Kenexa

In 1987, Kenexa began by providing recruitment services. Within its first decade, the firm created its first automated recruiting management system, and provided employee research and employee performance management .

By 1998, the company had purchased fifteen organizations, and offered on-demand human capital management services. During the next three years, they acquired four additional companies and were able to offer employee screening, behavioral assessment and skills testing products.

In 2005, the company realized its initial public offering followed by the acquisition of BrassRing LLC, Gantz Wiley Research, Knowledge Workers Inc., Psychometric Services and Webhire, which preceded the purchase of HRC Human Resources Consulting GmbH and StraightSource in 2007, which expanded their business in Europe.

From 2008-2009, the company expanded to 30 offices in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. It took control of Quorum International Search Limited, and, in 2010, the Centre for High Performance Development and Salary.com.[3][4]

On August 27, 2012, it was announced that Kenexa had been acquired by IBM for $1.3 billion.[5] The acquisition was closed on December 4, 2012 and Kenexa became known as "Kenexa, an IBM Company" with approximately 2,800 Kenexa employees in 21 countries joining IBM.[6]

Brassring LLC, Founded in 1999 in Waltham, Massachusetts, is a provider of candidate searching, hiring strategy, skills management and outsourcing software applications.[7]

The Centre for High Performance Development, founded in 1996 in London, England, is a management training company that offers human resources consultancy, leadership development and management training.[8]

Gantz Wiley Research, founded in 1986, and located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a survey data analysis firm which conducts surveys of employees and clients for customers ranging from banks to discount stores.[9][10] The company was responsible for creating the WorkTrends database of employee survey results, which looked at subjects such as customer relations, employee engagement, and leadership.[9]

Knowledge Workers, Inc. of Englewood, Colorado,[11] founded in 1985, supplies technology assistance and human resource consulting to government agencies.[12]

Salary.com, Inc., based in Waltham, Massachusetts, is a compensation and human resource management services company, primarily in the U.S. human capital software as a service (SaaS) market. The company's services are used by compensation professionals for talent management processes.[13]

• Top Five Global Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) Vendor (Baker's Dozen Customer Satisfaction Ratings 2010)[14]
• 10th on Forbes Fastest Growing Technology Companies, 2008[15]
• Human Resources Magazine, Top Product of the Year, 2008, 2010[16]
• Ranked the #1 most popular Talent Management Solution in 2012 and 2013 with 9,000 customers and 30 million users.[17]

• List of talent management system companies