Aquire Releases Unifi 3.0 at Oracle OpenWorld

Unifi™ Now Offers Powerful Succession Planning and Workflow Capabilities

Irving, TX (PRWEB) November 12, 2007 -- Aquire, the global leader in workforce planning and management solutions, today announced the availability of Unifi 3.0, the only solution today that delivers visual workforce modeling, management and reporting capabilities to support today's most difficult workforce challenges. The release of Unifi 3.0 comes on the heels of another major product announcement from Aquire, the release of OrgPublisher™ 8, which was announced at HR Technology on October 10.

Unifi has rapidly become the solution of choice for organizations that are planning or conducting strategic workforce transitions. Unifi is the central platform within HR that facilitates collaborative planning and management activities that occur during transitions such as workforce and succession planning, reorganizations, merger integration projects and even HR system transitions.

Companies today are dealing with challenges at every turn. Pick up any newspaper or trade journal and you read about companies facing retirements, turnover, RIFs, M&A activities and numerous other factors that complicate day-to-day business

While these factors are largely outside of a manager's control, what can be controlled is how the company responds, which makes having the ability to visualize and manage the impact to the workforce that much more critical.

Organizations around the world are seeking better and more effective ways to get the right people into the right positions at the right time. Unifi uniquely supports these efforts by combining visual modeling and planning capabilities, easy access to a full array of employee performance information and position-specific competency requirements. The resulting value allows talent management initiatives to yield higher success rates at lower costs.

"Companies today are dealing with challenges at every turn. Pick up any newspaper or trade journal and you read about companies facing retirements, turnover, RIFs, M&A activities and numerous other factors that complicate day-to-day business," said Wes Kranz, vice president of product strategy for Aquire. "While these factors are largely outside of a manager's control, what can be controlled is how the company responds, which makes having the ability to visualize and manage the impact to the workforce that much more critical."

Unifi 3.0 New Features Spotlight:
--Succession Planning - Visually create and maintain succession plans with a simple drag-and-drop interface. Plans can also be securely shared to streamline communication and improve decision making.
--Organizational Templates - This innovative new organizational modeling feature enables streamlined expansion planning. Utilize pre-defined reporting relationships and positions to standardize your corporate expansion efforts.
--Workflow - Provides a flexible platform to support custom workflow for organizational changes
--Approvals - Automatically route workflow approval requests to streamline business processes
--Workflow Queues - Individual work items are centrally located for ease-of-use and management
--Flexible Approval Routing - Utilize a hierarchy-based chain-of-command or define functional groups for approval routing
--Workflow Administration Console - Simplify workflow setup and maintenance
--Change Notifications - Alert pre-determined individuals or groups when a specific event occurs
--Email Notifications - Improve communication by automatically triggering email alerts for designated individuals when a specific action occurs
--Smart Links - Add box level menu support to streamline information access and operations.
--Customizable Toolbars - New customization support provides toolbar configuration capabilities including support for new icons and actions.
--Visual Span of Control - Improve productivity and ease-of-use by spotlighting boxes that are within a user's span-of-control.
--User Defined Chart Styles - Save chart formatting time by creating new charts and models using custom designed chart formats.

For more information, please visit www.aquire.com

About Aquire
More than 2,500 organizations throughout the world use Aquire solutions, OrgPublisher and Unifi, to visually analyze and manage critical workforce information for over ten million working professionals. From org charting and reporting to reorganizations, mergers and succession planning, Aquire solutions provide easy-to-use tools that increase information visibility, expedite decision making and streamline HR activities. American Airlines, Barclays Bank PLC, BASF AG, Braun Gillette, Colgate-Palmolive, Nestle UK, Reliant Energy, Shell Oil, Verizon, Yell Ltd. and thousands of other companies benefit from Aquire solutions every day. For more information on Aquire, please visit www.aquire.com.

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