CHARLESTON, S.C., June 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Benefitfocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNFT), a
leading cloud-based benefits management platform and services
provider, today highlighted the success and positive impact of the
company's One Place Local forums. Initiated in 2015, One Place
Local serves as a key collaboration forum that brings together
benefits administrators from employer customers to develop and
learn best practices for open enrollment strategy. During these
forums, customers engage in peer-to-peer dialogue about how they
are optimizing their benefits strategies to address trends, reduce
costs, improve employee engagement and simplify benefits
administration.
Benefitfocus hosts its One Place Local forums across
the United States in major cities
where it has an established and growing customer base. Within the
past year, the company has hosted 18 One Place Local events,
bringing together hundreds of benefits administrators from nearly
every major industry sector.
"As we continue to transform the benefits industry and grow the
BenefitsPlace platform, we remain focused on community-driven
innovation," says Ray August,
President & CEO of Benefitfocus. "Our One Place Local events
are open forums for our employer customers and prospects to
continuously learn from each other and advise us on evolving our
platform. And by connecting our platform customers together, we can
quickly implement their recommendations that ultimately improve the
lives of all of our members."
Designer Brands, a Benefitfocus customer and regular One Place
Local participant, is one of North
America's largest designers, producers and retailers of
footwear and accessories. The company operates a portfolio of
retail concepts in nearly 1,000 locations under the DSW Designer
Shoe Warehouse, The Shoe Company, and Shoe Warehouse brands;
operates leased locations in the U.S through its Affiliated
Business Group. In 2018, Designer Brands acquired the Camuto Group,
a leading designer and producer of footwear and accessories with
product in 5,400 doors globally. The company has nearly 20,000
associates.
Designer Brands replaced its point solution with Benefitfocus'
all-in-one, cloud-based benefits management platform. Rather than
settling for limited functionality, Designer Brands is now able to
make the benefits selection process, as well as communication,
seamless for both its associates and the benefits team. The company
recently shared its best practices during a One Place Local.
"The broad range of communication tools was one of the main
reasons we decided to partner with Benefitfocus," said Erin Penland, CEBS, Sr. Benefits Specialist,
Designer Brands. "We're growing quickly and needed a platform that
offered our associates all of the benefits information they needed,
and which offered our team new tools to drive communication
efforts. Benefitfocus was the only solution that met all our
needs."
Penland continues, "As a benefits administrator, it's my
challenge in finding new tools to work smarter and faster, and
reaching our associates more effectively with information when they
need it. One Place Local is a great opportunity to network with my
peers and discuss solutions to common challenges."
Upcoming One Place Local events will be held in Charleston, Minneapolis and Chicago. The current schedule and registration
links are available here.
About Benefitfocus
Benefitfocus (NASDAQ: BNFT) unifies
the entire U.S. benefits industry on a single technology platform
to protect consumers' health, wealth, property and lifestyle. Our
powerful cloud-based software, data-driven insights and
thoughtfully-designed services, enable employers, insurance brokers
and carriers to simplify the complexity of benefits administration
and deliver a world-class benefits experience. Learn more at
www.benefitfocus.com, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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expectations, and assumptions contained in this press release are
forward-looking statements. Actual results or performance might
differ materially from those explicit or implicit in the
forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially include: the need to innovate
and provide useful products and services; management of growth; our
ability to compete effectively; our ability to maintain our culture
and recruit and retain qualified personnel; the immature and
volatile nature of the market for our products and services; risks
related to changing healthcare and other applicable regulations;
privacy; security and other risks associated with our business; and
the other risk factors set forth from time to time in
our SEC filings, copies of which are available free of
charge within the Investor Relations section of
the Benefitfocus website
at http://investor.benefitfocus.com/sec-filings or upon
request from our investor relations
department. Benefitfocus assumes no obligation and does
not intend to update these forward-looking statements, except as
required by law.
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