Category Archive for 'Thoughts On SaaS'

Talent Management initiatives always start out with very high expectations.  Having a wealth of information on your employees enables more sound decisions on how to be leverage the largest asset you have – your people.  It seems so simple doesn’t it?  Yet time after time talent management initiatives have failed to live up to initial [...]

SaaS or Something Else?

I’ll admit it, the HR Technology market can be downright confusing.  The messaging coming from nearly every vendor sounds very similar, making it very difficult to determine which vendor does what and more importantly how they differentiate from one another.  Nearly every vendor offers capabilities that are marketed as “Talent Management” or “Analytics”, ranging from [...]

10 days ago I posted a somewhat provocative post questioning whether enterprise software was dead.  Based on the results of the Gartner Executive Program 2010 CIO Survey, Enterprise Software experienced a dramatic decline in the list of top priorities of CIOs who where included in the survey.  After a fairly steady #2 in the list [...]

As much as I would have liked to have posted this entry earlier, I’ve been trying to catch up after three quick days in Vegas for the Oracle HCM Users Group conference at the Mirage Hotel.  This was the second year in a row that I’ve had an opportunity to attend OHUG and continue to [...]

I’ve been saying it since the beginning of the year – 2010 is the year of the acquisition in the HR Technology space.  It started with a bang just a few short days after the start of the new year with Private Equity firm Bedford Funding acquiring PeopleClick and merging them with another of their [...]

Next to fall….

A mere two business days into the new year and the first acquisition of note in the HR Technology space has already been announced.  Yesterday morning Bedford Funding – the private equity firm that acquired Authoria in 2008 has announced that they have acquired North Carolina-based PeopleClick for $100m in cash and will merge the [...]

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