Halogen Software and WBT Systems Team Up for Learning Solutions

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Tuesday, July 12, 2005; 01:36 PM

Halogen Software (www.halogensoftware.com) and WBT Systems today announced a collaboration to bring their best-of-breed employee performance and development solutions to existing clients and new customers. The companies will become sales and integration partners.

This relationship has been established to help mid-sized companies address the growing need for more effective workforce management. Halogen Software´s Employee Performance Management (EPM) Suite and WBT´s TopClass e-Learning Suite are complementary solutions that help business units and HR departments to personalize and simplify employee learning and performance management efforts. The companies´ solutions also include related services and hosting.

"Our customers have told us they need to ensure their employee development efforts are relevant and actionable", said Paul Loucks, President of Halogen Software, "Our partnership with a leading provider of learning solutions like WBT Systems will help our customers provide their employees with the skills and knowledge to perform their jobs more effectively."

Employees at hundreds of companies already use Halogen´s solutions to identify the skills and competencies required of them during performance appraisals and 360-degree reviews.

TopClass also automates learner tracking. Thus, it can export individual and group course completions and other learning metrics to Halogen´s EPM solutions for presentation and analysis relative to job performance measures.

"Over the past few years, Halogen Software has proven very adept at addressing a growing corporate concern; the need to better engage employees by helping them better understand their role in driving the performance of the business," stated Declan Kelly, CEO of WBT Systems.

Halogen Software Inc. is a leading provider of employee performance management (EPM) solutions. Founded in 2001 as a subsidiary of a successful consulting company, Halogen offers powerful, easy-to-use, and affordable web-based software that dramatically improves HR and line-manager productivity.

WBT's products and services help its customers efficiently create and deliver personalized learning experiences to all stakeholders in the immediate and extended enterprise that optimize the job performance of these individuals, their peer groups, and ultimately, of the enterprise itself.