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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wayland, MA - May 20, 2008 - Softscape, the global leader in integrated people management software, today announced a myriad of new software enhancements with Softscape Apex® 2008, the industry’s most comprehensive human capital management (HCM) solution. This latest release builds on over twelve years of pioneering innovation and adds new functions across Talent Acquisition, Workforce Performance, Learning and Development, and a compelling new approach to visualizing an organization’s workforce and its capabilities.
Recognized by industry analysts as the most comprehensive HCM solution, Softscape’s inherently integrated, highly configurable platform connects critical workforce processes into a single system to more effectively measure and manage an organization’s workforce. Softscape Apex 2008 continues Softscape’s dedication to customers by enabling deeper insight and visibility across an organization’s entire workforce to improve employee engagement and drive business performance.
“Organizations are disbanding their legacy point solutions to circumvent costly integration challenges and moving toward a single, integrated people management software platform,” said Christopher Faust, Softscape executive vice president of global strategy. “Over eighty percent of our new customers this year are choosing more than two integrated suites in their initial deployment, and thirty six percent choosing more than three.”
Expanding on Softscape’s extensive configuration foundation and superior user experience, new features within Softscape Apex 2008 include:
Softscape’s interactive Talent Map™ provides a new level of visualization with a global, multi-level view of an organization’s entire workforce. Leveraging dynamic data visualization, Softscape’s Talent Map provides easy access to organizational structures and reporting relationships. Then, using fluid zooming, users can instantly drill down into increasing levels of granularity to quickly view individual capabilities, performance history, career paths, and other detailed talent information. With Softscape’s robust security model to ensure proper rights and permissions, this new function transforms how organizations plan and manage their global talent.
Softscape’s comprehensive Talent Profile has been further expanded to provide a new definitive “talent-based system of record” for managers, employees, and human resources administrators to easily view every detail of talent related information. People Centric Views includes core employee record details, task summaries, performance history, career preferences, awards, certifications, professional experience, payroll history, absence history, equipment and security details, and many other employee specific details in a single, secure location within an easy to use navigation structure.
New performance Ratings Distribution Management (RDM) within the Softscape Workforce Performance suite ensures the dissemination of performance scores are more consistent across an organization. In a typical diverse, global organization, performance rating scales differ from division to division. Softscape Workforce Performance with RDM ensures that employees are rated consistently and fairly across the entire organization. As a result, incentive and reward initiatives are applied more appropriately to high performers.
Softscape’s enhanced compliance management within the Softscape Learning & Development suite tracks compliance-related training programs and lets human resources administrators automatically remind employees to enroll and participate. Its flexible email configuration tools also allows administrators to send messages based on employees’ level of compliance or escalate issues to their managers.
Softscape also offers configurable interface skins enabling individual users to change on-the-fly how they view and interact with the software. The system comes with a variety of interface themes, and customers can populate the theme library with any assortment they choose.
Ideal for companies operating on a global scale, Softscape’s all new Talent Acquisition suite streamlines the entire recruiting and hiring lifecycle from requisition to candidate selection and on-boarding. New features include job distribution tools to populate online job boards, resume parsing tools, automatic HRMS integration and on-boarding best practices, compliance and audit controls, and dozens of new standard reports and dashboards. Additionally, new integration to Microsoft Outlook® is provided for scheduling and calendaring to allow recruiting professionals to easily schedule and manage candidate meetings with hiring managers directly within Outlook.
“Softscape’s integrated approach to strategic people management offers the flexibility to link every component of the employee lifecycle to gain unprecedented insight into the overall performance of an organization’s workforce,” said Dave Watkins, chief executive officer, Softscape. “When customers are equipped with this critical information, they can make better decisions about their people and their operations. The end results are more effective business strategies, increased productivity, and more engaged and higher performing employees.”
To learn more about Softscape Apex 2008, please visit www.softscape.com/Engage to register for a June 10, 2008 webinar and receive a complimentary whitepaper titled, “Improving Employee Engagement to Drive Business Performance.”
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