I like to believe that inclusion in the report is validation that you are one of the top vendors in the space by virtue of the fact that all the vendors must meet these requirements. In other words, you've got critical mass and have built a strong business in recruiting software.
This year we were cited for very positive customer service results from the customers Gartner surveyed, strong product functionality (particularly with organizations with a mixture of hourly and professional applicant tracking software needs) and for our focus on the mid market.
Happily, the only cautions were that we were more suited to North America than global and that Cytiva is not as large as some of the other vendors, though Gartner noted we are growing rapidly.
I can't argue with any of that. And in fact, our placement in the grid is about as far toward "visionary" and "challenger" as you can get without actually being in those quadrants.
This is our second year in the report and certainly we have seen improvement in our positioning presumably because we release enhancements monthly, we continue to grow at a fast pace and the Gartner analysts have another year to survey our clients and get more familiar with our product and business model. We have placed much higher recently in a similar report, but these kinds of excercises are not scientific and there are many factors that get weighted more heavily from firm to firm.
But, being a competitor, I focus on the vendor evaluation portion of the research. Certainly there are good insights on the current state of electronic recruiting including the current challenges that are geing face by companies just like yours.
If you would like more information about the 2009 Gartner eRecruiting Magic Quadrant, you can find it here.
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