The economy is quickly climbing towards our next financial boom and hiring is starting to explode, especially in the tech industry. As growth takes speed, companies will need to look at how to best manage and maintain their hiring, recruiting, and employee management processes. Here are 6 enterprise applications to help your company expand to the next level.

1. Hireview

HireVue is the world's leading online video interviewing and decision management solution that allows employers to conduct and capture video interviews over the Internet to better recognize and hire top talent. Used in over 110 countries, HireVue combines superior service with superior solutions to improve the hiring process anywhere in the world.

Workday Inc. is now company-wide at Kimberly-Clark Corporation, launching a global deployment of Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) for 57,000 workers in 60 countries. Workday will support a top goal defined by Kimberly-Clark to foster and build its worldwide talent. Workday is the leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human resources (HR), payroll, and financial management.

What's New

• Kimberly-Clark is one of the world's leading consumer goods companies, with revenues of $19.7 billion in 2010. The company's brands, including Kleenex, Scott, HUGGIES, and more, are sold in more than 150 countries.
• Kimberly-Clark selected Workday for reasons including:
  • Workday's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model
  • Lower total cost of ownership and faster deployment as compared with Kimberly-Clark's current on-premise system
  • A modern technology architecture to support Kimberly-Clark's most important asset -- its worldwide workforce
  • A single, unified system for workforce data
  • Actionable analytics for gaining insights into Kimberly-Clark's full-time and contingent workforces
  • Workday's consumer-like user interface and self-service capabilities
• Kimberly-Clark's Workday deployment is under way in nine countries in South Asia, and will be followed by rollouts in North Asia, Middle East/Eastern Europe and Africa, Latin America, and finishing with North America.

SuccessFactors, Inc., the global leader in business execution software, announced its 10-year anniversary as well as its key milestones in the cloud.  SuccessFactors is also introducing a bold new brand identity to reflect its evolution over the past decade, as well as the creation of the SuccessFactors Foundation, a community service initiative to empower future leaders.

Key Milestones in SuccessFactors' 10 year history are significant and testify to the company's continued innovation and commitment:

Jambok acquisition will add mobile video creation and sharing technology to accelerate the future of corporate social learning and the smarter workplace

SuccessFactors, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Jambok, the SaaS social learning company that draws on the consumer world's popular web 2.0 tools like YouTube and Facebook, to offer even easier next generation on-the-fly mobile video creation, sharing, discovery and social networking that enables informal social learning within the workforce.

Today, SuccessFactors, Inc. announced that it was named the fastest growing public software-as-a-service (SaaS) company in North America by Deloitte's Technology Fast 500(TM) in 2010.

SuccessFactors is ranked No. 101 - No. 1 among public SaaS companies - on the Technology Fast 500 list with 1075 percent company growth over five years.

Deloitte LLP's ranking of 500 of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth during the five-year period from 2005-2009. SuccessFactors grew 1075 percent during this period.

Now, this is worth a read!

A 300,000-seat trial turns into a 2.1M-seat global deal as SuccessFactors' business-execution strategy continues to resonate. 

Riding its business-execution software strategy to unprecedented heights, SuccessFactors yesterday posted strong financial results and also signed the highest-scale enterprise IT deal ever--for 2.1 million seats--with a customer that is almost certainly Wal-Mart.

SuccessFactors said this huge customer had installed its products two years ago for 300,000 employees but has now agreed to increase that deployment seven-fold to all of its 2.1 million employees around the world in what company founder and CEO Lars Dalgaard called "something truly legendary."

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1. Compile a list of needs. You may want to start out by spending some time preparing a list of features you are looking for in an product. For example, this can be a specific timesheet format, support of external time collection devices, reporting, or any other functionality needed by your organization. Try to envision any future uses as your team needs evolve and be sure to discuss these with your prospective vendors.

2. Request a Demo to gain a better understanding of workflow and to determine if the solution matches your needs. If you need the software to interface with your existing payroll – now is a good time to ask. What is the specific package you will be getting?

Pacific Timesheet has announced that it has significantly enhanced its support for California labor rules such as meal penalty rules and split shift premium rules.

The state of California requires that certain classified non-exempt or hourly employees are paid a meal penalty equal to one regular hour of pay if they miss a meal after more than five hours of continuous work. In addition, California requires employers to pay non-exempt or hourly employees a premium if the time that lapses between shifts is more than one hour.

Jim Dickerson, VP of Operation stated, "The challenge of complying with California labor laws is not just how they are defined today. Ongoing cases each year have made complying somewhat of a moving target. Pacific Timesheet's highly configurable support for complying with these laws has been an advantage our customers with operations in California have been looking for."

Kaulkin Information Systems™ (KIS) today announced general availability of its KISTrack® TrackHealth™ technology platform.

TrackHealth is a specialized version of the company’s KISTrack SaaS-Cloud computing workflow, data/document management, compliance and risk mitigation platform. KISTrack TrackHealth allows patients, practitioners, office managers/staff, administrators, specialists and other medical stakeholders to more actively share data and monitor critical decisions and related electronic health records (EHRs) at all stages of a patient’s care.

With the majority of healthcare practices and institutions striving to keep operating costs to a minimum these firms naturally rely on third-party vendors or service providers for such operations as legal, accounting, HR and records management throughout the life-cycle of patient care. Being Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Internet-based it does not matter if TrackHealth users are internal staff, third-party service providers or individual patients.
Access to information is assigned to users at varying “rights” levels which controls exactly what data users can see and what each user can do with such data. This tiered user structure also controls which TrackHealth application tools are available to each individual user as well as the fees associated with accessing the system – keeping costs low.