The HR technology market offers employers a diverse range of solutions, including many specifically designed to help better manage talent sourcing and hiring processes. Many of these applications are excellent tools and are already used by companies to great advantage. They greatly facilitate resume processing, requisition and applicant tracking, scheduling, staffing analysis, and much more. These applications have enabled a major step forward in human resource management. Their one significant drawback is that information tends to remain largely within the discipline of recruiting / staffing, thereby limiting its usability and long-term value to the organization.

To solve this problem, Authoria and similar vendors have created comprehensive software suites that deliver a broad spectrum of highly integrated talent management solutions. Authoria Recruiting, for example, is an application rich in features designed to help organizations effectively manage every aspect of the staffing process, from strategic sourcing and screening to recruiting to building target candidate pools. More importantly, integrated talent management software suites are intended to facilitate the sharing and transferring of data files across individual software components, thereby eliminating the time, cost, inconsistencies, and errors associated with transferring files or struggling to reenter them because of application incompatibility. The Authoria 2007 Talent Management Solution enables seamless access to data files from any Authoria application, empowering integration not just at a "data level" but from a practical business standpoint. Organizations, in short, have the capacity through automation to track an employee's progress—from applicant to candidate to hire to promotion—helping creating a supporting framework along the way to maximize investment in people. Ultimately, the ability of an enterprise to find, attract, and hire high quality talent, and to do it more effectively and efficiently than its competitors, will be a major determinant of its ability to succeed and thrive long-term. The sophisticated integrated strategic talent management tools now available can give companies a meaningful competitive advantage.