NASHUA, NH -- (Marketwire) -- 11/05/12 -- Akken, the staffing efficiency improvement specialists, announced today a partnership with The Code Works, a Vendor Management System (VMS) integration solution for the staffing industry, to offer Akken Staffing customers integration with VMS Access, which provides Akken customers with immediate access to job requests and positions.

"VMS adoption has accelerated and as a result the competition in the staffing industry to quickly act on VMS requisitions has exploded," said Sara Moss, President, The Code Works. "With the integration between the Akken Staffing Platform and VMS Access, we are providing a quick and cost effective way to automate the exchange of requisition data between your client's VMS and a leading staffing software solution."

"Automating VMS Access within the Akken Staffing platform will provide recruiters and staffing professionals with a competitive advantage by enabling them to fulfill requests quicker and securing additional revenue by establishing more placements," said Giridhar Akkineni, founder of Akken. "As more companies are adopting Vendor Management Systems to find candidates, it is important to integrate these systems to make sure our customers have real-time updates."

Features of the Akken Staffing platform -- VMS Access Integration include:

• Automated job delivery to Akken
• 25+ VMS currently supported, and growing
• Closes job orders in Akken when the requisition closes in the VMS
• Updates to key job order data

Akken and The Code Works will co-host a webinar entitled, "VMS helps you secure more placements" on Tuesday, November 13 at 2:00 pm. To sign up for the webinar, please visit http://www.akken.com/VMS-live-webinar.

About Akken
Akken is the staffing efficiency improvement specialist that helps staffing and recruiting companies increase their revenue, decrease costs and manage their risk. Akken provides the only 100 percent cloud-based solution that is also multi-tenant with an integrated front and back office platform to improve performance and profitability by automating the "fill-to-bill" process. Hundreds of staffing and recruitment firms are successfully running their businesses on the Akken Staffing™ platform. For more information, please visit www.akken.com or call (866) 590-6695. Join us on LinkedIn and follow us on Twitter @Akken.

About The Code Works Inc
Since our opening in 2003, The Code Works has been helping staffing companies optimize technology to streamline business processes and differentiate. The Code Works team understands the big picture dynamics of VMS and the smallest detail of VMS data. We are vendor management system experts and we truly understand the impact of VMS on staffing companies. We are focused on developing VMS integration services that make the VMS pain go away and deliver competitive advantage to staffing firms. For more information, please visit www.vms-express.com and follow us on Twitter @TheCodeWorksInc.

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