Bowstreet Debuts Workforce Management Suite; Solution Streamlines Human Resources Functions, Improves Employee and Manager Productivity.

TEWKSBURY, Mass. -- Bowstreet(TM), the leading provider of portal-based tools and solutions, today debuted Bowstreet's Workforce Management Suite for SAP at SAP HR 2005, March 14-16, in Orlando, Florida. The Workforce Management Suite, a set of adaptive, portal based solutions within Bowstreet Enterprise Portal Solutions, includes employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service (MSS) applications for IBM WebSphere Portal and Workplace.

The Workforce Management Suite improves employee and manager productivity and reduces overhead costs by automating a broad range of people and paper-intensive HR activities, such as updating personnel records, requesting vacation time, and reviewing a job applicant's status. Bowstreet's Workforce Management Suite overcomes the development and cost challenges associated with building HR self-service applications by offering unprecedented flexibility and configurability and a high degree of user personalization, enabling organizations to dramatically reduce customization costs and significantly reduce the total cost of ownership.

"Human resources is shifting from a tactical to a strategic initiative for organizations, and portals are a key vehicle for making this a reality," said Jason Averbook, Chief Executive Officer of Knowledge Infusion, a strategic consulting organization dedicated to helping human resource and learning organizations realize the true value of strategic human capital management technologies. "Bowstreet provides all of the advantages of custom built software in a pre-packaged solution, allowing companies to implement quickly and empowering employees and managers with the ability to go on-line and easily perform a variety of self-service transactions. HR can move away from pushing paper and focus on more strategic initiatives."

"There is a significant demand for HR solutions that improve administrative processes, and it is imperative that these solutions be tightly integrated into strategy and tailored to meet business needs," said Michael George, president and CEO, Bowstreet. "Portals are the key to success for managing a workforce and an integral piece of any human capital management system. Bowstreet's Workforce Management Suite provides the agility and flexibility that companies need to boost productivity and easily respond to changing business processes."

About Bowstreet

Bowstreet, the leading provider of portal-based development tools, is leading the industry transition to pre-packaged composite applications and distributed web-based services. Bowstreet-built applications are powered by Bowstreet's proven Portlet Factory technology, which provides a highly flexible application development framework for assembling data and processes from disparate systems into dynamic applications that can adapt, on-demand, to unique and constantly changing business requirements. Solutions powered by Bowstreet Factory technology can be deployed in a portal, on the web, on a wireless device, or distributed as a service. Bowstreet technology is used by industry leading companies, including Amerijet, Cardinal Health System, Caterpillar, Cisco, Citizens and Hanover Insurance, Crossrail, DuPont, Fidelity Information Services, Gillette, ImClone, IT Factory, John Crane, Kroger, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern Mutual Life, Ogilvy & Mather, Sheetz, Tufts Health Plan, UNICCO, and Vormittag. Bowstreet is headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts and has offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Amsterdam, and London. www.bowstreet.com.

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