Overview
What is Saba TalentSpace?
Halogen Software offers a cloud-based talent management suite that includes recruiting, performance management, learning and development, succession planning and compensation programs. It is optimized for mid-sized businesses.
Halogen Highly Recommended!
Big Bucks Needed for a Big Bang
Good Performance Review Product
Great HR Resource for Managers and Associates
A Great Program Once, Has Been Declining Since Saba Acquisition
A competent product for small to mid-sized companies
Saba TalentSpace: Great for Job Performance Tracking
Strong product with a few weaknesses
Riding the wave of change
Experience of a New User to Halogen
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Popular Features
- Individual goal setting (32)7.272%
- Performance tracking (32)6.464%
- Review reminders (32)6.363%
- Review status tracking (30)5.454%
Pricing
What is Saba TalentSpace?
Halogen Software offers a cloud-based talent management suite that includes recruiting, performance management, learning and development, succession planning and compensation programs. It is optimized for mid-sized businesses.
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Features
Onboarding
Employee onboarding is the process of orienting new hires to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so that they are able to function in their new roles as quickly as possible.
- 7.7New hire portal(6) Ratings
New hire portal eliminates printing and mailing with a personalized portal of all required reading, corporate information, and all forms and other paperwork, online.
- 7.6Manager tracking tools(8) Ratings
Tracking tools allow hiring managers to check status on individual hires for all onboarding activities.
- 8Compliance tracking and reporting(1) Ratings
Compliance tracking is the ability to ensure that all new hires are in compliance with federal regulations for employment.
Performance and Goals
Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.
- 3.5Corporate goal setting(28) Ratings
Corporate goal setting is the ability to define corporate goals, and/or vision statements in the system.
- 3.6Subordinate goal setting(28) Ratings
Subordinate goal setting is the ability to define subordinate departmental or team goals in support of overall corporate goals.
- 7.2Individual goal setting(32) Ratings
Individual goal setting is the ability to define individual goals that align to organizational and subordinate goals.
- 4.9Line-of sight-visibility(29) Ratings
Line-of-sight visibility is the provision of line-of sight visibility for each goal to see how goals support overall corporate objectives.
- 6.4Performance tracking(32) Ratings
Performance tracking allows managers to track individual progress against goals as a component of overall performance.
Performance Management
Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.
- 4.6Performance plans(28) Ratings
Supervisors have ability to build individual performance plans including, goals, competencies, etc..
- 8.7Plan weighting(5) Ratings
Supervisors have ability to weight or prioritize individual elements of the performance plan.
- 6Manager note taking(12) Ratings
Ability for managers to insert ad-hoc notes about performance or evaluation process; supports continuous feedback.
- 3.6Performance improvement plans(25) Ratings
Supervisors can track disciplinary actions such as performance improvement plans.
- 5.4Review status tracking(30) Ratings
Supervisors can monitor and track review status completion with dashboard showing milestones and status.
- 7.8Rater nomination workflow(5) Ratings
Ability for nominated raters to accept or reject their nomination.
- 6.3Review reminders(32) Ratings
System can generate reminders to ensure review completion timeliness.
- 8.1Workflow restrictions(5) Ratings
Workflow restrictions ensure that employee can only see finalized official review once completed.
- 7Multiple review frequency(24) Ratings
System supports multiple review types including annual, quarterly mid-year and anniversary reviews.
- 3.1Reporting(30) Ratings
Reporting capabilities provide dashboards, ad-hoc reports and custom reporting capabilities.
Succession Planning
Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.
- 7.6Create succession plans/pools(3) Ratings
Managers can create and manage pools of potentially high-performing individuals.
- 7.6Candidate ranking(3) Ratings
Candidate readiness for key business positions can be ranked and assessed.
- 8Candidate search(4) Ratings
Candidate search provides search capabilities for potential candidates based on attribute or other profile data.
- 8Candidate development(4) Ratings
Candidate development is the ability to assign learning and development goals.
Product Details
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What is Saba TalentSpace?
Saba offers an organically built cloud-based talent management suite — Saba TalentSpace™ — that promises to reinforce and drive higher employee performance across all talent programs — whether that is recruiting, performance management, learning and development, succession planning or compensation.
TalentSpace provides end-to-end, fully integrated applications that were designed to organically support optimal employee performance. The vendor says each module works together to streamline talent management operations, while also aligning a company's workforce with their business strategy. The software offers industry-specific solutions to address the unique requirements and challenges of mid-size companies in healthcare, professional services, manufacturing, the public sector and more.
Fully featured, TalentSpace is a comprehensive performance management software offering a consistent and user-friendly interface. The vendor says its powerful, yet simple-to-use solutions are used by organizations that want to build a world-class workforce that is aligned, inspired and focused on delivering exceptional results.
Saba TalentSpace Features
Performance and Goals Features
- Supported: Corporate goal setting
- Supported: Subordinate goal setting
- Supported: Individual goal setting
- Supported: Line-of sight-visibility
- Supported: Performance tracking
Performance Management Features
- Supported: Performance plans
- Supported: Manager note taking
- Supported: Performance improvement plans
- Supported: Review status tracking
- Supported: Review reminders
- Supported: Multiple review frequency
- Supported: Reporting
Additional Features
- Supported: Instant, social feedback and recognition: Use Feedback Central™ to capture in-the-moment coaching tips, feedback and recognition from managers, peers, HR teams. Convert emails into feedback entries and share feedback anytime, anywhere using your mobile phone or tablet.
- Supported: Detailed employee appraisals: Managers have quick fingertip access to all the information they need — from feedback, results from self-evaluations, multirater assessments and past appraisals, talent profiles, employee goals and development plans, to Halogen 1:1 Exchange™ meeting minutes. TalentSpace Performance comes with nearly 5,000 preconfigured performance comments and coaching tips to modify, or you can create your own.
- Supported: Competency management: Easily evaluate your employees' demonstration of key competencies, build your competitive advantage and help define your culture — your way. Use our extensive competency library (which includes Lean competencies), yours, or one of the third-party libraries available with TalentSpace Performance.
- Supported: Goal management: With TalentSpace, link individual goals to the organizational goals they support, so employees have 20/20 vision into the value and relevance of their work. Then easily track and communicate progress on goals at every level
- Supported: Career and development planning: Create career and professional development plans as part of your employee performance management process whenever you identify a learning need. Tie development plans and activities directly to competencies, for greater context, or set them independently to support career aspirations and/or goal performance.
- Supported: Real-time reporting: You can also pinpoint the status of every appraisal, track progress on goals, identify development needs across the organization, compare and calibrate performance ratings, identify top performers and those at risk, and more.
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Saba TalentSpace Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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Saba TalentSpace Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 50% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 50% |
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Halogen is a versatile software that has been widely adopted across organizations for various purposes. Users rely on Halogen for performance appraisals, pay for performance raise systems, and annual assessments. It efficiently captures and documents performance metrics while also creating and storing job descriptions. By eliminating the need for homegrown programs, Halogen provides flexibility for learning needs. The software streamlines the performance management process, ensuring clear goals and professional development opportunities for employees. HR departments appreciate Halogen's ability to centralize all reviews into an easy-to-use system of record. Ongoing conversations between employees and managers are facilitated, enabling timely feedback and support. Halogen is also beneficial for organizing and delivering training on a large scale, as it tracks all activities. Moreover, it has transformed the appraisal process from paper to digital, making it easy to report on and highly configurable. With its comprehensive features, Halogen serves as a single online source for employee appraisals, improved documentation, and easier tracking. It helps manage employee performance and reduces the administrative burden on HR. Halogen TalentSpace fosters a shared understanding of high performance by providing managers with a user-friendly solution for training and performance management across the organization. The system addresses various development issues such as succession planning, form consistency, and data storage concerns. Managers and employees can track goals, feedback, development, and important conversations in one accessible place using Halogen. This promotes transparency and communication between supervisors and employees through feedback sharing. The software also aids in transitioning from a performance review culture to a more efficient performance management culture. Users have reported that Halogen has helped them move away from rigid systems towards more flexible and dynamic approaches in their organizations. By facilitating open communication and collaboration within teams, the software has become an integral part of many organizations' performance management processes.
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Reviews
(1-25 of 38)Halogen Highly Recommended!
- Halogen is easy to use, very good value for your money and can be configured without the help of an IT Department.
- Their Customer Support team is excellent and are always available 24/7 to help answer questions.
- Their implementations Team is excellent and makes your initial implementation go very fast.
- Track changes functionality is needed for goals and also job descriptions
- Manager notification if a goal is changed by an employee is needed
- Easier report functionality is needed.
Big Bucks Needed for a Big Bang
- Easy-to-follow interface.
- Ability for customization.
- On-demand training.
- Offer add-on modules at a more affordable price point.
- Administrator features are cumbersome.
Great HR Resource for Managers and Associates
Using Halogen again helps us to convert paper processes into electronic ones improving accountability and compliance. All of this works to improve employee satisfaction and increased feedback and recognition.
- Feedback and recognition.
- Performance improvement.
- Performance management.
- Printing functionality.
- Licensing.
- Form and language flexibility.
Some of the language within the forms cannot be changed unless you change the language in the entire system. So the more creative you become the system can become more restrictive.
- Easy to maintain and update.
- Easy for each HR Business Partner to track their own client group's activities and past performances.
- Easy to roll out company-wide processes at once and duplicate it for future years.
- Updates are focused on the wrong areas.
- Support has gotten very poor since becoming Saba. Almost impossible to get our CSM on the line and it seems to change monthly.
- Any add-ons cost a lot - even for features that should be included in the base package.
The big problem we have is that it makes things almost impossible to take OUT of the system. Good luck printing goals or moving them to a different place for reviewing. It doesn't happen too often but fundamental features within a Performance Management System are missing here.
A competent product for small to mid-sized companies
- The form creator in the appraisal is very strong with many robust features.
- The LMS allows imports of SCORM 1.2, AICC and Tin Can.
- The newly designed dashboard is user-friendly and appealing to end-users.
- Offline adaptability.
- The LMS could use more AI or machine learning to reduce admin burden.
- Missing some sort of social collaboration tool.
Strong product with a few weaknesses
- The support line has been wonderful, especially as I initially learned to navigate the complexities of the product.
- Champions HQ is a wonderful way to connect with other administrators and learn more effective ways of using the product to support our organization.
- The product is very robust and hasn't been intuitive for our end users, or back end users to figure out. The biggest issue we still have after over 4 years of using this product is how to launch a course. End users click on the underlined title of the course expecting the course to launch but instead get a course description box. Its been very difficult for them to see and click the small round button that launches the course.
- One feature I miss (that a previous LMS had) is the ability to log into an employee's learning profile and withdraw them from several classes at once. I have to load each course, search through the list of participants and withdraw the employee from each course.
- Since Halogen has merged to become Saba, I noticed that people on the support line seem more rushed to find a solution (any solution) for the issue I have and I often feel rushed off the call.
Riding the wave of change
- 1:1 meeting module allows our managers to have frequent performance conversations with their employees. Previously this was done once a year.
- Goals Module allows the employees to have transparency on how their individual goals impact the corporate goals.
- Development plans allow employees to stay focused on the skills development they need and also help them with their career planning and growth.
- A separate test environment
- LMS can be more user friendly
- Expand the use to allow it to handle mentoring programs.
Quick Review of Halogen!
HR manages the systems centrally from global headquarters in the US. We use it for our annual performance review process, goal setting, and development plans. We utilize the learning feature across departments (compliance, safety, and IT) and in launching live webinars, classroom sessions, and e-learnings.
- Searchable Catalog for Learning - this allows our employees to search for learning that applies to their development goals. They have a catalog feature we were make sure each language has a substantial amount of courses so our global employees can take advantage of e-learning, etc as well.
- Performance and Development Connection - my linking performance management and development goals this becomes a seamless process for our employees
- Customer Support - we love the Halogen Champions platform where there are fun challenges and learning opportunities about the system.
- Reporting - could be more concise and clear. Our managers and leaders struggle on pulling reports for their employees.
- User-Friendly - on learning control center side (for learning administrators) the interface is not that intuitive and takes a while to get used to.
- Prompts are not intuitive.
It is being used across the whole organization for our staff-level positions.
The business problems that it addresses is training needs and feedback needs for our employees.
- It is a tool that promotes continuous feedback.
- I like that Halogen has a lot of different processes that can be used for any stage of the Human Resources lifecycle like onboarding, performance, compensation, etc.
- The functionality of the system definitely needs to be improved. For example, just from looking at Saba Cloud it looks like it is a more well-rounded system that is more modern than Halogen is.
- The learning curve of Halogen is one of the cons of the system. Anytime we have someone come onboard with our HR team, it takes a long time for someone to become comfortable with the system.
- Customer Service should be easy to be reached. Chat features, more responsiveness from Client Success Managers, etc.
Confessions of a Construction Industry Administrator
- As an administrator of our processes, I love Halogen's support team. I call on them often leading up to and during a process. In the rare case that they can't resolve my problem right away, they work on it quickly to get back to me with a solution.
- Halogen has a robust feature set and is highly customizable. It can be overwhelming to a process administrator the first time through (if the process is complex), but it's nice to know the platform can do just about anything I ask of it.
- The user interface has gotten a lot nicer in the past few versions. That's important as our users are shifting more toward mobile devices.
- The flip side of such a robust platform is learning curve for administrators. If you have a complex process, it can take many hours and mistakes for the process to get set up just right and executed smoothly. If the organization isn't patient, or if the administrator can't focus on running a complex process, it may be hard to maximize the investment from the people side.
You Got This
- Their Support Team is amazing
- They offer a wide variety of modules
- Performance management is their niche
- I think an updated reporting tool would be beneficial
- How Saba can help more of the mid to lower size companies
Our Performance Manager
- It's customizable
- Support is readily available if you are stuck at a process
- Great training provided
- More training for administrators as this product is very extensive
- Users need to have basic knowledge of HTML knowledge
Halogen (Appraisals and Learning modules)
- Technical support is great. They generally know what they're talking about and are available 24 hours a day.
- They're quick to help you understand what upgrading to the next version will do for you, and want you to get the most out of your product.
- Reporting is a bit clunky and took some getting used to.
- You can get pretty in-the-weeds quickly with some of the processes. It's a catch-22. It's nice to have a feature to change/adjust so much, but it's easy for a new user to get confused by everything.
Powerful Talent Management Tool
- First and foremost, the support is outstanding.
- Halogen maintains a great audit trail within the software that tracks each process and individual interaction.
- Halogen listens to their customers. Unique requests or concerns are helpful in forward thinking and the continual evolution of the product.
- I am always looking to see more functionality for professional services clients. Tremendous changes in the last few upgrades that address multiple managers rather than just direct-line reporting.
Halogen Talent Space, great customer service
- The tracking aspect of determining what status a performance appraisal is in for each employee is very useful.
- The ability for anyone in the organization to provide feedback to another co-worker using the Feedback Central Halogen link in Outlook is truly great.
- It is also nice, from the administrator side, to be able to set up a New Years evaluation process for every employee and know that the process will be tracked and started based on the time frame that we have established upfront.
- The navigation from the administrator side is not the most intuitive feature. Some of the programming is very different from other similar software suites that have been used in the past, there is a great learning curve.
- I wish there were greater connectivity capabilities between Halogen Talent Space and our HRIS system. It would make data integration much less work, and easier to do throughout the year when we add staff to our headcount.
Great product
- Great customer service!
- Easy setup for reviews
- Able to customize reviews to meet our needs
- There are some technical glitches that we run into from time to time.
- Goals Administration
- Feedback Management
- Customer Service
- All of it is really built well.
- The KPI section can further improve, although it is a great one even now.
- Training plans have been improving and we would love to see it going ahead.
- 1:1 agendas are easy to create, add comments to and prompt excellent conversation flow on the topics that truly matter to the manager and the employee.
- The system can be easily customized to reflect your company's language and culture. We did this in several areas of the platform (goals, development, learning), and it made a world of difference in the understanding and adaptation of our users. One example is that in each learning module, we added 3 questions in the course description so that managers would be automatically prompted to ask to follow up / learning transfer questions when their employees enroll and take a learning course.
- Halogen support is outstanding. Any question I have had has been answered upon the first contact or within 24 hours.
- The e-appraisal processes can be tricky to create and navigate on the admin side. I find that testing each process using the test users that Halogen provides within the system is critical to ensuring the process and the form is operating as I intended it to prior to releasing a process to our organization.
- The succession module works backward from how we currently approach our succession/Talking Talent process and unfortunately it's not customizable to be able to accommodate our process. This was disappointing to hear and therefore we are not currently using this module to its full capacity.
Great Customer Service Team!
- I think their Support Center is great! All of their Customer Service Representatives are knowledgeable, friendly, and able to troubleshoot any and all issues I've had in the past. I am very impressed with the breadth of knowledge that each representative has - every time I've called them, they were able to resolve my problem.
- Halogen's dashboard is very user-friendly. The dashboard allows the user to sort, filter, and manipulate data in order to create compelling reports.
- Version 18 of Halogen looks very sleek and is user-friendly. With simple instruction, employees are able to log in, enter their goals, and review their performance using the navigation menu on the left. Also from an administrator's perspective, it is very easy to navigate on the back-end.
- My organization does not use all of the functions/modules that Halogen offers, but I find that those modules still appear on the Halogen main page. I think a great area for improvement is to hide these functions so as not to confuse employees.
Customer Service
- The customer support is great. Very short wait times, no language barriers, and knowledgeable associates. They always follow up with an email as well, which I find helpful.
- The appraisal side is user-friendly for employees and administrators.
- You do have a dedicated CSM in addition to the general support line
- I constantly receive notifications that I am already logged in and need to sign out. This is very frustrating and the #1 complaint I receive from employees.
- Additional customization could be helpful.
- I have heard that the training side could be improved, but I am not involved and do not know specifics.
Halogen is Awesome!
- Excellent customer service
- Easy to use
- Helps to manage performance and coach contiuosly
- I think they can have a better pricing structure. For example, the 1:1 conversations and Myers Briggs is an add on.
Halogen Pros and Cons
- Halogen is available in the cloud. This allowed users who were not in positions with access to PCs to utilize the software from home when near a pc.
- Halogen is able to import data from our main ERP system using a file data dump and continuous reload each day.
- Halogen is useful for coordinating between multiple areas of the organization. HR no longer has to send out individual emails to users but instead send system messages within the application to let users know their need to complete their reviews.
- Since we are using a hosted product their upgrades were not coordinated in the manner we were used to. For Large customers we have audit controls to abide where we have to decide when a patch is put into production. Halogen never gave us a chance to test the patches and sometimes we were notified after the fact of the patch install.
- If a patch was installed there was no way to back out a patch. If would have been nice to be able to either test the patches or give some lead time to at least forewarn our users. Sometimes we would be stuck for hours with out the system when we needed it most.
- Some of the controls within Halogen are a little clunky to understand. Maybe if some of the stuff that is not needed could be hidden and only available upon request that would be great.
- We were not able to get the data out of system. This meant we could not write reports from the data nor could we take the info and load it back into our system. During our implementation everything we asked for during presales was an added on cost. Thus this was a feature we were not able to take advantage of out of the box without an additional charge.
Halogen is a real gem in performance management.
- The goal management ability in Halogen is top notch. Having the goals flow into the yearly reviews is great from the perspective of not having our employees retype their goals at yearly review time. The flexibility in Halogen for managers to actively see the goals and report on them in a balanced score card is well received by our management.
- The back end administration is easy to learn for even the novice administrator. Training was thorough and the customer support team is always available to help when you have a question, comment, or just need some encouragement that you are "doing it right!"
- The user experience is seamless and popular in our organization. The staff loves the way the menus are set up and how the task bar automatically tells them what is next on their to do list. Our feedback between employees has gone up exponentially with the use of the feed back tools and we thank Halogen for the easy user adoption at time of implementation.
- I would love to see a bit more documentation on the configuration options. Our knowledge felt limited at first until we had a chance to really get to know the tool.
Flexible and comprehensive HR tools
- I love that Halogen offers 24/7 support. I have had to call them on weekends or at odd hours in situations where we were preparing to launch a process that we had already announced to our employees and their support staff has saved me numerous times.
- Halogen is also very flexible. We have a bit of an odd system, but our implementation consultant was excellent about helping us make the system do what we wanted it to.
- Our customer account manager is very proactive and reaches out to us regularly to tell us about new options or just to see how we are doing or if we need any help with anything.
- The implementation took longer than we had expected.
Review of Halogen in the Public Sector
- Halogen has created a much more transparent environment between our employees and supervisors. Using Feedback yearlong lets the employees know how they are performing during the year, before they are reviewed.
- Feedback has created a more organized way of keeping notes on employee's performance that can be added directly to the employee's evaluation form. Making the form a painless task.
- Reports are extremely easy to run to keep track of your agency's progress on a task.
- Feedback could offer an attachment field that would help greatly with supporting documents if a supervisor does not want to reference a document upload in the documents field.
- More support with training material for staff would be helpful.