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Kenexa – Playing in the Big Leagues

Friday, May 9th, 2008

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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 in R&D this year.  While significant enhancements are being made to existing Kenexa products such as BrassRing, CareerTracker and Assessments, the big story is Kenexa’s development of its next-generation platform currently called Kenexa 2X.

 

The 2X platform works with an all-new common services architecture.  The common services layer will include a significant number of technologies that can be used across an array of talent management applications.  These would include capabilities such as charting, background checks, surveying, etc. The 2X platform sits between the applications in the common services layer.  The 2X platform provides a more detailed set of critical services that are shared and tightly integrated with all applications.  Examples of this shared functionality and include workflow, competencies, organization structure, etc.

 

By the end of 2008, Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing functionality will be built anew with the common services architecture.  Likewise, Kenexa CareerTracker will also be in beta.  The new products have been substantially developed already and we have seen working versions of same. The new products are not complete though.”

This report is available to subscribers or can be individually purchased for $395. To order a copy, please submit a request or contact us via email at contact@vitalanalysis.com .

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Veritude: – A More Strategic Type of Staffing Firm

Friday, December 28th, 2007

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Impressive Pedigree, Growth and Market Focus

From the Overview section of this report:

“We see at least three types of firms requiring staff augmentation assistance. At one level, there are highly dysfunctional firms who are undergoing some sort of crisis or time sensitive need for additional staff. For these firms, vacancies must be filled and filled immediately. The second kind of need arises for those companies who have moved past the crisis and now want to understand and mitigate those causal factors that created the staffing problem in the first place. The third kind occurs when companies have moved to a stable work environment and are seeking methods to improve the long-term quality of their work force and of the methods used to identify, recruit and retain those workers.

Veritude has structured its business to help companies at any of these three levels and also to help firms move from one level of staffing capability to the next. To that end, the company provides contingent staffing services as well as consulting services, Managed Services Programs (MSPs) and Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO).”

We developed this report shortly after this Fall’s HR Technology conference in Chicago. Veritude’s briefing and executives were most impressive and we strongly recommend users of traditional staffing firms should shortlist this company.

For a very limited time, this report is available via email to those requestors submitting a valid business email address. Please send your request to contact@vitalanalysis.com or use our

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Vurv’s 1-2 Punch

Friday, December 28th, 2007

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New Report Available: Talent Management with Intellectual Property

We recently met with Michael George of Vurv at the Fall 2007 HR Technology show in Chicago. Vurv made a big splash with their talent management solutions. Vital Analysis prepared a short research report based on the new announcements. Herewith is a brief excerpt from the Vurv Product Details section of the report:

“The new Vurv products show very well. The user interface is crisp and intuitive. But the bigger story may be in the inclusion of a significant amount of intellectual property within the product. For example, the performance management software comes complete with detailed knowledge of some 1750 competencies. Interview questions are prepopulated with approximately 25,000 questions that recruiters, supervisors and interviewers can utilize. These questions assist individuals in assessing the degree of competency of individual candidates and employees. Much of this new intellectual property comes to Vurv via their acquisition of InScope in January 2006.

The new succession planning module has side-by-side comparisons of key employees. Relevant competency strengths and gaps are highlighted as well as differences in education and other relevant attributes. Specific plans regarding these individuals can be generated and incorporated into that person’s training program or future staffing/role assignments. Whereas some talent management tools provide career development planning as part of a training module, Vurv makes it part of its succession planning functionality. This is a better placement for this functionality.”

This report is available at no charge for a limited time to those who send a valid business email to: contact@vitalanalysis.com or submit a request using our request form page.

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