Reviewed by Bill Kutick the guru of HR Tech Conference and named the winners this year out of a field of 40 companies are:

Culture Amp

breaking the decades-old pattern for employee surveys with Murmur, a SaaS application for surveys with instant analysis of the results.

EmployTouch

This company has gone way beyond time clocks with its ruggedized Android tablet, TouchBase, which also functions as a hand-held kiosk for employee and manager self-service.

Knack.it

Using gameplay for behavioral and personality assessments through its product, Knack, which delivers virtually instant results of candidate and employee scores.

Peoplefluent

An established talent management vendor, the company has created a compelling use-case for its recently acquired private social network product, SocialText.

TalentBin

Reads and analyzes "social exhaust," or what people have written on social networks, to search the entire web to identify otherwise hidden candidates for open job requisitions.

Visier

Taking workforce analytics to a new level with its easy-to-use, pre-packaged and free-form platform, Visier Workforce Analytics.

We were in briefings with a few of these companies and have reviews and interviews coming soon...Congratulations to everyone!