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Authoria Accelerates Talent Management Success with Authoria Rapid Results™

Full Implementation in 60-90 days Ensures Faster ROI and Shorter Time-to-Productivity for Managers and Employees

Waltham, MA – November 12, 2008 – 

Authoria, Inc., the leader in comprehensive talent management solutions, today announced Authoria Rapid Results™, advanced 60-90 day implementation services that enable customers to realize faster returns on their investment in talent-management technology.

Authoria Talent Management™ offers a rich array of features allowing customers to rapidly configure the application to meet the needs of even the most complex organizations. This advanced configurability prompted Bersin & Associates, a research and advisory firm, to praise Authoria for its "market-leading" user experience for HR administrators¹. Along with "market-leading" user experience for managers and employees², configurability is one key reason that Authoria has been the overwhelming choice of HR professionals at three HR Technology® Shootout competitions in the past four years (2008, 2007, and 2005).

The new Rapid Results™ offering enhances Authoria Talent Management, the first solution to provide HR professionals and business managers with single-point access to all strategic talent functions – including recruiting, performance management, compensation, succession planning, and employee development. System administrators can easily configure Authoria Talent Management to the unique needs of their organization, via point-and-click control of every element of the application, from workflows and forms to compensation and performance-management cycles, languages, and local business practices. As those needs change over time, ongoing self-administration helps keep cost of ownership low.

Authoria Rapid Results also draws upon Authoria's 11 years of experience in meeting the complex needs of the largest and most demanding employers, including 300+ current customers. Based on a well-defined methodology developed through hundreds of successful implementations, Rapid Results aligns the capabilities of Authoria's solution with corporate requirements, configures the solution for live deployment, and assists in change management. For most customer organizations, Authoria can deliver a successful deployment within 60-90 days, at a fixed predictable cost.

Citrix Systems, Inc. recently completed the first phase of its implementation of Authoria Talent Management using the Rapid Results approach. Paul Martine, CIO and vice president of corporate operations at Citrix, said, "As a leader in cloud computing infrastructure, Citrix recognizes the value of Authoria's computing model. We see a benefit in providing HR with the ability to manage some of their own changes, which reduces their dependency on IT. The Authoria application allows the business user to take control of changes and manage them on their schedule. This puts control in the hands of the business users and supports our IT service provider model."

"Our HR organization has been able to launch an extensive pilot of more than 1000 users very quickly, so that we can gather lots of feedback, not just about the system, but also about our processes and practices," Martine continued. "Although we are still early in our deployment life cycle, Authoria has clearly demonstrated a commitment to quality and customer feedback. We've been very pleased with how quickly they address issues and the strong sense of partnership they bring to the engagement."

"Leading employers such as Citrix want to get the fastest possible return on their investment in talent-management technology, by making their managers and employees quickly productive in using the technology," said Tod Loofbourrow, Authoria Chairman and CEO. "Authoria Rapid Results addresses this need, and by enabling organizations to ‘self-administer' changes to their application configuration over time, drives down their total cost of ownership."

About Authoria
Authoria® 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 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, Alcon and Boeing.

¹The Essential Guide to Performance Management Systems, Bersin & Associates, October 2008.

²The Essential Guide to Performance Management Systems, Bersin & Associates, October 2008.