People Discovery: The Next Billion Dollar Enterprise Software Play

In a recent video, Gary Vaynerchuk (@GaryVee on twitter) briefly discussed the evolution and potential of people discovery applications by highlighting the buzz around a people discovery mobile app at South By Southwest. In context of Facebook’s success graphing social relationships and Tumblr and Pinterest’s success around interests, Gary said, ”a people discovery app is the next billion dollar play, even if it’s 36 months away.”

Gary pointed out the buzz around the people discovery app mirrored that of past recent innovations such as online dating and paying for goods and services via credit card over the Web. Just like those advancements became widely adopted and immensely successful over time, Gary said ”any application that breaks through and makes people discovery better has a chance to be the next big thing.”

While I couldn’t agree more with Gary’s sentiment around people discovery’s potential on the consumer side, I disagree this technology is 36 months away – people discovery applications for enterprise software that scale are already available. Today.

So, what does a People Discovery application for the enterprise look like?

Talent Analytics has over a dozen examples up on our Talent Content page for you to consider. It really depends on what your goals are – but  each of these examples are high value, low effort embedded people discovery applications in one form or another.

  • Will your client’s executives find it valuable to correlate performance to their people? Now they can!
  • Would your training clients appreciate using your LMS to know in advance how their trainees prefer to learn? Here’s how!
  • Want to offer an easy way to search for experts inside an organization? It’s easy!
  • Would your managers appreciate having snippets of insight about their direct reports via a Daily People Feed?
  • Want to provide your clients with a way to facilitate easily on-boarding team members without losing momentum? Download a Team Playbook!

The reason these apps are available today is primarily due to the ease of content integration into your existing enterprise application. We’ve made it easy to send custom talent content through the Talent Analytics API in seconds.

Opportunity Knocks – Will You Answer?
Many product innovations normally start in the B2C world and then eventually make their way into business applications through the consumerization of enterprise software. Now enterprise social technology vendors have a unique opportunity to move at the same pace or even ahead of consumer-driven People Discovery applications by integrating analytics-driven talent content.

Want to add people discovery to differentiate your existing applications today or lag 36 months behind your competition? The choice is yours.

Mike Kennedy is a Technical Evangelist at Talent Analytics, Corp. He can be reached via [email protected] and @talentanalytics.

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People Discovery: The Next Billion Dollar Enterprise Software Play

Enterprise social technology vendors have an opportunity to move at the same pace or even ahead of consumer People Discovery applications by integrating analytics-driven talent content.

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