Staffware Web-Enables HR at Government Investment Corporation of Singapore; Enterprise-wide Employee Self Service Radically Redefines HR Role

Business Wire, Sept 26, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2000

The Government Investment Corporation of Singapore (GIC), established in 1981 to safeguard and manage the country's reserves, has implemented a Staffware-based Web-enabled human resources system. The order, placed in June, has been rolled out to over 600 users.

Historically, the Administration and Personnel Department managed an integrated human resource (HR) and administration framework with PeopleSoft HR System. In anticipation of the organization's growing HR requirements, GIC investigated how these tasks could be further automated through an intranet - to reduce time spent on mundane activities.

"This is when we turned to Staffware to help us. Staffware was able to develop a business process that not only matched our growing HR needs, but also integrated seamlessly with our current system," commented Ms. Joyce Ng, Manager (Projects), GIC.

Staffware developed and implemented a web-based HR system according to GIC policies, validating new entries against the existing policies and entitlements defined in PeopleSoft, thus saving time and manual data entry in updating the master employee database.

After initial testing on two departments of 80 staff, the application was rolled out to all 600 staff by simply replacing a URL on the main GIC website.

"We are extremely impressed with Staffware's capabilities. The system has reduced the time and labor-intensive data entry process and enabled our HR staff to channel their time to administering policies and managing the process instead," said Ms. Ng.

John O'Connell, Chair and CEO Staffware commented: "By web enabling the existing business processes, considerable cost savings can be made. Staffware is uniquely positioned to not only provide the underlying infrastructure integrating and web enabling legacy systems, but is also ideally suited for the employee self service applications such as HR."

"We are adopting Staffware as the enterprise process automation engine - so that in the future, when anyone thinks of forms, it should be eForms. We are convinced this will not only lead to higher productivity but greater job satisfaction, and ultimately, a value-add to our customers," said Ms. Ng.

About Staffware

Staffware is the founder of the process automation industry. Independent studies such as from Gartner and Strategy Partners confirm Staffware's leadership position. Staffware is one of the top 50 software companies in Europe, and operates from 25 Offices in all the major business regions of the world. In addition, its extensive Partner Channel covers all countries where there is a demand for business process automation today.

Over many years, Staffware - with its worldwide Partner Channel - has helped major organizations transform their internal processes. Today, there are approximately a million licensed users of Staffware around the globe, linked to more than 4,500 servers. These are across all main industry sectors including Retail Banking; Wholesale Banking; Insurance; Telecommunications; Utilities; Government - both Federal/Central and State/Local; Transport; Professional Consulting Organizations and in General Commercial. Staffware automates a wide range of process driven, mission critical applications which typically require seamless integration with numerous complementary technologies.

Staffware is available on both Unix and NT servers, uniquely offering the capability to operate in a mixed Server environment supporting thin and/or thick clients. Multi databases are also supported. Staffware technology includes rapid design tools; an extensive range of Object oriented integration capabilities; a Developers Toolkit; comprehensive reporting and tracking functionality; a powerful rules process engine and deadlining features. Staffware scalability is renowned, allowing it to address the most intensive transactional based processes across an Enterprise.

Staffware, in conjunction with its Partners globally, provides a complete Services capability to ensure applications are designed and deployed according to best practice.

More recently, Staffware has launched its eBusiness initiative - Staffware eProcess - whereby Staffware technology can automate business processes across the Internet in an eBusiness environment.

For further information please refer to: http://www.staffware.com

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