Customers using Oracle HRMS and a partner's competency dictionary will be
able to leverage the new integration to speed the set-up process, which now
takes minutes instead of the previous duration of two months to 24 months.

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Embodying a unique approach to people-centric systems that
is redefining the standard for operational effectiveness, Softscape
solutions are focused on enhancing productivity, facilitating
long-term planning, reducing operational costs , and driving
organizational performance. Customers include Merrill Lynch, GKN,
Corning, John Deere , Goodwill, and Ceridian. Softscape is based in
Massachusetts with offices in Chicago, San Francisco , Connecticut,
Washington DC, London, and Hong Kong.

The Softscape logo and marks related to Softscape products are
either trademarks or registered trademarks of Softscape, Inc. Headquartered in Westborough, Mass., our privately held
firm has a database of competency models are based on 20 years of competency
studies from the following sources: Discrete studies with more than 100
organizations resulting in more than 500 competency models, skills profiles,
and best practices frameworks. executives , benchmarking, etc.

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By enabling you to utilize your workforce more
effectively and productively , Human Asset Technologies helps you turn business
strategy into action.com

Trademarks
Oracle, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft are registered trademarks of Oracle
Corporation and/or its affiliates.

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Softscape's benchmarking solution
includes four core elements:

Organizational Assessment determines the most important
metrics that impact a customer's workforce and overall
effectiveness.softscape."
Organizations have reaped benefits from basic HR function automation, such
as payroll, benefits, and time and attendance. For more
information about Oracle , please visit our Web site at http://www.

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Integrated Solution Assesses Key Performance Indicators and Best
Practices to Develop Strategic Action Plan that Reduces Costs and
Drives Revenue

Softscape, an industry leader in strategic people management
technology and services, today introduced a comprehensive benchmarking
solution designed to help organizations significantly increase
operational efficiency and drive growth by achieving best practices
that maximize the effectiveness of their human capital.

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With over a million global users
in 42 countries, Softscape's award winning web-based technology and
proven strategic services, offer customers comprehensive solutions to
better manage strategic HR functions and government case management.

Oracle Partners to Help Customers Improve Talent Management

Five Skills and Competencies Providers Join Oracle in Effort to Standardize
Recognized Performance Excellence

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.

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About Exxceed
Headquartered in Chicago, IL Exxceed is a leading provider of human
capital management solutions that combine competency content, software, and
services to help clients deliver sustainable performance and achieve
organizational and individual excellence. For more information and sample data go to:
http://www.

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About Oracle
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company.

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Softscape translates this
information into strategic action plans to address and align program
investments that maximize financial and operational success in key
areas such as workforce engagement, operating effectiveness,
shareholder value, and customer satisfaction.

Company Benchmark details all key performance indicators and
the measurements collected .

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Softscape is also
offering a quick start program for small to medium size businesses
that require a rapid approach to identifying real-time action plans
and aggressive growth strategies ."
The benchmarking services are available today from Softscape with
multiple fixed price options . For additional details, contact Softscape at
(800) 881-2546 or visit www. More than 600 group
interviews , focus groups, and stakeholder meetings for model testing and
refinement.

Consultants, trainers, services , instruments, games, literature, software and other products in the field of organizational development .

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With offices throughout Europe and an established international network of
licensed distributor operations covering Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa,
the company delivers innovative HR solutions on a global basis. Other names may be trademarks of their
respective owners.

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More than 5,000 behavioral event or other in-
depth interviews (e. The competencies provide detailed behavioral based
descriptors and learning references for the most common jobs and job
functions.

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Customers can choose from several predefined benchmarking packages
for small business, mid-market, and large enterprises, or choose to
tailor the offering to any special requirements.
"Companies have a wealth of talent, but need better processes to identify
employee skills and competencies," said Joel Summers, senior vice president,
Oracle HRMS. Due to time pressures and the need for a
specialist approach, integration of competency dictionaries from acknowledged
experts allows customers to quickly identify hidden employee skills and then
redeploy staff accordingly. Cubiks' tools
are available in up to 25 languages and provide multi-national employers with
a common, consistent assessment language .

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About Cubiks
Cubiks is an international HR consultancy that combines first class
consulting expertise with an advanced portfolio of online tools and services.).

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"Implementing change and growth means seeking out and adopting
best practices," said Barry Nelson, managing director , the Abacos
Group. "By identifying the connections between best practices and
their impact on performance indicators, organizations have the
sophisticated business intelligence required to better align and
improve key human capital processes.
Softscape continues to advance the market with the broadest and most
complete set of fully integrated enterprise software modules with
unprecedented flexibility, rapid deployment, and lower total cost of
ownership. Oracle's new partnerships will help customers identify key
competencies in employees and align staff to create agile workforces . Exxceed works with clients across
the employee lifecycle, helping them to automate and scale the critical
performance links between their organizational goals, the talent of their
people, and their development plans for hiring, performance management,
employee development and succession planning .

About Human Asset Technologies
Human Asset Technologies is a performance management company whose unique
blend of competency-based software and services enables you to maximize
employee talent to achieve business success.

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Progress Analysis at a set time after the initial engagement
to measure the same indicators and determine progress along
improvement plans . This is a competitive imperative
for every growth oriented company.
The Oracle competency management functionality offers clients a way to link
individual staff development to corporate goals and objectives .

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End users can upload the dictionaries with the Oracle Web Application Desktop
Integrator tool , whereas before, loading the content would have been performed
as a piecemeal integration project .ITGCompetencyModels.

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Formed through the 2004 acquisition of the Nelson Group,
Softscape's management consulting division goes beyond standard
metrics to help companies truly understand their core differentiators
by isolating weaknesses and strengths, identifying gaps, and making
the connections to best practices . The benchmarking program can be
completed in 4-8 weeks., Oracle
(Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced that it has partnered with five leading skills
and competencies providers to help customers better manage their talent. Exxceed has clients around the
world and in industries ranging from global financial services, health care,
energy, government, non-profit, manufacturing, technology, and information and
professional services.

About InScope
InScope, a privately held company serving the Global 2000, blends content,
software and services to help companies apply the science of people
performance. These industry specific,
pre-packaged databases, include complete job profiles with proficiency level
recommendations for all competencies as well as position descriptions and key
responsibilities .

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Gap Analysis details key areas of variance and proposes best
practices to be used as the basis for developing a blueprint
for improvement, independent of implemented software solution.com/benchmarking

About Softscape (www. Other
brand + product names contained herein may be trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders. More than 8,000 feedback surveys for model testing and refinement.

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As companies continue to seek a competitive edge through employing the
brightest talent and developing the most promising of their employees , they
need a standardized method for evaluating skills and competencies throughout
the global enterprise.

ITG Competency Group
ITG Competency Group's Fortune 500, other Global corporations, and various
government clients in the US and Canada, have been benefiting from ITG 's
unique competency data models for over 15 years.

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"Over the
past 10 years, Softscape has worked with numerous global customers
spanning 16 different verticals.com

Softscape provides integrated people management solutions to
enterprises and government agencies.
"Managing human capital at the enterprise level may well be the next and
best opportunity organizations have to create a sustained competitive
advantage," said Cliff Hallberg, managing principal, ITG Competency Group.

The breadth and depth of InScope's proprietary competency and
job model libraries serve to build success models for positions throughout the
organization.

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Now customers have the
critical business intelligence to make more informed decisions that
support improved performance and drive organizational growth.
"Without the ability to understand where your human capital
operations fall short, it is impossible to remain competitive over the
long run," said Dave Watkins, co-founder and CEO, Softscape . This experience allows our management
consulting team to evaluate the overall efficiency of organizational
processes and provide our customers with the key data to make critical
personnel and operational decisions that reduce costs and drive
revenues. Analysis includes identifying
hundreds of measurable indicators across organizational
systems and processes, leadership and management practices,
performance management best practices, succession planning,
and learning and development.
Working with Cubiks, Exxceed, Human Asset Technologies, InScope and ITG
Competency Group, all members of the Oracle(R) PartnerNetwork, Oracle has
streamlined the integration process between Oracle Human Resource Management
Systems (HRMS) and the partners' skills and competency dictionaries . We help customers who seek to
gain competitive advantage through optimum alignment of the workforce with
evolving corporate goals.

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Softscape Announces Benchmarking Services Enabling Customers to Increase Competitive Edge

"This requirement is becoming an increasingly important,
time-critical driver for many organizations that are aligning their workforce
talent with organization objectives.
"However, just as 'all politics is local,' so ultimately is staff development. Oracle created the integration link between select
skills and competency providers to streamline how organizations recruit,
motivate and redeploy staff to boost employee retention rates and
productivity. InScope helps create a common culture with clear expectations
for meaningful assessment and development of people, ultimately accelerating
the path to employee satisfaction and achievement of business results.oracle.

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WAYLAND, Mass. Available from
Softscape's management consulting division , Abacos Group, the
benchmarking solution examines internal processes and identifies
critical performance gaps that impact an organization's readiness to
take advantage of growth opportunities. However , progressive companies
are looking at broadening technology's role in HR operations to automate
employee assessments and performance management elements instead of static
spreadsheets and out-of-date physical competency dictionaries.

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