VCG recently announced their upcoming Pointwing release, which I personally find quite interesting. They are in the process of rebuilding their front and back office application from top to bottom. The new version, called Pointwing, has been built on .NET, will include HR-XML SIDES compliant APIs and has a newly designed UI.
What more could a staffing company want? But wait...
Larger staffing companies have tended to consider custom software due to scalability or customization needs. Pat McCall VCG sales and marketing VP explains, "Our current plans are to have the initial release of Pointwing certified to scale to a minimum of 3000 users (600 concurrent), assuming a 5:1 ratio for conversion to total number of users supported. Our second release in the 4th quarter of this year would be certified to scale out to 10000 users (2000 concurrent)." Clearly, VCG is going after the large and very large staffing players.
And I see why. There is definitely a need for off-the-shelf software options since so few staffing software vendors have proven their ability to scale. I really like VCG's decision to certify their scalability rather than just state they are scalable. That adds credibility in my mind.
In addition, VCG is publishing an impressive customer list:
- Ablest Inc.
- Accountants Inc. & Acsys Inc. (divisions of Vedior NV)
- Analysts International Corp.
- CBS Personnel Holdings Inc
- COMFORCE Corp.
- CoreStaff Services Inc.
- Coworx Staffing Services
- Eastridge Group of Staffing Companies
- Global Employment Solutions Inc.
- Hobart West Group Inc.
- Roth Staffing Companies Inc.
- Smith Hanley, LLC (a division of Ventiv Health)
- Select Personnel Services
- The Nelson Family of Companies
- Todays Staffing (a division of CDI Corp.)
Just for the record, The Code Works does not have any business development relationship with VCG. I really just think it's great to see an off-the-shelf product make a serious run to provide both front and back office to the largest staffing companies.