Conner Forrest is a senior research analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, leading coverage of human resources technology, content management and corporate performance management within the Workforce Productivity & Collaboration channel. Conner’s recent areas of concentration include AI-powered talent intelligence platforms and skills gap analysis software, generative AI in content and document management, “embedded HR” and payroll innovation, cross-organizational and modular planning platforms, and digital adoption platforms. He arrived at S&P Global Market Intelligence through its 2019 acquisition of 451 Research. Before joining 451 Research in 2018, Conner worked as a senior editor with CBS Interactive, covering a variety of global enterprise tech trends for brands including TechRepublic and ZDNet. Conner holds a Bachelor of Science degree in communication from the University of Louisville and a Master of Science degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
Business leaders are shifting their focus to the workforce as a competitive differentiator, as losing out on headcount or critical skills remains a detriment to sales. This places new pressure on HR leaders tasked with supporting more nuanced talent strategies to address this threat.
While not yet a standout pure-play category, the growth of HR and people analytics has the potential to lift adjacent segments and upend their core value propositions as the technology is refined and applied across areas such as talent acquisition, human capital management, skilling and more.
The enterprise scenario planning and analysis specialist has about 10 applications in the market today, each targeting specific outcomes across verticals. The new workforce planning app elevates HR's potential as a strategic business partner and sees Anaplan begin to overlap with the people analytics segment of the HR tech stack.
Analyst Conner Forrest joins Eric Hanselman to discuss the HR Tech conference, as well as his recent research and market explorations in a market that has seen dramatic transformation.
The company's vision for the future of content and digital asset management emphasizes the importance of speed, adaptability and interconnectivity. With this vision it aims to address the challenges of fragmented tools and workflows by creating a unified, flexible and autonomous content platform.
Once a manual process, contract life-cycle management now benefits from the fact that most contracts are generated digitally and can leverage data from adjoining tools and systems. The Jurist AI agent has multiple agents that can leverage different LLMs to generate contracts, emails and more.
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