Vendor Analysis
published on Jul 15, 2021
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall assessment analyzes isolved's offerings and capabilities in Next Generation HCM Technology
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s HCM technology profile on isolved is a comprehensive assessment of its offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of HCM technology platforms and identifying vendor suitability for RFPs
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the HR technology and services sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of isolved HCM Technology offering, capabilities, and market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, weaknesses, and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization including the location for key centers.
Key Findings & Highlights:
isolved, founded in ~2012, and headquartered in Charlotte, NC, is a provider of human capital management and workforce management (WFM) technology and associated managed services targeted small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMB) and mid-market organizations.
The company was originally formed in 1986, offering benefits services under the Infinisource brand as an entity of Infisource prior to launching a cloud-native HCM technology platform called isolved HCM in 2013. In 2020 the entities were consolidated and organized under the isolved brand, and the same year, isolved rebranded its HCM technology as the isolved People Cloud platform.
Since its launch, isolved has leveraged a mix of organic development and select acquisitions to boost its capability and to accelerate its platform adoption, including:
- TrenData HR (2021): AI-based predictive analytics and NLP based conversational virtual assistant (VA)
- Givful (2021: Wellness and wellbeing solution focused on employee giving and volunteering
- HK Payroll Services Inc. (2019): Workforce management technology, payroll services partner acquisition
- Sage Group plc (2019): Payroll technology
- AmCheck: (2018): Payroll services partner acquisition.
- ExcelPay (2017): Payroll services partner acquisition.
isolved provides a proprietary HCM technology platform called isolved People Cloud. The cloud-native multi-tenant platform is a modular offering, built on a single code-line and database, and hosted on the Microsoft Azure public cloud infrastructure with pre-built APIs to ~1.8k partner technology platforms.
The isolved People Cloud platform includes the following modules:
- Talent Management: (Talent Acquisition and Onboarding)
- HR and Payroll
- Benefits
- Workforce Management
- Engagement Management (including learning management).
isolved targets its People Cloud HCM technology to small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMB) and mid-market organizations ranging from 20 up to 10k employees and focuses primarily on the 250 to 2.5k segment as its "sweet spot." While its client base is largely comprised (~87%) of firms with less than 500 employees, its fastest-growing segment is the 500 to 2.5k middle-market buyer. The isolved People Cloud platform currently supports ~5m users and >145k U.S.-based small and medium-sized employers.
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