Cornerstone OnDemand introduced a series of new features to its talent management suite. The intent is to address users’ mobility, social, and personalization needs such as bring your own device (BYOD) and bring your own application (BYOA).  Read the rest of this entry »

For talent management stakeholders conceptualizing onboarding is fun—welcoming a new member to a team, followed by the integration process, often signifies growth and new life for an organization. Consequently, most companies engage a great deal with the human capital management (HCM) functionality designed to support onboarding. By contrast, offboarding is oftentimes a cheerless process, as the loss of a trained and knowledgeable employee generally has a negative connotation, whether it means simply the loss of a skilled worker who will need to be replaced or the ill health of the company as a whole. Therefore, the offboarding process is habitually undertaken with low energy levels, leading as a natural result to the underutilization of the offboarding functionality available in most HCM systems.

Smart companies will invest in an HCM system with comprehensive onboarding and offboarding capabilities, and devote ample resources and time to ensure the offboarding process is smooth, while negative impacts are reduced and positive impacts maximized.

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 Talent management professionals may be interested in Peoplefluent’s announcement today revealing newly released features that support talent development, training programs, and effective employee communication.

The press release underlines a deeper integration between Peoplefluent Talent Management—performance management, career planning, leadership talent reviews, and succession planning—and Peoplefluent Learning Management. The two solutions were also enhanced with a Talent Management Development Plan, which allows users to add, register and launch content, view competency gaps and review messages from either solution.

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At SAPPHIRE, the SAP company, SuccessFactors, announced a series of new upgrades as part of its human capital management (HCM) offering. Aiming at businesses that want to go beyond basic human resources (HR) functionality, SuccessFactors also enhanced its talent management tools. Read the rest of this entry »

Kronos Incorporated and SuccessFactors, an SAP company, have partnered to combine SuccessFactors’ cloud and talent management technologies with Kronos’ workforce management capabilities.

Together Kronos and SuccessFactors will be able to support labor rules and pay policies stemming from Kronos Workforce Central, which focuses on time and labor tracking, advanced scheduling, analytics, and complex absence management. Also, talent management will be ensured by SuccessFactors’ extended capabilities for compensation, learning, onboarding, and performance and goals. Read the rest of this entry »

In an effort to help organizations tackle the new requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), ADP has launched a Health Care Reform section on ADP.com while Kronos has released an eBook, Navigating the Affordable Care Act: An Employer’s Guide to Managing Costs and Compliance in an ACA World.

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Peoplefluent has announced the acquisition of KZO Innovations by Bedford Funding, adding a new tool to its talent management suite. KZO video on-demand is a collaborative video technology that supports user engagement in contexts such as training, education, and communication. The KZO solution includes audio tagging, content searching, video tabbing, discussion threading, live chat, and interactive dialogue. In addition, the solution provides support for building and maintaining a library of viewer contributions. Read the rest of this entry »

Infor has announced Infor Learning Management—a software solution that stems from its recent acquisition of CERTPOINT Systems. The platform is targeted at organizations that want to sustain learning, training, and development processes for their employees.

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Workday, Inc., a leading provider of cloud applications for human resources (HR) and finance, unwrapped its latest update, Workday 19. In total, Workday 19 includes more than 170 new features, with approximately 70 coming from the Workday Brainstorm forum. Each Workday upgrade adds more capabilities, and Workday 19 is no different. The Workday press release doesn’t do justice to these new features, but I attended Workday’s analyst briefing and will give more insight into the new features.

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Oracle has announced the release of Oracle Learn Cloud 13A, which handles the delivery, tracking, management, and reporting of formal and informal training. Part of its learning and human capital management (HCM) software solutions offering, Oracle Learn Cloud allows organizations to manage learning globally. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the lesser talked about business divisions of Kronos Inc. is Montreal, Canada–based AD OPT, a provider of crew planning optimization solutions for the airline industry, which Kronos acquired in 2004. The company has been in this space for more than 25 years and its core focus is to deliver customized solutions for the tricky task of flight crew planning and scheduling for airlines whose aim is to increase operational efficiency.

Most recently, transavia.com, a Netherlands-based airline with services to leisure destinations as an independent part of the Air France-KLM group, selected the Altitude Rostering Footprint Generator application from Kronos AD OPT. The solution is expected to more fairly distribute work based on pre-defined equalization criteria and creating optimal monthly schedules for cockpit crew members.

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During the opening keynote address at Ultimate’s annual Connections customer conference in Las Vegas, Ultimate Software announced that it plans to deliver 28 country-specific human capital management (HCM) localizations as well as payroll functionality through its partner Celergo. Read the rest of this entry »

Infor has reached an agreement to acquire CERTPOINT, a provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS)–based learning technology. CERTPOINT currently holds a portfolio of clients counting more than 1,300 businesses in more than 80 countries and 30 languages. The list of clients includes Honda, Stanley Black & Decker, Lutheran Medical Center, Meritas Health, and Toyota.

Infor intends to take advantage of CERTPOINT’s learning management system (LMS) and learning content management software (LCMS) capabilities to advance the Infor human capital management (HCM) suite. Read the rest of this entry »

At the NRF BIG Retail Show 2013, a new relationship was announced between Kronos and Manhattan Associates to help retailers profitably integrate their physical stores into their digital selling strategy. The idea is to allow retailers to increase customer satisfaction and drive sales by freeing up trapped inventory in the store and elsewhere in the upstream supply chain, while managing labor costs.

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Human capital management (HCM) software is traditionally understood as addressing human resource (HR) plus talent management business requirements. While HR software is now quite affordable and adopted by many businesses, a comprehensive HCM suite that includes talent management modules is not equally accessible. Talent management products are relatively new on the market. Some of them, especially niche solutions, carry high integration costs, and others are expensive due to the novelty of the technology that they employ.  However, talent management is attractive for almost all businesses regardless of their size, industry, or workforce particularities. Read the rest of this entry »