OfficeWork Software ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF ORGCHART™ PROFESSIONAL V5 ANALYTICS

New Software for Automating Organizational Charting Incorporates Powerful Data Import Features for Talent Management, Succession Planning, and Organizational Development.

NOVATO, Calif., July 2, 2010 – OfficeWork Software a leading developer and publisher of human resources, project management, and office productivity software, today announced the release of it’s new business organization charting product, OrgChart^™ Professional Analytics.

“Continuing OfficeWork Software’s commitment to providing innovative technology and easy-to-use, high-quality software at reasonable prices, OrgChart Professional Analytics fits the niche of medium to large-sized companies that require labor-saving and efficient solutions for Succession Planning, Talent Management, and the frequent re-organizations that are so common in today’s economy,” said Gordon Landies, President of OfficeWork Software. “This product adds to our award-winning Business Solutions line of products, which includes OrgChart Professional, TurboProject^® and FlowCharts&More^®.

OrgChart Professional Analytics is a powerful workforce visualization tool used in talent management, succession planning and workforce reorganizations. Analytic’s programmable display capabilities give a complete ‘heat map’ visualization of the workforce for easier and more effective people management. Using your HR data, rules are created that automatically format and color individual chart boxes to your specification. With Analytics you will quickly and accurately communicate and evaluate the vitality of your organizations’ talent.

Robust Drawing Toolbox

An extensive graphic design toolbox enables quick and easy organization chart creation and customization using drag-and-drop components.

Unlimited Data Entries

The OrgChart Professional database can handle an unlimited number of employees as well as an unlimited number of custom database fields, attachments, graphics, and links. This allows users to keep all of their personnel data in one place.

Custom Template Creation

Users may quickly and easily enrich the communication power of the organization charts they create by adding color schemes, box shapes, line styles and fonts. Predefined and custom template components make this simple.

Powerful Scenario / What if Planning Tools

“What-if” financial scenarios can be compared to understand the impacts of adding new positions or performing a re-organization.

Audit and Compare Tools

Special tools to show the specific differences between staffing scenarios at a record or data field level are now possible. OrgChart Analytics cuts scenario planning from days and weeks down to minutes.

Powerful Conditional Formatting

Generate custom-colored views quickly and easily with programmable rules.

Powerful Data Import and Database Integration

Users can save time by importing any organization data from Excel, CSV, and a myriad of other popular database applications. Then, with just a few mouse clicks, an organization chart is generated with the supporting personnel database. OrgChart Professional Analytics also allows users to leverage data already stored in corporate personnel databases, including Active Directory, LDAP, SQL, Oracle, and MS Project databases.

Flexible, Ad Hoc Report Creation

The process of report creation is dynamic and flexible, enabling instant creation of phone lists and over 20 project personnel reports. Report output can be exported to PDF, Excel, and more.

Powerful Publishing Options

Organization charts are easily distributed throughout the organization—direct to a corporate intranet, FTP, or website. Managers can distribute whole charts or hyperlinked, sub-charts, depending on the desired level of detail.

Availability and Pricing

OrgChart Professional Analytics pricing can be obtained at our sales department. Call 1-866.331.4534 or visit online at www.officeworksoftware.com and www.orgchartpro.com.

About OfficeWork Software

OfficeWork Software is an industry leader specializing in software technology solutions for that help business professionals do their jobs with greater ease, efficiency, and accuracy. Our software and consulting services are specifically focused on supporting the ever expanding demands of project managers and human resource managers.

Although our users include a full spectrum of Human Resource managers, consultants, and professionals in corporations of all sizes.

Arrow ECS Adds IBM Software to Existing IBM Hardware Offerings in Germany

FURSTENFELDBRUCK, Germany, Jun 15, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW], now offers the complete range of products from IBM in Germany under a new agreement with IBM software.

The agreement designates Arrow ECS as a value-added distributor for the full range of IBM software solutions, including the IBM Passport Advantage Product portfolio, and adds to the distributor's long-standing IBM hardware business.

"The addition of the IBM software line is an important step in offering our resellers complete support for IBM projects," said Eric Walter, managing director for Arrow ECS in Germany. "This agreement better enables us to provide comprehensive technical and sales advice and support for IBM solutions to our resellers."

Arrow ECS also provides technical support and configuration assistance through its Storage Solution Center that resellers can use for testing and demonstration purposes.

Arrow ECS has appointed a dedicated team with many years of experience to support the IBM Software line. The team will attend the IBM Partner Camp in July in Stuttgart, where the complete range of IBM support and offerings that Arrow ECS provides will be exhibited.

More information is available at www.arrowecs.de.

ABOUT ARROW ENTERPRISE COMPUTING SOLUTIONS

Arrow ECS, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW], provides enterprise and midrange computing products, services and solutions to value-added resellers, system integrators, and independent software vendors. Based in Englewood, Colo., and with offices in 26 countries, Arrow ECS connects its customers to the world's foremost technology suppliers. Arrow ECS reported $4.9 billion in global enterprise computing solution sales in 2009. Visit ecs.arrow.com for more information.

SOURCE: Arrow ECS

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Organizational Charting Software Visio

If you are still wrestling with Visio to make organizational charts you need to examine OrgChart Pro, the software expressly made for creating and publishing organizational charts.

Compared with Visio, organizational charts created with Org Chart Pro are done more quickly and have many more options for formatting, arrangements, and data intelligence. With OrgChart Pro you can easily see that charts match the organization’s data – so you don’t need to wonder if you have forgotten to add a person to the chart, or if you have put them in the wrong place. That’s because the view of the chart and the view of the organizational are continuously in view and synchronized. Larger charts are automatically paginated into interactive sub-charts, allowing you to drill up or drill down throughout the organization. And if you need to, all people can be shown on one page so you can print on a large plotter output. OrgChart Professional will output to PowerPoint, and interactive Flash web site, and even Visio.

Hierarchical calculations are particularly easy to do in OrgChart Pro, which makes it an ideal tool for succession planning and company re-organizations. And with the audit and compare tools you can see exactly what has changed (financial impacts, reporting relationships, headcount, etc.) between different org chart scenarios. Visio has been designed as an all-purpose diagramming package, whereas OrgChart Professional is solely dedicated to organizational charting and publishing.

Details are at http://www.orgchartpro.com.

Business Organizational Charting Software by Orgchartpro

Are you developing an organizational chart for your business? A well-defined organizational chart will give a great visual of your work force for your business and human resources planning. These charts are valued because they make lines of authority, accountability and responsibility clear. They also help find the talent, ‘fat’, and gaps in your organization if used in conjunction with a business planning process.

Especially in the current economy costs must be scrutinized and every employee must be adding value to the company goals. The organizational planning and charting process gives you the tools needed to analyze what’s really going on.

Lists of people and their responsibilities have a place in the planning and evaluation process, but lists (or tabular views) do not adequately communicate relationships, spans of control or functional gaps in the organization. When dealing with organizations that are heavily matrixed (i.e., people reporting to more than one manager) the visual becomes even more important.

OrgChart Pro is the ideal software to support your business organizational charting and management processes. It not only gives the chart view for visualizing the organization, but also presents the data behind the organization. You get both views in OrgChart Pro.

Try it free at www.orgchartpro.com.

Succession Planning Process

Succession planning is a process by which an organization ensures that employees are recruited and developed to fill each key role within the company.

Succession planning is not just about promotion paths to the top. It's about getting the right person in place for every job. If a firm plans to double in size in three years, they will need more talented managers and must plan accordingly.

This process of succession planning enables your organization to:

1. Assess if you have the right skills mix to achieve company goals – and determine what gaps exist that must be closed.
2. Identify talented employees and provide education to develop them for future higher level and broader responsibilities
3. Identify which employees are at risk of leaving.
4. Retain superior employees
5. Build “bench strength."
6. Determine where people belong on the bus.
7. Determine if they should be on your bus - or someone else’s.

If you want to effectively do succession planning in your organization, you must first identify your organization’s long term goals. In the process you will also need to understand the developmental needs and goals of your employees. Then you need to make sure that your key employees understand the roles, responsibilities, and career paths of the positions that they are being developed to fill. There needs to be a match. Also be mindful of the job employment trends in your industry and area so that you have a good appreciation for the roles that you may have a particularly difficult time filling externally.

To help everyone get a clear picture on the workforce a diagnostic organizational chart must be developed. Any organizational charting software tool that helps you visualize the organization and its personnel ‘hot spots’ will greatly help in a successful planning process. OrgChart Pro is organizational charting software that automates the organization mapping and visualization process.

Here is a Basic Succession Planning Organization Chart

One of the deliverables from the succession planning process is a diagnostic organization chart. Using OrgChart Pro and the succession planning process, here (below) is a basic chart showing positions that are filled, currently vacant, expected to be vacant, ready-now for promotion, and contractor. Additional fields may be added for length of time on the job, expected departure date, skill sets, etc. But this basic chart becomes an important visual to communicate the urgency for sound planning and taking action to protect your company’s greatest asset.

Your goal is to hire superior people that have the passion, character, capability and track record for the job. Good people that fit are tough to find, which makes the succession planning and hiring so critical.

OrgChart Pro provides the perfect visual ‘heat map’ to facilitate an effective succession planning process. Visit www.orgchartpro.com for details and a free trial.