Latest News: April 2011

Ottawa, ON – April 18, 2011 - Corporate Renaissance Group (CRG), a global provider of innovative solutions that improve business performance and increase effectiveness, is pleased to announce that Palomar Pomerado Health (PPH), California’s largest Public Health System, has selected CRG emPerform™ as their employee performance management solution. After evaluating more than 50 vendors, PPH will rely on emPerform to reduce administrative costs, streamline employee development initiatives and improve evaluation consistency, competency creation, and organizational goal cascading.

PPH has been committed to industry-leading patient care for more than 60 years and has received recognition for their dedication to quality. PPH was the First Public Health District in California to Achieve Magnet® Recognition, was voted one of the ‘Top 100 Places to Work in Healthcare’, and received the Premier Award for Quality in 2008.

“PPH employees are at the front line of patient care”, said Mike Shea, Director of Compensation and Benefits, for PPH. “Proper and effective management and development of staff is what reinforces our commitment to quality. Implementing the latest in performance management technology will not only reduce the time and money spent on administrative tasks, it will also automate and streamline our entire talent management process - ensuring that our front line is developed and retained”.

CRG emPerform will move performance management at PPH from a roughly 95% manual process to a nearly 100% automated process - greatly reducing the administrative burdens related to performance management and ensuring that performance appraisal forms remain consistent and updated. PPH’s past problems related to supervisors using old or outdated forms will be eliminated as correct evaluations can be automatically updated and assigned to each employee based on their department and position.

“The landscape of the Health Care industry has and will continue to change”, said Dr.Vijay Jog, President of CRG. “We are delighted that PPH has chosen emPerform as a powerful yet cost-effective solution for improving their employee performance management processes. In addition, the ability to effortlessly generate competency compliance reports that satisfy accreditation body requirements is an integrated feature of emPerform and is vital for PPH and other Health Care organizations to stay accredited and competitive in the industry”.

PPH will use emPerform to conduct employee appraisals and initiate development planning for more than 4,000 employees across five of its facilities with plans to extend emPerform into the newest facility opening in 2012.

About Palomar Pomerado Health
Palomar Pomerado Health (PPH), California's largest public health system is North County's most comprehensive health-care delivery system, and is the only Magnet® recognized public health system in the state. It is nationally recognized for clinical excellence in cardiac care, women's services, cancer, orthopedics, trauma, rehabilitation and behavioral health services. Facilities include Palomar Medical Center, Pomerado Hospital, Villa Pomerado, Palomar Continuing Care Center, the Jean McLaughlin Women's Center, Escondido Surgery Center, PPH expresscare health centers, and soon, Palomar Medical Center West -- Hospital of the Future, which will open in 2012. Please visit www.pph.org

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 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,
visit www.employee-performance.com.

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

Andy Hoang
Manager, Communications & Media Relations
Palomar Pomerado Health
andy.hoang@pph.org
858.675.5018
www.pph.org

Ottawa, Ontario – April 6, 2011 – Corporate Renaissance Group (CRG), a global provider of innovative solutions that improve business performance and increase effectiveness, is pleased to announce that MRIS and its subsidiary, RealEstate Business Intelligence (RBI), have selected CRG emPerform™ as their employee performance management solution.

MRIS, the leading developer of real estate technology and information as well as the largest multiple listing service (MLS) in the United States, and RBI will use emPerform to automate employee appraisals and to improve employee goal setting for more than 120 of their employees located in the greater Washington, DC – Baltimore, MD region.

MRIS and RBI were looking for an online performance management solution to better align employee performance to company strategic goals, significantly reduce the time spent on employee appraisals, eliminate their manual paper process, and integrate seamlessly into their current workflows.

A key factor in MRIS and RBI’s decision to choose emPerform over other vendors was its remote hosting ability. “In addition to its ease-of-use, we selected CRG emPerform for their hosted solution which blended perfectly into our Software as a Service (SaaS) business model,” said Jonathan Hill, President of RBI. “We were looking for a flexible product that could be deployed online with minimal effort from our internal hardware and IT resources.”

“Because every organization is completely different, CRG emPerform has always offered the flexibility of deploying on-premise or hosted with the ability to switch between the two at any point as they expand or shift”, said John Smith, Director of Enterprise Business Solutions at CRG. “We are pleased that emPerform is able to offer MRIS and RBI the ability to overcome their performance and talent management challenges and adhere to their SaaS business model.”

About MRIS
MRIS is Real Estate in Real Time™, enabling its customers to list and sell nearly $100 million in real estate each day and nearly $100 billion in listings and closed sales in 2010. A leading developer of real estate information technology, MRIS connects its customers with timely, accurate and actionable data with a growing portfolio of technology solutions, including broker and agent software products and an industry-leading consumer portal, HomesDatabase.com. MRIS serves nearly 45,000 real estate professionals spanning a 22,000 square mile section of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region, including Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and portions of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Visit us at MRIS.com, “Like” us on Facebook.com/MRISonFB, and follow us on Twitter, @MRIS_REal_News.

About RealEstate Business Intelligence, LLC (RBI)
RealEstate Business Intelligence, LLC (RBI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of MRIS. RBI is a primary source of real estate data, analytics and business intelligence for real estate professionals with business interests in the Mid-Atlantic region. RBI also makes its statistical products and services available to other MLS markets throughout the US. Visit us at RBIntel.com, “Like” us on Facebook.com/RBIntel, and follow us on Twitter, @RBIntel.

For additional information:

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

Tina McCormack Beaty
MRIS and RBI Media Contact
tina@cfoxcommunications.com
301-585-5034 x116

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