HRchitect Tech Vendor News: HRsmart Named Awesome Product of the Year in 2014 by Network Products Guide

Richardson, TX – July 16, 2014 – HRsmart, a leading provider of global, unified talent management solutions, today announced that Network Products Guide, industry’s leading technology research and advisory guide, has named HRsmart “Awesome Product of the Year” for the 9th Annual 2014 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards.

These industry and peer awards from Network Products Guide are the world’s premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry. An annual achievements and recognition awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, the coveted annual Hot Companies and Best Products recognition program encompasses the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, executives and management teams, successful deployments, product management and engineering, support and customer satisfaction, and public relations in every area of information technology.

“It’s an honor to be recognized as Awesome Product of the Year for this esteemed industry and peer award,” says Mark Hamdan, CEO of HRsmart. “This great recognition shows our hard work and dedication to provide the best talent management solution for our customers.”

“This 9th annual industry’s premier excellence awards program is proud to honor and celebrate the achievements in every facet of the IT industry,” said Rake Narang, editor-in-chief at Network Products Awards. “HRsmart’s product encompasses the world’s best in talent management, and we are proud to recognize HRsmart’s Unified Talent Management solution as the Awesome Product of the Year.”

HRsmart was presented with the Awesome Product of the Year award in San Francisco during the 9th annual dinner and presentations.

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To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HCM systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 17 years in business working on over 2100 successful engagements for more than 900 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust for all of your organization’s HCM technology-related consulting needs.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

HRchitect Tech Vendor News: HRsmart Launches Full Talent Management Suite for SME Market

RICHARDSON, TX – June 23, 2014 – HRsmart, a leading provider of global unified talent management solutions, today announces the latest release of its Professional Edition offering. The addition of Learning Management and Career Development, to a suite that already includes Recruiting and Performance Management makes the HRsmart Professional Edition the most robust and affordable talent management solution available to small organizations.

“99% of businesses today have less than 250 employees, and may have a small or no human resources department,” says Mark Hamdan, CEO of HRsmart. “Our Professional Edition brings them a fully featured, self-serve, and complete talent management solution that is easy to use and own. And our software as a service model allows them to start small, at a very low cost, and expand as their company grows to a full Enterprise solution.”

These additional capabilities make HRsmart’s Professional Edition a complete HR platform that includes:

• Applicant Tracking
• Performance Management
• Learning Management (New)
• Career Development (New)

HRsmart’s Professional Edition Talent Management Suite can be up and running in 90 minutes, allowing companies to showcase a branded career site for applicants, launch the employee performance process, and institute learning programs. Also with HRsmart’s unified platform, whether choosing all or part of the talent management suite, companies implement on their own time frame to fit their business strategy.

HRsmart has taken complexity out of the mix for owners and CEO’s of growing companies by providing a simple and effective solution to onboard quality employees and get the most out of their people.

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To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HCM systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 17 years in business working on over 2100 successful engagements for more than 900 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust for all of your organization’s HCM technology-related consulting needs.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

 

HRchitect Tech Vendor News: HRsmart Launches Latest Release of Award Winning Platform

RICHARDSON, TX – June 2, 2014 – HRsmart, a leading provider of global talent management solutions, announces the launch of version 12.1 of its Unified Talent Management Platform. This latest release is now available to all HRsmart Enterprise clients.

“The HRsmart team is very excited to provide this latest evolution of our Unified platform to our clients and the marketplace.” says Mark Hamdan, Chief CEO at HRsmart. “Our product and development teams have been working around the clock to provide, what we believe, is the most advanced architecture and solution suite in the industry.”

Gartner Group, McLean & Company, and Federys have all recognized the HRsmart Unified Architecture (HUA) as being a leading solution in the Talent Management industry. The platform has received the Cloud Showplace BoSS award for Best of SaaS, as well being named a finalist in the Network Products Guide for “Hot New Technology”. HUA is also the core platform for the Monster TMS and Empower Talent market offerings.

A few of the new features in the 12.1 Release are:

• New and improved Compensation module complete with hard and soft rule creation, audit trails, completion monitoring & tracking and embedded compensation letters.
• Expanded Conceptual Searching Capabilities using Monster SeeMore™ functionality, including the ability to run SeeMore searches directly from all phases of the recruiting workflow.
• Apply with Monster feature that allows job seekers to use their Monster profile to complete the résumé/CV profile form when applying to your jobs.
• Bulk Launch of appraisals of groups of employees by their hire or start date.
• Employees will now have the ability to enter and provide input on goal weights when they enter their goals.
• Both Employees and managers can enter final/overall performance appraisal comments, which are separate from any scoring/assessment or signature comments.
• 9 Box expanded configurability allows administrators to freely determine defaults (performance & potential) within the 9 Box scales.
• Read & Sign Course Type feature allows LMS administrators to upload course documents into the LMS that require tracking and verification of the employee actions.
• Ad hoc Locations feature enables users to enter ad hoc locations when creating an internal class.

 

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To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 17 years in business working on over 2000 successful engagements for more than 900 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

HRchitect Tech Vendor News: HRsmart Results Surge in First Quarter and Company Announces Annual Forum Dates

Richardson, TX – April 17, 2014 – HRsmart, a leading provider of global unified talent management solutions, reported strong sales in the first quarter of 2014 with new bookings that surpassed the fourth quarter of 2013 and representing a 221% increase over the year agperiod. Among the new clients signed in the fourth quarter were The Goodman Group, Kaiser Aluminum, AceTech Services, and Debbane Group.

HRsmart was also notified by leading industry groups that the company is a finalist for the following awards:

• HRToday TekTonic Award for Talent Management
• Network Products Guide Award for Cloud Computing
• American Business Awards for Outstanding Customer Service

“These strong first quarter results and our large sales pipeline bode very well for HRsmart in 2014,” said Mark Hamdan, CEO of the HRsmart. “We are honored by the many awards we are receiving for solutions and customer service. We learned how to build great solutions by listening and partnering with our clients and credit them for our success.”

HRsmart also announced in the first quarter that its annual conference, Innovate2014, will be held at the Joule Hotel in Dallas, TX from September 24th to the 26th. The conference will showcase industry renowned keynote speakers, collaborative end-user sessions, and insights into HRsmart’s future product directions.

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To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 17 years in business working on over 2000 successful engagements for more than 900 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

HRchitect Tech Vendor News: HRsmart Receives BSOCO Award as One of the Top Competency Management Solutions Worldwide

Richardson, TX – March 20, 2014 – HRsmart, a leading provider of global, unified talent management solutions, today announced it has been named one of the top 3 competency management solutions worldwide through the bsoco index scores.

Each year, the bsoco awards recognize the best business software. The awards are given based on the assessment of an independent international panel of judges along with the users themselves, who responded to a unique questionnaire. These responses from thousands of users are then converted into a bsoco index score.

The innovative bsoco community website questions users about software performance. Their responses are used to establish an index. Each software is evaluated according to 4 criteria (performance, usability, reliability and services). The bsoco index is further influenced by the popularity of the software on the bsoco website in terms of the number of voters and frequency of their votes.

A software solution with an index score of more than 7,000 is excellent software that meets users’ expectations in every way. If the bsoco index score exceeds 5,500 then the software is considered a good product which meets general needs.

The bsoco index score recognized HRsmart’s solution as:

• An important tool in helping managers to successfully prepare future talents through development of career plans
• A precious tool for understanding our top talents
• Vital to managing internal applications and allowing employees to take an active part in their career
• Key in measuring gaps between the individual or organizational competences and the aimed competences

“We are proud that bsoco has honored us as a leader in the talent management software industry,” said Mark Hamdan, Founder and CEO of HRsmart. “Our charter is to help companies and their managers make better talent decisions. Recognition from independent groups such as bsoco helps validate that we are doing just that.”

The Award was presented to HRsmart at the Solutions Ressources Humaines on the 18th of March. HRsmart will also exhibiting at IHRIM, CIPD, SHRM and Focus Connect shows this spring.

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To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 16 years in business working on over 2000 successful engagements for more than 900 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

HRchitect Tech Vendor News: HRsmart Announces Outstanding Q4 and Year-End Results

Richardson, TX – January 22, 2014 – HRsmart, a leading provider of global unified talent management solutions, reported strong sales in the fourth quarter and finished 2013 with an average 36% quarter over quarter growth in new bookings. The company also achieved the milestone of surpassing 1500 clients using the HRsmart Talent Management Platform. Among the clients signed in the fourth quarter were Lloyd’s of London, Tesco Corporation, Winshuttle, Inc., and Mercon Coffee.

HRsmart also continued to gather praise for its Unified Talent Management Platform by winning the THINKstrategies Best of SaaS Showplace (BOSS) award in the fourth quarter of 2013. The award honors companies that deliver measurable business benefits as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. Earlier in the year HRsmart received recognition from Gartner Group, McLean and Co, and Federys as a leader in the Talent Management field.

“We are very pleased with the financial results and accolades we continue to achieve,” said Mark Hamdan, CEO of the HRsmart. “However, our mission is to continue to bring innovative solutions and excellent user experience to our customers. Their satisfaction is the number one award we seek.”

On the humanitarian front, in November HRsmart and its employees banded together to donate $9,000 to the Red Cross in the Philippines to help in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan and donated funds to rebuild more than 45 roofs for victims of the storm. The Typhoon destroyed at least 80,000 homes, leaving over 582,000 people homeless and more than 2 million people needing food, clean water, and medical attention. HRsmart has offices in the city of Cebu of the Philippines.

 

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To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 16 years in business working on over 2000 successful engagements for more than 900 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

HRchitect Tech Vendor News: HRsmart Partners with Work4

Richardson, TX – October 30, 2013 – HRsmart, a leading provider of global unified talent management solutions, today announced a new partnership agreement with Work4, the #1 Facebook Recruiting Solution. The partnership with Work4 enables HRsmart customers to enhance their social recruiting capabilities in new and innovative ways.

Work4’s all-in-one Facebook Recruiting Solutions empower thousands of companies, including many of the Fortune 500, to make everyone a recruiter and everyone a candidate on Facebook and across social platforms. Work4 will enable HRsmart clients to reach high-quality candidates where they spend the most time: on Facebook and mobile devices. HRsmart clients will be able to find and engage candidates through a Facebook Career Site and on mobile devices, and will attract and contact the right candidates through highly targeted recruiting ads and innovative search tools. With Work4, HRsmart clients will tap into Facebook’s 1.15 billion person database while making their recruiters’ processes more productive and cost-efficient.

“The incorporation of a powerful social recruiting system is vital to the future of talent management,” said Mark Hamdan, CEO of HRsmart. “HRsmart is excited to partner with Work4, and we look forward to the growth in HR social engagement for our clients.” “As the #1 Facebook Recruiting Solution, we are proud to partner with a best-of-breed talent management company such as HRsmart,” said Work4’s VP of Partnerships Brian Louie. “We’re looking forward to seamlessly integrating smarter, more efficient sourcing and recruiting into HRsmart’s customers’ global social recruiting strategies going forward.”

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To learn more about HRchitect and how we can help your organization, please visit www.HRchitect.com. HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting.  As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) Systems consulting firm, we offer end-to-end HR technology consulting services focused around strategic planning, evaluation/selection, project management and implementation of HR systems, Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and Workforce Management software. After more than 16 years in business working on over 2000 successful engagements for more than 900 clients across the globe, HRchitect is a name you can trust as your one-stop shop for all your HR technology consulting needs.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

HRsmart Releases Version 11.3 of its Unified Enterprise Talent Management Suite…from HRsmart

 

Driven by the desire to provide its clients with the best solutions and the latest in HR compliance technology

HRchitect featured HRsmart in our release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems and top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

HRsmart, winner of the HR Technology Conference vendor shootout and the only HR software company with a fully unified Talent Management Suite, announces the release of Talent Management Enterprise Version 11.3.

Our clients keep challenging us to find ways to identify and retain top quality talent. We responded with several enhancements including user-friendly analytics, social networking and employee development tools. We made these new enhancements easy to use by improving the dashboard experience.

Expansion of our social networking tools enables clients to leverage LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and other similar social networking sites as recruiting tools within the solution.

Early client reviews have picked the 9-Box Matrix as the most important and progressive addition. Users can now filter attrition analytics, and avoid the risk of losing additional key personnel, because they are more visible and manageable.

“With over 1300 client implementations in over 30 countries, real-time intelligence gathering and the agility to develop solutions in response to what is learned, is what characterizes thriving organizations”, said Hanny Shehadeh, Chief Product Officer at HRsmart. “With a direct line into product management, our clients continue to consistently drive our product enhancements.”

Below are some of the highlights of the new release.

Highlights of Version 11.3

The newest version enables companies to quickly identify and rank the best fit candidates for a position through dynamic user-defined criteria. Now, reports such as Quality of Applicants and Quality of Hires enable data-driven qualitative and quantitative sourcing decisions. New dashboard widgets enable managers to quickly identify competency gaps and create development plans with minimal effort. System-suggested context-sensitive resources are presented to the manager to pick from. Vice presidents of HR will particularly like the incredible attrition analytics included in the Career Development and Succession planning module. The new analytics tool was designed with a particular focus on the HR generalist and line manager user experience. DBAs will appreciate the built-in flexibility to quickly drill down to data sources, create filters & charts, and retrieve any data element from all modules.

Highlights of the new enhancements to HRsmart’s Unified Architecture (HUA) platform include:

Analytics:
Starting with five new, built-in reports, all standard reports are being converted to a newly designed reporting engine which enables clients to run, filter, edit, copy, share, chart, and export results. All tables, charts, & graphs, are drill-down capable.

Highlights of the new enhancements to HRsmart’s Applicant Tracking Module include:

New Dashboard Widgets:
Introduction of additional real-time dashboard reports to improve recruiting activities: Recent Requisitions, My New Resume Submissions, My Candidates, and a Mini-Calendar.

Monster Resume Search Enhancements:
The search form now includes the ability to enter OFCCP reference details, search by board (Monster.com or Monster & Diversity), and language skills. Results can be sorted by location, date, or keyword. The result screen and mini-view have been enhanced to include highlighting, improved job seeker type identification, and filters. Users can add candidates to requisitions, send printable batches, and route resumes. Search Agents can now include Monster-specific searches.

Social Network Profiles:
Users are now able to search for job seekers on various social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Blogger, and Google) and then save the links in the job seekers’ profiles within the Resume Dashboard.

Global Diversity Reporting:
New reports have been created to enable required diversity data reporting by country.

Highlights of the new enhancements to HRsmart’s Employee Performance Management Module include:

New Dashboard Widget:
A new dashboard widget enables managers to track the progress of their employees’ performance goals. Managers can quickly identify whether an employee’s goals are on target, past due, or have not been set.

Highlights of the new enhancements to HRsmart’s Career Development & Succession Planning Module include:

Attrition Analytics Displayed on 9-Box Matrix:
The 9-Box Matrix already displays the potential and performance of employees by organizational unit, management hierarchy, location, and job family. A user can now choose to display attrition analytics utilizing the same filters. Whether voluntary or involuntary, this innovation offers unprecedented insight into the caliber of the talent lost through attrition.

Create Development Plans for a Successor or a Pool of Talent:
Succession plan collaborators can now create development plans for one successor and easily copy it to other individuals or an entire Pool. Development Plan owners can track the successors’ progress and completion.

Auto-Suggestion of Development Plan Resources:
Upon choosing a desired competency or skill to focus on, the system automatically suggests context-sensitive courses, library resources, and mentors the manager can select from to complete the development plan.

New Gap Analysis U/I:
The gap analysis U/I is now graphical and tabular. This allows the user to easily and quickly determine where the gaps in competencies and skills are. The graph displays competencies and skills required of the job compared to those attained by the employee. The gap analysis display also reports other skills and competencies the employee has attained even if they are not required by the selected job.

New Domino List U/I:
The new user interface has been enhanced to resemble the structure of an organizational chart allowing users to more easily identify where gaps in succession planning may exist, with the ability to drill-down through the entire list.

For more information about HRsmart and the new release, please visit www.hrsmart.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

Saba, Peopleclick Authoria, HRsmart and Technomedia to Contend in HR Technology Conference’s Annual Shootout

 

Signature Event Helps Attendees Evaluate Vendors, Get Answers to Their Toughest Questions

If you are looking for a new Talent Acquisition System, Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is here to help!

Conference organizers for the 13th Annual HR Technology Conference and Exposition today announced the four vendors that will vie for the top slot at the conference’s signature event: The Shootout. Designed to help attendees evaluate software by seeing custom demonstrations based on tough, scripted scenarios, this year’s roster consists of Saba, Peopleclick Authoria, HRsmart and Technomedia.

Produced by Human Resource Executive Conferences, the 13th Annual HR Technology Conference and Exposition will be held at McCormick Place in Chicago from September 29 – October 1, 2010.

This year’s Shootout consists of two breakout sessions in which the contestants have been paired based on their similar choices of three out of five Talent Management scenarios, written by industry expert Mark Albrecht and Conference Co-chair Bill Kutik.

Each vendor will conduct an uninterrupted 25-minute demonstration showing how their software can solve the specific problems in the script, and later answer questions from the audience. Voting will be based on four absolute criteria for software — such as usability and integration — rather than on presentation skills and less objective criteria.

Conference co-chair and Technology Columnist for Human Resource Executive magazine, Bill Kutik, emphasized, “Vendors in The Shootout are not permitted to demonstrate whatever they want — they must stick to our tough, scripted scenarios so attendees can evaluate them against the same criteria. And we never sell speaking or demonstration slots to vendors — participation is only earned by meeting our stringent requirements.”

Kutik will judge session one on Wednesday, September 29 at 11:00 a.m. with HRsmart and Peopleclick Authoria. Session two, featuring Saba and Technomedia, will be held the same day at 3:15 p.m. Rochester Institute of Technology instructor of HR technology, Steve Boese, will judge that session.

All four of these Talent Management vendors will also be featured in Bersin & Associates’ Customer Satisfaction survey, which is debuting at the HR Technology Conference.

The conference’s early bird registration rate expires on September 10th; attendees registering prior to this date save $350. Prospective attendees are encouraged to visit www.hrtechnologyconference.com for details.

About the HR Technology Conference Now in its 13th year, the HR Technology Conference & Exposition is acknowledged as the industry’s leading event. The complete agenda for this year’s conference can be found at www.HRTechnologyConference.com and discussions are available at the conference’s popular LinkedIn group. Follow the HR Technology Conference & Exposition on Twitter at @hrtechconf and search hashtag #hrtechconf for further updates.
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

Hodes iQ Wins HRchitect’s Beauty Pageant for Talent Acquisition Systems…from Hodes iQ

 

HRchitect includes Hodes iQ in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider. Hodes iQ competed in the HRchitect Beauty Pageant on Talent Acquisition Systems in August 2009, where they were crowned the winner. Jeremy Shapiro, Senior VP with Hodes iQ appeared on the HRchitect WebMingle on September 18, 2009. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

Hodes iQ, Bernard Hodes Group’s award‐winning talent acquisition and management product, recently announced that they have been named the new Talent Acquisition Systems HRchitect Beauty Pageant contest winner.

HRchitect, a leader in HR systems strategic consulting and a premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management systems consulting firm, has been orchestrating and hosting the beauty pageant style competition since 2008 on a variety of topics related to the HCM industry. Each pageant features the top vendors in their respective category and contestants are asked to showcase their company along with their unique product features and value proposition in the marketplace to audience members. The concept allows attendees to see presentations in a fun and informative format where the audience votes on the winner at the conclusion of the webinar.

“Hodes iQ did a fantastic job in their first HRchitect Beauty Pageant appearance,” said Matt Lafata, vice president of sales and marketing for HRchitect and the host of the Beauty Pageants. “Their usage of pageant imagery in their presentation, coupled with the fact that they highlighted their own clients as part of that imagery, made for a very entertaining and informative presentation about their company and product offering.”

The competition took place on Friday, August 21 and Hodes iQ was crowned the new winner against such companies as SilkRoad, HRsmart, Taleo and iCIMS. The Talent Acquisition Systems pageant had record participation according to HRchitect, the largest in the pageant’s history.

“We are very excited to have been recognized as the winner for presenting the best solution for talent acquisition systems,” said Jeremy Shapiro , senior vice president, Hodes iQ. “It’s our first time participating so we are extremely honored to have won against some solid players in the market.”

The pageant format allows registered attendees to review and analyze competing products in a neutral landscape, allowing each vendor to highlight their unique product features and how they differentiate themselves from their competitors. With today’s economical challenges, it’s important for HR professionals to clearly measure products in an apples‐to‐apples comparison and to make business driven decisions on what they feel would best fit their organization’s needs now and in the future.

For more information on Hodes iQ, please visit www.hodesiq.com

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

HRchitect “Beauty Pageants” For Top Vendors in the HR Technology Arena Returns with a Full Schedule for Remainder of 2009

 

HRchitect, the leader in HR systems strategic consulting and the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management systems consulting firm, announced the return of the wildly popular and groundbreaking webinar series entitled, “Assessing the Talent Management and HR Systems Landscape, an HRchitect Beauty Pageant.”

HRchitect conducted ten successful Beauty Pageants from November 2008 through May of 2009 and took a short hiatus for the summer months. The events will return on August 21, 2009 with Talent Acquisition Systems followed by Talent Management Systems on September 4, 2009. Best of all, these are free to the HR community and any other interested parties.

Each ‘Beauty Pageant’ focuses on a different category of HR technology such as Talent Management Systems, Talent Acquisition Systems, and HR/Payroll Systems and will feature up to six contestants.  The contestants are all top vendors in each specific category. 

The Talent Acquisition Systems Pageant is up first and will feature Hodes IQ, HRsmart, iCIMS (last year’s winner), SilkRoad, and Taleo. Talent Management Systems follows and at press time the confirmed vendor contestants are Jobpartners, Saba, Salary.com, and SumTotal Systems.

“The world of HR technology continues to puzzle many people,” commented Matt Lafata, Vice-President of Sales & Marketing for HRchitect and the host of the Beauty Pageants, “and what better way to try and help solve that than through a fun and informative beauty pageant? Our continuous mission is to educate the public about HR technology options and we feel that these short, 8-10 minute presentations from multiple vendors, is a great way to do it AND keep people’s attention. The feedback we have received from these Beauty Pageants is absolutely tremendous and we are looking forward to producing many more of these events.”

HRchitect developed a format to help guide each vendor with an outline of what should be covered during each portion of the pageant.  HRchitect came up with pageant categories and a guideline for vendors to loosely follow but of course leaves it up to each vendor to follow their own format:

Evening gown – To start off each portion, we are asking the vendor to come out in their best ‘outfit’ – corporate overview, history, specific identity, financial viability, marquee clients, leadership team, etc. This will be the grand entrance.

Swimsuit – Here the vendors will show some skin in this portion – usability, configurability, etc.

Talent – This portion will cover functionality, technology/integration, global ability, etc.

Interview – This will be the Q & A section from the audience. 

At the end of each Beauty Pageant, the audience votes to determine who walks away with the crown and industry bragging rights.

“These beauty pageants are designed to give the audience a quick overview of the leading vendors and showcase their uniqueness and creativity,” added Tiffany Appleby, Director of Marketing for HRchitect and Production Manager for the Beauty Pageants. “Past participants have gotten extremely creative in their presentations and we thank them for their time and efforts in doing this. We truly believe this is a really great opportunity for anyone who is looking at purchasing any kind of HR technology solution to be able to learn more about several of the top systems in each category in a fun and informative format.”

The upcoming schedule of Beauty Pageants is as follows, and registration is available on the HRchitect web site:

August 21, 2009 – Talent Acquisition Systems

September 4, 2009 – Talent Management Systems

September 25, 2009 – Learning Management Systems

October 9 – Background Screening

October 16 – Mid-Market Talent Acquisition Systems

October 30 – Onboarding

November 6 – Performance Management Systems

November 20 – HR/Payroll Systems

December 4 – Workforce Management

December 11 – Compensation Management

Visit www.HRchitect.com to register for any of these free Beauty Pageants and learn more about some of the exciting educational and innovative events that HRchitect has coming up over the coming months.

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

HRsmart Releases Version 11.0 of its Talent Management Suite Providing Users with Unparalleled Usability and Configurability…from HRsmart

 

HRchitect featured HRsmart in our 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems and top Talent Management Systems vendors that businesses should consider. HRsmart participated in the Talent Management Systems and Talent Acquisition Systems panel on June 10, 2009 as part of theHRshow. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, talk to HRchitect first. We have unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation.

HRsmart, the only HR software company with a fully integrated Talent Management Suite, today released Version 11.0, setting a new standard in the industry for usability and configurability.

“This exciting new version of our Talent Management Suite is by far the most unified, scalable, configurable and usable platform on the market today,” said Hanny Shehadeh, chief products officer at HRsmart. “We tore down every wall plaguing traditional standalone modules greatly enhancing usability and enabling users, regardless of organizational role, unprecedented collaboration.”

Key features and enhancements to HRsmart’s Unified Architecture (HUA) platform include:

• Scalability.  HRsmart introduced four new tiers all of which are built on the same platform and can be configured to meet the needs of organizations ranging from 100 to well over 100,000 employees. HRsmart’s Talent Management Suite can be deployed in its entirety or on a modular basis.
• Brand New Navigation System. This release introduces a new navigation menu designed to allow any user to land on any screen within the entire suite in two clicks. Dubbed “Two Clicks to Anywhere”, the newly designed menu system redefines usability enabling users to truly approach daily talent management tasks logically and holistically. Logical and historical breadcrumbs further provide single click access to the most frequently used functions within the Suite.
• Built-in Single Sign On and User-Defined Links. Because the entire suite is designed in-house on a single platform, the user need only remember a single log-in. Furthermore, User-Defined links grant them access to other systems within the organization.
• Consolidated Notification System. In a move to truly demonstrate the power of a fully-integrated platform, users enjoy a single calendar that keeps track of all their scheduled events and reminders regardless whether they are related to recruiting, performance management, career development, learning management, succession planning or compensation. Notifications and alerts from the entire suite are consolidated in a single icon enabling users to tend to all pending requests with a single click. All notifications sent via email are stored through this function allowing the user to recover from any mishap.
• Features Management. Hundreds of system functions are “feature-wrapped” allowing system administrators to configure and throttle the roll-out of functionality to the organization based on their readiness for change. Drag-and-Drop functionality transforms traditionally intimidating Dashboards and mundane switches into fun tasks. Features are logically grouped to allow for quick configuration and instantaneous activation. This is one of the most powerful enhancements in the release and must be seen to gain an appreciation for the granularity of the configuration capability.
• Direct Feedback to Product Management. Eliminating all barriers for direct client feedback, every user, on any screen within the Suite, can now communicate directly with HRsmart’s Product Management team. The system automatically logs the current screen and user information allowing them to effortlessly suggest their enhancement request. 

For more information about HRsmart and the new release, please visit www.hrsmart.com

 
Matt Lafata, HRchitect

HRsmart Teams with RiseSmart to Offer Next-Generation Outplacement Services to HRsmart Customers…from HRsmart

 

Talent Management software provider to add RiseSmart’s Web-enabled “Outplacement 2.0” solution to its portfolio of services

 

HRchitect featured HRsmart in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider.

 

HRsmart, a leading global provider of integrated Talent Management software, and RiseSmart, a provider of Web-enabled job search and outplacement services, today announced an agreement under which HRsmart will resell RiseSmart’s Transition Concierge corporate outplacement services through HRsmart’s U.S. sales channels.

 

RiseSmart Transition Concierge provides high-touch, results-oriented outplacement services at a fraction of the cost of traditional firms. Industry observers have hailed RiseSmart’s “Outplacement 2.0” approach as a disruptive innovation in a marketplace that has been paying too much for transition management services for too long.

 

“HRsmart prides itself in delivering talent management solutions that are not only technologically superior, but also meet the need of the hour while remaining cost-effective,” said Hanny Shehadeh, chief product officer of HRsmart. “RiseSmart has found an ingenious way to apply technology to dramatically reduce the cost of corporate outplacement – while granting departing employees a more effective action plan. We are delighted to offer the RiseSmart Transition Concierge services to our more than 650 corporate customers, including some of the largest companies in the world.”

 

“HRsmart is a leader in technology that helps companies manage all of their human capital, from candidate sourcing to employee development and, when the time comes, employee departures,” said Sanjay Sathe, founder and CEO of RiseSmart. “We’re honored that HRsmart has chosen to market RiseSmart Transition Concierge to its established and loyal customer base.”

 

RiseSmart Transition Concierge provides transitioned employees the services they need most during today’s challenging economy: help with marketing themselves through a rewrite of their resumes and cover letters; guidance from a transition specialist, including assistance in using online social networks; and — most importantly — actionable job leads from across the Web based on their specific criteria, for a period of up to six months.

 

To identify these job leads, a dedicated RiseSmart HR professional is assigned to each transitioned employee. Utilizing state-of-the-art search technology, the HR professional searches more than one million job listings across the Web, returning only the listings that best match the employee’s specific criteria. RiseSmart then listens to employee feedback to continually enhance the results it delivers to each transitioned worker.

 

BusinessWeek has touted the RiseSmart business model as making “a lot of sense,” and the San Jose Mercury News says, “RiseSmart typifies the valley’s knack for using technology to disrupt standard business practices.” HR executives from Fortune 500 companies like ACS and Tenet Healthcare have also praised RiseSmart Transition Concierge.

 

For more information about HRsmart, please visit www.hrsmart.com. For more information about RiseSmart, please visit www.risesmart.com

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

HRsmart Names Patrick Aulson as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development…from HRsmart

 

HRchitect featured HRsmart in our May 2008 release of The Suite Life of Integrated Talent Management and also includes them in our list of top Talent Management Systems and top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider.

 

HRsmart, the leading global talent management software company, today announced the addition of Patrick Aulson to its executive management team. Aulson will assume the role of Executive Vice President of Corporate Development for HRsmart.

In this role, Aulson will be responsible for strategic planning and developing new business initiatives for HRsmart with third parties, strategic alliances and mergers and acquisitions.

HRsmart continues to experience considerable growth and has established itself as the provider of the most advanced technology for human capital management globally, said Mark Hamdan, Chief Executive Officer for HRsmart. We are excited about the benefits Pats experience will bring to HRsmart to further position the company for future growth.

Aulson has served in a number of senior and executive HR roles in a variety of industries including high technology, financial services, manufacturing, consumer products and higher education, and is on the board of Workforce Solutions of Greater Dallas, a non-profit group responsible for the research, planning and oversight of a variety of federal and state workforce programs.

Prior to joining HRsmart, Aulson was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Turner Construction Company, the nations leading general builder. He led International Human Resources for The Associates, a financial services company now part of CitiGroup, and was the Vice President of Human Resources and Corporate Services for AMRE, a NYSE company involved with direct marketing under the Sears and later Century 21 Home Improvements brand names. Aulson also served as the Vice President of Human Resources for Republic Financial Services, a subsidiary of Winterthur Swiss Insurance Company and held various positions at Texas Instruments in staffing, training and development, employee relations, compensation and benefits.

Aulson holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and a Bachelors of Science in Psychology from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

HRsmart has received accolades from key analyst firms regarding its product vision and functionality. Industry observers have hailed HRsmarts Talent Management Suite functionality as being very strong, and stated HRsmart has a comprehensive vision for an integrated talent management suite.

 

For more information on HRsmart, please visit www.hrsmart.com

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

HireRight and HRsmart Integrate Employment Background Screening with Applicant Tracking…from HireRight and HRsmart

 

Solution Provides HRsmart Customers with a Streamlined Process for Safe, Efficient Hiring

 

HRchitect includes HRsmart in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems vendors that businesses should consider.

 

HireRight, a leader in on-demand employment background and drug screening, has announced an alliance agreement with HRsmart, a leading provider of talent management software, employee performance management, applicant tracking, and human resource software solutions. The new HireRight Pre-integrated Solution for HRsmart will allow business users to manage their background and drug screening programs through the HRsmart Applicant Tracking System (ATS).

 

“Partnering with HireRight and offering their world-class employment screening solution within our Applicant Tracking System is a great value-add for our customers,” said Hanny Shehadeh, chief product officer for HRsmart. “Integrating the screening application allows our customers to streamline their hiring process and verify important candidate information with convenience.”

 

HireRight background and drug screening services are accessible through HireRight Pre-integrated Solution for HRsmart, enabling HRsmart customers to manage their employment screening program from a single location. The solution is delivered via the HireRight Connect integration framework, a scalable and secure integration environment designed to support pre-integrated screening solutions with ATS, custom integrations with third-party applications, and secure data feeds with third-party systems.

 

The robust HRsmart Applicant Tracking System includes a comprehensive dashboard tailored to the individual user, an easy-to-use and innovative functionality to help manage day to day activities, deep integrations for sourcing talent, managing assessments, communicating with Human Resources Information Systems, and now running employment background checks and drug tests through HireRight.

 

“HireRight is proud to partner with HRsmart, a recognized leader in talent management. As employers look to secure top talent, it is critical that they not only find well-qualified candidates, but that they also verify the credentials of each individual to create a high-performing and safe work environment. We expect our relationship with HRsmart will provide mutual customers with an efficient means for making smarter hiring decisions,” said David Nachman, vice president of business development at HireRight.

 

For more information on HRsmart, please visit www.hrsmart.com and for more information on HireRight, please visit www.hireright.com

Matt Lafata, HRchitect