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| Workstream Announces Workstream Development 6.0 Workstream Inc. has announced the release of Workstream Development 6.0, a new addition to the Workstream TalentCenter suite. The Workstream Development 6.0 product line significantly enhances the employee development capabilities the Company offers with particular emphasis on providing Human Resource organizations with tools to retain high potential employees and develop the quality of their overall workforces. Key components of this solution are a robust succession planning product, organizational charting and the ability for employees to create and manage individual development plans through access to over 10, 000 pre-packaged career development courses, including the entire SkillSoft e-library, as well as through direct links to the Workstream Competency Dictionary, thus enabling customers to simplify and efficiently manage the competency models, jobs and roles within their organizations. Workstream Development 6.0 is a highly configurable offering where administrators can choose from hundreds of options for every aspect of competency development and succession planning. Workstream Development has deep integration to Workstream Performance, which enables employee assessment results to trigger the creation of Individual Development Plans that seamlessly address the competency gaps and training needs of employees. These IDP's can be managed against a wide array of skills, behaviors, attributes and competencies. This unique approach leverages the Workstream Competency Dictionary which contains more than 9, 000 technical competencies with the learning and development content provided through a set of pre-integrated links to over 10, 000 SkillSoft training courses designed for employees and managers. Once training is completed, employee profiles are then automatically updated within the Workstream Development product. Workstream Development can be deployed to handle European and Asian languages. Workstream Development is also a solution that allows customers to configure and administer the systems themselves, without IT intervention. The Workstream Development 6.0 product can be integrated with other major ERP systems including SAP and Oracle-PeopleSoft. Key Features of Workstream Development 6.0: -- Highly Configurable - Flexible user interface, offering hundreds of options for configuring every aspect of competency management and succession planning and individual development plans. -- Integrated Competency Library - Delivers a pre-integrated competency library of over 9, 000 technical competencies. -- Individual Development Plans - Supports IDP creation and management through out the entire career development process. -- Common Job Profiles - Allows for easy creation of comprehensive job profiles utilizing over 100 pre-defined job descriptions that leverage the Workstream Competency Dictionary. -- Multi-Language Support - Supports multiple languages and character sets. -- Succession Planning - Provides the ability to evaluate potential successors and designate and analyze them against an overall organizational or departmental succession plan. This includes a tool that automatically finds and ranks potential successors based on their competencies. -- Rapid Set Up - Provides a strong configuration capability that allows for efficient set-up and quick deployment for small groups or across the enterprise. -- Organizational Charting - Uses information that resides in your Workstream or corporate systems to create visual organization charts to assist in planning and what-if analysis. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |