Authoria, Accenture, Peoplesoft And Mercer Hit the Road With 2003 Seminar Series

Authoria, Inc., the world leader in personalized, Web-based human resource communication, today announced it will host the 2003 Authoria Seminar Series at various locations around the United States during April and May. The seminars, themed "Strategic HR for the 21st Century; Realizing the Vision of the Real-Time Enterprise," explore the concept of leveraging technology to improve both the efficiency and quality of employee communication. In other words, empowering employees with the information they need to be more productive by allowing them to move beyond self-service by delivering relevant knowledge in real time.

Each seminar will include presentations by Authoria's world-leading partners and customers. Participating partners include PeopleSoft, Mercer and Accenture. Authoria customers Alliant Techsystems (ATK), SC Johnson, Wells Fargo and Weyerhaeuser will present case studies on how they are using Authoria HR(tm) to help make their HR visions a reality.

Authoria and their partners/customers will discuss how organizations can:

• Create an instant ROI on portal initiatives
• Build a business case for HR technology
• Streamline processes with employee self-service and personalized information
• Free up time so that staff can focus on strategic HR objectives, not administrative tasks

The 2003 Authoria Seminar Series will be held in the following locations/cities on the following dates:

April 3, Hotel Nikko: San Francisco, CA
April 8, Four Seasons Olympic: Seattle, WA
April 22, Hyatt Regency OHare: Chicago, IL
April 24, The Hilton Bloomington: Minneapolis, MN
April 29, The Marriot Marquis: Atlanta, GA
May 1, The Doubletree Waltham: Boston, MA
May 1, The Westin St. Louis: St. Louis, MO
May 6, Manhattan Beach Marriott: Los Angeles, CA
May 8, The Hyatt Crystal City: Washington, D.C.
May 8, Crowne Plaza Hotel: Columbus, OH
May 13, The Hyatt Regency Dallas: Dallas, TX
May 15, The Essex House: New York City, NY

For more information and to register for a seminar, please visit www.authoria.com/seminars.

About Authoria
 
Authoria is the world leader in personalized, Web-based human resource communication. Authoria HR is the knowledge application standard in the software industry. Over one hundred organizations worldwide rely on Authoria to dramatically improve employee communication while streamlining costs. Authoria's knowledge applications manage and communicate human resource information to millions of people at some of the world's largest companies, including Boeing, Motorola and Wells Fargo. Among Authoria's partners are industry-leaders PeopleSoft, Towers Perrin, IBM BCS and Accenture. Based in Waltham, MA, Authoria has been ranked three times by Inc. Magazine as one of America's fastest-growing private companies and has been recognized by Deloitte & Touche in the New England Fast 50 four times and the National Fast 500 twice. For more information, please visit www.authoria.com.

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For more information:
David Fleming      
Authoria       
781-530-2040  
David.Fleming@authoria.com

Keri Paciencia or Doug Russell
Schwartz Communications
(781) 684-0770
authoria@schwartz-pr.com