Inform’s (formerly Infohrm) CEO excited about opportunity to work with SuccessFactors

[Infohrm]

On Friday 5 February I announced the most exciting news that I have shared in my 30 years of leading Infohrm. SuccessFactors, the world’s leading business execution software company announced its intent to acquire Infohrm.For all of us at Infohrm, this represents an opportunity to advance our mission of driving impact through better workforce information. [...]

On Friday 5 February I announced the most exciting news that I have shared in my 30 years of leading Infohrm. SuccessFactors, the world’s leading business execution software company announced its intent to acquire Infohrm.

For all of us at Infohrm, this represents an opportunity to advance our mission of driving impact through better workforce information. We believe that SuccessFactors’ suite of business execution software is an ideal match for our capabilities in workforce reporting, analytics, and planning. We have always measured our success by the outcomes our customers have been able to achieve and the SuccessFactors Infohrm combination will enable us to bring an even greater level of capability to organisations.

I hope you will agree that Infohrm has a strong history of providing innovative solutions to its members. In:
? the early 80s, we were the first company to provide deep expertise and analytical rigor in workforce planning
? 1991 we introduced the first annual conference series focused exclusively on workforce analytics and planning
? 1997 we launched our first software-as-a-service application
? 2002 we launched the HR measurement lab (later known as CLC metrics) the first joint venture that put metrics that matter under the microscope and planted the seeds for the global Infohrm community as it stands today.

And now we are pleased to be part of the first company to combine business execution software with advanced human capital analytics and planning technology.

A key element in SuccessFactors’ decision to acquire Inform was our people, our passion, and our dedication to our clients, Inform Members. This is the first acquisition SuccessFactors has ever completed and their energy in pursuing our business was extraordinary. We couldn’t be more pleased that our company met the high hurdles they set for both business performance and cultural fit. Despite our intent to grow Infohrm and our member base as a private organisation the strong alignment of values across both companies and focus on business outcomes proved too great an opportunity to pass. We look forward to providing amazing solutions as we move forward together.

We will continue to be a trusted partner, a solution provider, and a thought leader in the business community. We will also be able to deliver:

? New reporting, analytics, and planning modules which bring business and workforce information together in a way that’s never been done before
? Increased agility, responsiveness and innovation in our software as the development and product development teams align from both organisations
? Increased depth and breadth to our industry-leading benchmarks as we integrate data from 3,000 global SuccessFactors clients.

What will not change

We are changing our name to Inform – Business Impact (and our website to www.informimpact.com). Our vision has always been to deliver business impact through quality insights into your workforce. Our new name reflects that vision and emphasizes our focus on creating tangible business results for members of the growing Inform community.

Beyond the name change, we expect future changes that will reflect the increased capacity and capability of the combined organisation. With the significant growth I expect over the next few years we will see an even faster rate of growth of the functionality included in our analytics and workforce planning solutions.

The leadership team and our regional leaders, Brian Kelly (North America), Anastasia Ellerby (Asia Pacific), and I (Europe Middle East and Asia) will remain the same and we are very excited about what we will now be able to achieve through the combined entities.

Most importantly – our focus on customers – will not change. Inform will continue to offer an agnostic data extraction solution, extracting data from all types of systems including generic talent management solutions.

My wife Heather and I, started this company almost 30 years ago, and we are proud of what we have been able to achieve by providing solutions to ensure that solid workforce information is a must have, not a nice to have, in business strategy and decision making.

Both the Inform team and I can’t wait to start working with SuccessFactors to revolutionise the way business designs and executes on strategy.



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