Jim Holincheck

Authoria announced today that it has been acquired by Bedford Funding, a private equity (PE) firm (started by alumni from Geac).  Bedford is investing an additional $8 million in working capital (it has more than $800 million in available capital).  Jason Corsello has a good synopsis of the acquisition.  Ultimately, I believe this is a good [...]

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I have started to get a lot of requests for meetings from vendors at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago from October 15-17.  Unfortunately, I will not be able to take any meetings at the conference (I will only be there for a limited time).  If you did want to schedule a briefing, please feel [...]

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This was my last day at OpenWorld.  I started off with a presentation from University California-Berkeley by Colleen Neymeyer and David Scronce on their PeopleSoft 9.0 upgrade.  The upgrade was what I would characterize as a “Talent Management” upgrade.  It has been working on developing and implementing its talent management vision since 2001.  The end [...]

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Thomas and I started Day 2 with a briefing on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) for the upcoming MQ for Employee Performance Management software.  Oracle continues to make progress filling in some of the functional gaps and the product remains quite good in areas such as compensation management.  The adoption rate is also quite good within [...]

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Here are the headlines, in my mind, from the opening day of OpenWorld:

Complete. Open. Integrated — This is the main theme for the conference which I saw repeated in a number of presentations.  Here is my take on what Oracle intends it to mean:

Complete — Oracle is very focused on industry solutions.  That is, providing a [...]

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First, let’s go through the statistics.  Taleo stated it had 900 attendees at the conference (including 80 Vurv customers).  It also indicated it now has 3,600 total customers (including 1,600 Taleo Business Edition customers).  Taleo also reached a milestone recently with the 100 millionth candidate applying for a job through Taleo.   Michael Gregoire, Taleo’s CEO, kicked off the conference [...]

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Gartner has a product offering specifically for the investor community.  We have quite a variety of investors from Venture Capitalist (VCs) to Private Equity (PE) firms to institutional investors.  The most common question, not surprisingly, that I have had from all of these constituencies is whether or not we see a slowdown in the HCM market [...]

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Peter Cappelli did the opening keynote today at the Kenexa World Conference.  His presentation focused on many of themes in his book “Talent On Demand“.  Here are a couple of important takeaways/things to think about:

Mobility in the external labor market has made it difficult for employers to invest in training and development.  By the time [...]

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