Human Resources: Softscape Delivers Industry’s First Complete Talent Mobility™ Solution

Wayland, Mass., USA – June 22, 2010 – Softscape, an innovator powering complete people management solutions, today announced the release of Softscape Talent Mobility™, the HR industry’s first complete solution that enables organizations to more effectively connect, develop, and deploy a flexible and high performing workforce. Built upon the company’s industry-recognized Talent Management software platform, Softscape Talent Mobility provides a new level of visibility into global talent pools and demand planning requirements with the company’s new Talent Inventory Viewer. By implementing a consistent, repeatable, and global process for talent rotation, organizations are better equipped to address talent challenges while rapidly leveraging existing talent to fuel business growth.

Bersin & Associates, an analyst firm focusing on corporate learning and talent management, defines Talent Mobility as “a dynamic internal process for moving talent from role to role – at the leadership, professional and operational levels. The ability to move talent to where it is needed and by when it is needed will be essential for building an adaptable and enduring organization.”

Josh Bersin, president of Bersin & Associates, stated: “Talent mobility is a key strategy for enduring organizations. In fact, our research reveals that organizations that are embracing a systematic mobility strategy significantly outperform their peers. Softscape is once again demonstrating its ability to lead innovation in the people management marketplace by bringing an end-to-end solution to market.”

Softscape’s Talent Mobility solution redefines mobility as a talent cycle, and provides the framework for structuring future-state global mobility strategies:

· Position definition and assessment to identify jobs that require necessary skills and experience, while identifying global talent pools of high potential candidates and assessing pool development needs.

· Candidate selection and deployment based on talent assessments and mobility objectives.

· On-assignment evaluation to assess employee contribution and potential.

· Mobility evaluation to adjust assignment objectives and maximize return on investment.

· Succession redeployment to capitalize on skills and experience, while redeploying talent as needed to gain the greatest impact.

In addition, Softscape’s Talent Mobility solution seamlessly blends all of the required capabilities to facilitate mobility strategies onto a single, natively-connected system leveraging the company’s complete people management platform.

· Talent-Based System of Record: Centralized employee records (HRMS) with historical details, talent profiles, competencies, and job profiles

· Succession Planning: Strategy planning, potential assessments, flight risk, 9-box calibration, and talent pool management

· Performance Management: Performance reviews, ratings calibration, goal alignment, and high performer identification

· Career Development: Individual development plans and pool-based development (skills, competencies, and behaviors)

· Learning Management: Development plan execution, formal and informal training, and results tracking

· Hiring & Recruiting: Talent sourcing (internal and external) and extending talent pools to external candidates

· Compensation Management: Organization hierarchy structures as reflected by pay and impact analysis of movement

Customers achieve numerous benefits by leveraging a centralized mobility solution:

· Reduce high performer flight and voluntary turnover

· Improve organizational agility and workforce alignment to company goals

· Facilitate internal recruiting and sourcing relative to costly external hiring

· Transform succession planning from an ad-hoc, reactive function to one that is proactive, ongoing, and driven by quantifiable business intelligence

“With high performer flight expected to accelerate as the job climate improves, it is essential that HR leaders implement rotational retention strategies,” said Dave Watkins, CEO and co-founder of Softscape. “Our goal as an innovator in the market is to be at the groundbreaking forefront to continuously meet the complex global needs of our customers. Softscape has worked with some of the world’s largest and most complex global enterprises to help them achieve their mobility strategies. We are addressing head on the real-world challenges faced by our customers to deliver business results.”

For best practices guidance on developing a Talent Mobility strategy, download “The Definitive Guide to Talent Mobility” executive report at: http://www.softscape.com/talentmobility/.

A webinar replay which complements the executive report is also available at: http://www.softscape.com/talent_mobility_webinar.

For more information about Softscape’s solutions, please visit http://www.softscape.com.

About Softscape (www.softscape.com)

Softscape is the global leader in complete people management software that enables organizations to more effectively drive their business performance. Recognized by industry analysts as the most comprehensive strategic human capital management solution, Softscape provides full employee lifecycle management, including a core system of record, in a single, software platform for improved business intelligence. The company offers customers of all sizes and in all industries the most flexibility and choice with multiple purchase, configuration, and deployment options. For 15 years, Softscape has helped millions of workers across 156 countries be more successful at their jobs while contributing to bottom-line business results. Softscape's customers represent Fortune 500/Global 500, mid-market, and government organizations, including Sony Electronics (NYSE: SNE), AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN [ADR]; London: AZN), Seagate (NYSE: STX), GKN (London: GKN) and Edcon. Softscape is based in Massachusetts with offices in London, Sydney, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Johannesburg.