HumanConcepts Launches New OrgPlus Solutions

San Francisco, Calif. ñ HumanConcepts today unveiled the newest versions of its product offerings ñ OrgPlus Enterprise 2.6, OrgPlus Online and OrgPlus 6 Desktop. HumanConcepts is also announcing OrgPlus Reader, which enables users to freely distribute and view workforce data in organisational charts. Now generally available, the new enterprise, hosted and desktop solutions can be used by organisations to visualise, model and analyze organisational structures, as well as providing critical employee information for strategic human capital management.

The solutions provide organisations with a framework to assess their current workforce, create ëwhat ifí scenarios to improve decision making and accurately communicate critical information about their human capital across the enterprise.

ìVisibility to the workforce across the entire enterprise is imperative,î said Dr. Katherine Jones, director of the Human Capital Management research practice, Aberdeen Group. ìImmediate access to ëwho is doing what, whereí along with planning and modelling capabilities is the basis for corporate-wide staffing decisions, compensation balancing, and transition management today and into the future.î

HumanConcepts now offers the following OrgPlus solutions:

OrgPlus Enterprise 2.6.
Designed for organisations with 1,000 or more employees, OrgPlus Enterprise 2.6 provides HR professionals, IT managers and executives with quick and secure access to graphical views of organisational structures and employee information through a Web browser for real-time workforce modelling and intelligence.

New features include:

ï Enhanced integration options -- Improved real-time integration into existing HR systems such as SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft

ï Increased performance -- Faster response time for chart creation and export

ï Improved security options -- Full control over fields displayed on a box-by-box basis and view restrictions

ï New analysis features ñ conditional formulas, improved Excel integration, grouping and advanced search for improved data mining, segmentation and analysis.

ìPitney Bowes was looking for an organisational charting and modelling solution that would securely deliver HR data from our SAP system to the people who need it most, either over the Internet or on the desktop for analysis of data such as group headcounts,î said Mary Tetro, vice president of HRIS Strategic Architectures, Pitney Bowes, world leading provider of office technologies and services. ìOrgPlus Enterprise has been tremendously helpful in providing us with an intuitive, dynamic and visual view of more than 80 of our SAP HR data fields while improving our data viability and reliability.î

OrgPlus Online
OrgPlus Online delivers the same functionality as OrgPlus Enterprise without the cost of installing, upgrading and maintaining a server in-house. OrgPlus Online provides on demand charts that enable organisations of all sizes to instantly create, view, share and manage charts in a secure, hosted environment. As software as a service (SaaS) continues to become a standard, this solution allows organisations to deploy OrgPlus quickly and cost effectively.

ìAs a previous user of OrgPlus, we were confident that OrgPlus Online was capable of delivering the handson information and workforce data needed in our fast-paced industry,î said Mike Lawson, HR Manager, Floyd Browne Group, a leading engineering, environmental and architecture firm. ìWe selected OrgPlus Online because of the robust, Web-based functionality and ease of use that was a perfect fit for a company with multiple sites.î

OrgPlus 6 Desktop
Used to chart millions of employees worldwide, OrgPlus 6 allows users to create professional organisational charts quickly with no drawing required. OrgPlus 6 enables users to import employee data from any source to automatically build and publish a view of an organisationís hierarchy New features include:

ï Free form layout ñ Easily reposition boxes for better presentation control

ï Multiple record boxes ñ Combine multiple records into a single box

ï Consolidate and compare - Combine multiple .OPX files into a single chart, or compare 2 charts.

ï Legends ñ Automatically insert legends based on box formatting

ï Enhanced formulas ñSpreadsheet-like calculations for organizational data.

îWe needed a product that was compatible with Microsoft Office and enabled us to easily create organisational charts ranging from simple to fairly complex,î said Bill Gullicksen, Director of Information Technology, Vision Systems Inc., an Australian high technology company. ìWe looked at a variety of applications and OrgPlus exceeded our requirements. More importantly, our environment reporting structures frequently change and OrgPlus enables us to quickly and easily move subordinates from one manager to another ñ a key component in helping us remain a flexible and nimble organisation.î

OrgPlus 6 Reader
OrgPlus Reader enables users to freely distribute and view workforce data in organisational charts with or without an Internet connection. The free, new read-only application allows individuals to securely open, view and print OrgPlus (.opx) charts. OrgPlus Reader can be downloaded at www.orgplus.com.

ìIt is increasingly critical that organisations have the planning and intelligence tools needed to execute their strategic human capital management initiatives,î said Martin Sacks, CEO, HumanConcepts. ìWhether a company is looking to simply share charts with its stakeholders, or requires a real-time, Web-based solution for managing and modelling their workforce, our family of product offerings uniquely meet these requirements. With our latest enterprise, desktop and hosted OrgPlus solutions, HumanConcepts is positioned to lead the market in providing workforce modelling solutions worldwide.î