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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Trends in Social Talent: Web Event Recap

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

In March, I had the honor of kicking off the first episode of the Social Talent Show, a bi-monthly virtual event sponsored by TalentCulture, UpMo and #TChat (@Twitter). In this inaugural show I framed Social Talent as the ”Next Wave of Awesomeness”, and had a healthy conversation/debate with Rob Garcia of UpMo and Meghan Biro of TalentCulture on why you should care about these emerging trends, the [...]

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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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Accelerate Social Learning with Next Generation Unified Communications

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

The rapid pace of change in business today requires learning agility, and formal learning programs cannot keep pace.  Today’s advances in Unified Communications enrich and enable social learning, transforming how people collaborate, communicate, learn and share knowledge. In today’s networked economy, connecting people to the information they need, and doing this when, where and how it’s needed, [...]

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Webinar: Social Talent is the Next Wave of Awesomeness!

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

Register today for this webinar, in which you will hear from Yvette Cameron, VP and Principal Analyst from Constellation Research, Inc., speak to the trends happening in internal recruitment, retention and mobility processes and how they affect your ability to retain great talent.

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WorkSimple Brings New Focus on Social Goals and Engagement

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

In a market where the term “social” is applied to just about any form of collaboration, where the ability to make comments on web transactions and send email is often (and misleadingly) marketed as social feedback, it can be challenging to find those solutions that truly  reimagine people processes in the context of social technologies, [...]

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Join Me This Wednesday on The Bill Kutik Radio Show

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

This Wednesday, I’m pleased to be joining industry expert and impresario Bill Kutik on The Bill Kutik Radio Show. Join us for 20 minutes as we discuss my upcoming research on a new class of business effectiveness applications and vendors.  We’ll also discuss the opportunity to leverage these social, collaborative applications for “getting work done” which today [...]

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News Analysis: Salesforce.com buys Rypple, signaling entrance into HCM Market for the Social Enterprise

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

A new competitor enters the Social, SaaS HCM marketplace In a deal of undisclosed size, Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) today announced its intentions to acquire social performance vendor Rypple and launch a new HCM division headed by John Wookey, executive vice president, advanced applications. The deal is expected to close by April 30, 2012. Today, Rypple is positioned as [...]

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