In the realm of technology that matters for business and IT, our firm as part of our responsibility continually assesses the latest technology and how it can impact organizations’ efficiency and effectiveness. Our benchmark research in technology innovation found that 87% of participants indicated the importance of increasing the organization’s value through technology innovation. Every year we take our knowledge from research and technology briefings to focus on our Technology Innovation Awards and determine the vendors and products that have the potential to drive change in the market, the competitiveness of an organization’s business and sometimes just how efficiently a company operates. Our firm believes that Innovation can come from any size technology vendor from the smallest to the largest that are measured on a spectrum of attributes that contribute to the specific impact of the technology.
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Topics:
Big Data,
Datameer,
Mobile,
Sales,
Social Media,
Sustainability,
Customer,
ESRI,
Globoforce,
GRC,
HCM,
Kronos,
Kyriba,
Location Analytics,
Marketing,
NetBase,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Overall Operational Leadership,
Peoplefluent,
Planview,
SQLstream,
VMWare,
VPI,
IT Analytics & Performance,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Business Mobility,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Hortonworks,
IBM,
Informatica,
Information Builders,
Information Management,
Information Technology,
KXEN,
Location Intelligence,
Operational Intelligence,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Contact Center,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Datawatch,
Financial Management,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Information Optimization,
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Johnson Controls Panoptix,
Roambi,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Service & Supply Chain,
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Upstream Works,
Vertex,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
Xactly
I’m happy to say that Ventana Research celebrated its tenth anniversary at our recent Business Technology Innovation Summit in San Jose at the Tech Museum. This location was fitting, since at the event we introduced and presented our first-ever Technology Innovation Awards and seventh annual Leadership Awards. If you did not get a chance to attend, we have the live webstream available for replay at no cost; thanks to Splunk for sponsoring this to let everyone enjoy the sessions.
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Topics:
Big Data,
SAP,
Social Media,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Peoplefluent,
Planview,
Research,
Splunk,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Business Mobility,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
IBM,
Location Intelligence,
Operational Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Ceridian,
CFO,
CMO,
COO,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Datawatch,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Saba,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Technology,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
We have just released our 2012 Value Index for Total Compensation Management (TCM), in which we evaluate the competency and maturity of vendors and products. Our firm has been researching this category for many years, and our latest benchmark research in total compensation management found some improvement among applications in a field where many organizations still use outdated applications to manage an area with large financial and human capital impacts.
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Topics:
Human Capital Management,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Peoplefluent,
SuccessFactors,
Cloud Computing,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Compensation,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Excentive,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
HR,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
SumTotal Systems,
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
TCM,
Value Index,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
This week Peoplefluent announced that it has invested in Socialtext, a company that provides social collaboration software at the enterprise level. With this strategic investment Bedford Funding, the private equity firm that owns Peoplefluent, is the direct beneficiary. Peoplefluent will extend Socialtext into the human capital management market while continuing to let the company meet the broader market interest in its offering. Peoplefluent has moved quickly to make this application and platform available to its customers.
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Topics:
Social Media,
Sustainability,
Human Capital Management,
LMS,
Peoplefluent,
Performance,
Recruiting,
Research,
SocialText,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Mobility,
Cloud Computing,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Mobility,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Compensation,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
HR,
HRMS,
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Talent Management,
Workforce Analytics,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
The acquisition frenzy in the enterprise software market continues. The announced acquisition of Taleo by Oracle will remove the independence of another successful cloud-based software company. Publicly traded Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO) provides talent management applications on a rental cloud computing basis. Acquiring Taleo, which by all accounts has done a good job of growing the recruiting and applicant sourcing software business in a scalable cloud environment, was too good for Oracle to pass up. SAP’s much costlier acquisition of SuccessFactors, which I assessed clearly placed more pressure on Oracle to do something rather than nothing.
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Topics:
SAP,
Social Media,
Human Capital Management,
LMS,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Oracle Fusion HCM,
Peoplefluent,
Recruiting,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Mobility,
Cloud Computing,
Mobility,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Compensation,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
HRMS,
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
SumTotal Systems,
Talent Management,
Taleo,
Workday,
Workforce Analytics,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
