Authoria HR 4 Delivers Innovative Solutions That Empower Organizations to Transform Employee Communications While Reducing Costs

Authoria, Inc., the world leader in personalized Web-based human resource communication, today announced the general availability of Authoria HR 4, the latest release of its flagship product. Authoria HR 4 offers organizations innovative solutions designed to provide knowledge and information for employee and manager self-service and call centers, as well as to streamline the open enrollment process, offer electronic summary plan descriptions, and provide total compensation statements online.

"We've worked closely with our over 150 customers to identify solutions most important to improving the way Authoria delivers enterprise-wide employee communications," said Authoria President and CEO Tod Loofbourrow. "With this new release, we are offering solutions that will not only help organizations communicate benefit and HR policy information and reduce costs, but to also truly transform the way they communicate with their employees."

"We're seeing that HR professionals are looking for ways to take leadership roles within their organizations," said Jim Holincheck, Research Director, Gartner. "More and more HR professionals are realizing technology solutions designed to reduce the transactional component of their business will allow them to pursue more strategic initiatives and provide a greater overall contribution to the organization."

"Authoria continues to be on the cutting edge of Web-based employee communications," said Tom Keebler, Principal, Towers Perrin. "With the introduction of Authoria HR 4, it is evident that Authoria has listened to its customers, partners, and the marketplace and enhanced its market-leading flagship software. This is a significant step forward as Authoria continues to be a driving force that enables self-service to be truly effective, while improving enterprise-wide employee communications and driving down costs."

About Authoria HR 4
Authoria HR 4 consists of several solutions that are designed to address specific business issues.

• My Benefits -- Solution that allows organizations to communicate benefits information to employees and managers, streamline the annual enrollment process, and offer electronic summary plan descriptions.
• My Policies -- Solution that allows organizations to communicate a wide range of policy information that is configurable to an organizations specific policy designs.
• My Compensation -- A powerful combination of financial information and supporting HR content that helps employees gain an in-depth understanding of the full value of the company-sponsored benefits organizations contribute on behalf of employees.
• HR Service Center Source -- Solution that dramatically increases the effectiveness of call centers by empowering CSRs to answer questions efficiently, accurately, and consistently without having to search through paper-based documents.
• My Policies Select -- Solution that allows organizations to communicate a select amount of their most important policy information.

Pricing and Availability
Pricing for Authoria HR 4 is based on employee population size and is available immediately.

About Authoria
Authoria is the world leader in personalized human resource communication. Authoria HR is the Knowledge Application standard in the software industry. Over one hundred and fifty organizations worldwide rely on Authoria to dramatically improve employee communication while streamlining costs. Authoria's Knowledge Applications manage and communicate complex 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