Tuesday, July 6, 2004

Sterling Testing Systems and EthicsPoint Announce Strategic Alliance

Sterling Testing Systems and EthicsPoint Announce Strategic Alliance

Partnership will deliver end-to-end solution integrating issue and event resolution and employment screening management.

New York, NY; Portland, OR (PRWEB) July 10, 2007

Sterling Testing Systems, Inc., a leading provider of employment screening and compliance services, and EthicsPoint, the market leader in business process optimization for Issue, Event, and Loss Management, today announced a strategic partnership.

Understanding the make up of your employee base is integral to today’s Governance Risk and Compliance mandate. This partnership empowers users of EthicsPoint’s on-demand issue and event application with seamless access to Sterling’s award-winning employment screening and other key verification and assessment services.

By unifying their core offerings, Sterling and EthicsPoint not only will enable the workforce to accomplish tasks with greater efficiency and effectiveness, but will provide senior management with greater confidence in the processes and tools that the organization is using to define, prevent, detect, and respond to the risks of business today. The integrated solution will give EthicsPoint’s Issue and Event Management clients access to Sterling's global human and technical resources to deliver critical business intelligence.

"The combination of the two companies’ solutions will help employers realize new operational efficiencies in administering their ethics and background screening efforts," said Paul Mladineo, Sterling’s vice president of strategic development. "Employers will have a single, integrated platform through which they can track their pre-employment and post-hire screening initiatives against their other workflow and data and process management programs, providing them with critical information with which to make better business decisions."

Under the terms of the agreement, the companies are also coordinating marketing, sales, and service capabilities to deliver the solution to companies globally.

"EthicsPoint clients who utilize our Issue, Event, and Loss Management solution are looking for meaningful points of integration that make their resolution process more efficient. This integration creates an important workflow extension and provides access to an invaluable service as our clients seek to improve efficiencies and gain greater process control. Sterling offers the high-level background check services that are truly meaningful to the market’s needs. This partnership is part of our mutual strategy to provide services in a consumption model around Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) solutions," says David Childers, president and CEO of EthicsPoint, Inc.

About EthicsPoint
EthicsPoint is the market leader in business process optimization for Issue, Event, and Loss Management. We provide a robust, on-demand, single-platform workflow solution that leverages our industry-leading global hotline and report management system. Our comprehensive solution can cost-efficiently integrate detached, localized activities or provide immediate point solution benefits. The EthicsPoint solution is used by over 1,400 clients in a variety of industries worldwide to incorporate compliance initiatives and business process management via a "pay as you grow," Software-as-a-Service delivery model. For more information, visit www. ethicspoint. com.

About Sterling Testing Systems, Inc.
Sterling Testing Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of pre-employment screening, HR outsourcing services, information and solutions. The company’s proprietary technologies -- SterlingDirect and Court Direct -- seamlessly link HR professionals to a host of pre-employment screening and background information and data. Sterling maintains a 99 percent client retention rate and boasts 6,000 clients from Fortune 500 companies to small - and mid-sized companies in a range of industries including healthcare, retail, financial services, insurance, manufacturing, transportation, professional services, and telecommunications, among others. For more information, please visit www. sterlingtesting. com.

This press release was distributed through eMediawire by Human Resources Marketer (HR Marketer: www. HRmarketer. com) on behalf of the company listed above.

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