Plateau Named a Leader in Enterprise Learning Management Suites by Independent Research Firm: Company Announces that it has Scored Talent Managemen

ARLINGTON, Va. (Business Wire EON) February 14, 2008 -- "We are pleased that Forrester has recognized Plateau as a leader in its Enterprise Learning Management Wave, and take great pride in being the first and only talent management solution provider to have been named a leader in this report as well as Forrester's Integrated Performance and Compensation Solutions Wave," said Paul Sparta, CEO, Plateau Systems. "Learning, performance, and compensation are clearly key components of any company's talent management strategy. By delivering a seamless talent management solution that also provides deep, stand-alone functionality for learning management, performance management, compensation management, and career and succession planning, Plateau allows customers to grow their talent management strategy and solution in line with their business goals, and allows them to do so without having to trade functionality for integration, and vice versa."

Forrester's report evaluated 12 leading learning management vendors - across 90 criteria - according to current offering, strategy and market presence. Plateau was awarded the top score in the Strategy category, receiving the highest possible score for Product Enhancement. According to the report, "Plateau plans to continue to build out its talent management suites, as well as to develop capabilities in Web 2.0 technologies." Forrester further states: "in our user reference checks, Plateau received the highest marks of all vendors for knowledgeable, honest, and supportive sales, implementation, and customer service teams."

According to Forrester, learning suites are "quickly becoming a critical component of an organization's talent management efforts." Forrester went on to note that "pure-play vendors like, Plateau Systems (along with 3 other vendors), have created or acquired performance management, succession planning, and compensation capabilities and have integrated these components into a talent management suite that complements the learning suite."

With organizations recognizing the value and benefits of deploying unified, extensible talent management solutions, Plateau is seeing an increased demand among its customers for a complete, integrated talent management suite. In a recent interview in Talent Management Magazine, Plateau customer Dave Roberts, vice president of talent management at Western Union, highlighted the value of Plateau's complete offering, stating, "one of the key strategic areas of focus is integration. We want a one-stop shop for the various clients of talent management. The company had a history of very siloed, separated talent management processes. We're pulling those together around a set of key talent imperatives, things that people in the organization need to do in order to drive the business forward and accomplish the strategic goals of the business." According to Lisa Jacoba, Western Union's SVP of Talent Management, "Our hope is to utilize the data on the performance and learning sides, and then integrate all of that to help us make some of those key decisions when we have to back fill a role or get into a new line of business, and really use this as our search engine to look at the talent and make some decisions on how to mobilize our talent."

Further demonstrating its strength in providing comprehensive talent management solutions, Plateau debuted as leader in The Forrester Wave(TM): Integrated Performance And Compensation Solutions, Q3 2007. According to that report, "Plateau (along with 3 other vendors) established early integrated performance and compensation leadership, thanks to their depth of functionality." Forrester added that with "their (Plateau and one other vendor) history in learning and Plateau's well-defined forward looking strategy gives (them) a leg up in career development planning, and they are good options for companies with a strong emphasis on integrating learning into their overall talent management strategy."

About Plateau

Plateau is a leading provider of talent management software, content and services designed to increase workforce productivity and drive business success. Plateau's award-winning software is powering talent management initiatives across some of the world's most successful organizations, including the American Red Cross, General Electric, the Internal Revenue Service, Capital One Services and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Industry analysts at Bersin & Associates and other leading information and technology research and advisory firms continue to recognize Plateau's leadership in delivering best-in-class functionality, technology and customer satisfaction. Plateau is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.Plateau.com.