Lumesse was a talent management suite. Its core functionality is in recruiting and applicant tracking. Lumesse also offers other recruiting features, as well as onboarding and analytics capabilities. It was acquired by Saba and is no longer available.
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Saba TalentSpace
Score 7.3 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
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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Pricing
Lumesse (Discontinued)
Saba TalentSpace
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Lumesse (Discontinued)
Saba TalentSpace
Free Trial
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No
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
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Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Lumesse (Discontinued)
Saba TalentSpace
Features
Lumesse (Discontinued)
Saba TalentSpace
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Lumesse (Discontinued)
7.0
2 Ratings
4% below category average
Saba TalentSpace
7.8
8 Ratings
7% above category average
New hire portal
7.01 Ratings
7.76 Ratings
Manager tracking tools
7.02 Ratings
7.68 Ratings
Compliance tracking and reporting
7.01 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Lumesse (Discontinued)
7.0
1 Ratings
3% below category average
Saba TalentSpace
5.1
33 Ratings
34% below category average
Corporate goal setting
7.01 Ratings
3.528 Ratings
Subordinate goal setting
7.01 Ratings
3.628 Ratings
Individual goal setting
7.01 Ratings
7.232 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility
7.01 Ratings
4.929 Ratings
Performance tracking
7.01 Ratings
6.432 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Lumesse (Discontinued)
7.3
1 Ratings
8% above category average
Saba TalentSpace
6.1
32 Ratings
10% below category average
Review status tracking
7.01 Ratings
5.430 Ratings
Workflow restrictions
7.01 Ratings
8.15 Ratings
Reporting
8.01 Ratings
3.130 Ratings
Performance plans
00 Ratings
4.628 Ratings
Plan weighting
00 Ratings
8.75 Ratings
Manager note taking
00 Ratings
6.012 Ratings
Performance improvement plans
00 Ratings
3.625 Ratings
Rater nomination workflow
00 Ratings
7.85 Ratings
Review reminders
00 Ratings
6.332 Ratings
Multiple review frequency
00 Ratings
7.024 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Lumesse (Discontinued)
6.3
1 Ratings
9% below category average
Saba TalentSpace
7.8
5 Ratings
12% above category average
Create succession plans/pools
7.01 Ratings
7.63 Ratings
Candidate ranking
7.01 Ratings
7.63 Ratings
Candidate search
5.01 Ratings
8.04 Ratings
Candidate development
00 Ratings
8.04 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
I think it's a good platform for tracking and monitoring goals, feedback, and development. We don't use the 1:1 meeting feature, however, I can see how that would be valuable for many organizations. I do like that it is very customizable, however, that also presents problems in that sometimes forms and/or processes can be a bit challenging to create easily and quickly.
It has open text boxes to add notes, on the individual candidate home page. Which is helpful when making a quick look at an individual, these notes are very obvious.
It has a search function; however it lacks a wild card (*); so if a req or candidate are spelled differently or referred to differently, there is no way to find them
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.
I have found the system to be very inconsistent and "buggy", for lack of a better term. Today I searched for an internal requisition number and the system could not find the data. I found it by scrolling through manually, and verified that I had entered the information precisely as it appeared. There seems to be no explanation as to why it could not locate this particular entry, but I have been able to use the function without a problem in other instances.
The navigation is not intuitive or user-friendly. It takes an exorbitant amount of clicks to accomplish a task. Each action is confusing and time-consuming.
The system requires a large amount of redundant information in order to enter a job and does not auto-populate. If I indicate a position is located in Chicago, it would logically follow that the state is "Illinois", the country is "United States", and the currency is "USD". I have to manually input these details in both the requisition as well as the separate job advertisement page.
Changes to the job requisition are not reflected in the job advertisement, as they are separate entities. If you need to make a change, you have to update the details twice.
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.
Implementing a new system and process company wide is never an easy task. We moved so quickly in such a short period of time that we were able to learn quickly but also have the opportunity to improve the Halogen experience. We will more than likely will renew our use of Halogen as we already are seeing a small impact which hopefully in the long run will lead to a greater impact
Halogen is very intuitive and provides very clean work-space ... lots of white space and modern layouts. There is more than one way to accomplish your action, too!
We only purchased the appraisal module and without the other modules offered, you are really limited in what you can do and the process becomes much more involved with needing to maintain information across multiple platforms. We found that they charge for everything and call it "consulting." We poured so much money and time into a system that was just overkill for what we really needed.
Lumesse is an average to abover average ATS in my opinion. We work with Lumesse because they came to us with our new client. I don't have an overall issue with Lumesse like I do with some other ATS's.
I have used other systems in the past and I like that Halogen provides everything in one space. I would like to see a more developed way to report training, not in the LMS, but I think that for the most part that Halogen is a robust system that is superior to its competition.
Decreased employee efficiency -- There are so many steps to create an entry that our recruiters use the system as little as possible. We had hoped to use Lumesse for centralizing information and reporting, but have not been able to do so. Instead, each recruiter keeps a separate Excel sheet, defeating the purpose of having an ATS in the first place. We only use Lumesse to post to our website now. We are very disappointed.
We are able to get our reviews done in a quicker amount of time. Instead of 4-8 weeks we were able to get it done under a month.
Halogen has gotten better at given us a heads up when the system will be down. Most patches are done overnight so we can at least verify it was done, but their success rate of a patch not breaking something is not at 99%. So we do lose productivity when the system is down.
The tool is easier to do so there are fewer questions from users outside the core team.