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Saba TalentSpace
Formerly Halogen

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.

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Popular Features

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  • Individual goal setting (32)
    7.2
    72%
  • Performance tracking (32)
    6.4
    64%
  • Review reminders (32)
    6.3
    63%
  • Review status tracking (30)
    5.4
    54%
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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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  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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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.

7.8
Avg 7.3

Performance and Goals

Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.

5.1
Avg 7.3

Performance Management

Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.

6.1
Avg 6.8

Succession Planning

Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.

7.8
Avg 7.2
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Product Details

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.

Saba TalentSpace Screenshots

Screenshot of ReportsScreenshot of TalentviewScreenshot of 1-1 CoachingScreenshot of Create performance appraisalsScreenshot of Giving FeedbackScreenshot of Score reportScreenshot of Searchable Talent profilesScreenshot of Succession - High Potential reportScreenshot of Talent Acquisition

Saba TalentSpace Videos

The essential tool for organizations that want to change the way their people manage performance. With award-winning Halogen 1:1 Exchange™, managers and employees finally have an easy way to stay aligned, engaged and focused on achieving real-time performance outcomes. How? B...
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Foster a culture of continuous coaching and feedback that supports strong relationships and team success.
Engage employees with a talent management solution that is flexible and simple and adjusts to their unique business needs.
Empower employees to drive their own performance with learning that is aligned to individual, team and business goals.

Saba TalentSpace Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

PiiQ by Cornerstone, Cornerstone OnDemand, and Infor Human Resources are common alternatives for Saba TalentSpace.

Reviewers rate Plan weighting highest, with a score of 8.7.

The most common users of Saba TalentSpace are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Saba TalentSpace Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)50%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)50%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

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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April 11, 2018

Rave

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Halogen is used across the whole organization. It eliminated the need for home grown programs and added more flexibility for leaning needs.
  • Evaluations
  • Online Job Description Library
  • Learning
  • Job Description Builder
  • Initial implementation
  • Reports
Allows us to develop evolutions based on the job descriptions, which helps with consistency.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Halogen TalentSpace is a wonderful software to have your back for all HR functions. We currently use it for performance management and talent management at the company and are extremely happy with the product functionality and service. It is used in all our group companies currently and has been a seamless solution. As the account manager, I can safely recommend it to all users!
  • 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.
Halogen TalentSpace is best-suited for all performance management and e-appraisal functions and projects.
Bonnie Van Epps | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our entire company uses Halogen TalentSpace. We implemented the solution to provide an easy transition from annual Performance Review feedback to regular coaching, goal-focused conversations between managers and their employees on a monthly basis. Halogen allows managers and employees to easily track goals, feedback, development, and other important conversations in one place that can be easily accessed and referenced.
  • 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.
Halogen has been transformative for us in how we approach the manager and employee performance conversations, goal setting and feedback. The 1:1 module and performance processes have provided an incredible platform for tracking, reporting and standardizing the way our company approaches these performance areas while still allowing flexibility for the manager and employee. The system worked so well for us because we did not have a process in place and our implementation team was able to help us create our process for this using the system capabilities.
April 10, 2018

Great product!

L Bednar, Learning and Development Guru | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My company uses Halogen companywide. We use if for talent recruitment, orientation, performance review, and coaching. I find the modules user-friendly, easy to manage and use. Our managers are especially pleased with the product because it makes performance management and coaching an easy process. They like having the ability to keep all records in one place.
  • The coaching piece is great because we personalize it with our values and branding.
  • We have customized the feedback piece with our own visuals and branding. It makes it easy for our managers to give and track feedback.
  • We use if for onboarding pieces. I like that it sends automatic reminders.
  • I think the ability to track training other than e-Learning would be a huge improvement
  • I would like the ability to customize some of the training trackings
I like the Halogen platform. It is easily customizable and easy to use for the most part. I like the ability to track things and the automated messages. My favorite thing about Halogen is the performance management piece. I like that it is so varied and that our managers can learn to use it without a lot of training. I would like to see the recruitment management piece become easier to use. It is a little clunky.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Halogen TalentSpace is used by the whole company to manage our performance management process. Last year we implemented the 1:1 Exchange module which was the basis for our "Check-ins" program which encourages our employees to have monthly goal-setting and quarterly development conversations with their managers. These meetings replace the conversation between employees and managers at the end of the year to discuss performance. We believe that these ongoing conversations throughout the year help employees stay on track with their goals throughout the year and managers are able to provide timely feedback and support.
  • 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.
Halogen TalentSpace is a great tool for both administrators and the end-user. I think the best part about being a Halogen client is that their Support Center is 10/10. The wait times are very short, and the customer service representatives are polite, friendly, knowledgeable, and always able to resolve my problems. While on the phone with one of their representatives recently, they took me step by step on the site to show me how to troubleshoot an issue, and followed up with an e-mail and summarized the solution.
Melanie Griffin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using Halogen throughout our whole organization. We are a library system with eleven locations across our county, and everyone uses Halogen for at least one process per year, in our annual appraisal process. Everyone is added into Halogen in their first week as an employee, and we encourage individual usage of it as much as the user finds useful, which varies widely across our jobs. It mainly addresses our appraisal and pay for performance raise system as implemented at the end of each year. We are also using it for our executive director's annual assessment and bonus discussions.
  • Halogen TalentSpace is great for individual tracking of performance. You can add goals directly to the profile, add documents such as emails, and update anything at any time. That is super helpful.
  • Halogen TalentSpace is also super useful for performance tracking on an HR level. We apply raises that depend on annual review scores each year, so to have all those scores in one place in the same process is a lifesaver. We also love how easy the reporting aspect is.
  • Halogen TalentSpace has gotten noticeably easier for our employees to use from year to year. We have a lot of employees who have been with us for decades and were used to our old paper process and so were reluctant to move to an electronic process. But Halogen is easy to both teach and tweak every year so we can get everybody comfortable with us, and we've had a noticeable drop in technical issues calls (to our office for internal help) over the past five years.
  • I am sticking with the old view of reports for Halogen TalentSpace because although the new view gives you more details, it's hard to set up so that you see exactly what you need to.
  • I wish I could adjust the wording/coding more on the admin side because some of the labels Halogen uses for sections are different than what we use but I can't change them and that is sometimes confusing to users, especially supervisors.
  • Nobody really likes the updated home page view, including myself, because it adds extraneous information but hides details that used to be available with a quick glance.
It's very appropriate and well suited for talent management processes. We use it for our probationary processes - our employees go through three in their first six months, and it's very easy to move them through the processes. I appreciate the options of either a rolling process based on anniversary dates or a scheduled annual timeframe. We use both, and both work well. The annual process is our best utilization for TalentSpace, because I can see everybody's progress, pull reports on scores, and adjust managers/employees as we go along. The 360 module is also great for our executive director's appraisal process because we had been trying to find a way to pull together all her raters' answers for years and this makes it really easy.
April 10, 2018

Customer Service

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Halogen across the organization for training (which I am not involved with) as well as performance management.
  • 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.
If customer service is important to you, I would definitely recommend Halogen. They are extremely helpful and thorough in their explanations. We have not had any significant issues with the performance management side of things. We use it for training as well, and I have heard that it could improve in that area.
Ashley O'Roark | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Halogen Software as a performance management solution throughout the campus. This has helped us track and ensure that performance appraisals are being completed throughout the organization.
  • Customization. Halogen can be configured to the needs of our organization.
  • Training. The training provided by Halogen on the software and soft skills need to successfully use the software is exceptional.
  • Ease of Use. The software is extremely user friendly even for those who are not computer savvy.
This software can be used in many different scenarios: performance appraisals, new employee checklists, employee surveys, etc.
September 06, 2016

Halogen is Awesome!

Sherrice Gilcreast, SPHR | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently our entire organization uses Halogen as a talent management tool. It provides us with a tool to encourage feedback, manage and document performance continuously, manage job descriptions, and learning management. It helps us keep all of our talent management with one vendor. It also gives leaders a robust tool to help them manage so that they can lead more effectively.
  • 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 Software is an awesome solution. They have experts that tap into their own experience and others with best practices. I think Halogen is used best with an organization that has a defined talent management strategy or for an organization that's just starting off.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently we use Halogen for a variety of purposes including Learning, Employee development, and 1:1 discussions. Clearly in an organization our size, it allows us to organize and train in a large scale and record and track all that we do.
  • Learning.
  • Reporting.
  • Intuitive and user friendly.
  • Even greater, more defined reporting capabilities.
  • The ability to assign multiple supervisors to multiple employees.
  • Greater "canned" training options provided for little or no cost.
To be honest with you, Halogen is much like other systems out there. However my experience has been that they are willing to build the program around you, as opposed to you building your business around it.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
HR had a need to centralize all reviews into an easy to use system of record. They are using it to address the needs of handling reviews within the organization. Reviews have been a difficult task to coordinate into a centralized location in the past due to number of managers in the company as well as all the different types of employees within the organization.
  • 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 does get the job done. It is a better product then we used in the past. There are some shortcomings with the product that we were able to address as a custom feature, but it was additional and we had to pay to get it done. There was no option for our team to do the development. Make sure to ask for everything you need and to see if it is included out of the box as this was our biggest stunner.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Halogen was used by my previous company as a single online source for employee appraisals allowing for more comprehensive reviews, improved documentation, and easier tracking. The Human Resources Department controlled the use and supervisors were given access and training.
  • Online Performance Appraisals
  • Online Approval System
  • Easier Setup
What different systems of Halogen can be purchased together that can work together fluidly?
Unfortunately, I did not use Halogen with other systems, but the system as a stand alone system was wonderful and easy to use. The implementation was also incredibly easy because someone walked me through each and every step to set it up exactly how we wanted it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Halogen helped us transition from a paper based system to an electronic, easy to report on, and highly configurable environment for our yearly reviews. We were able to easily engage our staff in the change with the support of our Halogen implementation team and the extensive toolkits they have available.
  • 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.
For employees in a business setting it is highly appropriate to have established goals and ways to report on the metrics of goal completion and ranking. I imagine that it would be hard to track or establish goals in a restaurant or retail environment that would be considered developing the employee and not just contributing to the bottom line of an organization.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We switched to Halogen from a paper-based system and it is currently being used across the organization. It helps us manage employee performance and greatly reduces the administrative burden on our HR team.
  • 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.
I think that Halogen is particularly helpful when you have specific requirements that you can't be flexible with. As I mentioned earlier, our system was rather odd and most of the other vendors that we looked at had said that their systems couldn't do what we wanted.
Sarah Redmond | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Halogen was introduced as part of a broad talent program at Schiavello. It started with performance reviews, then we are movig on to KPI setting and regular performance conversations throughout the company.
  • Easy navigation - what they have to do comes up front and centre.
  • Uncluttered - Keeping the important things and getting rid of the annoying parts of so many talent systems.
  • Modularised - people know what they are focussing on when they go in.
  • White Labelling - would be nice to have some more opportunity for branding internally
Halogen is well suited where you have a disparate workforce and need a tool that covers a lot of different skillsets, technology levels and role types. It's possibly not best suited to high tech or somewhere that has a much younger demographic.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Halogen is being used for probationary and annual evaluations for our agency. Additionally, our employees use Feedback in Halogen to document their performance year long.
  • 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.
Halogen helps greatly with transparency and makes documenting performance very easy using feedback. If your employees perform well on a task, [you can] send them a quick note of recognition in the moment that you can later use in their evaluation form. It may be less appropriate to use when meeting face to face with an employee is needed.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's used across the whole organization. The organization was looking for a more user-friendly system to move into less of a structured performance management process and more of open communication.
  • UI - modern and user friendly
  • Customer Support
  • Multiple usage of form sections to your needs
  • Limitations on certain configuration
I think Halogen might be good for someone who's looking to move into a new era of performance management rather than a structured process.
Karen Blalock | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our organization implemented Halogen across the organization 2 years ago. Halogen allows us to address development issues, Succession issues, form consistency issues, and provides one central location to store the data.
  • Halogen makes it easy to connect with your employees around Goals and Development plans. As a Leader, you are able to enter and/or assign Development Activities whether it is an external activity or a Learning Activity that has been setup in Halogen.
  • Halogen allows you to give and receive feedback, which is a crucial component to Development. By utilizing Feedback Central you can easily attach these items received throughout the year to any Evaluation process that you have created ... eliminating the need to re-type!
  • Halogen's Learning Module allows you to purchase of variety of e-Learning content and assign these course to specific competencies within your organization. You can also create Instructor Led Learning Activities and have employees Enroll.
  • Learning Paths are another great way to get everyone within a department or the organization on the same training page (New Employees, Department Specific, etc.) Learning Paths are various Learning Activities that you group together and can assign to individual employees or entire groups. You can add prerequisites, documentation, url's, or SCORM compliant data to test th knowledge of your employee once they have completed the course.
  • When creating Evaluation Processes the limitations around the number of Goals that will push over to the form can be frustrating to some departments/positions. Only the first 10 will automatically come over.
  • The ability to attach any Documents that you have saved within Halogen should have a way to link to any Feedback that is entered in through Feedback Central.
  • The file size of and media that is attached to a Learning Activity or Path could be increased to accommodate more elaborate videos/presentations.
I love the benefits of Succession Planning that Halogen provides. The succession questions appear at the bottom of your evaluation processes and really takes the guess work on your high potentials, low performers and those who are approaching retirement.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our agency currently uses Halogen as our performance management program. We have quarterly and annual evaluation processes and we use daily feedback. One of the major benefits to Halogen is that it is highly customizable. While we have had to change our thinking on how to organize certain things there is very little that was not compatible with how we operate. The best change Halogen has brought around is more transparency and communication between supervisors and employees thanks to feedback.
  • The customization is great.
  • The support is unmatched.
  • Web based is key!
  • We love the Outlook plug in!
  • Being a law enforcement agency, there were some quirks concerning changing supervisors and promotion.
Halogen has such great customer support that even if something can't quite work the way you imagined, it is easy to call up support and get an agreeable work around.
Rada Hrout | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Halogen Software is used across the organization for performance appraisals and 360 evaluation cycles.
  • User friendly
  • Flexible and can adapt to the needs of HR and company needs
  • Dynamic
  • Sometimes we face issues with the log-in since we are hosting the system internally but this is not a major thing.

- Flexibility to accommodate for the changing needs in the appraisal process

- Multi criteria for the evaluation

- Multi cycles and steps

- Comes without saying the marks calculation and accuracy

- The content security

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Customer Support is always friendly and helpful in finding you a quick solution if possible. Extensive hours and usually no wait to get on the line. You are able to put in requests for enhancements which they've helped us achieve.
  • The system is ever evolving - there have been so many upgrades since we started using Halogen in 2009 - the user interface continues to look better and better and they continue to address issues and make updates constantly.
  • In eAppraisal, the self-review form has to exactly match the manager review form - which is because they want the system to be transparent. I value transparency but wish there was a work around approach to this because employees get confused with boxes on the self-review that they don't need to see.
  • eCompensation could use some more flexibility around promotions and adjustments, we haven't been able to use the system for exactly how we'd like to use it around merit time (though it does seem to improve each year, it just doesn't quite fit our needs yet).
We have struggled with Halogen in certain countries in terms the system being slow with internet that is not as strong. I would advise interested parties with users worldwide to consider that aspect (though that may be the case with all systems - it's very data heavy).
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The Halogen Helpdesk is very accessible. Whether I call the 800 number or submit a ticket via email, I typically have a response within minutes. The Halogen reps are very competent and able to efficiently resolve most issues.
  • The training provided to system administrators during implementation is extremely thorough and makes the implementation process much easier.
  • Halogen is very user friendly. We launched the system just in time for the 2013 performance evaluation process, and had little time to conduct training sessions. Although we did offer training, a majority of the users were able to figure out the system on their own since it is quite intuitive.
  • My organization was interested in taking our existing evaluation forms (mainly Word and Excel documents) and replicating them in Halogen. The system offers a great deal of customization options, which is exactly what we needed.
  • The 360Multirater reports look slick and offer a great vehicle for incorporating feedback into your evaluation process. It allows you to obtain feedback from peers of the employee, as well as managers, and even external customers.
  • Automating performance management is a huge benefit, and Halogen does this well. You can customize when reminders are sent to employees, when to copy managers on reminders (i.e. if a task is late), and when to notify HR. Furthermore, the electronic signature is a fabulous (and green!) feature that was important to us.
  • For evaluation forms that are quantitative (i.e. measuring financial or other numeric results), Halogen is somewhat lacking. Some of our evaluation forms are intended to total/calculate large sums, but they system is not capable of calculating.
  • While the training was truly phenomenal, I ran into an issue due to my organization's expedited implementation. Halogen offers 16 hours of training, but they did not have any trainer's available for the first 2 weeks of our 3 week implementation. I was able to work with my Implementation Manager, and although I learned a lot from her, the 2 day training was much more extensive. If I had been trained earlier on in the process, there are a number of things that I would have done more efficiently. So, I would list the availability of trainers as an area for improvement even though it would only present an issue if you were attempted an expedited implementation.
  • Getting users to login and register for the first time is somewhat cumbersome. If you set passwords for them, they must reset and then select 3-4 security questions. This is common with many programs, but I am listing it as a weakness because a number of my users had trouble logging in for the first time. After they logged in, they found the system to be very user friendly.
  • The 360Multirater can only be used with evaluation forms that are competency-based. While this worked for a number of our evaluation forms, we did have a few that were not competency-based, and in those cases the managers could not request multiraters on their employees.
  • When drafting Self-Evaluations or Employee Evaluations in Halogen, there are a few issues with formatting. First, Halogen does not allow to use special font (i.e. bold, italics, underlined, or highlighted). Although this is not a big deal, it is somewhat inconvenient. There is also no option to use bullet points, although it is possible to use dashes to "bullet" a list.
I recommend that you talk to the rep about what has worked (and equally important - not worked) at your organization in the past with the performance management process. Within my organization, they did not want to reinvent the wheel. Our leadership was quite happy with the content of the evaluation forms they were using, and they just wanted an automated solution to replicate their current process. Furthermore, they did not want to have an overly regimented or standardized process. Our teams like the option to customize, which Halogen was able to facilitate. I would also make sure to ask how long the implementation process will take, and when will training be offered.
February 24, 2015

Halogen Software Review

Nicole Trapasso | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Halogen came forward as a natural choice. Not only did Halogen’s products meet our needs, but they're a very customer-focused organization, and that really resonated with our values. Adopting these Halogen modules helps us establish a shared understanding with employees about what high performance should look like, and the competencies and values that determine success at CPP. We can now do this effectively from the very beginning touch points with our candidates through the recruitment process and reviewing their job descriptions, through their entire employment lifecycle via performance management, feedback and development planning.
  • Flexible integrated solution offering a variety of modules that work together to achieve your performance management goals.
  • Customer Support and engagement--Halogen does an amazing job at working closely with their customers and getting their involvement on product offerings and enhancements, a fantastic customer conference and ongoing meetings, webcasts and other resources throughout the year to ensure you can optimize your investment.
  • Affordable solution especially for small to mid-size growing businesses.
  • Halogen is working on it as an enhancement but the ability to use a track changes feature in Job Description Builder.
  • Ability to run reports more easily between concurrent processes.
Based on an organization's business needs and strategy, the Halogen suite offers a lot of flexibility. You can add a few modules and build or you can buy the entire suite depending on your organization's needs. We found that a phased approach worked well as we integrated it within our business processes.
Fred Keena | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Morpace uses the Halogen eAppraisal and 360 to manage the annual appraisal process for our offices worldwide. We used to use a home grown program, but as we grew in size that became cumbersome and time consuming. Switching to Halogen saved us time, money and resources and allowed streamlining of the process as everything can be done electronically.
  • It allows managers to see the evaluations, feedback and status updates of their entire org chart/tree
  • It is really, really user friendly
  • It is largely customizable to suit our business needs
  • Allow more than one manager to actually edit the review (though, it does allow for 3rd party feedback, they cannot edit directly). Sometimes, there could be an employee who splits time between two or more teams, switches teams midway through the review year, etc.
  • While you can run and review many good reports, they are, for the most part, just reports and not visually appealing.
Some key questions to ask during the selection process are: what are your business needs and why are you looking at new review software? If you need customization, Halogen allows for that, with some minor restrictions. Halogen allows for large reporting trees/org charts where third and fourth level managers (if needed) can view and approve items. Do your managers and upper level management need reports? Halogen offers that, but they are not flashy. Again, they do offer really functional reports, just not visually pleasing.
February 10, 2015

Centra Health

Cathy Evans, HRIP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Halogen is utilized at Centra across the organization for appraisals and job descriptions. Appraisals were implemented about 4 years ago with a self-appraisal/manager appraisal component. Job Description builder was implemented about two years ago and we continue to migrate older job descriptions. This has been a much bigger project than we anticipated especially due to not having dedicated resources.
  • Appraisals and the routing process
  • Flexiblity of score implementation
  • Job description and the sign off process
  • Since I am not the main system administrator, I can't answer this question.
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