Meta4's New Software Optimizes Informatica El Corte

Ingles' Intellectual Capital MADRID, Spain and ATLANTA (PROTEXT) - Informatica El CorteIngles (IECISA), a systems integration and information technologyconsulting firm reporting 1998 revenues of 93 billion pesetas(approximately $600 million), has purchased Meta4's people andknowledge component from the Meta4Mind Set to optimize the use ofthe organization's collective knowledge. This agreement marks thefirst Meta4 customer for this new and innovative product. Meta4's people and knowledge component enables an organizationto leverage intellectual capital by providing a methodology forknowledge capture, assessment and dissemination. Its success isbased on Meta4's unique vision that knowledge management systemswork best if they understand the roles, objectives andinterrelationships of the people who create and apply knowledge. The agreement will initially support 200 IECISA employees withthe intent of extending it throughout the entire workforce in thevery near future. IECISA's human resource department willimplement and administer the Meta4 people and knowledgemanagement software and it will be strategically applied to theorganization's Quality and Processes, Internet Solutions andHuman Resource Fundamentals areas. "Our (IECISA) adoption of Meta4's vanguard people andknowledge management software underlines our commitment topreserving our main asset -- human capital and the knowledgeinherent to it -- and being pioneers again by offering ourclients the most advanced technologies and tools to improve theirbusiness," said Miguel Latasa, CEO of IECISA. "For knowledge intensive companies such as IECISA, people andknowledge are their competitive advantage," explains JoaquinMoya-Angeler, president and COO of Meta4. "Our people andknowledge management software allows them to better capitalize onthat invaluable resource and foster innovative, creative andadaptive responses required to improve." IECISA is Spain's third largest Information Technology (IT)sector company and the number one IT company of those 100 percentSpanish-owned. Its main business is consulting, systemsintegration and IT services to large corporations and publicadministration. With more than 1,450 employees, IECISA operatesoffices in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Morocco, Portugaland Spain and has a presence in France, Italy and Germany. Founded in 1991, Meta4 provides Web-based software productsfor the management of people and the exchange and management ofknowledge across corporate Intranets and the Internet. Meta4MindSet, its web-based family of products, encompasses a HumanResource Management System (HRMS) -- including payroll, benefitsand human resource applications -- with the world's first Peopleand Knowledge Management System (PKMS), which integratesfunctionally advanced strategic human resource capabilities witha people-centered knowledge management system. Meta4's principaloffice is located in Madrid, with regional offices in Atlanta,Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Mexico City, Munich, Paris andSantiago de Chile. For more information on Meta4, visit its website at www.meta4.com ots Original Text Service: Meta4 Internet:http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Jodi Florence of Meta4, 404-760-4320, or jodif@meta4.es , or Bari Love of Fletcher MartinAssociates, 404-720-8149, or bl@fletchermartin.com , for Meta4Web site: http://www.meta4.com

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