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        Mark Smith's Analyst Perspectives

        The new year started off with a bang in the human capital management software market as SumTotal Systems acquired GeoLearning, a leading learning management system (LMS) software vendor.

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        Topics: Learning, Operational Performance Management (OPM), Performance, Cloud Computing, Business Performance Management (BPM), Compensation, Financial Performance Management (FPM), SumTotal Systems, Talent Management, Workforce Analytics, Workforce Performance Management (WPM)

        At its annual user conference in Boston, Saba provided insights to industry analysts on its progress over the last year and its direction for 2011. Best known for its learning management system (LMS), collaboration and more recently its talent management applications, Saba now has more than 19 million users in 1,400 customer organizations that are mostly in the public sector, have 5,000 or more employees and are based in North America, although it operates in 28 languages in 195 countries. Now...

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        Topics: Human Capital, Human Resources Management, Learning, Mobile Applications, Performance, Cloud Computing, Business Performance Management (BPM), Compensation, Saba, Talent Management, Workforce Analytics, Workforce Performance Management (WPM)

        At its 2010 user conference in Miami, Plateau Systems reviewed for analysts its progress in the market for talent management software. Plateau has a unified platform and suite of applications that cover learning, compensation, job performance and analytics. The company’s financials have been steadily growing as more customers adopt its platform and show good year-to-year growth in its applications that are rented through software as a service (SaaS). Plateau claims that its SaaS business has...

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        Topics: Learning, Performance, Plateau, Cloud Computing, Business Performance Management (BPM), Compensation, Talent Management, Workforce Analytics, Workforce Performance Management (WPM)

        At its annual user conference in Las Vegas, Kronos unveiled the next stage of its approach to workforce management to its customers and partners, showing an aggressively confident posture after completing its fiscal year 2010 with revenue increased 9 percent to $741 million. Kronos is the largest provider of workforce management systems for time and attendance, scheduling, absence tracking, hiring and workforce analytics. Kronos offers the software in several delivery options: through...

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        Topics: Kronos, Learning, Performance, Cloud Computing, Compensation, Talent Management, Workforce Analytics, Workforce Management, Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
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