Released on: February 7, 2008, 2:22 am

Press Release Author: Onboarding

Industry: Human Resources

Press Release Summary: Enwisen, the leader in on-demand workforce communications,
today announced its sponsorship of Aberdeen Group's research benchmark entitled "All
Aboard: Effective Onboarding Strategies and Techniques." In the report, Aberdeen
Group, a Harte-Hanks company, examined three key performance criteria to distinguish
Best-in-Class companies' use of onboarding.

Press Release Body: NOVATO, CA (February 5, 2008) - Enwisen, the leader in on-demand
workforce communications, today announced its sponsorship of Aberdeen Group's
research benchmark entitled "All Aboard: Effective Onboarding Strategies and
Techniques." In the report, Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks company, examined three
key performance criteria to distinguish Best-in-Class companies' use of onboarding.
The research uncovered that, as a result of the strategy, capabilities and
technology utilization related to onboarding, 100% of Best-in-Class organizations
improved year-over-year new hire retention, 60% reduced time-to-productivity for new
hires, and 57% increased completion rate for onboarding tasks and activities.
Shrinking talent pools, coupled with high recruiting costs, have created a
critical need to retain new hires and enable them to perform productively in
their new capacity and environment. Many organizations are looking beyond
traditional new hire orientation programs and towards formalized onboarding
strategies. The Aberdeen report is based upon the compilation of 794 survey
responses, primarily from human resource and line of business managers. Among
their findings was that Best-in-Class organizations are identifying HR and
business issues - such as new hire retention - that can be addressed by
onboarding and are implementing programs and measures to improve these
situations.
Enwisen's Web-based onboarding solution - known as AnswerSource Onboarding -
orchestrates the entire onboarding process. AnswerSource Onboarding enables
companies to onboard their new hires from "day zero" as it even allows them to
pre-board from home in advance of their first day. AnswerSource Onboarding works
in concert with existing HR applications - such as applicant tracking systems and
HRMS - by capturing and routing new hire data electronically and effortlessly.
Most important, AnswerSource Onboarding extends a company's employment brand
beyond the initial recruiting process to welcome new hires into the organization
with a highly personalized experience.
Deepjot Chhabra, Enwisen's president commented, "The components of an effective
onboarding solution are task management, forms management and, most important,
socialization. While some technology-based solutions can handle one task - such
as forms management - Enwisen's AnswerSource Onboarding draws from our deep
expertise in the delivery of personalized knowledge. As a result, companies using
our three-pronged approach are more successful at increasing new hire retention
and speeding time-to-productivity."
Kevin Martin, Research Director, Human Capital Management at Aberdeen, shared,
"Technology is undoubtedly playing a vital role in achieving high performance in
new-employee retention and productivity. In fact, our data showed that companies
that automate elements of their Onboarding process are 59% more likely to achieve
Best-in-Class status than companies that don't."
As a sponsor of the Aberdeen onboarding report, Enwisen is offering complimentary
copies of the research report. Please visit
http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410422&cid=4574 for more details.


About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company


Aberdeen is a leading provider of fact-based research and market intelligence that
delivers demonstrable results. Having benchmarked more than 30,000 companies in the
past two years, Aberdeen is uniquely positioned to educate users to action: driving
market awareness, creating demand, enabling sales, and delivering meaningful
return-on-investment analysis. As the trusted advisor to the global technology
markets, corporations turn to Aberdeen for insights that drive decisions. For
additional information, visit www.aberdeen.com.


About Enwisen


Enwisen helps employers dramatically improve the employee experience by making "must
do" workforce communications more effective, more strategic and less costly.



Enwisen's on-demand, personalized and searchable HR communications solutions - for
onboarding, total rewards statements, benefits decision support, employee portal
knowledgebase, work/life events, manager effectiveness, HR compliance and/or
HR/shared service center - are rapidly deployed, provide a broad range of features
for significantly less money than traditional communication venues and are
maintained by Enwisen.



The AnswerSource Knowledge Center suite has produced measurable ROI for hundreds of
customers, including industry leaders like Yahoo!, Memorial Health Care, Nissan
North America, Harper Collins, W.L. Gore & Associates, Hannaford Bros. Cos., Masco
and MasterBrand. More information can be accessed at www.enwisen.com.

Web Site: http://www.enwisen.com

Contact Details: Enwisen, Inc.
7250 Redwood Blvd., Suite 109
Novato, CA 94945