{"id":718,"date":"2007-04-02T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=718"},"modified":"2007-04-02T20:00:43","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T04:00:43","slug":"upheaval-in-time-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"Upheaval in Time Management"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week Jason Corsello<\/a> noted that Kronos was being acquired<\/a> by a private equity firm.\u00a0 I honestly didn\u2019t take too much notice of it, but echoed his thoughts wondering why an ADP didn\u2019t move first.\u00a0 ADP has had a very long\u00a0 relationship with Kronos, and if anyone was going to take them, I thought ADP would move first.\u00a0 What I concluded was that ADP probably didn\u2019t want all the market baggage that includes the other Kronos HRMS products.\u00a0 Still, since probably 90% of the ADP time management cluent base is on a Kronos product, it\u2019s a bit risky to let Kronos get acquired by anyone else.<\/p>\n

Then comes today.\u00a0 What is probably a complete coincidence, Workbrain also agrees to be acquired<\/a> by Infor.\u00a0 Workbrain has been one of my favorite time and attendance applications for a whilte \u2013 similar to Success Factors for talent management or Virtual Edge for recruiting, Workbrain also seems to be a newer web 2.0 type company without the baggage of old legacy code.\u00a0 This meant that they didn\u2019t have to provide workarounds, but could simply start a new application from scratch using good technology from the beginning.\u00a0 Workbrain really only provides time management solutions, so unlike Kronos, they are less diversified which should have been attractive to another vendor (like ADP or as Jason says Oracle).\u00a0 They also have a decent market penetration into the Fortune 1000.<\/p>\n

I honestly can\u2019t see much of anything going on here, but one does have to scratch one\u2019s head when a couple of the top vendors announce they will be acquired within days of each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week Jason Corsello noted that Kronos was being acquired by a private equity firm.\u00a0 I honestly didn\u2019t take too much notice of it, but echoed his thoughts wondering why an ADP didn\u2019t move first.\u00a0 ADP has had a very…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22,3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hr-technology","category-industry-news","category-vendors","category-workforce-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}