New Report: QUANTIFYING THE VALUE OF TALENT MANAGEMENT

Making the Business Case for Talent Management and Learning Systems Dr. Katherine Jones has been working with the Vital Analysis team here for the last 18 mos. or so. If you don’t know her, she’s quite an expert on HR and ERP technologies. Recently, she penned a research report on building a great talent management […]

New Report: Acclaim’s Re-design of Recruiting

HRMC Acclaim – A Very Different/Powerful Way to Recruit Talent Most application software is designed by automating a manual process. The automated version usually resembles the manual process in an almost exact manner. The new solution may be more efficient and less error prone but it doesn’t necessarily reflect new thinking, new approaches or new methods. HRMC […]

Cytiva – Initiating Coverage & New Report

We recently began coverage of Cytiva, the makers of Sonic Recruit and other HR applications. We’ve developed a research report on the company and its products. The report is available for $395 and can be ordered via our request form on this website. Here’s an excerpt from the Solutions section of the report:   The […]

Pinging Sonar6 – New Report

We recently developed a new research note on Sonar6 – a genuinely novel firm with a superlative performance management toolset. Actually, we were quite impressed with this solution’s user interface – be sure to check out their ‘helicopter views’. The report costs $395 and can be ordered via our request page from this site. Be […]

New Larger Report on SilkRoad

Still a Strong Trajectory, Offering and Following Our report on SilkRoad’s Red Carpet offering last year was one of the most requested reports we produced. Because of that market interest we sought out the SilkRoad executives at this year’s HR Technology show in Chicago to get a more detailed briefing on their products and their […]

New Reports In Development

This fall, Vital Analysis is producing a number of new reports as well as materially update a number of prior reports. Here is a partial list of upcoming reports: – Cornerstone – Cytiva – HRMC Acclaim – Jobs2Web – SHL – SilkRoad – Sonar6 – WinShuttle – Workscape We are also preparing a number of […]

HR Vendor: Avilar

Avilar: Will New Leadership Translate Into Market Leadership? We recently spoke with the leadership of Avilar, a learning and talent management solutions firm. That briefing resulted in this 6 page research note.  Here is an excerpt from the Overview section of the report: “We recently received a short briefing from Avilar’s new CEO, Tom Grobicki. […]

Workscape

New Workscape Report We recently caught up with senior Workscape executives at the recent HR Week event in New York City. We created a short update note on the firm and are making it available to interested persons. Simply complete our online request form or email us at .

SAP Business ByDesign

Big, Report, Big Investment, Big Product Suite Enterprise Irregular Dennis Howlett  and Vital Analysis founder Brian Sommer have teamed up to write a single, definitive report on SAP’s Business ByDesign product suite.  While both of them have blogged and/or developed short research reports on this product suite, both parties believed that something this big and expansive […]

Kenexa – Playing in the Big Leagues

New Kenexa Report We recently attended an analyst day at Kenexa’s headquarters outside of Philadelphia. We were briefed on a number of product and company announcements and have included much of this in a detailed report. Here is a brief excerpt from the Product Direction section of the report: “Kenexa is spending approximately $35 million […]