Nakisa Closes HRMS Loop with Data Visualization, Succession Planning & Organization Modeling: Company Earns Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM 8.9 Integration Validation

Business Wire, Feb 15, 2006

MONTREAL -- Nakisa Inc. ("Nakisa"), the leading provider of web-based Organization Management solutions for enterprise, today announced that Nakisa OrgManagement Series for PeopleSoft has achieved Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resource Management System(HRMS) 8.9 integration validation. PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) 8.9 users can extend the functionality of their existing PeopleSoft deployments and create an end-to-end HCM solution with the addition of Nakisa's comprehensive data visualization, succession planning, organization charting and modeling capabilities.

"With its pure thin-client architecture, ability to integrate with the PeopleSoft Portal, support for SSO and Unicode character sets, Nakisa provides a unified solution to global HCM customers," said DJ Chhabra, Oracle Vice President, HCM Product Strategy. "Through validated integration with 8.9, Nakisa leverages PeopleSoft's new 'person model' and 'partial position management' to provide a true picture of enterprise hierarchy structures."

"By complementing the PeopleSoft offering with data visualization, succession planning and organization modeling capabilities, Nakisa is enabling PeopleSoft users to bring a higher level of visibility into their HCM data," said Babak Varjavandi, CEO of Nakisa. "With this complete view, executives can better align their people, processes and information with corporate strategies to drive new business opportunities, maximize cost efficiencies and increase employee and customer satisfaction."

Employees also benefit from on-demand access and use of enterprise information.They can better manage and collaborate with others on projects within their department or across organizational boundaries.Nakisa OrgManagement Series helps organizations significantly reduce the time and cost involved in searching, creating, modeling and distributing accurate human capital information to HR professionals, executives, managers and employees.

A robust set of software modules, Nakisa OrgManagement Series provides users with real-time employee and organization information through safe and secure connectivity to PeopleSoft HCM 8.9. With Nakisa, PeopleSoft users can easily visualize and model human capital information through dynamic organization charts, employee directories and floor plan maps from a single, integrated PeopleSoft application. This results in easy management of organization change such as succession planning, recruitment, outsourcing, regulatory compliance and more.

Using PeopleSoft Application Messaging and XML web services, Nakisa's software supports real-time connectivity to PeopleSoft HCM, PeopleSoft Portals, PeopleSoft Workforce Analytics and single sign-on functionality.The integration architecture ensures that role-based and row-level user security is applied transparently from PeopleSoft to Nakisa.A 100% thin-client application, users can securely visualize comprehensive employee and department profiles as well as statistical information using only a web browser.With international language and Unicode support, Nakisa OrgManagement Series implementations are multilingual to meet the needs of the global enterprise. Nakisa is a Certified Partner in Oracle(R) PartnerNetwork.

Companies currently leveraging Nakisa's integration to PeopleSoft HCM include Merck (MSD), State of Texas, STMicroelectronics, EADS and Alstom.

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About Nakisa Inc.

Nakisa Inc. provides Organizational Management solutions that allow Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, and educational institutions around the world to perform strategic and tactical human resource functions that improve their workforce processes. The company's flagship product, Nakisa OrgManagement Series, is a 100% web-based data visualization, succession planning and organization modeling tool that connects to any HR data source and displays it in real-time as organizational charts, directories or floor plans while offering additional flexibility through single sign-on and authentication capabilities. For more information, visit: www.nakisa.com.

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