Smiths Medical Leverages HumanConcepts’ OrgPlus Enterprise for Proactive Workforce Decision Support

Greater Insight into Employee Productivity Optimizes Finance, IT, Sales and Purchasing

SAUSALITO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HumanConcepts and its customer, Smiths Medical, a leading global supplier of high-quality medical devices and products, announced today the deployment of HumanConcepts’ OrgPlus^® Enterprise 3.0, the leading software for workforce modeling and intelligence, to provide visibility into employee structure and metrics in Smiths Medical’s business operations. With accurate, real-time employee data, Smiths Medical can make better, faster decisions, streamline approval processes and manage workforce change.

“By fully understanding their workforce with real-time employee information, forward-looking companies like Smiths Medical preserve capital, save time and optimize resources.”

To provide greater detail about the benefits Smiths Medical receives from OrgPlus Enterprise, HumanConcepts will host a webinar, “Extending Your Organization Charts Beyond HR,” featuring Cameron Cegelske, Smiths Medical Global Business Analyst, on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT/12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST. To register go to www.humanconcepts.com/webinar.

“Smiths Medical is the latest global customer to fully leverage the competitive value that our OrgPlus solution can bring to all employees, from C-level executives to administrators,” said Martin Sacks, CEO, HumanConcepts. “By fully understanding their workforce with real-time employee information, forward-looking companies like Smiths Medical preserve capital, save time and optimize resources.”

“HumanConcepts’ OrgPlus workforce modeling solution -- which is integrated with our Oracle ERP system -- significantly reduces workload and clarifies organizational resources and structure to optimize our business,” said Stuart Beesley, CIO, Smiths Medical. “The solution gives us superior insight into critical information that drives our decision-making and enables us to maintain advantage in the highly-competitive, ever-changing global medical device market.”

About Smiths Medical

Smiths Medical is a leading supplier of high-quality medical devices and products for global markets. It designs and manufactures specialist medical devices under three product groupings: Safety Devices, Vital Care and Medication Delivery. Smiths Medical's customers include hospitals, alternate care such as home care, and other healthcare providers worldwide. Smiths Medical is part of the global technology business Smiths Group, a world leader in the practical application of advanced technologies. For further information, visit www.smiths-medical.com.

About HumanConcepts

HumanConcepts is the leading provider of workforce decision support software. With its OrgPlus technology charting over fifteen million employees for organizations worldwide, including 400 of the Fortune 500, HumanConcepts has defined best practices in workforce modeling and intelligence. OrgPlus empowers our customers to proactively manage change, from departmental reorganizations to large scale mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

OrgPlus integrates with leading HCM and HR systems, including SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and Lawson to automatically create, update and distribute organizational charts for team collaboration, workforce planning and critical decision-making. In addition, OrgPlus seamlessly integrates with industry-leading applications such as Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat.

HumanConcepts is based in Sausalito, California with offices in the United Kingdom and Germany and offers OrgPlus software and services worldwide. For more information visit www.humanconcepts.com.