Vebnet and Towers Watson Announce Partnership Throughout Latin America
Released on: February 17, 2011, 7:16 am
Author:
Standard Life plc
Industry:
Financial
Vebnet, a market-leading global technology provider of total
rewards and flexible benefits solutions, and Towers Watson (NYSE,
NASDAQ: TW), a leading global professional services company, have
announced a formal partnership in Latin America.
The partnership combines Towers Watson's expertise in benefits, investment and
communication consulting with Vebnet's market-leading technology to support
organisations that need portal-based flexible employee benefit schemes. Vebnet and
Towers Watson have a similar, successful partnership in Asia Pacific.
"The increasing diversity of today's workforce makes flexibility an essential
component of benefit provision and total rewards programs," said Segundo Tascon,
Latin America benefits director of Towers Watson.
"Together, Towers Watson and Vebnet will offer a fully integrated yet highly
configurable solution to clients and their employees. Vebnet's FIX&FLEX is an
intuitive and highly configurable technology application that enables companies to
provide education and information content through engaging communications and
consistent messaging within a common employee brand."
By combining Vebnet's technology, bespoke communication programs delivered through
multimedia channels and highly experienced consulting and implementation teams,
Towers Watson can develop and deliver a differentiated employee benefit strategy and
solution to leading companies. This solution can include communications plans, total
rewards statements, flexible benefits and online pay slips to bring more choice, empowerment, flexibility and automation
to the company's benefit scheme. The technology can be deployed in multiple
languages and currencies and be the application controlling multinational or global
employee benefit scheme provision and administration.
This technology currently supports over 260 organizations, covering 400,000
employees. The technology is deployed in over 20 countries and in different
languages including Chinese, Thai and Spanish.
The partnership is specifically designed to assist companies facing any issues
prevalent in Latin America such as; escalating benefit cost inflation, increasing
complexity and cost in benefit scheme administration, increasing diversity in the
workforce and different employees' needs, a desire to leverage the value that
employers spend on benefit provision, the challenge of engaging employees through
relevant and effective communications, an obligation to educate and inform employees
of the need to save for and plan for retirement and becoming an employer of choice
with a differentiated reward and benefit strategy.
"We are very pleased to partner with Towers Watson and bring our clients a solution
that will address a number of key employee benefit issues and deliver innovative
market-leading and truly differentiated benefit solutions," said Gerry O'Neil,
chief executive officer of Vebnet.
About Vebnet:
Vebnet have been specialising in creating global employee benefits solutions for
over 10 years. It is part of the Standard Life Group, one of the leading savings and
investment providers.
It has over 200 dedicated flexible employee benefit and technology industry experts with expertise in designing, implementing, managing
and advising on reward programmes.
Its creative ideas are supported by its market-leading in-house technology. This
integrated reward portal brings together all elements of employee total reward and employee benefit schemes to engage employees and optimise the employee benefits strategy.
It supports over 200 organisations, covering in excess of 400,000 employees, who
represent some of the world's most progressive employers such as PepsiCo, Airbus,
National Grid and JP Morgan. Its solutions have been implemented across Europe,
Asia, North and Latin America in languages such as Chinese, Thai, and Spanish.
Press Contact:
Steven Hartley
Public Relations Manager
Standard Life plc
Ground Floor
Caledonian Exchange
19a Canning Street
Edinburgh
EH3 8EG
44 (0)131 245 1365
www.vebnet.com
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