Novo Nordisk Provides Organisational Insight to Over 29,000 Employees With OrgPlus Enterprise

Sausalito, Calif. - 15 July, 2010 - HumanConcepts, the leading provider of workforce decision support solutions, today announced that Novo Nordisk, a global healthcare company, has implemented OrgPlus Enterprise as its organisational charting solution. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs more than 29,000 employees, in 76 countries, all of whom are able to view organisational charts via the company's secure intranet. According to the HR team, managing and producing charts using OrgPlus Enterprise saves the equivalent of one full time employee. Increased visibility has also improved data accuracy throughout Novo Nordisk.

According to Morten Rossing, People Systems Manager at Novo Nordisk, "We evaluated several competitive solutions and found that OrgPlus Enterprise provides exactly what we need to display up to the minute, easy to view charts of our organisational structure."

Rossing said, "As well as the cost savings in chart production, we are able to ensure more accurate HR data. With greater visibility of the information across the organisation worldwide, people are more likely to let us know if there are any incorrect details. This has significantly improved our data quality and, consequently, has enhanced the value of dependent systems."

OrgPlus Enterprise was selected for its ability to integrate easily with Novo Nordisk's enterprise SAP system. HR data is taken from the system and displayed in presentation quality chart formats on the company intranet, enabling all personnel to view job title and departmental information for any individual in the company. Employees can drill down or up into the organisation to see department reporting structures across all geographies worldwide.

Using OrgPlus Enterprise, HR professionals and senior executives can find resources, view organisational structures, plan changes and manage their workforce. The solution has many valuable uses, from creating basic organisational understanding to fuelling sophisticated workforce analysis and management. OrgPlus Enterprise supports departmental as well as corporate-level initiatives such as succession planning, talent management and budgeting.

Gill Daniels, Director of EMEA West at HumanConcepts, commented, "Ensuring employee information is up to date, reacting to departmental changes and communicating organisational issues worldwide can be a full time job. OrgPlus Enterprise provides a way to display information quickly and visually. It is easily integrated with HR data providing a current snapshot view of the organisational structure to facilitate decision making."

About Novo Nordisk A/S

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with 87 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. The company also has leading positions within hemophilia care, growth hormone therapy and hormone replacement therapy.

Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs more than 29,300 employees in 76 countries, and markets its products in 179 countries. Novo Nordisk's B shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen (Novo-B). Its ADRs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NVO).

For more information please visit: www.novonordisk.com

About HumanConcepts

HumanConcepts global leader in on-demand workforce decision support solutions. Over fifty thousand businesses worldwide—including 400 of the Fortune 500—use OrgPlus® everyday to better understand their workforce and manage change, using information-rich org charts, easy-to-configure workforce metrics, and advanced collaborative modelling tools. Named as Top HR Product of 2008 by Human Resource Executive® magazine, OrgPlus integrates seamlessly with Oracle, SAP, and other leading HCM and HR systems.

HumanConcepts also offers Transition Manager, a comprehensive, on-demand decision support tool designed to help large companies meet the objectives and minimize the risks associated with workforce reorganizations. Transition Manager is the only solution on the market for managing reductions in force, and is currently in use by ten percent of the Fortune 100 companies. By providing real-time insight, reducing legal and compliance exposure, lowering separation costs, and minimizing the loss of key talent, Transition Manager provides immediate and significant value to any company undergoing change.

HumanConcepts is based in Sausalito, California with offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Singapore. For more information visit www.humanconcepts.co.uk.

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HumanConcepts
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