Softscape's Performance Management System Contracted for 6,000 Employees at Corning, Inc.WAYLAND, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 1999-- Softscape, Inc., a leader in Human Resource management solutions, has developed a Performance Development and Review Process (PD&R) for 6,000 employees at Corning Incorporated (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GLW GLW Glasgow Airport (UK) GLW Gross Laden Weight GLW Good Lady Wife (Australia) ) of Corning, NY. The Corning system is a 360 MultiSource Feedback application based on Softscape's AchievementPlus(TM) -- a suite of components being used in Human Resource departments at Fortune 500 corporations, and smaller companies, across the nation. Corning is considered the world's leading producer of optical fiber. --Web-based Performance Management Corning required an Intranet-based Performance Management system that would run under their current IT architecture; would be a turnkey software solution to support their PD&R process; and would have linkages to PeopleSoft - a software package currently in use at Corning. Additionally, the new system was expected to provide the functionality required to support Corning's future strategic plans. --Softscape: Leading Provider of HR Solutions "Softscape's goal," according to co-founder David Watkins, "is to enable companies to identify and grow the talent within their own organization. Performance management benefits both employees and corporate management." Softscape is a leading provider of Performance Management solutions for corporate intranets. Its product suite enables organizations to create a powerful knowledge base making performance management accessible across the enterprise. AchievementPlus (TM) components created by Softscape can stand-alone or be incorporated into a total Human Resource Central Activity Center. The application is based on Softscape's patented Lightyear (TM) technology -- light-years ahead of any Internet-based system available today. The features incorporated in this web-based product include: Performance Management, 360 MultiSource Feedback, Personnel Reporting, Training and Development, Compensation Management, Succession Planning, and Requisition Management to be released later this month. --Softscape's Fortune 1000 Clients Softscape is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. founded in 1994. It clients include American Express, America on Line, (NYSE: AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ), Cisco Systems, Inc, (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, (MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology ), PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG), Detroit Edison (NYSE: DTE), Biogen Inc., and EQUIVA Services, LLC, the service unit of the Shell, Texaco, and Saudi Aramco downstream oil products joint venture. |
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