Newton Recruiting Metrics 2.0: Advanced Custom Reporting Coming to Newton

We’ve always been interested in providing our customers with killer reporting  features.  Today, Newton delivers the most advanced real-time recruiting analytics dashboard of any applicant tracking software available. Newton’s recruiting dashboards provide fast answers to the most common questions that come up in recruiting.  Our interactive user  interfaces tell a story and provide a level of visibility and accountability that help organizations avoid the recruiting for of war.

In a couple of weeks, we’re releasing our next generation reporting engine that will allow our customers to report on all information that Newton collects. Think of this as Newton Recruiting Metrics 2.0.  Our product team has designed an easy-to-use,drag and drop interface that allows users to create custom reports like:

Current Candidate Pipeline

User Activity Summaries

Active Job details

Job Posting Reports

Candidate Source Summaries and more

In a few short weeks, Newton users will create customer reports and export them to – get this – pre-formatted Excel documents or CSVs.  Yes, the reports will be formatted! We’re testing the Newton Analytics and Reporting release right now.  We’ll be releasing a feature video shortly and we’re demo’ing the release now!

NED Podcast: HR Metrics -The Big Lie

More than ever before, human resources professionals are scrambling to collect and provide quantitative metrics to substantiate all sorts of initiatives. Many HR professionals spend time preparing analytics for the sake of being prepared with ‘data’ – metrics for the sake of metrics.

Dr. Steve McElfresh, our guest on NED this month, presents a compelling case that the real value of metrics is only achieved when combined with analytic, business oriented thinking.  The development of HR Metrics can enable and support that approach to HR.  But Metrics also can be, and too often is, delivered bereft of such thinking, in which case it is an empty suit, a façade that detracts from rather than enhancing HR’s credibility.  What’s more, solid analytic, business-oriented thinking can be applied to great effect without formal metrics.

Join us on NED for an HR Metrics sanity check with Steve McElfresh

When: Friday, January 21^st at 8:30am PDT

Where: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/newton-software

Dial in to listen live: (646) 727-1372

Time permitting, we’ll take questions from the audience.

Listen anytime: http://www.newtonsoftware.com/blog/category/ned/

Dr. McElfresh is the Principal and Founder of HR Futures.  He was also the President and CEO of Saratoga Institute, the leading organization providing HR-related benchmarking and performance analyses. Before Saratoga, Steve was the chief HR officer for SRI International (formerly known as Stanford Research Institute), Failure Analysis Associates, and Friden Alcatel.

He is a member of the Society for Psychologists in Management, the Academy of Management, the Forensic Expert Witness Association and the American Psychological Association. In addition, he is a moderator/facilitator for two HR YahooGroups (ROI Net and VPHR Forum) and has written editorials for the Business Journal. He is certified by SHRM as a Senior Human Resource Professional and was a charter member of SHRM’s National Panel for Human Capital Measurement and HR Metrics. He is in his eight year as Conference Chair for the Conference on Strategic HR Analytics and Metrics.

Steve has taught at the School of Management at Boston College and the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts. He has served on the Boards of Directors or Advisory Boards of the Bay Area Executive Council, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, the Forensic Expert Witness Association, and the Bay Area Organizational Development Network. He earned a Ph.D in organizational psychology from Boston College and a JD from the Santa Clara University School of Law.

Newton Planning to ‘Bling’ in the New Year with 120 Days of New Applicant Tracking Features

2010 was a breakout year for Newton Software and our popular applicant tracking software, Newton. We’re taking our momentum into the New Year and  planning a whole slew of new enhancements to Newton. In addition to releasing exciting new features, Newton Software will  join technology industry leaders like IBM, Microsoft and Netflix by moving our product to Amazon’s EC2 Cloud computing environment.  Moving to the Cloud will make Newton even faster and more agile and provide existing and future customers other significant advantages.

Here’s a quick review of 2010

Exciting Growth

• We grew corporate revenue by over 1000% this past year.
• We added nearly 100 new customers.
• We released more new features than any other applicant tracking vendor with 6 major releases (including 2 major performance releases) containing over 150 new product enhancements.

Changing the Conversation

• Simple is in. In a saturated market, we’ve proven that our easy-to-use, intuitive recruiting software and our frictionless business model are what human resources buyers want. More value, less hassle, great service and huge value – that’s what people want. We deliver.
• Ease of use is the new killer feature. Newton’s best in class user interface and intuitive built-in recruiting workflow yields the highest user adoption rates of any applicant management platform +90%.

Right Engine, Right Partners

We’re now seamlessly integrated with the leading mid-market HRIS/HCM solution Workday and their exclusive mid-market reseller and our dear partner, OneSource VHR.  Together, we’re changing the mid-market HR technology landscape by offering customers a modern, complete HR solution. Think seamless, automated, paperless!

Custom Reporting Engine

Last year we released the industry’s only real time recruiting analytics dashboard. In just a couple of weeks we’ll release the most powerful custom reporting engine in the business. A drag a drop report builder will help Newton users create customized recruiting reports, save them and even export them to a formatted (yes, something you can send to someone) Excel document.

What’s next?

Well, we don’t want to give away the farm here but we can tell you that our next features involve modernizing internal referral programs, position control, social recruiting and mobile – SEXY!