Expert Analysis

Read what the industry analysts say about Fieldglass, InSite software, and the future of human capital acquisition.

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  "Fieldglass recently released a new version of its offering, InSite, which added the ability to source direct employees in addition to contract labor and labor-based service providers." Indeed, as more business is distributed across value chain networks and people choose to work as contractors for many reasons (such as higher wages, more flexibility, and enhancing their careers through more diverse and compelling assignments), AMR Research expects the traditional lines between employees, contract workers, and service providers to blur further."

  Source: Christa Degnan Manning, Mickey North Rizza, AMR Research, "HCM Outlook: The Future of Workforce Acquisition," March 24, 2008

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  Forrester Services Procurement Wave

  "Fieldglass garnered our Best Scores In Services Procurement and its product is designed with this area in mind "

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  "Enterprise Talent Management"

  Fieldglass is mentioned as being among the suppliers with a software solution to "accommodate the contingent workforce management needs of today's fast-moving corporations."

  "The company, with its InSite web-based enterprise solution for services procurement, provides both time-based contract workforce management and other third-party service providers, such as consulting firms. This solution automates manual processes to track, measure and analyze every transaction from requisition to payment when procuring staff for outsourced projects."

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  "Recruiting Systems: Process Today, Technology Tomorrow"

  Fieldglass is among eight contingent workforce procurement suppliers listed.

  "While redesigning your process, think about sourcing as well as streamlining for the most benefits. Automating the applicant tracking process alone won't create or tap a source of higher quality candidates who will quickly contribute to the company's business goals."

  "…offer various combinations of features and functions, software and services for contingent workforce procurement."

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  "The Adaptive Workforce"

  Fieldglass is one of 14 companies described as being "positioned to support the adaptive workforce," and one of two suppliers mentioned with solutions related to services procurement.

  "Big firms will start with contractor procurement apps to drive down their outside services spend. But they'll soon realize that they're maintaining multiple technologies with overlapping workflow and data—like applicant tracking and skills matching. Because their systems support monetary transactions, look for service procurement players like Fieldglass to jump ahead by acquiring recruitment technology and serving as intermediaries between their clients and both outside recruiting firms and temporary staff suppliers."

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  "Thinking Outside the Catalog: Online Services Procurement"

  Fieldglass is one of five suppliers identified as developing applications to "address service procurement in a number of areas".

  "Online Services Procurement (OSP), or the automation of the selection, purchase and management of business services through Web-based systems, addresses the collaborative inputs and processes involved in the procurement of services. …Pure-play independent software vendors (ISVs) are leading the charge in OSP…

  …The discipline and control of a rules-based enterprise software application applied to the complex processes involved in outsourcing a business service will help an organization more effectively analyze, evaluate and track the largest part of its everyday business expenditures, at the same time protecting its intellectual property and bottom line."

  "The ISVs that are automating services procurement started out addressing specific service niches, but a few are striving to offer general platforms for automating services procurement across the board…developing broad applications to address services procurement in a number of areas."