PeopleMatter Launches Game-Changing Mobile Scheduling Software…from PeopleMatter

February 29, 2012

 

Online System Taps Into New Market with Smartphone App Focused on Service Industries

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!

 

PeopleMatter, the leading talent management platform specifically built for hourly workforces in the service industry, vows to end paper scheduling with the launch of its online labor management system, PeopleMatter SCHEDULE™. SCHEDULE’s mobile app and online tools help service-industry workforces manage shifts, stay connected and take control like never before.

SCHEDULE’s powerful, Web-based technology allows managers to create, share, update and optimize schedules automatically, 24/7. Organizations can easily configure rules and preferences by specific locations or company-wide to help improve compliance, increase schedule-accuracy and prevent unplanned overtime and costs. A free iPhone and Android app lets employees access schedules, trade shifts and view updates right on their smartphones.

With smartphone usage nearly tripling in 2011 and more than half of its typical employee base (18-29 year-olds) device owners, the service industry must adopt solutions that cater to this tech-savvy generation’s values in order to attract and retain top talent. PeopleMatter’s app allows organizations to capitalize on the mobile epidemic and helps streamline communication with on-the-go workforces.

“This is a game-changer for both the service industry and talent management software,” said Stacey Harris, Vice President of Research and Advisory Services for Brandon Hall. “Scheduling has been a push-and-pull process, but talented employees are requiring more collaborative methods. With SCHEDULE, PeopleMatter is making talent management more than lip-service — they are making it practical and relevant for today’s workforce.”

SCHEDULE is the third module on the PeopleMatter Platform, which also includes PeopleMatter HIRE™ and PeopleMatter LEARN™. With these integrated solutions, employers can quickly and easily manage all of their applicant tracking, hiring, onboarding, training and scheduling processes online within one system.

“SCHEDULE is smart, easy-to-use software that connects the entire PeopleMatter Platform,” said Kay Lucas, Vice President of Product Management for PeopleMatter. “Now, admins can require new-hires to complete a training course before store managers can put them on the weekly schedule. Real-time alerts and color-coded shifts make it easy for managers to prevent overtime … before it hits the bottom line.”

For more information on PeopleMatter, please visit www.peoplematter.com

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WorkSimple Releases Performance and Social Engagement Analytics…from WorkSimple

February 22, 2012

 

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WorkSimple, the creator of an intuitive Social Performance platform known as Social Goals, has just released Performance and Social Analytics, a proprietary suite of data mining tools that marks a measurable breakthrough in the Talent Management and Human Capital Management industries.

With Social Engagement and Performance Analytics, WorkSimple can help any company gain the visibility executives need to boost employee engagement. The concept of this industry-first product is simple: streamlining how management sees metrics around goal creation, goal feedback and work alignment to a company or team focus. The release comes on the heels of WorkSimples Focus Boards, a visual dashboard that displays a snapshot of all goal activity aligned to team or company focus.

Employee engagement is an ever-increasing challenge in today’s competitive business climate, especially for companies that are keeping pace with the demands of the market, said Morgan Norman, co-founder and CEO of WorkSimple. There’s not always time to stop and have a team meeting to communicate priority changes. Social Goals helps keep everyone on the same page and fully engaged. Now, with Performance and Social Engagement Analytics, WorkSimple is demonstrating the future of Talent Management.

WorkSimple Performance and Social Engagement Analytics reports on metrics such as Goals Created, Goal Updates, Feedback, Goals Accomplished, Goal Alignment and Goal Review scores down to a team level. The tool helps HR monitor employee engagement on initiatives that matter most to the organization. With such deep visibility, leadership can move quickly to overcome alignment or execution challenges as they arise, as well as offer employees feedback and recognition.

Talent Management platforms can never go the route of Social Goals because the employee base rarely uses them, said Ben Moore, co-founder and CTO of WorkSimple. Since employees are using Social Goals on a daily basis, our Social Performance platform offers a market-first opportunity to display weekly metrics that help your organization increase employee engagement around your priorities in real-time.

WorkSimple Performance and Social Engagement Analytics recognizes that companies need better ways to view employee adoption of goals and maximize performance around them and these tools mark an evolution of traditional Talent Management reporting by meeting organizations where they are and how they work and share work. WorkSimple Performance and Social Engagement Analytics offers actionable insights into what’s working and which teams could use a little more motivation in an intuitive dashboard that helps you develop a collaborative, results-driven corporate culture.

Companies that want employee engagement around what matters most are turning to Social Goals, feedback and recognition, said Norman. WorkSimple will continue to support the needs of the modern workforce with the understanding that the future of performance management platforms is in employee-friendly designs that give HR visibility into what’s going on in all levels of the organization.

For more information on WorkSimple, please visit www.getworksimple.com

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iCIMS Launches 11.3 Release, Includes New Social Recruiting Capabilities…from iCIMS

February 21, 2012

 

Latest version enhances best-in-class core functionality and social recruitment capabilities

HRchitect featured iCIMS 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. Adam Feigenbaum and Susan Vitale from iCIMS previously appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle.

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!

 

iCIMS, a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service talent acquisition software for growing businesses, announced today that the latest version of the platform – 11.3 – is now available. The iCIMS “Core Release” boasts a strengthened, faster foundation complemented by scalable social media features ensuring clients are up to date with current recruitment marketing trends.

The 11.3 Core Release is the third of three themed releases iCIMS developed in 2011. By segmenting the releases into three themes, iCIMS is able to create a series of refined strategic enhancements, providing a user-friendly Talent Platform suitable to each industry represented in its rapidly growing client base.

Focused on the tenants of speed, ease of use, and flexibility, iCIMS dedicated the Core Release to improving search, security, and performance processes, as well as providing further scalability for each company’s diverse needs. One of the most anticipated features included in the upgrade is iCIMS’ new System Configuration functionality. Empowering users of the platform to make on-demand changes on their own, the System Configuration features allow administrators to configure the platform based on their organizations’ unique workflows and hiring preferences.

The 11.3 release also advances iCIMS’ innovations in the evolving world of social recruitment. New features like Social Resume allow recruiters to access real-time views of candidates’ social media profiles, to highlight current achievements and experience, while 11.3′s Social Apply functionality allows candidates to expedite the application process by pulling relevant information from their current Facebook or LinkedIn profile into the fields of their job application. When paired with iCIMS’ Recruitment Marketing Solution, clients can easily post jobs to social media outlets with minimal effort and enhance their employment branding, ultimately attracting more top talent to their organizations.

“The 11.3 Core Release not only improves the core of the iCIMS Talent Platform, but also provides a solid foundation to constantly adapt and evolve with the explosive social media market,” said Paul Melici, iCIMS Chief Technology Officer. “We are anticipating that this release will enable our clients to attract and monitor more candidates and in real-time.”

For more information on iCIMS, please visit www.icims.com

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iCIMS Partners to Integrate with NetSuite’s Cloud Computing Platform…from iCIMS

February 18, 2012

 

SaaS ERP & Talent Acquisition Solution Providers Partner to Better Serve a Common Market

HRchitect featured iCIMS 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. Adam Feigenbaum and Susan Vitale from iCIMS previously appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle.

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!

 

iCIMS, a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition software solutions for growing businesses, today announced a strategic partnership with NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N) and current plans to integrate  iCIMS’ Talent Platform with NetSuite’s cloud computing platform. The iCIMS Talent Platform provides industry-specific solutions to over 1,000 global organizations and facilitates the human resources process with an emphasis on social recruiting, talent acquisition, and onboarding.

NetSuite’s SuiteCloud is a comprehensive offering of cloud-based products, development tools, and services designed to help customers and commercial software developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits of cloud computing. The complete SuiteCloud offering includes NetSuite’s multi-tenant, always-on SaaS infrastructure, and the NetSuite Business Suite of application: Accounting/ERP, CRM, and Ecommerce.

“I am excited to announce this new partnership with iCIMS. They have proved themselves to be a superior player in the talent acquisition field, recognized for having a robust, scalable, and easy-to-use platform that provides a candidate and user experience that is second to none,” said Guido Haarmans, Vice President Developer Programs, NetSuite.  “It was the combination of these features, and their reputation for renowned customer service and support that made iCIMS the obvious choice to be NetSuite’s first commercial partner in its space.”

“We are both aggressively growing SaaS solution providers, committed to providing leading-edge technology that can easily and affordably scale to meet the needs of any sized organization,” said Ron Kasner, Chief Corporate Development Officer, iCIMS. “Given these synergies, along with a similar company culture built around customer orientation, the alliance between iCIMS and NetSuite is a natural fit.”

For more information on iCIMS, please visit www.icims.com

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Jobvite’s 2012 Customer Summit To Discuss Optimizing Social Recruiting Efforts and Celebrate Customer Success…from Jobvite

February 16, 2012

 

Keynote Address by Guy Kawasaki, Industry Expert and Renowned Venture Capitalist

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Jobvite, the leading recruiting platform for the social web, today announced it will host its 2012 Customer Summit in early May. Hundreds of current and prospective customers, media and analysts will join Jobvite executives in this annual event to discuss trends in social recruiting, industry best practices and how to optimize the use of Jobvite and win the war for talent. This year’s event will feature a keynote address from industry visionary and renowned venture capitalist, Guy Kawasaki.

Jobvite’s annual customer summit is designed for attendees to learn how social recruiting is being used as it relates to larger hiring trends, to brainstorm how to maximize social recruiting investments and to network with industry analysts and experts on successful use cases of social technology implementation. Breakout sessions aimed at both experts and beginners will discuss using social media to build employee engagement and referral rates, designing a premium career site, creating custom reports and mastering evaluation sets in interview types. Attendees will learn best practices, tips and tricks, and hear case studies from companies currently using Jobvite. More than 800 employers use Jobvite’s platform to tap into social media and find, recruit and hire top talent efficiently and affordably.

“Optimizing the recruitment and hiring process, particularly in social media, has been a key factor in the success of Jobvite’s customers, which make up some of the world’s fastest-growing companies,” said Dan Finnigan, president and chief executive officer of Jobvite. “Our annual event brings together the top minds in the recruiting industry to network and learn together, developing new ways of engaging with potential talent and integrating them quickly and efficiently within their respective organizations. It’s a must-attend for anyone looking to make the most of their recruiting.”

For more information on Jobvite, please visit www.jobvite.com

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Kenexa Agrees To Acquire OutStart, a Leading Provider of Next Generation e-Learning Solutions…from Kenexa

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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Jobvite Appoints Kevin Nanney as Vice President of Product…from Jobvite

January 28, 2012

 

Talented Silicon Valley Product Strategist Joins Social Recruiting Leader

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!

 

Jobvite, the leading recruiting platform for the social web, today announced the appointment of Kevin Nanney as vice president of product. Nanney will lead product strategy and design for the innovation leader in the multi-billion dollar online recruitment market. Nanney’s proven success driving Software-as-a-Service product development will further propel Jobvite’s momentum in the rapidly expanding social recruiting space.

Nanney most recently served as vice president of product management at Taleo, a talent management provider. In that role, he developed the product direction, strategy and roadmap for Taleo’s SMB SaaS Talent Management Platform Suite. Prior to that, Nanney held product management leadership positions with Navis LLC and Oracle.

“Kevin’s track record of success speaks for itself, and we’re thrilled to have such a great leader and executive on board,” said Dan Finnigan, president and chief executive officer at Jobvite. “His depth of experience in the recruiting solutions space, combined with his passion for innovation in social recruiting, will help Jobvite provide the most cutting-edge products on the market to our customers.”

Nanney’s appointment marks three top executive additions for Jobvite in less than two months, which support the company’s focus on expansion and technology innovation. Since announcing series C funding of $15 million in 2011, the company has put its acceleration plan into action. The recruiting innovator has grown its customer base more than 600 percent in the past two years, and in December announced the hiring of Chief Marketing Officer Kimberley Kasper, also from Taleo; along with Chief Financial Officer, John Winkenbach, previously with Technorati Media.

“Jobvite is growing at a tremendous pace and they are well known in the industry for driving innovation in social recruiting,” said Kevin Nanney, vice president of product at Jobvite. “I am looking forward to the opportunity to expand on the already impressive product line and continue to shake up the industry with the leading company in the social recruiting field.”

For more information on Jobvite, please visit www.jobvite.com

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Salesforce.com Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Rypple – First Step Toward Human Capital Management for the Social Enterprise…from Salesforce.com

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

 

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

December 14, 2011

 

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About the Saba People Cloud

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

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

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

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Saba Announces Learning Management Exchange Program for Plateau and SuccessFactors Customers…from Saba

December 7, 2011

 

Special Offer Provides Access to the Saba People Cloud to Leverage an Organization’s Most Valuable Competitive Advantage — Its People

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

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

 

Saba (NASDAQ: SABA), the premier People Cloud provider, today announced a learning management exchange program for qualified SuccessFactors learning customers (formerly Plateau). Available now, this offer is designed to give SuccessFactors customers the opportunity to switch, risk-free, to the Saba People Cloud platform, which includes its award-winning Saba Learning Management application. Saba delivers seamless blended learning in the industry’s only unified People Cloud platform to help organizations transform the way they work, thereby driving productivity to the extended enterprise, achieving greater compliance, mitigating risk, shortening time to productivity, and accelerating the pace of innovation.

Qualified SuccessFactors customers with active contracts will be entitled to a significant discount of Saba’s People Cloud platform, including equivalent subscription contracts at no charge for up to one year. Additionally, Saba will include Saba Centra Real-Time Collaboration and Saba Social with these exchanges at no additional charge for up to one year. Migration programs, tools, and special services packages will also be available to reduce the time, expense and risk of moving to the Saba People Cloud platform. With enterprise social networking, informal learning and real-time collaboration all in one unified platform, organizations can improve ROI, enhance engagement, and cultivate a true talent development culture. This exchange program is in effect and available immediately; qualified SuccessFactors customers will have until May 31, 2012 to take advantage of this special Saba offer.

“Saba continues to focus on delivering exceptional customer success, as well as an innovative and compelling product roadmap, which is aligned with our vision to enable organizations to transform the workplace for competitive advantage,” said Karen Steele, senior vice president corporate marketing, Saba. “Through this learning management exchange program, we are making it easy for organizations to improve how all of their people learn, grow and meet the challenges of a new world of work.”

The Saba People Cloud

The Saba People Cloud is a unified, people-centric and social platform designed to transform the way people work. Saba People Cloud Applications include Learning Management, Talent Management, Enterprise Social Networking and Real-Time Collaboration, all of which help organizations become more competitive through increased visibility, speed and agility. The Saba People Cloud is highly scalable and interoperable with HRIS, financial, and ERP systems. Additionally, the platform is built to help organizations and their people be more competitive by enabling:

  • Global and local scale to the level, reach and complexity customers need from a single, open platform
  • Prescriptive analyses of past behaviours, training and performance for actionable insights
  • Always on, always accessible collaborative environment designed to work across the entire people network to ensure access to everyone in the entire value chain anytime, anywhere and from any device.

 

Market Leading Learning Solution

Saba Learning Management provides unique capabilities to support sophisticated extended enterprise learning. With its mobile and social learning capabilities, it allows employees, customers and partners to rapidly connect, share, and retain the knowledge. Saba has received numerous accolades for its Learning Management Application, including:

 

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

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Customers Leverage the Saba People Cloud to Collaborate Across their Extended Enterprises…from Saba

December 1, 2011

 

Enterprises Adopt Saba’s Award-Winning People Cloud Applications to Mobilize Their People Networks for Increased Visibility, Speed and Agility

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 that customers, including Allina Hospitals and Clinics, IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) and SMART Technologies, are adopting Saba People Cloud Applications to collaborate across their extended enterprises. Saba People Cloud Applications include Learning Management, Talent Management, Enterprise Social Networking and Real-Time Collaboration, all of which help organizations become more competitive through increased visibility, speed, and  agility.

“Today’s businesses are being driven to find ways to remain competitive and embrace social computing across their people networks as their workforce, suppliers, distributors, and customers become more globally dispersed,” said Bobby Yazdani, founder and CEO, Saba. “In response, we are helping organizations embrace this change and transform the way they collaborate and work. Our approach is working as more companies are adopting Saba People Cloud Applications across the extended enterprise to increase the speed of business, improve visibility, and become more adaptable.”

“There is a need in the marketplace for vendors to provide solutions with broad and deep learning management, talent management and social capabilities to support knowledge sharing and visibility across the entire people value chain. This evolved culture of knowledge sharing promotes learning and trust, and fosters agility and speed of business initiatives among employees, suppliers, customers and partners,” added Mark Smith, CEO and Chief Research Officer, Ventana Research.

The success of Saba’s customers coincides with the rapid adoption of social computing, which is becoming critical to the modern day workplace. Forrester predicted in their report, “The Next Frontier for Enterprise Social” that by the end of this year more than half of enterprises in the US and Europe will have enterprise social technologies deployed.”

Customer Highlights

Allina Hospitals and Clinics: As the largest health system in Minnesota, Allina Hospitals and Clinics aims to connect both internal and external users to important organizational events and collaborative online classes. Through Allina’s learning management system (LMS), powered by Saba Learning Management and Saba Collaboration, 24,000 employees, 5,000 physicians and 2,500 volunteers can set up and manage their own communities; participate in discussions; post and answer questions; and share in the collaborative creation of content, encouraging informal learning within the employee base.

IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group): IHG uses Saba applications to enable enterprise-wide success in employee learning and development. IHG’s global LMS is the system of record for employees to access standardized information worldwide at all IHG hotels. In addition, IHG’s e-learning, virtual instructor-led classroom, talent management and collaboration processes are all rooted in Saba applications, allowing IHG employees to work together across a number of regions and keep aligned with corporate messaging.

SMART Technologies:  The Saba People Cloud has enabled SMART Technologies to provide expanded and enhanced training to a growing global community of 40,000 educators, businesspeople, sales partners and employees in the use of SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards and other technology-enabled learning and collaboration solutions. Each month, SMART Technologies receives 10,000 course registrations for its interactive, online learning courses. “With Saba People Cloud Applications, we can conduct needs assessments and direct users to recommended learning paths leading to credentials for educators, as well as certifications for business people,” said Wayne Williams, manager of learning systems for SMART Technologies.

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

 
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Cornerstone OnDemand Unveils the Recruiting Cloud, the Next Generation of Social Recruiting and Sourcing…from Cornerstone OnDemand

October 14, 2011

 

The upcoming addition of a new recruiting solution will make Cornerstone the only vendor to offer a complete, organically developed talent management SaaS suite

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!

 

Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD) recently announced it will add a new recruiting solution to its comprehensive learning and talent management software suite.  With anticipated general availability in early 2012, the Cornerstone Recruiting Cloud (patent pending) is being organically developed to support the modern ways that businesses source, recruit, hire and onboard new employees.  The upcoming addition will make Cornerstone the only technology vendor to offer a complete, organically developed talent management software-as-a-service (SaaS) suite.

Despite high unemployment rates, Bersin & Associates’ research shows that more than 50 percent of business leaders cite talent shortages as a key challenge, particularly as attention shifts from cost-cutting and retrenchment to globalization, innovation and business growth.  Additionally, nearly half of those surveyed say they are experiencing difficulty filling key positions.1

“In today’s war for talent, the quality of hire is paramount, requiring a more strategic and dynamic way of sourcing and selecting both external and internal candidates,” said Adam Miller, president and CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand.  “Most recruiting solutions on the market today were built for the way people recruited 10 years ago.  Rather than retrofitting an outdated software system, Cornerstone’s recruiting solution is being developed organically to leverage the social ways that people source and recruit today.”

Older talent acquisition technologies were designed for recruiters, centered mostly on applicant tracking, mired in complicated processes and limited to external job candidates.  They also tended to be disconnected from valuable data, such as internal candidates, role competencies or skills, stored in talent management systems.

Cornerstone client Green Dot Public Schools, which operates 18 charter high schools in Los Angeles, faces this challenge.  The organization plans to implement the Recruiting Cloud as part of its integrated talent management strategy, which also includes Cornerstone technology solutions for learning management and performance management.

“Our previous recruiting tool, even with customizations, too often was painful for both candidates and our Human Capital team.  Not only was it difficult to extract information, the tool itself was siloed from our HR system, which made for an inefficient onboarding process,” said Kevin Keelen, vice president of employee solutions for Green Dot Public Schools.

Developed with both recruiters and the workforce in mind, the Cornerstone Recruiting Cloud is designed to be natively social and unified with the broader talent suite, moving beyond the limitations of older systems and making it easier for jobs to find candidates from outside and inside the organization.  It also will seamlessly integrate with Cornerstone’s comprehensive talent management suite, including the Cornerstone Performance Cloud, Cornerstone Learning Cloud and Cornerstone Extended Enterprise Cloud.

Anticipated features will enable:

  • Social Recruiting, for identifying candidates from internal and external networks, as well as fostering collaboration and exchange of feedback and comments among the internal candidate review team.
  • Talent Communities, allowing organizations and individual managers to more easily build bench strength and nurture talent pools, as well as foster ongoing candidate relationships – activity that is critical to creating talent continuity.
  • Onboarding to reduce new hire time-to-productivity, connect employees to the company’s culture, and immediately align new hire activity and development with business goals.
  • Workforce Planning, for revealing the gaps in a company’s current talent portfolio and planning for future workforce needs.

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

 
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Saba Social Learning Wins Top Product of the Year…from Saba

October 5, 2011

 

Saba’s Innovative Solution Transforms the Way People Learn, Collaborate and Share Knowledge across the Extended Enterprise

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 that Saba Social Learning has been selected as one of Human Resource Executive® Magazine’s Top Products of 2011. Awards were announced during the opening day of the HR Technology® Conference at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

Saba Social Learning, powered by Saba Social, award-winning enterprise social networking, was selected for its innovative informal, collaborative and community-based approach to learning that enhances user adoption and increases learning retention. By combining the best of today’s social networking features, coupled with world-class learning management capabilities, Saba Social Learning provides immediate and context-relevant learning methods. Social learning also allows learners to sustain knowhow gained from formal training programs by connecting and collaborating with the communities, experts, coaches and getting critical questions answered in real-time.

“As the pressure to accelerate product time-to-market and grow the best talent increases, organizations are increasingly looking for more innovative and interactive ways to inspire people and accelerate the sharing of knowledge across their enterprise, including employees, partners and suppliers,” said Emily He, vice president, product marketing, Saba. “Receiving this latest industry award for Saba Social Learning validates the power of the Saba People Cloud to enable organizations around the world to transform their businesses by cultivating a culture of knowledge sharing that enhances productivity and mobilizes teams for innovation.”

Critical business problems that can be solved using Saba Social Learning include:

 

  • Improved sales force effectiveness and knowledge retention
  • Optimized channel engagement and extended enterprise effectiveness
  • Accelerated time-to-productivity of new hires with strategic on-boarding
  • Customer service excellence with rapid sharing of best practices
  • Ability to unlock tacit knowledge from retiring workforce and engage multiple generations of employees

 

Recent Industry Accolades

In addition to being named as a HR Executive Magazine Top Product of 2011, Saba has received a number of industry accolades this year for its social solutions, including:

 

 

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

 
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Kenexa Launches Game Changing Social Solutions for Recruiting / Industry Leader Delivers Comprehensive Offerings That Help Companies Move From “Post and Pray” State to Proactive Social Recruiting…from Kenexa

July 21, 2011

 

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 unveiled details of its newest suite of offerings: Social Solutions. Kenexa Social Solutions is the industry’s first multi-faceted set of social recruiting tools paired with attraction strategies and consulting to help HR professionals and recruiters fully leverage all the benefits of the social world through one vendor. Kenexa Social Solutions draws on Kenexa’s deep industry expertise in sourcing, recruiting, employment branding and social media to deliver positive outcomes for hiring employers as well as job candidates.

Eric Lochner, president of Global Talent Management at Kenexa, said, “Many companies want to harness the tangible benefits of social recruiting but — whether due to resources, time and other commitments — cannot readily tap into its full range of possibilities. As an industry leader, it was a natural progression that Kenexa take the initiative to develop the industry’s first truly integrated comprehensive offering that brings together the power of the applicant tracking system with the power of social networks.”

Uniquely positioned through its technology, content and services, Kenexa has a long-standing position as one of the talent acquisition and talent management industry’s innovators. Kenexa Social Solutions goes past just addressing social media and into creating multi-dimensional attraction strategies and connection tools to address end-to-end recruitment. Beyond the obvious such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, Kenexa offers sourcing strategies, candidate relationship management and consulting services that help attract, connect and recruit with talent like never before.

Included in Kenexa Social Solutions is a candidate relationship management tool that focuses on social recruiting and building passive candidate relationships. Using its robust API, Kenexa offers social career centers to empower candidates to interact with their social networks as they apply for jobs. Social consulting and management is included to provide the clients baseline for true social strategies and candidate attraction. Kenexa will continue to deliver on the promise of a social candidate and recruiter experience through its broad set and ever-expanding list of social features within its award-winning global talent acquisition solution, Kenexa 2x BrassRing™, including posting and sharing jobs across the most prominent social networks.

For more information on Kenexa, please visit www.kenexa.com

 
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Taleo Unveils Groundbreaking Talent Intelligence™ Capabilities…from Taleo

July 12, 2011

 

New Features Reveal Deeper Insight into Talent Pool to Improve Business Performance and Drive Productivity
Highlights Include Social Sourcing Capability across Hundreds of Social Networks, including LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook

HRchitect featured Taleo in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Kevin Marasco, VP Brand Marketing with Taleo appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on November 6, 2009. HRchitect attended the 2010 TaleoWorld conference and HRchitect’s Matt Lafata, one of the industry’s leading talent management systems analysts, attended Taleo’s annual Sales and Services meeting in 2010 & 2011.

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

Taleo Corp. (NASDAQ: TLEO), the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions, today unveiled groundbreaking social, collaboration and visualization capabilities that will provide enterprises with Talent Intelligence to address top business issues.  These new capabilities fundamentally change how companies leverage their talent to tackle the top two challenges facing CEOs today: Growth and Talent.  Now leading organizations can keep strategic goals top of mind and develop their workforce by having the ability to gain deeper insight into their talent and extend their reach to hundreds of social networks, improving business performance.

POWERING GROWTH WITH COLLABORATION

The new capabilities include a Conversation Hub and email integration enabling real-time feedback and collaboration to assure timely adjustments of business goals. This feature keeps strategic goals top of mind by pushing talent management directly into email allowing employees and managers to collaborate on the goals and initiatives of the company. Conversations are captured and stored in the Conversation Hub where managers and employees can view all conversations related to business goals and development to improve the impact of talent on these initiatives. In addition to Microsoft Outlook, the latest release also includes support for Lotus Notes.

IDENTIFYING AND ACQUIRING TOP TALENT

Taleo is expanding the reach into the global talent marketplace by leveraging social networks and providing insight into the best sources of talent. For the first time recruiters, employees and candidates can share jobs across hundreds of social networks including LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. This is a powerful way for companies to strengthen employee referral programs through alumni and employee networks. Sourcing analytics help recruiters understand which networks are providing the strongest candidates so that they can focus their sourcing activities so that they can find great talent faster.

The new Talent Browser has unique visualization capabilities that provide the business context behind talent data. Taleo is the first vendor to move beyond traditional search by providing visual search and on-the-fly filtering to pinpoint talent. The Talent Browser joins Talent Reviews and Performance Calibration as examples of how Taleo has embedded real-time visual analytics to support better decision making.  In addition to visual search, the Talent Browser also includes analytics that give an instant snapshot of any team or organization.

“We are in a talent management renaissance, moving into a new era where we need to leverage talent to effectively anticipate and respond quickly to business needs,” said Bret Leech, Vice President, human resources, Rogers Communications. “By having Talent Intelligence and analytics to determine the needs of our business, we are able to accomplish our goals by building dynamic teams to fuel growth.” This kind of innovation is acknowledged by the leading analysts, who have positioned Taleo as the only vendor in all talent management leadership categories.

According to the Conference Board, Leading CEOs note that hiring the right talent in the open market and applying new technologies will enable them to drive the growth required for success. Taleo’s customers recognize that as companies strive to grow, strategic goals and talent must be at the forefront of business.  

“Taleo’s new talent management platform advances Talent Intelligence by helping enterprises find the right people to meet their business objectives, properly incent employees to attain strategic goals, and better understand and retain top talent,” said Jason Blessing, Executive Vice President of Products and Technology at Taleo. “These new capabilities enable enterprises to better know their people and grow their business.”

The new release of Taleo Enterprise Suite is available immediately. For more information visit: http://www.taleo.com/11a

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

 
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