SuccessFactors has beefed up its business execution offering with the purchase of Inform, an Australian firm which offers consulting and software to help companies analyse and plan for the future of their workforce.
SuccessFactors’ roots are in performance management and talent management, but the firm last year launched into an ambitious gambit to reposition as a business execution provider. The Inform acquisition is intended to beef up that BizX strategy.
“Inform Business Impact is a global leader in business analytics and workforce planning. It is a pureplay Cloud company and has world-class consulting capabilities, kind of like the McKinsey of this industry,” says SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard. “We are aggressively building out our BizX road map. We have a three-pronged approach, internal development, partnerships and M&A. there is a lot of business intelligence software, but it is all based on the code general ledger and accounting. That is not going to work for our customers.
SuccessFactors needed to drive workforce information to drive business decisions.