Human Resources: Professional Services Firms: Use Talent Management to Improve Retention

OTTAWA, ON — December 3, 2008—A growing number of professional
services firms across North America are succeeding at talent management
with Halogen Software's Talent Management Suite for Professional Services.
Now, hundreds of professional services organizations throughout North
America are improving employee retention and organizational goal alignment,
increasing billable hours and easily consolidating crucial performance data
from multiple sources. In the third quarter of 2008, Halogen's 24th
consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth, professional services
organizations made up almost 25 percent of Halogen's new customers.
Halogen professional services clients use their talent management solutions to
help develop their reputations as progressive, professional and employee-
focused firms, attracting and retaining top talent in highly competitive
environments. In these organizations performance management is an ongoing
day-to-day process, employee development is key, and the link between
individual and corporate goals is part of the culture.

Based in Pensacola Florida, O'Sulivan Creel distinguishes itself through its
commitment to retaining and developing its more than 170 high-caliber
employees. "Every member of our team is vital to achieving the extraordinary
goals of our firm, " said Kathy Anthony, Partner with O'Sullivan Creel and 2008
Business Leader of the Year for the Pensacola Bay Area. "Over the past 4
years, Halogen has enabled us to improve the communication and
understanding between our employees and the firm, which drives employee
satisfaction and retention. Our team values the employee performance
management process, viewing it as a roadmap to achieving their personal
success in the firm."

In many professional services firms, employees work on several projects or
client engagements, with different leaders, in a given year. Halogen
eAppraisal Professional Services is the only product on the market that
provides both built in project and engagement reviews, and an integrated
multi-rater feedback tool. This unmatched functionality enables managers to
gather and analyze crucial performance data from multiple evaluators and
projects, and have it automatically rolled into the employee's performance
appraisal form, for broader, fairer reviews.

Recently named one of South Carolina's Fastest Growing CompaniesSM DeVita
& Associates needed an employee performance management system that
could accommodate matrixed reporting and project reviews. "As an
engineering firm dedicated to the success of our employees, we knew we
wanted to move to an online talent management system, but really needed to
ensure that the implementation would be simple and not waste valuable
time," said Carrie Scott, HR Manager with DeVita. "Halogen was the only
vendor that offered a system that was flexible enough to capture our existing
processes and that truly addressed the needs of our industry."

For professional services organizations, where billable hours equal revenue,
easing the time-consuming burden of paper-based performance appraisals is
critical. Halogen's offering enables organizations to automate and streamline
workflow, centralize employee performance data, and assist managers in
writing meaningful appraisals, saving everyone valuable time.

Halogen customers like management and technology consulting firm North
Highland are freed up to focus more time on providing high-value services to
clients. As illustrated by consecutive top four rankings on Consulting
Magazine's Best Firms to Work For list, North Highland sees employees as its
greatest asset. "Our growth is tied directly to our clients' success," said
Rebecca Arnold, North Highland's Director of Human Resources, "and our
ability to help our clients succeed is tied directly to our employees' total
focus on activities that add value to their clients' businesses. Halogen has
saved us considerable time in terms of our performance management
processes. More importantly, it has increased the quality of employee
reviews, given us excellent authoring tools and specific competencies for our
industry and improved the insight we have into performance."

About Halogen Software
Halogen Software is recognized as a market leader by industry analysts and
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 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, 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.