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BACKGROUND
Beeline.com is part of the MPS Group of companies. Modis Personnel
Services Group (MPS Group) describes themselves as:
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"Who We Are
MPS Group is a leading provider of staffing, consulting, and solutions
in the disciplines of information technology, finance and accounting,
law, engineering, and healthcare. MPS Group delivers its services to
government entities and businesses in virtually all industries
throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
A Fortune 1000 company with headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida, MPS
Group trades on the New York Stock Exchange.
MPS solutions enable customers and clients to effectively locate,
retain and deploy strategic knowledge worker resources in the areas of
information technology, accounting and finance, law, engineering, and
healthcare.
A Fortune 1000 company, MPS is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida
and serves leading businesses throughout the United States, Canada,
the United Kingdom, and continental Europe."
http://www.mpsgroup.com/company/company.asp
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Beeline is MPS' human capital automation group. Through an Application
Service Provider (ASP) model, they allow their clients to outsource
the IT systems side of their Human Resources capabilities to Beeline.
They describe themselves and their relationship with MPS thus:
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"Beeline offers a wide range of human capital-related products and
services that automate the acquisition and management of both
full-time and contingent workers. Beeline offerings include Beeline
for Contingent Labor, Beeline Managed Services, Beeline for Direct
Hire, and Beeline for RFPs. Companies and government agencies save
money with these solutions by improving efficiency, visibility,
discipline, and communication.
Beeline is completely focused on the acquisition, management, and
streamlining of human capital processes. Our solution is specifically
targeted to organizations seeking to reduce costs and improve the
process of recruiting, hiring, procuring, and managing their full-time
and contingent workforces. Beeline's industry expertise in the
acquisition and tracking of labor delivers significant process
improvement and specific hard dollar cost savings.
Beeline has outstanding domain expertise in the fields of staffing and
managed programs. Through our creation from and relationship with MPS
Group, Beeline has a distinct advantage in the human capital space --
outstanding resources, expertise, and knowledge at our fingertips. MPS
Group is a billion dollar staffing and business solutions provider
with experience in all operational areas of an organization. We have
experts in the fields of human resources, technology, and finance,
just to name a few. And we call on the expertise of these teams to
serve as consultants as we deliver our solutions to our customers."
http://www.beeline.com/beeline_home/company/Overview.asp
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COMPETITION
Beeline is relatively unique in the human capital automation industry,
in that there are few true ASPs in this market. The majority of
clients considering formalizing their HR business processes typically
approach one of the big consulting companies for assistance. These
include Accenture and Deloitte as well as specialized HR outsourcing
firms like Convergys and Exult
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Accenture
http://www.accenture.com/xd/xd.asp?it=enweb&xd=_ins%5Cproject_21.xml
Deloitte Consulting
http://www.dc.com/expertise/services/ent_apps/humancapitalmanagement.asp
HRO Today: Exult and Convergys news
https://www.hrotoday.com/magazine/2003/03/200303_Etcetera.asp
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On the software side of things, Beeline's biggest competitors are the
large enterprise software firms including SAP, Peoplesoft, Oracle, and
SAS. The closest ASP competitors to Beeline include several smaller
companies:
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Peopleclick
http://www.peopleclick.com/
"Peopleclick's Recruitment Management solution is a comprehensive
hosted web-service solution that manages the acquisition of regular
employee staffing in an efficient, cost-effective, and process-driven
way. Peopleclick RMS provides regular employee recruitment process
management, from candidate identification and pre-screening to
qualification and selection. Tied to powerful reporting and analytics
tools, RMS allows for complete control over regular employee headcount
while ensuring high-caliber talent acquisition and improved workforce
acquisition decisions."
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Hireability.com's SARAH
http://www.sarahinfo.com/
A web-based recruiting tool that integrates with Hireability.com's online job board
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Neither of these ASPs offer the complete breadth of human capital
management capability that Beeline's suite of solutions offers.
Additionally, partnerships and companies that collectively offer
competitive alternatives to Beeline's services include:
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Softscape
http://www.softscape.com/so_corp_tm.htm
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RecruitMAX
http://www.recruitmax.com/ENG/company/overview.cfm
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Brassring Enterprise and SAP
http://docs.hr-xml.org/SAP-Brassring-CaseStudy-2001-03-02.PDF
http://brassring.com/en/html/solutions/recruitment_software/key_capabilities.asp
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SAS and multiple XML-enabled third party resume sites
http://www.sas.com/solutions/hrmanagement/
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Oracle and multiple XML-enabled third-party resume sites
http://www.hr-xml.org/pr/OracleCaseStudy2002-11-11.pdf
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Peoplesoft
http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/products/ent/hcm/index.jsp
http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/products/ent_one/hcm/index.jsp
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TREND
The human capital automation industry is growing as a result of the
general trend of business process outsourcing (BPO). Companies are
choosing to hire specialist firms to take care of their non-core
business processes in order to reduce overhead. For many companies,
the HR function exists primarily to hire, nurture, and eventually part
ways with employees. As companies become more global in nature, the
necessary infrastructure to implement and support HR across the firm
becomes large. By sharing the infrastructure of a specialized HR firm,
companies can save money overall while benefitting from uniformly
applied, best-in-class policies and processes. This has been
especially true in the volatile IT industry in North America over the
last few years.
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Gartner Group Research:
"Revenue from ERP software fell 1.6 percent in 2002, as the only
sector to grow was human capital management. SAP kept its huge lead
and was trailed by Sage, Microsoft, Oracle and PeopleSoft."
http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=407452&ref=g_search
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Gartner Consulting: Human Capital Management
http://www.gartner.com/3_consulting_services/practice/hcm.jsp
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RANK
Ranking Beeline is very difficult given the relative uniqueness of its
ASP solutions, and the strength of MPS backing it up. Choosing between
Beeline and some of the options available from the ERP software
vendors will usually come down to multiple factors including a
company's size, their past experience with their ERP system, the
partners engaged by the company to advise on HR process outsourcing,
and the available funds. Beeline's services are ideally suited for
companies with cyclical hiring needs, as their ability to manage and
report on both contingent and 'permanent' hiring is unique.
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FURTHER INFO
Human Resource Outsourcing Today
http://www.hrotoday.com/
OPTIMIZE Magazine Research Library: Human Resources Management
http://optimize.bitpipe.com/data/rlist?t=busofit_10_20
HR.com
http://www.hr.com/HRcom/index.cfm/125/
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