To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Knowledge, Social Software Issues: How will enterprises take advantage of new ways to share knowledge and expertise? What are the best practices for leveraging social software to gain a competitive advantage. Summary: On August 27th, IBM announced that it was buying HCM provider [...]
HCM -Talent Go Cloud, Windows 8 and iPad 3
February 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy This week was full of announcements from major HCM players, such as SAP (solidified its Cloud Roadmap based on SuccessFactors) and Oracle (which sought to reassure customers on its pending acquisition of Cloud Talent provider Taleo). In related First Cuts, we predicted the move by Oracle and we also think this will not be [...]
HCM and Talent Merger Wars Claim more Victims
February 9, 2012 By 1 Comment
By Jim Lundy With the announcement today that Oracle is in the process of buying Taleo less than sixty days after SAP announced it was buying SuccessFactors, the race is on to offer the most complete Talent/HCM Suite. This comes on the heels of Kenexa announcing yesterday that it was buying Learning Suite provider Outstart. [...]
Salesforce buys Rypple, Signals Move into HCM
December 21, 2011 By
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Knowledge Issue: How will enterprises acquire and distribute knowledge? Summary: On December 15th, Salesforce announced that it was buying Rypple, a Social Performance Start-up. Terms of the deal were not released. Event: Salesforce announced it was buying Toronto based Rypple and [...]
Tech Titan SAP buys SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion
December 3, 2011 By 4 Comments
Announced on a Saturday, this deal signifies that the Tech Titans may be loosening their purse strings to make acquisitions that help them with long term growth (see a related Aragon Research First Cut on SuccessFactors). For SAP, this signifies that a growth via acquisition strategy may be a long term play for them. Note that for others, [...]
