Products

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

Sponsored John Deal, Phenom’s director of product management, discusses user experience in the age of COVID-19, how the company works experience into its development process, and why employers must take a holistic view of the candidate’s journey. Phenom has put a lot of energy into the whole idea of experience. How...
iHire unveiled a service to help companies assist their laid-off employees to find new jobs, a particularly timely feature as the number of unemployed workers in the U.S. climbs. The company’s Virtual Outplacement Services combines personalized job-seeker support with its career-management platform. iHire positions is outplacement services as being affordable...
Salary.com launched a tool to help employers organize and manage their job descriptions. Called Job Architect, the tool can be used as a standalone product or as an integrated component of the company’s CompAnalyst platform. Job Architect takes aim at “hiring velocity,” more commonly referred to as time to hire....
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, videoconferencing has taken off as a way to catch up with family and have drinks with friends, on top of collaborating with colleagues and staying in touch with teams. Apparently, however, webcams can only do so much: Workers say their corporate culture has taken...
eLearning Brothers released an authoring tool, which it describes as the first “synergistic solution” stemming from the May acquisitions of tools-providers Trivantis and Edulence. The company said the product, a new version of the Trivantis toolset Lectora, combines web-based, desktop and virtual reality authoring capabilities with the eLearning Brothers Asset...
SocialChorus has expanded its platform’s capabilities and is repositioning itself as a tool for organizational change rather than a purely internal communications solution. The company sees workplace dynamics shifting significantly as both employers and employees adapt to the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’ve re-imagined how organizations can more...
Recruiting platform GR8 People has extended its offer for 60 days of free access to its virtual event solution for new users. The company had begun offering free access to the solution soon after the pandemic appeared in the U.S. CEO Diane Smith said the company decided to extend the...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. SAP’s new customer portal, SAP for Me, has been rolled out to customers across products, systems and licenses. The portal provides customers with personalized access and a transparent view of their complete product portfolio. A version will be...
Technology companies inside and outside of HR are launching products designed to check the health of on-site employees as they begin to return from weeks or months of shelter-in-place orders. WorkJam, safety and risk management solutions provider Aclaimant and service management firm SysAid all released tools that provide documentation and...
Workday will offer a new integration with Salesforce to help joint customers plan for the safe reopening of their workplaces in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The integration will link Workday with Salesforce’s Work.com, a suite of solutions and resources designed to help businesses reopen and re-skill their workforce....