Company Background
FutureWork Systems is a software development
company built from a successful merger between FutureWorks
One-Stop Centers and a software development firm.
The company provides information technology tools
and services based on an application service provider
model to workforce development professionals across
the nation in support of US Department of Labor initiatives.
The company launched in 2000 as a result of a strong
need in the workforce development community for more
effective performance management tools and services
in response to the new performance requirements created
by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
Fulfilling a Need
In early 2000, the company launched
Workforce Performance Matters (known to today
as Performance Matters Plus) as a Web-based
application service to help states and LWIAs manage
performance data. Workforce Performance Matters
was WIA's first performance management system to effectively
address state and LWIA needs for a WIA performance
management system and it brought, for the first time,
the benefits of private sector decision support technology
to workforce development professionals nationwide.
Policy-makers and program managers now had access
to performance data in ways that would facilitate
effective program decision-making, finally allowing
them to proactively manage for program success.
Today, Workforce Performance Matters has
evolved to Performance
Matters Plus, version 7.0 and it continues to be
the leading, full-featured performance management
system for WIA program managers and administrators.
Moving Forward
FutureWork Systems continues to provide
technology tools and services to help workforce development
professionals succeed, originally under WIA, and now
to other workforce funding sources, such as TANF and
Wagner Peyser. As common measures extend the reach
of performance metrics and management throughout the
Department of Labor's programs, FutureWork Systems
rises to meet the challenge. Our mission is to continue
to provide the best information technology software
tools and services in a cost-effective manner to have
a positive impact on communities served.
Learn more about the company founders.
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