In the May 2011 report -œThe Talent Management Suite Market Emerges", James Holincheck, research vice president at Gartner, observed, "Customers are increasingly using more talent-management capabilities from a single vendor. Thus, a talent-management suite market has emerged."


Infosys TalentEdge deepens employee interaction through rich social engagement and interactive self-service capabilities. The social collaboration features of the platform help companies improve access to organization-wide expertise, generate ideas, and accelerate innovation. The platform also allows employees to access HR functionalities "on-the-go" through mobile and smart devices, thereby enabling an always-connected workforce.


Infosys TalentEdge simplifies the entire hire-to-retire lifecycle of the HR function. The platform brings together preconfigured, best-in-class industry processes that help enterprises streamline HR operations and free up time spent on transactional HR activities such as payroll, attendance, benefits processing, etc. The Infosys TalentEdge platform is built on Oracle's industry-leading PeopleSoft Human Capital Management (HCM) Suite.


Delivered in the cloud on an outcome-based pricing model, Infosys TalentEdge optimizes costs and delivers better spend predictability to the HR organization. This frees up significant capital expenditure typically locked into HR technology and process investments, allowing the HR function to be a strategic enabler of an organization's business objectives. Infosys TalentEdge provides companies with the convenience of single point of accountability by taking complete ownership from technology to business operations.


Samson David, Vice President and Global Head - Business Platforms, Infosys, said, "Infosys Edge business platform in the cloud is focused on accelerating business innovation for our clients across functions. Today HR organizations spend over sixty percent of their time on transactional HR activities, leaving little to focus on talent engagement. With Infosys TalentEdge, companies can focus more on deepening talent engagement while simplifying transactional HR processes."