Authoria Webcast Explores Best Practices for Selecting a Talent Management Solution

Business Wire, Jan 15, 2008

Just-Published Bersin & Associates Research Drives Recommendations for Choosing the "Best-Fit" Talent Management System

WALTHAM, Mass. -- Authoria, Inc., the leader in integrated talent management solutions, today announced a complimentary webcast designed to help employers find a talent management suite best suited to their unique needs. Talent management suites, which integrate strategic talent functions including recruiting, performance management, compensation, and succession planning, are fast becoming the preferred approach to addressing the most pressing workforce-related challenges, including:

* How to attract and hire top talent

* How to retain high-performers and develop future leaders

* How to align employee goals with corporate objectives

In this live event, Leighanne Levensaler, Principal Analyst for Bersin & Associates, will share key findings from the ground-breaking new research report Talent Management Suites: Market Realities, Implementation Experiences, and Vendor Profiles. Drawing on the perspectives of several hundred companies that are evaluating or implementing talent management suites, Levensaler will provide guidance on how to make sense of the "more than 40 different software vendors currently vying for dollars." Authoria's Nina McIntyre will offer a top talent-management vendor's perspective on evaluation techniques that maximize an organization's chances of finding the partner best-suited to its needs.

Webcast attendees will learn:

* How to find a solution that matches their company's technology strategy

* How to triage all the vendors who want to be their talent management partner

* The company-specific "homework" assignments that will maximize the likelihood of a successful implementation

* How to create use-case scenarios that put vendors through the right paces

* Why choosing an integrated solution can be more challenging than selecting a point product - and why it's worth the effort

WHO: Leighanne Levensaler, Principal Analyst, Bersin & Associates; Nina McIntyre, Senior Vice President of Strategic Talent Management Marketing, Authoria, Inc.

WHAT: Webcast: "Selecting the Right Talent Management Solution"

WHEN: Wednesday, January 16, 2008, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST

WHERE: Please visit www.authoria.com/tmsuites to register for this free online event.

This event is the first in the Authoria 2008 Talent Management Webcast Series, which will examine best practices and trends in strategic talent management throughout the year. All attendees will receive an executive summary of Bersin & Associates' Talent Management Suites: Market Realities, Implementation Experiences, and Vendor Profiles.

About Authoria

Authoria[R] helps the world's most competitive employers achieve superior business results, by optimizing the way they recruit, develop, compensate, retain, and engage top talent. Designed for business managers as well as HR professionals, the company's integrated talent management solutions enable more effective recruiting, performance management, compensation management, and succession planning across an organization. Authoria serves more than 300 large organizations and 4 million managers and employees with our on-demand Internet-based solutions. Customer companies include Aetna, Boeing, and Reuters. For more information, visit www.authoria.com.

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