Date published: 01.09.08 - not release date

HumanConcepts Forges Alliance with Northgate HR

OrgPlus to Add Workforce Planning Capability to Northgate HR and Payroll Solution

20th February 2008 – HumanConcepts, the developer of OrgPlus® today announced a strategic partnership with leading payroll and pensions management solution provider Northgate HR. The partnership will integrate OrgPlus intelligent organisational charting and workforce modelling solution with Northgate’s HR and Payroll solution. Northgate HR’s customers will benefit from the convenience of a unified view of employee data stored in Northgate’s HR and Payroll System with tools to model business scenarios and plan for change.

The partnership extends the value of Northgate HR solutions by providing users with easy and secure access to graphical views of employee information, organisational structures and directories through a web browser. OrgPlus provides executives with a real-time dashboard of their workforce, provides managers the tools and information they need to plan and action workforce change, and empowers decision-makers with a better understanding of their organisations and available resources.

The added OrgPlus capability will assist HR professionals to plan and execute workforce management tasks including succession planning, talent acquisition and management, budgeting, compensation and benefits planning and communicating a corporate employee directory. Additionally, OrgPlus allows ‘what if’ scenario planning critical for successful change management, re-organisation and merger and acquisition activity.

Rue Stanley, Partnership and Alliances Director at Northgate HR comments, “Within our customer base we are seeing a greater need for automation tools such as OrgPlus. HR’s increasingly strategic role in organisations means that managers are in need of tools which allow them to view accurate workforce data, which can be modelled quickly to meet the changing needs of business requirements.”

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About HumanConcepts

HumanConcepts is the leading provider of workforce modelling and intelligence solutions. With its OrgPlus technology charting millions of employees for organisations worldwide, including 400 of the Fortune 500, HumanConcepts has defined best practices in organisational charting. OrgPlus integrates with HR systems to automatically create, update and distribute organisational charts for team collaboration, workforce planning and critical decision-making. OrgPlus integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office applications.

HumanConcepts is based in California with offices in the United Kingdom and Germany and offers OrgPlus software and services worldwide. For more info visit www.orgplus.co.uk.

About Northgate HR

Northgate Information Solutions is a market leader in providing specialist software, outsourcing and information technology (IT) services to the human resources, local government, education and public safety markets.

Northgate, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, currently employs over 6,000 staff and operates in 46 countries across 5 continents.

Northgate has approximately 4,500 large/medium customers and approximately 10,500 small to medium enterprise (SME) customers world wide. The many corporate organisations Northgate works closely with include over 20% of fortune 500 clients ,90% of the UK local authorities and all of the UK’s police forces.

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CONTACT:

Gillian Lomax
HumanConcepts
+44 (0) 1392 823023
gillian.lomax@humanconcepts.com