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The market for human capital management software is highly competitive, rapidly evolving and fragmented. This market is subject to changing technology, shifting client needs and frequent introductions of new products and services.
Most of our sales efforts are competitive, often involving requests for proposals. We compete primarily on the basis of providing a comprehensive, fully unified platform for human capital management as opposed to specific service offerings.

In the applicant tracking systems segment, which the recruiting and onboarding product offerings each serve, our principal competitors include companies such as Oracle Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation and Lumesse. In the learning management systems segment, which the learning and extended enterprise product offerings each serve, our principal competitors include companies such as Oracle Corporation, Saba Software, Inc., SAP America, Inc. and SkillSoft Corp. In the performance management systems segment, which the performance, succession and compensation product offerings each serve, our principal competitors include companies such as Saba Software, Inc., Talentsoft, Oracle Corporation, Peoplefluent, Inc. and SAP America, Inc. These vendors are, like us, largely SaaS providers. We compete in these segments primarily on the basis of:

the level of integration of our product offerings within our human capital management platform;

the breath and depth of our product functionality;

the flexibility and configurability of our product offerings to meet the changing content and workflow requirements of our clients’ business units;

the quality of our service and focus on client success;

our ability to provide scalability and flexibility for large and complex global deployments; and

the ease of use of our product offerings and overall user experience.
In addition, we occasionally compete with custom-built software that is designed to support the needs of a single organization, as well as with third-party talent and human resource application providers that focus on specific aspects of human capital management.