Ceridian Forms Agreement with Softscape to Deliver Employee Performance and Development Solutions.

Business Editors

MINNEAPOLIS & WAYLAND, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2004

Integrated suite from Softscape enables Ceridian customers

to align resources with corporate goals, reward

employees, and retain key talent

Ceridian, a leader in managed human resource solutions that maximize the value of people, today announced an agreement with Softscape, an industry leader in Web-based human capital management (HCM) and case management solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Ceridian's Web-based HR/payroll solution customers will have access to Softscape's award-winning HCM suite, empowering organizations to more effectively measure the performance and development of an employer's greatest assets, its people.

"In the HRMS outsourcing marketplace, vendors that wish to appeal to sophisticated buyers need to offer performance and compensation management functionality," said James Holincheck, research director at Gartner. "Companies are looking for a single vendor that can provide a full range of HR solutions in order to gain efficiencies of scale with cost and management."

"We are delighted to be partnering with Softscape and offering its performance-driven suite to our corporate account customers," said Robert "Bo" H. Ewald, president of Ceridian Human Resource Solutions. "The addition of Softscape's Web-based HCM Suite offers our customers an out-of-the-box solution to help increase employee retention, shorten time-to-proficiency, improve regulatory compliance, and enhance culture to drive individual and organizational performance."

"In today's competitive marketplace, organizations are looking for ways to achieve operational excellence with fewer resources," said Dave Watkins, co-founder, Softscape. "We are pleased to work with Ceridian to extend our offering and industry expertise to Ceridian customers who will now be able to more effectively align human capital with organizational goals and more effectively measure performance."

Through its agreement with Softscape, Ceridian will offer customers solutions to manage all of their HCM needs. Solutions once available to only the largest employers are now available to Ceridian's mid-market customers through an affordable, flexible platform that can be rapidly deployed. The HCM suite is available today and includes:

-- Performance & Goal Management to streamline the performance

review process and align employee goals with corporate

objectives,

-- Incentive Management to calculate and manage financial

rewards,

-- Succession Planning to track top performers for promotion,

-- 360 Feedback to highlight strengths and gaps in employee

performance through peer review,

-- Competency Management to manage competency categories,

activities, and behaviors for defined competencies, and

-- Learning Management to manage employee education, courseware,

and certification.

About Ceridian

Ceridian is changing the world of work by enabling companies to be free to succeed in their core business through its suite of innovative managed human resource solutions that include payroll and compensation, staffing, compliance, HR administration and employee effectiveness. Ceridian Corporation (NYSE:CEN) is an information services company serving businesses and employees in the United States, Canada and Europe. For more information about Ceridian's comprehensive array of human resource solutions, visit www.myceridian.com or call 800.729.7655.

About Softscape (www.softscape.com)

Softscape, Inc. provides web-based human capital management and case management solutions to enterprises and government agencies. Softscape's award-winning software includes fully integrated performance management, goal management, incentive management, 360 multi-source feedback, competencies, learning management, learning content management, instant messaging, grievance tracking, survey management, succession planning, hiring management, and case and workforce management. The company's highly configurable systems are designed to improve organizational performance, shorten time-to-proficiency, ensure organizational goal alignment, and improve regulatory compliance. With millions of global users in 27 countries, Softscape's customers include Merrill Lynch, Corning, John Deere, Goodwill, MA Department of Youth Services, and the Consortium for Worker Education (CWE).