Crunchr recognized as a `Cool Vendor` by Gartner

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Crunchr recognized as a ‘Cool Vendor’ by Gartner
Amsterdam, 1 May 2015 – Gartner, the world’s leading IT research and advisory company,
has listed HR analytics tool Crunchr in its latest Cool Vendor Note. This report evaluates
innovative vendors focused on improving employee referrals, workforce insights and
intelligence, communication, and employee engagement. Crunchr is listed as one of five
‘cool vendors’ worldwide.
Crunchrapps.com, launched by Focus Orange on the HR Tech Europe 2014, uses in-memory
computing technology and machine learning techniques to enable realistic simulations and
scenario planning in human capital management. Dirk Jonker, data science and technology
leader of Crunchr, explains: “This technology allows Crunchr to learn from decisions by
professionals on career advice to individuals or the early identification of talent. We basically
make human intuition scalable.”
Since the launch of Crunchr, Focus Orange has attracted attention for its analytics tool from
many CHROs and workforce analytics professionals. Randstad and Arcadis are global
launching customers. New releases are being developed to give more large and complex
organisations a broader insight into their Human Capital capabilities. The trend for 2015
goes toward bringing together different data sources to allow for this broader insight, Dirk
Jonker says. Focus Orange aims at a broad international reach for its tool.
Crunchr is available both as a platform and as individual apps. It focuses on organization
analytics, succession planning, talent management, employee preferences and workforce
planning. Crunchr’s SaaS model analytics service includes data collection, validation and
regular uploads and refreshes.
Gartner® Cool Vendors in Human Capital Management Report 2015, Jeff Freyermuth, Ron
Hanscome, Yvette Cameron, Helen Poitevin, 16 April 2015, is available at:
https://www.gartner.com/doc/3031317?ref=AnalystProfile&srcId=1-4554397745
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For more information
Dirk Jonker: +31 (0)6 55 11 63 77, dirkjonker@focusorange.com
Camiel Selker: +31 (0)6 21 17 92 36, camielselker@focusorange.com
Focus Orange: +31 (0)20 240 25 10
Focus Orange is a fast growing company specialised in effective management of Human Capital. The company
had developed an innovative methodology that makes people data accessible and can be used to measure the
effective commitment of staff, to plan personnel needs and to value and reward the competencies required.
This methodology is used in Focus Orange’s advisory practices in reward, pensions, performance management
and training & development. www.focusorange.com Based on this methodology Focus Orange has developed
an innovative HR analytics tool, Crunchr, that it supplies to its clients. www.crunchrapps.com