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Achievers, San Francisco, CA

How to EnterCompany: Achievers, San Francisco, CA
Company Description: Achievers Software-And-a-Service™ reinforces and inspires the employee behaviors that drive measurable business success. With our award-winning technology, unmatched customer service, and industry-leading expertise, it’s no wonder some of the world’s most successful companies trust Achievers with their most important assets: their employees.
Nomination Category: Solution Provider Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Incentive, Rewards, or Recognition Provider of the Year

Nomination Title: Engage. Align. Recognize.

Tell the story about what this nominated organization has achieved since the beginning of July 2012 (up to 525 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:

Achievers delivers the most engaging Employee Success Platform uniquely designed to improve employee engagement, and drive business alignment by creating a culture of recognition. Every day. The Achievers platform boasts the industry’s highest adoption and usage rates, as recognition becomes a daily habit via a platform employees love.

Achievers helps companies around the world recognize and reward positive employee behaviors and drive higher employee engagement and better business results through our SaaS platform. But the heart of Achievers is the people, not just the proprietary technology. Achievers is committed to its people, their development, and cultivating them as the future leaders of single the company. This commitment is visible with an employee year-over-year growth of 30% between 2012 and 2013. Every employee is an owner of the company through the Achievers’ employee stock option plan. Employees share in the success of the business and help create the culture of recognition and a customer centric environment that support the ongoing growth of the business.

Achievers developed the industry’s first single instance, multi-tenancy recognition platform. This SaaS solution plays an integral role in our customers’ employee engagement strategy and includes an easy-to-use Cloud-based application and extensive analytics capabilities that is fully activated for mobile use. Achievers has the only engagement platform designed, built, and deployed in a true cloud environment, providing the fasted time-to-value, and is ISO27001 and Safe Harbor Certified.

Achievers regularly evaluates the product and trends in the industry, alongside client feedback, to consistently enhance existing and develop new features, and in 2013 the company launched its first-ever official Product Advisory Council, inviting members of the highly-valued customer base to discuss the future of the product, including providing feedback and discourse on potential new features for the Achievers platform, addressing potential pain points to deliver the industry’s most innovative and customer-facing software.

In 2013, Achievers launched the concept of the complete Employee Success Platform™, which represents the intersection of performance and engagement – the company’s top priority. With this launch came a new set of tools that enable managers and employees with better insight into their internal networks and engagement activities, as well as a powerful analytics suite that empowers managers to measure performance, collaboration, and alignment to team and company goals. The company’s software has since evolved to include features that make praising and coaching more efficient among teams with Achievements, provide a track record of an employee’s accomplishments via Achievers Profile, and offer a teal-time view of current employee satisfaction and engagement with Engagement pulse. The company’s industry-leading software is well-positioned to continue dramatically increasing employee engagement, retention, and performance to drive overall business success for more than 150 customers across the world.

Within the industry, Achievers continues to produce thought leadership content through different mediums including white papers, webinars, and industry events. In June 2013, Achievers partnered with ConnectEDU for the fourth annual “Class of” survey, which polls more than 10,000 graduating college students to provide insight into their expectations of the workplace to potential employers.

 

Provide a brief (up to 125 words) biography about the leader of this nominated company:

Achievers CEO Patrick D. Quirk is a proven software executive with more than 25 years of experience in enterprise software, research and development, marketing and sales, and global operations. Before joining Achievers, Patrick was president and CEO of Emptoris, Inc., successfully growing the company globally and managing its acquisition by IBM in 2012. Previously, he served as senior vice president for worldwide sales at GoldenGate Software, leading the company to record growth that resulted in its acquisition by Oracle in 2009. Patrick has served as general manager and group vice president of PeopleSoft's Enterprise Supply Chain Management division. While at PeopleSoft, he led the $1.7 billion acquisition of JD Edwards—the largest software acquisition in ERP history at the time.