Plateau Systems, a leading provider of software for developing, managing and optimizing organizational skills and talent, today announced Plateau Performance Business Edition, the only performance management solution in the industry to combine performance and learning course content into a single product. Employees can instantly take action to reach performance targets and develop critical skills through pre-loaded learning courses embedded directly inside of their performance plans. By providing on-demand performance management and learning content in a single solution at a single price, Plateau Performance Business Edition delivers significant cost savings and substantially reduces implementation time when compared with other offerings that require customers to purchase, deploy and integrate separate performance, learning and learning content products - often from different vendors.
"Maximizing employee talent requires organizations to better align learning with skill requirements and performance goals," said Josh Bersin, president of Bersin & Associates, an advisory services firm focused on enterprise learning and talent management. "Organizations need to move beyond annual performance ratings to a process that fosters continual improvement. A unified performance and learning offering will enable organizations to quickly automate the performance review process and give busy HR executives and business managers an integrated solution to more effectively develop employee potential."
In conjunction with this announcement, Plateau introduced Plateau Career & Succession Business Edition, the only solution in the industry that provides career and succession planning and learning course content in a single product. By delivering pre-loaded learning courses directly in the product, Plateau Career & Succession Business Edition allows employees to instantly take action to achieve targeted career and development goals. Employee readiness can be accelerated for key jobs identified in succession planning. Plateau Learning Business Edition offering, also unveiled today, includes the same pre-loaded learning course content as well as full learning management functionality and the ability to further expand course content.
All Plateau Business Edition products include 100 pre-loaded courses, representing widely used HR compliance, business and technical online training courses that span a wide range of subjects including communication, leadership, teamwork, organizational and functional skills. All pre-loaded courses are integrated and pre-mapped to Plateau's standard competency library, enabling users to build critical skills and eliminate competency gaps through completion of online courses. To complement the 100 courses included with all Plateau Business Edition products, Plateau Learning Business Edition customers can purchase up to 200 additional pre-loaded courses at a deeply discounted price, and can also access unlimited off-the-shelf and custom content.
By allowing managers and employees to launch pre-loaded courses tied to competencies and skills, Plateau Performance and Career & Succession Business Edition products enable organizations to take active, immediate steps to help employees achieve their performance goals, develop critical skills, facilitate career development, and increase succession candidate readiness. Expanding learning course content is seamless with the addition of Plateau Learning Business Edition. As a result, organizations can accelerate their talent management initiatives and realize immediate benefits by implementing any Plateau Business Edition product, and can easily extend their talent management solution over time.
"Customers are demanding solutions that seamlessly tie together critical talent management components," said Paul Sparta, Chairman and CEO of Plateau Systems. "Plateau Business Edition products now provide a unique solution for mid-market organizations to directly link content with talent management applications. By providing the only out-of-the-box single product solution that makes performance and development plans actionable, we are changing the dynamics of our industry and bringing more value to the overall process of performance and talent management."
Availability
All Plateau Business Edition products will be generally available in September to organizations with less than 10,000 employees and are delivered as fully hosted on-demand solutions.
About Plateau Systems
Plateau is a leading provider of adaptable, Web-based software for developing, managing and optimizing organizational skills and talent to increase workforce productivity and business operations performance. Plateau's software is being used by some of the world's largest, most successful enterprises that include the American Red Cross, General Electric, Internal Revenue Service and Wendy's International. Industry analysts, including Forrester Research and Bersin & Associates, have rated Plateau a leader in functionality, technology and customer satisfaction. The company is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. For more information, please visit www.plateau.com.
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