General

Brandable, customizable interface

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Simple, intuitive user interface.

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Role-based views

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Unlimited, flexible hierarchies

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WYSIWYG Printing

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Configurable, automatic email notifications of changes, approaching or lapsed deadlines, thresholds, or other actions required.

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Customizable Help

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Zero footprint browser-based interface

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Handles thousands of employees, covering all staff and managerial levels, at multiple locations.

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Role-based dashboards with targeted, configurable content for executives, managers, and/or employees.

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Organization Charting

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Distributed architecture

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Analysis

Plan level analysis

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Integrated SWOT (Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)

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Analysis technique library

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Analysis appendix

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Analysis assumptions

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Scorecarding/Operational Planning

System-created maps

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Perspectives and Themes

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Plan and plan component library

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System driven plan evaluations

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Plan evaluation technique library

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Implicit and explicit plan role management

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Planning and evaluation wizards

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Initiative/Project/Six Sigma portfolio management

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Priority management

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Employee Performance

Configurable, automated performance workflow, including plan and evaluation generation events

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Accommodates any Performance Cycle timeline (monthly, quarterly, annual, etc.) as well as anniversary-based.

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Customizable performance components - Goals/ Objectives, Key Performance Indicators (KPI's), Competencies, Actions and more

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Components can be weighted according to their importance and priority

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Configurable Role-specific security models

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Automated plan generation based on Job Description templates

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Ability to align personal goals with appropriate business unit, or strategic objectives

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Plan component library

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Planning and performance evaluation wizards

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Performance improvement planning

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Competency libraries

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Implicit and explicit roles management (including Coach role)

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Support for complex rating and approval workflows

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Automatic, customizable rating calculations

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Automated email workflow notifications 

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Self-rating, supervisor rating or third party rating capabilities

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Manager Evaluation Progress Dashboard

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Evaluation Technique Library

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Pay for performance compensation management

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Bonus allocation

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Managers, Coaches, Employees or other evaluators can add component specific or overall performance comments at any time

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Electronic approval signatures avoid printing documents

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Final evaluations are snapshotted and available for viewing to Managers, Employees, and HR personnel

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Reporting on expected vs. actual distribution of review ratings

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Supervisor/administrator access to online individual and departmental performance reports, including real-time progress status

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Measures/KPIs

Define targets, benchmarks and future targets

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Threshold setting and visual status

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Trend charting

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Cascading

Strategic Focus Areas across the enterprise

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Operational plan components between business units

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Analysis results to plan

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Operational plan components from business unit to an individual

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Reporting and Dashboards

Flexible publishing and filtering

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Multiple visualizations

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Export to PDF, Excel, other database

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Exception and Contribution level reports

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Administration

Distributed administration

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Implicit security dynamically defines roles based on Organization hierarchy and ownership reducing HR administration

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LDAP/active directory integration

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Role-based security

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Audit trails

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