Agresso Announces New Product for Talent Management.

Product Expands Agresso HR Capabilities with Appraisals, Course Administrations and Competence Management

VICTORIA, B.C. -- Agresso, (www.agresso.com/USA), the ERP market's definition of agility, has announced the general availability of Agresso Talent Management. This product addresses the needs of human resources (HR) directors and business managers to manage their workforce and meet ongoing skills demands in their organizations. With Agresso Talent Management, HR teams can maintain comprehensive employee coverage around skills, career objectives and ongoing training needs.

The Agresso Talent Management is launched as a BLINC [TM] (Businesses Living in Change) Plug-in, add-on module to the Agresso Business World HR platform. The solution enriches the HR platform with capabilities to capture employee skills, assessment and performance review information on an individual, role or organizational level. This is particularly of value for those organizations that are under constant pressure to manage new employee candidates and search talent for open positions either internal due to organizational growth, or external in order to meet specific customer or situational requirements.

"With this extended functionality, employees and organizations are further empowered to maintain comprehensive employee coverage across the often extended organization; to keep professional and statutory qualifications of staff up to date; and to plan ahead to meet demand due to competence gaps," said Ton Dobbe, Vice President of Product Marketing at Agresso. "This powerful functionality is specifically designed for large scale delployments, has a strong intuitive feel and ease of use and is pre-integrated into Agresso Business World."

Agresso Talent Management software solution is offered on a subscription, SaaS (software as a service) basis and was acquired by Agresso when it bought Nextlearn in 2007. It is targeted at medium to large enterprises with distributed and global operations. With the Nextlearn acquisition, Agresso also acquired over 250,000 users in 140 countries, and 30 customers including Saab, ITT and Volvo.

Agresso Talent Manager user, Martin Atlas, Director Competence development at Volvo Truck Business Development says, "Agresso Talent Management is specifically aimed at enhancing our competence development process in our entire global operation. Both our internal service staff as well as the staff of our business partners are targeted. The Competence Portal enables us to visualize our present status of the competence fulfilment globally, helping us to structure planning and execution in filling the competence gaps at both departmental and individual level. The system empowers all levels in the organization to handle their own responsibilities in the process by ease."

About Agresso

Agresso (www.agresso.com/usa) is a $480 million enterprise resource planning (ERP) company and one of the top five providers of ERP solutions for professional services and public sector organizations. Agresso offers a uniquely integrated architecture designed specifically for Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC) [TM]. Agresso allows an unlimited amount of ongoing, post-implementation changes without the typical external IT costs and intervention that nets billions of dollars in revenue to the market leaders. Over 2,750 companies and organizations in 100 countries deploy Agresso Business World for both operational support and strategic management. The company's role-based, Web Services and Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enabled solutions include: Financial Management, Human Resources and Payroll, Procurement Management, Project Costing and Billing, Reporting and Analytics, Business Process Automation, Field Services and Asset Maintenance, and CRM.