http://www.idc.com/research/simplesearchres.jsp?buck=Services%2FWorkforce+Management+Services%2F&keyword=&lcol=en&access_type=All&container_type=All&resperpage=10&sortby=scoreIDC research on Human Resources Management Services, Business Skills Training, Corporate eLearning, Higher Ed eLearning, K-12 eLearning, Recruiting and Staffing Services, and IT Education and Training Services.en-ushttp://cdn.idc.com/en_US/images/pageImg/idcLogoHome.jpghttp://www.idc.com/research/simplesearchres.jsp?buck=Services%2FWorkforce+Management+Services%2F&keyword=&lcol=en&access_type=All&container_type=All&resperpage=10&sortby=scorehttp://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=GI213071http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=GI213071This Government Insights report looks at spending on IT security by U.S. federal agencies. One quick way to benchmark whether a federal agency is spending enough to ensure the safety of its IT systems is to look at how that agency's IT security budget stacks up against other agencies. This detailed IT security benchmarking guide lets federal agencies understand how much other agencies are dedicating to specific types of IT security projects and systems. "We consistently hear from federal IT planners that they want to know what their peers are doing and how much they are budgeting to specific solutions," says Shawn McCarthy, research director of government vendor programs. "With IT security in the forefront of the minds of both IT administrators and government procurement officers, it was the logical choice for our first benchmarking guide in Government Insights' United States Government Infrastructure Optimization Service." Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=213753http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=213753This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes Avilar — a company playing in the workforce performance management, competency management, learning management, and SaaS markets — and reviews key success factors: market potential, technology/solution, corporate strategy, force multipliers, and customers. Leveraging IDC's expert understanding of the competitive landscape and future outlook, this document highlights company and market information tailored to the investment professional's needs. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=213072http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=213072This IDC study provides a detailed description of IDC's services market taxonomy. For 2008, the taxonomy includes individual foundation markets grouped within three macromarket segments: project based, outsourcing, and support and training. At the worldwide level, spending is also segmented across three geographic macroregions: Americas, EMEA, and Asia/Pacific. These macroregions are further segmented at the regional and local levels. IDC's services market taxonomy is the basis for IDC services research studies, trackers, and forecasters worldwide, as well as the relational multidimensional schema of IDC's Services Market Forecaster database that feeds worldwide and regional vendor trackers. "IDC's services taxonomy presents a comprehensive and standardized view of the worldwide services marketplace," said Gard Little, program manager, Global Services Markets and Trends. "It continues to be the premier source for defining and categorizing external IT and business services." Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=213616http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=213616This IDC Insight explores extending crowdsourcing further to actually staff projects more formally, a practice IDC calls crowdstaffing. Crowdsourcing has been used effectively in a number of areas to often solve a unique or finite business problem. For example, the Canadian gold mining group Goldcorp made geological survey data on its Ontario property available to the public over the Internet and offered a $575,000 prize to anyone who could analyze the data and suggest places where gold could be found. They went on to successfully locate a $3 billion yield. Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=212845http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=212845This IDC study examines the competitive landscape and provides a five-year forecast for the U.S. market for payroll services. Spending on payroll outsourcing services grew moderately in 2007 over 2006 and was higher than we'd seen in previous years. The market for payroll services continues to be dominated by a few large market leaders that together hold over 44% market share. The balance of the market consists primarily of many smaller players that largely operate at the local level. The market remained stable as little consolidation took place in 2007. "There are several actions suppliers should consider to compete successfully in this market," said Lisa Rowan, program director for HR and Talent Management Services at IDC. "These strategies include adopting industry standards for service levels and pricing, supplying the buyer choice in terms of service delivery, and pursuing a strategy to go after markets hardest hit by the economy where the outsourcing message may resonate loudest." Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=GI212429http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=GI212429This Government Insights report discusses how government IT managers have a lot of decisions to make in the months ahead related to the personal computers within their organizations. The Federal Desktop Core Configuration rules, security upgrades, the looming end of Microsoft's support for Windows XP, and other issues mean that government PCs will need either significant upgrades or outright replacement. To help with this decision process, this document has been created, which outlines all the issues. The document comes with a very detailed Excel spreadsheet, which serves as a powerful assessment tool to help federal managers survey their equipment and calculate whether it's more cost-effective to upgrade, replace, or migrate to a new client system. IPv6 and server-side upgrades are also addressed. "Federal IT managers face more PC-related challenges than they may realize," said Shawn P. McCarthy, research director for Government Infrastructure Optimization and Vendor programs at Government Insights. "They need to do a detailed assessment and a spending analysis to determine if it's cheaper to upgrade or replace their PCs, or even consider a third option such as migration to a thin client system." Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=212642http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=212642This IDC study discusses how, even in a weakening economy, it appears that the talent management market for vendors remains hot. To examine the buyer side of the market to unearth talent trends and initiatives, IDC conducted its fourth annual talent pulse survey at the Vurv Revolution customer event that took place April 6–9, 2008, in Orlando, Florida. Clients in attendance were a blend of HR and recruiting executives from many well-known firms. A total of 50 of the several hundred event attendees responded to the survey, which covered topics such as candidate shortages and talent strategy. "Changing business demands are driving an increase in the overall focus on talent," said Lisa Rowan, director of HR and Talent Management services research at IDC. "It is apparent, though, that the majority of employers are not yet measuring the impact of talent on business outcomes. There is ample room for opportunity and vendors that can help clients bridge this gap will be offering a valuable service to the market." Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=212334http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=212334This IDC study describes the framework by which IDC measures, describes, and tracks the worldwide corporate education market. IDC's 2008 Corporate Education Taxonomy is designed to improve communication with partners and customers (and between IDC analysts and clients) using a common language and perspective on corporate learning activities. This framework serves as the foundation for IT training, enterprise learning and performance, certification, and elearning research worldwide in 2008. Specifically, this document addresses the following questions: What is corporate education, and how does IDC segment this market? What are emerging market segments and trends, such as outsourcing of the corporate education function? What methodologies does IDC employ to size and forecast the education market? "In a changing market, a clear and definitive taxonomy serves an important role for buyers and vendors alike. The information in this document is useful to companies providing corporate education services and their clients, who can use the information in this document to help create a detailed framework from which to build the business case behind corporate strategy, and use it as a road map to better understand and use IDC research." — Cushing Anderson, vice president, Corporate Learning and Performance Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=212456http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=212456This IDC Insight takes a look into the top 50 announced HR BPO contracts. With a dearth in recent enterprise-level deal activity, IDC decided to take a look back at the largest deals struck to date. So much has been written on platform efficiency and technology integration, IDC also wanted to explore the technologies in play as this is an indicator of the complexity of implementing and maintaining the relationship. The inclusion and ranking of contracts in this Insight are based on IDC's best estimates of total contract value generated from extensive research embodied in IDC's services contracts database. Data pertaining to underlying technology is as of February 15, 2008. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDThttp://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=212329http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&containerId=212329This IDC Insight presents IDC's "takeaways" from Elliott Masie's Learning Systems 2008 conference held in Las Vegas in April 2008. This Insight presents this advice as 11 wishes buyers have for learning systems (and their vendors) and suggests ways learning systems can: Gain perspective Expand on the concept of content Make the solutions limber Engage at a process level Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT