Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Ascendify (discontinued)
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
Ascendify was a talent recruitment system, featuring ATS, referral system, onboarding guidance and pulse surveys, talent matching, and career website. Ascendify was acquired by Radancy, and their platform has been superseded by Radancy's own platform.N/A
Eightfold
Score 7.5 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Eightfold AI delivers the Talent Intelligence Platform, a solution designed to help organizations to retain top performers, upskill and reskill the workforce, recruit top talent efficiently, and reach diversity goals. Eightfold AI's deep learning artificial intelligence platform aims to empower enterprises to turn talent management into a competitive advantage.N/A
Brassring
Score 7.3 out of 10
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Brassring, formerly from IBM and part of the Kenexa Talent Acquisition Suite, and now sold by Infinite Computer Solutions, is an enterprise grade ATS and onboarding solution. It allows companies to find the right talent, track and manage candidates, and use candidate data to spot trends within the applicant pool.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Ascendify (discontinued)
6.6
1 Ratings
18% below category average
Eightfold AI
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Brassring
7.5
11 Ratings
6% below category average
Job Requisition Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings7.711 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.01 Ratings00 Ratings7.410 Ratings
Publish to Social Media5.01 Ratings00 Ratings7.710 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.01 Ratings00 Ratings7.711 Ratings
Customized Application Form6.01 Ratings00 Ratings7.111 Ratings
Resume Management7.01 Ratings00 Ratings7.410 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention5.01 Ratings00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
Candidate Search5.01 Ratings00 Ratings8.310 Ratings
Applicant Tracking6.01 Ratings00 Ratings8.310 Ratings
Collaboration7.01 Ratings00 Ratings7.18 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings7.46 Ratings
Email Templates8.01 Ratings00 Ratings7.710 Ratings
User Permissions7.01 Ratings00 Ratings7.49 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.01 Ratings00 Ratings7.710 Ratings
Reporting7.01 Ratings00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
Talent Intelligence
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Eightfold AI
7.0
11 Ratings
6% below category average
Brassring
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Existing Skills Mapping/Lanscaping00 Ratings7.39 Ratings00 Ratings
Bias-Mitigating Algorithms00 Ratings7.79 Ratings00 Ratings
Diversity Reporting00 Ratings7.711 Ratings00 Ratings
AI-Based Role Definition00 Ratings7.58 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate Modelling00 Ratings7.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Talent Rediscovery00 Ratings6.68 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated Candidate Evaluation/Scoring00 Ratings6.810 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal Mobility Recommendations00 Ratings7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
At-Risk Talent Scoring00 Ratings5.74 Ratings00 Ratings
ATS Integrations00 Ratings6.710 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Breezy HR
Breezy HR
Score 8.9 out of 10
LinkedIn Talent Solutions
LinkedIn Talent Solutions
Score 9.3 out of 10
Breezy HR
Breezy HR
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Breezy HR
Breezy HR
Score 8.9 out of 10
LinkedIn Talent Solutions
LinkedIn Talent Solutions
Score 9.3 out of 10
Breezy HR
Breezy HR
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
PeopleStrong
PeopleStrong
Score 10.0 out of 10
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
SAP SuccessFactors HCM
Score 8.4 out of 10
PeopleStrong
PeopleStrong
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
(1 ratings)
7.7
(12 ratings)
8.3
(30 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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5.5
(1 ratings)
6.0
(12 ratings)
Usability
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7.0
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Performance
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5.0
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Support Rating
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1.8
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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2.6
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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An industry-leading cloud-based talent acquisition solution that includes an all-in-one platform for recruitment, onboarding, onboarding communications, job postings, applicant tracking, candidate management, compliance and more. Great for large enterprises looking for a powerful solution to meet the challenges of today’s talent acquisition programs.
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Eightfold.ai
Eightfold [AI] is great to bolt onto an ATS that isn't meeting your needs to search for candidates, refresh candidate data, or use AI to match candidates to your requisitions. It capitalizes on the data that you pull into your existing system. It is not a sourcing tool in that it doesn't go out and web crawl for candidates to match your requirements. Your TA team will still need to pull candidates into the pipeline but Eightfold's AI does a great job matching candidates to your open requisitions.
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Infinite Computer Solutions, Inc
Kenexa is is well suited for any organization that has more than 3000 employees globally. I would not recommend this to startups or a growing organization with less than 3000 employees. But once you cross this number, Kenexa becomes useful and is a brilliant tool for global operations - recruiting. I would recommend this tool to any organization that has offices in many countries/geographies as well.
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Pros
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Eightfold.ai
  • Data driven decision support
  • True AI
  • State-of-the-art user interface
  • Avoid unconscious bias
  • Leverage data insights for strategic workforce planing
  • Match talent for opportunities
  • Integrate in HR TA and TM processes
  • Reduce costs
  • Increase efficiency
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Infinite Computer Solutions, Inc
  • Kenexa allows Boolean key word search within a particular requisition so it makes sifting through a high number of applicants manageable and effective
  • Kenexa can be tailored to meet individual business needs. During the time we’ve had Kenexa here I’ve used it in support of a few different business segments and for each the way the system was used to “position” candidate statuses have varied based on the individual need of the business. One example is when interviewing a high volume of applicants internationally, we were able to send qualified applicants through to the “event manager” and it would enable the candidate to select his/her interview date/time based on previously submitted options inputted by our Kenexa users.
  • Kenexa allows one to customize and score questions for each open requisition that applicants complete as they apply. The system then sorts applicants according to the score of candidate answers allowing for easy sorting of top qualified candidates.
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Cons
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Eightfold.ai
  • They could improve with integration across all features within ATS, CRMs, etc. Whenever you send out messages through Eightfold, it does not show that in other CRMs, ATS' - it pulls information from them but it does not export it back to those channels.
  • Calibration on candidate skills, profiles, education, etc. need improvement. They still pull current employees at our company and others who are in process - thus creating a lot of confusion from a Talent Acquisition side.
  • User Experience does need some additional help - but it's a work in progress.
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Infinite Computer Solutions, Inc
  • BrassRing's application system for candidates is prone to freezing and crashing in the middle of the application causing potential candidates to lose all progress. I filled out the application myself and witnessed these issues first hand, on top of several complaints I received via phone and email from candidates attempting to apply via the BrassRing service. Also, the Parsing system within the application is not capable of pulling any meaningful information out of text documents.
  • Each user must be added to each job in order for that job, and the candidates in it, to show up in relevant searches. This becomes a problem when a new team member joins the account and needs access to all of the previous openings just so that they can find candidates already in the system. The account I was working on involved literally hundreds of new openings a month, meaning that any movement of personnel on or off the account would mean having to update potentially thousands of old positions just to allow them to be able to mine the ATS for candidates. I don't see any particular reason why someone with access to the system should have to be given access to each individual job. If a particular position needs to be kept confidential for whatever reason then that individual position should be able to be set to only show to authorized recruiters. The rest of the positions should automatically be searchable by anyone with appropriate access to the ATS to allow for basic level candidate mining and movement.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Eightfold.ai
It is good but needs improvements.
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Infinite Computer Solutions, Inc
I am confident that the Kenexa product will continue to evolve to meet the needs of our business in an ever changing work environment. The affiliation with IBM also plays a factor as we have a long standing successful relationship with IBM products. We will be looking to integrate other Kenexa products in the near future to streamline our HR processes.
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Usability
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Infinite Computer Solutions, Inc
I feel like I am pretty decent with computers and systems. It was fairly easy to use it after about a week or two . But I have seen people struggle with it as well as some people not use it at all. It can be slow at times and not work at times. But Its a fine system.
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Performance
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Eightfold.ai
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Infinite Computer Solutions, Inc
Just slow for what we are doing here
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Support Rating
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Infinite Computer Solutions, Inc
It is a very basic system. It may be OK for entry level positions only. The practice of removing CVs while the recruitment process is ON is disturbing and there is no one to explain or to inform why it is being done. Even a routine mail is not sent to the client/consultant. I am surprised how this system is continuing without too many complaints.
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Implementation Rating
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Infinite Computer Solutions, Inc
We purchased an out of the box solution and that worked well for us.
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Alternatives Considered
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Eightfold.ai
Eightfold [AI] does a much better job at matching talent to new positions and provides a match score which the Salesforce program I used at a staffing agency did not do. Eightfold AI doesn't have an applicant tracking system, which I would like to see in the future.
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Infinite Computer Solutions, Inc
SF ATS was not available at the time and Taleo was thought to be too expensive. In retrospect, given the amount of customization and leveraging of other vendor technology for things like analytics I suspect any cost advantage we realized evaporated
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Return on Investment
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Eightfold.ai
  • I believe there will be many positive impacts, but I have only used it for about a week so I don't have any real results to report yet.
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Infinite Computer Solutions, Inc
  • Kenexa has assisted us in identifying top talent within our target market of applicants.
  • Kenexa may exclude potentially good associates that don't test well.
  • Kenexa clearly defines specific categories and general notes for training, development, & coaching of associates on areas of opportunity.
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