SuccessFactors Acquires Jambok – Is this Corporate Learning 3.0?
This week SuccessFactors announced the acquisition of Jambok, a small platform company with an innovative and powerful solution for social learning and knowledge sharing. Jambok was the brainchild of...
View ArticleNew Internet Bubble hits Talent Management Market
Remember the dot.com bubble of 1995-2000? I do, and it’s back again. But this time it has a new face, it talks about SaaS, highly connected social applications, mobile apps, and talent management...
View ArticleSaba Earnings show Growth and Momentum – Now Truly a SaaS Company
This week Saba Software released one of its strongest financial results in many years. Saba, which pioneered the market for enterprise learning management systems, has now turned the corner in its...
View ArticleWhy I Hope to See You at IMPACT 2011, our Fourth Annual Research Conference
On April 26-28, in beautiful St. Petersburg Florida, we will be holding our fourth annual research conference, IMPACT 2011: The Business of Talent. I would really encourage you to join us. Here is...
View ArticleIMPACT 2011: Live Streaming – Mark your Calendar
Next week we launch IMPACT 2011: The Business of Talent®, our fourth annual research conference. For those of you who follow our blogs and our research, the conference is sold out. But if you would...
View ArticleStepstone becomes Lumesse – Focus on People not Software
Today Stepstone Solutions, one of the largest providers of talent management software solutions, changed their company name to Lumesse. While everyone has their own opinions of naming and branding...
View ArticleTalent Management Software: The Category Takes Hold
This last few weeks has been a season of meetings with talent management software providers. As we work to complete our 2011 Talent Management Systems research (which should be published in June), I...
View ArticleTaleo Acquires JobPartners – European Expansion a Priority
Today Taleo announced the acquisition of JobPartners, a small European provider of talent management software, for $38M in cash. JobPartners is a small (~100 employees, around $15M-17M in revenues)...
View ArticleMobile Talent Management: PeopleclickAuthoria aka PeopleFluent Introduces...
Talent Management software comes to the iPad: PeopleClickAuthoria (which just changed its name to PeopleFluent®) today released a preview of an iPad solution currently called Mobile Talent Management....
View ArticleSumTotal Announces Acquisition of Accero and CyberShift
Today SumTotal Systems, one of the largest (privately held) providers of learning and talent management software, announced the acquisition of both Accero (global complex payroll provider) and...
View ArticleBadges Swarm the Internet (and soon Intranet)
Over the last year we’ve observed the “gamification” of various web-based systems. Social learning systems now have “leaderboards” to show who uploaded the most highly ranked content. Sales training...
View ArticleThe Amazing HR Technology Conference – Come Join Us
Once again it’s time to start making plans to come to Las Vegas (not Chicago this year, thank god) to the annual HR Technology Conference. This conference (October 3-5, 2011) is by far the biggest and...
View ArticleSuccessFactors Q2 2011 Financials – Plateau Moves to SaaS Focus
SuccessFactors just announced another stellar quarter (48% YTY growth in revenues, 42% YTY growth in billings), and the CEO Lars Dalgaard talked extensively about the company’s progress with the...
View ArticleWorkday 14: Amazing Enterprise Software for HR
Today Workday introduced release 14, the latest upgrade of the company’s SaaS HR and Financials application. I rarely gush at enterprise software, but in this case I have to admit I was “wowed” by the...
View ArticleUpdate from TaleoWorld 2011: Talent Intelligence, Mobile, and LinkedIn...
This week Taleo held their annual user conference and attracted more than 1,600 customers. As part of the event Taleo introduced two new product enhancements – one called Taleo Radar and the other a...
View ArticlePreview of HR Technology Conference 2011
Here it is the even of the HR Technology Conference – and we eagerly await dozens of news releases, product introductions, tweets, and announcements of exciting new technologies in the areas of talent...
View ArticleElephants of HR Software Enter the Talent Management Market
Over the last ten years or so the talent management software providers have had a party building up a $3 billion, fast-growing marketplace. Now, starting in 2011 and 2012, the elephants from the...
View ArticleTalent Management Software – Yes, It’s Still Hard to Select the Right Solution
The talent management software marketplace is now more than ten years old, yet it is still a daunting task to select the right solution. This market is both consolidating and expanding at the same...
View ArticleSAP to buy SuccessFactors: Major Shift in Talent Management Market (updated)
This weekend SAP announced plans to acquire SuccessFactors for approximately $3.4 billion (almost 10X 2011 revenues). Just last week we delivered a webinar on trends in the Talent Management Systems...
View ArticleMy Conversation with Paul Sparta: Update on Plateau, SAP, and SuccessFactors
Today I had a chat with Paul Sparta, the founder of Plateau and one of the key product leaders at SuccessFactors and now SAP. Paul, who’s current title is Chief Integration Officer, shared some...
View ArticleSalesforce.com to Acquire Rypple: Major New Entrant to Cloud-Based Talent...
Today Salesforce.com announced plans to acquire Rypple, a small but growing provider of social performance management software. In addition, the company announced plans to build out a set of human...
View ArticleTalent Management Software Vendors get a C+ in Customer Satisfaction
We just completed a year-long research study on the customer experience with talent management software. Despite the sky-high market valuations for these companies and the growth rate of the market,...
View ArticleGetting Bullish on SAP in the HR Marketplace
SAP, the world’s largest application software company, just announced the best revenue and earnings growth the company has made in many years. The company’s quarterly revenues grew by 12% to over $3.4...
View ArticleThe LMS Market Remains Hot with PeopleFluent Deal (but not as hot as Facebook)
The LMS market remains very hot, and so does Facebook (below). Comments on both. This week Peoplefluent (a $100M+ talent management software company, built from the combination of Authoria and...
View ArticleKenexa Acquires Outstart: Getting Serious about the Corporate Learning Market
This week Kenexa, one of the largest and most successful HR and talent acquisition consulting companies, announced the acquisition of Outstart, a pioneering company in the market for e-learning tools,...
View ArticleThe Integration of Talent Management Systems Comes to Forefront
The talent management systems market has been under quite a bit of stress lately. In the last 90 days we have seen SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors, followed by Oracle’s acquisition of Taleo, and...
View ArticleSAP’s Bold Move with SuccessFactors: Lots of Work to Do
This week SuccessFactors and SAP announced their integration plans. Simply stated, the combined companies plan to move all their strategic talent management investments from SAP HCM and Business...
View ArticleCornerstone Acquires Sonar6: Talent Management for SMB
Today CornerstoneOnDemand announced the acquisition of Sonar6, an innovative small provider of highly graphical performance review and succession management tools for small businesses. An SMB Play As...
View ArticleWhy you should come to IMPACT on April 10-13…
We are all getting excited about our upcoming research conference IMPACT 2012: The Business of Talent®. There are seats left, but the conference will likely sell out (as it has in prior years), so let...
View ArticleSaba Announces PeopleCloud and Acquisition of Human Concepts
This week Saba made two major announcements. First, the company introduced a bold new product offering, Saba PeopleCloud, an integrated new “work environment” which pulls together corporate social...
View ArticleWhat the Splunk IPO Says about BigData in HR
BigData is Big News. Splunk, a company that uses BigData technology to analyze huge amounts of customer and transaction data, just went public with a valuation at 28X revenue ($3.2 billion). This...
View ArticleFlying under the Radar SilkRoad raises $35M in Round C
Despite the recent acquisitions of Taleo by Oracle and SuccessFactors by SAP, the talent management software market is far from mature. Today SilkRoad, one of the more quiet (not for long) talent...
View ArticleSuccessFactors Unwraps Turbo-Charged HR Analytics Solution
The HR analytics market has gotten white hot. With all the HR and talent management software out there, companies are now starting to invest very heavily in their HR analytics strategies. (For more on...
View ArticleADP Rocks the Talent Management Market with New Integrated Solution
This week ADP, the largest HR company in the world, introduced its integrated talent management solution (and its own learning management system). This announcement has the potential to significantly...
View ArticleSocial Tools Collide with Talent Management Software
Social networking tools have transformed our lives. Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest (read my commentary about Pinterest here), Reddit, and many others have significantly changed the way we work....
View ArticleThe Talent Management Software Market Grows and Evolves
The market for corporate talent management software continues to surge. CornerstoneOnDemand just announced 39% YTY growth in revenues, and our discussions with Saba, SumTotal Systems, SAP, Oracle, ADP,...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Disruptions In HR Technology: Ignore Them At Your Peril
The HR technology landscape, which is now more than a $15 billion market in software, is exploding with growth and innovation. We are tracking more than 100 new startups in social and referral...
View ArticleIs Corporate Talent Management Dead? If So, What’s Next?
The Epic Shift: Away from “Talent” and now focus on “People.” Talent scarcity is still a problem, but engagement, empowerment, and environment are now the real issues companies face. For the last ten...
View ArticleUpdate on Saba: Turnaround In The Making?
Last month Saba, a pioneer in the market for enterprise learning and talent management systems, held its annual customer conference (more than 700 learning and HR professionals attended). I had a...
View ArticleCornerstoneOnDemand Introduces New Analytics and Platform Offerings
In early May I attended the CornerstoneOnDemand (CSOD) customer conference and this year the company introduced several important new offerings. As an introduction, CornerstoneOnDemand is one of the...
View ArticleA New Market is Born: Employee Engagement, Feedback, and Culture Apps
As the economy grows and the job market gets hotter, employee engagement and retention has become a top priority. As I discuss in Why Culture the Hottest Topic in Business Today, CEOs are bending over...
View ArticleThe Bold New World of Talent: Predictions for 2016
2016 will bring dramatic changes in the world of Human Resources, Learning, Talent Management, and HR technology. Our latest report, Bersin by Deloitte Predictions for 2016, discusses ten predictions...
View ArticleCulture Amp Acquires Zugata: Employee Feedback Market Gets Hotter
Today Culture Amp, one of the leading providers of employee engagement tools, announced the acquisition of Zugata, an innovative AI-based peer-to-peer development platform. What does this really mean?...
View ArticleThe Employee Experience Platform: A New Category Arrives
One of the biggest trends in employment is finding ways to make work easier. In this hot job market employees are quitting their jobs in record numbers, and studies show that the voluntary turnover...
View ArticleMicrosoft Teams, Slack, Facebook Workplace Are Taking Over: And We Better...
Let’s face it, the paradigm of email is broken. Research shows that employees spend over 20% of their time on messages unrelated to their jobs, and in most companies, the email system has become...
View ArticleLearning Technology Evolves: Integrated Platforms Are Arriving
The enormous market for training and learning tools is very fragmented. Today there are more than 200 LMS vendors, more than 30 LXP vendors, and thousands of vendors who build collaboration tools,...
View ArticleHR Technology 2020: Disruption Ahead
It’s Fall again and I’m finishing up my biggest-ever report on HR Technology: The HR Tech 2020 Disruptions Study. This comprehensive study is done in partnership with LRP, the producers of the HR...
View ArticleSAP To Spin-Off Qualtrics. Yes, The Experience Market Is That Hot
This week SAP, which is now worth nearly $200B, decided to spin off its $8 Billion acquisition of Qualtrics, which happened less than two years ago. Why? Here’s what’s going on. First, under SAP’s...
View ArticleResearch Reveals Secrets To Success With Human Capital Management Systems
We have been studying HR technology projects for years and they can be complex and risky. Companies tend to upgrade or replace of their core HCM technology every 7-8 years and when they do it’s a...
View ArticleWorkday Vs. ServiceNow: The Big Shift
Every decade there’s a major shift in enterprise software. In the 1970s companies bought integrated financial systems; in the 1980s and 1990s it was ERP; now it’s a wild west of tools for digital...
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