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By Jim Lundy ZenPayroll is just starting and already they are getting a buzz from Twitter. It started with an innocent Retweet of a Techcrunch article. It was picked up by others and then questions were raised about whether they had any payroll experience. It was humorous but at the same time serious and it [...]
By Jim Lundy In case you hadn’t heard, Gartner Managing Vice President Jim Holincheck left Gartner in July and joined HCM provider Workday. So when Jim announced via Twitter that he was joining Workday, I watched and waited. The same thing happened to Jim that happened to me when I left Gartner: nothing. A funny thing happens [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 3rd, SAP announced that it was purchasing SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion in an all cash deal. Event: SAP announced on Saturday, December 3rd, that it intends to purchase Talent Management [...]
By Jim Lundy Salesforce announced today that it is buying Rypple, a Social Performance startup with offices in Canada and San Francisco. Aragon Research will be publishing a full First Cut on this move tomorrow. The major news from Salesforce was not the purchase of Rypple, but its announcement of a new HCM business unit [...]
