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James Holincheck
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22 years IT industry

Jim Holincheck is a managing VP in Gartner Research, where he manages the team that covers finance, human capital management (HCM) and procurement. He specializes in the HCM systems market. In this role, he helps provide a bridge between… Read Full Bio

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More on Kronos Acquiring Deploy Solutions

by Jim Holincheck  |  November 1, 2007  |  1 Comment

I had a conversation today with Jim Kizielewicz, SVP of Corporate Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer, from Kronos about the acquisition.  This is what I learned:

  • Deploy’s solution will become Workforce Acquisition for Field Hiring v8.  It is immediately available.  Workforce Acquisition for Field Hiring v8 will be the platform upgrade path for existing Unicru customers (Workforce Acquisition v6 and v7 customers).  Kronos will incorporate content from the Unicru solutions (assessment and analytics) into the Deploy platform.
  • Kronos will continue to offer the Workforce Acquisition for Corporate Hiring solution through its recently announced partnership with MrTed.  There is some overlap with the Deploy as it supports requisition-based hiring.  However, according to Kronos, most of the salaried hiring customers for Deploy are on legacy solutions, not the new integrated salaried/hourly platform (called aTAO).
  • It will be approximately 90 days before Kronos will be ready to start migrating existing Unicru customers to the new platform.  Kronos will continue to support both solutions, but Unicru customers should expect ultimately to migrate to the new platform.
  • Kronos has reorganized the Talent Management division.  There will be a Talent Management – West (Unicru) which will continue to focus on content (assessment and analytics) and a Talent Management – East (Deploy) which will focus on the development of the platform.
  • Kronos also is keen to leverage the platform to expand into performance management (initially through the performance scorecarding functionality that Deploy had built). 

I do not think I will be publishing a First Take on this, but if you are a Gartner client and have questions on the acquisition, please feel free to set up an inquiry.

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  • 1 Jason Corsello   November 1, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    Jim – Great post. Thanks for sharing. It may be just me but the organizational structure for Kronos Talent Management sounds very messy to me. I think it is very interesting that Talent Management is lead by, of all people, the Kronos CTO (nothing against him but is he really the best candidate to drive the highest area of growth for the company). And to have content on one coast from one acquisition, and platform/technology on the other coast from the most recent acquisition sounds like a big challenge to me. Just a thought.