Ottawa, ON, New Orleans, LA, SHRM Conference Booth 818 – June 29, 2009 – Market leader Halogen Software and e-learning provider SkillSoft (NASDAQ: SKIL) today announced that they will deliver 10 SkillSoft e-learning courses as a standard component of Halogen eLearning Manager™, providing outstanding value to corporate learning centers everywhere. In addition, organizations will benefit from the truly seamless user experience for performance-based e-learning.

“We know that for e-learning initiatives to be truly successful, they have to be easy to use and produce a measurable return in the areas they are targeting,” said David Mallon, senior analyst, Bersin & Associates. “The Halogen and SkillSoft partnership gives users an experience in which the whole process is completely seamless – the first we’ve seen of its kind. From assigning a development plan during the performance appraisal process, to registering for and completing courses, and signing off on learning activities, HR, learning leaders, managers and employees should find this closed loop experience to be extremely efficient and effective.”

The combination of Halogen’s performance-based approach to learning with SkillSoft’s targeted and effective courseware helps organizations of all sizes get up and running quickly with e-learning - with no additional work required. All courses are fully integrated and pre-mapped to competencies in the Halogen library, eliminating tedious and time consuming tasks for training administrators. The tight integration also means users can select an appropriate development activity to address a particular skill gap, and even launch an e-learning course right within the employee’s performance appraisal or development plan, without ever having to login to another system, or switch between user interfaces.

“We chose Halogen eLearning Manager because of the way it tightly links performance and developmental plans with learning,” said Michael Schott, Vice President Human Resources, Swank Audio Visuals. “This will make it much easier for managers and team members to address career progression during their mid-year and annual reviews. In addition, the accessibility of the appropriate training resources from within the team member’s appraisal section will be a viable tool for all. The SkillSoft courses will be a great addition to our learning portfolio.”

The SkillSoft courses included with Halogen eLearning Manager have been specially selected and vetted by business experts to help develop key competencies. Industry-specific e-learning bundles have also been created for healthcare, professional services and financial services organizations. Customers will also be able to purchase additional SkillSoft courses that will map seamlessly into the application.

“The Halogen-SkillSoft integration provides organizations with an immediate way to derive value from their e-learning investments,” said John Ambrose, Senior Vice President of Strategy, Corporate Development and Emerging Business, SkillSoft. “Learning is a critical component of any successful talent management strategy, and this combined offering levels many of the hurdles companies traditionally face.”

“We work very hard to deliver exceptional value to our customers,” said Donna Ronayne, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Halogen Software. “This partnership and the inclusion of valuable SkillSoft courseware with Halogen eLearning Manager is a perfect example of our commitment to deliver a world class customer experience.”

About Halogen Software

Halogen Software is recognized as a market leader by industry analysts and is 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. Halogen was named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software in 2009 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.

About SkillSoft

SkillSoft PLC (Nasdaq: SKIL) is a leading SaaS provider of on-demand e-learning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, education and small to medium-sized businesses. SkillSoft enables business organizations to maximize business performance through a combination of comprehensive e- learning content, online information resources, flexible learning technologies and support services.

Content offerings include business, IT, desktop, compliance and consumer/SMB courseware collections, as well as complementary content assets such as Leadership Development Channel video products, KnowledgeCenter(TM) portals, virtual instructor-led training services and online mentoring services. SkillSoft’s Books24×7(R) product offering includes access to more than 20,000 digitized IT and business books, as well as book summaries and executive reports. Technology offerings include the SkillPort(R) learning management system, Search-and-Learn(R), SkillSoft(R) Dialogue(TM) and virtual classroom.

SkillSoft courseware content described herein is for information purposes only and is subject to change without notice. SkillSoft has no obligation or commitment to develop or deliver any future release, upgrade, feature, enhancement or function described in this press release except as specifically set forth in a written agreement.

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Halogen :
Connie Costigan
Director Marketing Communications
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E: ccostigan@halogensoftware.com

Ottawa, ON – June 25, 2009 –Talent Management leader Halogen Software today announced Activity Tracker; the industry’s first consolidated feed that alerts Halogen users to any activity taking place in the system related to their performance or development, or that of their employees. Activity Tracker offers a familiar Web 2.0 experience for all end users. Similar to the news feed on social networking site Facebook, and network updates on LinkedIn, Activity Tracker posts updates about users’ activity in one view with links to the details about the activity.

The first status update feature of its kind within a Talent Management solution, Activity Tracker has been designed in response to a real business requirement – the need to understand what actions are taking place related to performance within the Talent Management system. Activity Tracker enables HR, management and employees to see activities and updates in one consolidated, real-time feed. Users can now more easily track if items such as goals or development plans are being updated, performance journal notes are being entered, and the overall engagement level of employees and managers with the system. Not only does the tool save users time in terms of not having to search for information updates, but like Halogen’s newly launched Talent Profile, it has been designed to drive application stickiness and adoption and entrench talent management processes more strongly within the organization. Activity Tracker has been well received by customers as a perfect way to gain quick insight into the updates taking place within the system.

Amanda Easton, Employee Education and Development Manager with SNL Financial which has over 1,000 employees using the Halogen the system, states “both HR and managers can benefit from a consolidated feed of all recent activity taking place in the Halogen Talent Management Suite. The notion that updates are housed in one central feed delivered to managers directly sounds like an ideal solution.”

Three views are available with Activity Tracker: my view, which allows users to see relevant activity related to their performance and development; a direct reports view, which enables managers to see updates by their employees; and a second-level management view; which enables senior managers to see activity two levels down within the organization. Activity Tracker preferences can be set to turn views on or off.

Activity Tracker is available as part of Halogen’s new Talent Management Suite 9.1 which is currently scheduled to begin shipping in September 2009, and comes as a pre-integrated component of Halogen’s Talent Management applications.

Halogen’s Activity Tracker feature will be showcased in presentations at Halogen booth 818 at the SHRM Conference in New Orleans next week.

About Halogen Software
Halogen Software is recognized as a market leader by industry analysts and is 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. Halogen was named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Employee performance Management Software in 2009 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.

Media Contact:
Maggie Patterson
PR Consultant, Halogen Software
T: 613-989-1866
E: mpatterson@ripnet.com

Ottawa, ON – June 25, 2009 Talent Management leader Halogen Software today announced its Talent Profile solution, designed to succeed where traditional employee profiles have failed. This solution’s unique features have been designed to provide greater flexibility and insight for talent decision-making across the organization, drive collaboration among employees and departments, and increase adoption and system usage, making talent management a core organizational value.

Halogen’s Talent Profile solution incorporates all the elements one could expect from a profiling module and extends the value, security and adoption of such a system with distinct features including: fully customizable profile elements to collect information most relevant to a company’s business requirements, multiple role-based profile views, and an HR controlled process to help ensure profile completion and richer talent information.

Flexible, configurable employee profiles
Where conventional solutions are static, providing predefined sections and fields based only on the vendor’s suggestions and limiting the search and reporting value of the data, Halogen’s Talent Profile solution can be completely customized based on a company’s business priorities. The ability to create custom fields can provide deeper insight into a particular factor or competency that is unique to one organization.

“Our firm growth targets require we have the right associates in the right roles at the right time. We need a tool that will help us match our associates’ skills and passions to the needs of a specific position and market,” said Claudio Diaz, SPHR, Chief Human Capital Officer with Wipfli LLP. “For example, if we need to find the perfect internal candidate to head up a new office, we want to be able to search on criteria that are anchored in our mission, such as giving back to our communities. Halogen’s offering allows us to create and maintain this rich level of detail that captures our associates’ broader experience, expertise and capabilities.”

Enhanced security levels
Security limitations with traditional employee profile systems mean they can only provide two profile views: a “public view” which is more limited but searchable by all employees, or an administrator/manager view which shows much more detailed talent information but is potentially too sensitive to be used by other members of the organization. Halogen’s robust security model provides definable role-based views, depending on an individual’s requirements for information within the company. Organizations have the flexibility to determine who can see what, and they can define their own uses for the profile based on business needs.

“As an IT consultancy we need to give various team members different types of access to the talent profiles,” said Steve Swanson, Executive Vice President, Bleum Incorporated. “For example we are regularly looking for candidates to be on project teams. Project leaders and others looking to fill these roles will require different access levels to the profiles for security purposes. With a traditional talent profile, which only provides two levels of access, we could not accomplish this. Halogen’s Talent Profile solution gives us this critical flexibility.”

Promotes user adoption and profile updates
Another hurdle with traditional employee profiles relates to user adoption – and upkeep. They tend to rely on employees to independently complete them and maintain them, meaning any data or insight promised won’t be delivered if adoption is low. With Halogen’s robust workflow engine, HR has the ability to include process steps that relate to updating employee profiles, requesting employees to complete the required profile information, and reminding managers when their team members still have tasks to complete. Profile updating can be configured as its own process or included as a step in an on-boarding, performance appraisal or talent assessment process. This ensures profile completion is part of the overall talent management processes within the organization to drive user adoption.

Superior searching options
Halogen’s Talent Profile also provides superior searching and reporting capabilities, and makes connecting and collaborating easy for employees across the organization. Users can either conduct simple search engine type searches or advanced searches to find talent profiles that meet particular criteria. Searches are savable and can be exported for further analysis, and profiles can be compared against each other.

These advanced features provide HR and managers with more actionable talent information and enable departments and peers within the organization to connect and collaborate based on the information most important to them.

Halogen’s Talent Profile solution is scheduled for release September 2009 as an integrated component of Halogen’s Talent Management Suite, at no extra charge to existing and new customers.

Halogen’s Talent Profile solution will be showcased in presentations at Halogen booth 818 at the SHRM Conference in New Orleans next week.

About Halogen Software
Halogen Software is recognized as a market leader by industry analysts and is 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. Halogen was named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Employee performance Management Software in 2009 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.

Media Contact:
Maggie Patterson
PR Consultant, Halogen Software
T: 613-989-1866
E: mpatterson@ripnet.com

Ottawa, ON – June 2, 2009 – Halogen Software today announced that the company is now delivering the talent management industry’s richest and most comprehensive healthcare content as standard features with every healthcare-specific talent management suite shipped. This new best practices-driven healthcare content is designed to help healthcare organizations meet strategic organizational goals such as delivering outstanding patient care and ensuring patient satisfaction.

Healthcare organizations face a number of unique talent management challenges including a tight labor market and numerous regulatory requirements. Halogen’s new healthcare content pack will help organizations save start up time with rich, healthcare specific content aligned with best practices, and ensure they are able to quickly and easily establish processes in support of Joint Commission requirements.

“Halogen is very responsive to our needs, and this new content pack reflects their unparalleled understanding of the healthcare industry’s talent management requirements,” said Susan Clapper, Human Resources Director, Lutheran Life Communities. “We are particularly excited about the new comment helper text and development tips – they are unique and unlike anything we’ve seen available. These tools will support employee focus on organizational goals and values, such as exceptional care and high resident satisfaction.”

Halogen’s new content pack was developed by industry experts with assistance from leading healthcare providers across North America to ensure it addresses the current talent management requirements for healthcare facilities. The pack provides specific content which is unmatched in the industry for depth and breadth including:

• A library of healthcare-specific performance standards including behavioral descriptions related to patient care;
• Healthcare-specific comment helper text and coaching/development tips supporting these performance standards;
• A competency library containing over 1000 clinical competencies;
• A set of competency and orientation checklists; and
• Over 250 position-specific performance appraisal forms.

“In healthcare we have a number of complex reporting and accreditation requirements, so selecting the right talent management vendor was very important to us,” explained Heather Parsons, Senior Human Resources Generalist, Critical Care Systems. “We reviewed a number of solutions but Halogen was the only vendor that demonstrated they truly understood our unique needs, and was able to offer the level of flexibility we required. Using the Halogen healthcare-specific solution we have seen a tangible, positive impact on everything from our Joint Commission reviews to recruiting and retention.”

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has identified and exclusively endorsed Halogen eAppraisal Healthcare as its employee performance and talent management solution of choice for member hospitals and healthcare organizations across the United States. More than 500 healthcare facilities across North America currently rely on Halogen.

About Halogen Software
Halogen Software is recognized as a market leader by industry analysts and is 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. Halogen was named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software in 2009 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.

Media contact:
Maggie Patterson
PR Consultant, Halogen Software
T: 613-989-1866
E: mpatterson@ripnet.com

New customers added during the company’s record quarter include CarVal Investors ,Gates Canada, Goodman and Company, Joey Tomato’s, Kingston Technology Company, L-3 Wescam, Littelfuse, Mitsui & Co., Monongalia Health System, Oryx Gas To Liquids Limited, PCS Nitrogen Trinidad Limited, RJ Burnside & Associates, Sciele Pharma, and Venice Regional Medical Center.

Halogen Software’s customer satisfaction continues to rise along with its revenue. This is reflected in the company’s year-over-year increase in “Net Promoter Score,” a leading and accepted industry standard that assesses the likelihood of a client to recommend Halogen to others.

“Halogen gives us a range of services that will help us seamlessly implement the software in a way that meets our unique needs. We have never felt compelled to change our process to fit their system, instead we have easily configured their system to fit our requirements,” said Robert Eash, Director of Human Resources with Goodman and Company, LLP. “The deployment of new software is often full of unexpected pitfalls, but Halogen has implementation down to a science, we feel certain to succeed following the road map they have laid out for us.”

The company is finding that an increasing number of organizations globally are looking to quickly gain a better understanding of their workforces. Understanding where to allocate scarce resources and how to strategically develop talent has become an urgent necessity for many companies. This shift supports demand for Halogen’s enterprise class, easy-to-use talent management suite.

“Halogen will enable us to have greater insight into developing and rewarding our employees. Now more than ever, having this kind of information at your finger tips is a strategic advantage. Our employees are our greatest asset and we must make sure that we are all rowing in the same direction – with Halogen in place, we have the tools to ensure this,” said Mark Roché,

Sr. Director, Human Resources & Facilities Management with Alameda Alliance for Health.

About Halogen Software

Halogen Software is recognized as a market leader by industry analysts and is 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. Halogen was named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Employee Performance Management Software in 2009 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.   

Media contact:

Maggie Patterson
PR Consultant, Halogen Software
T: 613-989-1866
E: mpatterson@ripnet.com