As part of the Knowledge Infusion live coverage from the HR Technology Conference, here is a blow by blow from the Performance/Learning Management Shootout. Huge audience in attendance showing interest in the space.
- Authoria - Tod Loofbourrow
- HRSmart - Mark Hamdan
- SuccessFactors - Lars Dalgaard
- Vurv - Derek Mercer
Vendors CEO's will be following scripts prepared by HR Technology Co-Chair - Bill Kutik
3 Segments of Demonstrations
Scenario 1 - need to fill a position, put it out there, modify competencies, send to job board
Vurv
- Starts out with sexy dashboard view
- Good overview of comptencies, storing over 2000 competencies including factors and interview questions
- Great visual view of talent side by side - drill down by goals
- Easy to drill into profile details
- Nice view of interview evaluation form
- Request feedback right from interview review - very easy to send out emails for feedback (good use of workflow)
- Easy to add competencies to job model
- User interface looks very nice
- Automatic email - Mgr goes right from Outlook email to right place in Vurv application for manager to do their job
- Good flow, easy to understand
SuccessFactors
- Leads off with some SEXY org charting
- Great employee profile
- Easy to take action right from org chart
- Great view of information right next to org view
- Easy to use text editing, MS Word like
- Knockout questions - nice formatting for recruiting
- Leverage performance data from past to link to recruiting process - value of integration
HRSmart
- Dashboard start
- Nice gap analysis from succession standpoint
- Ad Hoc approvals - easy to understand
- Interface easy to understand - steps easy to understand
- Not alot of showing of competency libraries, etc
Authoria
- starts with story about how Authoria can help with conversations
- User interface and dashboard incredible - easiest to understand
- Nice org chart view
- Drill down to profile to allow for meaningful conversation
- Take actions right from Org Chart
- Great wizard to add positions
- Designed for managers, not HR department - big difference between Authoria and other vendors in that area
- Slide bar to ratchet up rigor around compentencies and knockout questions
- Wizard makes it looks easy, standardization or processes
Segment 2: Finding the best candidate for jobs
SuccessFactors
- Starts out with Google Maps view of where positions and people are
- Great alerts with flags - drill back to Google Maps - see in candidate Chicago, not San Jose and not willing to moveherefore not really a candidate
- Left Axis - Average cost of driving candidate into org (HotJobs, Monster)
- Bottom Axis - Performance - AMAZING way to see where the best candidates have come from integrated into performance management - At this point, best I have seen - not only how they did, where they came from, but how much it cost to recruit
- More use of dashboards - showing ratings by colors, with drill down into details
HRSmart
- Good view of searches
- Look back in past, people I have interviewed
- Not as graphical, but good amount of detail per search and view screens without drilling around
- Easy to navigate tabs
- Nice view using graphs - pie charts, spider graphs
- More sophisticated views - different approach from SuccessFactors - harder to compare (text vs. graphical with successfactors)
- Good compare functionality
Authoria
- Once again, great opening dashboard and similar starting spot - good for deployment
- CNBC looking User Interface - tying in content with metrics / analytics
- Drill down on metrics and analytics to data
- Blinking yellow star - alerts
- Task based actions from task lists
- Drill to resume and find search terms - google desktop type approach
- Nice compare - side by side
- Ad hoc workflow for sending of data off to managers
Vurv
- Concept search
- Easy to understand interface
- Good compare functionality
- Not as detailed from an analytical standpoint
- More user friendly than HRSmart for recruiters
- Consistent UI throughout
Scenario #2 Voting: Authoria 70%, Vurv 14%, SuccessFactors 10%, HRsmart 6%
Major discussion about time left for each candidate - CONTROVERSY (smile)
HRSmart
- Nice dashboard view of hiring history
- Good Integration to training summary in one place
- Career development - nice views
- Good transactional application - consistent look and feel
- Not as sexy as others, but based on guy sitting next to me, we arent looking for sexy
Authoria
- Same dashboard and interface - consistently the best looking (doesnt mean a ton to everyone)
- Very task based allowing for automation of processes
- Development plan - training / mentor
- Built in change management - Just in time coaching (VERY COOL FOR DEPLOYMENT PURPOSES)
- RAPID ASSIST COACHING - Microsoft Dog like
- Metrics and Analytics are easy to understand, drillable, detailed
Vurv
- Great interface - tabs showing goals, development plans
- Attendee sitting next to me likes the interface better than the best - perfect level of sexiness
- Pre delivered coaching ideas - nice feature
- Compare sources to performance - basic compared to Authoria and SuccessFactors, but enough for some
SuccessFactors
- Nice color coding and alerts
- Great point on driving accountability across organization
- Everything done in one view - easy for a leader
- Creating goals (good mentions of DDI, PDI, Lominger - gives much credibility to SuccessFactors
- Make real not just look good - a bit of a rip on someone? hmm
- Dashboards from SuccessFactors tie it all together - amazing graphical views without multiple clicks
Overall winner - Authoria
