Empliant: we're not just different, we're better than the competition.

An integrated Manager's Guide to HR Practices is offered with each Empliant website. This unique tool provides specific instructions for managers throughout the HR website. The manager's guide promotes consistent application of company policy and practice - with or without HR staff representation. This manager self-reliant tool helps to assure regulatory compliance and limits your company's liability. This special feature also provides "just in time" instruction to managers, and can be configured for use as a new manager orientation and assimilation tool.

Related topics drive intuitive navigation - Empliant's content management tool is designed completely from the user's perspective. Each web page features a unique "related topics" tool on that intuitively guides users to additional pertinent information. This special feature supplements or replaces the role of an HR representative. It directs the user to other necessary or appropriate actions, or makes the user aware of the potential impact of actions, based on specific situations. It also enables a company to both educate and advise employees.

Site navigation is "as easy to use as an ATM". Empliant requires little, if any, training. Each Empliant website provides multiple (6-way) access to information and transactions - serving the navigation understanding and requirements from novice to expert computer user.

Customer editing is fast and simple. Fresh content is easy to maintain with an easy to use authoring tool included with each Empliant website. This tool enables customers to make instant changes for up-to-the-minute employee communications. It increases the efficiency of delivering timely and necessary information to all employees or specific groups of employees.

A one-stop shop and fully integrated service provider. Empliant,Inc. is uniquely positioned to offer services across all three phases of HR website deployment: content management, interactive transactions, and HR tools. All Empliant,Inc. products are engineered for the web and integrated by design, not as an afterthought. There is no need to construct bridges and interfaces that require additional maintenance each time a component or module is upgraded, which is often the case with some competitive products.

Totally integrated HR content helps employees who use Empliant learn about all aspects of HR policy, practice, and procedures at their company, not just employee benefits.

How customers benefit by using Empliant:

A better way for employees to get information

• Always available (24/7/365) from anywhere there is internet access
• Confidential - administrative personnel don't need to see or know
• Online benefits statements on demand - employees know their coverage and its cost at all times, without HR staff intervention
• Immediate broadcast of changes to all employees communicates fairness and equity to all employee groups
• Always the latest company policy and employee benefits information at their fingertips - no outdated information in desk drawers that could mislead employees or managers.

Productivity improvements

• Find it fast and get back to work - Empliant's intuitive navigation and search tools make it easy to locate information and perform transactions
• Processing efficiency - links to provider websites make it easier to transact changes with vendors
• Employees can share information with their families and conduct HR business at home, not on the phone during valuable time at work
• Fewer workplace disruptions - both in HR and elsewhere in the organization - minimize non-productive time spent on routine HR matters.

Consistent messages communicated to employees reduce "answer-shopping", promotes a singular interpretation of policy and practice, and helps to eliminate "special treatment" or the proliferation of exceptions to policy.

Cost-savings over traditional paper communications and enrollment processes are significant:

• Web-enabled enrollment processes are typically 60% less costly than paper processes
• Using Empliant eliminates nearly all printing and distribution costs associated with traditional "hard copy" processes.
• Web-enabling employee directories eliminates the costs associated with frequent updates and changes

Frees IT resources to focus on business development and customer relationship management tools, not administrative HR processes. Fewer difficult to recruit and retain IT people are necessary to support HR functions. This, too, reduces HR burden and associated costs.

No software or hardware to purchase, install, maintain, or upgrade. Empliant handles all software applications, hardware management, upgrades and data storage.

Just-in-time training and instruction for managers and HR staff. Empliant enables managers to perform HR related activities without HR intervention.

E-mail notification that changes were processed provides instant confirmation to user. Empliant features a confirmation of changes process that alerts the user to the change they just made, enabling instant verification and correction of any error.

World-class HR functionality for less than the expense of a full time HR staff person. The affordability of Empliant makes it a desirable alternative to hiring additional HR staff.