News Analysis: SAP and SuccessFactors Unveil Early Roadmap for HCM

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

This morning, SAP and SuccessFactors, an SAP company, issued a press release in which their unified Human Capital Management (HCM) product roadmap was unveiled.  The primary message is that SAP has adopted a hybrid strategy for HCM:  the SuccessFactors portfolio for Cloud HCM, and the current SAP ERP Human Capital Management portfolio for on premise. Details on this and other [...]

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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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HCM Powerhouse SuccessFactors to be Acquired by SAP

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Yvette Cameron @ NextGen Insights, LLC

In an important move, today SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) announced its intended $3.4B acquisition of SuccessFactors (NYSE:SFSF) as it seeks to accelerate its Cloud Strategy and become a dominant player in the Human Capital Management space. Event: SAP America, Inc., a subsidiary of Germany-based SAP AG, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SuccessFactors for approximately $3.4 [...]

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