Advanced acquires performance management and employee engagement software company Clear Review to extend best of breed HR solutions

London, UK – Advanced announced that it has acquired Clear Review, a glob­al per­for­mance man­age­ment and employ­ee engage­ment soft­ware com­pa­ny whose cus­tomers include Vir­gin Mon­ey, RICOH, Café Nero, Harper­Collins and Waltham For­est Coun­cil. This is Advanced’s third acqui­si­tion of 2020 and extends its Human Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment capa­bil­i­ty cen­tered around Cloud HR which now sup­ports the entire employ­ee life­cy­cle from recruit­ment to retire­ment. The acqui­si­tion fur­ther sup­ports the company’s ambi­tion to become the num­ber one provider of busi­ness soft­ware solu­tions in the UK while expand­ing its glob­al reach.

Clear Review, which was found­ed in 2016 by Sony’s for­mer Inter­na­tion­al HR Direc­tor Stu­art Hearn, has built a strong rep­u­ta­tion over the past four years for its inno­v­a­tive Con­tin­u­ous Per­for­mance Man­age­ment plat­form. It offers Soft­ware-as-a-Ser­vice peo­ple per­for­mance man­age­ment and engage­ment soft­ware tai­lored for today’s remote work­ing envi­ron­ment with a sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly backed well­be­ing mon­i­tor. The soft­ware is used by man­agers and employ­ees at 300 mid-mar­ket and large cus­tomers glob­al­ly (UK, US, Europe and APAC).

Gor­don Wil­son, CEO of Advanced com­ments: ​“Covid-19 has forced over half the UK’s work­force to work from home – some­thing that is like­ly to con­tin­ue as our nor­mal — and so the abil­i­ty for man­agers to con­tin­u­ous­ly devel­op and improve their people’s per­for­mance remote­ly is para­mount to the suc­cess of every organ­i­sa­tion. Vital too is that organ­i­sa­tions can ensure they have engaged work­forces and that their well­be­ing is sup­port­ed. Clear Review’s tech­nol­o­gy gives man­agers the tools to do all these things whilst being extreme­ly com­ple­men­tary to our exist­ing Human Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment solu­tions which is an area of pri­or­i­ty for us. For both our exist­ing and new cus­tomers this acqui­si­tion enhances their abil­i­ty to empow­er man­agers to accel­er­ate their tal­ent man­age­ment strategies.”

Stu­art Hearn, Founder and CEO of Clear Review, says: ​“We’re extreme­ly proud of the suc­cess of our Clear Review plat­form and its role in improv­ing busi­ness per­for­mance and devel­op­ing tal­ent around the world. The acqui­si­tion pro­vides a great oppor­tu­ni­ty to accel­er­ate Clear Review’s growth as well as inte­grate with Advanced’s HR solu­tions, help­ing organ­i­sa­tions retain their best tal­ent and increase performance.”

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