2002 Press Releases

Aquire's OrgBuilder Brings Organizational Charts Into The 21st Century

OrgBuilder™ helps organizations visualize and manage multiple reporting relationships

IRVING, TX - February 5, 2002 - Aquire, Inc., the Irving, Texas-based global provider of Web-based organizational charting software, today announced the availability of OrgBuilder™, an enterprise resource management tool that allows companies to rapidly and efficiently build, manage and communicate multiple organizational structures. OrgBuilder is a graphical database that any business can use to manage complex organizational data and various hierarchical challenges in a collaborative and secure location.

"An organizational chart is easily the most globally identifiable business graphic in use, and often the most challenging to manage. OrgBuilder provides the tools necessary to visualize employee allocations in business initiatives, teams or projects using the 'org chart' metaphor," states Lois Melbourne, president of Time Vision. "OrgBuilder brings the traditional organizational chart into the 21st century by adding a dynamic technology component that simplifies and automates an often time-intensive process."

With OrgBuilder, companies can build and maintain multiple organizational charts using existing company data residing in: typical human resource applications such as Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft; common data collection tools like Excel, Outlook email lists; or users can create a data source directly in the product. All organizational chart information is captured and maintained in the software and can be shared with other enterprise systems. OrgBuilder's capabilities extend beyond traditional administrative reporting to offer multiple users the ability to simultaneously manage team-specific programs, special projects, and divisional and financial information without systems disruption.

"As consultants, our success depends upon our ability to strategically align employees and resources with appropriate projects. With OrgBuilder, we have taken this process off the white-board, and can now effectively communicate resource allocation decisions to our management team," said Jim Buchanan, president and chief executive officer of Buchanan Associates, a 400-person technology consulting firm. "We found OrgBuilder much easier to use than anticipated. Every manager, regardless of physical location, can collaborate on building the team structures required for each unique client site."

Six Key Product Features of OrgBuilder:

		Permits multiple individuals in various locations to directly contribute to the management of the organizational data.
		Offers easy management of multiple reporting relationships, with language such as: Reports-To, which identifies a managerial or administrative relationship; Works-On, which represents program or project assignments; and Belongs-To, which outlines membership in committees or special purpose groups.
		Creates a collaborative environment for managing data, including the collection of information from disparate human resource systems supporting the organization domestically or globally.
		Allows a distributed management team to work on the same visual picture of the organization's structure at the same time.
		Offers a flexible access model that provides a variety of options, based on each customer's unique needs. Within each chart, the administrator can control the viewing of specific information and the modifying of chart data, custom fields, chart styles or formats.
		Allows employees and managers to take direct ownership of critical personal information. Each employee who appears on an organizational chart can have the authority to modify information within his or her own record.

OrgBuilder can be used independently or in conjunction with Aquire's flagship product, OrgPublisher™, allowing for the dissemination of the complete organizational picture. For more information about OrgBuilder or OrgPublisher, please call 888-Org-Chart (674-2427) or visit www.Aquire.com.

About Aquire, Inc.
Founded in 1994, Irving Texas-based Aquire, Inc. is the leading global provider of Internet/Intranet-based, organizational charting software used by more than 1,500 companies and organizations in nearly 50 countries. Customers include American Airlines, the Bank of Montreal, Colgate-Palmolive, Compaq Computers, Heinz North America, the Internal Revenue Service, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Reliant Energy and XO Communication, among others. OrgPublisher for Intranets, the company's flagship product, continues to be the only proven, interactive org-charting software with the largest installed base of users worldwide with more than three million individuals charted on customers' intranets. Stand-alone or combined, Aquire's products OrgPublisher and OrgBuilder provide the most comprehensive solution for creating, maintaining, distributing, and analyzing organizational information across the enterprise.

Aquire has received numerous awards recognizing its growth, product quality and service record. In November 2001, Deloitte & Touche named Aquire as one of the nation's 500 fastest-growing companies. Aquire has also been recognized by Software Magazine for being a Top 500 company, and by the Dallas Business Journal for three consecutive years as one of the 50 fastest-growing, high-tech companies in Dallas-Fort Worth. The company also received the Greater Dallas Chamber International Business Achievement Award for small businesses in 2001.