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TEDS Selected to Support Norfolk Southern Human Resources Initiative.


Business Editors, High Tech Writers

ATKINS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2002

TEDS, a global leader in learning management and human capital development, has been selected by Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE NYSE

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) to provide the software infrastructure for Norfolk Southern's new CareerTrack system.

CareerTrack is Norfolk Southern's comprehensive new initiative to strengthen its workforce by giving employees more ways to take advantage of management career opportunities. These programs will employ a career interest survey, a resume builder, job posting, and new development and training activities to help prepare employees to support the corporation's goals.

The new processes will make it convenient for employees to learn about management level opportunities and complete and update resumes electronically from home and work computers. It will help Norfolk Southern track candidate qualifications and help ensure that the best-qualified candidates are selected. Norfolk Southern has already begun launching these initiatives and plans to launch all of them by the end of 2002.

A new global benchmark in human capital development

CareerTrack is based on TEDS' Job Vision software module, a part of the TEDS Learning Management/Human Capital Development System. Job Vision was developed by TEDS to provide customers with functionality to optimize the development, deployment and utilization of their organization's human capital. Norfolk Southern also will use other components of the TEDS Learning Management System, including Learning On Demand and Performance Impact.

"We are pleased that Norfolk Southern selected TEDS for this project," said Joe Ellis Joseph (Joe) Franklin Ellis (born May 3, 1944 in Oakland, California) is a retired American basketball player. He played eight seasons in the NBA all for the Warriors franchise; the first five seasons were with the then San Francisco Warriors and the last three when the franchise , president and 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.  of TEDS. "Norfolk Southern has a creative plan and clearly stated objectives for their CareerTrack system. At TEDS, we have a real-world vision of human capital development. The result of this collaboration will be a new global benchmark in human capital development."

About Norfolk Southern

Norfolk Southern Corporation is a Virginia-based holding company with headquarters in Norfolk. It controls a major freight railroad, Norfolk Southern Railway
This article is about the present railroad formed in 1990. For the former regional railroad in Virginia and North Carolina, a small part of the new one, see Norfolk Southern Railway (former).
 Company, and owns a natural resources company, Pocahontas Land Corp., and a telecommunications company See telecom company. , Thoroughbred Technology and Telecommunications, Inc.

More Information is available at www.nscorp.com .

About TEDS

TEDS software is in use at FORTUNE 500 companies and in more than 90 countries. The TEDS suite of Learning Management Software products provides organizations with the infrastructure, tools and support to maximize and strategically plan work force performance. TEDS was the first Human Capital Development System.

TEDS customers include Applied Materials, BellSouth, Celanese Acetate, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, DaimlerChrysler, Dominion Resources, Eastman Chemical Company Eastman Chemical Company is a United States based chemical company, engaged in the manufacture and sale of chemicals, plastics and fibers. Eastman has 16 manufacturing sites in 10 countries, supplying its products throughout the world. , Ericsson, Florida Power & Light, GE Capital, GE Medical Systems, InterGen, KeyBank, Nissan North America, Nortel Networks, Philips Medical Systems Division of Royal Philips Electronics, Qwest, Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories, which is managed and operated by the Sandia Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation), is a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory with two locations, one in Albuquerque, New , Telcordia Technologies, Thiokol Propulsion, and Verizon.

More Information is available at www.teds.com .

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