Press Coverage

Redundancy Selection - Why me?
Organisations are increasingly relying on objective solutions to the thorny challenge of redundancy selection, says James Essinger
In today's economic climate, redundancy has become the R-word: a distressing worry for employees who may face a tough struggle to find another job; a nasty threat to an organisation's future competitiveness if financial pressures force organisations to get rid of good people they would rather keep; and a potential legal minefield if organisations handle the redundancy process unfairly. More »

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HumanConcepts in the running for Software Satisfaction Awards 2009
The countdown has begun to vote for this year's winner of the Software Satisfaction Awards 2009. OrgPlus®, the leading org charting and workforce decision support solution, from HumanConcepts, has been nominated for SME and Enterprise categories under HR software. More »

OrgPlus brings Norfolk County Council's HR data to life
OrgPlus equips management with accurate workforce information and up-to-date employee data and analytics.
By putting information in the hands of those who manage employees, the solution facilitates better workforce communication and decision making.
OrgPlus integrates seamlessly with the Council's Oracle HRM solution, providing users with the most current data. More »

Human Resource Executive: Determining Departures
This article on layoffs and reorganizations highlights HumanConcepts' Transition Manager solution. More »

OrgPlus Brings Norfolk County Council's HR Data to Life
Norfolk County Council brought their HR data to life for its 30,000 employees with OrgPlus®, the leading workforce modelling and visualisation solution from HumanConcepts.
OrgPlus enables the HR team and managers greater accessibility and transparency to the workforce data held in its Oracle HRMS. More »

How Technology is Playing a Vital Role in Reorganisations
HumanConcepts will be presenting at this year's UKOUG Conference Series Ireland. We invite you to our presentation on 'How technology is playing a vital role in reorganisations'. Hear real life examples of Oracle HCM clients who have leveraged our organisational charting software, OrgPlus®, for achieving successful reorganisations. More »

North Bay Business Journal: Sausalito Firm Acquires 'Scenario' Software
HumanConcepts' Transition Manager guides workplace change. More »

OrgPlus receives Oracle validation
HumanConcepts has announced that its OrgPlus Enterprise system has received intergration validation with Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management 9.0. Through the Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Partners initiatives, OrgPlus Enterprise completed testing, demonstrating integration and use of best practices and Oracle standards with PeopleSoft Enterprise.
OrgPlus Enterprise is designed for efficient distribution of human resources information across the enterprise. PeopleSoft uses can access critical employee information on-demand to make informed business decisions and proactively manage organisational change, the provider reported.
Customers of the combined system include Quintiles and British Telecom. HumanConcepts is a Certified Partner in the Oracle Partner Network. More »

HumanConcepts announces new validated integration for Oracle
Integration provides extended workforce modelling and visualisation technology to the Oracle® E-Business Suite Human Resource Management System. More »

HumanConcepts announces workforce planning release
HumanConcepts has announced a new release of its workforce planning system OrgPlus 8. The system is designed to permit integrated planning of the workforce and financial management. More »

How to Make Your Org Chart an Asset Instead of a Chore
A company's organisational chart doesn't have to be just a piece of paper with outdated information about who reports to whom. Nor does it need to be a pro forma exercise, dictated by an employee handbook and executives. It can be a powerful tool to help with issues such as succession planning, payroll and identifying structural problems. More »

Diversity is the Business
Managing diversity is not only socially desirable but proven to be a key driver for success within any business. Whether a diversity programme exists, or you are starting from scratch, Martin Sacks, CEO, HumanConcepts organisational charts should play a key role. With a clear link between established diversity programmes and higher workplace moral, lower staff turnover and increased profitability, intelligent org charting tools enables organisations to manage diversity, react quickly to opportunities or threats, and respond to emerging trends. More »

HRD Ireland: Free ROI savings calculator
HumanConcepts, the developer of OrgPlus, a leading software for workforce modelling and intelligence solutions, has launched an online 'savings calculator' showing tangible benefits and return investment (ROI) from information rich organisation charts. The savings calculator can be assessed by HR, business and IT professionals by visiting www.orgplus.co.uk. The calculator is supported by a white paper entitled, Intelligent Organisational Charting - A Powerful New Solution for HR, which includes an example of how a global telecommunications giant with 120,000 employees implemented an intelligent organisational charting solution to plan a corporate restructuring. The process, which would normally take several months, was completed in one week. The white paper can be downloaded at www.orgplus.co.uk.

HumanConcepts partners with Progreso
HumanConcepts, the developer of OrgPlus, announced today a partnership with Belgium-based workforce development system provider, Progreso. More »

OrgPlus gives graphic appeal to SDMS' personnel software
SDMS, a provider of staff development and learning management systems, has integrated HumanConcepts' workforce modelling and intelligence software, OrgPlus, into its products More »

Review: Human Concepts OrgPlus 7 chart organisation software
OrgPlus takes over where programs like Powerpoint and Visio leave off, providing not only tools to draw complex organisation and other hierarchical charts but adding a host of data import, publishing and automation facilities. You can also perform spreadsheet-like calculations on the data, choose how to display it, create and link to sub-charts and so on to create all kinds of things from company structures to phone lists, salary tables and other documents. More »

PC Advisor: OrgPlus 7.0 Professional review

OrgPlus 7.0 Professional has one clearly focused aim: to produce organisational charts. By concentrating on this task at the expense of all others, OrgPlus 7.0 Professional enables you to create complex, data-rich charts that can be used by human resource departments to view critical employee information. More »

PC Plus: Drawing tools in OrgPlus 7 are fairly standard and very easy to use
There's no point denying it, at first glance, creating an organisational chart doesn't seem to be the greatest of graphical challenges. Draw one box at the top for the managing director, a row one level down for the other directors, and then just paste everyone else into their relative departments. It's all so straightforward... isn't it? Of course, when you're tasked with creating a chart and it has hundreds of boxes rather than five or six, and you need to share it with others, and maintain it over time with the minimum of hassle, then you realise this isn't such an easy task after all. Satisfying all these extra real-life requirements has so far earned OrgPlus over half a million customers, but does that mean version 7 is worthy of your cash? We decided to take a closer look. More »

HumanConcepts updates HR suite
OrgPlus Enterprise 3.0 will make it easier for executives to visualise, model and change organisational structures, according to the company. Workforce management and modelling software specialist HumanConcepts announced a major update to its flagship OrgPlus suite yesterday featuring an enhanced graphical interface, tighter integration with SAP and improved change management functionality. More »

Steven Hemsley investigates how technology such as OrgPlus is being used for HR resourcing programmes
The supplier's technology must be able to integrate with equipment running any functions that remain in-house. Glasgow-based telecoms company THUS, an offshoot of Scottish Power, decided to contract out its payroll and expenses processing but needed to ensure that Northgate HR's software would link with its SAP system. Catriona Gemmill, head of HR corporate services at THUS, also wanted to speed up the reporting process and have quicker access to the payroll data that would be handled by Northgate HR using its modular technology, ResourceLink Enterprise. HR staff use passwords to access information on employees stored in databases held in-house or externally. A tool called OrgPlus, from workforce modelling business HumanConcepts, takes information from SAP and displays it in simple charts, using a web browser, for clients' nonHR staff, such as line managers, who regularly need to access the information but are not proficient with SAP. More »

CRN: Gaining capital in HCM sales
Human Capital Management can offer lucrative opportunities for channel players, but skilling up is a must, writes Gareth Kershaw. One of the regrettable, but unshakeable ironies about technology is that it seems to work just fine until people come along and mess it all up. And that is just the IT department. Heaven forbid any users should get involved. More »

HR Zone: Change management: Making it work. By Lucie Benson
Dealing with organisational change is now a regular part of the HR remit, which means that HR professionals need to be equipped with practical skills and capabilities to manage change and reorganisation effectively. Lucie Benson looks at what can be done to ensure the change management process is a successful one. More »

Personnel Today:  People metrics: Show me the numbers
To win a fair hearing in the boardroom, HR directors need to have all the facts, figures and statistics at their fingertips
Who are our most productive employees? Who are the highest earners? How successful are our recruitment programmes in attracting future high-performers? What will our staffing and skills needs be five years from now? More »

Computer Weekly: Pitney Bowes Tackles Data Quality Issue

Office equipment manufacturer Pitney Bowes is preparing to give managers across the company access to SAP HR data using software from workforce specialist HumanConcepts. The software will be used to improve the quality of information in the SAP database, which provides all staff-related information for its enterprise systems, including Active Directory, Payroll, the Remedy Helpdesk and its recruitment software. More »

PC Advisor: OrgPlus pretty much has the organisational-chart market wrapped up

Veterans of Microsoft Office will already be familiar with OrgPlus. The software giant licensed earlier versions of the program to add organisational chart-making capabilities to its flagship office suite.
These days, OrgPlus pretty much has the organisational-chart market wrapped up. The reason for this is that, while it may look like a simple drawing tool, it's actually much more. Plenty of people might make do with Visio or PowerPoint for these tasks, but because of its specialisation, OrgPlus is much easier to use. More »

IT Reviews: HumanConcepts OrgPlus 6 - powerful tool for creating and maintaining organisational charts

General purpose tools like Excel and PowerPoint are all very well, but for some tasks a more specialised application is better. So it is with organisational charts, for example, where OrgPlus 6 from HumanConcepts is both easier to use and offers greater functionality, including automated data import and publishing options. OrgPlus 6 is totally dedicated to the production of organisational charts. More »

Personal Computer World: A well-featured package that can be used for more than drawing charts

Ask most people to produce a chart showing their company or departmental structure and they'll reach for PowerPoint or something similar.
An alternative, however, is OrgPlus 6 from HumanConcepts, which makes charting easier and adds a raft of extra functionality including data import, flexible publishing and automation options. OrgPlus is an easy-to-install Windows desktop application. There's nothing out of the ordinary when it comes to the core drawing facilities; as you might expect it's totally geared to building hierarchical charts, with the usual palette of tools to draw and link boxes, add labels, set backgrounds and so on. More »

IT Week: HumanConcepts unveils refresh. Firm refreshes its OrgPlus software line to meet firms' changing needs

Human capital management specialist HumanConcepts has unveiled a major refresh of its OrgPlus software line, designed to help firms better visualise, model and analyse their organisational structures. More »