This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the integrated talent management market through the IDC MarketScape model. This assessment discusses both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that explain success in this market. This MarketScape covers a variety of vendors participating in the integrated talent management market. The evaluation is based on a comprehensive and rigorous framework that assesses vendors relative to the criteria and one another and highlights the factors expected to be the most influential for success in the market, in both the short and the long term.

"As seen in the recent merger of Authoria and Peopleclick with Bedford Funding, more consolidation in the talent management market is highly likely," says Lisa Rowan, program director, HR, Talent, and Learning Strategies for IDC. "The market is a crowded one with differentiation becoming harder to attain. As differentiation wanes and market penetration rises, it will be natural that stronger players will seek to grow client bases through acquisition."