UKS Partners with Plateau to Deliver Talent Management Solutions
April 6 2008

UKS, the Middle East’s leading learning solutions enabler, today announced its partnership with Plateau Systems, leading provider of software for developing, managing and optimizing organizational skills and talent, to provide learning and workforce performance solutions to the rapidly growing commercial and public sector organizations in the Middle East.

Private and public sector organizations are realizing the need for learning and performance management solutions. New employees must be trained quickly, existing employees must be brought up to speed on new products and operating procedures, leaders must be identified and developed for promotion and organizational readiness must be evaluated and continuously improved. Plateau's solutions enable these activities with a highly scaleable, robust solution that can be rapidly deployed to improve operational performance.

“The need to effectively align learning and development activities to harmonize strategic business needs and values is critical for the success or failure of today’s organizations. If you can manage learning, performance, career and succession within your organization effectively, you are on the right track in transforming the workplace into a Learning Organization. UKS found in Plateau the perfect solution to manage this evolvement and facilitate businesses in the region to maintain clients, increase workforce productivity, attain and retain the key talent and meet their business needs.” said Hadi Shaheen, UKS Corporate Division Manager.

UKS will provide its customers with the Plateau Talent Management software to automate and enhance their organizations performance management and compensation planning processes. Fundamentally talent management is about matching individual capabilities with organizational needs to drive innovation and business growth. The Plateau Talent Management software enables organizations to manage, reward, optimize and develop their organizational talent to increase workforce productivity and maximize operating performance.

"With the rapid economic growth in The Middle East creating tremendous competition for talent, demand for solutions that provide visibility into and the ability to manage the full talent lifecycle across an organization, is growing," said Paul Sparta, CEO of Plateau Systems. "Plateau has a wide range of global customers in both the energy and public sectors, which are fueling much of this growth. Our proven solutions and experience making global customers successful, combined with UKS’s broad knowledge of the market, will allow us to meet the growing demand for unified learning and talent management solutions."

ABOUT PLATEAU

Plateau is a leading, global provider of adaptable, web-based software for developing, managing, rewarding and optimizing organizational talent to increase workforce productivity and drive business success. Plateau’s award-winning software is powering talent management initiatives across some of the world’s most successful organizations, including the American Red Cross, General Electric, the Internal Revenue Service, Capital One Services and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Industry analysts at Bersin & Associates, Forrester Research and other leading information and technology research and advisory firms continue to recognize Plateau’s leadership in delivering best-in-class functionality, technology and customer satisfaction. Plateau is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific.  For more information, please visit www.plateau.com.