SLRY Salary.Com (MM)

WALTHAM, Mass., June 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salary.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:SLRY), a leading provider of on-demand compensation management solutions, today announced it has received a "Positive" rating in Gartner's "MarketScope for Employee Performance Management Software, 2007(1)." Salary.com was one of 28 vendors evaluated in the report. "We believe our "Positive" rating in Gartner's MarketScope reflects our leadership position in the market and underscores the momentum we're creating in the category," said CEO Kent Plunkett. "Salary.com is committed to providing best-in-breed talent management solutions that help our customers inspire outstanding employee performance and drive greater efficiency in the area of human capital management." He continued, "We designed TalentManager(TM), our on-demand pay-for-performance software, to meet our customers' needs for flexible and affordable ways to manage performance based pay programs, and they have responded enthusiastically with high marks for customer support." Evaluation criteria for inclusion in the MarketScope included marketing strategy, product strategy, business model, product or service, overall viability, sales executive and pricing, and customer experience. Gartner focused on providers that have a broad, cross-industry solution and production proven products in at least one of three major categories, i.e., performance management, succession management and compensation management. Providers had to demonstrate that they possessed at least 25 customers, 15 of which were production customers that are live with more than 1,000 employees in one category. The MarketScope is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About Salary.com Salary.com is a leading provider of on-demand compensation management solutions helping businesses and individuals manage pay and performance. Salary.com provides companies of all sizes comprehensive on-demand software applications that are tightly integrated with its own proprietary compensation data sets, thereby automating the essential elements of the compensation management process and significantly improving the effectiveness of its client's compensation spend. For more information, visit http://www.salary.com/. (1) Gartner "MarketScope for Employee Performance Management Software, 2007" by James Holincheck, May 2007 DATASOURCE: Salary.com, Inc. CONTACT: Elle Hoxie of Salary.com, Inc., +1-781-464-7841, Web site: http://www.salary.com/

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