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Accenture and Workday expanded their partnership to help organizations make better use of the skills present within their workforce, identify the skills needed for future growth and uncover reskilling opportunities. The collaboration includes new offerings that leverage Workday’s Skills Cloud and Accenture’s skill proficiency calculator to consolidate skills analysis, insights...
HR technology analyst firm Brandon Hall Group launched a digital marketing agency to support vendors of HR and learning solutions. Called Agency! By Brandon Hall Group, the unit offers marketing services including content marketing, organic and paid search, multi-touch attribution and account-based marketing. Its efforts will lean heavily on buyer...
Lost in the noise of OpenAI’s executive kerfuffle is the launch of OpenAI’s AI app marketplace. According to Reuters, the GPT Store will allow developers to share AI-based apps – called GPTs – and earn revenue based on its number of users. The announcements took place at the company’s first...
Frontline technology solutions providers anticipate significant growth over the next year, with 69% projecting more than 31% growth in 2024, according to a study from RedThread Research. In addition, 46% of all vendors have received some kind of investment since June 2022. That’s during a time when venture capital...
Our weekly roundup of deals, product announcements and other HR technology news. Salary.com acquired HCR Software, maker of CompXL’s enterprise incentive compensation planning software. CompXL supports the management of merit raises, bonuses, commissions, long term incentive awards, equity and employee total rewards statements across an entire organization. Infor partnered with DailyPay...
Marketing and communications decision-makers plan to increase their budgets as well as their use of AI during 2024. A survey by the marketing agency Matter Communications found that 84% plan to increase their marketing spend next year, with more than 40% saying they’ll do so substantially. In the HR technology...
Searchlight announced the general availability of its platform TRACY’s version 2.0. The upgraded TRACY – which stands for Talent Recommendation Agent Customized to You – embeds AI into recruiter workflows to analyze candidate data and surface candidates, and provides recommendations and explanations to “streamline manual work.” The company said its...
The Josh Bersin Company’s launch of the generative AI assistant Galileo brings one of the industry’s leading brands directly into the business of HR technology. No longer limited to analysis, commentary and advisory services, Bersin is leveraging his decades of research, industry experience and name recognition to offer direct and...
Degreed enhanced its learning platform to help make continuous skill-building easier. New features include upgrades for the Degreed App in Microsoft Teams, additional reporting, improvements to the search experience using generative AI and the launch of Degreed Content Marketplace. Content Marketplace is designed to help L&D teams to build internal...
Well more than half of U.S. businesses, 58%, regret at least one of the software purchases they made in the last 12 to 18 months. Moreover, said Capterra, nearly a quarter, 23%, regret multiple purchases they made during that same time.    The primary reasons for their regret included the...