Authoria Powers Corporate Portal Initiatives

Authoria, Inc., a world leader in personalized employee communication, today announced the success of corporate and HR portal initiatives powered by Authoria HR at numerous companies including Cinergy Corp. and American Family Insurance. Companies like these are just two of the many organizations that rely on Authoria to provide personalized information about benefits and HR policies over their corporate and HR portals.

Building corporate portals for employee communication is a major priority at most organizations. In fact, a recent Towers Perrin survey shows that more than 70% of companies in North America are either using or planning to implement a portal this year. Employee communications and human resources information is often at the forefront of the initiative.

"For many organizations, HR information is the primary driver for corporate portal deployments," said Ron Hanscome, Senior Program Director, META Group. "Organizations are recognizing the need to find solutions that reduce IT involvement and allow human resources professionals to self-manage the HR portion of their portals, providing contextual content that is truly personalized to the individual employee."

At Cinergy, its internal Human Resources group has extended its HR brand, iPeople, to its dedicated HR community on the companys internal Plumtree portal.

"We strategically brought Authoria onto iPeople as the critical HR application to provide an online delivery system of robust and personalized HR-related content under the private label of my iPeople," said Donna Korte, Manager of Health and Welfare Plans, Cinergy Corp. "my iPeople has taken the place of the traditional hardcopy handbook at Cinergy allowing us to take another step toward our corporate goal of a wired workforce."

At American Family Insurance, employees turn to an HR intranet portal called "People Place" for the information and tools they need to conduct HR business online. "People Place has become a prime destination on the corporate intranet because it has the personal information employees want along with working HR tools that save them time," says Russ Evansen, HR Brand & Content Manager. "We leverage Authoria not only for the personal information it provides, but also as a way to give our employees consistent and accurate context for making important decisions about their benefits."

Evansen notes that Authoria also allows HR to own its content and make changes almost instantly. "We have a great working relationship with our IT partners," he says. But they have plenty to do without worrying about maintaining our content for us. Authoria lets us take charge of this aspect of our business.

"We're proud to provide a powerful set of content-rich applications like Authoria HR that power the overall success of our customers portal initiatives," said Tod Loofbourrow, President and CEO of Authoria. "Using our patented technology to deliver benefit and HR policy information, we are helping our customers make employee self-service a success and save substantial amounts of money by driving employee inquiries out to the web and away from HR generalists and call centers."

About the Authoria Portal Solution
The Authoria Portal solution puts the power of vertical HR content that fuels portals directly into the hands of HR subject matter experts without creating a dependency on portal/IT teams. Seamlessly integrated within portal platforms, organizations HR professionals can publish meaningful and personalized information that HR maintains over time.

Here are some selected highlights of the Authoria Portal solution:

• Seamless integration Authoria is designed to easily integrate into portals including authentication, authorization, and/or single sign-on infrastructures.
• Reduced IT involvement Authoria is comprised of patented technology and personalized knowledge. Portal/IT teams can focus on their strengths while HR subject matter experts can work on the HR communications that reside within the portal.
• HR Maintains Content HR professionals use tools to implement, update and make modifications to content, eliminating ITs need to be involved in employee communications.
• Built-in Personalization Technology With a personalization feature built directly into the product, Authoria knows exactly what plans employees are enrolled in, specific policy provisions that apply to them, what benefits theyre eligible for, what employee groups they belong to, and more.
• Drive Portal Traffic Authoria allows organizations to provide a positive employee experience with personalized information that drives portal traffic. Providing accurate content drives users to the portal, making the information meaningful and easy to navigate keeps them coming back.

Pricing and Availability
Pricing for Authorias Portal solution is based on employee population size and is available immediately.

About Authoria
Authoria is a world leader in personalized 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 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.

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