Welcome to our Who’s Who list of companies who specialize in Social HR technology.
Are you in HR technology and wondering what options you have in software vendors? Or are you wondering what technology companies are transforming HR into more social functions? Then look no further. The list below has been collected from a couple of online sources as well as from our own research. The companies are listed in alphabetical order, but sortable by product solution. If you feel a company has been listed incorrectly or if you are a representative of the company and wish to modify your information, please contact us.
Solution categories:
- Employee Engagement – Employee surveys, opinions
- e-Learning – Learning management, talent development
- HCM Solution – Human capital management system that offers an overall solution
- People Management – Workforce analytics, case management, succession planning
- Recruitment – Acquiring talent, candidate search, applicant tracking
- Total Rewards – Reward & recognition, performance management, benefits
- Talent Management – Staffing solutions
| Company | Solution | Product | Mobile | Description |
| ADP | HCM Solution | HRMS | Yes | Complete employee lifecycle solution enables an organization to consolidate HR technologies and services across its enterprise to achieve a lower cost, more compliant and more effective HR function. |
| AgilePoint | People Management | AgileHR | | Gives employees secure and instant access to their own employee data and corporate info. AgileHR is browser based and fully integrated with SharePoint and selected enterprise HCM Solution systems (such as SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle) and surfaces employee information and services in an easy to use portal. |
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About the Author: Kyle is the HR Analyst at SoftwareAdvice. By day, he blogs about HR trends, technology, and best practices. By night, he’s the Relations Chair for Austin-based independent theatre company, PaperChairs.
When leaving home or the office, what are the must-have items you would never go without? Wallet? Got it. Keys? Yup. Your mobile recruiting application…? Well, sure! Today’s anytime-anywhere mobile access is changing the way we do business. You see, with the right apps and tools, users can manage any number of human resources and workforce management processes from their mobile devices.
It’s official: HR technology developers are working full throttle to bring new solutions for hiring, managing the workforce and tracking HR to the mobile market. Many of the mobile tools currently on the market in our industry are focused on recruiting and talent management. Thankfully, we’ve begun to see applications cropping up that give business owners the ability to access highly valuable data on the go. Based on functionality, ease of use, and downright coolness, there are a few mobile tools that rank amongst my favorites:
Acquiring Talent
Kenexa 2xMobile enables hiring managers to manage their hiring processes on the go. Keeping in mind how busy managers can get, the application focuses on key hiring tasks so they can execute the most basic actions needed to move the hiring process along. This app is free, and syncs with Kenexa’s SaaS-based applicant tracking system, but users must have a Kenexa license.
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SHRM released its
Future Insights Report on the Top Trends for HR according to SHRM’s HR Subject Matter panel. This report highlights key HR-related topics and trends, as seen by subject matter experts from SHRM’s Special Expertise Panels. These trends are a valuable resource for any HR professional interested in seeing what issues HR subject matter experts believe will have the biggest impact on the workplace today and in the years ahead.
The report is broken down into key categories for HR, with each area having about 10 top trends. The trends indicate a promising revolution to the traditional role of HR in the organization and how organizations interact with employees and HR’s important role in this change. Of note, however, is the distressing (but not all that surprising to read) insight that technology and social media are seen as becoming more of a negative influence on workplace civility, manners, company information, privacy, business writing and etiquette. And their use is seen as increasing opportunities and avenues for harassment.
The full report is available here.
Here are some highlights from other key categories:
Employee Engagement
- HR is seeing the importance of being high-touch in a high-tech world and is increasing efforts to maintain and enhance employee engagement.
- As companies and workplaces change with economic, social, technological and other demographic shifts, HR is becoming more instrumental in facilitating effective change management and integrating culture as a regular duty as opposed to a special project.
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Wondering how other organizations are faring with the social transformation of their corporate Intranets? The Go To” report for companies interested in knowing what other companies are doing has just been released by Prescient Digital Media.
The Social Intranet Study December 2011 examines social media use on corporate intranets and the magnitude, use, and popularity of social media by employees and executives. The study findings and analysis are based on the survey conducted between late May and early June 2011 by Toby Ward, Prescient Digital Media, in association with the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). The results reveal rapid adoption of social media on the corporate intranet in the past year.
The survey was completed by over 1,401 participants in small, medium and large organizations in all types of industries, from all corners of the globe.
The Top 10 Most Common Intranet Tools
The report found that social media tools such as blogs, wikis and other vehicles are present on most corporate intranets: 61 percent have at least one social media tool available to some or all employees. The most popular Intranet 2.0 tools are blogs, discussion forums, instant messaging and wikis.
- Blogs - 75 percent have intranet blogs; 26 percent have deployed blogs enterprise wide; only 4 percent have no plans or interest in deploying blogs.
- Discussion Forums - 65 percent have intranet discussion forums; 26 percent use them enterprise wide; 7 percent have no plans or interest in deploying intranet discussion forums.
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I have a friend who works in a call center here in Columbus, OH. She is someone who’s not only passionate about her job, but also about having a voice and affecting change to improve her teams’ functions. But her greatest challenges to feeling included in impacting / changing company processes are related to the working environment itself: with the exception of a half hour lunch and two 15-minute breaks, she must be on the phone all day long making conversation with other colleagues impossible, and 2) opportunities to express opinions with other team members or suggest changes are limited to monthly team meetings. Neither of which are conducive to driving a culture of social, human interaction.
It’s hard enough to drive culture and drive engagement in the standard corporate environment, but imagine what it must be like to drive interaction and engagement in an environment where employees are separated and siloed as a requirement of the job. Call centers have a workplace setting that differs greatly from those of corporate, so I’ve always appreciated the diligence of contact (call) center employees and have wondered how it’s possible to drive (and enable) engagement, interaction and productivity when the basic functions of the job requires employees to be connected to their phones and computers their entire work day. From my meager understanding of the contact center environment, performance metrics are based on call quality, length and ability to wrap the calls as quickly as possible within government or corporate regulations… and performance numbers are scrutinized on a daily basis.
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Employee Engagement
