Expanded Agreement Supports Increased Demand for Plateau's On-Demand Talent Management Solutions, Managed Services and iContent Offering; Company's EVP of Global Operations to Participate in Executive Roundtable at SaaScon 2007
Arlington, VA. – 24 April, 2007 –Plateau Systems, a leading provider of software for developing, managing, rewarding and optimizing organizational skills and talent, today announced a strategic alliance with Ninth House, Inc., the leadership development company. Under this partnership, select titles from the Ninth House catalog of Instant Advice® leadership and performance-related content and videos will be available and accessible through the iContent portal.
“The ability to access the Ninth House interactive content through iContent will enable organizations to deliver employees the tools they need to quickly address and resolve business challenges,” said Jeff Snipes, CEO, Ninth House. “With the increased competition for talent, organizations are realizing the value of investing in leadership development solutions as a way to develop, engage and retain key employees. By making the Ninth House proven leadership and management solutions available globally through iContent, customers can continue to build high-performance teams in a cost effective, standardized way.”
Offering 280 Instant Advice videos through iContent takes just-in-time learning to the next level by providing users with immediate, actionable solutions to the most frequently encountered business challenges. This instructional content uses engaging dialogue and familiar scenarios based on award-winning courses from Ninth House that provide immediate and practical solutions to workplace challenges. With iContent’s flexible pricing options, customers can purchase individual Instant Advice titles or pre-packaged bundles, depending on their business requirements.
“As the only on-demand talent management content portal, iContent has engaged a wide range of leading content partners to provide customers with access to high-quality courses and content that addresses their leadership performance and employee management needs,” said Paul Sparta, chairman and CEO of Plateau. “Making the Ninth House Instant Advice library available through iContent will enable organizations to develop self-sufficient employees who can quickly find solutions to today’s most common workplace challenges. In addition to providing a natural channel for accessing and delivering performance and management-focused content and learning courses, iContent aims to support the full talent management lifecycle - from learning and development to performance management. With organizations increasingly opting for hosted and on-demand solutions to address these needs, iContent is quickly becoming the de facto standard for organizations looking to cost effectively purchase, access, store and manage their talent management content.“
iContent is a next-generation paradigm for managing and delivering talent management content. The solution provides a single place where customers can locate, store and deliver thousands of third-party packaged content offerings from leading providers as well as industry and customer-specific content. iContent reduces content integration and administration challenges by integrating content and deploying it to users globally over a secure and scalable content distribution network. In addition to speeding the availability and delivery of content to users, iContent saves organizations time and money by reducing the overhead associated with administering and storing content. View information about Plateau iContent at http://www.icontentportal.com
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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.
About Ninth House
Ninth House, Inc. provides leadership and management development solutions that integrate content from today’s foremost business experts into self-paced online courses and simulations to more effectively develop leaders at all levels of an organization. The Ninth House curriculum addresses the most relevant issues an organization faces–from leadership and innovation, to building community in the workplace, to managing change. Ninth House solutions are easily scaleable, customized, and deployed to a corporation’s workforce based on business needs; thereby, providing organizations with positive, measurable impact on employee behavior and productivity. Nearly 200 Global 2000 organizations as well as key government agencies rely on Ninth House to develop their leaders and managers, including Amazon.com, British Telecommunications, SSM Health Care, the United States Navy, and United States Department of Justice. Ninth House is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information, please visit the Ninth House corporate website at www.ninthhouse.com, or call: 415-277-8200.
Ninth House® and Instant Advice® are registered trademarks of Ninth House, Inc.
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