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BrassRing Wins 2004 SIIA Codie Award
BrassRing Enterprise™ Platform Named Best Product in the HR Industry
WALTHAM, MA - May 20, 2004 - BrassRing, a leading provider of talent management solutions, announced today that it has been selected by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) for the 2004 Codie Award for Best Human Resources Product. BrassRing's Enterprise 5.5 platform was selected from among the offerings of the human resources industry's top software and services providers. The award was presented to BrassRing on May 18 at the 2004 Codie Awards Gala in San Francisco.
The SIIA evaluated more than 800 nominations, representing more than 600 companies, before selecting the 44 Codie Award winners. First round judging was completed by a broad panel consisting of representatives from industry trade press as well as mainstream technology writers and industry experts and analysts. Second round judging was based on votes from SIIA members. Member companies are allotted one vote per company in each Codie Award category.
"SIIA congratulates BrassRing on winning a 2004 Codie Award in a new category with first-rate competition," said Ken Wasch, President of SIIA. "This 19th Annual Codie Awards continues our tradition of celebrating the best products in the software and information industry. Being a winner among so many fine nominees is a solid achievement."
Other winners of this year's Codie Awards include Adobe Systems, Macromedia, salesforce.com, IBM, Dow Jones and Company, and Google. A complete list of winners can be found at http://www.siia.net/codies2004/winners.asp.
"We are honored to receive this recognition from the SIIA and to join so many other market-leading corporations as a winner of this year's awards,” said Deb Besemer, President and CEO of BrassRing. "This award is testament to the commitment of the entire BrassRing team, who together have developed a product that continues to set industry standards and exceed the expectations of our clients around the world.”
BrassRing Enterprise is a global recruitment platform that enables complex organizations to build and maintain top workforces while reducing their costs and simplifying their recruiting processes. More than 180 companies benefit from the Enterprise platform, in 45 countries and in twelve languages.
About BrassRing
BrassRing delivers talent management solutions that help companies engage people. The company offers clients a custom blend of recruitment software, talent consulting, and recruitment process management. The world's most diverse and successful organizations rely on BrassRing's expertise to achieve competitive advantage through talent. Investors in BrassRing LLC and its affiliates include The Washington Post Company, Tribune Company, Gannett Co., Inc., and Accel Partners. BrassRing has earned a number of prestigious industry awards, including the CAREERXROADS' 2002 Best of the Best, Weddle's User's Choice Awards for 2002 and 2003, and a 2003 Human Resource Technology Excellence Award. Additionally, the company was recently honored with the Sears 'Partners in Progress' 2003 Award, led the ratings in CareerBuilder's 2003 Recruitment Technology Resource Guide, won first place at the 2002 Electronic Recruiting Shootout at HR Executive's HR Technology Conference and was named first in Customer Satisfaction in HR.com's 2003 Buyer's Guide. BrassRing has offices in North America and Europe. BrassRing is a registered trademark of BrassRing, LLC. To learn more about BrassRing and its technologies, please visit www.brassring.com.
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