BroadVision to Meet Aggressive Hiring Goals With Icarian.Business Editors SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2000 Icarian Workforce Solution Suite Helps e-Commerce Software Leader Find -- and Retain -- Top Talent in Silicon Valley and Worldwide Icarian, Inc., the leading provider of Workforce Management Workforce Management (WFM) encompasses all the responsibilities for maintaining a productive and happy workforce. Sometimes referred to as HRMS systems, or even the larger ERP systems (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP). There are many software vendors within this space. software and services, announced that BroadVision(R), Inc. has selected Icarian Workforce(SM) Solution Suite to increase the speed and efficiency of the company's hiring processes and to provide top-notch career management resources for its employees. BroadVision, a leader in personalized e-business applications, plans to implement Icarian's comprehensive planning "Comprehensive Plan" is a term used by land use planners to describe a set of goals and policies developed by a municipality to accommodate future growth. Typically the comprehensive plan will look at estimated growth within a specific time period, for example, 20 years. , hiring and deployment Web-hosted solution to meet its aggressive hiring goals. The company, headquartered in Redwood City Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , CA, currently employs 1500 people with offices worldwide in Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . "BroadVision is experiencing tremendous global expansion, and we expect to increase staffing by 60% percent this year in engineering, professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , and sales and marketing. Icarian's solution effectively transforms the hiring process into a streamlined, company-wide collaboration, spanning across continents," said Jim Harrington, vice president of human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , BroadVision, Inc. "Icarian gives us an ecosystem where recruiters, HR managers, hiring managers, employees, contractors, workforce suppliers, and executives can come together to manage the dynamics of growing the workforce." "BroadVision's hiring goals present the exact challenge that Icarian is designed for," said Doug Merritt, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Icarian, Inc. "We developed The Icarian Workforce Solution Suite to facilitate a fundamental shift in the approach to recruiting, hiring and retaining talent that supports the company-wide collaboration necessary to succeed in this labor-short market." Through a scalable, Web-native architecture, Icarian Workforce streamlines the hiring process and expedites a collaborative process for planning, hiring and employee deployment throughout the organization -- all designed to reduce the time and cost it takes to hire skilled talent. Integral to Icarian Workforce are powerful extraprise connectivity and vendor management capabilities that allows organizations to further eradicate inefficiencies from the hiring process and creates a "just-in-time" supply chain for talent, improving cycle times, capture rates and reducing cost per hire. The Icarian Workforce Solution Suite also features robust analytic tools that allow organizations to better understand their workforce processes plus a wide range of professional business services for implementation, adoption, intelligence, and optimization. About BroadVision BroadVision (Nasdaq:BVSN BVSN Broadvision, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) )(Neuer Markt:BDN BDN Borland Developer Network BDN Bangor Daily News (Maine, USA) BDN Business Development Network BDN Bell Data Network BDN Bulk Data Network BDN Busy Doing Nothing (band) BDN Buffered Delta Network ) develops and delivers an integrated suite of packaged applications for Web and wireless deployment. Global enterprises use these applications to become more competitive and profitable by establishing and sustaining high-yield interactions and transactions with customers, suppliers and employees. BroadVision -- founded in 1993, public since 1996, profitable since 1998 -- has over 1,000 customers throughout the world. IDC ranks BroadVision as the world's leading provider of e-commerce software applications (International Data Corp., E-Commerce Software Applications Market Forecast and Analysis, 2000-2004). BroadVision is headquartered in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. , and offers its products and related consulting, education, and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services in more than 34 countries. BroadVision can be reached at 650.261.5100 or info@broadvision.com. About Icarian Icarian, Inc. is the market leader in Workforce Management solutions for streamlining the planning for, acquisition, deployment and development of employees in global organizations. Icarian Workforce(SM) Solution Suite utilizes the power of the Internet to bring workforce plans into alignment with business imperatives, dramatically slash time-to-hire through process automation and extranet connectivity with the talent supply ecosystem, and significantly reduce the costs associated with hiring and deploying talent. Privately funded, Icarian is located in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information, visit www.icarian.com. Note to Editors: BroadVision is a registered trademark of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. BroadVision One-To-One is a trademark of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Icarian is a trademark and Icarian Workforce and Icarian Workforce Exchange are service marks of Icarian, Inc. |
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