Posted on March 20th, 2010.
Over the last five years, one of the fastest markets for enterprise software has been “talent management.” Talent Management Suites, now offered by more than 30 different providers, deliver a set of features and functionality which allow human resources and line managers to automate, monitor, plan, and analyze all the “people-related” processes in a company. This market started with the standalone areas of performance appraisals, training administration (LMS), and applicant tracking – and now…
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Posted on February 5th, 2010.
Today SuccessFactors announced plans to acquire InfoHRM (renamed Inform Business Impact) – a small but very well established leader in the area of HR and Talent Analytics and Workforce Planning. We believe this acquisition is very significant for the talent and HR systems marketplace: it now establishes SuccessFactors as the emerging leader in the broad and important area of delivering actionable talent and HR measurement and…
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Posted on January 12th, 2010.
Last week Bedford Funding announced its acquisition of Peopleclick and the immediate combination of Peopleclick with existing portfolio company Authoria, 
creating a combined talent management systems company with more than 2,000 customers and $100 Million in revenue. The combined company (now named Peopleclick Authoria) is now a significant player in the talent management systems market.
History and Analysis of this Merger.
Authoria is…
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Posted on December 26th, 2009.
As we recap 2009 and look ahead to 2010 in the market for talent management software, two gorillas have emerged: Taleo and SuccessFactors. While together these companies make up less than 20% of the total market, their size and growth has made them companies to watch as this market continues to grow and mature.
In October, SuccessFactors announced plans to raise an additional $180 Million through public sale of stock at a price…
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Posted on December 17th, 2009.
After almost a year of effort we just released our first-ever Talent Management Systems Customer Satisfaction research. We will be publishing this annually, with next year’s results to coincide with the HR Technology Conference in Fall of 2010.
If you are a talent management systems owner, buyer, or vendor I recommend you read this – it is filled with important information about the state of customer satisfaction, what drives…
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Posted on October 6th, 2009.
Once each year we travel to Chicago to gather with Bill Kutik and dozens of HR vendors to see the latest and greatest technologies applied to human resources.
This year’s conference was as exciting as ever, with many product announcements and exciting innovations to see. Madeline Laurano, our principal analyst in talent acquisition, is posting a recap of all the major announcements, which you can read Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )
Posted on September 11th, 2009.
This week SuccessFactors 
took a somewhat bold move by relaunching itself as a “Business Execution” software company. This idea, which is not new (The Balanced Scorecard Initiative® has been working on tools for this for many years), is to reposition the company’s performance and talent management software as a way to build strong alignment between business leaders and the workforce.
First,…
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Posted on August 3rd, 2009.
Even in this year’s terrible economy, the Talent Management Software market continues to show signs of life. We estimate this important market will reach around $2.4 Billion by the end of 2009 and continues to grow in size and importance.
How the Talent Management Software Market is Expanding
- Total HR spending across all industries, including spending on HR headcount, systems, and outsourcing, continues to drop – and is down over 11% in
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Posted on May 16th, 2009.
The LMS market continues to heat up as two private equity firms bid for SumTotal Systems. 
This week Vista Equity Partners upped its bid to $4.75 a share (up from $3.80 several weeks ago), bringing SumTotal’s market capitalization to over $150 Million. (This is nearly twice the market cap of Saba, who’s revenues are roughly equal.)
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Posted on May 7th, 2009.
We have been carefully looking at the Talent Management Software market over the last few weeks, and the first quarter of 2009 was a bit of a disaster. The market for performance and succession management software, which we believe finished 2008 around $520M in size and is expected to grow to $655M in 2009, had a fairly bad Q1 (this does not include software for recruiting and learning management systems).
The recession…
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