Human Resources: Halogen Customers Honored at Annual User Conference

OTTAWA, ON – September 23, 2008 – Halogen Software's third annual user
conference, held earlier this week, was a brilliant success with hundreds of
customers in attendance from around the globe, and special recognition going
to customers at the User Conference Gala. Keynote speakers at the
conference included Michael Kerr, award-winning international speaker and
founder of the Humor at Work Institute and Ian Cullwick, National Human
Capital Practice Leader with Deloitte who discussed critical workforce trends
and their impact on talent management.

The conference Bright Light awards, recognized customers for their success
in strategic talent management programs. This year's awards were presented
to CentraState Health System, L-3 Communications Interstate Electronics
Corporation and the San Diego Zoo.

The San Diego Zoo received the Brilliant Corporate Culture award for driving
cultural change and development within its organization. The San Diego Zoo
used Halogen eAppraisal to help introduce goals and competencies into an
organization that had not previously defined them, to instill employee
accountability, improve employee motivation and morale, and ultimately
transform the organization to one with a culture focused on high-
performance.

"I am thrilled to accept the Brilliant Corporate Culture award on behalf of the
San Diego Zoo," said Tim Mulligan, Director, Human Resources, San Diego
Zoo. "This award reinforces the power that moving to an online appraisal
process and instilling a focus on talent management has had on our
organization. In just three years, we've become a pay-for-performance
organization where individual goals are clearly defined and tie to our overall
business and conservation objectives."

CentraState Health System received the Bright Bottom Line Award for its
quantitative assessment of results with employee performance and talent
management. The New Jersey-based healthcare organization generated a
time savings of 575 hours per year for managers alone and considerable time
savings for HR with its implementation of Halogen eAppraisal Healthcare.
Ultimately this enables CentraState's managers to focus on coaching
employees and delivering outstanding patient care.

L-3 Communications Interstate Electronics Corporation was awarded the
Dazzling Implementation Award for its outstanding implementation leveraging
Halogen's flexible deployment models. While going through the implementation
process, the company had to switch their technical back-end from the
Halogen hosted/ on-demand model and bring the Halogen system in-house
onto their premises. While their IT team was initially concerned about the
amount of work it might cause for them, the flexibility of the
Halogen offering made it easy to quickly change deployment models in such a
short timeframe and implement the project on time.

The Halogen User Conference, held September 15-16, provided attendees
with an opportunity to learn how to develop and deliver key HR initiatives by
leveraging the features available in Halogen's integrated employee
performance and talent management suite. Discussions included best
practices for appraisals, goal management, pay-for-performance, succession
planning and learning management. A diverse range of Halogen customers
presented, including Carnegie Mellon University, MSNBC, Sanford Health and
The San Diego Zoo.

About Halogen Software
A recognized industry leader with over 1000 customers worldwide, Halogen
Software makes powerful, simple-to-use and affordable employee
performance and talent management applications. The company offers a
complete suite of web-based products that automate, simplify and integrate
performance appraisals, 360 degree feedback, compensation management,
succession planning and learning management. Halogen's offering makes HR
best-practices accessible to companies of all sizes and its healthcare,
financial services and professional services specific suites meet the unique
needs of these industries. Halogen is consistently recognized by the industry
and its customers for its exceptional implementation and support services,
and has won multiple awards for its corporate leadership and product
innovation, including HR Technology Product of the Year. For more
information, visit www.halogensoftware.com.

About the San Diego Zoo
The 100-acre San Diego Zoo is dedicated to the conservation of endangered
species and their habitats. The organization focuses on conservation and
research work around the globe, educates millions of individuals a year about
wildlife and maintains accredited horticultural, animal, library and photo
collections. The Zoo also manages the 1,800-acre San Diego Zoo's Wild
Animal Park, which includes a 900-acre native species reserve, and the San
Diego Zoo's Beckman Center for Conservation Research. The important
conservation and science work of these entities is supported in part by The
Foundation of the Zoological Society of San Diego.