Tuesday’s Tidbits: Challenges in Talent Mobility

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

“Tuesday’s Tidbits” is a recurring post serving up “choice morsels” of information. Brief? You bet. Distracting? Absolutely. Useful? Hope so! Read on and enjoy. I’ve been writing and speaking a lot about the Future of Work and how it requires an evolution in the way we engage and inspire the next generation workforce. New thinking [...]

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Peoplefluent Gains Social Platform as Private Equity Firm, Bedford Funding, Invests in Socialtext

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

In a press release today, Bedford Funding – the private equity firm that owns Talent Management solutions provider Peoplefluent – announced a strategic investment in privately held Socialtext, a provider of enterprise social software based in Palo Alto, California. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2002, Socialtext provides enterprise social networking tools [...]

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The Profile Wars (Part 1): What’s In Your Wallet?

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

During the March 2012 CloudForce event in San Francisco, Salesforce.com announced its newly integrated services from Salesforce Rypple, delivering social goal, performance and feedback capabilities integrated with Salesforce Chatter and CRM just six weeks after completing the acquisition of Rypple. In the many write-ups on the announcement, I saw a heavy focus on the functional capabilities enabled by this [...]

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Ceridian Claims its Seat at the SaaS HCM Table

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

Following its acquisition of Dayforce, Ceridian becomes the latest entrant in the SaaS HCM market

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Ultimate Software Advances a People-Centric, Collaborative Platform

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

Last week I attended Ultimate’s User Conference, held in Las Vegas, to participate in their analyst events as well as to speak on the topics of employee engagement and talent management. Despite the many possible diversions, (“gamification” certainly has new – or is that old – meaning in Vegas), the content, customers and speakers were [...]

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News Analysis: Further HCM Industry Consolidation as Oracle buys Talent Management Vendor Taleo for $1.9B

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

Following moves by rivals SAP and Salesforce.com, Oracle expands its offering in Cloud-based HCM with competitive acquisition of leading recruiting and talent management vendor Taleo. Event: Today Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), the world’s second largest business applications maker, announced its intentions to acquire Taleo Corporation (NASDAQ: TLEO) for $46.00 per share, or an equivalent of $1.9B. [...]

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SAP and SuccessFactors: Three Things I Want to Know on Day 1

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

This transaction is going to close any day now. Presumably, both sides have been carefully considering the implications for HCM and Cloud. Nobody expects answers to all the questions at the close, but everybody expects answers to some things. As an industry analyst for HCM processes and technologies, I have many questions for SAP to address in [...]

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Join me Dec. 8 on Episode 128 of HR Happy Hour: The Consumerization of HR

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

Join me this week as I join as a guest speaker on Steve Boese’s HR Happy Hour blogtalk radio show. Sponsored by Aquire Call in 646-378-1086 Follow the conversation on Twitter – hashtag #HRHappyHour Listen live on the show page here, on the call in listener line above, or use the widget player embedded in the the HRHappyHour home page. Episode [...]

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