Westborough, MA and Dublin, Ireland – November 10, 2006 –- Globoforce, the leading provider of worldwide, on-demand employee reward & recognition programs and sales incentive solutions for Global 2000 companies, today announced its new feature set that enhances ease of use and helps drive program visibility on the award-winning Enterprise Edition platform. The Globoforce Intelligent Communications Tool and Award Agent help global corporations effectively issue, track and manage their entire incentive needs from one system.
“As more and more corporations expand their global operations, their demand for flexible, cost-effective incentive programs, that can accommodate cultural differences, continues to increase,” said Eric Mosley, CEO of Globoforce. “Our new feature set enhances the functionality of our Enterprise Edition platform, improving usability and minimizing the complexities and cost-burdens of global incentive initiatives. We are committed to continually advancing and refining our award-winning incentive platform to help our customers easily and effectively recognize and retain global employees and channel partners.”
The new set of Globoforce Enterprise Edition product features includes the following:
Intelligent Communications Tool – Launching an employee reward or sales incentive program is like launching a new product – it requires continuous communications through all stages of its lifecycle to keep it active and effective. Globoforce now offers a communications tool that recognizes usage levels set by program managers and reminds program participants of their program guidelines for award nominations. The Intelligent Communications Tool provides program managers the opportunity to create “top of mind awareness,” helping them to increase participation, boost performance, and most importantly, to build an appreciation culture. Additionally, Globoforce offers more language choices than any other provider in the incentive industry, ensuring that the Intelligent Communications Tool sends messages in an appropriate language. By continuing to expand its language portfolio – most recently with Traditional Chinese – Globoforce recognizes the importance of communicating in people’s own languages and awarding on a personal level.
Award Agent – Globoforce also now gives clients the option of incorporating an Award Agent into their platform, which allows for third party awarding. Designed for senior executives and other high-level approvers, the Award Agent is based on privilege functionality and enables nominator delegation for issuing awards. With the Award Agent, senior executives may delegate an assistant or multiple assistants the task of nominating and issuing awards on their behalf.
Globoforce’s Intelligent Communications Tool and Award Agent enable leading organizations worldwide to implement relevant multicultural incentive programs with greater efficiency and ease. The expert in running global incentive and reward & recognition programs on all 5 continents, Globoforce offers the incentive industry's largest selection of local languages and local reward options. Through its Enterprise Edition platform, Globoforce allows program participants to instantly recognize colleagues for achievement against company goals and corporate headquarters to manage the program’s international effectiveness with a ‘one world view’ program dashboard.