Softscape Introduces New HR Architecture with Launch of Softscape PeopleOS

Softscape, the industry pioneer in innovative people management, today announced Softscape PeopleOS, the software platform for HR business processes based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). With its configurable infrastructure on which to more easily integrate multiple systems and manage tactical HR functions linked with Human Capital Management (HCM) functions, Softscape PeopleOS is the underlying technology for all of Softscapeís products and the operating system for an HR organizationís strategic architecture. Softscapeís business process platform, along with its latest configuration controller, Softscape CMX, provides the reusable parts for strategic people management functions that can be easily modified and reconfigured to meet the changing business processes of any size organization.

Organizations continue to struggle with rigid and incompatible systems that they have accumulated over the years. The difficulty and expense of getting these systems to interoperate, as well as the challenges of modifying them to adapt to changing business processes, have overwhelmed budgets and their ability to grow. To meet these challenges, software needs to be flexible enough with streamlined integration across different systems. With Softscape PeopleOS, organizations can now leverage the flexibility of SOA to manage their HR infrastructure, while maintaining open standards to integrate with a variety of other systems.

ìHR organizations have a significantly challenging environment with a fragmentation of their workforce related applications, information and services, which has hindered the potential value of employees,î said Mark Smith, CEO and EVP Research at Ventana Research. ìSoftscape has addressed this challenge by elevating the importance of their people-centric platform, leveraging standards-based technology like SOA to accelerate the opportunity of delivering value to organizations by addressing the diversity of needs in HR organizations.î

Flexible Integration
Based on industry standards including SOAP, XML, .NET, C#, and WSDL, Softscape PeopleOS eliminates the interoperability hurdles and converts traditionally large and static systems into modular and flexible components that can be easily modified to grow as an organization grows. Through the Softscape PeopleOS architecture, customers can connect their upstream and downstream applications directly to Softscapeís HCM functions. Applications ranging from SAP and Oracle/Peoplesoft systems to proprietary home-grown systems can use the application services provided by Softscape transparently.

ìSoftscape is far ahead of most vendors in the industry having started years ago building the foundation for interoperability and inherently integrated systems,î said Dave Watkins, CEO and co-founder of Softscape. ìWe continue to pioneer the HR software industry with new and timely approaches to people management that enable our customers to leverage real-time benefits today, not years from now.î

Built from the ground up over the past decade, Softscapeís people management technology is recognized by industry analysts as the most comprehensive HCM platform. Softscapeís inherently integrated structure, coupled with its ever expanding configuration toolkit, offers customers unprecedented flexibility to deploy HR systems that can more easily integrate with other systems. With Softscape PeopleOS, customers can also take the platform further to build multi-function enterprise applications that manage other business processes including relationship management, resource planning, vendor management, and case management.

Softscape PeopleOS reduces the complexities of HR systems by providing the open standards that allow external systems a simplified means to link with HCM functionality including configurable processes for hiring, workforce alignment, employee development, compensation planning, and collaboration, as well as transactional HR management functions. Workflow and security complexities are handled transparently, allowing the HR system to provide new functionality. The end result is a more simplified approach to managing complex business processes, while making it easier to update and alter each discrete application component.

The Softscape CMX configuration toolkit enables customers to further extend the capabilities of their deployment by leveraging wizards, open standards, and hundreds of configuration options to rapidly construct or reconfigure systems on the fly. With integrated Workforce Analytics and options for integrating third-party statistical data, Softscape goes beyond reporting on where customers are today, and helps them better plan and manage where they need to be tomorrow.