Halogen Software and WBT Systems to Provide Best-of-Breed Solutions for Employee Performance

New Partnership Addresses Growing Need for Workforce Management

OTTAWA & DUBLIN, July 12, 2005 Halogen Software 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 Softwares Employee Performance Management (EPM) Suite and WBTs 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 Halogens solutions to identify the skills and core or leadership competencies required of them during performance appraisals and 360-degree reviews. WBTs learning solutions can assist these employees by serving up appropriate learning activities to them through a personalized portal. These activities might include upcoming classes, contact information for colleagues with the necessary skills, simulations, or simple documents all aimed at closing their skill gaps and supporting their job performance.

TopClass also automates learner tracking. Thus, it can export individual and group course completions and other learning metrics to Halogens 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, "The two companies shared philosophy of low cost of ownership, ease-of-use, and customer support will facilitate our joint efforts."

About Halogen Software
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. The company's flagship product, Halogen eAppraisal™, automates and simplifies time-consuming employee performance appraisals. Halogen eAppraisal™ Healthcare, created specifically for the healthcare industry, helps to simplify the task of performing appraisals and meeting accreditation criteria. Halogen e360™ automates and simplifies formal 360-degree feedback procedures and offers sophisticated performance reporting. Their newest offering, Halogen eCompensation™ automates the entire compensation adjustment process including budget distribution and approval. For more information, see http://www.halogensoftware.com/

About WBT Systems
Since 1995, WBT Systems has built a world-class business by helping organizations plan, implement, and manage successful learning solutions. 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. Our solutions are built on our award-winning TopClass Learning Suite, which comprises a modular design, built on an open object architecture. WBT customers leverage its training, certification, and compliance tracking solutions to enable key parts of their business, and in many cases, their entire enterprise. With over two million users world-wide, WBT has an enviable record of successful, large and mid-sized implementations in competitive, complex, and highly regulated environments. For more information, see http://www.wbtsystems.com/.