{"id":741,"date":"2017-12-21T12:44:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T16:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/?p=741"},"modified":"2017-12-21T12:47:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T16:47:46","slug":"gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"GP Strategies to Acquire Hula Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-742\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners.jpg\" alt=\"GP Strategies to Acquire Hula Partners\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners.jpg 800w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners-540x270.jpg 540w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners-162x81.jpg 162w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners-360x180.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Global performance improvement solutions provider, GP Strategies Corporation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulapartners.com\/gp-strategies-to-acquire-hula-partners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that it has signed a definitive agreement, subject to closing conditions, to acquire certain assets and the business of Hula Partners, a provider of SAP SuccessFactors Human Capital Management (HCM) implementation services.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget\"><div class=\"aside-card\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p><a class=\"speedbump-1\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/free-talent-management-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1682\" title=\"Talent Management Buyer's Guide\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2019\/02\/tm-bg-speedbump.jpg\" alt=\"Download Link to Talent Management Buyer's Guide\" width=\"800\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hula Partners highlights:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">-Founded\u00a0in 2012 and headquartered in\u00a0<span class=\"xn-location\">Houston, Texas<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">-Delivers the full life cycle of HCM solutions from planning to implementation and support<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">-Diverse customer base including energy, technology, pharmaceutical, utilities and other commercial clients<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">-SAP\u00a0SuccessFactors Gold Partner, based on customer satisfaction and feedback<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">-Estimated\u00a0revenues of approximately\u00a0<span class=\"xn-money\">$7 million<\/span>\u00a0expected in 2017<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cHula brings deep complementary core HR technical and functional expertise to the existing GP Strategies SAP SuccessFactors team,\u201d stated\u00a0Bill Finegan, Vice President, Enterprise Technology Solutions, of GP Strategies. \u201cHula\u2019s core HR migrations involve large multi-year projects, allowing for cross-selling opportunities to our existing client base as well as recurring revenue opportunities for SuccessFactors support and optimization services. Upon closing, we believe that GP Strategies will be one of the most credentialed and experienced SAP SuccessFactors implementation partner in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThe opportunity to combine with GP Strategies to create a truly global, full service SAP SuccessFactors consulting practice is extremely exciting,\u201d said\u00a0John Plusquellec, Managing Partner at Hula Partners. \u201cWe have found GP and Hula to be very closely aligned with respect to delivering high quality services for all our customers. We can now offer our customers expanded certified consulting capability that delivers the best and most successful project experience across the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hula Partners talent management platform, Kahuna,\u00a0revolutionizes the way organizations plan, manage, and develop their talent through competency-based strategies, and after five years of solid growth the time has come to separate their Kahuna Technology Platform from the SAP SuccessFactors Consulting practice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kahunaworkforce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kahuna<\/a>, the comprehensive competency-based Talent Management solution is now available as its own platform.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Looking for more? Download our <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/free-talent-management-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talent Management Buyer&#8217;s Guide<\/a> for free to compare the top 24 talent management and HR tech vendors head to head. The guide also includes 4 key capabilities to consider while selecting a new talent management solution and 10 questions to ask yourself and the vendor before purchasing.<\/p>\n<p><em>And don&#8217;t forget to follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorktechReview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/erp-solutions-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/solutionsreview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>for all the latest in Work Tech!<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget\"><div class=\"aside-card\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><a class=\"speedbump-3\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/free-talent-management-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1682\" title=\"Talent Management Buyer's Guide\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2019\/02\/tm-bg-speedbump.jpg\" alt=\"Download Link to Talent Management Buyer's Guide\" width=\"800\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global performance improvement solutions provider, GP Strategies Corporation announced that it has signed a definitive agreement, subject to closing conditions, to acquire certain assets and the business of Hula Partners, a provider of SAP SuccessFactors Human Capital Management (HCM) implementation services. Hula Partners highlights: -Founded\u00a0in 2012 and headquartered in\u00a0Houston, Texas -Delivers the full life cycle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[161,96,141,160,54,10,80,14,82,30],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GP Strategies to Acquire Hula Partners - Best Talent Management Suites, Software, Vendors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GP Strategies to Acquire Hula Partners - Best Talent Management Suites, Software, Vendors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Global performance improvement solutions provider, GP Strategies Corporation announced that it has signed a definitive agreement, subject to closing conditions, to acquire certain assets and the business of Hula Partners, a provider of SAP SuccessFactors Human Capital Management (HCM) implementation services. Hula Partners highlights: -Founded\u00a0in 2012 and headquartered in\u00a0Houston, Texas -Delivers the full life cycle [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Best Talent Management Suites, Software, Vendors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-12-21T16:44:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-12-21T16:47:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Elizabeth Quirk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Worktech_Review\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Elizabeth Quirk\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/\",\"name\":\"GP Strategies to Acquire Hula Partners - Best Talent Management Suites, Software, Vendors\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-21T16:44:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-12-21T16:47:46+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/#\/schema\/person\/feeeb7918882f3214ef325bc102b4546\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"GP Strategies to Acquire Hula Partners\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"GP Strategies to Acquire Hula Partners\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/\",\"name\":\"Best Talent Management Suites, Software, Vendors\",\"description\":\"Talent Management Solutions\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/#\/schema\/person\/feeeb7918882f3214ef325bc102b4546\",\"name\":\"Elizabeth Quirk\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/57b5a4f7ddeacb3c21ec36e60492a204?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/57b5a4f7ddeacb3c21ec36e60492a204?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Elizabeth Quirk\"},\"description\":\"Liz is a leading enterprise technology writer covering Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Process Management (BPM) and Talent Management Suites (TMS) at Solutions Review. She writes to bridge the gap between consumer and technical expert to help readers understand what they're looking for. Liz attended Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and Communications. You can reach her at equirk@solutionsreview.com\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/Worktech_Review\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/author\/equirk\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"GP Strategies to Acquire Hula Partners - Best Talent Management Suites, Software, Vendors","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"GP Strategies to Acquire Hula Partners - Best Talent Management Suites, Software, Vendors","og_description":"Global performance improvement solutions provider, GP Strategies Corporation announced that it has signed a definitive agreement, subject to closing conditions, to acquire certain assets and the business of Hula Partners, a provider of SAP SuccessFactors Human Capital Management (HCM) implementation services. Hula Partners highlights: -Founded\u00a0in 2012 and headquartered in\u00a0Houston, Texas -Delivers the full life cycle [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/","og_site_name":"Best Talent Management Suites, Software, Vendors","article_published_time":"2017-12-21T16:44:32+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-12-21T16:47:46+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Elizabeth Quirk","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Worktech_Review","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Elizabeth Quirk","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/","url":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/","name":"GP Strategies to Acquire Hula Partners - Best Talent Management Suites, Software, Vendors","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners.jpg","datePublished":"2017-12-21T16:44:32+00:00","dateModified":"2017-12-21T16:47:46+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/#\/schema\/person\/feeeb7918882f3214ef325bc102b4546"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/files\/2017\/12\/GP-Strategies-to-Acquire-Hula-Partners.jpg","width":800,"height":400,"caption":"GP Strategies to Acquire Hula Partners"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/2017\/12\/21\/gp-strategies-acquire-hula-partners\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"GP Strategies to Acquire Hula Partners"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/#website","url":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/","name":"Best Talent Management Suites, Software, Vendors","description":"Talent Management Solutions","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/#\/schema\/person\/feeeb7918882f3214ef325bc102b4546","name":"Elizabeth Quirk","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/57b5a4f7ddeacb3c21ec36e60492a204?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/57b5a4f7ddeacb3c21ec36e60492a204?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Elizabeth Quirk"},"description":"Liz is a leading enterprise technology writer covering Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Business Process Management (BPM) and Talent Management Suites (TMS) at Solutions Review. She writes to bridge the gap between consumer and technical expert to help readers understand what they're looking for. Liz attended Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and Communications. You can reach her at equirk@solutionsreview.com","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/Worktech_Review"],"url":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/author\/equirk\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/talent-management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}