HR Technology innovation and adjusting

The HR technology  will showcase an array of new business technology innovations for human capital management and talent management.The business technology to help human resources professionals is evolving dramatically, and this is a place for HR and workforce management professionals to find new methods that help increase productivity and optimize business outcomes.


Early this year our firm defined five business technology innovations that will be vitally important in this decade for HR as well as other lines of business: They are cloud computing, social media, mobility, analytics and collaboration. Each of these when integrated with business and workforce processes can improve worker/manager interactions, and when combined they can have a widespread impact across the enterprise.


Cloud computing is already the standard for these applications for talent management; now it is imperative to progress in integration of them with enterprise systems. To accomplish this will require using data integration technologies designed for operating across cloud computing and enterprise systems that come from providers like Dell Boomi, Informatica, Pervasive and SnapLogic


Workforce Mobility: The business use of smartphones and tablets continues to change how workers and managers operate and will cooperate, but it is hard to tell where the real advances lie. Keep in mind that while many vendors are quick to announce and show applications that you can be downloaded, few provide demonstration versions with predefined information that can help you understand the impact their app can provide
 Workday recently announced  its mobility offering for managers on tablets but is still not providing access to experience it before purchasing. SAP also announced a series of new mobile applications for managers called SAP Manager Insight and SAP Interview Assistant that builds on top of what  already at its SAPPHIRE conference. SuccessFactors has brought forward its BizX Mobile as the interface to its applications, but we are still waiting to see a public demonstration of its capabilities.


Workforce Analytics: Attracting and retaining talent are critical that can be more effective by using workforce analytics. Our workforce analytics benchmark research on HR organizations  found some significant challenges in the maturity of organizations trying to use analytics. To help with this, software vendor eThority has methods to access and integrate data for workforce analytics across a spectrum of cloud and enterprise systems contained in its recently upgraded platform eThority 5  who in a surprise announcement was acquired by Equifax and now part of the TALX business unit. Sonar6  made performance reviews cool and has introduced an analytics offering that is easily seen on this YouTube clip. I recommend visiting Peoplefluent to see the advances in analytics enabled by its acquisition of Acquire. SuccessFactors acquired Inform and YouCalc to advance its solution for stand-alone workforce analytics and should be another stop on your tour of workforce analytics. SumTotal Systems is also advancing its workforce analytics that I assessed in a recent briefing. Technomedia has launched TM Analytics to help complement its new talent management suite. Visier was founded by former Business Objects and SAP executives to spice up the workforce analytics market and now has brought its products to the market after being in development for some time.


When you think about establishing workforce collaboration, don’t get distracted just by the cute social media expansions of recruiting applications which only can help part of your overall talent management processes. Unfortunately this critical business factor is not receiving its full due in the HR Tech conference, but there are advances worth your time to examine.