HR tech spend shows resilience

Despite the global recession, HR technology spending continues to hold up surprisingly well, reports HREOnline.

So suggests a recent report by Towers Perrin, which found that nearly two-thirds (64%) of the surveyed companies were going to increase their investment in HR technology in 2009 (21%) or keep their spending at similar levels as the year before (43%).

Roughly one in three of the companies (36%) expect to decrease spending.

HRsmart has released version 11.0 of its fully integrated talent management suite for enhancing usability, configurability and collaboration among employees in any organisation, states TMCnet.

“This exciting new version of our talent management suite is by far the most unified, scalable, configurable and usable platform on the market today,” said Hanny Shehadeh, chief products officer at HRsmart.

“We tore down every wall plaguing traditional standalone modules greatly enhancing usability and enabling users, regardless of organisational role, unprecedented collaboration.”

Epayarea.com has introduced new languages on its Epayarea.com Web site, says Official Wire.

It has now gone global and is accessible in German, Indonesian, Philippines, French, Spanish and Portuguese. The company says www.epayarea.com is a one-stop source for prepaid credit cards to send money to both employees and other people as part of payroll solutions.

By globally using these debit cards, Epay says it can help lower businesses' bottom line with the use of virtual credit cards.