Introducing Newton’s Custom Reporting Engine

Posted: March 1st, 2011 | Author: jpassen | Filed under: Applicant Tracking, Company News, HR Metrics, Release Notes, applicant tracking software | 1 Comment »

Since its inception in 2009, Newton has been the innovator in recruiting analytics offering customers the most advanced real-time recruiting analytics feature available.   Now, we’re happy to announce the availability of Newton’s custom reporting engine. You’ll still be able to intuitively dive into anything you want from your real-time analytics dashboard. But, for those of you that want to build, save and share customized reports, we’ve designed the applicant tracking software industry’s most powerful, easy-to-use custom reporting engine.

Report on candidate pipelines, user activity, requisitions, job postings, candidate sources, hires and more.Have a custom report that your company likes to use? Build it with Newton’s drag and drop interface, save it and run it anytime!

Reporting has traditionally been one of the biggest resource hogs. Knowing this, we created a reports-specific database in the Cloud just to run reports so crunching large data sets won’t slow you (or anyone else) down. Share recruiting metrics with anyone on your team. with one-click and you can export production quality reports to Excel.

Newton Recruiting Metrics 2.0: Advanced Custom Reporting Coming to Newton

Posted: January 18th, 2011 | Author: jpassen | Filed under: Applicant Tracking, Company News, Release Notes, applicant tracking software | No Comments »

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.

Applicant tracking software analytics dashboard

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

Applicant Tracking Software Recruiting Metrics

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!

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

Posted: January 5th, 2011 | Author: jpassen | Filed under: Applicant Tracking, Company News, Release Notes, Software, applicant tracking software, social recruiting | No Comments »

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!

Newton Innovates: Popular Applicant Tracking Software Now in the Cloud

Posted: November 30th, 2010 | Author: jpassen | Filed under: Applicant Tracking, Company News, Internet Trends, Release Notes, Software, applicant tracking software | No Comments »

Newton Software has joined technology industry leaders like IBM, Microsoft and Netflix by moving our popular applicant tracking software to  Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing environment.  Moving to Amazon’s EC2 platform makes Newton even more agile and provides existing and future customers significant advantages.

Read our full blog post here.

Stay Organized with Smart Applicant Tracking Software: Introducing Newton Folders

Posted: September 23rd, 2010 | Author: jpassen | Filed under: Applicant Tracking, Company News, Release Notes, Software, applicant tracking software | No Comments »

Everyone will agree, one of the keys to running a successful corporate recruiting program is staying organized. In today’s world, where applicants can easily apply to hundreds of openings with a few mouse clicks and each job attracts hundreds of candidates, keeping track of everyone, especially those diamonds in the rough, is a real challenge.

That is, unless you’re using Newton.

Introducing Newton folders, the easiest way to keep track of candidates of interest.

With Newton folders

• Now you will easily keep track of someone for that job that will open up next month

• Create folders to store awesome applicants

• Have folders to track candidates that are in a specific stage of your recruiting process like people that are completing testing or pre-employment screening

• How about a folder to store candidates from your competitors?

Find an applicant you want to add to a folder and just drag and drop them in.. it’s that easy.

Share your folders with other Newton users or make them private. Newton’s Folders are flexible and designed to help you stay organized.

To learn more about Newton, our popular applicant tracking software, please explore the rest of our site.

New productivity tools coming to Newton in September

Posted: August 31st, 2010 | Author: jpassen | Filed under: Applicant Tracking, Company News, Release Notes, applicant tracking software | No Comments »


We get nerdy about figuring out ways to make people more efficient. So, we’re excited about the September release of Newton, our popular, easy-to-use applicant tracking software.

Newton has always been designed to provide users with helpful dashboards to tell the story of exactly what’s going on in your recruiting program. Now, with suggestions from of our user community, we’ve designed some features to surface more relevant information about jobs without polluting our best in class user interface.

Watch the video to learn more.  Oh, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.  More to come.

Coming Soon…. a sneak peak of the September applicant tracking software release

Posted: August 11th, 2010 | Author: jpassen | Filed under: Applicant Tracking, Company News, Dashboards, Release Notes, applicant tracking software, social recruiting | No Comments »

You made suggestions. We listened.

We’re super excited about our upcoming release due out September 10th. Over half of the new features are customer recommendations.  Last month, we did a large performance release to ensure that Newton has the capacity and speed to keep up with our growing customer base (we’re serious about performance).  September is all about cool new features. Our development team is working away at building and testing 10 great new additions to Newton. We’ve figured we’d give you a quick look at what’s to come.

We’ll release more details on the “Tracking” feature in a couple of days.  It will be the only feature of it’s kind in the applicant tracking software world.  In the meantime, think “Twitter feed” for your recruiting program.

Here’s a discrete preview of what’s on tap for September.

New feature enables Newton customers to create even better looking careers sites

Posted: August 2nd, 2010 | Author: jpassen | Filed under: Applicant Tracking, Clients, Company News, Release Notes, applicant tracking software | No Comments »

Last week, we introduced a new utility that enables Newton customers to design even more elegant, powerful careers sites – better places to visit so you can attract and engage candidates and make their first impression memorable.

The first company to take advantage of our newest careers site functionality is MarkLogic, a leading provider of information infrastructure software, serving industries including media, government, financial services, and others. MarkLogic is headquartered in San Carlos, California with field offices in New York, Washington, DC, London, Boston, Austin, and Frankfurt. The company is privately held with investors Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital. As a rapidly growing business, MarkLogic understands that creating a great applicant experience is a key differentiator and sets the tone for how seriously they take attracting the best talent.

Visit the MarkLogic careers site.

For more information about how your company can leverage cutting-edge, easy-to-use applicant tracking software to create an amazing careers site like MarkLogic’s contact us.

Newton tune-up

Posted: July 26th, 2010 | Author: jpassen | Filed under: Company News, Release Notes | No Comments »

Often times the terms used in software marketing aren’t that sexy.  Take “performance release” for example.  Doesn’t sound that cool huh?  I agree.  But, there’s a concept behind a performance release that’s actually pretty darn important.

This week, we released Newton v3.9.2.5.  Our product team is referring to this as a large performance release.  We in the marketing department like to call this a tune-up.  This tune-up is significant for our users whether they know it or not.  For most, Newton is a utility. Our customers rely on Newton.  They need their applicant tracking software to be as reliable as possible. Acutely aware of this, we’re committed to constantly making Newton faster and more reliable.  So, the features that we released during this development cycle are all geared towards making Newton work better.

Here are some highlights from Newton’s recent tune-up.

  • Newton response times dropped 50%.
  • Maximum concurrent users increase 240%.
  • Candidate Search response times were reduced by 60%.

Press Release: Over 50 new enhancements live in Newton

Posted: June 24th, 2010 | Author: jpassen | Filed under: Company News, Release Notes, Software | 1 Comment »

We issued a press release today to announce that we’ve added over 50 new enhancements  to Newton this week. All the new features in the latest release are designed to bolster adoption, further automate tasks, and promote consistency and process improvement. We’re told that this marks the largest release from any mid-market applicant tracking vendor so far this year. We’re also hearing from the analyst community that we have a far more aggressive release schedule than anyone in the HR technology industry.  Our product team is aiming to release new enhancements to Newton about every 5 weeks.

It’s great to have new features in Newton and so far, the feedback from some of our nearly 100 customers has been extremely positive.  But, the coolest part of this release is that over 60% of the enhancements were generated by our users.  That is, we listened to the people that use Newton the most and want to improve the user experience for everyone.