January 14 HRchitect WebMingle Featured CyberShift; Next Up is HRchitect’s State of the Industry

January 19, 2010

 

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 55-minute WebMingle on January 14th, the 49th in our WebMingle series, featured Morne Swart, Vice-President of Product Management for CyberShift. Morne is very passionate and knowledgeable about Workforce Management, Time & Attendance, Scheduling, and Expense Management. We touched on a bunch of issues related to all of that including: 

  • Importance of absence management in today’s economy
  • Direct and Indirect costs associated with absenteeism
  • Automating absence management to mitigate risks with compliance
  • Trends in mobile workforce including business challenges
  • …and so much more

About CyberShift

CyberShift, Inc. is a global leader in providing secure enterprise solutions that automate and optimize workforce operations. CyberShift’s Workforce Management and Expense Management solutions help organizations proactively plan, manage and control their workforce operations, resulting in lower labor costs, reduced compliance risk, higher productivity and decreased employee expenses. CyberShift’s comprehensive product suite provides for employee scheduling, time-and-attendance, contingent labor management, absence management, expense management and related solutions for the mobile workforce. CyberShift’s global solutions are available through its industry leading Software-as-a-Service (CyberShift On Demand™) delivery model, or as an On Premise license, putting the power of choice in the hands of the customer.

About Morne Swart, VP of Product Management for CyberShift

Morné Swart is CyberShift’s vice president of product management with over 14 years experience in enterprise-wide workforce management solutions. As vice president of product management, he brings in-depth functional and product development expertise to CyberShift. Swart oversees the product management, quality assurance and information development functions. Swart is recognized as an industry expert in workforce management. He has designed customer focused scheduling, time and attendance and expense management solutions. Prior to his current position, he served as vice president of enterprise solutions. Before his tenure with CyberShift, he was with its predecessor organization, ABI – TruTrack, Inc., as vice president of implementation and technology. Swart began his career in a variety of software development and deployment positions for large public and governmental agencies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.

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 January 21 with executives from HRchitect as we take a look back at the puzzling world of HR technology in 2009, and a look ahead to 2010. We look forward to welcoming Rick Fletcher, Dan Katavola, John Hinojos, and others to the HRchitect WebMingle this Thursday.

We hope to have you join us!

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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Don’t Miss This Week’s HRchitect WebMingle with Morne Swart of CyberShift

January 12, 2010

 

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 Morne Swart, Vice-President of Product Management with CyberShift.

CyberShift, Inc. is a global leader in providing secure enterprise solutions that automate and optimize workforce operations. CyberShift’s Workforce Management and Expense Management solutions help organizations proactively plan, manage and control their workforce operations, resulting in lower labor costs, reduced compliance risk, higher productivity and decreased employee expenses. CyberShift’s comprehensive product suite provides for employee scheduling, time-and-attendance, contingent labor management, absence management, expense management and related solutions for the mobile workforce. CyberShift’s global solutions are available through its industry leading Software-as-a-Service (CyberShift On Demand™) delivery model, or as an On Premise license, putting the power of choice in the hands of the customer.

Morné Swart is CyberShift’s vice president of product management with over 14 years experience in enterprise-wide workforce management solutions. As vice president of product management, he brings in-depth functional and product development expertise to CyberShift. Swart oversees the product management, quality assurance and information development functions. Swart is recognized as an industry expert in workforce management. He has designed customer focused scheduling, time and attendance and expense management solutions. Prior to his current position, he served as vice president of enterprise solutions. Before his tenure with CyberShift, he was with its predecessor organization, ABI – TruTrack, Inc., as vice president of implementation and technology. Swart began his career in a variety of software development and deployment positions for large public and governmental agencies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.

Visit www.HRchitect.com/Knowledge/WebMingle to listen live this Thursday, January 14th at 2pm CST to the 49th 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:

Jan 21 – HRchitect will provide a look back at the world of HR Technology in 2009 and a look ahead to 2010.

Jan 28 – Tim Giehll, CEO of Bond Talent, a Talent Management Systems vendor and Author of “Human Capital Supply Chains”

We look forward to welcoming Morne Swart from CyberShift to the HRchitect WebMingle today and hope to have you join us as well.

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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January 7 HRchitect WebMingle Featured KMS Software; Next Up is CyberShift

January 8, 2010

 

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 50-minute WebMingle on January 7th, the 48th in our WebMingle series, and the first of 2010, featured Rosette Cataldo, Vice-President of Business Development for KMS Software. Rosette is very passionate about Onboarding and all the great benefits it can provide to organizations of all sizes. We touched on a bunch of issues related to all of that including: 

  • What makes KMS different
  • Latest trends in Onboarding
  • What’s new with E-Verify
  • Reasons why companies choose KMS, customer success stories, and what’s new at KMS
  • The definition of Crossboarding
  • Difference between Socialization and Culturalization
  • …and so much more

About KMS Software

KMS Software Company is the pioneer of Online OnBoarding. They are exclusively devoted to providing world class human capital management software that combines process automation and employee engagement technology to help strengthen the relationship between employers and employees around the world. KMS is also the “only” OnBoarding that powers many of today’s market leading applicant tracking, HRIS and Background Screening software companies. They have a proven track record of delivering OnBoarding technologies and consulting services to companies that operate around the globe.

About Rosette Cataldo, VP of Business Development for KMS Software

Rosette Cataldo is Vice President of KMS Software Company and is responsible for developing and managing all strategic partner relationships and business development initiatives.  Her focus is to provide value to existing customers while expanding KMS’ market reach worldwide.  She has been called “one of the most passionate person” in the electronic OnBoarding industry and hates to admit it….but loves I-9 management.

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 January 14 with Morne Swart, Vice-President of Product Management with CyberShift. We look forward to welcoming Morne to the HRchitect WebMingle next Thursday.

We hope to have you join us!

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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HRchitect’s Beauty Pageant Webinar Series Continues This Friday with Time & Attendance Systems

June 3, 2009

 

The HRchitect beauty pageant series of webinars has become the buzz of the industry. This series of webinars covers a different area of HR technology with each event. The concept allows attendees to see presentations from up to five leading vendors in a fun and informative format where the audience votes on the winner at the conclusion. 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. The last beauty pageant took place in April where Workstream walked away with the Compensation Systems crown.

To view any of these past pageants, please visit the beauty pageant part of our website. After this week’s pageant, the beauty pageants will take a few month hiatus and come back in August. We have a full schedule of 2009 beauty pageants on our site and several vendors have asked that we create beauty pageants around additional topics, which we are currently in the process of scheduling.

The next exciting pageant, the tenth in the series, will be on Time & Attendance Systems and will take place this Friday, June 5. The participants will be top vendors in this space, Associated Time, CyberShift, Legiant, and Nova. 

The 90-minute webinar agendas will look like this:

Intro by HRchitect

Overview of the marketplace by HRchitect

Short vendor presentations (vendor order will be determine at random)

Q&A of vendors from the audience

Crowning of the Winner

Wrap-up

The sessions are moderated by Matt Lafata, VP of Sales & Marketing for HRchitect.

HRchitect developed a format to help guide each vendor with an outline of what should be covered during each portion of the pageant.  Since we have billed this as a beauty pageant, we tried to come up with pageant categories for vendors to loosely follow. Of course each vendor is free to follow their own format as this is simply a guideline:

Evening gown – To start off each portion, we are asking the vendor to come out in their best ‘outfit’ – corporate overview, history, specific identity, financial viability, marquee clients, leadership team, etc. This will be the grand entrance.

Swimsuit – Here the vendors will show some skin in this portion – usability, configurability, etc.

Talent – This portion will cover functionality, technology/integration, global ability, etc.

Interview – This will be the Q & A section from the audience. 

These beauty pageants are designed to give the audience a quick overview of the leading vendors and we are looking for creativity in presentations. Some of the past participants have gotten extremely creative in their presentations and we thank them for their time and efforts in doing this.

Watch this blog for updates and visit http://hrchitect.com/News/Pageant for a listing of upcoming HRchitect Beauty Pageants and to register so you won’t be left puzzled by HR Technology!

 

Matt Lafata, HRchitect

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