Posts Tagged ‘RPO’

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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Futurestep Coverage

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

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Futurestep – A Global Provider of RPO and More

We meet with executives of Futurestep, a Korn Ferry International firm, at the recent HR Week show in New York City. We received a fairly complete briefing and developed a research note on the firm and its offerings.

Here is an excerpt from the Prognosis section of the report:

“Futurestep is not a traditional HR Outsourcing (HRO) supplier either. Where most HRO providers offer significant back office processing capabilities, they often provide more minimal recruiting and talent acquisition capabilities and intellectual property.  That said, Futurestep is a more knowledge-based RPO and not in the same category as HRO providers. We are generally very positive on Futurestep because:

  • the company can leverage the Korn/Ferry brand, pipeline and intellectual property assets. All of these leverage points give the company an invaluable advantage over standalone RPO firms.
  • companies that need RPO often need more than just a technology solution provider.  Futurestep provides a services rich and data rich solution.
  • several of the differentiators mentioned earlier in this report are truly unique to Futurestep.”

 

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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.

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