Updated with scoring: Live from the Talent Mgmt Shootout - 11:00am Central Thursday - Authoria Wins

jason.averbook — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:40:56 GMT

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

Scenario #1 Voting: Authoria 66%, Vurv 25%, SuccessFactors 5%, HRsmart 2%

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

Scenario #3 Votign: Authoria 45%, SuccessFactors 31%, Vurv 14%,HRsmart 9%

Overall winner - Authoria

Knowledge Infuser

Updated with scoring: Live from the Talent Mgmt Shootout - 11:00am Central Thursday - Authoria Wins