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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wayland, MA – February 7, 2005 – Softscape, an industry leader in strategic people management technology and services, today launched Softscape Apex™, a fully integrated platform that enables organizations of all sizes to better manage every aspect of their strategic workforce operations. On its ten year anniversary, Softscape has extended its human capital management (HCM) strategy to encompass new components beyond the HR organization including resource demand planning, project portfolio management, expense management, time & attendance, position management, and collaboration tools. Softscape’s Apex connects critical workforce processes into a single system for complete planning, hiring, aligning, developing, compensating, managing, reporting, collaborating, and knowledge sharing across an organization’s entire workforce. Now customers are far better equipped to optimize resource planning and allocation, control costs, motivate employees and managers, align the workforce with business objectives, and drive individual and organizational performance.
“At Corning, we strive to achieve a culture of excellence that encompasses all employees across the organization,” said Hank Jonas, manager, organizational effectiveness, Corning. “In this new era where doing more with less is a given, where simplicity and productivity enhancement capabilities are in demand by employees, the opportunity exists to reach employees on a daily basis through integrated systems that go beyond costs savings and create maximum value. Softscape is providing the necessary elements to make a real contribution to organizational productivity by moving beyond simple operational transactions and creating knowledge outside the HR function that can then be leveraged across the entire organization.”
Softscape’s extensive expertise providing solutions to Fortune 500, Global 500, and government agencies has revealed that many organizations are still fundamentally disconnected by function. In response, the new Softscape Apex platform redefines how HR systems impact worker performance and organizational planning on a daily basis by providing consistent access to the critical resource data across the entire organization such as resource utilization, budget considerations, skill requirements, and development needs. Customers are then able to make better planning decisions while optimizing overall organizational performance. Softscape Apex represents the clear alternative to the legacy ERP approach of managing the workforce, providing a fully integrated platform with a much lower total costs of ownership.
“Softscape's forward thinking vision has always been focused on integrating people management processes to better manage the entire workforce,” said Dave Watkins, CEO and co-founder, Softscape. “By connecting distinct processes with a centralized portal, our customers now have timely access to required business intelligence for more informed decision making. No other vendor offers this comprehensive depth in one platform and proven with over a million users.”
Softscape Apex consists of fully integrated suites that are built on a central architecture, accessed through a single portal, and draw from the same set of competencies, talent, and position profiles, giving users a consistent point of interaction with each deployed suite. Process suites include:
Robust suite for enterprise time and labor management including resource demand planning, project portfolio management, expense management, time &
attendance, and position management to more effectively plan, budget, allocate, and schedule resources across the distributed enterprise. [See related announcement “Softscape Announces New Workforce Planning Suite]
A powerful recruiting system that streamlines the entire hiring process from requisition to candidate selection, automated candidate intake from online job bank, and leverages consistent competencies across the organization to more accurately match candidates to jobs.
Multiple modules that closely link goals and competencies into the performance management process and align employee performance with organizational objectives.
Coupling learning management functions with 360 feedback and succession planning processes, these modules provide the tools to grow the existing workforce, identify skill gaps, train new employees, and retain top performers.
Simplifies all aspects of compensation planning and automates implementation enterprise-wide, enabling customers to more effectively plan, model, budget, and analyze compensation, long-term stock options, and incentive policies.
Extends the power of real-time collaboration directly to users across the distributed enterprise through desktop sharing, virtual classrooms, and instant messaging capabilities; and facilitates team building through coaching and mentoring, surveys, employee development, and content and knowledge sharing.
Dynamic reporting and benchmarking solutions to provide customers with the critical business intelligence to make better informed decisions that support improved performance and drive organizational growth.
The consolidated data center to manage all employee information and demographics. Integrated with Workforce Planning, HR Management provides the ability to plan initiatives using either internal resources or external vendors while automating billing and payment.
“Forthcoming Yankee Group research shows that organizations are looking toward a fully integrated technology model to take advantage of the natural synergies of their workforce lifecycle processes,” said Jason Corsello, senior analyst, The Yankee Group. “By deploying workforce planning, talent management, performance management, learning management, and incentive management solutions on an integrated platform, organizations will streamline operations and reduce costs, while driving corporate growth by aligning the effort of its people behind the organization’s mission.”
Softscape continues to advance the market with the broadest and most complete set of fully integrated enterprise software modules with unprecedented flexibility, rapid deployment, and lower total cost of ownership.
(www.softscape.com)
Softscape is the global leader in complete people management software that enables organizations to more effectively drive their business performance. Recognized by industry analysts as the most comprehensive strategic human capital management solution, Softscape provides full employee lifecycle management, including a core system of record, in a single, software platform for improved business intelligence. The company offers customers of all sizes and in all industries the most flexibility and choice with multiple purchase, configuration, and deployment options. For more than a decade, Softscape has helped millions of workers across 156 countries be more successful at their jobs while contributing to bottom-line business results. Softscape’s customers represent Fortune 500/Global 500, mid-market, and government organizations, including Barclays (NYSE: BCS; London: BARC), AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN [ADR]; London: AZN), Seagate (NYSE: STX), GKN (London: GKN), Edcon, Dollar Tree (NASDAQ:DLTR), and P&G (NYSE: PG). Softscape is based in Massachusetts with offices in London, Sydney, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Johannesburg.
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