly targeted training of any kind – ensuring that blended learning initiatives actively address identified competency and skill gaps and drive organizational performance.  The platform provides a single point of online access to e-Learning delivery, instructor-led training (ILT) administration, virtual classroom sessions, content management and compliance management. 

The company’s Cornerstone Connect platform for enterprise social collaboration allows organizations to evolve their current LMS strategies to include social and continuous learning, all integrated with more traditional LMS capability. 

Cornerstone’s comprehensive software solution also includes Cornerstone Extended Enterprise, a platform for training, certifying and enabling extended networks of partners, suppliers, resellers, distributors and customers. 

“Organizations of all sizes and across various industries use our continuous learning platform to empower their people with tools for developing new skills, being productive leaders, collaborating effectively with colleagues and contributing directly to the success of the business,” said Coy.  “We also continue to see more organizations using our software to reach beyond the traditional four walls of the organization and build smart customer and partner networks.  This can facilitate both top-line revenue and bottom-line results, as well as become a new source of enduring competitive advantage.”

For more information about Cornerstone OnDemand, visit www.cornerstoneondemand.com.
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Top Analyst Firm Positions SuccessFactors in “Leaders” Quadrant in 2009 Report on Employee Performance Management Software…from SuccessFactors

February 17, 2009

 

SuccessFactors’ Position is Based on Its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

 

HRchitect featured SuccessFactors in our May 2008 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.

 

SuccessFactors, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFSF), the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions, today announced that it has been positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant by Gartner, Inc. for the Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software.

 

The “Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software,” by Jim Holincheck and Thomas Otter, and published February 3, 2009, estimates, “that the market for EPM software was more than $450 million for the 12 months ending on 30 September 2008.” Gartner defines leaders in this Magic Quadrant as companies that had “strong product functionality and superior customer experience with the vendor and its products… and strong or emerging multinational solutions (with corresponding service and support).”

 

With SuccessFactors’ announcement that the company exceeds 4.5 million global users, with more than 1.5 million users added in 2008, SuccessFactors is now one of the largest SaaS companies and is the leading provider of on-demand performance and talent management solutions.

 

“Now more than ever, organizations of all sizes are looking for unbiased, thoughtful analysis of where to invest their dollars, so SuccessFactors is honored to be recognized as a leader by Gartner in its Magic Quadrant for our market. I would personally like to thank the hard-working team I’m fortunate to lead at SuccessFactors,” said Lars Dalgaard, founder and president of SuccessFactors. “I believe this recognition validates the constant innovation and customer-first attitude that the world has come to expect from SuccessFactors.”

 

The SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Suite, which includes Performance Management, Goal Management, 360 Degree Reviews, Succession Management, Compensation Management, Learning and Development, Recruiting Management, Employee Profile, and Analytics and Reporting applications, creates a company-wide network of information related to employee performance, including skill-sets, interests, career aspirations, ability to relocate, experience, languages spoken and more. By providing deep, real-time, company-wide visibility into such critical performance data, companies are able to make better, more informed decisions about how to promote, recruit, compensate, reward and manage their entire employee base.

 

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

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Taleo Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software…from Taleo

February 13, 2009

 

Taleo Attributes ‘Very Advanced’ Web 2.0-based User Experience for Rapid Market Adoption of Solution

 

HRchitect featured Taleo in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems and Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. HRchitect is also the leading implementation partner for Taleo and Taleo Business Edition having performed more than 80 Taleo implementations.

 

Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO), the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions, today announced that it was positioned in the Visionaries quadrant  in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software.  Less than a year after its entry into the Performance Management segment, Taleo believes its exceptional user experience and proven ability to execute contributed to its positioning in this report. Taleo is also positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for E-Recruitment Software report, published in June.

According to the Gartner Magic Quadrant on performance management, “employee performance management (EPM) software includes performance succession and compensation management capabilities.” 

Taleo’s position in the report was based on the company’s completeness of vision and ability to execute. When assessing completeness of vision, Gartner analysts evaluate marketing understanding, marketing strategy, sales strategy, offering (product) strategy, business model, vertical/industry strategy, innovation and geographic strategy. Ability to execute is evaluated on product/service, overall viability, sales execution/pricing, market responsiveness and track record, marketing execution, customer experience and operations.

“Having crystal clear insight into your business’ key performers has never been more crucial ,” says Michael Gregoire, Chairman and CEO of Taleo.  “Strategic performance management balances goals of increasing productivity, while reducing costs, a challenge all global businesses are attempting to master today. We are pleased to see influential analysts focus on this fast-emerging market of solutions that is driving positive change in global businesses.” 

 

For more information about Taleo, please visit www.taleo.com

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Softscape Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant of Leading Industry Analyst Report…from Softscape

February 13, 2009

 

Softscape’s Single, Most Complete People Management Platform Solves Business Issues for Cost Containment, Restructuring, Mergers, and Compliance

 

HRchitect featured Softscape in our May 2008 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.

 

Softscape, the global leader in complete people management software, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of the ‘Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software’ report. Gartner’s comprehensive report evaluates employee performance management software vendors, assessing the vendor’s ability to execute and the completeness of their vision.

 

According to the Gartner report, “Visionaries have been advanced in promoting the latest trends (for example, user experience) driving EPM solutions.” Softscape believes that its positioning in the visionaries quadrant further validates the company’s strong history as an innovative leader in the human capital management (HCM) market.

 

Having pioneered talent management over a decade ago, Softscape has consistently introduced forward thinking technology to offer customers the most complete people management solution in a single platform. Softscape provides the HR foundation which includes a core talent-based employee system of record, as well as the key capabilities to manage performance, development, compensation, succession planning, learning, 360 feedback, incentive compensation, hiring and recruiting, survey management, social networking, and workforce analytics. As a leader in the industry, Softscape offers superior customer care and support, and maintains the industry’s highest customer satisfaction and retention rate of ninety eight percent (98% ).

 

“In our opinion, being in the visionaries quadrant is more than just providing advanced and superior products to customers. It is fundamentally about providing customers with demonstrable, bottom-line results,” said Dave Watkins, CEO and co-founder of Softscape. “With our fourteen-year proven history and deep understanding of customer needs, Softscape has helped some of the most successful global organizations solve real business issues to drive performance, productivity, and workforce efficiencies. Consistently recognized as a leader by industry luminaries, analysts, and our customers, we continue to forge new innovations in our products, as well as in how we care for our customers.”

 

For more information about Softscape’s solutions, please visit http://www.softscape.com.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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StepStone Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Leading Analyst Firm’s 2009 ‘Employee Performance Management Software Magic Quadrant’…from StepStone

February 13, 2009

 

Analyst Evaluation Based on StepStone’s Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

 

HRchitect featured StepStone in our May 2008 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.

 

StepStone (OSE:STP) (LSE:STPS), a leading global provider of human capital management solutions, headquartered in Europe, today announced it is positioned in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant in Gartner, Inc’s 2009 “Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software”.

 

According to the report: “Leaders had strong product functionality and superior customer experience with the vendor and its products. In addition, leading vendors had strong or emerging multinational solutions (with corresponding service and support).”

 

StepStone believes that its profitable financial position, strong global footprint presence, best-in-class capabilities and above average high quality customer support rating solidified StepStone’s leading position.

 

StepStone also was named a “Leader” in Gartner’s most recent Magic Quadrant for E-Recruitment Software 2008, based on the company’s completeness of vision and ability to execute.

 

StepStone’s ETWeb talent management platform provides a full range of strategic human capital management capabilities within a software as a service (SaaS) environment, including performance management, succession planning, compensation management and 360 degree feedback. The solution enables organizations to retain and develop staff, improve the ratio of internal promotions to internal hires, and drive succession planning by finding succession options for senior level positions. At the same time, ETWeb places employees in the driving seat of their own careers. Harnessing ETWeb’s self-service features, staff can be able to feed back to their line managers and HR officers on their skills and career objectives, whilst gaining accurate, up-to-date information on the progress they make against their development objectives.

 

“We’re pleased to be positioned in the leaders quadrant for employee performance management software,” said Colin Tenwick, Chief Executive Officer of StepStone. “During 2008, we cemented our position as the strategic supplier of Human Capital Management solutions to our customers. With a solutions customer base of over 1,600, a strong balance sheet and a continued emphasis on global delivery, we are confident that we are well-placed for continued momentum during 2009.”

 

For more information on StepStone, please visit www.stepstone.com

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Plateau Systems Debuts in Visionaries Quadrant in Employee Performance Management Software Magic Quadrant…from Plateau Systems

February 7, 2009

 

Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

 

HRchitect featured Plateau Systems in our May 2008 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. Plateau Systems also participated in the HRchitect Beauty Pageant on Talent Management Systems in November 2008 and Learning Management Systems in December 2008.

 

Plateau Systems, a leading provider of talent management software, services and solutions, announced today it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the visionaries quadrant in its “Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software” (EPM). According to Gartner, “visionaries have been advanced in promoting the latest trends (for example, user experience) driving EPM solutions.”

 

The report notes that “customers typically want to buy new EPM solutions to ‘automate their EPM processes, improve the linkage between pay and performance, help support the development of the next generation of leaders in the organization, and/or improve employee/associate retention (and engagement).’ As customers solve the challenges of automating EPM processes, improving the ability to link pay to performance and other issues, Gartner expects “the focus to shift to leveraging talent data to make better decisions about worker-related programs and investments.”

 

“As organizations of all sizes across virtually every industry continue to weather the current economic storm, business leaders are looking for every opportunity to minimize costs by maximizing resources,” said Paul Sparta, Chairman and CEO of Plateau Systems. “Right now, with people being an organization’s most valuable — and expensive — resource, employee skills and talents must be developed and utilized in way that directly supports the most critical and immediate goals of the business. Plateau is enabling organizations to do this by providing an integrated solution that allows users to link employee performance with development activities, synchronize goals across business units, and directly measure performance against those goals. We consider our positioning in Gartner’s recent Employee Performance Management Software Magic Quadrant to be further validation of Plateau’s ability to deliver the performance management capabilities organizations need to optimize their talent today.”

 

Plateau has expanded into performance management, succession management and compensation management (through the acquisition of Nuvosoft in February 2007). In June 2008, Gartner positioned Plateau in the Leaders Quadrant in its “Magic Quadrant for Corporate Learning Systems.” By integrating Plateau Performance with Plateau’s award-winning Learning Management System (LMS), customers can tie learning and development activities to individual employee performance and development plans and employees can take immediate action to achieve their performance targets by launching relevant training when and where they need it. Using the latest release of Plateau Talent Management 5.8 SP5, customers can leverage powerful and flexible talent planning capabilities, including enhanced real-time visibility into talent management operations and additional learning evaluation capabilities to make more informed decisions about their talent and better gauge the value of learning for both the individual and the company.

 

Today, more than 10 million employees and managers from some of the world’s most respected organizations rely on Plateau’s talent management solutions to engage, develop, manage, and retain high performing employees and workforces.

 

For more information about Plateau, visit www.plateau.com.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Saba Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant in Employee Performance Management Software Magic Quadrant…from Saba

February 6, 2009

 

Saba’s People Management Platform Unifies Formal and Informal Learning, Performance and Talent Management Processes to Improve Business Performance

 

HRchitect featured Saba in our May 2008 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 (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, recently announced that it has been positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management (EPM) Software. The Magic Quadrant positions vendors according to their ability to execute and their completeness of vision.

 

According to the Gartner report, “Visionaries have been advanced in promoting the latest trends (for example, user experience) driving EPM solutions.” The report also notes that, “During client inquiries, we found that customers typically want to buy new EPM solutions to automate their EPM processes, improve the linkage between pay and performance, help support the development of the next generation of leaders in the organization, and/or improve employee/associate retention (and engagement).”

 

“We consider our placement in the Visionaries Quadrant by Gartner confirmation of the value of providing our customers robust, innovative performance and succession planning solutions that help improve organizational performance and deliver immediate ROI,” said A.G. Lambert, vice president of marketing for Saba. “We believe Saba’s vision and ability to execute is reflected through our continued growth in the employee performance management market as well as our solutions that are being used by more than a million users at some of the largest organizations in the world.”

 

Saba’s people management solutions help organizations unify formal and informal people management processes to foster innovation, increase productivity, reduce cost, and improve competitiveness. Companies of all sizes choose Saba’s people management platform—Saba Enterprise—on premise or OnDemand to enable their workforce and create a high-performance culture. Through its most recent release, Saba Enterprise 5.4 SP3, Saba continues to advance the value of unified people management processes by enabling organizations to more effectively manage their internal talent pipeline, enhance organizational agility through a new approach to workforce planning, and dramatically increase learning and development capabilities through a real-time plug-and-play content integration framework. In addition, Saba plans to deliver Saba Compensation, a new module that will enable organizations to drive compensation decisions that are linked to talent and workforce planning strategies, in summer 2009.

 

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

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Halogen Software Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Leading Industry Analyst Report…from Halogen Software

February 6, 2009

 

Employee Performance Management Software Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

 

HRchitect featured Halogen Software in our May 2008 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. Halogen Software also participated in the HRchitect Beauty Pageant on Talent Management Systems on November 21, 2008.

 

Halogen Software, a leading provider of employee performance and talent management software, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for ‘Employee Performance Management Software’ report. Gartner’s report examines 24 vendors offering employee performance management software, assessing the vendor’s ability to execute and the completeness of their vision.

 

Gartner states that: “Employee performance management (EPM) software includes performance, succession and compensation management capabilities.” Vendors positioned in the leaders quadrant of this Magic Quadrant are defined by Gartner as having “strong product functionality and superior customer experience with the vendor and its products. In addition, leading vendors had strong or emerging multinational solutions (with corresponding service and support).”

 

Halogen’s award winning suite of products puts employee performance management at the core of all talent management functions. Halogen offers organizations a convenient and cost-effective way to develop their critical talent and align organizational goals – year-round. The company’s products address key talent management functions such as employee performance management, compensation, succession planning, and learning management. Halogen’s solutions are designed to make HR best practices accessible to companies of all sizes, and enable nearly 1400 organizations worldwide to drive higher levels of employee engagement and true business value from employee performance and talent management initiatives.

 

Halogen helps to assist companies like L-3 Communications Interstate Electronic Corporation provide measurable value from the employee performance management process, while supporting strategic business objectives through goal setting. “We’ve always seen Halogen as a leader in the employee performance management space,” said Alicia Van Blair, HR Manager, L-3 Communications. “Since rolling out the Halogen system more than two years ago, we’ve gained actionable insight into performance data, helping us make better decisions, and we’ve seen improved goal alignment across the organization. Employee engagement and retention have also increased, since the entire team has a clear picture where they are heading and how their contribution ties to the organization’s overall objectives.”

 

“In my opinion, our position in the leaders quadrant by Gartner reinforces our proven track record in delivering industry leading performance management solutions and remarkable value to our customers,” said Paul Loucks, President and CEO, Halogen Software. “Halogen’s focus on meeting the real business needs of HR, combined on a best practices driven approach enables our customers to do so much more than just automate processes. Our customers have the power to turn talent management into a strategic function within their organization, making an impact on retention, employee engagement and business performance on a day-to-day basis.”

 

For more information on Halogen Software, please visit www.halogensoftware.com

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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