2007
Amcor Sunclipse North America and Halogen Software to Speak at 2007 Gulf Coast Symposium on Human Resource Issues
Case study on Amcor's implementation of Web-based employee performance and talent management system to detail time and cost savings
OTTAWA - March 26, 2007 - Halogen Software Inc., the leading provider of Web-based employee performance and talent management software, today announced that Paul Loucks, President and CEO, will be taking the stage with Lowell Richardson, Vice President, Learning and Performance, Amcor Sunclipse North America at this week's 2007 Gulf Coast Symposium on Human Resource Issues. Together they will discuss how Amcor transformed the appraisal process and success strategies for implementing performance management systems. The annual conference is the Gulf Region's largest HR event and draws over 1,000 attendees.
The session will detail Amcor's experience implementing and maintaining a Web-based employee performance and talent management system to improve the speed and quality of its employee appraisals. Since implementing the new system, Amcor has improved completion rates for appraisals to over 90 per cent, from a mere 10 per cent with the previous system, while saving an estimated US $300,000 per year.
- WHAT: Conference Session # 502- Making Performance Management
a Reality - WHO: Lowell Richardson, Amcor Paul Loucks, Halogen Software
- WHEN: Tuesday March 27, 2007 from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m.
- WHERE: Room 202- 2007 Gulf Coast Symposium on Human Resource Issues. Reliant Center, Houston, TX
*To schedule an interview - please contact Maggie Patterson at:
(613) 614-2053.
For further information regarding the 2007 Gulf Coast Symposium on Human Resource Issues please visit: http://www.gulfcoastsymposium.org/
About Halogen Software
With nearly 1000 customers worldwide, Halogen Software Inc. has established itself as the leading provider of employee performance and talent management solutions. Halogen offers powerful, easy-to-use, and affordable Web-based software that dramatically improves HR and line-manager productivity.
The company's award winning suite provides organizations with everything they need to develop and retain a high performance workforce: Halogen eAppraisal™ helps drive bottom-line success and makes it quick and simple to deliver professional employee appraisals that align with organization goals. Halogen eCompensation™ automates the entire compensation adjustment process including budget distribution and approval. Halogen eSuccession™ makes it simple and affordable to get a best practices succession planning program underway - right away. And Halogen e360™ automates and simplifies formal 360-degree feedback procedures and offers sophisticated performance reporting.
Industry specific suites are provided for Healthcare and Financial Services. Halogen eAppraisal Healthcare™, exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association, helps healthcare organizations produce meaningful appraisals on time and allows them to always be in a "ready state" for accreditation surveyors from JCAHO®, OSHA, ACHA, and others. Halogen eAppraisal for Financial Services™ helps financial services organizations reduce the risk of non-compliance and ships with a comprehensive library of industry specific competencies and authoring aids.
| For more information please contact: |
| Maggie Patterson For Halogen Software (613) 989-1866 (office) (613) 614-2053 (mobile) mpatterson@ripnet.com |
