Softscape, Inc. Creates Performance Management System for Cambria Consulting, Nation's Authority on Leadership and Competency Development.

WAYLAND, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 1999--

Softscape's three phase implementation of a 360 MultiSource Feedback and Survey Management System, designed for Cambria Consulting of Boston, was released this week. The system will allow Cambria, a nationally recognized authority on Leadership Competencies and Survey Development, to license Softscape's performance management solution AchievementPlus(TM) for multiple clients. Cambria's Fortune 500 clients include Alcoa (NYSE:AA), Credit Suisse FirstBoston, Chase, Intel, MetLife, and Wachovia.

The two companies initially partnered when Cambria was called in by PPG Industries to identify compentencies and success factors in high achievers. After this initial identification process, Cambria contracted with Softscape to implement 360 MultiSource Feedback. The PPG Performance & Learning Process was rolled out for 6,500 professional employees last fall and phase two will make it available to another 10,000 by late summer.

The challenge presented to Softscape

Cambria's goal in using the system is to identify an opportunity to enable client companies to become involved in automatic relationship building in which "everyone rates everyone." Additionally, Cambria wanted a system with the ability to rate multiple people on the same survey at one time, which is part of the Softscape component mix.

In effect, Cambria will act as a two-fold service bureau in which both single and multiple page surveys can be developed and run in-house with email notification and reminders to participants, and offer clients 360 multi-rater feedback for performance appraisals.

Softscape's AchievementPlus(TM)

Softscape is a leader in performance management solutions using AchievementPlus(TM) components that can stand-alone or be incorporated into a total Human Resource Central Activity Center. The application is based on technology called Lightyear(TM) -- 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 Clients

Softscape is a privately held company founded in 1994. Softscape's performance management systems are being used by Fortune 1000 companies across the nation. Some of these clients include: Cisco Systems, Inc, (NASDAQ:CSCO) the world leader in Internet networking, San Jose, CA; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA; PPG Industries, Pittsburgh, PA; Biogen, Inc., Cambridge, MA; Detroit Edison, Detroit, MI, and most recently, EQUIVA Services, LLC, of Houston, TX, a service unit of Shell, Texaco, and Saudi Aramco. Any module of AchievementPlus(TM) can be implemented in organizations with as few as 100 employees to corporations whose employee base well exceeds 250,000.