As many of you know, we’ve grown very quickly in the past two years. In fact, this year alone, our active user community has grown by over 1000%. By the end of the year, Newton will be managing nearly 1 million candidate records.
Given our growth and commitment to providing a stable, fast and ever-usable product, we are informing our user community that on Sunday morning for about 90 minutes we are going to be enhancing and improving Newton’s Infrastructure. There may be short periods of downtime during our 90 minute maintenance window.
Our technical team and cloud administrator are doubling Newton’s database size, implementing advanced load balancing technology and tuning a couple of other things to improve Newton’s performance in the Cloud.
Newton is modern, easy-to-use applicant tracking software designed to organize and improve internal recruiting programs for small and medium sized businesses (30-3000 employees). Newton features best-of-breed dashboards that create unparalleled visibility and transparency. And, Newton is the only ATS designed to drive the decisions that drive hiring taking into account all users in the corporate recruiting workflow. Industry leading adoption rates (+90%) ensure easy collaboration and powerful performance driven metrics allow HR and Recruiting users to be in control.
Whenever we design new features for Newton, our leading mid-market applicant tracking software, we always keep in mind that knowledge is power. We understand that a variety of people involved in the recruiting process come to Newton for answers so transparency and visibility are key. People who use Newton liken the home page to air traffic control for recruiting. It’s an instant staffing report online.
Well, we just made Newton’s home page more powerful by adding enhancements that provide even better visibility. Based on feedback from our user community and some ideas of our own, we’ve made some enhancements. In our most recent release, we give our users the power of viewing more information about jobs on the home page. And, you can now arrange jobs in a variety of different ways to meet you needs.
Starting next week, you can arrange jobs by:
Location
Job ID
Department
Date activated (oldest to newest)
You can choose how many jobs you want to display on your home page.
You can sort jobs alphabetically or sort them by oldest to newest.
And, you can even filter jobs on your home page by location or department.
To learn more, request a demo, or speak to a Newton applicant tracking specialist, contact us.
We’ll say one thing for Salesforce.com, they really know how to throw a party. This year Marc Benioff and crew hired 80′s rock megastars Metallica to headline Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual user conference.
We were fortunate to catch Metallica’s first ever corporate event thanks to our partner, OneSource Virtual HR, the exclusive mid-market reseller of Workday. OneSource participated at Dreamforce alongside Workday, a leading HCM technology provider.
Newton, our popular applicant tracking software, integrates seamlessly with Workday’s core HRIS product providing SMB’s the most modern, user friendly, end-to-end talent management platform available.
We’re proud to announce that Newton has moved to the Cloud providing Newton customers with the fastest, most reliable, most scalable corporate applicant tracking software available. Moving to the Cloud makes Newton even more agile and provides existing and future customers significant advantages. Newton was born on the web and now is leverage the world’s most cutting edge web-based infrastructure to deliver modern, reliable, secure and affordable enterprise applicant management technologies to growing companies.
And as always, Newton customers will continue to enjoy the key elements that have set Newton apart from other recruiting software from day one like:
The Newton Home Page, your dashboard that serves as air traffic control for your recruiting program.
The Newton real-time analytics dashboard, the industry’s most advanced recruiting performance metrics at a glance
And, of course, patent pending workflow that drives the decisions that drive corporate hiring. Green is go. Red is no.
Newton Software’s Head of Marketing, Joel Passen, was asked to provide his predictions of the top 3 trends in the mid-market applicant tracking software industry that all HR executives and corporate recruiting leaders should be aware of going into 2011. Primarily based on conversations with 100′s of HR executives and corporate recruiters around the US and UK, Joel’s trends are taken from buyers themselves.
Listen to the Podcast to learn what to expect from the applicant tracking industry in 2011.
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!
When you are a marketing person, it’s easy to take what you perceive as ‘the little’ things for granted. Here’s an example. The other day, a good customer sent us list of suggestions for our product. At the end of the list he added a marketing idea; put a list of all of the web browsers and OS logos that show which Newton is compatible with. Newton works on any browser on both Mac and PC platforms. You can bet that the next iteration of our home page will have some new logos.
Newton is applicant tracking software that works with any commercial web browser. We specifically test Newton for use with Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s FireFox and Window’s Internet Explorer. Newton works on Safari but who cares? Just sayin’. And, given that Newton is completely web based, it doesn’t matter if you’re a Mac or a PC, we’re platform independent – use Newton as you wish on either platform.
Out of curiosity, I took a poll to see what browser Newton employees prefer.
70% Chrome
30% FireFox
We all have IE installed on our machines.
We all have FireFox installed on our computers too.
Steve is the only one with Safari installed on his computer. He says it’s for testing Newton.
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.
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.
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.
We issued a