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New product announcements, coverage of trends, strategies and customer demand and experiences from around the industry.

Qualtrics, the SAP-owned experience management solutions provider, launched a flavor of EmployeeXM that targets IT executives who want to measure their employees’ technology experiences, then use the data to close gaps and understand where to invest in the future. Qualtrics said it stress-tested the product, called EmployeeXM for IT, by working with Microsoft...
Most companies manage their external workers with procurement-focused systems that address tasks involved with contracts, purchase orders and payment but do little to help oversee their performance on the ground. That’s one of the conclusions of Services Procurement Insights 2019, a report from SAP Fieldglass and Oxford Economics. Though SAP’s bias here is obvious—Fieldglass...
Talent acquisition specialists continue to say marketing is a growing component of their work. If that’s true, it’s worth considering new research from Gartner that predicts efforts to personalize marketing campaigns are on borrowed time. By 2025, 80 percent of marketers who’ve already invested in personalization will wind down their efforts, the researcher...
Linked and Monster have added video interviewing capabilities through partnerships with OutMatch and Brightcove, respectively. LinkedIn made available OutMatch’s video tools, originally developed by Wepow, through the Talent Hub marketplace. Outmatch acquired Wepow in Janaury and integrated its tools into the OutMatch assessment platform in September. Wepow uses live and...
Paycom rolled out two enhancements to its Paycom Learning LMS, one to help employees demonstrate their knowledge of a skill and the other to let subject matter experts to create and distribute video-based microlearning content. The first feature, called Performance Evidence, enables Paycom gives employees a way to show their progress in a...
Bullhorn launched a new version of its marketplace that includes resources for building customer technology stacks, an increased focus on enabling its teams to develop partner solutions and a new web site. The company said the new Bullhorn Marketplace offers staffing firms more than 100 pre-built integrations. Its support team validates...
Degreed acquired London-based Adepto, a platform that allows organization to gain greater insight to the skill sets of employees as well as candidates and alumni. Degreed said the transaction will accelerate its global expansion and add strengthened skills inventories, on-the-job development experience and career mobility tools to its learning platform. The company didn’t disclose the...
Recruiting platform GR8 People launched a set of Real-time Intelligent Personalization tools designed to help employers engage candidates in a more personalized way. With the tool, GR8 People customers can identify and deliver highly customized experiences through their corporate career sites. Talent Board research has shown that such sites are far and...
Namely added a compliance component to its flagship People Operations Platform at no additional charge. Called the Comply Database and powered by ThinkHR, the library offers access to tools, checklists, sample policies and forms. In addition, it provides news and other information mean to strengthen an organization’s compliance efforts. Namely said the Comply Database was...
Employers shouldn’t expect regulatory pressure to ease up any time soon, according to compliance professionals at Paychex. The company believes that employers next year will face changes at all levels of government on issues ranging from worker classification to privacy and, of course, nuts-and-bolts tasks such as W-4 and overtime rule changes. Some of these...