New Partnership

UAE and American Firms to Cooperate

Dubai (UAE), April 2008 - UKS, one of the Middle East's leading learning solutions enablers, has announced its partnership with Plateau Systems, an American provider of software for developing, managing, and optimizing organizational skills and talent. The joint effort will provide learning and workforce performance solutions to the rapidly growing commercial and public sector organizations in the Middle East.




Private and public sector organizations are realizing the need for learning and performance management solutions. New employees must be trained quickly, existing employees must be brought up to speed on new products and operating procedures, leaders must be identified and developed for promotion, and organizational readiness must be evaluated and continuously improved. Plateau's solutions enable these activities with a highly scalable, robust solution that can be deployed rapidly to improve operational performance.

"The ability to effectively align learning and development activities to harmonize strategic business needs and values is critical to the success of today's organizations. If you can manage learning, performance, career, and succession within your organization effectively, you are on the right track in transforming the workplace into a learning organization.

In Plateau, UKS found the perfect solution to manage this evolvement and to facilitate the work of businesses in the region to maintain clients, increase workforce productivity, attain and retain the key talent, and meet their business needs", said Hadi Shaheen, UKS Corporate Division Manager.

UKS will provide its customers with the Plateau Talent Management software to automate and enhance their organizations' performance management and compensation planning processes. Fundamentally, talent management is about matching individual capabilities with organizational needs to drive innovation and business growth.

The Plateau Talent Management software enables organizations to manage, reward, optimize, and develop their organizational talent to increase workforce productivity and maximize operating performance.