Authoria Webcast Explores Best Practices for Selecting a Talent Management Solution

Just-Published Bersin & Associates Research Drives Recommendations
for Choosing the "Best-Fit" Talent Management System
WALTHAM, Mass.--(Business Wire)--Authoria, Inc., the leader in integrated talent management
solutions, today announced a complimentary webcast designed to help
employers find a talent management suite best suited to their unique
needs. Talent management suites, which integrate strategic talent
functions including recruiting, performance management, compensation,
and succession planning, are fast becoming the preferred approach to
addressing the most pressing workforce-related challenges, including:

-- How to attract and hire top talent

-- How to retain high-performers and develop future leaders

-- How to align employee goals with corporate objectives

In this live event, Leighanne Levensaler, Principal Analyst for
Bersin & Associates, will share key findings from the ground-breaking
new research report Talent Management Suites: Market Realities,
Implementation Experiences, and Vendor Profiles. Drawing on the
perspectives of several hundred companies that are evaluating or
implementing talent management suites, Levensaler will provide
guidance on how to make sense of the "more than 40 different software
vendors currently vying for dollars." Authoria's Nina McIntyre will
offer a top talent-management vendor's perspective on evaluation
techniques that maximize an organization's chances of finding the
partner best-suited to its needs.

Webcast attendees will learn:

-- How to find a solution that matches their company's technology
strategy

-- How to triage all the vendors who want to be their talent
management partner

-- The company-specific "homework" assignments that will maximize
the likelihood of a successful implementation

-- How to create use-case scenarios that put vendors through the
right paces

-- Why choosing an integrated solution can be more challenging
than selecting a point product - and why it's worth the effort

WHO: Leighanne Levensaler, Principal Analyst, Bersin & Associates;
Nina McIntyre, Senior Vice President of Strategic Talent Management
Marketing, Authoria, Inc.

WHAT: Webcast: "Selecting the Right Talent Management Solution"

WHEN: Wednesday, January 16, 2008, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST

WHERE: Please visit www.authoria.com/tmsuites to register for this
free online event.

This event is the first in the Authoria 2008 Talent Management
Webcast Series, which will examine best practices and trends in
strategic talent management throughout the year. All attendees will
receive an executive summary of Bersin & Associates' Talent Management
Suites: Market Realities, Implementation Experiences, and Vendor
Profiles.

About Authoria

Authoria(R) 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
integrated 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,
Boeing, and Reuters. For more information, visit www.authoria.com.

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