profile updated Apr 14, 2008, 10:17 AM
Authoria is a human-capital technology company. Its talent-management system offers near soup-to-nuts coverage, including recruitment, compensation, performance, incentives, and employee communications that give individual employees on-demand access to personal and corporate information.
This is no one-size-fits-all solution. Authoria's base product is customized for each client with refinements and enhancements tailored to company needs and company-specific programs and policies.
Authoria prides itself on the speed of implementation, with a goal of having new clients up and running within 12 weeks. Although a relatively young company in the HR field, Authoria has captured a sizable share of the large corporate market with more than 100 clients that have over 20,000 employees. Clients include PepsiAmericas, Aetna, Reuters, Aon, and Roche.
The company has won a handful of awards and recognition for its products and says it has reached profitability in its core business.
In September 2007, it raised $22.5 million in its fifth round of venture financing, bringing the total to more than $100 million, including $58 million raised by Hire.com, a company Authoria acquired in 2005.
The company was sold in September 2008 to Bedford Funding, a private equity firm, for $63.1 million. Bedford also provided an additional $8 million in working capital, which Authoria said will be used to expand the sales force and enhance its customer service and support. Two months later Jim McDevitt was hired as CEO.
News & Updates 
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Software Veteran Named to Head Authoria Sales (Company PR)
Authoria has hired an 18 year veteran of software sales to be its new vice president of sales. Joseph Kaddis, Jr. was with Microsoft and Hyperion, maker of performance management software, before it was sold to Oracle in 2007.
Jan 13, 2009, 1:35 PM -
SuccessFactors A Leader Says IDC Report (BusinessWire)
SuccessFactors, a global provider of on-demand performance and talent management solutions, is named a leader in Integrated Talent Management in a recent study of HR software vendors by IDC, a provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets
The report says, “SuccessFactors’ Talent management suite offers a prominent end-to-end solution leading the marketplace and illustrating the continuous circle and strategic interdependency of the various talent management functions within an organization."
Other companies reviewed in the $25,000 report (that is not a misprint) are: Authoria, Cornerstone, Halogen, Kenexa, Lawson, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Plateau Systems, Saba, Salary.com, SAP, Silkroad, Softscape, Stepstone, Taleo and Workscape.
Jan 8, 2009, 11:31 AM -
New Management Strategies For Tough Times Is Free Webcast Topic (Company PR)
Authoria, Inc., provider of talent management solutions, will hold a free webcast Dec. 11th exploring innovative approaches employers can use to meet the workforce challenges of the coming year. In this live event, Authoria Chairman Tod Loofbourrow and Bersin & Associates President Josh Bersin will explain how tough economic times require employers to adopt new strategies for their management of people. Register here.
Dec 10, 2008, 12:46 PM -
Authoria Introduces Rapid Results Implementation (BusinessWire)
Authoria, Inc., a provider of comprehensive talent management solutions, today announced Authoria Rapid Results, advanced 60-90 day implementation services that the company says will get customers up and running more quickly on their deployment of talent-management technology.
Nov 12, 2008, 2:01 PM -
Authoria Reports Quarter Over Quarter Growth (BusinessWire)
Privately owned talent software company Authoria, Inc. reported thatit had a 36-percent increase in bookings from the first quarter of the year to the second and that it grew 93 percent in the second quarter over the same period in 2007. The company did not disclose the impact on revenues or earnings.
Sep 19, 2008, 11:33 AM -
Authoria Popular With Retailers (BusinessWire)
Authoria says it's talent management solutions are gaining acceptance in the retail industry in order to reduce employee turnover and hire more smartly. Ahold USA, Dollar General, Family Dollar, Genuine Parts, Phillips-Van Heusen, Starbucks, and Toys R Us are some of the retail organizations using Authoria Talent Management.
Jul 23, 2008, 3:26 PM -
Authoria's View on Vurv (www.ere.net)
Taleo's acquisition of Vurv represents what customers want - a complete talent management solution, says Authoria's CEO. As the market shakes out, pure-play recruiting software vendors will not survive, he adds. May 7, 2008, 3:42 PM
Products & Services
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Authoria Talent Management
An integrated suite of tools incorporating recruitment, performance management, salary, incentive, succession, and communications. Each of these components is available individually.