Meet The 2017 HRWins Top HR Companies To Watch: Castlight Health, Benefits Innovator
Castlight Health develops a "health navigation platform" that "improves the employee experience across the entire health journey." The modern world of employer provided benefits continues to grow in complexity for employers and employees alike. Benefits have become an...
2018 Future Of HR Tech: Continued Rise Of The Middle Market
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Zenefits Plays Catch-Up With Z2 Release
Zenefits recent call to celebrate the launch of Z2 felt like going right back to 2013 with them. Big claims with more promise than product. Zenefits launched their new "Z2" platform today. Normally I review these announcements quietly taking notes. I seldom write...
Human Resources Is Being Redefined, By You
Human Resources Is Redefining Itself My friends over at Namely got my attention with their latest campaign. It's about redefining Human Resources. This isn't about another tech vendor trying to redefine a category. Or, about anyone telling HR they need to change. It's...
I Found The Next Great HR Technology
"Finding the Next Great HR Technology" session was an incredibly fun session to be a part of at the 19th HR Technology Conference . The session might have only been about 70 minutes, but the process started earlier this summer. As coaches we were tasked with pouring...
Infograph: The Future of HR Technology Is Being Rewritten
In our latest #HRWINS research we surveyed 974 employers. We looked at what HR technology they're using - what they're replacing - and why. We looked at how they're applying HR technology to impact their businesses - leveraging HR Data and understanding its impact on...
A Thoughtful HCM Leader Emerges
You may have seen today's announcement by Namely. In what my start-up friends tell me is a difficult market to raise money, they've just received another $30 Million in a follow up to their June C round. And, from existing investors. In some ways the press...
Trend Report: The HR Technology Platform Vs. Point Solution Battle Is Over
**Updated February 2018** The debate over whether HR technology customers will adopt platforms or point-solutions is over and there is a clear winner emerging: The informed customer. For a long time now in the HR technology market we've been discussing and debating...
#hrwins Companies to Watch List – HR Tech Edition
Last week the HR technology industry convened in Las Vegas for the the annual HR Technology Conference and Exposition. It's always an exhilarating few days of non-stop meetings and incredible content focused on the intersection of workforce trends and the HR...
Salesforce Just Made Things Really Interesting In The HCM Game
Salesforce.com has been toying with the HR technology market for four years via acquisitions, partnerships, and substantial investments (the most recent being the HUGE round for FinancialForce in April 2015). In 2011 I called Salesforce the possible dark horse for...
#hrwins Trend Update: Small and Medium Businesses Are Driving HR Technology Innovation
I've been watching HR technology innovation get taken over by the requirements of the SMB since 2012. I was interviewed by Namely, an emerging HCM technology player, about why the SMB loves HR technology so much. You can read the article here. You'll see that I talk...
#hrwins Vendor Brief: Ceridian Reaps Benefits of Its Dayforce HCM Acquisition With A True HCM Platform In The Cloud
In late 2012, Ceridian made a bold move. The company announced that it would stop selling its existing HCM and payroll technology and moving 100 percent to the cloud via its newly acquired Dayforce HCM product. This is the kind of strategic move that is clearly...