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

BQE Software launched Core HR, a module of its BQE Core product that provides salary-history and benefits tracking, employees journal and incident tracking as well as certification, awards, paid time off and performance reviews. Core HR automates a number of the operational tasks that go along with workforce administration, BQE said. Besides allowing...
Building a workplace where people want to spend their entire careers takes commitment and a long-term investment, says Ultimate Software's Chief People Officer Vivian Maza. But the results will be well worth the time and effort. For many organizations, employee retention is an ongoing challenge. There are talent shortages...
Phenom People has partnered with sourcing platform SwoopTalent to provide talent acquisition teams with access to a wider range of candidates. The integration delivers best-fit candidate profiles into the Phenom CRM, eliminating the need for manual sourcing and helping recruiters keep track of previous contacts. The companies said their partnership will supply employers...
Employers are putting their money where their technology is, investing more in systems than they are in upskilling, according to new research from Adecco. The report comes just weeks after KPMG said only 42 percent of technology industry leaders plan to upskill their workforce, even though most analysts, if not most employers,...
Users of Alight Solutions’ HR, health and finance products can now offer DailyPay’s on-demand payroll services to their employees without additional charges or having to modify their existing payroll processes. DailyPay allows workers to transfer accrued but unpaid wages to any bank account or pay card in advance of...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Paradox’s AI assistant Olivia has been added to SAP’s digital marketplace. It joined the SAP PartnerEdge program to speed integrations with SuccessFactors solutions. Paradox integrates with SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting using native APIs. Workday acquired Seattle-based Trusted Key, a digital...
SmartLinx Solutions added features to its SmartLinx Go mobile app to give healthcare workers the ability to check real-time schedules, attendance and pay resources. The company’s pitch is that such features will increase engagement by helping employees balance work and life. SmartLinx Go was originally launched in February 2019. SmartLinx said the new features...
ENGAGE Talent and PredictiveHR will jointly offer an AI-driven talent analytics platform that melds internal employee data with analytics on industries and competitors.  The companies say this is the first product to compile an organization’s internal talent data, AI-driven metrics on its talent data and people, external data on industry...
Over the last year or so a number of companies have entered the HR technology market with platforms designed to neatly integrate text messaging into recruiting. Among other things, they argue texting is an important talent-acquisition channel because texts are almost universally read and are the preferred communication medium for many younger workers. New research...
TriNet released Workforce Analytics, an HR reporting and analytics tool designed to provide SMBs with in-depth reporting and forecasting using data drawn from a single system. Dilshad Simons, TriNet’s senior vice president of products, said access to HR data is particularly important in a tight labor market. She contends that Workforce Analytics is...