Comments on: SuccessFactors: Bringing Web 2.0 to Talent Management

By: Synesthesia » Enterprise SaaS and Mashups

Synesthesia » Enterprise SaaS and Mashups — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:59:54 +0000

[...] The AppGap Bill writes about the provision of of Web 2.0 for talent management by [...]

By: Blogging Serena TAG - 12: How to Decide when to Go On Premise or On Demand « Serena Business Mashup Blog

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:08:50 +0000

[...] There are shifting adoption patterns. In the recent past, the move to SaaS was often triggered by renegades, who then spread the good news to their fellow employees. After this initial success, the CIOs have now gotten involved to retain control. Enterprise-wide acceptance has increased. More large brand name companies are moving into SaaS including Wachovia Bank (who played a big role at Enterprise 2.0 – see Pete Fields of Wachovia on What Impresses Senior Executives on Enterprise 2.0 and what Doesn’t Make Much Impact) and who adopted SuccessFactors (see SuccessFactors: Bringing Web 2.0 to Talent Management). [...]

By: Bill Ives

Bill Ives — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:51:23 +0000

Darren – Thanks for looking into these issues and your kind comment. Bill

By: Darren Neimke

Darren Neimke — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:45:59 +0000

The other thing that I think they need is some form of Federated Identity and Access Management to allow enterprises to integrate fully with locally hosted S+S lob applications.

They may already have this but I could not find anything written on their site about it – certainly no roadmap documents which talk about such a feature.

By: Darren Neimke

Darren Neimke — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:44:30 +0000

Thanks Bill… I love the stuff that you are doing! Rock on

By: Bill Ives

Bill Ives — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:25:33 +0000

Darren – Thanks for the comment and you raise a good question. I have passed you comment on to the SuccessFactors people to respond. Bill

By: Darren Neimke

Darren Neimke — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:40:04 +0000

Your review feels a little bit lopsided but maybe you are looking at it through the viewpoint of very large organizations. I know that the site says that they scale down to very small businesses, but I’d love to get inside of some of the data at the smaller end. The product feels like one which may work in larger corporates (Renault, Hilton, etc) but not be personal enough to fit smaller style businesses.

The infomercial that they have is soooooo American

By: Will Weider

Will Weider — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:33:21 +0000

We use SuccessFactors. The remarkable thing about their system (like QuickBase) is that is is extremely functional at the same time it is very easy to use. Most users can become proficient with a few minutes of direction.