I’m sitting in the “Industry’s First Integrated Performance Management & Compensation Shootout" at HR Tech. There are hundreds of people here. My CEO just walked in in an Elvis costume. This should be interesting. I’m going to try to bring you the results as they come in so you can feel like you were there.

The M.C. here takes great pains before things start to explain that the 4 companies presenting were chosen out of a hat. I believe him, but it is nevertheless remarkable that the 3 other companies on the stage are the ones we most often run into in the field.

Before Lars spoke, he explained the Elvis getup. “We can all agree, Elvis was an excellent performer and extremely well compensated.”

If anyone attended this thing, too – leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Results after the jump.

The first round is done – HR Administrator Create an Annual Performance Assessment.

1. Recruitmax with 49.2% of the votes.
2. Authoria with 32.6%
3. Successfactors with 11.4%
4. Workstream with 6.8%

We’re in round 2 – HR Admin Creates a Base Salary Increase Program Based on a Merit Matrix

There’s a context issue here – the powers that be should be explaining the task prior to each company presenting so that people have an understanding (beyond the document) of the PROCESS they should expect to see and the RESULT they should expect from each step as well. That way the judging wouldn’t just be a sexy application contest.

And the results:

1. Authoria – 39.2%
2. SuccessFactors – 27.3%
3. RecruitMax – 23.5%
4. Workstream – 10%

Round 3 – Line Manager Completes a Performance Form

1. SuccessFactors – 23.9%
2. Workstream – 0%
3. Authoria – 39.3%
4. RecruitMax – 36.8%

Round 4 – Manager Enters Base Salary Increases

1. Workstream – 12.5%
2. Authoria – 41.1%
3. Recruitmax – 23.2%
4. SuccessFactors -23.2%

So Authoria wins the shootout. Congratulations to them.