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Nakisa Inc.
1100 Sherbrooke West, #100
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 1G7
Canada
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Nakisa Releases OrgManagement Series 4.0 using the Microsoft .NET Framework
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Montreal, Canada – November 12, 2004 - Nakisa, a leading provider of web-based organization management solutions, announced today the release of Nakisa OrgManagement Series 4.0. The release provides Nakisa customers with a clear path for migrating their organization management applications to the Microsoft® .NET Framework. This latest edition of the award-winning OrgManagement Series improves on the reliability, security, interoperability and capabilities of the solution, and adds special management features for Active Directory provisioning.
Nakisa OrgManagement Series is a rich set of visualization tools that enable executives, managers and employees to improve human capital analysis and manage organizational change. Users can easily visualize and model organizational hierarchy structure, business unit information, employee profiles and other human capital information through dynamic organization charts, employee directories and floor plan maps.
“With the .NET Framework’s level of interoperability with other applications, we can provide our customers with seamless connectivity to multiple systems and sources of data, including real-time access to Microsoft Active Directory, PeopleSoft HRMS, SAP HR or Enterprise Portals,” said Babak Varjavandi, President and CEO of Nakisa. “This architecture enables rapid deployment of a rich and reliable organization management solution unique to our customers’ business needs.”
“Nakisa has been able to provide us with a specialized, integrated self-service solution for our enterprise,” said Eric Wassell, Director, IT Operations, for American Tower, a leading independent provider of broadcast and wireless communications sites in North America. “The ability to connect to Active Directory with single sign-on security and provide our users with accurate, up-to-the-minute organization charts with employee information dramatically impacts our productivity.”
Nakisa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner offering certified .NET Connected software that has been tested to support web services capabilities, and is optimized for the next generation of internet-enabled computing. Nakisa OrgManagement Series using the Microsoft .NET Framework offers organizations with a flexible, responsive IT architecture to help streamline deployment, enable interoperability with legacy systems, enhance security and reliably connect diverse applications.
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Nakisa Announces the Release of Nakisa OrgManagement Series for SAP
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Montreal, Canada - October 14, 2004 - Nakisa Inc. (“Nakisa”), a leading provider of web-based organization management solutions, announces the release of Nakisa OrgManagement Series for SAP. SAP is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and vertical markets.
Nakisa OrgManagement Series delivers the necessary tools to align human capital with business strategies for Human Resource (“HR”) professionals, executives and line managers. This software series is the most complete solution used to easily manage organizational changes such as recruitment, outsourcing, restructuring, career development, mergers and acquisitions, new regulations, succession planning and more.
Nakisa OrgManagement Series supports real-time connectivity with a certified integration to SAP HR Organizational Charting Interface (HR-OCI), Portals and Workforce Analytics. Fully integrated with SAP security, roles and single sign-on, users can visualize any SAP data to maximize employee life-cycle management and performance. Experienced Nakisa and SAP product teams collaborated extensively to ensure delivery of a scaleable, enterprise, web-based solution that serves a wide range of vertical markets worldwide.
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From Corporate Directory Services (CDS) to Nakisa OrgManagement Series
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Montreal, Canada - October 4, 2004 - Nakisa, a global provider of web-based organization management solutions, has announced that its Corporate Directory Services (CDS) suite of products and solutions will be renamed to Nakisa OrgManagement Series. After a lot of consultation with clients and partners, Nakisa has responded to the demand of repositioning its brand product name to reflect its global organizational management solution offering that aligns human capital and corporate information with business strategy. In addition, the software products PhoneBook and Scenario has been renamed to Directory and OrgModeler respectively.
"The Corporate Directory Services name no longer incorporates the true representation of our solution offering." said Babak Varjavandi, President and CEO of Nakisa. "The name change truly defines the value of our series of organizational management solutions for our customers, from organization charting through to corporate directories and floor plans."
Nakisa's professional services team will contact existing clients with CDS (CDS2.X, CDS3.X) products and assess product enhancements for the next release and general availability of the Nakisa OrgManagement Series.
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Nakisa Announces Software Partnership with SAP
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Montreal, Canada - July 29, 2004 – Nakisa, developer of the organization management software suite, today announced that it has joined with SAP as a software partner to deliver and support integrated end-to-end human capital management (HCM) solutions. The global partnership provides complete, technically verified turnkey software solutions that extend and add value to SAP HR solutions using Nakisa’s organization charting applications.
Nakisa OrgManagement Series software products support real-time connectivity along with certified integration to SAP HR Organizational Charting Interface (HR-OCI). Fully integrated with SAP security and single sign-on, users can visualize any SAP data to maximize employee life-cycle management and performance. Experienced Nakisa and SAP product teams collaborated extensively to ensure delivery of a scaleable, enterprise solution that serves a wide range of vertical markets worldwide.
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Nakisa Wins the Microsoft 2004 Customer Experience Award of the Year
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Montreal, Canada - July 13, 2004 - Nakisa, a leading provider of web-based organization management solutions, has won the Microsoft 2004 Customer Experience Award of the Year. The award recognizes Nakisa's innovative use of Microsoft technology that solved business problems and delivered exemplary solutions for its customers. Award winners were chosen from a group of Microsoft global partner finalists from around the world. Winners were announced at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2004, held this year in Toronto.
"Nakisa has been successful in developing the OrgManagement Series for Active Directory® on the .NET platform", said Lasha Dekker, Microsoft Canada Co., Director of Development and Platform Evangelism. "Microsoft congratulates them for their success in achieving the Customer Experience Award. Microsoft Canada is proud to work with technology partners like Nakisa who demonstrate how the power of innovative solutions can create a positive customer experience."
Microsoft honors global independent software vendor (ISV) partners annually with the Customer Experience Award for delivering outstanding Windows-based solutions to worldwide customers. A panel of Microsoft judges and industry specialists evaluates the partners' achievements in customer solution delivery and service, innovation and customer satisfaction.
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Nakisa Announces PeopleSoft Certified Integration for Organization Charting
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Los Angeles, CA - June 24, 2004 - Nakisa, a leading provider of web-based organization charting solutions, announced today the release of a new PeopleSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSFT) certified integration between Nakisa's OrgChart 4.0 and PeopleSoft® HRMS 8.8.
Nakisa OrgChart is a web-based software product that generates dynamic organization charts displaying employee and matrix hierarchy relationships. Users across the enterprise can quickly and easily create, organize and manage organization charts from PeopleSoft's human capital data to make better decisions for project-based business activities, career development, mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing, restructuring and new regulations.
"PeopleSoft is recognized as a global leader in human capital management." said Babak Varjavandi, President & CEO of Nakisa. "We are pleased to provide mutual customers with integrated organization charting solutions that enable viewing and modeling human capital information via a simple web-browser, without the need for staging tables, plug-ins, or pre-generated charts."
"Our customers are looking for end-to-end solutions that solve human capital specific problems and deliver results quickly," said Melanie Lougee, Senior Product Manager HRMS, PeopleSoft. "We see great value-add and business benefits in an integrated organization charting solution with scalability and high performance."
Nakisa's multilingual system connects synchronously with PeopleSoft HRMS using PeopleSoft Application Messaging and XML Web Services, and provides role-based secure data access to comprehensive employee and department profiles as well as statistical information. Using XML technology, Nakisa OrgChart provides users with access to organizational information to better align resources, manage organization change and deliver on business strategies.
"Nakisa OrgChart's integration ensures safe and secure connectivity to our PeopleSoft data." said Wesley Bryan, Senior IT Project Manager, Cingular Wireless. "And it satisfies our need to access accurate employee and organization information in real-time quickly and easily, improving productivity for our 33,000 users enterprise-wide."
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Nakisa Announces Certified Integration with SAP
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Montreal, Canada - May 21, 2004 - Nakisa, a leading provider of organization charting solutions, announced the release of a SAP certified integration between Nakisa’s OrgChart 4.0 and SAP HR-OCI. Nakisa OrgChart connects synchronously with SAP HR using XML Web Services, and provides single sign-on data access to dynamically visualize organizational hierarchies in real-time from information stored within SAP and presents it to users through a dynamic web interface. Users can browse through the entire organizational structure or select to view an organizational chart starting from a specific person.
Nakisa is the first certified vendor for the SAP XML-based organizational charting interface (HR-OCI). Nakisa OrgChart is released on 4.6C with MSS Business Package 50.4 (and higher). The interface enables integration to Nakisa’s organizational charting tools, satisfying a long standing request from SAP customers to enable users to display organizational charts as well as provide support for processes such as internal recruiting, employee transfers, and reorganization scenarios.
The integration is not restricted to the manager role and can be easily extended through the portal to all employees throughout the organization, including professional users like compensation specialists and HR business partners. The certified integration delivers access to organization management data for every user of the SAP Enterprise Portal and is launched from the SAP Manager Self-Service.
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