Now that saas has emerged as the next frontier of HR Software, HR professionals are becoming more ethusiatic about innovation, and rightly so. For many years, HR professionals have been shown the same old features and benefits, over and over again. Promised the world and shown little in terms of what was promised. There is no doubt that which ever provider is clever enough to come up with a seamless offering that provides e-recruitment, e-HR (HR Software) and Payroll (Software or Service), will be the leader of the pack. THis offering really just needs to provide a reliable, sleamless data sharing capability. We really think that in the next 7 years, most payrolls will be outsourced to enable businesses to be far more nimble. To focus on how they themselves can create competitive advantage. Recruitment Software seems to be a big focus for SME’s. Recruitment Software with a direct alignment to Performance Management which I might add, needs to be kept simple and usable. Easy to execute and understandable.

Some interesting results have come out of our Customer and General Market surveying. Our Customers are telling us they they want us to Deliver and Integrated Surveying solution to them as well as deeper Performance Management Features. The General Market is saying that they really are motivated by a Solution that provides e-Recruitment Software, HR Software and Payroll Software, all in one system. Generally speaking, the SME market is not happy with their e-recruitment systems and are looking for options. Recruitment agencies are mostly interested in Social Media Recruitment Tools. Whilst another really substantial request is for People Management Systems to be far more flexible.

Stay tuned for the release of our report.

Some other interesting information that we have gather relating to social media will also be released shortly. These figures include:

Which age group are the biggest users of Facebook. The highest ranking Jobs board in terms of Traffic. Do Skilled or Unskilled Workers usually use Jobs Boards to Find Jobs. How many unique visits does Facebook get. All this information can be used to formulate your Recruitment and Employer Branding Strategy as well as your HRIS Strategy. Innovation is Key.