Category: HR Technology

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LinkedIn Enters AI Agent Race With LinkedIn Hiring Assistant

As I discussed in the article Digital Twins, Digital Employees, Agents Everywhere, tech vendors are creating AI-powered Agents as fast as they can. And in HR, where we deal with hundreds of mundane checklist-types of processes, the opportunity for automation is everywhere.

This week, just as Microsoft launched a tools to help companies build ... Read more»

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SuccessFactors Leapfrogs HCM Capabilities: AI, Skills, Talent Intelligence, And More

This week SuccessFactors announced a vast array of new features, focused on taking the lead in the red hot HCM war against Workday, Oracle, and others. These capabilities fall into four areas, each of which bring SAP into a leading position in many areas of the global HCM market. (Product details here.)

As ... Read more»

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Digital Twins, Digital Employees, And Agents Everywhere

I recently heard Elon Musk predict that every citizen would have multiple Optimus robots in their homes within five years. And while I often ignore his predictions because they’re exaggerated, I think he’s on to something. We are about to witness an explosion of Digital Employees in our companies, and these may be the “robots” ... Read more»

Josh Bersin Company AI Trailblazers

Introducing The AI Trailblazers! HR Technology Outlook 2025.

Are you having a hard time figuring out which AI products are real and how they all fit together?

In our ongoing efforts to help you understand the HR Tech market, we’ve produced a report we call the AI in HR trailblazers.

This report lists selected the top 30 vendors which have developed working, ... Read more»

ADP Lyric HCM

ADP Lyric HCM, The Next-Gen HR Platform Many Have Waited For

In the Spring of 2018 I attended a confidential meeting in New York City to learn about a project called Lifion. ADP had hired a new team of engineers convened in a secret mission to build the “next-generation platform” for ADP’s offerings in the enterprise market.

This new system, designed ten years after the release ... Read more»

Workday plus Galileo

Galileo™ Selected As Workday Innovation Partner

This week at Workday Rising we’re announcing our new partnership with Workday. As one of the selected Workday Innovation Partners, we are developing a deep integration between Galileo and Workday.

Galileo, as many of you know, is “Your Essential AI Assistant for Everything HR.” Filled with 25+ years of research, benchmarks, ... Read more»

What Is Workday Illuminate?

Today Workday introduced Workday Illuminate, the new brand name for Workday AI. While the name is not important, this new brand demonstrates a shift from AI “dazzlers” to AI “capabilities” within the entire Workday platform. In other words, Workday has now built an underlying AI infrastructure that can manifest solutions in hundreds of ways.... Read more»

Agentic AI - New AI Employees

AI Agents, The New Workforce We’re Not Quite Ready For (Agentic AI)

The Agents are coming, the Agents are coming.

If you follow the AI tech market you know there’s a lot of talk about “Agentic AI.” In other words, our friendly AI assistants are starting to feel more empowered. Instead of just answering questions and composing poetry, they’re now able to “do things” on ... Read more»

When Will The Trillions Invested In AI Pay Off? Sooner Than You Think.

In the last few weeks there has been a lot of concern that Gen AI is a “bubble” and companies may never see the return on the $Trillion being spent on infrastructure. Let me cite four analyst’s opinions.

Will Today’s Massive AI Investments Pay Off?

MIT professor Daron Acemoglu estimates that over the next ten ... Read more»

Workday Salesforce Partnership: Teaming Up For Enterprise AI

This week Workday and Salesforce announced a major partnership, focused on integrating these two major enterprise systems to get ahead of the increasing demand for integrated AI.

What did they announce? Two big things.

First, the companies are going to integrate their data platforms.

Salesforce holds vast amounts of sales and customer data (leads, ... Read more»

UKG 14% Reduction In Force: A Growth Move (And Intuit Update)

This week UKG announced a layoff of approximately 2100 people (out of 15,000) in a strategic move to focus on even larger growth opportunities. As AI sweeps the technology industry, I think we’ll see more of this to come. And only a few days later, Intuit announced the layoff of 1,800 people, explaining the ... Read more»

Why Is It So Hard To Be A Chief HR Officer (CHRO)?

Times have changed. Once considered the junior executive in the C-suite, today the CHRO may be the most important of all. And as AI transforms our businesses, the job gets bigger every day. (Jack Welch often said the CHRO was the #2 most important job in the company.)

 

Companies Have People Challenges Everywhere... Read more»

TechWolf Accelerates Corporate Skills Tech Market With $43 Million Round

There is a frenzy of activity in the market for corporate skills technology. Microsoft, Workday, SAP, and dozens of specialized vendors (logos below) are building AI-based tools and platforms to bring skills data into every part of business operations.

The big vendors (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle) have built “skills clouds” to help companies store their ... Read more»

Galileo™ Goes Live, Expands Its Power With New Trusted Content

Today Galileo™, The World’s Expert AI Assistant for HR, is generally available. After a year of development and testing, we’ve integrated more than 25 years of our research, tools, case studies, and vendor profiles into the world’s most easy-to-use, compelling, AI-powered assistant for HR.

Today more than 10,000 HR professionals are using Galileo, representing ... Read more»