Workscape Extends Talent Management Suite With New Functionality and Easy-to-Use Web 2.0 User Interface
Latest Version Further Streamlines Complex Compensation and Performance Management Processes; Helps Users Overcome Inherent Limitations of ERP Systems
| Source: Workscape
MARLBOROUGH, MA--(Marketwire - May 16, 2008) - Workscape, a leading provider of
outsourced benefits and talent management solutions, today announced
details of the latest version of its award-winning talent management suite.
The Workscape Talent
Management Suite includes Workscape Compensation, Workscape Performance and
additional applications that are delivered as software-as-a-service on a
single technology platform. The newest version of the Workscape Talent
Management Suite adds new GroupManager functionality and enhanced
compensation planning productivity through an updated Adobe Flex-based user
interface.
Group Manager
New in this version of Workscape Talent Management is GroupManager.
GroupManager provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface for managing
and editing the employee hierarchies and groups that drive visibility and
eligibility permissions in the Workscape Talent Management suite. This
functionality is relevant to changes in eligibility due to movement and
different approval processes for stock, merit and bonuses that are derived
from hierarchies managed in an ERP, HRIS or similar system of records.
Workscape's flexible functionality overrules rigid ERP systems' inability
to allow users to view and edit employee hierarchies as needed. Workscape's
latest version also enables users to drag and drop employees from one
hierarchy to another; search by name or other criteria; view employees in
existing tree structures; multi-select employees for easy group transfers;
and add, delete and transfer employees.
Web 2.0 User Interface
Also new in this version of the Workscape Talent Management Suite is a new
user interface for Workscape Compensation Planner that leverages Adobe Flex
technology. The new rich interface allows users to reorder columns, freeze
sections of the screen and access supporting information from one screen in
order to make better compensation decisions. Workscape's updated interface
also addresses the Section 508 requirements that guide the accessibility of
electronic and information technology to people with visual disabilities.
"Many ERP systems store reporting information in a manner that is
inconsistent with how compensation and performance management processes
work. Workscape's new GroupManager functionality overcomes these
limitations, while also reducing the data errors created by manually
building and updating employee hierarchies in spreadsheets and desktop
databases," said Workscape's Talent Management General Manager, Sam Adams. "Additionally, our new Compensation Planner
interface, which uses the latest Flex-based Web 2.0 technology, receives
very high marks from compensation managers, line managers and HR
professionals. It provides a dynamic easy-to-use, configurable interface
that extends our 'single-screen' planning model which gives planning
managers maximum flexibility in selecting what information they see and how
they work."
Adams continued, "There's no doubt that traditional ERP systems have
underserved this market. Workscape is rapidly closing that gap by providing
the functionality that is making a difference, both to users and their
organizations."
Workscape will demonstrate the latest version of its Talent Management
suite at the
WorldatWork Conference, being held May 21, 2008 through May 23, 2008 at
the Philadelphia Convention Center. Demonstrations will be held in the
company's booth, 703.
About Workscape
Workscape is a leading provider of business-critical HR solutions that
enable hundreds of organizations to manage their two largest workforce
expenditures: employee benefits and performance-driven compensation.
Workscape's offerings share a common technology platform, can be readily
integrated with existing IT investments, serve millions of employees, and
are scalable and configurable to meet the distinct requirements of
organizations ranging from 2,000 to over 400,000 employees. One client
uses the company's award-winning multi-lingual compensation solution to
compensate hundreds of thousands of employees across 70 countries.
Workscape's outsourced benefits administration offerings are backed by
U.S.-based 7 x 24 support for managers and employees on policies and
processes.
For more information about Workscape, visit www.workscape.com or call (888)
605-9620.