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Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Skillsoft will offer an SAP Solution Extension, allowing SAP to distribute an integrated solution that includes SuccessFactors Learning, Skillsoft’s content and the Percipio learning experience platform. The product, called SAP Content Stream by Skillsoft, will be available in October. GR8 People introduced expanded...
Culture Amp raised $82 million in Series E funding, bringing its total investment closed to over $158 million. The money will be used to accelerate the company’s expansion and product development efforts. New investor Sequoia Capital China led the round. It was joined by existing investors Sapphire Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Index Ventures,...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Google will shut down its Hire by Google service in September 2020. While calling hire “successful,” the company said it’s opted to focus its resources on other Google Cloud products. G Suite customers can continue to use the...
Listen to a podcast of this story. While the remote workforce’s gender dynamics largely align with those of in-office workers, a survey by Ultimate Software found some surprising differences. For example, in both environments men were more likely to be promoted within the last year. But the gap was dramatically wider in...
Transcript Mark Feffer: I'm Mark Feffer and this is PeopleTech. News and now conversation from the world of HR technology from the HCM Technology Report. Today I'm happy to welcome Alex Tolbert, founder and CEO of BerniePortal. BerniePortal's known mostly for its benefits tools, but last year introduced an ATS...
Many HCM technology vendors are trying so hard to rise above the noise they may be making it more difficult for their customers and prospects to understand their solutions’ value. Rather than advertise their product’s ability to solve an employer’s problems, they claim to offer an approach so revolutionary,...
The use of video interviewing platforms has been slowly but inevitably rising, with a number of reports showing that a majority of U.S. employers use their technology in one form or another. But at the same time, nearly two-thirds of U.S. workers say they’d prefer their job interviews to...
The demands of managing an increasingly far-flung workforce and the need to replace legacy systems with up-to-date HCM products will drive the market value for HR management solutions to an estimated $30 billion by 2025, new research says. According to Research and Markets, the proliferation of analytics, machine learning, AI and the Internet...
Entelo, one of the leading companies in recruiting automation, acquired candidate engagement solutions provider ConveyIQ in a move to offer source-to-hire management of talent acquisition interactions. In addition, Entelo said, the combined company’s powerful AI-driven targeting and candidate reengagement capabilities will allow employers to mine their existing candidate databases to rediscover...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Alight Solutions agreed to acquire NGA Human Resources, a provider of digital HR and multi-country payroll services. NGA provides currently serves more than 250 clients, representing 3 million employees. Its platforms include hrX, which provides employers with a centralized point to access payroll...