HUMAN RESOURCE SOFTWARES

 HALOGEN TALENT MANAGEMENT

SUITE.
 CORNERSTONE GROWTH EDITION.
 SAGE HRMS.
 KRONOS WORKFORCE READY.
 EPICOR HR.

HALOGEN TALENT MANAGEMENT SUITE

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INTRODUCTION

The value proposition from the Halogen Suite is simple. It aligns your talent
management activities with your business strategy. After all, good
employees make a good organization. The Halogen Suite does this by
incorporating a 360-degree loop that considers your management's
ultimate goals for your organization. For example, the application makes
sure that your learning initiatives should be focused on results aligned to
strategy. Similarly, it ensures that employee goals are aligned with strategy
and job descriptions.

Managing Talent with the Halogen Suite

The Halogen Suite works as a strategic talent management solution. It

encompasses seven distinct talent management activities: performance
appraisals/management, 360 degree/multirater feedback, learning
management, succession planning, compensation, job descriptions, and
recruitment.

One of the most interesting modules within the solution is Halogen

eLearning Manager. It allows you to catalog and manage all your learning
assets. But it also lets you associate these with the competencies they're
designed to develop, so managers and employees can better identify
appropriate development activities. And those learning assets are
accessible from within every other talent management process, as well as
from the employee's portal. So you can assign customized development
plans and learning activities to employees while conducting an appraisal,

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hiring a new employee, assessing the readiness of a leadership candidate,
or just having a conversation with your employee about their performance.

The solution also has an eSuccession module that lets you implement a
succession planning program in three phases. Similarly, the
eCompensation module is focused on eliminating spreadsheets and setting
up a compensation process.

The Job Description Builder enables you to automate the process for
creating, reviewing and approving job descriptions, as well as assigning
them to employee, and even get employees to sign them off. What's more,
you can use these job descriptions to generate job requisitions or to create
job specific performance appraisal forms, so you consistently communicate
expectations.

The Suite also includes an eRecruitment module that lets you invite
appropriate candidates or solicit feedback from stakeholders involved in the

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hiring process. It also enables you to advertise open jobs, view sourcing
pools and generate automated reports regarding the process.

But at the heart of the Suite is the eAppraisal module. It does so much
more than let you automate your performance appraisal process. It's really
designed to help you better manage employee performance all year round
by facilitating the exchange of feedback and the recording of progress
notes, giving employees easy access to their goals and development plans,
and letting them track their progress.

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The e360 Multirater module lets you expand that focus to collect 360
degree feedback from others, either as part of your performance
appraisals, or as a leadership development exercise.

You can also perform business process modeling using the Halogen Suite.
This means that you can establish custom processes for compensation or
any other talent management process using the solution and set email
notifications for each step.

And you get complete flexibility in automating the process. For example,
you can use Halogen eCompensation to set salary profiles for employees
at different grades in your organization or you can use eAppraisal to create
an onboarding process. The solution is flexible and extensible enough to
accommodate this automation.

Finally, it gives HR and managers easy access to reports that help them
manage all their talent management processes and activities.

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Benefits of the Halogen Talent Management Suite

I really liked that the interface and process within the Halogen Suite is
simple, despite the complexity of the talent management processes it
covers. The solution does this without compromising on details while
maintaining the complexity and rigor of its processes. For example, while
your performance appraisal process is a distinct process that creates a
distinct performance appraisal document, the goals and development plans
you create in that appraisal document are accessible from the employee's
portal.

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And the employee portal page shows you exactly which tasks you need to
complete, when, for all your processes, all in one handy list.

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 Features
As part of its talent management suite, Halogen Software includes a variety
of features that empower the HR department to play a significant role in
company strategy.
Appraisal Features

 Performance Appraisal
 Competency Management
 
Benefits Administration

 Employee relations
 
 
Employee Self-Service

 Employee database
 Multi-lanaguage
 
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 HR Management Information System (HRIS)

 Data importation/exportation
 Reporting
 Mobile access
 Email notifications
 Email integration
 
Payroll

 Salary history
 Multi-currency
 Compensation management 
Recruiting

 Pre-employment testing
 Recruiting management
 
Performance Record

 Audit trail
 Personnel management
 Position history
 
Customization

 Customizable fields
 Custom user interface
 Customizable functionality
 Customizable reporting
 
Training and Learning Management System

 Development tracking
 Onboarding
 Succession Planning
 Employee lifecycle
 Learning management
 

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Halogen Software has also embedded a Myers-Briggs assessment into
their programming, so that employees can take the personality test to help
uncover their strengths and ideal pursuits.

Advantages
 Simple Implementation saves time and is cost-effective
 Halogen customer support includes a live chat that supports quick
issue resolution
 Halogen Talent Management Suite is very secure and reliable since
does not outsource to other companies
 The employee portal page is very useful for the workforce
 The eLearning Manager Module is an innovative concept introduced
by Halogen

Disadvantages 
 Halogen can be a little expensive for small businesses
 Administration functionality can be confusing

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 CLOUDSTONE GROWTH EDITION

Cornerstone OnDemand® (NASDAQ: CSOD) helps organizations to recruit,

train, and manage their people. We work with hundreds of the world’s
largest companies—from Walgreens and Starwood Hotels & Resorts to
Deutsche Post DHL and Western Union—and thousands of smaller ones to
help them engage their workforces and empower their people. Our
computer software impacts every aspect of the employee experience,
helping people to make their best work even better – which ultimately
translates into greater business results.
Along with corporations, we work with government agencies, hospitals,
non-profits and schools to more effectively manage the entire employee
lifecycle. Our software and services are in use by over 42+ million people in
192 countries and in 43 languages.

Since 1999, Cornerstone OnDemand's computer software has reduced IT

and maintenance costs and easily integrates with any other technology
platforms. And, users can conveniently access our software anytime,
anywhere, and on any device.

PRODUCTS OF CLOUDSTONE GROWTH

EDITION
RECRUITING SUITE

Find the right talent with the right social tools, applicant tracking, simple to
configure career sites, easy onboarding as well as a painless candidate
experience.

SIMPLIFY RECRUITING FOR BETTER RESULT

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Talent acquisition teams achieve significant benefits by unifying recruiting
with their existing talent management system. Recruiters and hiring teams
can now collaboratively attract, hire, and onboard new employees. See
how to enhance your talent acquisition processes by incorporating
recruiting within your Cornerstone software.

UNDERSTAND THE BEST SOURCE OF CANDIDATES

Your current employees are often the best source for candidates- they
already know your business, have experience, and know how to get things
done. With a standalone or legacy recruiting system, it’s difficult for
recruiters to identify skills of current employees, so they’ll look externally
first- missing great talent and alienating current employees. With
Cornerstone, recruiters can easily search current employee skills to find
great internal talent first.

ENSURE HIRING TEAMS ARE ON THE SAME PAGE

Standalone applicant tracking systems create barriers for hiring teams -

employees need to train on a completely different system, contact yet
another vendor for support, and collaboration is limited. When recruiting is
unified into Cornerstone, you not only benefit from greater employee
adoption, but also better visibility for your entire hiring team — boosting
collaboration and ensuring the entire team in on track

SEEMLESSLY INCORPORATE RECURITING DATA

With recruiting data seamlessly unified, you’ll onboard new hires faster and
avoid hassles of incomplete data. Standalone applicant tracking systems
create challenges with integrating recruiting data. With recruiting unified in
Cornerstone, your administrators don’t have to deal with inputting data into
multiple systems for other applications such as learning, performance,
succession, and compensation.

TMPROVE REPORTING OF EFFECTIVE HIRING

Disparate recruiting and talent management systems have separate data

models. It’s a complex process to merge data and information from
separate systems. A unified suite automatically consolidates all your talent
data so that you can get a comprehensive look into your hiring process.
EASIER NEW HIRING ONBOARDING

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 Create easier transitions from candidate to new hire when recruiting is
unified within Cornerstone. Hiring managers, HR, and Learning and
Development teams come together to create an effective onboarding
framework that incorporates goals, training, and collaboration. Get new
hires better acclimated to your company so that they’re better prepared and
set up to achieve long term success.
LEARNING SUITE

Modern tailored employee boost employee performance and support

orsgnizational goals.

PERFORMANCE SUITE

Align employee with oragnizational strategy and provide meaning full

feedback

Features
 360 degree reviews
 Competency catalog
 Compliance reporting
 Content library
 Course builder
 Employee dashboard
 Helicopter view
 Learning management
 Performance management
 Project and task management
 Training platform
 Trends analysis

Technical Details
Devices Supported
 Web-based

Language Support

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  English

Pricing Model
 Monthly payment
 One-time payment

Customer Types
 Small Business
 Freelancers

Deployment
 Open API

Advantages
Performance Management:
 Drill down to the details: Identify star performers, core
competencies, and critical roles. View and build graphs to determine
growth, trends, and improvements.
 View the entire organization: Use the 9 grid Helicopter view
to see an overview of your organization and develop a deeper
understanding of how your business is performing.
 Reach your goals more quickly: Enable employees to set
personal and professional goals that can help them reach the next
level and contribute useful work to the organization.
 Clear picture of performance: 360 degree reviews allow for
more detailed reviews of employees, providing a better foundation for
decision making on compensation and succession.

Learning Management:
 Train and retain your employees: Training and
development are proven ways to retain employees. Courses can be
self-paced and HR can track employee progress.

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  Motivate with recognition: Give badges to those who
successfully complete trainings. Employees and their managers can
track success together.
 Content made by you or the vendor: Create tailored
courses or select from a library, all SCORM conformed. Offer
courses in areas including project management, sales training, and
customer service.
 Link training to performance: Assign training based on
individual needs and performance. Help employees reach individual
goals by developing their skills based on role.

Disadvantages
Some users have reported that the interface is not as easy to use or
intuitive, especially when working with the LMS functionality.  Users are
finding it difficult to make changes in the system, such as changing dates or
uploading older data.
Cornerstone OnDemand does offer mobile capability but it is not marketed
and limited in functionality (i.e. not integrated with smartphones or tablet

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 SAGE HRMS

INTRODUCTION
Sage HRMS is an on-premise, human resources solution for small and
midsize businesses. It allows users to manage the entire employee
lifecycle. Primary features include employee record management, payroll
processing and management, recruiting, onboarding, time and attendance
management, talent management, risk mitigation and compliance
management. Other modules include workforce management, learning
management, decision support and employee benefits management.

The Core HR module allows users to access employee information, recruit

and onboard new employees, manage employee benefits, communicate
with health insurance carriers and track employee trainings.

The talent management module allows users to reduce employee turnover

by managing employee performance, tracking employee training and
development.

The payroll module allows users to process payroll, track time-offs, file
taxes and calculate deductions.

Support is offered via email and over the phone. Other help options include
knowledge base, product documentation, support articles, blogs, forums
and videos

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Sage HRMS Benefits
Sage HRMS is created by HR professionals and experts which means the
software is purely designed to ensure that businesses have all the tools
and features they need for all processes involving recruitment, performance
management, talent management and development. Sage HRMS helps
businesses adheres to government regulations and industry policies,
ensuring compliance and avoiding the risks of violating industry standards.

The software effectively combines components of payroll, benefits,

performance reviews, applicant tracking system, and employee self-
service, integrating them all into a unified HR-payroll solution. Sage HRMS
is proven to cut down administrative work, enabling HR managers to focus
their attention and expertise on acquiring, maintaining, developing, and
paying their employees.

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Sage HRMS comes with reporting tools and analytics to help businesses
evaluate their people, determine performance issues, identify personnel
that require development and training, and discover talents who are ripe for
promotion. The analytics functionality is also useful in providing businesses
with high value insights needed in making data-driven decisions.

The Payroll functionality of Sage HRMS allows companies to fully realize

their Return On Employee Investment (ROEI), as well as improve their HR
and payroll business processes. It also automates and streamlines day-to-
day HR and payroll business processes, helping businesses achieve their
corporate objectives while ensuring accuracy of their payroll.

Sage HRMS Features

 Payroll Management and Processing

 Recruiting and Onboarding.

 Risk Mitigation and Compliance.

 Time Management

 Employee Benefits

 Paperless HR

 Talent Acquisition and Performance Management

 Decision Support.

How Much Does Sage HRMS Cost?

Sage HRMS Pricing Plans:

Free Trial

Quote-based Plan

Contact vendor

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 KRONOS WORKFORCE READY

INTRODUCTION

Kronos’ history started with MIT graduate Mark S. Ain patenting the
microprocessor-based time-clock in 1979 — the first of its kind for
recording workforce data.
In the mid-1980s, Kronos came out with its first time-clock management
solution for PCs as a counterpart to the company’s time-clock hardware.
Following the company’s North American success, Kronos expanded its
customer base internationally into Mexico, Australia and the UK. There are
many Kronos locations worldwide.
Kronos employs over 5,000 employees worldwide, referred to as “Kronites”
within the company’s close-knit workforce. The company has received
numerous awards, such as Boston Business Journal’s 2016 Best Place to
Work, Glassdoor’s 2016 Employees Choice Awards for Highest-Rated
CEOs and Ventana Research Global Workforce Management Market
Leader.
More than 40 million people use Kronos technology every day.

Product Overview
The Kronos Workforce Ready Suite consists of various modules that help
companies manage their workforce from pre-hire to succession. This
review will focus on its Workforce Ready HR module.
Kronos Workforce Ready HR is a human capital management (HCM)
solution designed for companies with hourly and/or salaried employees.
The mission of this solution is for HR to focus on people and not strictly on
paperwork. It includes a few benefits, such as:

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  More automated HR processes so productivity of HR managers will
increase
 Self-service features for employees and their managers
 Cloud-based deployment with both web and mobile device access
 More strategic focus on employees with optional talent
management, performance management and compensation
management modules
Kronos Workforce Ready HR also integrates with Workforce
Ready Payroll and Workforce Ready Time Keeping.
 
Features
Here are several of the core features included with Workforce Ready HR:

 All employee records stored in a single database

 Self-service functionality for employees to update their own
information without HR involvement
 Ability to customize processes for HR tasks, such as new hires,
terminations, job changes and salary changes
 Customized onboarding checklists with automated reminders
 Ability to manage multiple benefits plans (health insurance or
retirement packages) in one solution
 Managing training development of employees, including assigning
them to specific classes, monitoring on training participation and
completion and scheduling internal training
 
Kronos offers strategic HR features with these optional modules.
First, there is the Workforce Ready Talent Acquisition module for applicant
tracking and recruiting. Recruiters can create job postings, source
candidates from many job boards and manage hiring workflows. When the
candidate is hired, information from their resumes and applications transfer
to the Workforce Ready HR module for onboarding.
Second, there is the Workforce Ready Performance Management module
that supports employee performance feedback on an ongoing basis. It
includes features, such as customized performance reviews, defining
employee and division goals and alerts on statuses of employee
performance review schedule.
And finally, there is the optional Workforce Ready Compensation
Management module. It replaces spreadsheets in managing the
compensation cycle by automating the entire process. The compensation
process can be configured based on a business’s needs and budgets.
There is also a Merit Matrix feature to help establish guidelines on merit-
based pay increases.
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Implementation/Integration
Kronos offers its software through a cloud delivery model for full access to
updates and time-clock synchronization.
Implementation is a six-step process:

 Planning
 Assessment
 Solution Build
 Test and Train
 Go Live
 Transition to Support
 
The process begins by establishing clients’ expectations from the software,
and it moves forward by evaluating employee data. Employee information
and payroll history are then added and formatted within the system. After
testing is finished, the software is ready for day-to-day use.

Workforce Ready At A Glance

Good: Streamlined HR tasks with self service and automated processes,
managing multiple benefit plans in a single solution, optional modules for
talent management and employee engagement.
Bad: Modules are priced separately, but can't reach their full potential
unless integrated.

Bottom Line: HCM solution designed to help companies focus on their

people and not on paperwork.

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 EPICORE HR

INTRODUCTION
Epicor recently acquired Spectrum Human Resource Systems for including
a global platform with payroll functionality.
The company is privately held with over 4,600 employees, and customers
across 150 countries.
Their business mission is to “be the leading provider of industry-specific
business software that drives growth and profitability for our customers,”
with 6 core values:

 Integrity
 Passion
 Excellence
 Innovation
 Teamwork
 Service
 
Product Overview
While Epicor’s main customers are within the retail, distribution,
manufacturing, and services industries, Epicor HCM is also offered as a
standalone solution.
The HR software comes integrated with other industry software packages,
but can also extend beyond Epicor’s specialized industries to include other
types of companies as well.
The standalone solution covers human capital management (HCM) with
processes such as on-boarding and performance tracking, but also
integrates with accounting functions
 
Features
Epicor HCM covers a full suite of Core and Strategic features for workforce
management.

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 Employees or potential hiring candidates can access parts of the system
for storing workforce data:
Employee Connect

 View and request time off

 View and manage benefit enrollment
 Access and sign company documents
 Maintain a competency profile
 View and update personal information
 Enroll in training courses
 Manage goals
 
Candidate Connect

 Candidate self service

 Search and apply online for open positions
 Create and maintain job history and skills profile
 Attach resume
 Complete interview questions
 
Core HR

 Global employee records

 Absence tracking
 Benefits administration
 Recruitment management
 Salary admin and planning
 Competency administration
 Manager self service
 Reporting and analysis
 Configuration tools
 
Training features help incorporate employees for adopting the right skills
and responsibilities:
Training & Development

 Manage courses, sessions, costs, enrollment, and completion

 Integrate goals to encourage completion
 Comprehensive training history
 

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Performance Management

 Goal management
 Configurable appraisal documents
 360 reviews
 Employee self appraisal
 
Strategic reporting gives your HR department the information needed in
making analytic decisions:
 
HCM Link

 Export data using templates

 On demand or scheduled
 Review and audit exported information
 Enables interfaces to other systems
 
Timesheets

 Track hours worked

 Integrated to absence tracking
 Submit and approve hours online
 Manage overtime rules by department and project allocations
 
Position Control & Budgeting

 Manage headcount and FTE’s

 Track employees working in multiple positions
 Manage funding sources
 
Implementation/Integration
The software can be deployed and hosted as an on-premise or on-demand
SaaS solution. The difference is how you would like your data stored, in-
house or web-based through their services.
Epicor HCM requires your company to lay out an Employee Life Cycle
before implementation. This means defining each stage your employees go
through in forming the right talent within your company.
These stages each have corresponding processes within the system, and
help cultivate skills needed within your workforce for top

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performance. EstesGroup HCM consulting aids in the process for
identifying key roles your employees fulfill.

Epicor HCM At A Glance

Good: Self-service with comprehensive performance
tracking.

Bad: Pricing and the time frame for implementation depends on client

needs and is estimated after consultation.

Bottom Line: Talent management solution that integrates with accounting

functions for a full few on human capital expenses.

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