Workbrain, the leading provider of workforce management solutions for large enterprises (TSX: WB), continues to lead the industry in reducing the total cost of ownership of workforce management solutions. The company announced the launch of its Feature Pack program, the industry's only product release strategy that delivers valuable functional and technical enhancements optionally, outside of major releases. The Feature Pack program lengthens major release cycles and extends support for major releases while still providing frequent enhancements to the proven Workbrain 5.0 platform. The strategy significantly reduces the need for clients to perform major upgrades and further reduces the cost of ownership of Workbrain solutions.

"In a traditional product release strategy, organizations are challenged to balance major upgrades with the need to continually adopt the enhancements in a new product release. It's an unfortunate catch-22 because major upgrades increase the cost of ownership yet they are the primary way most vendors deliver value to their clients," said Tony Marzulli, Workbrain's Senior Vice President of Products and Marketing. "We're solving that problem with a formalized program that extends the time between major product releases, but still allows our clients to realize the benefits of product, industry and technical enhancements without being forced into a major upgrade."

Feature Packs give clients complete control over their systems by allowing them to selectively enable only the features they want. Features are non-invasive and each Feature Pack is field-tested by clients before they are made generally available. The program allows clients to enjoy the stability of a mature environment and focus on continually increasing the business value of
solutions their instead of performing platform upgrades.

Released in May, Workbrain's first Feature Pack includes improved utilities that cut installation time by 50%; enhanced schedule configuration that allows staffing requirement changes to groups of locations in minutes; more powerful schedule editing sort, filter and zoom capabilities; and other performance, productivity and usability enhancements. Feature Packs are offered at no additional cost to existing Workbrain clients on current support and are delivered throughout the year.

Web Seminar Showcases New Solution

Workbrain's new Feature Pack program is featured in a complimentary web seminar. To view the web seminar, please visit http://www.workbrain.com/ondemandseminar.