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Welcome to the HumanConcepts Blog. As the developer of OrgPlus technology, the staff at HumanConcepts daily addresses the challenges, pain points and trends surrounding workforce decision support issues. This blog is an online community where our staff and other HR professionals can share their real-life human resources experiences and war stories, communicate best practices and highlight industry news.

Authors

Martin SacksMartin Sacks,
President and CEO
Jim CandlerJim Candler,
VP Global Customer Success
Tammy SmithTammy Smith,
Sr. Marketing Manager
Rod BradyRod Brady,
Product Manager
Suzanne JohnsonSuzanne Johnson,
Director, Global Services
Andy VenterAndy Venter,
Major Account Manager
Chris LewisChris Lewis,
Technical Support Manager
Jeremy RoarkJeremy Roark,
Hosted Systems Administrator

Archive for the ‘Product News’ Category

HumanConcepts UK Speaking at the NorthgateArinso Customer User Conference 2009

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Push the boundaries and explore the potential at this year’s NorthgateArinso User Conference from October 6-7, 2009, in Wokefield Hall, Reading. HumanConcepts’ Director of EMEA West, Gill Daniels, will present “Shortcut to Successful Succession Planning” on October 7 at 1:45 pm.  Learn how to best address this critical strategic business issue and develop the right plan for your organization.  For more information about the conference or to register, please click here.

HumanConcepts Launches OrgPlus Premium

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Today, we are proud to announce our newest product, OrgPlus Premium. OrgPlus Premium manages all human resource activities around workforce change – from planning through documentation and reporting. HR professionals can track all changes made during a workforce planning activity, measure their impact, and easily update them in the HR system of record. Read the press release here for more information.

Calling all OrgPlus Professional Users…It’s good to share with OrgPlus OnDemand!

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

If you are reading this blog entry, then you might already be saving countless hours by automatically creating and maintaining your company’s organizational charts. You may also be using OrgPlus to model business scenarios to help make better decisions about the future…something I certainly recommend (if you are not sure how, please call us at 1-888-821-1261 and we’ll show you!). 

How about sharing the power of OrgPlus with other users in your organization? Think how much time and money your organization would save: Time spent fielding requests for information, enabling others to understand the organizational issues of the day or streamlining your organizational planning to provide a faster and better response to changing business conditions.

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Executing workforce transitions with less risk and more profit

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

HumanConcepts’ one-of-a-kind decision management software, Transition Manager, brings decision support, employee communication, automation and compliance to workforce restructuring events and ongoing employee separations. From mergers and acquisitions, to outsourcing, retirement programs and reductions in force, the solution enables faster, more effective and auditable decisions around retaining, or separating employees.

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Single Sign On in OrgPlus Enterprise

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Single Sign On (SSO) is a method of passing credentials into OrgPlus Enterprise (OPE) from a chosen security adapter inside the Admin panel of OPE. An example is the Generic Adapter SSO which passes security information into OPE through a URL. Credentials are cached in OPE until the user’s session has ended. The session will end when one of the following events occur:

- Select ‘Sign Out.’
- Close the Browser completely (if on OPE 3.3 or above).
- The session ends after the “Idle Timeout” period has passed. This setting is located in the Application Pool under the ‘Performance’ tab in Internet Information Services.

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OrgPlus 8.0.1 released

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Recently released OrgPlus 8.0.1 brings a host of new updates to OrgPlus 8 making user navigation easier and smoother. For example, using Hotspots Word wrap has been improved, as has the field level conditional formatting functionality. When importing data you can now specify the number of columns in multi-record boxes, and when working with orphan records you can now be drag them directly into a chart. These and many other improvements make working with OrgPlus 8 an even better experience than ever.