HORSHAM, Pa. , Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Human Resource Executive(R) magazine today announced that 45 companies will announce new products at next week's HR Technology(R) Conference. The event -- considered the largest and best in its category -- will take place October 15 - 17 at McCormick Place in Chicago .

This year's exposition will house more than 240 companies and feature a variety of product offerings from many of today's top vendors, including the latest HR software and services in talent management, performance management, assessment, compensation and payroll, recruitment and retention, and much more. The event will once again be the preferred platform for the launching of new technology products and ideas for HR professionals.

The following product announcements are planned for the event:

Aquire (www.aquire.com)

Aquire will unveil a preview of OrgPublisher 9, which features new visualization advances in workforce analytics, organizational modeling and succession planning. OrgPublisher is a trusted organizational charting solution, relied on by thousands of companies worldwide to improve information visibility and simplify access to workforce data.

Arahant (www.arahant.com)

Arahant will announce its free, Web-based ERP solution with full-featured HR, benefits, project management, time and billing, and CRM modules. Arahant does not involve license, annual renewal or transaction fees of any type. Customers pay only for those services they need.

Authoria (www.authoria.com)

Available in Q4 of 2008, the next release of Authoria Talent Management will help organizations build a pipeline of top performers to fill critical positions. With an easy-to-use Web interface, HR professionals and managers can search employee talent profiles for specific qualifications, create slates of candidates, and analyze the pool of talent available for key roles. The new release also helps employees and managers better align individual goals with corporate objectives and track progress against those goals throughout the year.

bSwift (www.bswift.com)

bSwift has launched hrBoost, a suite of HR tools designed to complement existing ERP systems. hrBoost consists of powerful modules -- including Onboarding, Manager Self Service, Employee Self Service, Time Off Tracking, Asset Tracking, Resume and Company Portal -- that can be purchased as a package or a la carte. hrBoost can be implemented quickly, is easy to use and cost effective.

CareerBuilder (www.careerbuilder.com)

Offering a completely independent and unbiased review of industry leaders, CareerBuilder's 2008 Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) Guide is a tool for any company using or thinking of using an ATS. This easy-to-read guide provides functionality overviews of over 25 ATS vendors, multiple job distribution systems and several sourcing tools, as well as functionality comparison charts to help narrow options at a glance.

Connect the Dots Consulting (www.connectthedotsconsulting.com)

Connect the Dots Consulting plans to announce Building Connections, its new Web-based leadership onboarding solution. Key features include a scalable, intuitive tool; dashboard view of onboarding leaders; process management for the HR partners, hiring managers, new leaders and mentors; best practice, time-based roadmaps and resources; feedback surveys that measure process and progress; and portal links to internal and external resources.

Cornerstone OnDemand (www.cornerstoneondemand.com)

Cornerstone OnDemand is adding a new social networking platform to its integrated talent management suite of software and services. Cornerstone Connect helps organizations reach both internal and external audiences via Web 2.0 features ranging from communities of practice, blogs, wikis and user profiles, to rating/sharing content, knowledge management (including alumni), podcasts, RSS feeds and more. Using Cornerstone Connect, organizations can improve employee performance, foster connections, cultivate informal learning, and engage customers and partners to drive innovation and lower support costs.

Cytiva (www.sonicrecruit.com)

The all-new SonicPerform Enterprise performance management system delivers a flexible, visual 'drag and drop' org structure, allowing organizations to configure multiple processes by organizational unit. This platform delivers cascading goals, performance tracking, intelligent review creation, development planning and more.

Enwisen (www.enwisen.com)

The newest version of the Enwisen Medical Cost Estimator enables employees to leverage a single-view, Web 2.0 graphics-rich decision support model to estimate their family medical costs and choose the benefits plans that fit their needs. Other features include modeling of relevant costs by exposing both unadjusted and adjusted (such as HSA and FSA) costs and the ability to personalize the estimator to specific healthcare costs by editing of per unit service costs.

ERC Dataplus (www.ercdataplus.com)

ERC Dataplus' Selectech(R) ATS now includes Selectech Verification Services I-9 Managing System. New employees complete and electronically sign their I-9 forms online, and HR or I-9 managers can review eligibility and identify documents, sign electronically and submit to E-Verify. ERC's SVS I-9 Management System includes E-Verify, compliance checks, optional conversion of paper files, and automated tracking of expiration and re-verification dates.

eTelemetry (www.etelemetry.com)

Metron SE by eTelemetry recaptures productivity loss and provides documentation for corrective and disciplinary actions by providing advanced bandwidth and network activity monitoring capabilities for SMBs with up to 250 employees. Real-time and historic reporting on employee time spent surfing and chatting enables managers to increase productivity and enforce network use policies.

Fieldglass (www.fieldglass.com)

Fieldglass will announce a new, complementary business intelligence offering, which increases the value of InSite(R), its unified technology platform for the acquisition of all workers. The service allows customers to identify anomalies that demand action through rich, interactive graphics in Fieldglass Visualizer; benefit from benchmarks, as Fieldglass aggregates data to show comparisons and trending information; and hear recommendations during semi-annual presentations on how to close gaps against stated objectives and set future goals.

Halogen Software (www.halogensoftware.com)

Halogen's Employee Performance and Talent Management Suite, Version 9.0, delivers the company's first performance-based learning management system, eLMS, and also features a series of usability improvements within all modules that streamline the experience for end users with a role-based, minimalist approach. The latest version shortens the time for users to complete their tasks within the suite and provides easier data access, as well as the power to drive more intelligent employee performance information.

HOV Services (www.hovservices.com)

HOV Services' Screen 360 On-Demand Employee Verification and Drug Screening Solution enable employers to authenticate and verify a candidate's identity; investigate criminal records and previous employment; and determine if the individual appears on national watch lists. Screen 360 delivers search results instantaneously, enabling HR professionals to manage the process without any set-up costs. Also available from HOV Services is CrimMONITORING, a post-hire criminal screening solution to monitor active employees.

HRMarketer (www.hrmarketer.com)

HRmarketer.com's new Human Resources Community portal helps HR suppliers share their expertise with industry professionals. Its knowledge center is one of the largest resources for HR executives, with a library of more than 1,000 complimentary white papers, reports, Webcasts, videos, and podcasts. The portal allows HR and employee benefit vendors to build interactive profiles and syndicate content. Professionals can subscribe to RSS feeds to be notified of new content, or receive a free eNewsletter.

i4cp (www.i4cp.com)

Through an exclusive group of peer companies, and backed by the latest comprehensive industry research, i4cp's Knowledge Retention Accelerator(TM) will help organizations improve knowledge retention. Knowledge Retention Accelerator participants will compare benchmark results to high performing organizations, identify the areas that have the greatest impact on business objectives, and receive guidance on how to improve current and future knowledge retention initiatives.

IHRIM (www.ihrim.org)

IHRIM has created a member-generated online community for capturing and sharing important HR information management knowledge and content, as well as enhancing collaboration between our members throughout the world. Utilizing a Web 2.0 platform that offers a host of social media tools including social networking, blogs, wikis and tagging, IHRIM's online community facilitates communication and provides a centralized hub for members to create, catalog and share knowledge articles and HR technology solutions.

Infohrm (www.infohrm.com)

Infohrm's Workforce Planning application includes a host of new forecasting and modeling features designed to increase the flexibility and power of your workforce plans. Users can now simultaneously forecast internal labor supply by up to 5 dimensions (Job Family + Salary Band + Employment Status, for example), while cross-business unit mobility metrics predict how internal movements impact enterprise-wide forecasts. Integrating external recruitment data boosts the accuracy of your workforce plans by reflecting current hiring trends.

Inscape Software (www.inscapesoftware.com)

Inscape Software's new product provides an innovative SaaS platform and marketplace for fast and cost-effective authoring, deployment and integration of assessment tools, empowering consultants, test providers and companies to deploy better hiring, development and succession management products. The company's platform offers users the unique ability to create assessment solutions by authoring their own assessment tools and integrating content from a wide range of psychometric tests providers, with customized competency and skills profiles, workflows and reports.

InterActive Applicant (www.interactiveapplicant.com)

InterActive Applicant is launching its innovative Web 2.0 multimedia recruiting solution to the U.S. market. InterActive Applicant allows employers and recruiters to save time and money by improving the interview screening process. Using Webcam technology, job seeker qualities that are not apparent on a resume can now be viewed by hiring managers, which means they can hire the best person in the least amount of time and cost-effectively extend the geographic reach when sourcing candidates.

IST Management Services (www.istmanagement.com)

IST Management Services is launching a major upgrade to its Docstor software program. Docstor enables human resource departments to store HR files electronically using smart software. Major enhancements include termination reporting functionality, which enables HR to automatically produce termination reports based on a date range and termination type.

Jobstick (www.jobstick.com)

Jobstick Filter integrates Jobstick's matching technology into an existing Applicant Tracking System. Jobstick's artificial intelligence system combines profile matching with industry taxonomies to automatically screen out under- qualified applicants and highlight top talent in ways that cannot be done with keyword searches and questionnaires.

Kenexa (www.kenexa.com)

Kenexa (Nasdaq: KNXA) will demonstrate its recently released Kenexa Learning Management (KLM) solution. KLM further expands Kenexa's global talent management offerings, enabling customers to rely on the company as a single source of recruiting, onboarding, assessment, learning, performance, career development, succession planning and employee lifecycle survey solutions. KLM also includes standard and ad hoc reporting to determine course completion patterns, critical learning gaps and certification compliance. KLM can be delivered as a SaaS solution or behind a corporate firewall.

myStaffingPro (www.mystaffingpro.com)

myStaffingPro, an applicant tracking provider, has collaborated with employeescreenIQ, a leading employment background screening provider, to offer users an integrated background checking solution. The integration allows myStaffingPro users to seamlessly request applicant background checks from employeescreenIQ, delivering an efficient background process that eliminates duplicate data entry.

OOJob (www.oojob.us)

OOJob will announce a new version of its tested behavioral/occupational profiling/testing software, delivered over the Internet in ASP form. The suite relies on generally accepted 'time tested' personality-trait methodology. OOJob's new profiler program allows the creation of a job reference that instantly identifies specific and precise matches between candidates' assessment and the ideal sought for the job or mission.

Patersons HR and Payroll Solutions (www.patersons.net)

Patersons HR and Payroll Solutions will unveil its newly integrated U.S. Payroll and HR Solution. This addition to Paterson's global solution will expand its 'one stop shop' stance, while also addressing the U.S. HR and Payroll requirements. The Patersons' solution incorporates global payroll processing, compliance and reporting in one system with one contract SAS70 level II certification. Patersons also embraces SaaS strategies by offering their solution in a hosted environment.

Pegged Software (www.peggedsoftware.com)

Pegged Software, which provides companies with the power to hire exceptional talent faster and better, is debuting at the HR Technology(R) Conference. Pegged works by creating predictive models from the measured characteristics of existing, high-performing employees. The predictive models are deployed through the software, automating the decision-making process giving enterprise the ability to replicate the recruitment of their best employees over and over again, while reducing turnover and hiring costs.

Plateau (www.plateau.com)

Plateau's Plateau Talent Management Suite 5.8 (SP5) is the latest version of its flagship talent management suite. Key features include: an expanded Talent Profile that captures additional information from Plateau Talent Management and employee social interests and communities; dynamic Talent Pools that enable advanced talent and succession planning; a fully integrated report designer that allows users to create interactive reports using a visual design environment; and enhanced global commerce capabilities that provide full support for multiple currencies.

PreVisor (www.previsor.com)

PreVisor's Frontline Manager and Supervisory Solutions incorporate job relevant, realistic assessments and simulations that instantly deliver automatically scored results. The solutions include in-box and coaching simulations and written essay components that assess a candidate's ability to succeed in supervisor/manager roles. The Global Personality Inventory (GPI)- Adaptive is the first commercially available personality assessment utilizing Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) technology. It is highly predictive of job performance and will be included within PreVisor's new job-focused assessment solutions.

Saba (www.saba.com)

Saba (Nasdaq: SABA) plans to announce the general availability of Saba Enterprise 5.4 SP3. This latest release of Saba's people management solution manages key people processes like performance, succession, workforce planning and learning on a unified platform with embedded collaborative capabilities. Highlights of this release include: enhanced organizational charting, a new module - Saba Workforce Planning - with powerful workforce scenario modeling capabilities and enhancements to Saba's open Content Integration Framework, including support for OLSA Asset Integration.

Salary.com (www.salary.com)

Salary.com's (Nasdaq: SLRY) Succession Planning module helps employers build a strong pipeline of internal leaders. Planners can easily manage candidates to create succession plans. The system builds comprehensive employee profiles with key data for each potential candidate, such as work history, job title and responsibilities, education, salary and performance history. Planners can evaluate candidates for succession based on competencies, performance, readiness 'promotability,' and configure the profile views to zero in on information most relevant to the succession planner.

SmashFly (www.smashfly.com)

WildFire(TM) is a talent management platform that takes a holistic approach to enabling companies to market and promote their jobs to candidates anywhere on the Web. Companies can centrally market their job advertisements through any channel, such as job boards, e-mail campaigns, keyword pay-per- click campaigns and cash-based referral campaigns, while simultaneously increasing the effectiveness of their ads by leveraging our multi-media job commercial technology. A new WildFire Partner Plug-In also makes the solution available to companies with any Web-based talent management system.

Softscape (www.softscape.com)

Softscape will introduce the new science of Talent Management - Softscape TalentGenetics(TM). This latest innovation from Softscape provides a new level of talent visualization never seen before to capture and share employee knowledge. The bottom-up nature of knowledge sharing provides the basis to better socialize change and recognize future leaders. Softscape TalentGenetics(TM) provides real-time, line-of-site visibility; enabling organizations to more effectively leverage and retain their top performers.

Sonar6 (www.sonar6.com)

Sonar6 is the graphics-based performance management system. Already renowned for its straightforward user interface, Version 3 makes Sonar6 even more engaging. New screens have been added for reviewing individuals and teams, gathering 360-degree feedback, and taking a helicopter view of staff progress. A self-configuration wizard has been added so that any business or department can set up Sonar6 online to run reviews specific to their industry, roles and company values.

Sovren (www.sovren.com)

The Sovren Resume/CV Parser now includes the ability to capture multiple contact information sections from documents, such as Web pages (for example, 'Contact Use' pages). This capability adds end-user functionality to the parser that greatly increases recruiters' productivity, broadening the usefulness of the parser in the capture of important, non-resume data for building contact lists.

SuccessFactors (www.successfactors.com)

SuccessFactors will announce and demonstrate new succession management functionality, in addition to other enhancements across its fully-integrated, on-demand Performance and Talent Management suite.

Synaptis (www.synaptis.com)

Synaptis is announcing two solutions. Knowledge Harvest is a Web-based application developed to help companies retain and transfer intellectual capital by using high-speed video streaming technology to harvest, manage and transfer packets of intellectual capital. Knowledge Able is a collaborative content authoring tool for developing highly interactive Web-based training courses. It allows training professionals, subject matter experts, and managers to meet online to jointly build Web courses and provides centralized content management with multimode delivery options.

TalentDrive (www.talentdrive.com)

TalentDrive has recently released its SaaS sourcing solution, TalentFilter. TalentFilter sweeps and unifies thousands of online resume sources in one location. Resumes are presented and matched using its unique dual conceptual matching to review, rate, and contact potential candidates.

TalentScope (www.talentscope.com)

SalesStudio(TM) enables managers to fully manage sales executive talent. Launched on October 1, 2008 , SalesStudio is delivered over the Internet and can be fully deployed in weeks. This integrated, cost-effective solution includes skills and competencies, compensation, performance reviews, succession planning, goals and objectives, and quota attainment. Pipeline and other data can be imported from CRM solutions.

Taleo (www.taleo.com)

Taleo (Nasdaq: TLEO) will announce the launch of Taleo Business Edition Perform, a software solution for automating the performance management and goal-setting process. The product is built on the company's new Taleo Business Edition platform, and is fully integrated with the company's existing small and medium business (SMB) recruiting product. The new product offering provides SMBs with a comprehensive set of tools to attract, retain, assess and develop staff.

Telemetree Systems (www.telemetree.com)

The Human Asset Dashboard is a talent management system based on the Human Asset Inventory(R), which creates a robust view of an organization's talent by melding an effective talent assessment process with powerful Business Intelligence software.

Vemo (www.vemo.com)

Leveraging its workforce planning expertise, Vemo is introducing Enterprise 3.5, which features a significant new dashboard module that contains a library of analytics. Vemo Enterprise 3.5 can be up and running within weeks, providing companies with strategic talent measures and a sound workforce plan.

Watson Wyatt (www.watsonwyatt.com)

Watson Wyatt's next-generation reward and talent management solution features the integration of Watson Wyatt's REWARD and Global Grading eCompensation technology with the I-TMS and Workforce Impact systems acquired from Wisdomnet in 2007. Completely rebuilt, this suite gives organizations one tool to manage their entire human capital lifecycle. Its seven modules include workforce planning, recruiting, performance management, rewards, succession planning, career development and learning.

Workscape (www.workscape.com)

Workscape introduces OBA-Express, an outsourced benefits administration solution for mid-sized companies; HR Central, which provides employees and managers with a single point of online access and communication for all HR applications (including non-Workscape solutions); and HR Express, which combines OBA-Express, Talent Management Express and HR Central. Also debuting is Succession Planner, as well as major updates to the Performance Manager and Compensation Planner offerings, which are included in its integrated Adobe Flex-based Talent Management Suite.

Zapoint (www.zapoint.com)

Zapoint Talent Platform has been designed using HR best practices and the latest in Web 2.0 technology. Zapoint quantifies individual skills and achievement into an objective and common talent currency that can be trusted and traded between professionals, recruiters and enterprises. Zapoint's algorithmic approach removes the ambiguity and subjectivity of conventional talent management technologies or antiquated human resource management systems. Zapoint provides applications for skills benchmarking, enterprise social networking, performance management, succession planning, recruiting, and various workforce analytics and reporting.

To attend the 11th Annual HR Technology(R) Conference & Exposition, register now at www.HRTechnologyConference.com or call 1-800-727-1227.

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