HRchitect Tech Vendor News:SUMTOTAL NAMED A “CHAMPION” IN MCLEAN & COMPANY’S TMS VENDOR REPORT

June 4, 2013

SUMTOTAL NAMED A “CHAMPION” IN MCLEAN & COMPANY’S TALENT MANAGEMENT SUITES VENDOR LANDSCAPE REPORT

SumTotal Earns Highest Scores Overall; Interoperability Strategy, Analytics and Advanced Workforce and Succession Planning Highlighted as Key Strengths

Gainesville, Fla. – May 23, 2013 – SumTotal® Systems, LLC, the only human resources solution provider that helps organizations discover, develop and unleash the hidden potential within their workforce, today announced that it was listed as a “Champion” in McLean & Company’s recently published Vendor Landscape: Talent Management Suites report, earning the highest overall vendor score in the report. The report states that “Champions” receive high scores for most evaluation criteria and offer excellent value. They have a strong market presence and are usually the trend setters for the industry. SumTotal was also the only vendor to earn “Exemplary,” the highest possible rating, in six of the seven major criteria areas. View the report here and McLean and Company’s Vendor Short-list Tool here.

“SumTotal was the highest scoring vendor overall, landing them at the top of the Champion pile. They offer nine talent management modules, including the four core modules: Recruiting & Hiring, Performance Management, Learning Management, and Compensation Management,” according to the report.

This breadth of offering earned SumTotal recognition as an “Exemplary Performer” for providing functionality for full employee lifecycle management. In addition, the report specifically recognized SumTotal for its advanced capabilities in analytics, workforce planning and succession planning, stating: “The Workforce Planning and Succession Planning modules offer advanced functionality to meet the needs of large and/or complex organizations – and they’re visually appealing as well.”

These advanced features – which also include mobile, end-user interface customization, social, workforce planning, succession planning, skills tracking and pay-equity analysis – are the capabilities that allow for granular market differentiation.

“We are pleased that McLean & Company recognized SumTotal as a Champion in its latest market analysis,” said Holly Rollo, chief marketing officer at SumTotal. “The report’s thoughtful and detailed evaluation highlights the depth and breadth of our market-leading Talent Expansion™ Applicationsand validates SumTotal’s vision and strategy around delivering solutions that help employees to get better at their jobs while they are doing them. We believe this focus on employee enablement, combined with the flexibility the SumTotal elixHR™ Platform provides by allowing customers to link with existing HR investments, is a significant and notable differentiator for Sumtotal.”

McLean & Company’s Vendor Landscape: Talent Management Suites focused on vendors that offer broad capabilities across multiple platforms and have a strong market presence or reputational presence among mid- and large-sized enterprises. To be considered for inclusion, vendors had to offer performance management and learning modules, as well as a recruitment module, a compensation module or both. The report evaluated 10 vendors across several vendor- and product-focused criteria.

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To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 16 years in business working on over 2000 successful engagements for more than 900 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

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HRchitect Vendor News: Cornerstone OnDemand Announces First Quarter 2013 Financial Results

May 16, 2013

Cornerstone OnDemand Announces First Quarter 2013 Financial Results

  • Record quarterly revenue of $37.7 million, up 57% year-over-year
  • Record quarterly gross profit of $26.4 million, up 54% year-over-year
  • Record first quarter bookings of $35.9 million, up 50% year-over-year1
  • Ended the quarter with over 1,300 clients and over 11 million users2

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — May 1, 2013 — Talent management software provider Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSOD) today announced results for its quarter ended March 31, 2013.

Revenue for the first quarter of 2013 was $37.7 million, representing a 57% increase compared to the same period in 2012.

Bookings, which the Company defines as gross revenue plus the change in deferred revenue for the period, were $35.9 million for the first quarter of 2013, representing a 50% increase compared to the same period in 2012.1 Deferred revenue at March 31, 2013 was $90.5 million, representing a 62% increase compared to the balance at March 31, 2012.

“As our results demonstrate, the momentum at Cornerstone has continued unabated,” said Adam Miller, the Company’s President and CEO.  “Even with our success, we have addressed just a fraction of the estimated 400 million potential global seats for our software, leaving us with an enormous market opportunity ahead. Through the continued build out of our global distribution capabilities across segments, geographies and verticals, we believe we are well-positioned to capture that opportunity.”

Gross profit for the first quarter of 2013 was $26.4 million, representing a 54% year-over-year increase compared to the same period in 2012. Non-GAAP gross profit for the first quarter of 2013 was $27.3 million, representing a 54% year-over-year increase compared to the same period in 2012.1 Gross margin for the first quarter of 2013 was 70.1%. On a non-GAAP basis, gross margin for the first quarter was 72.2%.1

The Company’s net loss for the first quarter of 2013 was $9.9 million, or $0.20 net loss per share. Non-GAAP net loss for the first quarter of 2013 was $5.3 million, or $0.10 net loss per share.1

At March 31, 2013, the Company’s total cash and cash equivalents were $76.2 million and accounts receivable were $37.2 million, yielding a total of approximately $113.4 million.

The Company ended the quarter with over 1,300 clients and over 11 million users.2

1. Bookings, non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP net loss and non-GAAP net loss per share are non-GAAP financial measures. Please see the discussion in the section “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” and the reconciliations at the end of this release.

2. Includes contracted clients and active users of any combination of our cloud-based solutions, excluding Cornerstone Small Business Solution, or “CSB”.

Quarterly Conference Call
Cornerstone OnDemand will host a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2013 results at 2:00 p.m. PT (5:00 p.m. ET) today. A live audio webcast of the conference call, together with detailed financial information, can be accessed through the company’s Investor Relations Web site at
http://investors.cornerstoneondemand.com/events.cfm
. The live call can be accessed by dialing (888) 359-3624 (U.S.) or (719) 325-2361 (outside the U.S.) and referencing passcode: 5136257. A replay of the call will also be available at 
http://investors.cornerstoneondemand.com/events.cfm
 or via telephone until 11:59 p.m. PT on May 5, 2013 by dialing (888) 203-1112 (U.S.) or (719) 457-0820 (outside the U.S.), and referencing passcode: 5136257.

About Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. is a leading global provider of comprehensive talent management solutions delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). We enable organizations to meet the challenges they face in empowering their people and maximizing the productivity of their human capital. Our core solution consists of the Cornerstone Recruiting Cloud, the Cornerstone Performance Cloud, the Cornerstone Learning Cloud and the Cornerstone Extended Enterprise Cloud. In addition to our core solution, we offer Cornerstone for Small Business and Cornerstone for Salesforce. Our clients use our solutions to source and recruit top talent, develop employees throughout their careers, engage employees effectively, improve business execution, cultivate future leaders, and integrate with their external networks of customers, vendors and distributors. We currently empower more than 11 million users across 190 countries and in 41 languages. www.csod.com

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Towers Watson Enhances its Talent Management Processes Capabilities with Latest Release of Talent|REWARD® Software Solution…from Towers Watson

September 7, 2012

 

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Towers Watson (NYSE, NASDAQ: TW), a global professional services company, today announced the release ofTalent|REWARD v7.2, the newest version of the company’s flagship software solution that helps organizations deliver comprehensive talent management and reward programs.

Talent|REWARD v7.2 provides a broader range of capabilities for organizations looking to improve business results through better management of HR processes and their employees. These enhancements to the software solution were developed based on global guidance from Towers Watson’s clients, and technology delivery and support teams who interact with users of the product daily. The latest innovations in Talent|REWARD v7.2 also provide direct linkages to Towers Watson market survey data.

“With organizations increasingly looking for more efficient ways to identify talent, the demand for innovative talent management and reward technology has never been greater,” said Ravin Jesuthasan, global practice leader for Talent Management at Towers Watson. “One of the most significant enhancements found in Talent|REWARD v7.2 is the software’s ability to incorporate real-time social feedback and collaboration into an organization’s talent management processes. Connecting employees is critical to innovation, engagement and speed of execution. Our latest version enables colleagues to share information, ideas and feedback more efficiently than in the past.”

“Talent|REWARD v7.2 also has significant new features that will allow users to manage, view, compare, and report on job and role profiles,” added Laura Sejen, global practice leader for Rewards at Towers Watson. “With the proper job architecture, job leveling and role profiles in place, organizations have a solid foundation from which to build integrated pay, performance, succession and learning programs.”

The enhancements in the latest release focus on a few key highlights for each of the solution’s modules:

  • Platform, connecting employees is critical to innovation, engagement and speed of execution. Talent|REWARD now supports social collaboration and feedback to go along with the LinkedIn integration provided in the v7.1 release.
  • Performance and Succession, with Talent|REWARD’s new configurable “nBox” display, users can quickly analyze their decisions based on factors that are relevant to the business issue at hand.
  • Learning, analyzing learning resource demand is an important part of providing the right content and experience for the growth and development of employees. Talent|REWARD v7.2 includes new reports and related functionality to help organizations optimize the resources they are providing.
  • Market Analysis and Compensation Design, role profiles are an integral part of an overall talent management plan. With Talent|REWARD v7.2, client-configurable role profiles are available as part of the Market Analysis & Compensation Design modules. Additionally, the new release has a robust and scalable Salary Structure Creation Wizard, which will help organizations with the process of creating salary structures.

 

For more information, please visit talentreward.com.

 

To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

 
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Oracle Introduces Oracle Taleo Cloud Service Feature Pack 12B…from Oracle

July 19, 2012

 

New Features and Enhanced Interface Empower Users to Make Data-Driven Business Decisions and Better Understand Their Talent

 

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!

 

To help solve the problems HR and business leaders face when mobilizing talent to attain higher business performance, Oracle recently announced availability of Oracle Taleo Cloud Service Feature Pack 12B.

By blending recruiting, performance and operational data from multiple sources, Taleo Cloud Service Feature Pack 12B enables organizations to more accurately measure the impact their workforce has on business and provides deeper intelligence about their talent.

Taleo Cloud Service Feature Pack 12B helps solve the problems HR and business line managers face every day when trying to search and find individuals within a company. Organizations invest resources to collect data about their people, but have found it difficult to manage and control at scale. Faceted search technology in Taleo Cloud Service Feature Pack 12B makes talent data accessible and actionable.

Previously known as Taleo Enterprise Edition, Oracle Taleo Cloud Service helps companies hire, manage, reward, and develop their employees by delivering a full talent management solution for recruiting, performance management, compensation management, employee development and succession planning.

Oracle and Taleo Continue to Demonstrate Leadership and Momentum in Talent Management

Oracle Taleo Cloud Service Feature Pack 12B is part of Oracle Human Capital Management, a complete and integrated suite of applications designed for organizations of every size, industry, and region. From recruiting and managing talent, to accurately forecasting future workforce needs, Oracle Human Capital Management enables organizations to proactively manage HR operations while focusing on strategic business initiatives.

Oracle Taleo Cloud Service Feature Pack 12B enables organizations to:

 

  • Gain Deeper Talent Insights: Companies can blend recruiting, performance, and operational data from disparate external sources into the pre-configured data warehouse built specifically for analyzing talent. This provides a holistic view of talent trends, impact on business and the data to optimize talent strategies.
  • Uncover the Right Talent: New talent search in a consumer-like interface enables managers, HR and recruiters to find people quickly and intuitively. Previously, complex searches for talent often required report writers and took days. Now, faceted search technology provides the most advanced capabilities in the market for searching, filtering and taking action on talent in seconds.
  • Focus on Performance Conversations: With a redesigned performance review, managers can focus on review content rather than the mechanics of navigating or assembling documentation. The self-assessment, feedback journal and emails imported throughout the year are accessible from a single page, enabling managers to put more emphasis on having meaningful, actionable conversations with employees.
  • Engage in Real-Time Collaboration: Calibrating reviews helps ensure data consistency for performance analytics and talent planning, but is traditionally managed with cumbersome spreadsheets. Enhanced calibration features enable HR and business leaders to manage calibration decisions in-real time using new meeting facilitation tools. By providing a central review hub, management teams can identify problem populations, perform mass updates, and visualize rating distributions against benchmarks on the fly.

Oracle Taleo Cloud Service Feature Pack 12B is generally available in the Oracle Cloud.

Supporting Quote

“While the latest release of Oracle Taleo Cloud Service demonstrates why we are recognized leaders in talent intelligence, the real winners are our users. Fundamentally, we provide tools every organization needs to find talent, understand talent, and unlock the power of their people. Only Oracle can deliver an integrated talent and HCM solution robust enough to handle the needs of the largest global enterprises in the cloud,” said Jason Blessing, senior vice president, Oracle Development.

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

To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 2000 successful engagements for more than 900 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

 
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Halogen Feedback Central Transforms How Organizations Leverage Social Feedback in their Talent Programs…from Halogen Software

July 1, 2012

 

New feature changes the way organizations collect and use employee feedback to drive performance

 

HRchitect featured Halogen Software in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Halogen Software recently announced Halogen Feedback Central, a new product enhancement in the Halogen Talent Management Suite™ that makes it easy for organizations to use feedback to drive higher performance. Unlike social platforms that are disconnected from the organization’s talent management strategy, Halogen Feedback Central integrates with all talent functions to make it a dynamic resource that helps drive business strategy.

Giving constructive performance-based feedback is a challenge for many managers. Research shows that managers giving little or no feedback to their workers fail to engage 98% of them. And in most organizations feedback is delivered in various formats and is often lost, with no easy way to securely store or use it to support performance.

A Better Way to Use Crowdsourced Feedback

Halogen Feedback Central uniquely marries the best of traditional and new, more social methods for gathering employee feedback, and aggregates it for strategic use across all talent functions.

Organizations can easily deliver and aggregate feedback from managers, peers, HR teams — even customers and suppliers — in a practical and secure way. Halogen Feedback Central goes beyond social recognition and rewards by addressing all types of feedback including journal notes, coaching, observations, kudos and more.

Recent Gartner research notes the changing nature of performance reviews and the importance of social recognition. “Formal performance reviews are not likely to go away anytime soon. They provide a needed checkpoint for making compensation and staffing decisions. However, leading organizations will start to move toward more bottom-up feedback, recognition and rewards,” said James Holincheck, Managing Vice President, Gartner.

Halogen Feedback Central makes it easy to link appropriate feedback to all other talent processes, including performance reviews, succession, goals, training and development, etc. More importantly, it enables organizations to crowdsource employee feedback using customized icons and feedback types to ensure they are reinforcing corporate culture, values and business strategy.

One-Click Away from Fostering a More Feedback-Rich Culture

With Halogen Feedback Central, users can deliver feedback directly from within Halogen eAppraisal™.  And since email is the most common way for employees to communicate, the Microsoft Office® Outlook® Plug-in for Halogen Feedback Central enables users to create original feedback and journal notes and even save email as feedback directly into the system.

With the click of a button, employees can select the recipient and type of feedback they want to give all without having to log into the Halogen suite. By providing multiple ways for employees to deliver feedback, Halogen Feedback Central helps organizations break down the barriers to fostering a feedback-rich culture.

“Our organization places strong emphasis on employee feedback and recognition as part of our culture,” said Chris Cowan, Director HR Service Delivery, Christiana Care Health Services. “That Feedback Central integrates email with journal notes will help our organization easily collect, keep track of and use the recognition items gathered throughout the year.”

Flexible, Customizable and Secure

Permissions can be set to control who can send, view and delete each feedback type. Organizations can also monitor the feedback types and frequency to see how it all maps back to the competencies important to the organization’s success.

Halogen Feedback Central is now shipping as a standard feature in the Halogen eAppraisal solution.

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

To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

 
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PeopleAdmin Customers Rapidly Adopt 7th Generation Talent Management Software…from PeopleAdmin

June 29, 2012

 

Due to the breadth and intuitiveness of the solution, more than 250 customers are quickly experiencing the power and flexibility of SelectSuite

 

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!

PeopleAdmin, the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions for higher education and government, today announced that more than 250 customers are now utilizing SelectSuite to drive efficient, compliant and defensible Human Resources (HR) processes across the entire employment lifecycle. A few of these organizations include Cape Fear Community College, North Carolina State University, Rosemont College, Sam Houston State University and University of San Francisco.

“SelectSuite automates HR processes including applicant tracking, onboarding, position management and performance management as well as specialized functions for faculty recruiting and search committee management,” said Susanne Bowen, CEO, PeopleAdmin. “We are pleased to see the positive response to this powerful technology that puts talent management software, tailored to fit the unique needs of higher education and government, in the capable hands of HR staff, hiring managers, faculty and provost.”

“We have been a PeopleAdmin customer for more than nine years and know we can always count on the company for best of breed products and service,” said Diane Nelson, director of employment and employee relations, University of San Francisco. “The new SelectSuite platform has not only provided enhanced functionality, but the training and overall usability of the system allowed for rapid adoption across our organization.”

The new and improved talent management suite provides HR staff and hiring managers with the capability to enhance HR processes across the entire employment lifecycle.

“Without a doubt, the PeopleAdmin system has elevated our brand power and proactively identifies and engages the best talent available,” added Nelson. “Unlike any other solution on the market, PeopleAdmin provides a comprehensive set of capabilities to support flexible workflows that cater to the unique needs of faculty and staff hiring alike. PeopleAdmin helps to create a strategic path to adopting new functionality, which includes onboarding and performance management for us in the near future.”

To support the unique needs of the higher education and government markets, PeopleAdmin continually updates and provides enhancements based on best practices, insight from customers, trends and sustained industry knowledge.

“One of the main reasons we are working with PeopleAdmin is that they understand what higher education and government need – and we are both,” says David Perryman, human resources, North Carolina State University.

The North Carolina State University HR team is thrilled with the simplicity of record retention and the improved efficiency of their system, as well as their increased ability to proactively assist with organizational changes and recruiting. Data entry continues on the thousands of position descriptions being used across campus, but the process continues to speed up as previously entered descriptions are leveraged for use in other position descriptions.

For additional insight into the benefits recognized by PeopleAdmin customers, please click here for case studies.

For more information on PeopleAdmin, please visit www.peopleadmin.com

To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

 
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Halogen Closes Q1 of 2012 with Outstanding Results…from Halogen Software

May 31, 2012

 

First quarter performance highlighted by record annual recurring revenue, international expansion and significant customer wins for talent management leader

 

HRchitect featured Halogen Software in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Halogen Software, a leading provider of talent management software, closed its first quarter of 2012 with outstanding business results, including 36% growth in annual recurring revenue (ARR) over this same period in 2011. The quarter was also marked by significant customer wins, strong customer retention and satisfaction, new partnerships, and the company’s announced expansion into Australia to meet growing demand for its solutions.

New customers added during the quarter include: Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc., Aceto Corporation, Englewood Schools, Evolve Federal Credit Union, City of Shoreline, WA, Bluewater Technologies, Cadillac Jack, Stewart & Stevenson LLC, Richland County Public Library, Audobon Engineering Operations, QuadraMed Corporation, Telnet Nigeria Limited, Seneca Gaming Corporation, Damascus Bakery, Spa Esprit, Aspen Group Limited, CWB Group Inc. and The German Marshall Fund of the United States.

“We selected Halogen as a partner to support us in assessing and driving higher employee and organizational performance,” said Charles Alaimo, Vice President, Human Resources, Aceto Corporation. “With Halogen everyone has visibility into the performance review process – we see that as incredibly important in terms of fostering accountability, higher engagement and performance in general. We also like how customer focused Halogen is. Their support team is responsive and helpful – just excellent.”

Highlights from the quarter include:

  • As part of its continued global expansion, Halogen announced the opening of a new office in Sydney, Australia to better support the needs of the Asia Pacific market.
  • OHL, a leading third party logistics provider (3PL), made the switch to Halogen’s award-winning talent management solution. OHL now relies on Halogen to help drive talent management strategy for more than 7000 employees across 130 locations worldwide.
  • Herzing University 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.
  • The AAA (Association for Accounting Administration) partnered with Halogen to support accounting firms in building their world-class workforce. This partnership provides the association’s more than 900 members access to best practice HR resources and special purchase terms for Halogen’s award winning Talent Management Suite for Professional Services.
  • Halogen partnered with social software provider Qontext to link workforce collaboration directly to talent management processes. Through this partnership, Halogen and Qontext customers can improve internal communication and collaboration related to talent management processes and workforce decision-making.
  • Halogen makes it simpler to connect talent strategies to business initiatives with new product enhancements. Two of the many product enhancements featured in Version 11.1 of the Halogen Talent Management Suite™ include: the ability to easily import goal targets from external systems, and the ability to import past development plans into a performance management process for ongoing tracking.

 

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

To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

 
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SilkRoad Announces 3rd SilkRoad Connections User Conference…from SilkRoad Technology

May 31, 2012

 

HRchitect featured SilkRoad in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. SilkRoad competed in the HRchitect Beauty Pageant on Onboarding Systems in January 2009, and the HRchitect IRONMAN on Mid-Marketing Talent Acquisition Systems on June18, 2010, where they were crowned the winner of each. Brian Platz, EVP and COO of SilkRoad also appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on March 20, 2009. Finally, HRchitect attended the SilkRoad user conference, SilkRoad Connections, in May 2010, May 2011 and is a proud sponsor of the June 2012 conference.

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

SilkRoad, a leading provider of social talent management solutions, recently announced it will bring together more than 500 customers, partners and employees to learn, share and connect on evolving HR trends and technologies at SilkRoad Connections, taking place at Camelback Inn, A JW Marriott Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona, June 3 – 6, 2012.  Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage, will deliver the keynote presentation on Monday, June 4th at 9:30 a.m. MST on how to use happiness in the workplace to fuel success.

During the conference, SilkRoad will be hosting a panel session on Tuesday, June 5th from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. MST featuring leading industry bloggers discussing employee engagement and its impact on the bottom line.  Moderated by Allan Benowitz from The Employee Engagement Group, panelists Sharlyn Lauby, HR Bartender, Alexander Levit, Water Cooler Wisdom and Lisa Rosendahl, Simply Lisawill explore what employee engagement means from a business perspective, where to start and how social fits into the program.

Today’s HR leaders are faced with unprecedented market challenges and fierce competition that impacts their ability to effectively engage, develop and enable top talent.  Coming out of the conference, HR leaders and practitioners will be armed with new skills and best practices for:

  • Digital interviewing
  • Developing talent communities
  • Online recruitment advertising
  • Training the extended enterprise
  • Using social media to drive talent management

SilkRoad Connections will be held at the Camelback Inn, A JW Marriott Resort & Spa, 5402 East Lincoln Drive, Scottsdale, AZ 85253.  For more information, visit 
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For more information on SilkRoad Technology, please visit www.silkroad.com

To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

 
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Canada-Based Insurer Selects Ultimate Software’s UltiPro for Strategic People Management…from Ultimate Software

May 26, 2012

 

HRchitect includes Ultimate Software in our list of top HRIS vendors that organizations 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!

 

Ultimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI), a leading cloud provider of people management solutions, announced recently The Co-operators Group Limited, one of Canada’s leading insurers with 6,500 employees, has selected the UltiPro solution to consolidate its people-centric operations, improve the precision and delivery of workforce data, and elevate its strategic talent management capabilities.

The Co-operators is a Canadian-owned and -operated company that has been using separate systems for HR and payroll as well as other in-house systems to fill functional gaps. With eight business entities, the insurance company needed one HCM solution that could handle the entire employee lifecycle for its multiple business units and that included a strong payroll engine and talent management features. To achieve its objectives, The Co-operators HR team selected UltiPro in December 2011.

“In addition to having one technology provider that manages the entire scope of our people management processes, we especially needed advanced functionality for strategic talent management,” said Christopher Perkins, director of change management at The Co-operators Group. “UltiPro delivers the recruitment, performance management, and succession management features to more effectively attract and retain the best possible workforce for our business.”

In addition to elevating its strategic talent management, The Co-operators is also planning to improve HR effectiveness and efficiencies across the organization by centralizing employee information into one cohesive solution, improving the accuracy and integrity of its data, and using workflows to expedite and standardize workforce changes.

“We participated in a year-long RFP process that compared dozens of HCM and technology vendors, and in the end, UltiPro stood out as the right solution to provide the functionality, usability, and overall value that will support our business,” said Perkins.

“Ultimate Software is very pleased to offer businesses in Canada a comprehensive technology solution for HR and payroll that gives them control over their information, immediate access to centralized business intelligence, and tools that take talent management to a strategic level, not just the administrative process of submitting an employment application or completing an annual performance review,” said Greg Swick, chief sales officer at Ultimate Software. “The ability for a company to effectively manage and strengthen its talent sets it apart from its competitors, and achieving this goal has become a model of good business practices for top companies like The Co-operators Group. We welcome this organization to Ultimate Software’s family of business partners, and we look forward to a relationship that will provide long-term results.”

For more information on Ultimate Software, please visit www.ultimatesoftware.com

To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

 
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ADP Launches New Talent Management Offerings with Integrated, End-to-End Solution…from ADP

May 25, 2012

 

Comprehensive Platform Now Includes Learning Management; Enables Organizations to Manage the Entire Employee Lifecycle, from Pre-hire through Retire

 

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

ADP ®, a leading provider of talent management solutions, today introduced an integrated end-to-end platform designed to enable organizations to acquire, develop and retain top talent, while ensuring that they remain leading performers.  Crowning a multi-year strategic development effort to create the industry’s leading integrated talent solution, the new ADP platform leverages advanced learning management tools, insightful learning content from Bersin and Associates, as well as an enterprise competency framework to significantly improve the talent management processes of leading organizations.

ADP unveiled the fully integrated ADP Talent Management suite at the WorldAtWork Total Rewards 2012 Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Florida. To view a video on ADP’s new integrated Talent Management suite, click here.

Specifically designed to enable organizations to seamlessly integrate their talent acquisition, compensation, performance management, succession, and learning processes into an end-to-end solution, ADP’s new Talent Management solution is ideally suited for clients seeking to meet the increasingly complex challenges of growing and developing their workforces.

“Talent Management is a critical component of every organization’s human capital management strategy, yet most organizations don’t have an end-to-end solution in place to execute their strategies in a completely integrated fashion,” said Don Weinstein, Senior Vice President, ADP Product Management. “ADP has extended the definition of integrated Talent Management, by combining Talent Management with other critical HCM functions.  The integration of ADP Talent Management with ADP’s Payroll and HCM solutions provides a complete end-to-end cloud based HCM solution for any organization looking to simplify and enhance their human capital management strategy.”

The new ADP Talent Management Suite includes Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, Compensation Management, Succession Management and Learning Management modules.

In addition, ADP announced today the availability of expanded insight from BersinBasics™, the first research-based multimedia learning solution that enables business leaders and HR professionals to rapidly learn the fundamentals of successful talent management in a ‘just-in-time’ learning format.

To view a new infographic from ADP entitled “The New Science of Talent Management,” click here:
http://www.adp.com/talent-management/infographic.aspx?cid=soc_PR_TLMInfograph_20120503
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“Fewer than 25 percent of line managers feel fully comfortable with the practices of coaching, goal-setting, performance assessment, development planning, leadership assessment, and other critical areas of talent management,” said Josh Bersin, Chief Executive Officer and President, Bersin & Associates, a membership-based research and consulting firm in Oakland, Calif.  “The combination of BersinBasics and ADP’s integrated, end-to-end Talent Management system enables managers to access easy-to-use training on all aspects of talent management to help drive business performance.”

ADP’s new, integrated Talent Management solution is uniquely positioned to provide a pipeline of personnel for organizations to consider during the hiring process and a robust way to track them and to assess their lifetime productivity for the business, based on the tools and administrative services that only ADP can deliver. Clients around the world can now count on the completeness, strong integration and insightful expertise of ADP’s Talent Management Suite.

For more information on ADP, please visit www.adp.com

To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

 
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Globoforce Redefines Performance Management with Launch of Talent Maps…from Globoforce

May 19, 2012

 

New visual tools leverage crowdsourced recognition for actionable insight on employee performance and culture

 

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!

 

Globoforce® (www.globoforce.com), the world’s leading provider of employee recognition solutions, today announced Talent Maps™, the industry’s first and only solution that connects employee recognition data with employee performance data. The new tool helps HR and business leaders more effectively manage their talent and culture by leveraging crowdsourced recognition and feedback. With this new level of insight, managers finally have the ongoing data to fill the void in traditional performance reviews.

Annual performance reviews have long come under criticism for their infrequency and single viewpoint about employee performance. With Talent Maps, business and HR leaders now have an easier, more effective way to evaluate their global talent. Through data populated by peer-to-peer recognition across the company, HR and business leaders can see firsthand who the top performers and influencers are within teams, departments, and the company.

This knowledge and data can be used to identify high potential, high performance individuals for succession planning, flight risk assessment, and leadership development. In addition, managers gain actionable data for more effective day-to-day team management and individual performance assessment.

“Social recognition is the next big disruptor within HR,” said Grant Beckett, vice president of product for Globoforce. “Its high levels of adoption across an entire workforce make it the ideal way to evaluate employee performance and influence. With Talent Maps, we take this crowdsourced feedback data and plot it against performance appraisal ratings. Combining these two data points delivers a level of insight about a company’s talent that has never been available in an HR system before.”

According to Gartner’s recent report, 2012 Strategic Road Map for Employee Performance Management, social recognition programs can help improve performance while decreasing reliance solely on manager and executive feedback. In the report, Gartner Managing Vice President Jim Holincheck writes that “leading organizations will start to move toward more bottom-up feedback, recognition and rewards.” Managers can see the level of frequency of recognition and performance feedback for individual employees. As a result, “senior executives can use this data to see if manager performance decisions align with what coworkers indicate through their actions.”

“Our recognition program with Globoforce is one of the critical programs we use to drive employee engagement and elevate business performance,” said Amy Montefinese, vice president, global total rewards and human resources operations at Premier Farnell. “Now, we will have a way to translate our recognition awards into actionable data to ensure our top performers and high potential employees are being recognized. By aligning recognition awards against performance review ratings, we will also be able to ensure our pay for performance philosophy is consistently executed across our global business.”

With Globoforce’s Talent Maps, HR and business leaders can also:

Assess company and individual department alignment to company values, showing how “everyday” behaviors impact business and cultural goals

Provide managers with an easy-to-use tool that visually maps out individual and team performance while highlighting hidden talent

Leverage the data from  ongoing social recognition programs to show which employees are driving the business forward

Talent Maps is already gaining recognition for its impact on the industry. Last week, Talent Maps was named a Finalist in the Best New Product or Service – Software – Human Capital Management Solution category in The 2012 American Business Awards.

Below is a sample of commentary from the HR analyst community about this launch:

“Performance management is only as good as its data. With this release, Globoforce uses recognition as the central data component for performance and potential indicators. The result is a useful, compelling data set of organizational relationships and performance assessments that are created in the context of getting work done. By further leveraging this data into performance reviews, business and HR leaders will be able to align ratings with the performance and behaviors that everyone across the organization recognizes on a daily basis.”

-     Yvette Cameron, vice president and principal analyst, Constellation Research

“Social recognition is offering a new vantage point on employee engagement and workforce performance.  As companies strive to identify high-potential, high-performance individuals, recognition data offers one of the most compelling use cases I’ve seen in HR. This is a burgeoning new technology development that will reshape performance management over the next three to five years, giving HR leaders the insight about their talent they have long sought.”

Jim Holincheck, managing vice president, Gartner Inc.

“Organizations are hungry for the data that will help them make better decisions about every aspect of their business, and employee performance management is mission critical. Globoforce’s Talent Maps not only provides multiple streams of actionable data to manage individual performance, it also provides the organization with a cultural diagnostic that gives visibility into engagement, goal alignment, and the informal networks that drive organizational change and results.”

Mollie Lombardi, research director, HCM, Aberdeen Group

For more information on Globoforce, please visit www.globoforce.com

To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

 
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George LeBrun Joins Saba as General Manager…from Saba

May 18, 2012

 

Seasoned Executive to Lead Company’s Saba People Cloud Initiatives

 

HRchitect featured Saba in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Saba appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on August 14, 2009. Matt Lafata with HRchitect attended the 2010 Saba Global Summit and Analyst Day in Boston, MA. Matt Lafata & Tiffany Appleby attended the Saba Global Sales Rally FY12 in June 2011 in Redwood City, CA and the Saba Global Summit 2012 in Miami, FL.

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Saba (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier provider of people-centric enterprise solutions, recently announced the appointment of George LeBrun to General Manager of the team leading Saba’s Social Enterprise Platform. Bringing more than two decades of executive experience to Saba, LeBrun will assume responsibility and oversight of Saba’s social products business, including its thought leadership and advisory around the Social Web, product strategy, business development, digital media and branding for Saba’s social enterprise platform, the Saba People Cloud. LeBrun will be based out of Saba’s Redwood Shores headquarters and will report to Saba’s Chief Operating Officer, Shawn Farshchi.

“I am thrilled to welcome George to our team at Saba. He has an impressive management track record at cutting edge social enterprise companies,” said Shawn Farshchi, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Saba. “George will be instrumental as Saba continues to establish leadership in the social space.”

Most recently, LeBrun served as Founder and CEO of Social Instinct, an enterprise software company focused on developing HR and knowledge management solutions, including social platforms and applications, for clients and partners such as: AT&T, IBM, Globex Game Studios, Ipswitch, and others. Prior to his time at Social Instinct, LeBrun acted as founding partner of Rule 13, a consulting firm that helps Fortune 1,000 companies assess and re-align their business rules, strategies, and innovation methodologies in accordance with the changing social landscape. While at Rue 13, LeBrun led the charge in educating global organizations on emerging trends and technologies, Web 2.0 applications, social media, new advertising platforms and methodologies, and aided in the development of multi-platform digital content and distribution.  Prior to Social Instinct and Rule 13, LeBrun held executive positions at Enthuze, Performance Monitor, and Digital Standard.

“Saba is positioned to play a pivotal role in the social space,” added George LeBrun, General Manager of the Saba People Cloud, Saba. “I look forward to my work at Saba and showing the industry how Saba transforms the world of work for its customers through the power of social software for work.”

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

To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

 
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SilkRoad Technology Accelerates Growth by Increasing Customer Acquisitions and Implementations in First Quarter 2012…from SilkRoad Technology

May 16, 2012

 

SilkRoad Welcomes Nearly 120 New Customers Including Aruba Networks, Provant Health Solutions and NSTAR Global Services

 

HRchitect featured SilkRoad in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. SilkRoad competed in the HRchitect Beauty Pageant on Onboarding Systems in January 2009, and the HRchitect IRONMAN on Mid-Marketing Talent Acquisition Systems on June18, 2010, where they were crowned the winner of each. Brian Platz, EVP and COO of SilkRoad also appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on March 20, 2009. Finally, HRchitect attended the SilkRoad user conference, SilkRoad Connections, in May 2010 and 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 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

SilkRoad Technology, Inc., a leading provider of social talent management solutions, continues to gain significant momentum for its Life Suite® product line with accelerated customer growth in the first quarter, including G-TECH, Presidio Network Solutions, Aruba Networks, Provant Health Solutions and NSTAR Global Services.  In addition, the quarter saw an increase in the number of international customers, including Nippon Insurance Information Technology for Skill development (Japan), Channel Four Television Corp. (UK), Rainforest Education (Singapore) and Mazars (France).  SilkRoad’s Life Suite solutions provide companies worldwide with an intuitive design, scalability and localization to effectively engage, develop and enable top talent.

“We’ve witnessed a sensitization to human capital management around the world as more organizations look to HR to drive business performance,” said Flip Filipowski, executive chairman and CEO of SilkRoad.  “SilkRoad stands out as the leader in innovative talent management technology with our employee-centric HR solutions that empower people to drive their own careers.   Unlike other talent management providers, SilkRoad has an entire suite of human capital management solutions, including a HRMS and unique social capabilities for companies of all sizes and industries.”

Highlights from the Quarter:

Expanding Existing Customer Implementations – In the first quarter, existing customers, including Microfocus and Trumpet Behavioral Health, added additional solutions to their Life Suite implementations.  Microfocus, a leading global software company, is a long-term OpenHire® and RedCarpet® customer that added SilkRoad’s WingSpan® as its performance management system for its global workforce.  Trumpet Behavioral Health, the nation’s leading provider of behavioral services for children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders and an OpenHire, RedCarpet and HeartBeat® customer, added WingSpan and Eprise® to streamline its performance management and intranets.

Industry Recognition – Also in the first quarter, SilkRoad’s Point™, a social enterprise solution, was one of ten finalists worldwide recognized with a Netexplo 2012 Award for digital innovation.  In addition, SilkRoad’s RedCarpet was recognized by the CODiE Awards and OpenHire was recognized by the Brandon Hall Excellence Awards as a leading talent management solution.  SilkRoad’s dedicated support team was also honored with a Stevie Award for its innovative approach to customer service.

Customer Comments:

After the successful implementation of HeartBeat, existing SilkRoad Life Suite customer Carol Montgomery, senior vice president and chief human resources officer for York Risk Services Group said, “The SilkRoad Life Suite was a refreshing option for a growing business like ours and with HeartBeat, we’ve achieved additional efficiencies across all of our HR functions.  HeartBeat completed our talent management suite, offered self-service options for our employees, automated time-consuming manual tasks and is integrated with our payroll system to serve as a system of record.”

For more information on SilkRoad Technology, please visit www.silkroad.com

To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

 
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Cornerstone OnDemand Announces Speaker Line-Up for its Convergence 2012 Client Conference…from Cornerstone

May 4, 2012

 

Client presenters include learning and HR leaders from The Neiman Marcus Group, Turner Broadcasting System and MetroPCS, among many others

 

HRchitect featured Cornerstone OnDemand in our first release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and top Learning Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Charles Coy participated in the HRchitect WebMingle on January 16, 2009 and again on December 8, 2011. HRchitect attended and sponsored Cornerstone’s user conference in 2009 and 2010.

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ:CSOD), a global leader in cloud-based talent management software solutions, today announced the speaker line-up and agenda for its annual client conference, Convergence 2012, to be held May 15-17 at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.

Cornerstone’s signature event connects learning, HR and talent management professionals from around the world with top industry thought leaders and Cornerstone team members to discuss workforce trends and share people management strategies and technology best practices.

This year’s Convergence agenda boasts 60 interactive educational sessions, the majority of which will be led by learning, HR and talent management professionals representing top-tier Cornerstone clients across a wide variety of industries. Clients include American Bankers Association, Advantage Sales and Marketing, BMC Software, EchoStar Corporation, MasterCard Worldwide, McCarthy Building Companies, MetroPCS, The Neiman Marcus Group, Pitney Bowes, State of Nebraska, Tractor Supply Company, True Value Company, Turner Broadcasting System and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, among others.

Bill Kutik, technology columnist for trade publication Human Resource Executive, also will moderate a Cornerstone client panel featuring executives from Western Union and New Leaders, among others. During the session, panelists will share their insights regarding employee management topics ranging from change management and user adoption, to social media and collaborative work.

The theme of this year’s Convergence conference is “Building the Empowered Enterprise.” Mainstream adoption of online, social, mobile and cloud technologies are changing how consumers live, communicate and work. This shift is requiring organizations to adapt to new ways of functioning and thinking, especially as it relates to workforce management. Adam Miller, Cornerstone’s founder and CEO, will explore how these trends are impacting clients and influencing Cornerstone’s product innovation during his opening keynote presentation, which will be streamed live to Cornerstone’s Web site.

“The concept of the Empowered Enterprise is rooted in the convergence of technology and people,” said Miller. “Technology strategies are now being driven by what employees need and want in order to get their jobs done, while incorporating the devices and applications they use every day. This creates significant opportunities for organizations to transform the ways in which they engage, enable and empower their workforce through learning, performance and talent management initiatives.”

Conference sessions are organized into seven tracks tailored for professionals at every level – including business leaders, managers, administrators and IT professionals – as well as tracks for new and prospective Cornerstone clients. Topics span the talent management spectrum, from recruiting, learning and development, enterprise social networking, and performance management, to succession planning, employee career management, extended enterprise enablement and more.

The Convergence 2012 Diamond Sponsor is Intelladon. Gold Sponsors include ADP, Altus365, KnowedgeAdvisors and Sage. Silver Sponsors include HireVue and SHL.

For more information on Cornerstone OnDemand, please visit www.cornerstoneondemand.com

To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

 
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Halogen Software Plugs and Plays with Key Enterprise Apps to Make Life Easier for HR and Employees…from Halogen Software

May 3, 2012

 

New Talent Profile API and Microsoft Office Outlook Plug-in make it easy for organizations to exchange and centralize key employee data in the Halogen Talent Management Suite

 

HRchitect featured Halogen Software in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Halogen Software has delivered new product enhancements that provide improved integration between its award-winning talent management suite and other enterprise applications. The Microsoft® Office Outlook Plug-in for the Halogen Talent Management Suite™ puts an important “performance feedback” feature of the suite where many users work the most – their inbox. The new Talent Profile API allows customers to automatically import key information from other corporate employee profiles and consolidate it in Halogen’s Talent Profile to gain a complete and secure picture of every employee.

Microsoft Office Outlook Plug-in

Customers have consistently praised Halogen’s “Performance Journal” as a meaningful tool to share and document notes on employee performance. The new Microsoft Office Outlook Plug-in for the Halogen suite makes the Performance Journal tool even more efficient and valuable to both employees and managers.

With the click of a button anyone in the organization can save emails from peers, subordinates, colleagues, customers and partners as feedback within Halogen eAppraisal. This ability to consolidate both internal and external feedback shared through email, and capture it in one central location, helps organizations gather richer feedback for a complete picture of performance. It conveniently puts the feature in an application that employees across the organization use the most – their email – and supports even broader use of the Halogen suite.

The plug-in is designed for ease of use:

Users can instantly convert emails into journal notes without having to log into the Halogen Suite.

Employees can create a feedback note for anyone in the organization resulting in richer information available to employees and managers at performance appraisal time.

“Halogen’s Performance Journal has always been an important tool for our managers and employees,” said Jessica Utley, HR Director, Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain, PC and Affiliates. “This integration with an enterprise wide application like Outlook is going to boost use of this tool even further. We love that Halogen is always looking for ways to improve usability for their products and make the suite a single source for data about our talent.”

Halogen Talent Profile API

Organizations often have employee profiles stored across various internal, disparate systems, which can cause duplicate data entry and inconsistency in data integrity across these different profiles. The Halogen Talent Profile API automatically synchs with profiles stored in other systems – such as HRIS, third-party learning and certification systems, or corporate social networks like Microsoft SharePoint and Yammer – making it the single source of talent data about an employee.

With this API, organizations can:

Develop secure, configurable employee profiles to create a data rich company directory within the Halogen suite.

Provide managers and approvers fingertip access to an employee’s full profile for internal recruitment, while writing an appraisal, completing a talent assessment for succession planning, or when awarding compensation adjustments.

Quickly identify high potential employees for talent pools and leadership bench strength.

Introduce internal social networking capabilities in a secure way – employees across the organization can find and connect with one another based on interests, knowledge, roles, and more.

Lock down sections of the profile to ensure they are only updated with external information via the API and cannot be modified by employees.

Data-rich talent profiles give organizations even deeper insight into an employee’s engagement with their workplace and career. This can make all the difference to a manager deciding on future development opportunities, judging an employee’s competence in areas like initiative, or making a call on questions such as readiness for promotion or risk of leaving the company.

“Halogen’s Talent Profile flexibility has always been a strong selling point for our customers. Now the ability to easily bring in key information from other profiles they use across the enterprise makes it even more compelling,” said Dawn MacKay, VP of Product Management, Halogen Software. “There is no other talent profile on the market that offers these configuration or security capabilities.”

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

To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 15 years in business working on over 1800 successful engagements for more than 800 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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