MIRAMAR, Fla. - April 18, 2006--

Kaba Benzing America, the North American operating subsidiary of Kaba Holding AG, Switzerland, the worldwide leader in enterprise workforce management systems, today announced the launch of it's new suite of solutions for workforce optimization. Building on the company's foundation of automated workforce management (WFM) tools, Kaba Benzing now offers unprecedented capabilities for workforce optimization (WFO) that include time and attendance tracking, data collection, employee self service, demand driven scheduling and expert consulting services.

. "We are excited to be the first company to launch a complete solution that accomplishes WFO in the global manufacturing environment," explains John C. Edwards, Chief Executive Officer and President for Kaba Benzing America. "The combination of software and services now offered by Kaba Benzing America truly changes the way management teams work. By providing real time insights into workforce productivity as well as automated scheduling, and by offering over 20 years of best practices and change management consulting expertise, Kaba Benzing's solution captures highly significant cost saving opportunities, advances employee performance and morale, and creates an environment for continuous improvement."

The Kaba Benzing Difference

Over the past years and through input from its worldwide client base, Kaba Benzing has evolved its WFM offerings to better accommodate the need for current or best practices. Increasingly, highly complex forecasting, shift-scheduling, labor management reporting, and analytics are requirements for streamlined and global production. The optimization to meet these current workforce management requirements is available exclusively from Kaba Benzing America through its new Workforce Optimization Suite, an unprecedented combination of component centric hardware, software and consulting services.

Kaba Benzing's WFO solution suite includes AutoTime 6 with ScheduleSoft technology and Core Practice Partners expert consulting. These components are fully integratible tools and services for upgrading a conventional WFM system to a WFO system. The combination of these offerings provides the unique capability for immediate and real-time control -- true optimization. Companies that currently deploy standard workforce management systems for monitoring and measuring labor productivity do so to avoid costly staffing errors and the misallocation of resources. The data collected by these conventional WFM systems relay operational information such as staff counts and productivity measurements, offering comparative data for determining the effectiveness of previous staffing decisions and subsequent productivity. While the cumulative data obtained from a conventional WFM system provides management benefits, it only offers insight into past activity. True workforce optimization can only be achieved when real time or current practices can be closely monitored to deal with fast changing market and production conditions.

The combined benefits of automated workforce management tools, demand driven shift-scheduling technology, and expert consulting services provide the important capability of managing a workforce to current needs. Through its partnerships with Core Practice Partners, LLC, and ScheduleSoft, Kaba Benzing America now offers the complete suite of components necessary for optimizing workforce management. Core Practice consultants analyze low cost scheduling options that improve employee moral and minimize costs for seasonal production environments, and ScheduleSoft shift-scheduling technology streamlines critical shift data and provides scheduling changes in real time, offering significant cost efficiency.

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