December 2008 - Royal Win for Softworks Computing Ltd

A Royal Win for Softworks Workforce Solutions

Irish software company awarded e3.3m contract with The Royal Mail (UK)

Bray based software company, Softworks Workeforce Solutions, today announced an agreement to install its market-leading Time Resource Management System (TRMS) known as 'ClockWise' at the Royal Mail Group Plc (UK). Following a lengthy tendering process, wholly owned Irish Company, Softworks Workforce Solutions, has been awarded the euro3.3m (GBP£2m) contract, against stiff competition from the UK, Europe and the USA. Phase 1 of the TRMS implementation begins in March at the Royal Mail's new state of the art international mail handling facility at Heathrow.

Established in 1990 and headquartered in Bray, Co Wicklow, with offices in the UK and France, Softworks Workforce Solutions has concentrated its efforts on the management of labour resources since its foundation. Currently recognised as Europe's fastest growing supplier of client server and web-based Time Resource Management Systems and a Fast 50 winner for three years running, the Royal Mail deal serves to firmly place Softworks as a leader in its field.

Commenting on the contract, Andrew Ferguson, Managing Director at Softworks said, "We continuously strive to meet the demands of our diverse customer base and this win is confirmation that Softworks' has grown to become a market-place leader. We are delighted to have been awarded this contract as it shows the Royal Mail's confidence in our ability to provide a technically advanced, high quality, feature rich solution that will, through improved management of human resources, assist them in reducing costs and improving staff utilisation to increase mail handling throughput."

Softworks' customer base incorporates large and small manufacturers of technology, pharmaceutical, foodstuffs and consumer goods through to major financial institutions, legal practices, government, retail, educational, healthcare, hospitality and other service industries. Easy to use, with full graphical reporting capabilities, the Softworks' solution, Clockwise, processes, as standard, the most extensive range of in-depth, real-time reports available in the marketplace today. Softworks' solutions capture 100% rules and shift / rostering requirements and integrate seamlessly with Payroll and HR software. Softworks also provides Flexitime, Project Tracking, Labour Tracking and Expenses Tracking Solutions together with a variety of data collection options including employee self-service touch screens, PC and/or web log-in/out functionality.