The Role of Business

The HR-XML Consortium has recertified testing and assessment technologies and services provider Questionmark as conforming to the Consortium’s open data exchange standards.

Conformance to standards can help employers achieve smoother integrations between Questionmark® assessments and core HR systems, ultimately making it faster and easier for HR managers to perform essential tasks such as scheduling assessments or accessing results. By using a standard exchange format based on the industry standard XML, companies can use the best of breed systems from multiple suppliers and not be “locked in” to a single supplier.

“With increasing corporate focus on human capital management, performance improvement and compliance, use of online assessments of knowledge, skills and attitude is a critical and often the only way for an organization’s management team to reach all its employees globally,” commented Questionmark Chairman John Kleeman. “Questionmark has supported f open standards to exchange assessment data since the 1990s and are pleased to support the important HR-XML standard.”

Questionmark was first certified against HR-XML in 2005 and also supports AICC, SCORM and IMS standards as well as partnering with Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. Questionmark assessments are used by corporations, government agencies, educational institutions and credentialing organizations to securely measure knowledge, skills, and attitudes for certification, regulatory compliance and successful learning outcomes.

HR-XML-certified organizations are awarded a logo to use on their websites and a conformance statement within a registry located at http://www.HRcertify.org. The HR-XML certified logo indicates that the solution provider is a technology leader and is ready to integrate flexibly and opportunistically with customers and partners.

About HR-XML

The HR-XML Consortium is the credentialing body for interoperability standards in the HR technology field. The Consortium is the only volunteer-led, non-profit, community-driven standards organization for Human Resources technology. Its purpose is to promote the establishment of robust, extensible, global HR interoperability standards enabling easy-to-implement, time- and cost-effective integration of business applications within the HR industry and recognize organizations that meet those standards. For more information, visit www.hr-xml.org.

About Questionmark

Questionmark provides technologies and services that enable organizations to measure knowledge, skills and attitudes securely for certification, regulatory compliance and improved learning outcomes. Questionmark solutions enable reliable, valid and defensible assessments by empowering subject matter experts through collaborative authoring, accommodating participant needs with blended and multilingual delivery and informing stakeholders through timely reporting and meaningful analytics.

The Questionmark Perception assessment management system, available as a licensed, hosted or subscription-based solution, enables organizations to create, administer and report on surveys, quizzes, tests and exams. Complete details are available at www.questionmark.com. The Questionmark blog at provides assessment-related news, interviews insights and best practices.

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