Posts Tagged ‘Kenexa’

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 .

Coming Soon: New HR Reports

Friday, April 18th, 2008

A Flurry of New Reports Coming Soon

We recently attended HR Week in New York City and met with executives from a number of HR and HR Services providers at that conference. Specifically, we had in-depth discussions with:

Veritude – Kate Donovan and Laura Cleveland – We will update our Fall 2007 report on Veritude. They’ve recently scored a big win and are moving in some new directions.

Kenexa – Phil Stewart and Brandt Hamby – They’ve acquired StraightSource recently and advised us of additional announcements. We’ll prepare a new report on Kenexa after next week’s analyst event.

Workscape – Daryl Ashley, Tony Marzulli, Marc Moschetto – Workscape’s succession planning products and benefits outsourcing offerings dominated our conversation. An update report will be developed.

Emportal – David Lee – We re-connected with David and discovered that Emportal’s secured several new clients. We’ll update our report on them.

FutureStep – Bill Gilbert, Kelly Cartwright – Great first meeting and a solid RPO briefing. New report to be issued.

Salary.com – Elle Hoxie – Salary.com is clearly busting out from being a data-driven solution. New report to be issued.

Varicent – Brian Hartlen – Varicent’s laying claim to the Sales Performance Management space. New report to be issued.