The weekly HRchitect WebMingle is designed to give you some insight into the puzzling world of HR technology, discuss news from around the world that we find interesting, talk about upcoming events in our industry, and provide insightful interviews with people of our industry – who they are, what they do and why you should care. The WebMingle has become the most popular live weekly Internet show in the HR technology industry!

The WebMingle has truly redefined how people get information about vendors, trends and really anything related to HR technology and we are very proud of that.

This week’s guest is Karen Cariss, CEO of PageUp People.

The PageUp People Talent Management Solution, delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS) tools and best practice consulting solutions, assists companies across recruitment and selection, performance management, training and development, succession management as well as providing workforce planning tools to ensure that the right talent is in the right place at the right time to deliver on corporate strategy.

Karen Cariss is one of the founders of PageUp People. Today, Karen is a key driving force behind the success of PageUp People, setting the strategic direction of the company as well as overseeing internal activities to ensure synergy of all divisions. Karen’s extreme passion for the company is evident in her work and attitude, which has been publicly acknowledged by being listed as 28th on BRW’s Top 50 Female Entrepreneurs in June 2006 and winning the Ernst and Young ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ for 2008. Karen has also used her knowledge of business practices to assist the judging of the 2006 Telstra Business Awards and 2005 AIMIA iAwards.

Visit www.HRchitect.com/Knowledge/WebMingle to listen live this Thursday, March 18^th at 2pm CST to the 55th show in our WebMingle series. If you missed any of our previous WebMingles, you can also access them from that page.

Below is a list of some of our upcoming guests: 

Mar 26 – HRchitect 30 Days in 30 Minutes: This feature is new to this industry and allows HRchitect executives to present a look back at the previous 30 days or so and cover major events that took place in our industry in a 30 minute snapshot. It is a unique format to summarize major happenings in our industry by the leaders in HR technology consulting.

April 8 – Kevin Plunkett, Vice President of Business Development, of Talent Management vendor, Salary.com

April 15 – Joseph Ellis, President & CEO of TEDS, a Talent Management vendor

April 22 – Tad McIntosh, President & CEO of Talent Acquisition vendor, HumCap

April 29 – HRchitect 30 Days in 30 Minutes

May 6 – Shafiq Lokhandwala, CEO, of NuView, Inc., a Payroll & HR Software vendor

May 13 – Dan Finnigan, CEO, & Jamie Glenn, Chief Product Officer, of Social Recruiting Products & Recruiting Software vendor, Jobvite

May 20 – Michael DiPietro, VP of Marketing & Product Management, with Healthcare Source, a Talent Management vendor specializing in Healthcare

We look forward to welcoming Karen Cariss to the HRchitect WebMingle today and hope to have you join us as well.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

The weekly HRchitect WebMingle is designed to give you some insight into the puzzling world of HR technology, discuss news from around the world that we find interesting, talk about upcoming events in our industry, and provide insightful interviews with people of our industry – who they are, what they do and why you should care. The WebMingle has become the most popular live weekly Internet show in the HR technology industry!

The WebMingle has truly redefined how people get information about vendors, trends and really anything related to HR technology and we are very proud of that.

This week’s guest is Tom Malone, CEO of Accero (formerly Cyborg).

Founded in 1974, Accero (formerly Cyborg Systems) delivers high-performance, best-fit solutions that streamline HR and payroll processes for organizations of all sizes, in major industries in the US, Canada, and the UK. Innovative and customer-driven, Accero can help transform HR organizations into strategic business units that model results-driven productivity.

Tom has over 25 years of experience in the software, computer services, and telecommunications industries with leadership roles at very large enterprises, small companies, and start-ups.  Prior to his current role, Tom was CEO of SRC Software, a budgeting and planning software company which enjoyed significant growth rates and profitability during his tenure. Tom received his BS in engineering technology from Miami University of Ohio.

Visit www.HRchitect.com/Knowledge/WebMingle to listen live this Thursday, March 11^th at 2pm CST to the 54th show in our WebMingle series. If you missed any of our previous WebMingles, you can also access them from that page.

Below is a list of some of our upcoming guests: 

Mar 26 – HRchitect 30 Days in 30 Minutes:  This feature is new to this industry and allows HRchitect executives to present a look back at the previous 30 days or so and cover major events that took place in our industry in a 30 minute snapshot. It is a unique format to summarize major happenings in our industry by the leaders in HR technology consulting.

April 8 – Kevin Plunkett, Vice President of Business Development, of Talent Management vendor, Salary.com

We look forward to welcoming Tom Malone to the HRchitect WebMingle this week and hope to have you join us as well.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

Our weekly WebMingle is designed to give you some insight into the puzzling world of HR technology, discuss news from around the world that we find interesting, talk about upcoming events in our industry, and provide insightful interviews with people of our industry – who they are, what they do and why you should care. The WebMingle has become the most popular live weekly Internet show in the HR technology industry! It has truly redefined how people get information about vendors, trends and really anything related to HR technology.

The 30-minute special event WebMingle on February 21st, our 53rd show in our WebMingle series, featured executives from HRchitect. With me were Rick Fletcher, President & Founder, Dan Katavola, EVP of Consulting Services, Jim Powers, VP of Talent Management Consulting Services, and Ron Hanscome, a Senior HCM Consultant with HRchitect.

The “30 in 30” concept is new to this industry and allows HRchitect executives to present a look back at the previous 30 days or so and cover major events that took place in our industry in a 30 minute snapshot. It is a unique format to summarize major happenings in our industry by the leaders in HR technology consulting. Some of the items covered included: 

• 2010 shift in HR technology buying
• Mergers, acquisitions, continued consolidation, new vendors, and vendors raising money
• The continued emergence of Onboarding
• Emergence of Workforce Planning
• Industry events
• …and much more

About HRchitect

HRchitect is the leader in HR systems strategic consulting. As the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) and Talent Management systems consulting firm, our services include the selection, implementation, and integration of Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), Talent Management Suites (TMS), Performance Management, Succession Management, Compensation Management, Learning Management, Competency Management, Talent Acquisition Systems, Workforce Planning Systems, and Time & Attendance software.

Future “30 in 30” topics that will be covered range from mergers & acquisitions activity, new vendors, new technologies, talent management, talent acquisition, industry events, and so much more.

If you missed this past week’s WebMingle, or any of our past WebMingles, please visit our web site or www.HRWebMingle.com. You will see a complete list of upcoming guests and will be able to listen to past shows.

Our next WebMingle will take place on March 11 with Tom Malone, CEO of Accero (formerly Cyborg). We look forward to welcoming Tom to the HRchitect WebMingle on March 11.

We hope to have you join us!

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

Choice Hotels International (NYSE: CHH) is one of the largest and most successful lodging companies in the world. With a commitment to serving the traveling public by offering high-standard accommodations at an affordable price and to ensuring an outstanding return on investment for its hotel owners and shareholders, Choice currently franchises more than 5,200 hotels, representing more than 425,000 rooms, in the United States and more than 40 countries and territories.

Choice hotels, which include Cambria Suites, Clarion, Quality, Comfort Suites, Comfort Inn, Sleep Inn, MainStay Suites, Suburban Extended Stay Hotel, Econo Lodge and Rodeway Inn, are among the world’s most recognized brands. Ranging from limited service to full service hotels in the economy, mid-scale and upscale segments, Choice-branded properties provide business and leisure travelers with a range of high-quality, high-value lodging options throughout the United States and internationally.

Choice Hotels International was founded as a marketing cooperative by a group of Florida motor court owners in 1941 and was the first hotel chain. Other industry “firsts” by Choice include 24-hour-a-day toll-free reservations; wall-to-wall carpeting; global marketing and reservation system; guaranteed reservations; mandatory system wide non-smoking rooms; in-room telephones; real-time bookings via the Internet; and franchised mid-market lodging.

Additional corporate information may be found on the Choice Hotels Web site, which may be accessed at http://www.choicehotels.com.

Welcome, Choice Hotels, we look forward to helping you solve The Puzzling World of HRtechnology!

The weekly HRchitect WebMingle is designed to give you some insight into the puzzling world of HR technology, discuss news from around the world that we find interesting, talk about upcoming events in our industry, and provide insightful interviews with people of our industry – who they are, what they do and why you should care. The WebMingle has become the most popular live weekly Internet show in the HR technology industry!

The WebMingle has truly redefined how people get information about vendors, trends and really anything related to HR technology and we are very proud of that.

This week’s guests are Lori Morgan, Founder & President, and Greg Strange, Co-Founder & SVP Product Strategy with FireWave Technology.

FireWave Technology is an innovative software firm focused on delivering sensible technology services to the SMB market. Its flagship product ClearVision performance management provides businesses with an essential tool for introducing and managing an effective employee performance appraisal program. FireWave’s goal is to not only deliver the tool to aggregate data for easy analysis, but also allow for the process to flow with ease for team members at all levels of the organization.

Lori Morgan co-founded FireWave Technology after spending several years with a Dallas-based talent management software company. It was during this time, she learned a great deal about the software and Human Resources field and developed a passion for the industry. Having spent most of her career in organizations with less than 100 employees and having owned a small business herself, Morgan recognized a need for affordable, easy-to-use HR software to manage the performance review process.

Greg Strange has been in the software industry for 15 years, the last 6 in HR decision support software such as performance management, applicant tracking and career development and succession planning. Recently, he co-founded FireWave Technology as Vice President of Product Strategy and Operations building ClearVision Performance, the first in a long line of much needed HR software tools for small and mid-sized businesses.

Visit www.HRchitect.com/Knowledge/WebMingle to listen live this Thursday, February 18^th at 2pm CST to the 52nd show in our WebMingle series. If you missed any of our previous WebMingles, you can also access them from that page.

Below is a list of some of our upcoming guests: 

Feb 25 – HRchitect 30 Days in 30 Minutes

Mar 11 – Tom Malone, CEO of Accero (formerly Cyborg), HR and payroll management providers

Mar 26 – HRchitect 30 Days in 30 Minutes

April 8 – Kevin Plunkett, Vice President of Business Development, of Talent Management vendor, Salary.com

We look forward to welcoming Lori Morgan and Greg Strange of FireWave Technology to the HRchitect WebMingle this week and hope to have you join us as well.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

On Friday, February 12, 2010, HRchitect held the 12th installation in our Beauty Pageant webinar series, this time focusing on talent management systems. Participants included leading vendors in the talent management systems world – Jobpartners, Salary.com, and Workstream. Others were invited but apparently frightened to get up on a worldwide stage and unfortunately one was scheduled but dropped out at the last moment due to nerves, or perhaps scandal – we just don’t know.

At the end of the webinar, which featured a short overview of HRchitect and some definitions and observations on the HCM and talent management space, Salary.com was crowned the winner. HRchitect would like to thank the vendors for participating and the attendees for judging the contestants.

HRchitect’s Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications, Tiffany Appleby, once again did her usual tremendous job in ensuring the pageant ran smoothly. It’s not an easy task coordinating each vendor’s presentation, setting up rehearsals, and then running the program the day of the event!

The HRchitect beauty pageant series of webinars has become the buzz of the industry since its debut in November 2008. This series of webinars covers a different area of HR technology with each event. The concept allows attendees to see presentations from up to six leading vendors in a fun and informative format where the audience votes on the winner at the conclusion.

As an interesting side note, Human Resource Executive columnist, Bill Kutik, must have somehow seen this victory in his crystal ball as he wrote in his column this week about Salary.com widening their “functional footprint faster than any other in the market.”

Past Winners:

In November, iCIMS won the Talent Acquisitions Systems pageant and Cornerstone OnDemand won the Talent Management Systems pageant. Then in December, GeoLearning won the Learning Management Systems pageant. In January, we had our Mid-Market Talent Acquisitions Systems pageant and iCIMS was crowned the winner and our Onboarding pageant where SilkRoad was the winner. In February we covered Employee Performance Management where SumTotal Systems won and then mid-market HRIS where Spectrum HR was the winner. In March it was all about Workforce Planning Systems and Infohrm walked away with the crown. April brought us Compensation Systems where Workstream walked away with the crown and then we finished up the first leg of beauty pageants with Time & Attendance Systems in June, where Legiant was crowned the winner. Last August (2009), HodesIQ walked about with a  Talent Acquisition Systems crown.

To view any of the past pageants, please visit the beauty pageant part of our website.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

Palm, Inc. creates intuitive and powerful mobile experiences that enable consumers and businesses to connect to their information in more useful and usable ways.  The company’s groundbreaking Palm® webOS™ platform, designed exclusively for mobile application, introduces true multitasking and Palm Synergy™, which brings your information from many places it resides into a single, more comprehensive view of your life.

Palm products are sold through select Internet, retail, reseller and wireless operator channels, and at the Palm online store (http://palm.com/store).

Welcome, Palm, we look forward to helping you solve The Puzzling World of HRtechnology!

Palm, Synergy and webOS are trademarks of Palm, Inc.

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The weekly HRchitect WebMingle is designed to give you some insight into the puzzling world of HR technology, discuss news from around the world that we find interesting, talk about upcoming events in our industry, and provide insightful interviews with people of our industry – who they are, what they do and why you should care. The WebMingle has become the most popular live weekly Internet show in the HR technology industry!

The WebMingle has truly redefined how people get information about vendors, trends and really anything related to HR technology and we are very proud of that.

This week’s guest is Karen Peterson, CEO of Patersons HR and Payroll Solutions

Headquartered in Salisbury, U.K. with offices in the U.S., central Europe and Asia, Patersons is a leading supplier of global HR and payroll software and services. Patersons international software as a service (Saas) solution is delivered via the Internet, covering 160 countries, and is available in 30 languages. Available on a ‘pay as you go’ license fee basis, large or small headcounts can be serviced, wherever in the world an organization operates. Patersons offers one system with one global contract, and with a comprehensive reporting suite, it ensures global visibility and compliance. Patersons software can also integrate with any existing solution, so organizations are not forced to abandon previous investments.

Originally from a retail banking and then corporate finance background, Karen Paterson became interested in technology in the early ‘90s. After completing her MBA specializing in international information technology strategy and undertaking a number of complex IT projects, she then travelled internationally providing senior level strategic consultancy to many Fortune 500 companies on HR/payroll systems, workflow and processes. Paterson holds an MBA a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (ACIB) and Associate of the Institute of Taxation Technicians (ATT).

Visit www.HRchitect.com/Knowledge/WebMingle to listen live this Thursday, February 4^th at 2pm CST to the 52nd show in our WebMingle series. If you missed any of our previous WebMingles, you can also access them from that page.

Below is a list of some of our upcoming guests: 

Feb 4 – Karen Paterson, CEO of Patersons HR & Payroll Solutions 

Feb 18 – Lori Morgan, President, and Greg Strange, SVP Product Strategy, of Performance Management provider, FireWave Technology 

Feb 25 – HRchitect 30 Days in 30 Minutes 

Mar 11 – Tom Malone, CEO of Accero (formerly Cyborg), HR and payroll management providers

Mar 26 – HRchitect 30 Days in 30 Minutes

April 8 – Kevin Plunkett, Vice President of Business Development, of Talent Management vendor, Salary.com

We look forward to welcoming Karen Paterson, CEO of Patersons HR & Payroll Solutions to the HRchitect WebMingle today and hope to have you join us as well.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

Our weekly WebMingle is designed to give you some insight into the puzzling world of HR technology, discuss news from around the world that we find interesting, talk about upcoming events in our industry, and provide insightful interviews with people of our industry – who they are, what they do and why you should care. The WebMingle has become the most popular live weekly Internet show in the HR technology industry! It has truly redefined how people get information about vendors, trends and really anything related to HR technology.

So what is a WebMingle? It is a meeting over the web where we do some business, socialize and yes, we mingle over the web. Thus, a WebMingle.

The 60-minute WebMingle on January 28th, our milestone 51st show in our WebMingle series, featured Tim Giehll, CEO of Bond Talent. We discussed Talent Management, HCM, and Human Capital Supply Chains, among other things. Tim has tremendous insight into the human capital supply chain and our discussions centered around that, including: 

• How Tim sees the Talent Management & HCM marketplace changing and how “automation” has evolved
• Bond’s Human Capital Supply Chain strategy
• What Walmart and Kelly Services are saying about supply chains
• Why Tim feels current VMS solutions are wrong for supply chains
• …and much more

About Bond International Software

Bond International Software has established an enviable position as global market leader in the talent management software industry, especially within the global staffing arena.  Bond Talent is a powerful mulit-lingual and 100% configurable web based application specifically designed for global corporations of all sizes to manage the complete online recruitment and talent management lifecycle. Bond’s 500+ employees and 16 offices around the world ensure smooth implementations and local support for Bond’s Human Capital Supply Chain solutions.

About Tim Giehll, CEO of Bond Talent

During the last 10 years, Tim has worked as CEO of www.BondTalent-US.com and www.eEmpACT.com, divisions of Bond International Software. He has helped automate the operations over 800 staffing and recruiting firms. During the 1990s, Giehll was CFO for world-renowned supercomputer designer Steve Chen during their $150-million technology venture with IBM and Sequent Computers.   During the 1980s, Tim worked with Control Data and its 45,000 employees to launch their world-class manufacturing initiatives, especially just-in-time inventory processes.

If you missed this past week’s WebMingle, or any of our past WebMingles, please visit our web site or www.HRWebMingle.com. You will see a complete list of upcoming guests and will be able to listen to past shows.

Our next WebMingle will take place on February 4th with Karen Paterson, CEO of Patersons Payroll & HR Systems. We look forward to welcoming Karen to the HRchitect WebMingle next Thursday.

We hope to have you join us!

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

The weekly HRchitect WebMingle is designed to give you some insight into the puzzling world of HR technology, discuss news from around the world that we find interesting, talk about upcoming events in our industry, and provide insightful interviews with people of our industry – who they are, what they do and why you should care. The WebMingle has become the most popular live weekly Internet show in the HR technology industry!

The WebMingle has truly redefined how people get information about vendors, trends and really anything related to HR technology and we are very proud of that.

This week’s guest is Tim Giehll, CEO of Bond Talent and eEmpACT Staffing Software.

Bond International Software has established an enviable position as global market leader in the talent management software industry, especially within the global staffing arena.  Bond Talent is a powerful mulit-lingual and 100% configurable web based application specifically designed for global corporations of all sizes to manage the complete online recruitment and talent management lifecycle. Bond’s 500+ employees and 16 offices around the world ensure smooth implementations and local support for Bond’s Human Capital Supply Chain solutions.

During the last 10 years, Tim has worked as CEO of www.BondTalent-US.com and www.eEmpACT.com, divisions of Bond International Software. He has helped automate the operations over 800 staffing and recruiting firms. During the 1990s, Giehll was CFO for world-renowned supercomputer designer Steve Chen during their $150-million technology venture with IBM and Sequent Computers.   During the 1980s, Tim worked with Control Data and its 45,000 employees to launch their world-class manufacturing initiatives, especially just-in-time inventory processes.

Visit www.HRchitect.com/Knowledge/WebMingle to listen live this Thursday, January 28^th at 2pm CST to the 51st show in our WebMingle series. If you missed any of our previous WebMingles, you can also access them from that page.

Below is a list of some of our upcoming guests: 

Feb 4 – Karen Paterson, CEO of Patersons HR & Payroll Solutions

We look forward to welcoming Tim Giehll from Bond Talent to the HRchitect WebMingle today and hope to have you join us as well.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect