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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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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 |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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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
| 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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April 11, 2018
Rave
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Evaluations
- Online Job Description Library
- Learning
- Job Description Builder
- Initial implementation
- Reports
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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.
April 10, 2018
Great product!
- 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
April 10, 2018
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.
April 10, 2018
Great for performance tracking
- 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.
April 10, 2018
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.
April 09, 2018
Super User Friendly Software with great Trainers!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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.
September 06, 2016
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.
August 05, 2016
Halogen, moving fast to be #1
- 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.
July 29, 2016
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.
July 29, 2016
Great for Performance Appraisals
- Online Performance Appraisals
- Online Approval System
- Easier Setup
July 25, 2016
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.
July 19, 2016
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.
July 19, 2016
Halogen works for us!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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
July 18, 2016
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.
July 18, 2016
New User to the System!
- UI - modern and user friendly
- Customer Support
- Multiple usage of form sections to your needs
- Limitations on certain configuration
July 15, 2016
Halogen to the rescue! Your One-Stop-Shop for On-boarding, Development, Learning and More!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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.
July 14, 2016
Halogen and Law Enforcement
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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.
July 23, 2015
Halogen EAppraisal and Multi rater review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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.
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).
April 29, 2015
Halogen eAppraisal & 360Multirater - 1st year using
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.
February 24, 2015
Halogen Software Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- 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.
- 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.
February 10, 2015
Centra Health
- 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.