TalentSoft Positioned in the "2011 Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software" by Gartner

PARIS, April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- TalentSoft (http://www.talentsoft.com), the leader in SaaS-based Integrated Talent Management, reinforces its position as a market leader with its inclusion in Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management software"(1). This distinction accompanies the rapid international deployment of TalentSoft on the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform-as-a-Service.

"It is a source of pride to everyone at TalentSoft to be positioned in the 2011 Magic Quadrant by Gartner. This award highlights the relevance and flexibility of our performance and talent management solution in responding to the strategic and operational needs of large companies. This recognition is the result of a constant drive to increase the added value of our services. This fits well with our overall strategy and underscores our extremely rapid growth, as highlighted by Gartner, with a turnover that tripled in 2010." explains Jean-Stéphane Arcis, CEO of TalentSoft.

The TalentSoft integrated EPM solution has been selected for its capacity to manage talent in an integrated way (recruitment, training management, compensation management, etc.), and for its functionality, which is a strong differentiating factor in a rapidly developing market: workforce planning.

The Gartner report notes that: "Delivered via the SaaS model, TalentSoft is best-suited to multinationals wanting an integrated EPM suite (and other talent management applications). TalentSoft has some unique functionality, including Talent Planning support (see "Case Study: Managing Business Change and Legal Compliance With Talent Management at La Francaise des Jeux"), differentiating key talent in compensation management."

Gartner audited fifteen Talentsoft clients in the 2nd half of 2010 and notes their satisfaction: "Customers cited ease of use, configuration and training as product strengths. In addition, they cited account management and ongoing maintenance and support as strengths."

We should point out that TalentSoft has been cited six times by Gartner since being named in the "Cool Vendors in Human Capital Software" report in 2009.

(1)Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software" by James Holincheck, Thomas Otter, Jeff Freyermut. March 28, 2011.

About Gartner's selection method:

Every year Gartner's << Magic Quadrant >> assesses companies on two specific criteria: their global vision, demonstrating their potential for success; and their ability to carry out their strategy, indicating the quality of the products and services developed on an international scale by the company. According to Gartner, the companies placed in the Quadrant are the visionaries that drive the market's evolution.

About TalentSoft:

TalentSoft is the leader in SaaS-based Integrated Talent Management software. TalentSoft's unique positioning combines performance management with job and competency planning to Sustainably Develop the Human Capital of companies. The integrated TalentSoft software suite ensures a complete cycle of Talent Management by consolidating performance reviews, People Reviews and job/competency frameworks. The goal is to increase HR productivity by managing the follow-up of training, succession, mobility, recruitment and compensation plans.

TalentSoft establishes a new HR 2.0 standard thanks to its ergonomics and the flexibility of its processes; this standard provides seamless cooperation between HR, managers and employees. By taking advantage of our best practices in SaaS mode, companies of all sizes and in all sectors have implemented TalentSoft over an average of three-months. These companies include: Aéroports de Paris, Banques Populaires, Bolloré, Clarins, Crédit Mutuel, Elior, Euromaster, Française des Jeux, Limagrain, Ingenico and Sage. Hundreds of thousands of employees in over thirty countries connect to TalentSoft every day.

For more information about TalentSoft: http://www.talentsoft.com

About the Magic Quadrant:

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.