TAS Vendor Landscape Positions SilkRoad in Champion Quadrant

The latest Talent Acquisition Solution or TAS Vendor Landscape has positioned OpenHire in the Champion quadrant. An announcement in this regard has been made by SilkRoad Technology Inc., the top provider of talent management solutions. OpenHire is the recruiting solution from SilkRoad. Info-Tech Research Group publishes the TAS Vendor Landscape.

The TAS market is flooded with more than 400 solutions available from recruitment specialists, ERP/HRMS vendors and talent management suite vendors. OpenHire provides highly configurable career sites. The easy to use OpenHire also has clean dashboards. According to Info-Tech, small to mid-sized companies will be therefore able to use the top product, SilkRoad OpenHire optimally.

According to the report, it is not enough to evaluate vendors by checking off a features list. The differentiator among vendors who offer similar functionality is the manner in which the solutions work. The key evaluation criteria are therefore workflow and usability. Some of the capabilities offered by SilkRoad include workforce planning, Web mining and social media integration. SilkRoad also offers strong assessment and background checking, job offer management and onboarding. Info-Tech has therefore recognized SilkRoad’s commitment to creating the finest end-user experience.

In a release, Brian Platz, COO of SilkRoad said, “We understand that organizations are engaged in a fierce war for talent, and have put a strong emphasis on the usability of our solutions to help ease and optimize the recruiting challenge. This recognition not only showcases the value that OpenHire adds to an organization, but also SilkRoad's relentless focus on end user experience.”

According to the report, OpenHire with its single platform is able to scale to any size of organization in any industry. Without the help from the IT department, end users can easily configure and edit excellent career sites with OpenHire. Social networking sites can be searched using the rich functionality of OpenHire.

The solution provides bidirectional integration with Outlook. An IE plug-in is also included. Based on scores and ranking criteria, the solution provides Hot Matches for jobs. Internal users and candidates are also supported by OpenHire.

In other news, SilkRoad Technology, Inc. recently was named one of the 2011 Triad Top Workplaces, which recognizes the most progressive companies based on employee opinions about company leadership, compensation, training, diversity/inclusion, career development, work life balance, and values and ethics.