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Varicent Coverage

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Varicent report cover                         Sales Performance Management Vendor: Varicent

We spent time at the HR Week conference with an executive of Varicent and received a brief product demonstration of their Sales Performance Management solution.

We developed a summary report on their offerings and the company. An excerpt from the Prognosis section of the paper states:

“We believe Varicent’s focus on large companies and larger midmarket companies is correct.  We believe there is a genuine need for an inexpensive solution in this space particularly given the pressure on businesses to be more nimble and more agile.  This increased dynamism in business today will no doubt continue to place pressure on sales management to materially and constantly change its sales compensation schemas.

 We also like sales performance management solutions as a productivity improvement tool for sales professionals.  We have witnessed firsthand the lack of a single book of record with which sales professionals can see and/or dispute the way their commissions are being calculated.  The elimination of all of the wasted time and energy spent arguing over whose spreadsheet has more accurate data will boost productivity simply because it frees up sales professional time to spend on customer facing initiatives.”

 

The report is available via Vital Analysis for $295. Please complete our request form or email us at: contact@vitalanalysis.com

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Emportal – New Sales

Monday, April 28th, 2008

                                                       Emportal Gaining Momentum

We were already preparing this report based on the HR Week show in NYC recently: Emportal Update Report. The key theme of this update was that Emportal had acquired a number of new clients. Now, Emportal has released details on their new market success (see: https://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=848867) . The gist of this press release states:

“WALNUT CREEK, CA–(Marketwire – April 28, 2008) – Uniting the way business works with the way people work, Emportal today welcomed five more enterprise clients to its growing customer base. Emportal eliminates the challenges of managing disparate HR systems and databases by combining the best capabilities of four categories of human capital management — HRMS, ERP, point solutions and HRO — into one “have it your way” software-as-a-service solution. New companies turning to Emportal include FCI; California Waste Solutions; ION; a California headquartered restaurant chain; and a Chicago headquartered payroll and retirement provider. “

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JobFox – Upcoming Report

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Jobfox – A Fox in the Job Board Hen House 

We recently caught a Jobfox launch event in Chicago and were quite impressed with the company, the crowds they attracted and the product. After a trial run of the product, we’ve developed a report on the firm and, hopefully, will make it available on this website in a few days.

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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.

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NetSuite’s NS-BOS – Part of a Bigger Story

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Last week, NetSuite announced its NS-BOS business operating system. Along with this announcement, NetSuite also announced the availability of a new debugging tool.

There is a bigger picture angle to this and its one that escapes other SaaS application vendors. NetSuite’s approach to the mid-market maybe superior to that of over SaaS vendors. It’s a lower integration cost strategy that should receive a very warm welcome with mid-market software buyers and the vertical industry application developers who ally with NetSuite.

 NS -BOS Report Cover

This report is available for sale @ $495 per copy. To order, please use our online info request form or email us at contact@vitalanalysis.com

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NetSuite Earnings

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

New Report on NetSuite’s 2007 Earnings

Today, 2/14/2008, NetSuite management briefed analysts on the company’s financial performance for the year 2007. Executives also discussed NetSuite’s competition, capital deployment, hiring plans and a recent 1000 user CRM win. earnings report cover

All of these items are discussed in the a special Vital Analysis report. For a limited time, this report is available for free to those persons submitting a report request on our website and using a valid business email address. Alternatively, you can request a copy via email from: contact@vitalanalysis.com

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When Event Technology Meets ERP

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Progress Apama – An Event Technology That’s Work a Long, Hard Look

We recently had a chance to watch a demonstration of Progress’ Apama product.  Apama is an event-driven technology that has seen market successes in the financial services industry. The demonstration we witnessed was in another industry – Manufacturing – and was provided by a Progress partner Manuvis.  This demonstration was so striking because of the way that Manuvis has incorporated event processing into discrete manufacturing. Consider this example:

Manuvis continuously monitors production equipment and other key production statistics in a manufacturing environment. Suppose the software detects a continuing anomaly in a machine. The software will notify workers to tend to the machine. The software will also dynamically re-direct production and potentially re-optimize the production schedule. Workers, in a Manuvis environment, answer to this network software – not a production supervisor. Why? No human being can continuously monitor every aspect of production, every product produced, every machine, etc. Nor can a production supervisor continuously re-adjust production schedules, repairs, etc. while monitoring events at the plant.

ERP systems were good at crafting a periodic production schedule; however, the need to optimize business results requires a more dynamic solution. Event-driven technologies, like Apama, are particularly well-suited to such a business need.

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SuiteBundler to Propel Innovation Within NetSuite

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

NetSuite SuiteBuilder cover

NetSuite Adds Powerful Tools to its Product Line

Late 2007, NetSuite announced powerful new product line capabilities to its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application product line. We were particularly impressed with the intense new vertical extensions that have been developed by NetSuite resellers using the new SuiteBundler tools.

In the Prognosis section of our report, we wrote that:

“For NetSuite customers, SuiteBundler is a very positive, albeit indirect, step forward. SuiteBundler should trigger a landslide of new vertical functionality within the NetSuite ecosystem.  For NetSuite’s target market, the small to midsized business, this additional breadth and depth in industry functionality is a welcome sight.  While high-end ERP solution providers possess some of this needed industry expertise in their products, their price points are cost prohibitive for SMB buyers.  Traditional SMB solutions often contain stripped down or skeletal vertical capabilities.  These traditional SMB solutions may create perplexing or undesirable workarounds for their customers and often require excessively high-cost implementation fees to make workable. SuiteBundler should help usher in a more cost-effective and robust set of vertical solutions for the SMB space.”

 

This report is available to Vital Analysis clients. Inquiries regarding it can be directed to contact@vitalanalysis.com .

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Workstream’s Talent Center Version 7.0

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Workstream report cover

New Research Report

Workstream had a big product launch of its talent management solution at the Fall 2007 HR Technology show in Chicago. We developed a short research report covering the highlights of this announcement along with our prognosis for the product. Here’s a blurb from the Company/Product Highlights section of the report:

“The new software has these attributes:

  • 500 man-years of development were invested in the new product line

  • average time to deploy the solution is down to 1-12 weeks per customer

  • 43 currencies supported

  • 10 languages supported

  • Web 2.0 architecture

    Several beta and prospective beta customers were on hand for the announcement. These included United Way, GlaxoSmithKline and others. Also on hand was a representative from ExcellerateHRO. ExcellerateHRO is a joint venture of EDS and Towers Perrin. Talent Center is being used in their client HR BPO solution set. A representative of ExcellerateHRO was generally bullish on the product.”

    If you would like more information on Workstream or this report, please send an email to: contact@vitalanalysis.com

     

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CyberShift: When Demand Management Meets Time & Attendance

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Cybershift report cover

New Research Report

We recently completed a new research report on CyberShift. Here’s a brief excerpt from the Overview section:

“The market for time and attendance systems may seem to some to be somewhat stuck in time (no pun intended). Sure, time clocks have been supplanted with badge readers and other devices that are now integrated with ERP solutions but the basic functionality of recording a person’s time spent on the job has still remained constant.

CyberShift has been moving their product line beyond just time and attendance. They have modules to provide scheduling and optimization capabilities so that companies can optimally schedule personnel as well as record the hours those persons work. This combination of functionality materially enhances the value of CyberShift’s product line.”

For a brief period of time, we will make this report available to readers who submit a valid business email address to contact@vitalanalysis.com or complete our online request form.

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