HR Solutions, Inc. Announces Alliance with Halogen Software

Online, December 4, 2009 (Newswire.com) - HR Solutions, Inc. today announced an alliance with Halogen Software Inc., a leading provider of talent management products. The company will now offer its clients access to Halogen's award-winning talent management solutions, as a complementary suite of strategic HR applications to HR Solutions' leading employee engagement and retention products.

Halogen Software and HR Solutions provide a range of workforce-related software products designed to drive high performance. Both are also active in a variety of industries and share a focus in the healthcare space, having each received exclusive endorsements from the American Hospital Association. The organizations established an alliance after recognizing the complementary business benefits their solutions deliver to clients.

"As a client of both HR Solutions and Halogen, we were excited to learn that two of our favorite vendors are coming together," said Deborah Whalen, Manager of Organizational Development at Centrastate Healthcare System. "Both offer supportive tools that align with our human resources efforts, and we look forward to what their partnership will offer."

The combination of HR Solutions' surveys and action-planning services with Halogen Software's talent management solutions provides clients with the opportunity to cross leverage engagement and performance management data for better business results. HR Solutions provides valuable survey data that can be tracked in Halogen's system. For example, surveys from HR Solutions can identify potential management challenges and action plans. Halogen can support accountability by making improvement in these areas part of a manager's performance appraisal.

Halogen's market-leading talent management solutions follow industry best practices and make it easy for HR professionals and their organizations to align employee and organizational goals, giving everyone visibility and accountability for success. Halogen eAppraisal and e360 Multirater have been designed to give employees the richly-detailed performance feedback they need to develop and succeed. Managers and HR can easily identify skill gaps as well as who the high potentials and top performers are, to groom them as part of succession planning using Halogen eSuccession. Halogen eCompensation helps organizations recognize employee contributions with accurate and fair pay for performance compensation management, while Halogen eLearning Manager facilitates the linking of learning and development programs with bottom line success.

HR Solutions empowers organizations to increase their employee engagement and retention by providing results-oriented survey instruments and advisory services. HR Solutions also offers flexible, technically advanced reporting and action-planning solutions through its distinguished online system, ActionPro®. The organization's new PEER®, or Personal Employee Engagement Report (Patent Pending), product allows employees to identify their own level of workplace engagement and provides personalized, best practice recommendations for self-improvement. Standing as the first tool of its kind, PEER® is one example of the types of innovations that set HR Solutions on the forefront of its industry.

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About Halogen: Halogen Software is recognized as a market leader by industry analysts and is strongly endorsed by the thousands of HR professionals who use their talent management solutions. The company offers a complete suite of web-based products that automate, simplify, and integrate performance appraisals, 360 degree feedback, compensation management, succession planning, and learning management. Halogen's offering makes HR best-practices accessible to companies of all sizes and its healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and professional services specific suites meet the unique needs of these industries. Halogen is consistently recognized by the industry and its customers for its exceptional implementation and support services. Halogen was named a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for employee performance management software in 2009 and has won multiple awards for its corporate leadership and product innovation, including HR Technology Product of the Year. For more information, visit www.halogensoftware.com.

About HR Solutions, Inc.: Noted for its comprehensive research and actionable data, HR Solutions, Inc. is an international Human Capital Management consulting firm located in Chicago, IL, specializing in employee engagement and exit survey design, implementation, and results. For more information, please visit http://www.hrsolutionsinc.com, or call 312-236-7170.