Taleo Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2011 Financial Results…from Taleo

February 10, 2012

 

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. Taleo appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on November 6, 2009. HRchitect attended the 2010 & 2011 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 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!

 

Taleo Corporation (NASDAQ: TLEO), the global leader of SaaS-based Talent Management solutions, today announced results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2011.

Taleo delivered the following results for the fourth quarter and fiscal 2011:

Fourth Quarter Revenue: Subscription revenue for the fourth quarter was $70 million, an increase of 26% on a year-over-year basis. Professional services revenue for the fourth quarter was $15 million, an increase of 27% on a year-over-year basis. Total revenue for the fourth quarter was $85 million, an increase of 26% on a year-over-year basis.

Non-GAAP subscription revenue for the fourth quarter was $70.6 million, an increase of 22% on a year-over-year basis. Non-GAAP professional services revenues for the fourth quarter was $15.8 million, an increase of 18% on a year-over-year basis. Total fourth quarter non-GAAP revenue was $86.3 million, an increase of 21% on a year-over-year basis.

2011 Revenue: Total revenue for the full year 2011 was $309 million, an increase of 30% on a year-over-year basis. Subscription revenue for the full year 2011 was $257 million, an increase of 29% on a year-over-year basis. Professional services revenue for the full year 2011 was $59 million, an increase of 55% on a year-over-year basis. Total revenue for 2011 reflects a revenue reduction of $6.5 million recorded in the second quarter of 2011 related to the TSA settlement.

For the full year 2011, the company reported Non-GAAP revenue of $324 million, an increase of 34% from the prior year. Non-GAAP subscription revenue for the full year 2011 was $263 million, an increase of 30% on a year-over-year basis. Non-GAAP professional services revenue for the full year 2011 was $62 million, an increase of 57% on a year-over-year basis.

Fourth Quarter Loss per Share: Fourth quarter net loss per share was $(0.02), compared to a net loss per share of $(0.02) a year ago.

Non-GAAP net income per fully diluted share was $0.26, compared to non-GAAP net income per fully diluted share of $0.23 a year ago.

2011 Earnings per Share: For the full year 2011, net loss per share declined to $(0.35) from net income per fully diluted share of $0.01 a year ago. Non-GAAP net income per fully diluted share for the full year 2011 rose to $1.06 compared to $0.78 a year ago.

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

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Oracle Buys Taleo…from Taleo

February 9, 2012

 

Adds Leading Talent Management Cloud Offering to the Oracle Public Cloud

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. Taleo appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on November 6, 2009. HRchitect attended the 2010 & 2011 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 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!

 

Oracle today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Taleo Corporation (NASDAQ: TLEO), a leading provider of cloud-based talent management for $46.00 per share or approximately $1.9 billion, net of Taleo’s cash and debt. Taleo’s Talent Management Cloud helps organizations attract, develop, motivate and retain human capital to improve performance and drive growth.

Together, Oracle and Taleo expect to create a comprehensive cloud offering for organizations to manage their Human Resource operations and employee careers. The combination is expected to empower employees and managers to effectively manage careers throughout their entire employment, enable organizations to retain talent and optimize costs, and improve the employee experience through faster on boarding and better collaboration with team members via social media.

The Board of Directors of Taleo has unanimously approved the transaction. The transaction is expected to close mid-year 2012, subject to Taleo stockholder approval, certain regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

“Human capital management has become a strategic initiative for organizations,” said Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Oracle Development. “Taleo’s industry leading talent management cloud is an important addition to the Oracle Public Cloud.”

“Taleo’s integrated cloud-based talent management solutions optimize how organizations hire, manage, develop and reward their employees and gives companies the intelligence needed to capitalize on their most critical asset — their people,” said Michael Gregoire, Chairman and CEO, Taleo. “Joining forces with Oracle gives us the opportunity to better serve our customers.”

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

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Oracle’s PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Feature Pack 2 Delivers New HR Self Service User Experience with Secure Enterprise Search and Related Action Navigation Framework…from Oracle

November 10, 2011

 

New Pagelet Based Views For Managers Provide Insight Into Organizations and Talent in One Configurable Personalized View

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!

 

News Facts

  • To help managers better perform their day-to-day activities, Oracle today announced the availability of PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Feature Pack 2.
  • Designed to change the way managers and employees use self-service HR, the new PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 applications offer a consumer-like self-service user experience that helps transform the way employees and managers perform their day-to-day activities.
  • A new search-based, menu-free navigation capability allows users to easily locate and navigate to relevant information quickly and in context from any page. PeopleSoft leverages a powerful global search capability that goes beyond simple transaction based search. Delivered search results have filtering and specific related actions based on defined roles and security of the user. For example, a manager can now simply type in part of an employee’s first or last name and receive meaningful results from documents related to performance, compensation, learning, recruiting, career planning and more. Key HCM data is indexed to speed the search process and improve search relevancy.
  • A new design provides greater personalization using pagelets that are designed to make PeopleSoft HCM easier to use, with a more appealing user interface, as well as reduced click counts on key transactions.
  • The feature pack includes a new Manager Dashboard, Talent Summary, Matrix Organization, and Pivot Grid functionality, among other new capabilities.
  • Oracle’s Feature Packs delivery method underscores its commitment to provide new functionality between major releases. Feature Packs enable a quicker response to PeopleSoft customer requests, while giving customers the ultimate choice of how and when to deploy the new functionality to their users.

PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Feature Pack 2 Contents and Features

  • PeopleSoft Manager Dashboard includes a home page that consolidates key management, staff, and business unit data into a single at-a-glance access point to view and transact in context. Its content is configurable to support key metrics and decisions via individual drag-and-drop pagelets enabled by new PeopleTools technology.
  • PeopleSoft Talent Summary provides a unified view of talent management-related data for an individual employee in a talent roster profile format. Administrators can select the content of pagelets that will appear on the Talent Summary based on the organization’s priorities, and managers personalize the page based on their preferences for presentation layout and areas of emphasis.
  • Talent Summary also includes graphical representations of PeopleSoft’s Performance & Potential Matrix nine box grid that provides managers a quick assessment of their employee’s performance against their potential and their impact of loss against the risk of them leaving. This matrix is used by managers to help ensure their personnel are appropriately compensated and operating at or near their maximum potential.
  • More than 70 manager and employee self-service transactions have been tied into the related action framework.
  • In PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Feature Pack 2, click counts on the self service transactions have been reduced by nearly 50 percent on average, depending on the transaction, as a result of streamlining. In addition, all transactions that use the direct reports interface have reduced click counts by at least two clicks due to an updated design.
  • PeopleTools 8.52 introduces the new Pivot Grid feature for operational reporting. The Pivot Grid is a new analytic capability that gives users the ability to quickly and easily pivot and filter data within PeopleSoft applications without having to export data to an external spreadsheet or data warehouse. Data for pivot grids is generated by PS Query and can be rendered in charts or analytical grids. Users can add pivot grids to application pages or pagelets.
  • Additional features delivered with the Feature Pack 2 include:
    • Matrix or Dotted-Line Relationship Management, which addresses the challenge of tracking and maintaining project-based organizations that cut across the enterprise and geographic regions.
    • Interactive Company Directory, which enables users to connect and collaborate directly with other employees and launch employee transactions or changes.
    • Total Rewards Statement, which provides employees with a more complete view of their compensation and benefits by pooling rewards data from multiple data sources.
    • Talent Management 9.1 to HCM 8.9 Integration for Recruiting Solutions, which provides a complete set of integrations for PeopleSoft HCM 8.9 and 9.0 customers.

Supporting Quotes

“Oracle’s PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Feature Pack 2 delivers a new navigation paradigm for our HCM community,” said Paco Aubrejuan, group vice president, Oracle’s PeopleSoft. “We listened to our HCM customers and focused on delivering features like Manager Dashboard and Talent Summary to help managers be more productive at managing their resources, better utilize and reward their employees, and gain valuable insight into their organization and talent pool.”

“With the release of Oracle’s PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Feature Pack 2, Sonoco believes we will see increased use of Manager Self Service with Manager Dashboard, providing managers personalized one-click access to vital employee information and manager tasks from one central location to meet their specific requirements,” said Greg Brigman, manager, Human Resources Information Systems, Sonoco. “The additional matrix relationship will significantly enhance usability of both Core HR and Talent Management by enabling additional reporting from both the direct line manager and a matrix manager without the need to create costly customizations.”

For more information on Oracle, please visit www.oracle.com

 
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Talent Technology’s Software to Process 80 Million Resumes in 2009…from Talent Technology

August 8, 2009

 

By 2010, Resume Mirror product will have processed a volume of resumes equivalent to 57% of the US labor force

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

Talent Technology predicts its industry leading resume processing software, Resume Mirror, will process 80 million resumes in 2009. This number is equivalent to 26% of the US population and equal to one resume for every second employed person. These numbers reveal that the Resume Mirror Extraction product has experienced 100% growth in volume over the last 12 months.

Talent Technology is the leader in providing technology that extracts data from resumes then converts and normalizes the information. The Resume Mirror product eliminates data entry for candidates and recruiters by recognizing the data fields and sorting the information into a single, unified format. Candidates spend less time entering their data in online applications and recruiters can quickly enter resumes received from web, email and paper submissions.

The forecasted amount of processed resumes comes, in part, from the growing number of job boards and recruiting software companies that have selected Resume Mirror to power their resume processing from inside their solutions. Clients include the UK and Canada’s largest job boards, Reed and Workopolis, and software firm ADP Virtual Edge.

Through partnerships with major ERP vendors; Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft and Lawson, Resume Mirror is able to provide customers with a resume extraction module that integrates with the client’s recruiting software. It is these ERP partnerships that have also enabled Resume Mirror to gather hundreds of corporate HR clients including 23 Fortune 500 companies.

Resume Mirror is a key solution for large corporations as they need to process substantial volumes of data. Businesses such as CB Richard Ellis, McKesson, Sun Microsystems and Metropolitan Life have chosen Resume Mirror for its secure, reliable extraction engine that is able to handle sensitive information.

“We’ve experienced on average 90% accuracy of the extracted data,” said Bernard Du Toit, Metropolitan Life’s Senior Manager of Group HR System Solutions and Support. “It is an excellent tool that adds tremendous value to the recruiting process.” Resume Mirror Extraction Enterprise also reduces the time Metropolitan Life’s recruiters spend manually entering resume information into the database and allows them to focus on finding quality candidates. Du Toit also appreciated the post purchase customer support, “The implementation went very well. We received excellent support from the entire Resume Mirror team.”

Resume Mirror Job Posting, Resume Mirror Extraction Enterprise and Resume Mirror Search Enterprise are available directly from Talent Technology Corporation. To schedule a live demo of Talent Technology’s resume extraction, candidate resume search and match technology and our latest job posting product, visit: http://www.talenttech.com/info/demo_request/schedule_demo.asp.

 
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Accero Meets Growing Demand for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with Accero On-Demand…from Accero

June 30, 2009

 

New On-Demand HCM delivery model provides anytime-as needed access for busy HR professionals while reducing clients’ IT burden

HRchitect includes Accero in our list of top HRIS vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

Accero Software (formerly Cyborg Systems), a leading provider of Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions to mid-size and large enterprises, today announced the availability of Accero On-Demand, a hosted, subscription-based service that provides clients with affordable, secure, anytime-anywhere Web access to a full range of integrated payroll and human resources tools.

Through Accero’s new software-as-a-service(SaaS) business model, customers in the US, Canada and the UK can subscribe to the recently released version 6.0 of the Accero Cyborg application suite. The 6.0 release, widely considered to be the most feature-rich release of the Cyborg solution in over a decade, includes two key enhancements that support the SaaS delivery model; a new browser based user interface called Fast Forward and enhanced user and role based security.

“Many on-demand vendor products are condensed, scaled-down versions that limit customers to a narrow set of configuration parameters,” said Tom Malone, Accero CEO. “Accero On-Demand delivers broad configurability and full HCM functionality to meet our customer’s most complex requirements while at the same time freeing up their in-house IT resources from time-consuming chores such as managing upgrades and monitoring third-party maintenance agreements, as well as purchasing and managing hardware.”

Accero On-Demand is ideal for mid-size and large enterprises or major business units of large companies, where IT resources face a backlog of projects. Hosted in Accero’s SAS-70 Type II certified hosting centers, Accero On-Demand clients will benefit from scalable, high-availability and high-performance computing that likely surpasses the performance and reliability of in-house computing resources. As a hosted, on-demand solution, all hardware, software, security and network considerations are managed by Accero’s team of IT experts.

Accero On-Demand subscribers access the system via a secure, Web-based interface and manage day-to-day and periodic duties the same as if the Accero Cyborg solution were deployed locally. HR teams can easily manage the full hire-to-retire lifecycle of their global workforce, and key tasks can be distributed to a decentralized team. User authentication and role-based security controls each user’s access to specific features, functions and data sets.

Additionally, Accero announces the availability of Accero On-Demand PLUS, a variety of services designed to enhance the core SaaS solution and help clients to optimize their HCM investments. Services range from tax preparation and filing to year-end processing to position administration and open enrollment management. Customers can choose Accero On-Demand PLUS services on an ad-hoc basis or as part of their standard subscription service agreement.

Accero On-Demand taps into a growing market trend for robust business applications that are licensed via a subscription service and deployed and managed by the vendor. Gartner, Inc., the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, noted in a recent industry report that SaaS continues to gain in popularity. According to Gartner, worldwide SaaS revenue is expected to grow by 22 percent in 2009 (Gartner Market Trends: Software as a Service, Worldwide, 2009-2013).

Accero On-Demand’s availability, on the heels of the 6.0/Fast Forward release, demonstrates the speed with which Accero is emerging as an affordable, functionally rich alternative to traditional ERP vendors like SAP, Oracle and Lawson. The Accero Cyborg solution includes five industry-leading, best-of-breed HCM applications—notable for their configurability, robust functionality, rapid deployment and ease of use: Human Resources Administration; Benefits Administration; Payroll Administration; Employee, Manager and Benefits Self-Service; and Reporting Administration & Analytics.

For more information about Accero On-Demand, please visit www.accero.com.

 
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HumanConcepts Announces New Validated Integration for Oracle…from HumanConcepts

May 23, 2009

 

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

HumanConcepts, the leading provider of workforce decision support software, today announced that integration between OrgPlus Enterprise 3.3 and the Oracle® E-Business Suite Human Resource Management System 12.0 has been validated through the Oracle PartnerNetwork Application Integration Architecture for Partners (AIAP) initiative. Partners with validated integrations are able to provide customers with standards-based product integrations, tested by Oracle. The integration between HumanConcepts’ OrgPlus and the Oracle E-Business Suite enhances Oracle customers’ ability to visualize workforce data, communicate accurate organizational information and manage workforce change.

With OrgPlus Enterprise, named Top HR Product of 2008 by Human Resource Executive® magazine, customers will be able to extend the value of the rich workforce insight available from the Oracle E-Business Suite. Integrated with the Oracle E-Business Suite, OrgPlus inherits Oracle security which ensures that the user has appropriate access rights to HR data. “We use the combined solution to help significantly reduce workload and clarify organizational resources and structure to optimize our business; this solution gives us superior insight into critical information that drives our decision-making and enables us to maintain advantage in the highly-competitive, ever-changing global Medical Device market,” said Stuart Beesley, CIO, Smiths Medical.

The OrgPlus visual interface provides a secure, intuitive way for executives, human resources and line of business managers to access and act on workforce information in order to:

  • Streamline and manage departmental reorganizations or large-scale mergers and acquisitions by creating what-if scenarios of the proposed organization
  • Develop succession plans for key executives
  • Validate accuracy of workforce data (i.e. reporting relationships)

Oracle has recently included the combined offering in Oracle’s global application sales demonstration environment. “With this validated integration, HumanConcepts has demonstrated their commitment to Oracle E-Business Suite HCM customers,” commented Anand Subbaraman, Director Product Strategy Applications, Oracle. “We expect to continue working closely with HumanConcepts, by showing the combined offering in our sales demonstrations and preparing joint whitepapers, to ensure that our mutual customers are aware of our tightly integrated solutions for organizational charting, modeling, and visualization.”

OrgPlus integration with the Oracle E-Business Suite Human Resource Management System is designed for customers to quickly take advantage of the additional capabilities from HumanConcepts and includes:

  • Built-in Oracle E-Business Suite connectivity that simplifies extraction of key HR data from Oracle
  • Pre-defined chart views that provide visualization of HR data and metrics such as headcount analysis, performance indicators and span of control
  • Single sign on from the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Portal or Oracle WebCenter to enable secure access
  • Standard Oracle Portal integration packages for the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11 and Release 12 containing hyperlinks to context specific views.

“We are enthusiastic about the opportunity to work with Oracle and its customers,” said Martin Sacks, CEO, HumanConcepts. “OrgPlus adds value throughout the Oracle E-Business Suite Human Resource Management System by bringing the rich Oracle data to life in a visual, hierarchical framework. The combined solution enables managers to not only have a clearer understanding of current workforce dynamics, but make fact-based decisions when planning for the future.”

For more information about HumanConcepts, please visit www.humanconcepts.com

 
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Aquire’s OrgPublisher Receives Integration Validation with Oracle E-Business Suite…from Aquire

March 3, 2009

 

Aquire, the leader in workforce planning and management solutions, has received Oracle Integration Validation with Oracle E-Business Suite

 

Aquire, the leader in workforce planning and management solutions, today announced its industry-leading organizational charting and reporting solution, OrgPublisher, has received Oracle Integration Validation with Oracle E-Business Suite. This enhanced level of status confirms that OrgPublisher – the world’s most trusted organizational charting solution – provides customers with standards-based product integrations, tested and validated by Oracle.

 

As a certified Oracle Partner and member of the Oracle ISV network, Aquire has worked closely with Oracle and their customers since 2001. Selected by hundreds of Oracle E-Business Suite customers across the globe, OrgPublisher for Oracle E-Business Suite enables users to rapidly chart, view, model, and analyze organizational hierarchies and human capital information contained within Oracle E-Business Suite. The result is improved information visibility, access and decision making, which ultimately allows companies to more effectively structure their workforces for optimal performance.

 

“OrgPublisher provides the most advanced HCM visualization capabilities on the market for org charting, workforce modeling and succession planning,” said Ross Melbourne, Aquire’s Chief Technology Officer. “OrgPublisher Premier for Oracle EBS goes even further by ensuring customers benefit from enhanced talent management tools and smoother upgrade capability, ultimately leading to a lower total cost of ownership and greater control of the talent pipeline.”

 

Best known as the industry pioneer in enterprise org charting and reporting, Aquire remains at the forefront of innovation and has experienced continued sector growth with its Oracle HR products.

 

In September 2008, Aquire unveiled its advanced succession planning and organizational modeling modules for OrgPublisher at Oracle OpenWorld 2008 in San Francisco. The OrgPublisher Succession and Modeling Modules integrate seamlessly with OrgPublisher to cost-effectively help solve even the most pressing HR challenges. Succession planning and organizational modeling are highly dependent upon corporate hierarchies and reporting relationships, so extending OrgPublisher to visually create, maintain and analyze succession plans, 9-box matrices and organizational models is a natural extension to the product line.

 

For more information on Aguire, please visit www.aguire.com

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Oracle Introduces PeopleSoft Enterprise Workforce Communications…from Oracle

February 12, 2009

 

Oracle Introduces PeopleSoft Enterprise Workforce Communications to Provide HR Program and Survey Functionality

Gives HR Organizations Ability to Conduct Two-Way Dialogue and Focus on Strategic Initiatives to Cut Costs and Maximize Success

 

HRchitect includes Oracle and PeopleSoft in our list of top HRIS vendors that businesses should consider.

 

HR organizations are under increasing pressure to produce better results at a time when budget, personnel and other critical resources are limited. Success in this environment requires organizations to focus resources on the most strategic initiatives that provide the greatest value to the organization and align to organizational goals and objectives.

 

Recently Oracle introduced PeopleSoft Enterprise Workforce Communications, a comprehensive solution for planning and delivering HR programs and surveys to the workforce that can help HR organizations address the challenges facing them today.

Oracle’s PeopleSoft Workforce Communications is the first fully-integrated bundled solution that allows HR organizations to deliver the right message to the right audience, capture workforce feedback and take action, gain program insight and quantify success.

 

Benefits enabled by PeopleSoft Workforce Communications for HR organizations include:

·        A reduced risk of non-compliance

·        The opportunity to improve productivity through increased employee engagement

·        An increased ability to identify over/under performing areas

·        An increased ability to identify workforce segments requiring additional training or development

·        Reductions in program costs by understanding needs

·        Increased ability to make the right decisions even in tough times

 

Additional Features and Details

PeopleSoft Enterprise Workforce Communications enables HR organizations to communicate relevant, targeted and personalized messages to specific workforce populations via a variety of online and off-line channels using rich, graphical content. A program or a set of related programs can be managed collaboratively from start to finish by people at all organizational levels.

 

Using PeopleSoft Workforce Communications, HR organizations can build and roll out personalized surveys to targeted groups of individuals, then score survey results for easy measurement and comparison. Surveys can also be submitted anonymously in order to preserve recipient confidentiality but still provide HR organizations with direct lines of communication and feedback from the workforce.

Reporting and analytics functions place decision-support tools in the hands of the decision makers, allowing them to make informed recommendations and take appropriate action. Analysts and managers at all levels can review, analyze and therefore quantify their HR initiatives.

 

Integration with PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management allows numerous HR attributes to be used for specifying target workforce populations, personalizing surveys and other communication, and for analyzing program results by different worker criteria.

 

Role and data level security features within PeopleSoft Enterprise Workforce Communications prevent illegal access to HR programs and surveys.

Oracle validated this solution with over 15 customers, including the City and County of Denver.

 

For more information on Oracle, please visit www.oracle.com

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Aquire Reports Steady Growth in 2008…from Aquire

January 30, 2009

 

Large percentage of growth fueled by international market

 

Aquire, the leader in workforce planning and management solutions, today announced continued growth despite an uncertain economy and a slowdown in the software industry as a whole. Key customer wins in the fourth quarter include CH2M Hill, Fiat, Ferrero, Mercedes-Benz and Transnet Limited.

 

“For a company to report growth in 2008 is an achievement that goes beyond definition,” said Lois Melbourne, Chief Executive Officer of Aquire. “There is a quote from Aristotle that sums up why Aquire has and continues to be successful — ‘If we are what we repeatedly do, excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.’ “This holds true for the Aquire team because despite challenges, we have continued on our path of excellence with both products and people.”

 

While domestic sales remained healthy, international sales experienced a 17% growth overall. Europe fueled much of the success with strong channel sales leading to a 36% increase over 2007.

 

Significant product announcements in 2008 included the release of the OrgPublisher Module Series for succession planning and organizational modeling, Oracle Integration Validation with Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0 and Oracle Database 10.2.0.3, SAP ERP 6.0 certification and the release of OrgPublisher for SAP solutions with real-time charting option and Succession Visualization.

 

The company also received Safe Harbor Certification from the U.S. Department of Commerce which governs the handling of European Union personal data. The United States Department of Commerce and the European Commission have agreed on a set of data protection principles and frequently asked questions (the “Safe Harbor Principles”) to enable U.S. companies to satisfy the requirement under European Union law, that adequate protection be given to personal information transferred from the EU to the United States. The EEA also has recognized the U.S. Safe Harbor as providing adequate data protection (OJ L 45, 15.2.2001, p.47). Consistent with its commitment to protect personal privacy, Aquire, Inc. adheres to the Safe Harbor Principles.

 

The company’s commitment to customer satisfaction, industry leading solutions and corporate culture is reflected by the numerous awards it received throughout 2008, including being named to the prestigious Inc 5000 list, Best Companies to Work for in Texas for the third consecutive year, one of the Top 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management by KMWorld for the fifth consecutive year and to the Titan Fast 50 as one of the fastest growing technology companies in Dallas-Fort Worth.

 

For more information on Aquire, please visit www.aquire.com

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OrgPlus Receives Integration Validation with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0…from HumanConcepts

January 22, 2009

 

HumanConcepts recently announced that its OrgPlus Enterprise solution has received integration validation with Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management 9.0. Through the Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Partners initiative, OrgPlus Enterprise completed rigorous testing demonstrating integration and use of best practices and Oracle standards with PeopleSoft Enterprise.

 

OrgPlus Enterprise, named Top HR Product of 2008 by Human Resource Executive® magazine, helps PeopleSoft users reduce the time and money they spend managing and distributing accurate human resources information across the enterprise. With OrgPlus Enterprise, PeopleSoft users can access critical employee information on-demand to make more informed business decisions and proactively manage organizational change.

 

Joint customers, such as Quintiles and British Telecom, augment their PeopleSoft investment with OrgPlus Enterprise to quickly make workforce planning decisions and meet financial targets in response to economic and market shifts. The solution enables managers and HR professionals to easily access and share workforce information and metrics. In addition, these collaborative planning capabilities facilitate workforce restructuring activities via an intuitive drag and drop interface.

 

For more information on HumanConcepts, please visit www.humanconcepts.com

 
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Human Capital Source Releases HCM:21®, a Disruptive Human Resource Technology…from Human Capital Source

November 17, 2008

 

Dr. Jac Fitz-enz and the Predictive Initiative Group introduce a new management tool, giving companies the ability to manage the future today.

 

Human Capital Source (www.HumanCapitalSource.com) unveiled the first integrative, predictive strategic human capital management system, HCM:21. This was developed over 18 months with 20 organizations including Target Stores, Oracle, Accenture, Monster, Blue Shield, Ceridian, SuccessFactors and Scarlett Surveys.

 

With this new model for strategic management, organizations can more effectively manage talent and technology investments.  HCM:21 supports a broad range of business objectives as well as specific solutions around hiring, engaging and developing talent.  The model identifies mission critical organizational issues and describes how they align, are interdependent and can be integrated to manage tomorrow’s human capital assets today.

 

Organizations typically begin with workforce planning, matching business plan staffing requirements with labor pools and practicing gap analysis. This is woefully inadequate since the marketplace is constantly changing.

 

From the credit crunch and the disillusion of Wall Street to the major demographic shifts in the workforce, companies must adapt to manage the unknowns ahead. 

 

To learn more about this industry changing technology, visit www.HumanCapitalSource.com/predictive_management.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Lawson Partners With Talent Technology to Help Simplify Recruiting Process for Strategic Human Capital Management Customers…from Talent Technology

October 22, 2008

Industry-leading functionality helps improve recruiter productivity and enhances candidate application experience

 

HRchitect discusses Lawson in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management. We talked about them as an ERP vendor who has substantially increased their overall HCM development efforts over the past two years, including significant improvements in recruiting, performance management, and compensation capabilities.

 

Talent Technology Corporation recently announced it has partnered with Lawson Software to help simplify the recruitment process for human resource professionals and job candidates. Talent Technology is a provider of recruiting software and related technology. In addition to the recent partnership with Lawson, Talent Technology has already partnered with other leading ERP vendors such as Oracle and SAP. Under this partnership, Lawson will incorporate Talent Technology’s Resume Mirror Extraction Enterprise (RMX Enterprise) solution into Lawson Talent Management, which is part of the Lawson Strategic Human Capital Management System.

 

RMX Enterprise automatically captures and extracts candidate resume information from any document format or origin – whether the resume comes through a job board, company website or email – and converts it into structured, usable data that is sent to the centralized Lawson Talent Management system. This helps recruiters save time, increase productivity, improve information accuracy, and more strategically manage talent across the organization through a one-time capture of candidate information.

 

The RMX Enterprise solution also provides a potential platform for recruiters to simply funnel resumes to Lawson Talent Management in the space they prefer to work. For example, with a single click, resume information viewed in Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook, Word or Internet Explorer can be processed by RMX Enterprise and sent to Lawson Talent Management. This helps eliminate manual data entry of candidate information and enables recruiters to focus on more strategic tasks and to efficiently manage workflow and take action, no matter what application they may be using to view a candidate’s resume.

 

Learn more about Talent Technology at www.talenttech.com and learn more about Lawson software at www.lawson.com

 


Matt Lafata, HRchitect

 

 

 

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