February 6, 2012
Acquisition Will Address Growing Market Demand for Social Learning, Mobile Learning, Learning Content Management, and the integration of Learning Management and Talent Management
HRchitect featured Kenexa in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems and top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Derek Bluestone, VP Product Marketing appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on June 17, 2010. HRchitect’s Matt Lafata, one of the industry’s leading talent management systems analysts, attended the Kenexa Analyst Day in 2010 & 2011 and the Kenexa World Conference from 2009-2011.
If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!
Kenexa (NYSE:KNXA), a global provider of business solutions for human resources, today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with privately-held OutStart, a leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) e-learning solutions and services. The closing of the transaction is subject to customary conditions, including the receipt of stockholder consent. Kenexa expects to close the transaction shortly. This acquisition, when consummated, will expand Kenexa’s reach into the e-learning market and enable Kenexa to provide a broader and deeper suite of talent management solutions. Kenexa will integrate OutStart’s Learning Management Suite, which includes award-winning social and mobile learning solutions, with Kenexa’s Global Talent Management solutions including its Performance Management suite.
“Kenexa has been working aggressively toward the delivery of a complete, integrated suite of SaaS-based talent management solutions,” said Rudy Karsan, chairman and chief executive officer at Kenexa. “We have the leading talent acquisition solution for large organizations, and we launched our performance management suite last year as well. With the addition of OutStart’s capabilities, Kenexa will be able to offer customers an award-winning suite of SaaS learning solutions plus learning expertise and a great team with more than a decade of experience in learning management.”
“Kenexa made a great decision acquiring OutStart, a full suite, global, SaaS Learning Management Solution provider which has been a market leader in the social and mobile learning space, and one of the pioneers in the LCMS market” said Stacey Harris, vice president of research with Brandon Hall. “This acquisition will give Kenexa both expertise and depth in learning management solutions. With Kenexa’s ability to leverage its award-winning global solutions with a full suite of ITM offerings, the company will be able to provide customers with a unique package of content, services and technology.”
OutStart, which is based in Boston and has offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia, has more than 300 customers ranging from large global organizations to mid-size companies and government entities. The company delivers a portfolio of inter-related mobile, social and learning knowledge solutions, which enables organizations to derive more value from their people assets and more effectively collaborate, converse and learn while increasing their social and knowledge capital.
“Kenexa is a global leader in talent management and we expect to be able to join forces to complete their suite of Integrated Talent Management offerings,” said Massood Zarrabian, CEO of OutStart. “We can bring significant value to Kenexa and its customers by adding our social, mobile, learning management and learning content management capabilities to the Kenexa 2x Integrated Talent Management platform. Our customers will benefit from the depth and breadth of Kenexa’s talent management offering and global support capabilities that will now be available to them.”
The Kenexa 2x platform was designed to integrate all talent management functions and data, including a unified talent record, mobile tools and robust analytics into one single system that provides a consistent user interface, security features and reporting engine while allowing for a customer’s future global expansion. Kenexa’s Recruiting, Onboarding, Performance Management and competency libraries are used to identify employees and candidates’ skill sets as well as their development needs, which can then be met and managed with the learning platform that OutStart brings to Kenexa.
Kenexa expects to fund the acquisition with its existing cash balance, and it expects the transaction to be at least neutral to non-GAAP net income available to common shareholders on a per share basis for 2012. Kenexa will provide additional details regarding OutStart’s expected contribution to its first quarter and full year 2012 financial performance when the company announces its fourth quarter and full year 2011 financial results after the market close on February 6, 2012.
For more information on Kenexa, please visit www.kenexa.com
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January 26, 2012
Taleo Provides Holistic Talent Management; Includes Performance Management, Learning and Recruiting
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, recently announced that Fairmont Raffles Hotels International (FRHI), the parent company of the Fairmont, Raffles and Swissôtel brands, has selected Taleo to support the organization’s global recruitment strategy.
Operating more than 100 hotels worldwide, FRHI is a leading hospitality company with plans to increase its global workforce in the coming years to support its growth and development strategy. As a result, FRHI teamed with Taleo to more effectively manage and support its current and future recruitment needs, while also ensuring key fundamentals such as consistency, brand standards, and cost were realized.
Using Taleo to Discover the Right Talent
For FRHI’s Senior Vice President of Technology, Vineet Gupta, Taleo will be an essential technology-based HR tool for the company as it expands internationally. “We’re investing in this solution to maximize our global recruiting tactics and performance management goals,” stated Gupta. “By choosing Taleo, we expect to enhance and grow our most valuable asset — our colleague base — and look forward to bringing our distinctive culture and personalized approach to service new markets around the world.”
Gupta’s organization, along with the respective hotel brands, has started to employ the cloud-based Taleo Talent Management suite, including Taleo’s talent acquisition, performance management and learning software. Now the company is better equipped to more effectively engage international candidates and can also broaden its scope to connect with potential colleagues who may have previously flown under the organization’s radar.
A Positive Experience with Taleo
FRHI chose Taleo because of its positive experience during the sales process, particularly with its senior leadership, and because of their proven track record in the hospitality sector. Other selection factors included:
- Access to Taleo’s Knowledge Exchange, which features talent management best practices, metrics, methodologies, and domain expertise from other practitioners and experts.
- Taleo’s SaaS platform, which is easy to implement, update and maintain around the globe, and which will save FRHI the cost of adding to its own IT infrastructure.
- Taleo’s social recruiting capabilities will help meet future growth needs by sourcing the next generation of employees via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other popular social networks.
By using Taleo’s talent acquisition software, FRHI can engage more employees in the right markets and with the right skill sets, talents and experience. With Taleo’s performance management solution, the company can also drive better results and retain top employees — a vital advantage in markets where frequent career movement is common.
Taleo’s Talent Management suite brings a range of additional benefits including:
- A larger pool of candidates and the ability to globally track applicants and candidates in one system.
- Career and succession planning to develop the next generation of leaders from external and internal candidates.
- Proactive strategies for workforce planning and recruitment.
- Increased efficiencies from eliminating many manual recruitment tasks.
- Enhancements to employment brand equity by enabling recruiters to more effectively follow up and communicate with applicants throughout the selection process.
For more information on Taleo, please visit www.taleo.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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January 6, 2012
Renowned university selects Halogen eAppraisal™ Education to support its student-focused culture and drive employee satisfaction and retention
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!
Herzing University has selected Halogen Software’s award winning talent management solutions to help align its employee competencies, goal management and development planning processes in support of the university’s student-focused culture. Herzing University is well known for its exceptional student support. With Halogen, the university is creating a strong talent management infrastructure that reinforces this commitment to student success.
“Prior to Halogen, employees didn’t participate in a goal-setting process and we saw that as a missed opportunity in terms of fostering a sense of accountability and drive to improve performance,” said Carol Emmel, Manager of Human Resources at Herzing University. “With Halogen, we’ve developed a performance management infrastructure that enables all employees to set goals and this clearly aligns better with our culture.”
Herzing selected Halogen eAppraisal™ Education and Halogen e360 Multirater™ based on the solution’s usability, strong competency and goal management capabilities, and integrated development planning.
“Halogen is very user-friendly and intuitive, and we like that it is designed to meet our unique needs in the higher education industry,” said Emmel. “Linking core competencies to the appropriate appraisal form is straightforward, and all employees – not just HR – can now easily track progress on goals and development plans.”
Halogen also is enabling Herzing University to be more strategic in how it invests in employee development, while also ensuring that it is a collaborative process. By aligning training requirements with key competencies for improved performance, Emmel anticipates that Halogen will help drive employee satisfaction and retention.
“Without a doubt, Halogen has exceeded our expectations in terms of how easy it is to implement, and the support we’ve received,” Emmel stated.
Halogen eAppraisal Education is the first and only performance management solution designed for the education market. The solution makes it easy for educational institutions of all types to track progress on goals, ensure continuous development and foster better collaboration and coaching – supporting a quality educational experience for all their students.
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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December 15, 2011
Acquisition marks salesforce.com’s first step into Human Capital Management
Rypple’s next generation social performance management app to be re-launched as “Successforce”
New HCM business unit to be run by John Wookey
Rypple to extend value of existing salesforce.com products
Hundreds of companies like Facebook, Gilt Groupe, and Spotify embrace Rypple’s new social model to empower teams to share goals, recognize great work, and improve performance
If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!
Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rypple, a cloud-based social performance management company. The acquisition signifies salesforce.com’s entry into the human capital management (HCM) market for the social enterprise. Salesforce.com plans to re-launch Rypple as “Successforce” and create a new HCM business unit, which will be run by John Wookey. Rypple’s unique social technologies will also extend the value of salesforce.com’s existing core products. The transaction is expected to close in salesforce.com’s fiscal first quarter ending April 30, 2012, subject to customary closing conditions.
Comments on the News
• “Salesforce.com and Rypple share a vision for extending the social enterprise to transform the way we work,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. “The next generation of HCM is not just about a cloud delivery model, it’s about a fundamentally better way to recruit, manage and empower employees in a social world.”
• “Our social enterprise strategy continues to accelerate, and is at the root of the broad-based transformation and innovation we are seeing from customers today,” said John Wookey, executive vice president, advanced applications, salesforce.com. “With the launch of Successforce, salesforce.com plans to revolutionize HCM starting with an exciting social performance management app that will delight millions of employees around the world.”
• “We chose Rypple to be the core of Facebook’s employee performance management platform because it’s designed from the ground up to be social,” said Tim Campos, CIO, Facebook. “We are delighted to see it become part of salesforce.com’s social enterprise strategy.”
• “Rypple was designed from the start to be fun, social, and mobile–an app that can delight managers and employees in entirely new ways,” said Daniel Debow, co-CEO and co-founder, Rypple. “As the leading social enterprise company with more than 100,000 customers worldwide, salesforce.com will allow us to not only strengthen our offering for the hundreds of high-performing organizations that use Rypple today, but also scale it to reach many more.”
• “We took the science of team performance and applied the collaborative, transparent, and real-time power of social networks to create a completely new model for managing people and the work they deliver,” said David Stein, co-CEO and co-founder, Rypple. “Salesforce.com gives us the opportunity to apply our expertise and extend our vision for Rypple with Successforce.”
Salesforce.com Redefines HCM for the Social Enterprise
Traditional HCM software that many businesses use today was designed 30 years ago for personnel departments whose goal was to minimize the cost and risk of employing people. While HCM software hasn’t changed in decades, the way people work has radically changed.
Today’s workforce demands new performance and leadership tools that are completely transparent and allow employees to be connected to their company’s mission and each other. Social enterprises and progressive HR leaders are embracing apps like Rypple, which focus on the inherent social nature of performance management—goal setting, feedback, recognition and continuous dialogue—to help employees align more effectively around the company mission.
The acquisition of Rypple and its planned re-launch as Successforce signify salesforce.com’s entry into the HCM market. The company plans to expand into other areas with a new social model that will revolutionize the way companies recruit talent, build teams, empower employees and achieve results.
The new HCM business unit, including Successforce, will be led by John Wookey, salesforce.com’s executive vice president of advanced applications. Wookey comes to salesforce.com with more than 20 years of experience in enterprise software, including senior leadership positions at Oracle and SAP.
Extending the Value of Salesforce.com’s Existing Products
A social revolution is taking place today. The number of social networking users has surpassed e-mail users. Nearly a quarter of all time spent online is spent on social networks like Facebook. People access the Internet more from mobile devices than from desktops. Today, companies must change the way they collaborate, communicate and share information with customers and employees to stay competitive. Salesforce.com is helping companies meet the challenge of this social revolution with its social enterprise strategy.
With this acquisition, salesforce.com will embed some of Rypple’s next-generation features into its existing products. For example, people will be able to thank colleagues, win badges and provide recognition – all from within Salesforce Chatter. And customers of core Salesforce products – the Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Force.com platform – will be able to connect with new employee feedback tools to help drive business goals and power the future of their employee social networks.
For more information, please visit www.salesforce.com
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November 14, 2011
Growth in ARR, International Expansion and World Class Customer Experience Mark the Best Third Quarter on Record for Halogen
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 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!
Talent management leader Halogen Software closed its best third quarter on record. Q3 saw 37% year over year growth in annual recurring revenue (ARR), very strong renewal rates, significant international expansion into Europe, and a record setting customer user conference.
The company’s growth is highlighted by significant customer wins and high customer satisfaction and retention. New customers added during the quarter include: British International, Levick Strategic Communications, The Keene School District, Herzing, Western Maryland Health System, City of Bridgetown Co-op Credit Union, Susquehanna Health System, Office of the State Auditor, West Park Management services Ltd., and The American Institute Of Physics.
Halogen attributes its growth, rapid customer acquisition and strong customer retention to increased market demand for a solution that supports organizations in linking their talent strategy to their business strategy. Strong momentum within specific markets including healthcare, professional services, financial services, manufacturing, education, public sector and hospitality continues to be a key deciding factor for customers who want solutions that address the unique needs of their industries.
“We evaluated the bulk of performance management solutions offered in the market and chose Halogen because it is the most flexible and robust system, and we knew it could meet our unique needs especially as they relate to the size and complexity of the school district structure,” said Paul Cooper, Director of Human Resources, The Keene School District. “We’re also impressed with how Halogen really listens to its customers and uses their feedback to continually evolve the offering.”
A key part of an organization’s ability to build a world class workforce that is aligned and delivering on its business strategy is to engage employees at all levels of the organization into the talent management process. For this to be possible, the system needs to be easy to use for all stakeholders.
“We selected Halogen because of the flexibility of the company’s solution and the ease of implementation,” said Henderson Williams, Human Resources Manager, City of Bridgetown Co-op Credit Union. “Not only are we impressed with its usability and straightforward design, we like that it gives our employees greater visibility into how their day-to-day efforts impact the company. This visibility is hugely important to our employee engagement efforts.”
Other highlights the company achieved in Q3:
- Hundreds of Halogen customers from around the world participated in Halogen’s Sixth Annual User Conference – the company’s largest user conference to-date. Customers joined the company in Atlanta September 18-20 to network and learn from Halogen, industry experts and their peers, how to leverage and extend their Halogen Software solutions for maximum results.
- Halogen announced the official release of Version 11 of its Talent Management Suite – becoming the first talent management vendor to offer a complete, organically built solution, purpose-built to drive performance. The solution addresses all key pillars of talent management (recruitment, performance, learning, compensation, succession as well as unique solutions for multirater feedback and job description management) in one seamless system.
- Halogen’s new complete talent management suite allows HR and their organizations for the first time to experience talent management from a new perspective – 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.
- Halogen announced that the Halogen Job Description Builder™ module is quickly becoming one of the company’s top selling modules across all industries.
- 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 also signed several new partners including 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.
For more information on Halogen Software, please visit www.halogensoftware.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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October 1, 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!
Four industry-leading HR technology vendors have joined forces to satisfy the growing demand for powerful, affordable, and complete HR software as a service (SaaS) solutions. HR in the Cloud™ combines the best-of-breed software of myStaffingPro, BambooHR, CRG emPerform, and Strategia Ed.
Capitalizing on the success of their individual solutions, the four companies have collaborated to create HR in the Cloud, a groundbreaking collaboration of unified SaaS solutions that integrates applicant tracking, human resource information system (HRIS), performance management, and learning and compliance management. Together the products will provide a streamlined process from recruitment through the entire employee life cycle. This groundbreaking venture stemmed from the need for affordable HR software that can deliver rich functionality and proven results as opposed to thinner offerings that lack specialization.
Today’s business landscape is more fierce and competitive than ever. In order to survive and thrive, companies of all sizes must find cost-effective ways to manage and optimize business processes. SaaS solutions are an attractive option as they allow even the smallest of companies to implement crucial technologies. SaaS solutions offer speedy deployment, affordability, controlled risk, reduced I.T. burden, flexibility and most importantly, accessibility. Employees are often the largest organizational expense. HR in the Cloud’s Unified SaaS solutions allow organizations to optimize this investment.
The life cycle begins with myStaffingPro applicant tracking system. myStaffingPro provides the technology to recruit, qualify, track and hire applicants.
“HR in the Cloud joins myStaffingPro with the best-in-class HRIS, performance management, and learning and compliance management systems. The partnership joins four of the strongest solution specialists into a unified talent management suite,” stated CEO at myStaffingPro Bob Schulte.
Once hired, the employee data is exported into the HRIS system, BambooHR. BambooHR features employee data management, as well as PTO, benefit, and training tracking.
“HR in the Cloud addresses HR needs throughout the employee life cycle. Bamboo HR’s superior service, security, and flexibility is now enhanced through its relationship with myStaffingPro, emPerfom, and Strategia which shares these high standards,” added BambooHR CEO Ben Peterson.
The final phase, aligning and developing employees, is accomplished with emPerform’s robust employee performance management suite and Strategia’s learning and compliance management system. emPerform comes standard with vital performance management tools such as automated appraisals, succession planning, compensation management, goal alignment, 360 multi-rater reviews, and reporting functionality. Strategia offers the Ed Learning System™ which provides a global platform to plan, deliver, track and manage an organization’s formal and informal learning activities, compliance, competencies and certification programs as well as to create and deliver content through one or multiple portals including eCommerce gateways.
“HR in the Cloud is a talent management suite at its finest. Rather than merging and acquiring countless systems, HR in the Cloud connects four best-in-class specialist solutions. The result is a talent management super horse that still has a complete development and support team,” added Schulte.
HR in the Cloud provides a complete end-to-end recruiting and talent management platform to enable businesses to effectively attract, recruit, align, reward, train, and retain top talent. To learn more about HR in the Cloud, please visit http://www.hr-inthecloud.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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September 20, 2011
New Solution Gives Companies Tools to Drive Sustainable High Performance, Positively Impact Business Outcomes
HRchitect featured Kenexa in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems and top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Derek Bluestone, VP Product Marketing appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on June 17, 2010. HRchitect’s Matt Lafata, one of the industry’s leading talent management systems analysts, attended the Kenexa Analyst Day in May, 2010 and the Kenexa World Conference in 2009 and 2010.
If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!
Kenexa (NASDAQ:KNXA), a global provider of business solutions for human resources, today announced the launch of Kenexa 2x PerformTM, which offers integrated, enterprise-class performance management, succession and compensation planning tools to drive organizational alignment and ensure top performers are retained and engaged.
Built on the Kenexa 2x platform, the new solution complements Kenexa’s other integrated talent management solutions (i.e. Recruiting and Onboarding) by automating and integrating goals, appraisals, compensation, competencies, development, career path and succession planning. The web-based Kenexa 2x Perform ensures that companies have all valuable talent information in one place to enable quick informed decisions that positively impact business outcomes. In addition, with targeted development plans and career paths that are aligned with both individual and organizational goals, Kenexa 2x Perform identifies high potentials and top performers early, ensuring sustainable high engagement and performance across an organization.
“Providing a solution that integrates functions and data that traditionally have been siloed, means businesses can achieve greater efficiency, enabling maximized performance and results. What’s more, the solution leverages talent data and tools to help companies achieve greater flexibility and better plan for future growth,” Kenexa’s Eric Lochner, President, Global Talent Management commented.
With a strategic reward system in place, including pay for performance, Kenexa 2x Perform ensures that individuals are recognized and compensated appropriately, which promotes higher levels of engagement and retention while adhering to budget restrictions. The solution also increases manager effectiveness by arming managers with the tools and skills needed to inspire, motivate and manage performance. The Unified Talent Record enables data sharing across the organization and across applications, allowing for the organization-wide analysis of talent inventory and current and future competency gaps.
“Effectively integrating performance management with succession management and compensation management can deliver up to 100% better business results,” said Stacia Sherman Garr, senior analyst, Bersin & Associates. “Kenexa’s 2x Perform is designed to help organizations more efficiently integrate these talent processes – all in an environment that supports mobile and social technologies.”
“We selected Kenexa’s 2x Perform as our enterprise performance management solution because we wanted an integrated talent management solution that could parallel and enhance our current practices in Performance Management, Recruiting and Onboarding. As an Early Adopter, we are excited to be working with Kenexa and are hopeful that Kenexa’s 2x Perform will meet our talent management needs today and going forward,” said Brigid Pelino, senior vice president, Human Resources, Tim Hortons Inc.
The Kenexa 2x platform was designed to integrate all talent management functions and data, including a unified talent record, mobile tools and robust analytics, into one single system that provides a consistent user interface, security features and reporting engine while allowing for a customer’s future global expansion. The powerful performance management software gives companies the information they need to make strategic decisions based on a holistic view of their workforce. Kenexa’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model is complemented by its drive to deliver extreme service with a commitment to accuracy, timeliness, responsiveness, proactivity and mutual learning.
For more information on Kenexa, please visit www.kenexa.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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July 7, 2011
Company Advances Leader Position in Strategic Human Capital Management and Raises the Standard for Complete Talent Management
HRchitect featured SumTotal Systems in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. SumTotal Systems appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on May 1, 2009. SumTotal Systems also competed in the HRchitect Beauty Pageant on Employee Performance Management Systems in February 2009, where they were crowned the winner. Dave Watkins, Softscape’s CEO and Co-Founder appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on June 19, 2009.
If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!
SumTotal® Systems, Inc., the innovator in strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, today announced the acquisitions of CyberShift, a leader in strategic workforce management and expense software, and Accero, experts in payroll and benefits software. These acquisitions advance and accelerate SumTotal’s vision and expand Talent Management to link mission critical processes across the broader strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) market. With over 3,400 global customers and 43 Million users, SumTotal represents the most complete strategic HCM solution delivering greater value to customers with cross-functional best-in-class capabilities.
Increasing labor costs have put additional pressures on organizations, driving the need for improved, global visibility of how organizations manage their workforce to reduce operational costs. The workforce is typically the largest expense to an organization (40-70 percent of costs), and how employees are acquired, on-boarded, trained, deployed, assessed, and rewarded directly impacts an organization’s ability to achieve its business goals and maximize profits. At the same time, the shift from simply managing transactional HR functions to enabling integrated HR processes is compelling organizations to simplify and improve their technology deployments to contain costs and eliminate silos of fragmented information. Significant cost reductions are achieved not only through the automation and optimization of related workforce processes, but also with the integration of functions to a single HR solution that leverages the latest cloud-based technologies.
“SumTotal has proven its ability to rapidly integrate multiple acquisitions in a short period of time while delivering real value to customers,” said Josh Bersin, president and chief executive officer, Bersin & Associates. “The acquisition of CyberShift and Accero gives the company a total end-to-end set of solutions for all elements of strategic human capital management.”
CyberShift, an industry leader in strategic workforce management and expense management software, offers innovative visualization and mobile solutions for time and attendance, advanced scheduling, absence management, and Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and leave management. CyberShift is the only enterprise solution vendor in Workforce Management with a true Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. Accero has a long demonstrated history providing payroll and benefits software with advanced workforce intelligence capabilities for mid-size and large enterprises internationally, and specializes in complex corporate environments.
Collectively, these acquisitions add an additional 1,000 new customers with millions of global users making SumTotal one of the largest Talent Management providers in the industry and one of the most complete strategic HCM providers. With customers such as Dell, Google, Sony Electronics, AstraZeneca, HBO, Tommy Bahama, Aer Lingus, US Airways, British Airways, and Rolls-Royce, SumTotal maintains a market leader position with global presence in every market segment and deployed in over 160 countries. Customers gain the value of the most complete solution available, a larger customer community to share best practices, increased vertical domain expertise, and best-in-class functional capabilities. In addition, SumTotal will continue to support and innovate all product lines and ensure existing customer investments remain secure. This proven customer-centric model galvanizes SumTotal’s commitment to customers as the company rapidly integrates and advances its best-in-class capabilities.
SumTotal now offers customers the most complete HR solution that manages strategic HCM functions including Talent Acquisition (acquire to onboard), Talent Management (perform to reward), Talent Development (assess to develop), and Workforce Management (schedule to pay), including integrated core system of record. Customers achieve the benefit of a single comprehensive solution that addresses strategic HCM processes, at a lower total cost of ownership and with best-in-class capabilities and a superior user experience.
“Customers are requiring more end-to-end solutions for enabling strategic, high-value HCM processes across their entire organization, while having ‘one-hand-to-shake’ with their delivery partner,” said John Borgerding, CEO of SumTotal Systems. “We have raised the bar for how organizations manage their workforce by providing complete visibility and strategic planning in a single solution that enables better decision making. Traditional vendors only touch the surface and focus on process automation or record keeping, and point solutions only address process silos and don’t scale to all organizational models. SumTotal is the only vendor that can provide this new level of breadth and depth for customers.”
For more information on SumTotal Systems, please visit www.sumtotalsystems.com.
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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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
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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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
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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June 24, 2011
HRchitect featured Cornerstone OnDemand in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Charles Coy participated in the HRchitect WebMingle on January 16, 2009. Cornerstone OnDemand participated in the Talent Management Systems Beauty Pageant in December 2008, where they were crowned the winner.
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’s president and CEO, Adam Miller, has been honored as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 Greater Los Angeles Award winner in the technology category.
Miller was selected among other leading entrepreneurs by an independent judging panel made up of previous award winners, leading CEOs, private capital investors and other regional business leaders. Awards are given to entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Winners were revealed at a gala event Tuesday evening, June 21, at The Beverly Hilton.
“It is an honor to be recognized by Ernst & Young as an Entrepreneur of the Year Award winner,” said Miller. “Over the years, I’ve found there are four keys to successful entrepreneurship: persuasiveness, persistence, perseverance and a great team. The support of friends, family and team members has been essential over the years in building Cornerstone OnDemand into one of the world’s fastest growing publicly-traded SaaS companies.”
Since Miller founded Cornerstone OnDemand in 1999, the company has enjoyed rapid business growth, an expanded global presence and industry-leading product innovation, resulting in an initial public offering in March of this year. Cornerstone is recognized among the leading SaaS-based talent management solution vendors by top industry analyst firms such as Gartner, IDC, Forrester and Bersin & Associates. The company also has been ranked among the fastest growing companies in North America by organizations such as the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and the Inc. 5000.
Miller also is the chairman of the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation, which leverages Cornerstone’s expertise, solutions and partner ecosystem to help empower communities. With a focus on education, workforce development and disaster relief, the Foundation has developed strategic partnerships with Teach for America, the New Teacher Project, Feeding America, Oxfam, Save the Children, the Taproot Foundation and many other leading non-profits.
“Ernst & Young has honored outstanding entrepreneurs like this year’s winners for the past 25 years,” said Brian Ring, program director for Ernst & Young LLP Entrepreneur of the Year Greater Los Angeles. “These business leaders have accomplished so much and contributed a tremendous amount to the community. They give us hope for what the next 25 years of entrepreneurs will bring.”
As a Greater Los Angeles Award winner, Miller is now eligible for consideration for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 National Award. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the overall national award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala November 12, 2011 in Palm Springs, Calif.
For more information about Cornerstone OnDemand, visit www.cornerstoneondemand.com.
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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June 13, 2011
Strategic addition of Corsello to Cornerstone’s executive team builds on the momentum of the company’s recent IPO and drives key elements of the company’s growth strategy
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 leading industry analyst Jason Corsello is joining the company as vice president of corporate development and strategy. Reporting to Cornerstone president and CEO Adam Miller, Corsello will leverage his extensive expertise in HR technology and services to identify key market opportunities, drive corporate initiatives and guide M&A, as well as support product strategy and service innovation.
The strategic addition of Corsello to the company’s executive team builds on the momentum of Cornerstone’s recent IPO and drives key elements of the company’s growth strategy, including international expansion, penetration of vertical markets and the extension of Cornerstone’s technology leadership.
“Jason has been a top analyst, advisor and thought leader in the talent management industry for the last decade. His knowledge of talent management processes and systems, along with his experience working with leading global companies, will be invaluable in helping us map our strategy into the future,” said Miller.
“I’ve been a student of the talent management market for nearly 10 years, researching the forces that are driving the industry and advising companies on how to best realize the value of talent to drive business impact,” said Corsello. “It’s been amazing to watch the achievements of Cornerstone over that time to become a driving force in the market. I look forward to joining an exciting company with a bright future and enormous growth potential.”
For more information about Cornerstone OnDemand, visit www.cornerstoneondemand.com.
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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May 29, 2011
Cited as “The Learning Leader” in Comprehensive Analysis of Current Offerings
HRchitect featured Plateau in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Jeff Kristick, Sr. VP Marketing of Plateau Systems appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on April 3, 2009.
If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 14 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!
Plateau Systems has been positioned as a “Leader” in the The Forrester Wave™: Talent Management, Q2 2011, published this week (May 23, 2011) by Forrester Research, Inc. Plateau achieved positioning in the Leaders Waves across Performance, Learning and Integrated Performance and Learning, and was cited as “the Learning Leader” in the report.
The report states: “In Forrester’s 108-criteria evaluation of talent management vendors that offer suites for both learning and performance, we found that Plateau edged out [the other evaluated vendors] for the top spot. Plateau’s stellar core learning functionality, coupled with advancements in performance management, boosted it to the top of the Leader category.”
The Plateau Talent Management Suite allows HR leaders and managers to bring the best out of their people — by automating and improving key talent management processes, delivering ongoing learning and development, and providing critical insight about the workforce.
“Plateau has been recognized as a leader in talent management, and was cited as the learning leader, one of the most critical aspects of talent management,” said Paul Sparta, chairman and CEO of Plateau Systems. “I’m immensely proud of the technology innovation and customer support that are behind our position as a leader in the Forrester Wave.”
Plateau recently entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by SuccessFactors, the global leader in business execution cloud-based SaaS software, which is expected to close in summer 2011. Following the close of the acquisition, Plateau Learning and other products will be integrated with SuccessFactors’ BizX suite.
“The newest industry assessment of who is strongest in Learning brings tears to our eyes at SuccessFactors, and warrants our investment thesis. Reorganization that Plateau ‘edged out [the other evaluated vendors]‘ and words like ‘stellar core learning functionality’ shows that our acquisition combines the clear best-in-class in Learning, with SuccessFactors’ best-in-class Talent Management. No. 1 and no. 1 respectively joining hands to provide total cradle-to-grave people applications, including hiring and onboarding, the system of record for content, formal, informal and social learning, and all talent management, social and collaboration, and reporting and analytics — delivered in the cloud in every part of the world,” said Lars Dalgaard, founder and CEO of SuccessFactors. “I’d like to congratulate Paul and his team for achieving this recognition as a Leader from Forrester Research, and I personally can’t wait to start working with them as part of the SuccessFactors team.”
Dalgaard continued, “That Plateau was also recognized as the leader in combined Performance and Learning shows us that their expertise extends beyond just learning to master the key integration points and data flows that encompass an end-to-end employee engagement platform, and that this problem has already been figured out in the best possible way for our customers to enjoy. In fact, the first integrated customers are live and we are excited about the many new customers that have called us already in anticipation of what is to come in combining Plateau and SuccessFactors.”
For more information about Plateau, visit www.plateau.com.
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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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.
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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May 26, 2011
Alliance enables Halogen Software customers to leverage cutting edge video-based courseware and measure training effectiveness via a performance-based learning system
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 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!
Talent Management leader Halogen Software, Inc. and ej4, a leading provider of video courseware, have partnered to provide users of Halogen’s award winning learning management system seamless access to cutting edge video training courses from eJ4. Through this partnership, Halogen Software customers can leverage thousands of ej4’s video-based courses to deliver practical training and development to employees via Halogen eLearning Manager™. This closed loop learning experience means organizations can directly measure the impact of video learning on employee performance.
ej4 offers a unique approach to training through the company’s J4™ videos which are concise, high impact training segments that enhance skills and behavior, rather than simply teach concepts and theories. The alliance was forged based on the compelling ability to measure the effectiveness of these training vehicles on employee performance.
“While an increasing number of organizations are leveraging video and social learning experiences to support employee development, the integration of ej4 courseware with Halogen eLearning Manager can help make this learning more meaningful because courses are specifically linked to the competencies that they address,” says Dan Cooper, Partner and CEO of ej4.
With siloed HR systems – where learning and performance are not thoughtfully linked – HR, managers and employees must use disparate systems to address development needs. Unlike this siloed or loosely integrated approach, Halogen offers a purpose-built talent management system that uniquely links learning with performance. This seamless connection between Halogen eLearning Manager and Halogen eAppraisal™ means customers can link ej4 courses to specific competencies within a few clicks, to align video training with real business needs.
“We are focused on helping our customers deliver training and development plans that demonstrate a return on their training investments,” says Donna Ronayne, Vice President Marketing and Business Development, Halogen Software. “By integrating ej4 video courseware with Halogen eLearning Manager, our customers can provide high-impact training that is relevant and timely to their employees and that positively impacts business results.”
For more information on Halogen Software, please visit www.halogensoftware.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
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