IRVING, Texas April 24, 2006 - Aquire", the premier provider of unified
workforce intelligence solutions, today announced the availability of Unifi, an
all new product that enables organizations - for the first time - to aggregate,
visually display and manage workforce information collected from disparate
business solutions. By aggregating information from systems like Oracle ®,
PeopleSoft ®, SAP ®, as well as other leading ERP and HRIS solutions, Unifi
provides organizations with a visual, unified view of their workforce.
"The release of Unifi represents a groundbreaking event in the human capital
management space. We are providing organizations with unprecedented
access to the intelligence they need to make smarter decisions regarding
their most important asset their workforce," said Lois Melbourne, Aquire's
chief executive officer. "We pioneered enterprise organizational charting, and
that is still a very important aspect of what we do, but with Unifi we've
combined a structural view of the organization with detailed workforce
information housed within disparate data sources to provide decision makers
with access to true workforce intelligence."
From automating the creation of enterprise-wide organizational charts, to
aggregating data from disparate data sources, streamlining workflow,
improving hierarchy management, and more Unifi has a positive impact on
every aspect of the enterprise including Human Resources, Finance, IT,
Operations, Legal & Risk Management and Information Security.
With Unifi Organizations Can:
Improve Workforce Data and Hierarchy Management by managing workforce
information from a wide-range of data sources and allowing managers to
analyze how reporting relationships positively or negatively impact critical
business processes. This also allows management to centralize or decentralize
hierarchy management throughout the organization.
Mitigate Risk & Improve Compliance by conducting efficient workforce audits,
maintaining accurate reporting structures, validating individual roles and
assignments, assessing employee access privileges and more.
Decrease Operational Expenses by surfacing hidden costs, overruns, broken
processes, contingent workforce numbers and operational inefficiencies within
the organization.
Streamline Workforce Planning and Budgeting by replacing the costly, time
consuming process of compiling spreadsheets, org charts, and budget
information with collaborative, centralized workforce planning and budgeting
reports.
Improve Data Integrity by providing the entire organization with a visual
representation of workforce data and allowing team members to correct
information within their span of control. This enables executives to maintain
accurate workforce information throughout the enterprise.
Improve Business Processes and Workflow by providing managers
with
visibility to current reporting structures and allowing them to correct
reporting structures that drive workflow and business rules.
Enhance Asset Management by capturing information from asset management
systems and visually displaying specific corporate assets that are
assigned to
employees throughout the organization.
Reduce Security Vulnerabilities by knowing if employees have been hired or
terminated, passwords need to change, credit cards should be cancelled,
corporate assets need to be collected and more. UWI solutions enable
organizations to provide individuals with the visibility they need to eliminate
these and many other security vulnerabilities.
Core Capabilities within Unifi include:
Multi-Hierarchy Management
Unifies organizational and employee reporting structures from multiple HR
systems simplifying enterprise hierarchy management across the enterprise.
Visual Organizational Management
Includes Manager Self-Service (MSS) capabilities, enabling HR to delegate
traditional organizational management tasks to front-line managers and
employees in an easy-to-use, Web-based data management environment.
Information Consolidation and Access
Aggregates multiple sources of workforce information, providing individuals
with an integrated enterprise-wide visual reporting, analytics and data
management solution.
Reduced HR System Implementation Time and Costs
Improve data integrity and automate lengthy organizational management data
conversion tasks that must be completed prior to implementing a new HR
System.
Workforce Planning and Modeling
Reduces workforce planning time and costs by leveraging powerful visual
planning, modeling and mass update capabilities that integrate with existing
ERP or custom-developed HR systems.
Enhanced Compliance Support
Mitigates risks and improves compliance by establishing hierarchy security
policies, enforcing business rules, tracking usage patterns, archiving historical
reports, and more.
Web Services Integration Support
Accelerates application customization and integration with other business
solutions by leveraging native Unifi Web-services. Unifi has been designed
using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), which offers significant savings
and benefits through simplified data access and integration options.
To learn more about Aquire's Unifi, please visit www.aquire.com/unifi.
About Aquire
More than 2,200 organizations throughout the world use Aquire's Unified
Workforce Intelligence (UWI) solutions to manage critical workforce
information for 7 million working professionals. Aquire's UWI solutions improve
hierarchy management, compliance, operational efficiency, workforce
budgeting, data integrity, organizational charting, and more. Because Aquire's
UWI solutions aggregate and visually display data from business solutions
throughout the enterprise including Oracle ®, PeopleSoft ®, SAP ® and more,
organizations have the intelligence they need to make smarter organizational
decisions. American Airlines, Amgen, Barclays Bank PLC, BASF AG, Braun
Gillette, Colgate-Palmolive, Exelon, HUD, Nestle UK, Reliant Energy, Shell Oil,
Verizon, Yell Ltd. and thousands of other companies benefit from Aquire
solutions every day. To learn more about Aquire, please visit www.aquire.com
Media Contact for Aquire:
April Lynch
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713-922-1895
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