CRG emPerform Continues to Grow with the Addition of Forensic Technology as its Latest Customer

Ottawa, ON - December 13, 2010-  Corporate Renaissance Group (CRG) announced today that Forensic Technology, a leader in ballistic and firearms identification technology, has selected CRG emPerform™ as their employee performance management solution. 
 
Forensic Technology pioneered automated ballistics identification more than twenty years ago and has since relied on its global team of over 200 experienced engineering, forensic, and law enforcement professionals to promote a safer society through their solutions technology. The need to efficiently and effectively monitor, assess, and streamline their talent management process is vital to ensuring that their human resources are properly developed and retained.

“We selected emPerform for its excellent reputation, great value, and powerful functionality”, said Joanna Quart, Manager of Business Support for Forensic Technology. “The reporting functionality, multi-lingual capabilities, and direct integration with Microsoft Dynamics GP were especially appealing and will allow us to improve our processes a great deal.”

The adoption of emPerform by the forensics market demonstrates the growing need for this technology in a broad spectrum of industries. "CRG emPerform is a great fit for Forensic Technology”, said Dr. Vijay Jog, President of CRG, “emPerform provides a powerful, simple and cost-effective way to monitor an expanding global workforce. By significantly reducing the time and effort needed to deploy and administer a talent management system, emPerform will allow them to focus more on their core technology offerings.”

About Forensic Technology
Forensic Technology pioneered automated ballistics identification more than twenty years ago and continues to be a leader in ballistics and firearms identification technologies that promote a safer society. We partner with hundreds of public safety agencies in nearly 60 countries, providing cost-effective and sustainable solutions. With vast experience in scalable-networked solutions, Forensic Technology employs a dedicated team of engineering, forensic, and law enforcement professionals around the world. For more information about Forensic Technology please visit: www.forensictechnology.com

About Corporate Renaissance Group
Corporate Renaissance Group is a global provider of innovative solutions that drive better business management and performance. With expertise in business management applications, CRG has established itself as a leading provider of solutions that drive corporate and employee performance. CRG is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with offices throughout Canada, South Africa, India and the United States. For more information, visit www.crgroup.com.

CRG emPerform is an all-inclusive Performance and Talent Management solution, one of many solutions offered by CRG. This all-in-one suite includes robust functionality to simplify and automate core talent management processes, including: performance appraisal, compensation management, 360 degree multi-rater feedback, succession planning and reporting and analytics. CRG emPerform has a diverse customer base within sectors that include professional services, not for profits, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, hospitality and public sector. For more information regarding CRG emPerform, visit www.employee-performance.com.

For additional information:
Natalie Trudel
Marketing Communications Specialist
CRG emPerform
ntrudel@crgroup.com
613-232-4295 x252

DALSA Selects CRG emPerform for Their Performance and Talent Management Solution

OTTAWA, ON - October 25, 2010-  Corporate Renaissance Group (CRG) today announced that DALSA selected CRG emPerform as their performance and talent management solution.DALSA is an international leader in high performance digital imaging and semiconductors with a diverse workforce. They required a straight forward and easy to use solution to engage their global employee base with multi-lingual capabilities.
"CRG emPerform provides us with a great deal of flexibility in designing our forms along with out of the box workflow integration", said Frank Nemeth, Director of Human Resources, DALSA. "The solution is cost effective. We see real benefits for employees, their managers and HR."

DALSA employees are critical to their success, especially during the turbulent global environment. CRG emPerform will enable DALSA to continue to align, develop, reward and retain their employees.

"CRG emPerform is designed as a single product that provides a broad range of features our customers", said Dr. Vijay Jog, President, CRG. "The solution is extremely rich and powerful where it can be configured to meet the demands of all organizations.The addition of DALSA to our growing list of clients is a testament to our continuing product evolution of offering a robust yet simple to use performance management solution."

About DALSA
DALSA (TSX: DSA) is an international leader in high performance digital imaging and semiconductors with approximately 1000 employees worldwide, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1980, the company designs, develops, manufactures and markets digital imaging products and solutions, in addition to providing semiconductor products and services. For more information, visit www.dalsa.com.

About Corporate Renaissance Group
Corporate Renaissance Group is a global provider of innovative solutions that drive better business management and performance. With expertise in business management applications, CRG has established itself as a leading provider of solutions that drive corporate and employee performance. CRG is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with offices throughout Canada, South Africa, India and the United States. For more information, visit www.crgroup.com.

CRG emPerform is an all-inclusive Performance and Talent Management solution, one of many solutions offered by CRG. This all-in-one suite includes robust functionality to simplify and automate core talent management processes, including: performance appraisal, compensation management, 360 degree multi-rater feedback, succession planning and reporting and analytics. CRG emPerform has a diverse customer base within sectors that include professional services, not for profits, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, hospitality and public sector. For more information regarding CRG emPerform, visit www.employee-performance.com.

For additional information:

Natalie Trudel
Marketing Communications Specialist
CRG emPerform
ntrudel@crgroup.com
613-232-4295 x252

CRG emPerform Release 3.9 Includes Compensation Planning

Ottawa, ON- June 30, 2009 – Corporate Renaissance Group (CRG), developer of the CRG emPerform talent management solution, today announced the availability of Compensation Planning with the release of emPerform 3.9. 
 
Compensation Planning is the latest major feature to be added to emPerform.  Compensation Planning is integrated directly into emPerform and is available at no additional cost. 

Compensation Planning automates compensation decisions by providing a structured and consistent process.  Salary and variable compensation can be correlated against any emPerform-based performance score; such as appraisals, 360 multi-rater reviews or survey results. The business process is easily mapped using the robust emPerform workflow engine. 

“Compensation Planning allows human resources and managers to financially reward employees based on any number of pre-determined criteria.  With emPerform we offer an all-inclusive talent management solution with the tightest integration of features possible and an unbeatable value proposition.  emPerform is the complete solution; there is no need to ever purchase additional modules,” said John Smith, emPerform Product Manager.
emPerform is an easy-to-use, all-inclusive talent management solution.  It automates the employee performance management system, providing users with on-line appraisals, goal management, competency assessment, succession planning, employee surveys, 360 multi-rater reviews, succession management, off-line working capabilities, HRIS and Microsoft Outlook integration, and reporting. 

About Corporate Renaissance Group
Corporate Renaissance Group is a global provider of innovative business solutions that improve business performance and increase efficiency. CRG is a member of the Microsoft Partner Network headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with offices throughout Canada, South Africa, India and the United States. For more information, visit www.crgroup.com.

CRG emPerform is an all-inclusive Performance and Talent Management solution, one of many solutions offered by CRG. This all-in-one suite includes robust functionality to simplify and automate core talent management processes, including: performance appraisals, compensation management, 360 degree multi-rater feedback, succession planning and one of the most powerful and flexible reporting and analytics tools available. CRG emPerform has a diverse customer base within sectors that include professional services, not for profits, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, hospitality and the public sector. For more information, visit www.employee-performance.com.

For additional information:
Natalie Trudel
Marketing Communications Specialist
CRG emPerform
ntrudel@employee-performance.com
613-232-4295 x252