I always like it when I get to see product.\u00a0 While I often do as part of my normal job, I don\u2019t overlap meaning I won\u2019t write about things I see when consulting for a client.\u00a0 In the upcoming months however, quite a few vendors are scheduling demos for me privately, and giving me a chance to write about it for you.\u00a0 The first of these is Workstream, fresh off their launch of 7.0.<\/p>\n
This product will be was live in November 2007, although I saw a live and working release candidate (beta).\u00a0 My only disclaimer is that I only had time to see the front splash page (portal) so I\u2019m simply assuming the deep functionality that has always been there has now just been integrated with a series of widgets\/portlets.\u00a0 My first reaction is that this will be an excruciatingly sellable product.<\/p>\n
Really WorkStream has seemed to focus in a couple of areas:\u00a0 the manager dashboard and the C-level dashboard.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be very interested in seeing the adoption rates of the C-level dashboards as I\u2019m honestly not sure that C-level people care yet.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve written about before, the C-suite wants to hear about the final numbers, and not the detail.\u00a0 Workstream presents a number of mid\/high level widgets that include graphs, drilldowns and drill throughs, and are highly configurable.\u00a0 Many of the dirll-throughs pop-up with a new graph or table so you don\u2019t have to deal with an entire screen refresh.\u00a0 The manager dashboards are also available and obviously much more tactical in nature.\u00a0 Security exists behind the scenes to personalize and configure the portlets by both role and person.<\/p>\n
My only initial complaint was that recruiting was not integrated yet.\u00a0 There are some portlets that will display information, but process integration isn\u2019t there.\u00a0 This is probably much less critical than integrating the components of talent management where the lack of integration means manual workarounds.\u00a0 For WorkStream, it could just be another log-in.\u00a0 One reason I don\u2019t care too much about recruiting integration at this point is simply that most people are not ready to integrate talent acquisition to immediate growth plans, 90 day reviews and quality of hire metrics.\u00a0 Simple manager access can be handled with a quick hyperlink and LDAP or other SSO technology.<\/p>\n
As mentioned, this is going to be a very sellable product.\u00a0 Their use of Web 2.0 is well executed, and WorkStream has always been good functionally and technically.\u00a0 They have the product, and now they have some additional cash to go to market with.\u00a0 Once again, I\u2019ll be watching WorkStream closely this year to track their progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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