BOSTON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/26/09 -- Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), today announced the availability of a new online talent management assessment portal for SilkRoad technology, inc. The tool, which utilizes Aberdeen's primary research in human capital management, collected and analyzed data from more than three thousand organizations, helps companies identify their recruitment, onboarding, employee performance management, and learning capabilities that lead to improved business performance. Based on participants' responses to assessment questions, the online interactive environment recommends specific strategies and capabilities to assist companies in fine-tuning their talent management initiatives and actually creating intrinsic value for the organization.

Aberdeen has successfully launched other interactive portals in the industry, but this is the inaugural tool for Aberdeen's Human Capital Management (HCM) practice. The assessment helps organizations determine their maturity by benchmarking against leading organizations, as identified through Aberdeen's PACE(TM) (Pressures, Actions, Capabilities & Enablers) research model. By completing a 10-minute online survey, in any or all four tracks -- recruiting, onboarding, employee performance management, and learning -- participants receive a personalized analysis of how their organizations compare to industry peers and helps them to quickly identify key capabilities and technologies used by companies with top performance. Talent management professionals and business executives can utilize the assessment results to help determine next steps in order to implement those strategies and improve their organizations' talent management initiatives.

"The powerful tool that Aberdeen and SilkRoad have developed will allow organizations to truly understand what they're doing well and where they have room for improvement," said Kevin Martin, vice president and group director for HCM and Extraprise research at Aberdeen. "Not only does this new benchmark tool help identify potential issues, but also it will help companies solve those problems and improve their talent management and operational performance."

"Aberdeen is pleased to partner with SilkRoad to bring our first talent management benchmark assessment to market," said Andrew Boyd, President of Aberdeen.