Avue Technologies to Streamline Workforce Management Processes for U.S. Government Agencies with Oracle BPEL Process Manager

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Avue Technologies to Streamline Workforce Management Processes for U.S. Government Agencies with Oracle BPEL Process Manager

Leading Standards-Based Integration Tool to Provide Customers Greater Visibility into Business Processes and Demonstrable ROI

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., 20-APR-2005 09:57 PM Oracle today announced that Avue Technologies, a leading provider of public sector workforce management solutions, is expanding its relationship with Oracle by selecting Oracle BPEL Process Manager to be the foundation of its heterogeneous, business process based technology infrastructure. With Oracle, Avue delivers more flexible technology solutions that minimize costs and can easily evolve as its customers' business requirements change. Oracle BPEL Process Manager, a key component of the Oracle Application Server Platform Suite, provides the integration capabilities Avue required to achieve its goals: increase organization-wide management effectiveness, shorten business processes for typical tasks, increase visibility across these processes, and improve overall workforce productivity and satisfaction. Avue will use the standards-based foundation of Oracle BPEL Process Manager to support its workforce applications - from recruitment to salary management and employee life cycle management. Additionally, Avue will be able to identify bottlenecks that may occur in agency processes before they happen, while easily tracking return on investment of its technology and infrastructure.

For example, Avue workforce applications are used by government agencies to manage and track complex, multi-step hiring processes that, manually, can take up to eight months to complete. When an agency opens a position, it needs to be approved, posted online and then officially closed to candidates - at the same time that approved applicants start an extensive interviewing process. Avue will use Oracle BPEL Process Manager to monitor these applications, keeping the processes moving by reporting any unnecessary holdups. By migrating to a process based infrastructure, Avue can more readily identify and eliminate significant time gaps that prevent a timely start to the interviewing process.

"Providing workforce management for federal agencies means tracking and monitoring intricate procedures, where compliance and process visibility are vital, that can span multiple sources, departments and organizations," said Dan Creamer, chief architect for Avue Technologies. "With our use of Oracle BPEL Process Manager, our clients will be able to clearly see how Avue Technologies is saving time and reducing costs by simplifying their complex processes and significantly condensing time to market."

Following the successful migration from BEA WebLogic to Oracle Application Server 10g, Avue has continued to turn to Oracle as a key partner for technology solutions that increase competitive advantage. Most recently, Avue again called upon Oracle when it realized that standards-based components were an essential element of its infrastructure vision. The company desired a solution that could seamlessly integrate with its J2EE applications and existing IT environment consisting of Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server. After evaluating a number of products, Avue found that Oracle BPEL Process Manager was the only product with out-of-the-box functionality providing the tightest integration with Avue's existing technology systems. Moving forward, Avue plans to use Oracle software to provide the foundation for its grid infrastructure.

"One of the benefits of Oracle BPEL Process Manager is that it meets our requirements to create an enterprise grid moving forward," Creamer said. "Having one common vendor with grid-enabled solutions guarantees us that all of our pieces will work together."

About Avue Technologies

Founded in 1982, Avue Technologies is the recognized market leader and technology innovator in public sector workforce management. The company provides the public sector with integrated technology and service solutions that dramatically increase organization-wide management effectiveness, workforce productivity, and manager and worker satisfaction. Avue is a privately held company headquartered in Tacoma, Washington, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Victoria, British Columbia.

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