AccuWeather Selects SilkRoad technology's WingSpan For Performance Management

Chicago, IL

SilkRoad technology, inc., the leading provider of talent management solutions, announced today that AccuWeather has selected WingSpan, SilkRoad's employee performance management solution. With WingSpan, AccuWeather will now have the ability to create a consistent, streamlined performance management process to reduce administrative time and costs. It will also allow AccuWeather to draw a clear line of visibility between employee objectives, departmental goals, and corporate strategy. AccuWeather, the world's leading multimedia weather information source, was established in 1962. It provides local forecasts for everywhere in the United States and over two million locations worldwide.

'WingSpan is going to give us the tools to not only measure employee performance, but to also take that information and improve employee talent levels,' said AccuWeather Director of Human Resources, Vincent McDonald. 'This technology will help us to continue to grow as a company and develop our employees to reach towards their full potential.'

WingSpan is a flexible employee performance management solution with a unique blend of functions that enable companies to maximize and develop employee talent. WingSpan is a full featured and fully integrated solution with multi-rater assessments, competency and skills management, development planning, goal setting and performance planning, performance and appraisal reviews, and career development with succession planning.

The knowledge built into the WingSpan performance and competency management software is based upon two decades of research and validation in the field. WingSpan leverages more than 15 years of experience in creating talent management solutions and more than 20 years of experience in creating success criteria for organizations.

About AccuWeather, Inc. and AccuWeather.com

AccuWeather, Empowering You to Be the Best, presents accurate, localized, branded forecasts and severe weather bulletins each day to one quarter of a billion persons worldwide via the free AccuWeather.com website, mobile devices and IPTV, through the airwaves, and in print. The 116 meteorologists at AccuWeather also deliver a portfolio of customized enterprise solutions to media, business, government, and institutions, as well as providing content for more than 50,000 third-party Internet sites, including the wallstreetjournal.com, CBS News Mobile, and WABC-TV New York. Visit www.accuweather.com for more information.

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