Plateau Systems Acquires Compensation Management Pioneer Nuvosoft, Inc.

Leading Performance, Learning, Career and Succession Management Provider Adds Advanced Compensation Management to Deliver Industryís First Best-of-Breed Talent Management Solution

Arlington , VA. – February 21, 2007 – Plateau Systems, a leading provider of software for developing, managing and optimizing organizational talent, today announced that it has acquired Nuvosoft Inc., a privately-held provider of web-based compensation management software. By combining Plateau’s award-winning learning, performance, career and succession capabilities with Nuvosoft’s advanced compensation planning and incentive management functionality, Plateau will deliver the industry’s first best-in-class talent management solution.

“The strategic acquisition of Nuvosoft validates and underscores Plateau’s ongoing commitment to delivering best-in-class talent management solutions,” said Paul Sparta, Chairman and CEO of Plateau. “By offering advanced compensation capabilities with our existing best-in-class learning, performance management and career and succession planning solutions, Plateau is providing organizations with a unified approach to developing, managing, rewarding and optimizing talent. As we continue to deliver superior talent management solutions that can be deployed individually or as part of a full talent management suite, we enable current and prospective customers to future-proof and expand their investments in a way that makes sense for their organization.”

According to The Yankee Group, a leading industry research firm, the worldwide market for talent management solutions, which includes employee learning, performance, career and succession planning, compensation management and recruitment, is expected to surpass $2.3 billion in 2006, growing to more than $4.0 billion by 2009. Yankee forecasts 19.6% growth in compensation management over the next four years, attributed to more performance-based compensation programs and the emerging pay-for-performance initiatives.*

“The ability to enable consistent, reliable and standardized compensation processes that are linked to key performance drivers of individual and organizational strategies can affect many facets of the business,” said Jason Corsello, Business and IT Services Director at The Yankee Group. “Integrating a talent management vision—maintaining visibility, control and alignment of performance and compensation tied to business outcomes—has become critical to the success or failure of today’s organizations.”**

Global customers including Nintendo, State Street Bank, BOSE, and Lucent Technologies are currently using Nuvosoft’s award-winning solutions to facilitate compensation planning and incentive management across their organizations.

Plateau Compensation™ will offer Nuvosoft’s comprehensive compensation management capabilities as three integrated applications that may also be purchased individually:

• Plateau Compensation Planning
  Automates and enables complete planning and management of wide range of compensation programs including salary, merit increases, market adjustments, lump sum payments and other discretionary pay components.


• Plateau Short-term Incentive
  Facilitates planning and administration of sophisticated short-term incentive programs that involve business guidelines and rules, such as eligibility requirements, for bonus pool funding and allocation.


• Plateau Long-term Incentive
  Allows compensation managers to plan and administer both market-based and performance- based long-term incentive programs, such as company stock plans and multi-year executive reward programs.

Plateau Compensation is an advanced, flexible and intuitive compensation planning and management system that allows organizations to build, administer and update simple and complex, policy-based compensation plans, in real-time. This inclusive web-based system allows compensation managers to implement state-of-the-art pay for performance programs that tie employee, group and division goals to company financials. Plateau Compensation enables managers to easily and cost-effectively reward top performers and increase workforce productivity. 

IES (Integrated Electrical Services), the largest provider of electrical contracting solutions in the United States with nearly 7,000 employees and 120 locations nationwide, recently selected and will deploy Plateau's full talent management suite of solutions, including Plateau Compensation, Plateau Performance, Plateau Career and Succession Management and Plateau Learning, as the foundation of its enterprise-wide talent management strategy.

"Plateau distinguished itself by offering an end-to-end talent management solution," said Russell Zech, Director of Workforce Development at IES. "By deploying an integrated solution that links employee performance, training, development and compensation, we hope to accelerate our talent management strategy and expedite the achievement of our corporate human capital management goals, which are critical to the continued growth and success of our organization." 

The product provides compensation administrators and company executives with a detailed real-time view into the planning process, while ensuring that managers have the information they need to make informed compensation decisions. Executives and managers can also leverage the product’s p owerful reporting capabilities and customizable templates to generate bonus distribution reports for employees, business managers, senior management and compensation managers. With its unique ability to support virtually all compensation scenarios, which can be based on unlimited variables, Nuvosoft’s powerful compensation capabilities provide managers with real-time visibility into how compensation decisions impact overall departmental and corporate budgets.

Plateau Compensation supports multiple currencies and can be globally deployed. As with all Plateau solutions, Plateau Compensation products can be purchased and deployed stand-alone or as part of Plateau’s integrated Talent Management offering that includes Plateau Learning™, Plateau Performance™ and Plateau Career & Succession™. All Plateau Compensation applications are available immediately. For more information, visit www.plateau.com/prod/compensation.htm.

About Plateau

Plateau is a leading, global provider of adaptable, web-based software for developing, managing, rewarding and optimizing organizational talent to increase workforce productivity and drive business success. Plateau’s award-winning software is powering talent management initiatives across some of the world’s most successful organizations, including the American Red Cross, General Electric, the Internal Revenue Service, Capital One Services and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Industry analysts at Bersin & Associates, Forrester Research and other leading information and technology research and advisory firms continue to recognize Plateau’s leadership in delivering best-in-class functionality, technology and customer satisfaction. Plateau is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with offices  across the  United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.plateau.com.

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* Fueled by Strong Demand, Worldwide Talent Management Market Will Surpass $2.3 Billion in 2006 , Yankee Group, April 2006 , Jason Corsello

* * Compensation as the Foundation to a Talent Management Strategy, Yankee Group, October 2006 , Jason Corsello

Plateau Systems Expands European Presence with New Reseller Partners

Key Partners to Address and Drive Growing International Demand for Best-of-Breed Talent Management Solutions

Arlington , VA. – February 14, 2007 – Continuing to build on its momentum throughout Europe, Plateau Systems, a leading provider of software for developing, managing and optimizing organizational skills and talent, today announced at LearnTec 2007 that the company has added strategic partners in Austria, Germany, Spain and Switzerland, increasing its worldwide consulting and reseller partnerships to fifteen. Plateau has experienced significant growth internationally over the last twelve months with global enterprise customers selecting Plateau’s solutions to increase workforce productivity and performance.

In Germany and Austria, Plateau has partnered with LearnChamp, a leading consulting and technology services firm that provides specialized learning and collaboration solutions designed to meet the unique talent management requirements of enterprise customers . With significant expertise and experience and a proven record of success in delivering enterprise-wide, best-of-breed talent management solutions, LearnChamp will focus on delivering Plateau’s talent management solutions and applications to meet the specific training, performance management and communications needs of its customer bases.

“By partnering with Plateau, we are pleased to be able to provide companies in this region with a comprehensive, highly scalable, best-of-breed solution that can be expanded and easily adapted to meet their specific talent management requirements,” said Michael Repnik, co-founder and managing director of LearnChamp. “As a premier provider of talent management services and solutions in Austria and Germany, LearnChamp is focused on delivering best-of-breed solutions that encompass a wide range of talent management issues, including learning, performance management and enterprise collaboration. With Plateau’s solutions, we are well positioned to meet increased customer demand for integrated talent management solutions that increase employee and corporate performance and productivity .”

In Spain, Plateau is partnering with Ingenia, a solutions and services provider with an extensive catalog of e-learning solutions. Plateau has also signed Crealogix in Switzerland to provide strategy and implementation services for Plateau’s Learning and Performance Management System . These organizations join existing Plateau partners, EDUTECH in the Middle East and India, and Scandinavian reseller LearningWell.

Plateau provides powerful and adaptable enterprise class software and services with the ability to integrate performance, learning, and career and succession planning. Organizations can increase workforce performance and expedite goal achievement by delivering targeted learning based on performance and career plans and automatically linking performance scores and promotion-readiness ratings to succession planning.

“Over the past year, Plateau has seen steady growth and an increase in demand for comprehensive talent management solutions across EMEA,” said Paul Sparta, Chairman and CEO of Plateau. “To address this growing demand, we are pleased to be engaging with leading reseller partners to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive integrated talent management solution. Crealogix, Ingenia and LearnChamp have each demonstrated an excellent understanding of the critical business needs of their respective markets, and display strong technical skills, keen industry and regional awareness and solid experience. The loyal customer base and market presence of these partners also complements our plans for further developing Plateau’s presence throughout this region.”

About Plateau

Plateau is a leading, global provider of adaptable, web-based software for developing, managing and optimizing organizational talent to increase workforce productivity and business operations performance.  Plateau’s award-winning software is powering talent management initiatives across some of the world’s most successful organizations, including the American Red Cross, General Electric, the Internal Revenue Service, Capital One Services and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).  Industry analysts at Bersin & Associates, Forrester Research and other leading information and technology research and advisory firms continue to recognize Plateau’s leadership in delivering best-in-class functionality, technology and customer satisfaction. Plateau is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with offices  across the  United States, Europe and Asia Pacific.  For more information, please visit www.plateau.com.

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Plateau Systems, the Plateau Systems logo, Plateau Performance, and Plateau are the property of Plateau Systems Ltd. All other names and brands are the property of their respective holders.

U.S. Department of Labor Selects Plateau for Enterprise-Wide Talent Management Solution

Integrated Learning, Performance Management and Career Development Solution to Support 15,000 Employees; Affirms DOL Commitment to President’s Management Agenda

Arlington , VA. – February 6, 2007 – Plateau Systems, a leading provider of software for developing, managing and optimizing organizational skills and talent, today announced that the U.S. Department of Labor ( DOL) awarded Plateau Systems an enterprise-wide talent management contract to support 15,000 employees throughout its 19 sub-agencies. Under the terms of the agreement, DOL has selected Plateau’s Talent Management solution and will deploy Plateau Learning Management with Plateau’s Individual Development Planning and Competency Assessment Modules, providing a consistent, unified platform for managing and evaluating competencies that are linked to learning and development across the entire agency.

The contract was awarded by DOL and the Office of Personnel Management/ Government On-Line Learning Center (GoLearn). Plateau, a GoLearn partner since 2002, was awarded prime contractor status based on a proven record of success with Federal customers under the GoLearn initiative, and for demonstrating and delivering the leadership, knowledge and skills required to support the GoLearn mission.

DOL, the federal agency responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, ranks at the top of all federal departments in meeting the initiatives outlined in the President’s Management Agenda (PMA). In the most recent Executive Branch Management Scorecard, the Department of Labor is one of only two Agencies to have received the highest possible marks across all five PMA areas, including human capital. DOL and its sub-agencies including Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) and Women’s Bureau (WB), have consistently earned a “green” rating in the area of strategic human capital management. The agency was also the first to receive the President's Quality Award for Performance in Integrating Management Systems for its management excellence and for specific PMA management initiatives.

Plateau’s unified talent management solutions will replace the legacy software currently in use across DOL, allowing the agency to consolidate all talent management information, including an agency-wide competency library, onto a single platform. Plateau’s ability to provide a flexible and scalable talent management platform that could support the unique requirements of all DOL’s separate sub-agencies was a critical factor in DOL’s selection of Plateau’s solution. Deploying a single, configurable talent management application and information system that can support specific agency requirements will enable DOL to facilitate and improve workforce planning and performance while reducing administrative overhead.

Upon implementation, DOL will work with Plateau to import and integrate the DOL competency library with Plateau’s talent management applications. With Plateau’s assessment capabilities, employees and managers can collect feedback from internal and external peers including subordinates, colleagues and superiors to gain a broader view of an employees overall performance and effectiveness. Employees can then use this input to gain visibility into recommended areas for development and initiate learning and training activities designed to improve their current performance and prepare them for future career-advancement opportunities.

“Widely recognized as a model of human capital management excellence and efficiency, the Department of Labor continues to earn high marks for its leadership and commitment to achieving the key human capital requirements identified in the President’s Management Agenda,” said Paul Sparta, Chairman and CEO of Plateau. “By taking a comprehensive approach that focuses on effective performance management, professional development, succession planning, and continuous learning, DOL is again demonstrating its leadership in human capital management. Selecting Plateau’s talent management solutions to enable this approach will allow the Agency to achieve its overall goal of ensuring that the right people are in the right place, at the right time, with the right skills, to accomplish DOL’s mission.”

With a proven record of success in the government market, Plateau’s talent management solutions are powering learning, training and performance initiatives across several federal government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Internal Revenue Service and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

About Plateau

Plateau is a leading, global provider of adaptable, web-based software for developing, managing

and optimizing organizational talent to increase workforce productivity and business operations performance.  Plateau’s award-winning software is powering talent management initiatives across some of the world’s most successful organizations, including the American Red Cross, General Electric, the Internal Revenue Service, Capital One Services and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).  Industry analysts at Bersin & Associates, Forrester Research and other leading information and technology research and advisory firms continue to recognize Plateau’s leadership in delivering best-in-class functionality, technology and customer satisfaction. Plateau is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with offices  across the  United States, Europe and Asia Pacific.  For more information, please visit www.plateau.com.

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Plateau Systems, the Plateau Systems logo, Plateau Performance, and Plateau are the property of Plateau Systems Ltd. All other names and brands are the property of their respective holders.