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2013 TekTonic Awards Executives gather at the HRO Today Forum to accept their TekTonic awards: Liksa Jindrich from iCIMS; Rachael Bourque from Raytheon; Anne Osty from Staff Management; David Bernstein from eQuest; and Jon Ziglar from Ceridian. Technology Reigns The top disruptors were crowned at the HRO Today Forum in Philadelphia. By Debbie Bolla For the last four years, HRO Today has been recognizing disruptive seamless benefit plan enrollment and admin with easy integration to technology in human resources operations with its annual TekTonic more than 100 employee benefits carriers' systems and multiple plan Awards. Our categories cover the full gamut of HR outsourced options (medical, dental, vision, flex spending, 401K, life insurance); services including HRMS, learning, social media, talent management, employee self-service features that allow employees to manage their vendor management, and payroll. We also honor an overall winner personal information, benefits and time-off requests, alleviating for a solution that's impact reaches far beyond innovation. HR's duties; electronic form submission to cut down on time and To select our 2013 TekTonic winners, HRO Today magazine identified top providers throughout the HR industry and solicited nominations paper resources; automated compliance with EEO, Sarbanes Oxley, and FSLA; and configurable workflows and reporting. through a Web-based research tool for each category. After Customers have the option to use Heartbeat as a standalone submissions were received, the HRO Today staff conducted research platform, snap it on to their current third-party providers, or and read submitted documentation to determine the winners. implement it as the HRMS component within SilkRoad's entire Life Suite of products. HRMS Suite Winner Solution: HeartBeat Learning Winner Provider: SilkRoad Solution: Catapult™ Rapid LCMS The Scoop: A cloud-based HRMS platform, HeartBeat helps HR Provider: Raytheon teams overcome the hurdle of manual payroll, employee data, The Scoop: Catapult™ is a fully integrated web-based training compliance, and benefits administration by empowering employees development platform that rapidly authors content and facilitates to take ownership of their own personal information. HeartBeat its translation and localization. The key to effective multilingual is a centralized platform and universal standard for collecting and training is developing a standardized course master that securely handling all HR information, whether an employer has 50 ensures consistency across the entire training population while people in a single office, or thousands of employees around the accommodating appropriate cultural variation for local audiences. globe. With HeartBeat, employers have a unified front-end and Too much standardization ignores the importance of local culture system of record for all HR processes and data including payroll; and language differences. Too much variation from one language [26] HRO TODAY MAGAZINE | MAY 2013