Ceridian Dayforce Human Capital Management Solution Nominated for Prestigious TekTonic Award…from Ceridian

April 24, 2012

 

HRchitect includes Ceridian our list of top HRMS vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Ceridian Corporation, a leading provider of payroll, tax filing, benefits, human resources, workforce management and recruiting software and solutions announces that its Ceridian Dayforce Human Capital Management (HCM) solution has been nominated for a 2012 TekTonic award. The nomination of Ceridian Dayforce HCM in the category of Workforce Management, Time & Attendance is the most recent affirmation of the company’s HCM platform, product quality and commitment to delivering exceptional value to customers.

The TekTonic Awards, given by HRO Today magazine, recognize innovation and disruption in human resources, recruiting and talent management technology across the entire continuum of HR SaaS-based solutions. Nominations are based on input from the HR community including providers, customers and analysts.

“It is an honor to be recognized as an overall category leader in workforce management,” says Stuart C. Harvey, Jr., Ceridian’s chief executive officer and president. “The combination of innovative technology with our established sales and service support capabilities has propelled the success of our Dayforce HCM solution. Our customers are impressed with this product evolution and it’s wonderful to see the HR community take notice and celebrate our efforts.”

“Customers and industry analysts are recognizing the power an HCM application with One Employee Record, One User Experience and No Interfaces has to improve client business processes,” says David Ossip, president of Ceridian Dayforce division. “This approach has been described by many, including HRO Today, as perhaps one of the most compelling aspects of our offering. The result is an exceptional user experience and a quantifiable return-on-investment.”

“When HRO Today saw Ceridian Dayforce Human Capital Management first hand, we knew Ceridian had a strong case for this award,” says Elliot Clark, CEO of HRO Today. “Their case for being a finalist for TekTonic Award was further substantiated by their impressive client base.”

These prestigious awards will recognize an overall category leader, as well as honor those solutions that show true innovation across a subset of categories including performance management, sourcing, screening and selection, talent management, time and attendance and others. The winners of the 2012 TekTonic Awards will be announced at the HRO Today Forum taking place in Washington, DC, April 30 through May 2, 2012, and featured in the June issue of HRO Today. If you haven’t done so already, there is still time to register for this event, at a special discount.

To learn more about Ceridian, please visit www.ceridian.com

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Workday Named #1 Best Place to Work in the Bay Area…by Workday

April 24, 2012

 

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Workday, Inc., the leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human resources (HR), payroll, and financial management, today announced that the San Francisco Business Times and theSilicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal ranked Workday #1 for large companies on its annual list of Best Places to Work in the Bay Area. This is the fifth consecutive year Workday has received recognition on the list.

Employees from more than 250 Bay Area companies participated in an independent, third-party survey, ranking their companies on topics including team effectiveness, alignment of goals, trust with coworkers, individual contribution, manager effectiveness, trust in senior leaders, feeling valued, work engagement, and people practices.

Founded by Workday Co-CEOs Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri in 2005, Workday now has more than 1,200 employees and 280 customers. Workday plans to hire more than 600 employees in 2012.

“We’ve grown our team and business substantially over the last year, and our ability to continue to live our core values and reinforce a culture where employees love what they do is our most important focus,” said Dave Duffield, Workday co-founder and co-CEO. “Being recognized as a best place to work is significant, because it’s the employees who decide, and they are the people who make the difference in our business every single day.”

To learn more about Workday, please visit www.workday.com

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OneSource Virtual Introduces DayOne Packages to Streamline Implementation Process…from OneSource Virtual

April 21, 2012

 

Becomes first Workday partner to offer prepackaged implementation solutions, designed specifically for mid-market enterprises

 

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OneSource Virtual (OneSource), the mid-market solution for the sale, implementation and delivery of Workday services, today announced the launch of DayOne Packages, a new implementation cloud series. These prepackaged offerings are designed to help mid-market companies more quickly realize the benefits of Workday’s Human Resources and Payroll technology at a predictable cost.

“Our mission is to liberate small- and medium-sized businesses from the constraints of their limited budgets and resources by activating the most vital aspects of Workday technology for each customer first and then expand with their needs,” said Wesley Bryan, co-founder and chief operating officer for OneSource Virtual.

With the launch of DayOne Packages, OneSource becomes the first Workday partner to offer a prepackaged implementation methodology to its customers.

“In developing DayOne Packages, OneSource successfully leverages their deep experience in deploying Workday’s software for a variety of clients,” said Tom Schrepel, director of mid-market for Workday.  “Now, by selecting one of these prepackaged solutions, mid-market customers can quickly begin to leverage the premium capabilities of our leading SaaS-based technology.”

OneSource’s DayOne Packages include three specific configurations based on the varied human resource needs of the small and medium business (SMB) market.

  • OneSource Stratus is the basic package and includes a dashboard with Employee Self Service capabilities for personal      information. A Manager Self Service dashboard provides capabilities for Workforce Lifecycle Management, Organizational Management and Compensation Management.
  • OneSource Cumulus includes all features in Stratus, as well as Absence Management, Employee Benefits Administration and Payroll Management options.
  • OneSource Cirrus consists of all the components from Cumulus as well as some of the features in Talent Management, which      include the ability to manage the employee’s Performance Review process with Workday.

For more information on OneSource Virtual, please visit www.onesourcevirtual.com

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CEC Entertainment Selects Workday Financial Management, Human Capital Management, and Payroll…by Workday

April 20, 2012

 

Chuck E. Cheese’s, a Leader in Family Dining and Entertainment, Leapfrogs Yesterday’s Technologies with Workday’s Cloud-Based Solutions

 

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Workday, Inc., the leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human resources (HR), payroll, and financial management, and CEC Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: CEC), a leader in family dining and entertainment, today announced that CEC Entertainment has selected Workday’s solutions to manage its financial processes and a workforce of approximately 17,000 employees. With Workday, CEC Entertainment advances directly to a modern, unified SaaS system for financial management, HR, and payroll, bypassing the era in which traditional on-premise systems were the only choice for large enterprises.

What’s New
As a unified SaaS-based system for financial management, HR, and payroll, Workday provides to CEC Entertainment:

A multitenant SaaS delivery model, viewed by CEC Entertainment as the right direction for business systems, both today and in the future. Workday manages and delivers updates to all of its customers three times a year over a matter of days to ensure customers are current on the latest application and technology innovations. This update process dramatically reduces IT complexity and costs, allowing CEC Entertainment to focus its IT staff on business enablement-not infrastructure management.

Access to critical business information and services for a workforce increasingly on the go through Workday’s innovative mobile solutions available on all modern smartphones, as well as native applications for the iPad® and iPhone® mobile devices.

An intuitive interface and a consumer-like user experience that will appeal to CEC Entertainment’s digitally savvy workforce for fast, broad adoption.

Workday Financial Management provides CEC Entertainment with:

A business-event driven financial solution that supports comprehensive financial accounting requirements on a unified, global platform.

Customer-defined Worktags that let managers track transactional data and analyze it across dimensions such as personnel, customers, products, regions, and projects.

The ability to dramatically simplify its chart of accounts, reducing administration and maintenance costs, while maintaining rich multi-dimensional business visibility.

Built-in controls at the transactional level to support governance and compliance in all regions in which it does business.

Workday HCM offers CEC Entertainment:

The ability for employees to easily update their own information, such as address changes, using mobile devices.

Industry-leading onboarding, administration, and talent management capabilities, expected to dramatically update how CEC Entertainment hires, deploys, and manages employees across more than 500 stores.

Workday Payroll provides CEC Entertainment with:

A flexible solution with intuitive and configurable self-service capabilities for managing day-to-day and period-to-period payroll activities.

Employee self-service for online payslips and year-end tax statements, manager self-service for analyzing pay results, and automatic tax updates via Workday’s SaaS delivery model.

Comments on the News
“By selecting Workday, our company was able to leapfrog yesterday’s on-premise technologies with a system that will support our business now and in the future,” said Tiffany Kice, executive vice president, chief financial officer, and treasurer at CEC Entertainment. “The way Workday designed its system from the ground up, with features such as built-in business intelligence, auditing and controls, an incredibly intuitive user interface, and great mobile device support, demonstrated to us that Workday is uniquely positioned to best meet our business needs.”

“With Workday, CEC Entertainment gains a unified, scalable and user-friendly solution that will grow with its business,” said Dave Duffield, Workday co-founder and co-CEO. “It’s exciting to see forward-thinking enterprises like CEC Entertainment completely bypass older generations of technology by embracing modern, cloud-based financial management and HR systems.”

To learn more about Workday, please visit www.workday.com

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Workday Unveils Advanced User Experience; Commitment to HTML5 Starting with Mobile…by Workday

April 19, 2012

 

Workday 16 Delivers Significant Enhancements for Financial Management, Human Capital Management, and Payroll

 

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Workday, Inc., the leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human resources (HR), payroll, and financial management, today unveiled Workday 16, the company’s newest update. Workday 16 delivers more than 128 new enhancements and features as well as an advanced and modern user experience across all solutions, including HTML5 for mobile. All customers benefit from Workday’s ability to rapidly adopt the newest technologies as they become available, receiving updates free of charge as part of their regular SaaS subscriptions.

What’s New:
Workday for Mobile - Advancing the Mobile Enterprise
Mobile devices continue to dramatically change the way businesses operate. Workday 16 brings even more innovative features to Workday mobile solutions and delivers support for the mobile web with HTML5. In addition to bringing key enhancements to the iPhone® and iPad® native apps, Workday 16 leverages HTML5 with the launch of a new touch-optimized interface at m.myworkday.com for mobile platforms such as AndroidTM, BlackBerry®, Symbian, and Windows® Phone. Workday will continue to execute on its HTML5 strategy, adding both enhanced functionality as well as support for additional devices.

 

  • New Look and Feel: Workday 16 features significant enhancements to the mobile experience for the iPhone, iPad and other leading smartphone devices, including a sharper look and feel with more sophisticated navigation.
  • Workday for iPhone: New enhancements include Organizational Swirl, Workfeed activity stream, time-off balances, requests and approvals, and analytics.
  • Workday for iPad: Workday 16 delivers Anytime Feedback, time-off balances, requests and approvals.

 

Financial Management – Operational Efficiency for Global Businesses
With Workday, large global companies gain a modern financial system that delivers accounting, controls, and reporting in a single, unified system. New features in Workday Financial Management and Spend Management include capabilities to help organizations better manage their suppliers and business assets for more streamlined operational efficiencies.

 

  • Enhanced Supplier Contract Management: Workday 16 delivers new levels of collaboration, management, and transparency of existing relationships with suppliers. Additionally, deep analytics allow users to drill down and track spending against supplier contracts.
  • Advanced Asset Management: Business assets can now be managed throughout their entire physical and accounting lifecycles. In Workday 16, a complete asset event history is now tracked and viewable, increasing organizational transparency on the history and financial impact of each asset.

 

Human Capital Management (HCM) – Transforming the Workforce
With Workday 16, Workday continues to streamline the experience of managing, developing, and engaging an organization’s global workforce.

 

  • Onboarding: The new onboarding process allows organizations to automate new hire paperwork-including I-9 forms and benefits open enrollment documents-and extend a warm welcome to their pre-hire employees to make them more productive on their first day. HR and managers can track employee onboarding progress and tasks via a status summary matrix.
  • Enhanced Merit and Compensation Management for Managers: Workday continues to empower managers by delivering increased visibility and control into the focal review process. Workday 16 enables HR to configure and distribute a compensation pool to managers, and allows those managers to assign and distribute the pools to employees across various reporting structures in an organization. As part of the process, managers can review, edit, and approve recommendations across their subordinate organizations.

 

Payroll – Processing 100,000 Workers with Accuracy and Control
Workday continues to improve performance and scalability of its payroll solution, and now processes payroll for enterprises with more than 100,000 workers. This enhancement allows global and very large organizations with complex and intensive payroll processes to effectively and accurately pay their workforce.

 

Workday 16 also includes the graphical visualization of business processes, electronic document distribution and recipient acknowledgement, and Section 508 support for manager self service.

 

To learn more about Workday, please visit www.workday.com

 

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Humanic Design Announces Dates for East Coast and Midwest User Conference Series…from Humanic Design

April 7, 2012

 

Humanic Design, a leader in providing human resources (HR) and payroll technology solutions for more than 25 years, announces its 2012 User Conference Series (UCS) on the East Coast (New York City) and in the Midwest (Indiana)

 

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Humanic Design, a leader in providing human resources (HR) and payroll technology solutions for more than 25 years, announces its 2012 User Conference Series (UCS) on the East Coast (New York City) and in the Midwest (Indiana).

The Humanic UCS focuses on users’ needs in future product releases. It allows the company to share its executive vision for Humanic Design’s organizational evolution and get valuable feedback from users to enhance Humanic’s product suite. During the day-long event, users are given the unique opportunity to help create Humanic’s future products by sharing their thoughts, ideas, and needs directly with the product development team.

“In addition to helping shape the future of Humanic Design’s product suite, the UCS is an excellent opportunity to network with peers about industry trends and best practices,” says Jeff Noolas, Humanic’s president and CEO.

The event, which includes complimentary breakfast, refreshments and lunch, will be held on May 15, 2012 in New York City at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in Times Square and on May 24, 2012 in Greensburg, Indiana.

Users can register for either event online athttp://humanic.com/user-conference-series.

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Ultimate Software Customers Expand Knowledge, Network with Peers at 5th Annual Connections Conference…from Ultimate Software

April 7, 2012

 

HRchitect includes Ultimate Software in our list of top HRIS vendors that organizations should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Ultimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI), a leading cloud provider of people management solutions, announced today that more than 1,200 people attended the company’s fifth annual customer and partner forum, held March 28-30 at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.

The 2012 Connections event brought together hundreds of HR, payroll, and talent management leaders to learn about industry best practices, technology trends, Ultimate Software’s strategic roadmap, upcoming enhancements toUltiPro, and more. Each attendee had a unique opportunity to participate in hands-on lab sessions, network with other customers, interact with Ultimate’s leadership, and meet industry analysts and influencers.

“The Connections Conference has been fantastic,” said Pat Stram, SPHR, HR manager for Ripley’s Entertainment, an entertainment leader for more than 90 years and known for the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! brand of museums, cartoons, television shows, and books. “We really enjoyed expanding our knowledge about UltiPro and Ultimate Software while sharing information and meeting with our peers. I am very excited to get started using the information I have learned at Connections.”

During the conference, Ultimate also announced a new partnership with Yammer, the leading provider of enterprise social networks. This collaboration seamlessly connects Yammer to Ultimate’s HCM solution, enabling businesses to integrate the rich data about their people housed within UltiPro with the natural, continuous feedback on employees’ work, achievements, progress, and cross-functional collaboration shared on Yammer.

“In addition to broadening its HR feature set, Ultimate’s plan for the future includes social and mobile technologies, which indicates the company is on a clear path to sustaining its place in the market as the leader in people management cloud technology,” said Stephanie Stevenson, AVP, compensation and benefits for Quicken Loans, Inc., the fifth largest retail mortgage lender overall in the U.S. and the largest online.

Ultimate also presented its 2012 Customer Innovation Awards, which recognize customers that have gone above and beyond in managing, motivating, and rewarding their people. Each category singles out a customer that has excelled in a particular area of HCM through its partnership with Ultimate Software. The following organizations received a 2012 Innovation Award at the Connections conference:

 

  • Yamaha Corporation of America for Strategic Talent Management
  • Groupon for Use of Analytics for Measurable Returns
  • Callaway Golf for Achievement in Technology
  • Buffalo Wild Wings for Teamwork
  • Flow International for Global Impact
  • Wente Family Estates for Supporting and Meeting Major Corporate Goals
  • Camden Property Trust for Supporting and Meeting Major Corporate Goals
  • United Stationers Inc. (USI) for Achievement in Return on Investment/Cost Savings
  • Explorer Pipeline for Partnership

 

Some of the event’s sponsors included Certpoint Systems, IBM, Wise Consulting, SHRM, Ping Identity, Sterling Infosystems, and Trion Group.

“With Ultimate Software, we have a relationship with people, not just a vendor,” said Mark Gifford, HRIS manager at Concord Hospitality, a hotel management and development company with a portfolio that includes 83 hotels in the U.S. and Canada. “This was my first Connections conference, and it was a wonderful event where I learned much more about the HR industry and how to leverage UltiPro to make more of a difference for my company. I am definitely looking forward to returning to this event next year.”

“We know that Ultimate’s decades of growth could not have been done without our customers. These partnerships are what strengthen our business,” said Scott Scherr, president, CEO, and founder of Ultimate Software. “Across our company, our employees know we have a responsibility to help our customers achieve success. From our beginning, Ultimate Software has been focused on people—both our employees and our customers—and we thank those who traveled from around the world so that we could all come together to collaborate, expand our knowledge, and deepen these valuable relationships.”

For more information on Ultimate Software, please visit www.ultimatesoftware.com

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ADP Completes Acquisition of the Human Resource Solutions Subsidiary of SHPS, Inc…from ADP

April 3, 2012

 

Market-leading Reimbursement and Absence Management Solutions Further Strengthen ADP’s Benefits Administration Leadership

 

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

ADP®, a leading provider of human resource outsourcing, payroll services, tax and compliance services, benefits administration and integrated computing solutions for vehicle dealers, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of the human resource solutions subsidiary of SHPS, Inc., a highly respected provider of benefits administration services.

SHPS’ Human Resource Solutions (HRS) includes benefits administration eligibility and enrollment,spending accounts, COBRA, absence management solutions, benefits advocacy, and print and fulfillment, and is a strategic fit with ADP’s already strong benefits solutions and services. With the addition of HRS offerings, ADP continues to broaden its benefits portfolio while significantly expanding its capabilities in the areas of absence management and reimbursement solutions such as Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRA).

“As health care reform accelerates and employers look for new ways to engage employees and manage costs, the addition of HRS’s exceptional solutions in reimbursement accounts and absence management will further strengthen ADP’s position in the rapidly growing benefits marketplace,” said Tim Clifford, President, Benefits Services at ADP. “More and more of our clients are looking for new ways to navigate the evolving health care environment, while providing employees with a wide range of options to help meet their health care needs. By combining ADP’s current benefits outsourcing services and leading technology platforms with SHPS HRS, we are poised to offer that and more to our clients.”

This transaction builds on ADP’s continued focus on benefits, including the acquisition of Asparity Decision Solutions, a supplier of patented employee benefits decision support tools. It also follows the establishment of ADP’s Strategic Advisory Services group, which is dedicated to advising clients on benefits administration services by providing business intelligence and strategies to help drive compliance with increasing regulatory changes, lower overall health care costs and increase associate engagement.

For more information on ADP, please visit www.adp.com

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Ceridian Completes Acquisition of Dayforce…from Ceridian

April 3, 2012

 

Delivering Dayforce HCM, the next generation Human Capital Management (HCM) solution

 

HRchitect includes Ceridian our list of top HRMS vendors that businesses should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Ceridian Corporation, a leading provider of payroll, tax filing, benefits, human resources, workforce management andrecruiting software and solutions, announces the completion of its acquisition of Dayforce Corporation, a leading cloud Human Capital Management software and services solution provider. The acquisition concludes Ceridian’s initial investment in Dayforce, announced February 2011. During the first 14 months of partnership, Ceridian and Dayforce have enjoyed phenomenal success delivering the industry’s best workforce management solution, while expanding the Dayforce HCM application into both HR Self-Service and Payroll.

“The acquisition of Dayforce is about fulfilling Ceridian’s vision: To create the industry’s next generation SaaS-based HCM solution,” commented Stuart C. Harvey, Jr., Ceridian’s chief executive officer and president. “When we began working with Dayforce, we believed that by combining Ceridian’s large customer base and established sales and service support capabilities with Dayforce’s leading-edge technology capabilities and solutions, great things would happen. The response to our solution in the marketplace has fulfilled that vision.”

“With our combined efforts, we have sold more than 500 new workforce management solutions,” said David Ossip, president of the newly created Ceridian Dayforce division. “Customers and industry analysts are recognizing the power an HCM application with One Employee Record, One User Experience, and No Interfaces has to improve client business processes.” Nucleus Research recently awarded Ceridian Dayforce with the highest usability and functionality scores among today’s workforce management solutions.

The Ceridian Dayforce HCM solution will provide companies with innovative capabilities and a leading user experience across Workforce Management, HR Self-Service, Payroll, and Benefits in 2012. Talent Management and Compensation & Performance Management will follow in 2013. Ceridian looks forward to partnering with new and existing clients to deliver a solution that will improve workforce performance, reduce processing time and increase profitability across the enterprise.

To learn more about Ceridian, please visit www.ceridian.com

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City Government and Public School System of Salem, Virginia Select Kronos for Cost Savings and Efficiencies…from Kronos

April 2, 2012

 

HRchitect includes Kronos in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems that organizations should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

The city government and public school system of Salem, Va. selected a comprehensive workforce management solution from Kronos Incorporated to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve productivity. As a single, integrated system serving both public sector entities, Kronos will help save significant amounts of time as well as create budgetary savings.

News Facts

The Salem city government and school system selected time and attendance, absence management, HR and payroll, and mobile applications from Kronos to automate and standardize processes. Kronos was chosen because of its leadership in the public sector; ability to fill gaps in critical areas such as payroll to help save dollars; and comprehensive product offering. Replacing a combination of manual and legacy systems, Kronos will be used by all departments of the city and across all six schools in the school system.

For added efficiency and cost savings, the Salem city government and school system share payroll and HR resources, and the two entities needed a system with superior integration capabilities such as Kronos to support this joint process. After a thorough evaluation of competing solutions including those offered by ERP vendors, the city and school system realized that Kronos could best meet all of its complex workforce management needs.

Just by minimizing payroll errors alone, Kronos may generate additional budget savings since payroll represents $35 million of these entities’ operational expenses. The savings achieved will be used to further enhance citizen and educational services.

Other benefits of Kronos include reduction of time required to complete payroll processing through elimination of paper processes. Supervisors will no longer have to sort through hundreds of paper leave forms. With Kronos, the entire leave seeking and granting process will be automated. Additionally, Kronos will enable the city and school system to analyze trends in employee absences to help control associated costs.

Kronos will also help track part-time and remote employee time accurately through automation of complex pay rules associated with a diverse employee population and mobile applications. Finally, the city and school system will be able to comply with federal, state, and other labor law regulations more accurately with Kronos.

Supporting Quotes

Angela Sellers, director of technology systems, City of Salem
“So far, we have been receiving payroll and HR reports after the fact and it is not productive. With Kronos, we will be able to take preemptive action through real-time data and stop costly labor- related errors. The advanced Kronos solutions including mobile applications will help us make more informed workforce decisions and further support the delivery of superior citizen service, which is our primary focus.”

Michael Crew, software project manager (and previously school director of business), Salem Public Schools
“Particularly in the schools, we needed to manage varying schedules more accurately and we had outgrown our legacy system and its limited capabilities. As a market leader, Kronos will offer us the most advanced solutions to address this issue and our other workforce management issues. The superior integration capability of Kronos will also help us to be cost effective and efficient, as we will have access to real-time and historical data of all city and school employees in one system.”

Christine Carmichael, director of public sector practice group, Kronos
“Salem boasts a high-performing city government and school system, which are strong examples of public sector organizations that are working smarter and more efficiently to provide superior citizen services and education institutions. We are pleased to support Salem’s initiatives through our in-depth understanding of public sector implementations.”

To learn more about Kronos, please visit www.kronos.com

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Ultimate Software and Yammer Bring Together Collaboration and Workforce Performance Management…from Ultimate Software

March 31, 2012

 

Integration between the UltiPro Human Capital Management Solution and Yammer’s Enterprise Social Network Enables Greater Insight into People Performance

HRchitect includes Ultimate Software in our list of top HRIS vendors that organizations should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Ultimate Software (Nasdaq:ULTI), a leading cloud provider of people management solutions, announced recently that it has partnered with Yammer, the leading provider of enterprise social networks, to seamlessly connect Yammer to UltiPro HCM. The integration combines the rich data about people housed within UltiPro with the natural, continuous feedback on employees’ work, achievements, progress, and cross-functional collaboration shared on Yammer.

UltiPro serves as the hub for all of an organization’s people information and workforce intelligence — from recruiting through career development, job history, compensation, payroll, and performance. By connecting the HR system of record with Yammer’s real-time collaboration solution, the two companies are working to foster better employee engagement while also capturing organic performance management information for the business.

“Ultimate is focused on designing people management solutions for the way people really work. Static, once-a-year performance appraisals don’t capture the full picture of an individual’s contributions, strengths, achievements, and opportunities for growth,” noted Pat Pickren, VP of product management for Ultimate. “By combining the rich data on all aspects of an employee’s career with the ongoing feedback from the Yammer corporate social community, Ultimate and Yammer can enable companies to better understand how their people work, collaborate, and succeed — and, more importantly, act on that intelligence to strengthen business performance.”

The first phase of UltiPro and Yammer integration will be available in UltiPro’s Spring 2012 release. Key points of integration on the 2012 plan include:

  • Recognition from Yammer published within the  UltiPro talent profile—Managers and HR staff will see the comprehensive, continuous picture of employee performance in one central place, as UltiPro seamlessly captures praise from Yammer into the performance      management record.
  • Team collaboration view—Managers will be able to view a filtered stream of their team members’ collaboration from Yammer as part of the UltiPro Talent Gateway, making it easy to review both performance information and real-time activity in one place.
  • Single sign-on from UltiPro to Yammer—This feature will provide a seamless, yet secure, login experience.
  • Work milestones—This will enable people to tag accomplishments relative to a company, team, or individual goal within Yammer and have these milestones captured in UltiPro’s goal management capability.
  • Cross posting and messaging—Jobs posted in UltiPro will automatically post to Yammer, and administrative alerts or actions can be part of an individual’s activity stream.

“Ultimate focuses on capturing comprehensive information about a company’s people in one place — and Yammer focuses on helping those people actively participate, collaborate, and drive company performance, so this partnership was a natural extension for both of our organizations,” said David Sacks, founder and CEO, Yammer. “We’re looking forward to joining forces with Ultimate to help companies and their employees become more effective.”

An Open Approach to Collaboration and Performance

The connection with Yammer is the first step in Ultimate’s approach to open the HCM system of record to collaboration platforms and work management systems in the enterprise. Through standards-based connectors, UltiPro will instantaneously collect and publish people data across social tools, activity streams, and work management platforms. This integration will make it easier for individuals and teams to work in ways that are natural while still capturing information vital for understanding and managing organizational performance.

“Because UltiPro is the master system-of-record for all data on the people in an organization, our solution captures the most comprehensive data on an organization’s talent in one place,” said Adam Rogers, chief technology officer for Ultimate. “The value of capturing that depth and breadth of data lies in UltiPro’s unique ability to allow customers to synthesize their workforce information and make decisions on it for more effective talent management, employee engagement, and talent retention. With the addition of integration to work collaboration tools, UltiPro will provide our customers greater understanding of what makes their talent successful.”

For more information on Ultimate Software, please visit www.ultimatesoftware.com

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Kronos Acquires SMB Workforce Management Leader SaaShr.com…from Kronos

March 31, 2012

 

HRchitect includes Kronos in our list of top Talent Acquisition Systems that organizations should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Kronos Incorporated recently announced that it has acquired SaaShr.com LLC (SaaShr) in a cash transaction. As a result of the acquisition, Kronos has significantly broadened its product portfolio and gained access to an extensive network of partners and resellers.

News Facts

  • Headquartered in Branchburg, New Jersey, privately held SaaShr offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) workforce management suite for small and midsize businesses (SMBs).
  • Through its well-established network of payroll service bureaus, professional employer organizations, human resources outsourcers, and value-added resellers, SaaShr’s solutions are used in thousands of organizations across a wide variety of industries.
  • Built from the ground up to operate in the cloud, SaaShr’s multi-tenant architecture uniquely delivers an intuitive and consistent user experience across its suite of time and attendance, payroll, and human resources applications.
  • By bringing to bear its extensive resources and domain expertise, Kronos will accelerate the pace of innovation at SaaShr and allow its partners to more effectively compete with larger, well- established national competitors.
  • Kronos acquired SaaShr after an extensive review of available technologies and concluded it was by far the most technologically      advanced and feature-rich solution in the SMB market.
  • As part of the transaction, Kronos also acquired WebApps, Inc., the parent company of SaaShr.
  • SaaShr now operates as “SaaShr, A Kronos  Company”.

Supporting Quotes

Aron Ain, chief executive officer, Kronos
“We are delighted to have SaaShr and its partner network join the Kronos team. We have a strong history of innovation and we are committed to making sure our partners achieve their full potential.  Together we have a fantastic opportunity to revolutionize how small and midsize businesses manage their workforce.”

Bill Loss, chief executive officer, SaaShr
“Becoming part of Kronos affirms the successful company we have built and positions us for future growth. Combining SaaShr’s deep expertise in software-as-a-service with Kronos’ resources, domain knowledge, and product expertise will bring tremendous value to our partner network.”

To learn more about Kronos, please visit www.kronos.com

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Guggenheim Partners Deploys Workday Financial Management and Human Capital Management…by Workday

March 22, 2012

 

Fast Growing Financial Services Firm Adopts Workday’s SaaS-based Solutions

If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Workday Inc., the leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human resources (HR), payroll, and financial management, recently announced that Guggenheim Partners LLC has deployed Workday Financial Management and Human Capital Management. Guggenheim, a privately held global financial services firm, is utilizing the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model for core business applications and leveraging critical insights gained through Workday to support its global expansion.

What’s New

Guggenheim is a diversified financial services company with more than $125 billion of assets under management. It required advanced, scalable solutions to support its growth and entrance into new markets.

Workday Financial Management provides Guggenheim with:

  • Dramatically reduced general ledger complexity, while increasing the richness of multi-dimensional reports.
  • Built-in configurable and transparent workflows to rapidly adapt to legal and regulatory changes and support financial compliance, governance, and auditing capabilities across the company.

As a unified system with actionable analytics, Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Financial Management give Guggenheim:

  • Financial insight into its workforce, the work performed, and the cost and value of that work.
  • Analytics to support decisions about the hiring, deployment, and cost of talent.

Workday’s SaaS-based infrastructure provides Guggenheim with:

  • A modern object-oriented technology foundation that will serve the firm’s current and future business needs without the need for software customizations.
  • New innovation in updates that Workday delivers to all customers three times a year, which frees the firm from the upgrades-and-maintenance cycle required of onsite software.

“Guggenheim Partners is an impressive firm on a brilliant growth streak,” said Dave Duffield, Workday co-CEO and co-founder. “We are delighted Guggenheim recognized Workday as the provider that will best support its continued expansion, and is already seeing the benefits of that decision.”

To learn more about Workday, please visit www.workday.com

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Vancouver Aquarium Selects Ultimate Software’s UltiPro…from Ultimate Software

March 16, 2012

 

HRchitect includes Ultimate Software in our list of top HRIS vendors that organizations should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Ultimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI), a leading cloud provider of people management solutions, announced today that the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre, a self-supporting, non-profit society dedicated to effecting the conservation of aquatic life, has selected UltiPro to consolidate its HR systems and information while taking action to support corporate sustainability goals.

One of Vancouver’s top attractions and Canada’s largest aquarium, the Vancouver Aquarium was using disparate systems for its payroll, recruitment, and talent management in addition to a manual system for time management — creating inefficiencies and reporting challenges. After discovering several of the systems the organization had been using were acquired by another vendor, the human resources team took action and selected UltiPro in January 2012.

“We are excited to use UltiPro’s complete HR feature set, which has such an intuitive look and feel,” said Lori Howe, vice president of human resources. “With such a diverse workforce, we needed a system that everyone in our organization could leverage and wanted to use, that would be easily accessible. UltiPro met all of our needs.”

As an organization that is completely dedicated to the natural environment, the Vancouver Aquarium strives for sustainable practices and plans to take steps toward additional gains with UltiPro.

“Since the adoption of our Environmental Management System (EMS) — a framework for managing our environmental performance based on the International Standard ISO 14001 — in 2009, we are committed to significantly reducing our environmental impact,” said Howe. “UltiPro allows us to reduce our use of paper by automating a number of our current manual processes, which is just one more benefit with the system.”

“We’re extremely proud to help our customers achieve their goals and are pleased to support their sustainable practices,” said Greg Swick, chief sales officer at Ultimate Software. “We have many success stories from leading companies who have been leveraging UltiPro to contribute to green initiatives, and we’re pleased to add The Vancouver Aquarium to our family of customers.”

For more information on Ultimate Software, please visit www.ultimatesoftware.com

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Nonprofit Healthcare System Moves to Ultimate Software’s UltiPro for Effective People Management…from Ultimate Software

March 9, 2012

 

HRchitect includes Ultimate Software in our list of top HRIS vendors that organizations should consider. If you are looking for a new Talent Management System, or any HR system, don’t rely solely on “recommendations” or published reports. Do yourself a huge favor and talk to HRchitect first. After 15 years, HRchitect has unparalleled knowledge of the HR and Talent Management vendor community and can save you time and money in selection and implementation. Simply put, do not invest in any kind of HR technology without consulting with the experts first. HRchitect is always available to help!

 

Ultimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI), a leading cloud provider of people management solutions, announced today that Mercy Memorial Hospital System, a nonprofit, integrated healthcare provider that offers a broad range of inpatient and outpatient services, is leveraging the UltiPro solution for end-to-end HR functionality, consolidated business intelligence, and strategic talent management.

Headquartered in Monroe, Michigan and comprised of approximately 1,700 employees, Mercy Memorial has been using multiple systems to handle its HR, payroll, and benefits operations, including a payroll service bureau, a patient registration and billing application, as well as manual spreadsheets. Executives selected the UltiPro solution as the company’s single system of record for human capital management (HCM), and Mercy Memorial went live on UltiPro in December 2011.

“Our HR processes had become just too labor-intensive, and because we had to manually input data to spreadsheets and reports, our operations had become vulnerable to error,” said Bruce Kelly, chief information officer at Mercy Memorial Hospital System. “One of our strategic initiatives is to be an employer of choice. So we needed a vendor that is completely focused on HCM technology and that delivers the right people management platform for our workforce. We like that UltiPro is easy to use and provides our HR team with 24-7 access to UltiPro from anywhere at any time. UltiPro’s comprehensive functionality for HR is significantly increasing the productivity of our HR team and helping us engage our workforce.”

With UltiPro, Mercy Memorial now has one HR technology provider to work with for all HR activities, including access to user-friendly business intelligence tools.

“We chose UltiPro for its strategic reporting and business intelligence, and we also appreciate the solution’s ease of use, flexibility, and the accessibility of its Web functionality. UltiPro is providing us with the technology that supports the needs of our workforce,” said Maureen Henson, SPHR, vice president of human resources at Mercy Memorial Hospital System.

Delivered via the convenience of the cloud, UltiPro customers like Mercy Memorial also can improve their ability to identify and acquire talent. Businesses can reduce the length of the recruitment cycle by enabling managers, recruiters, and HR staff to track and manage tasks such as posting open opportunities, reviewing resumes and profiles, screening candidates, scheduling interviews, conducting background checks, and more — saving significant time and minimizing overall recruitment and hiring costs.

“With UltiPro, we can better build the talent pipeline as our workforce expands and our business needs evolve in the future,” said Kelly. “Ultimate Software’s technology strikes the right balance for our business, our people, and our IT requirements.”

“UltiPro is a proven solution that can transform not just an organization’s HR operations, but also impact the level of employee engagement at the company — aligning what drives the end user with what drives the business,” said Greg Swick, chief sales officer for Ultimate Software. “Because UltiPro is designed as a person-centric platform, employee adoption as well as employee performance can increase. We’re very pleased that Mercy Memorial Hospital System is leveraging the UltiPro solution to make the work of its employees easier and more rewarding.”

For more information on Ultimate Software, please visit www.ultimatesoftware.com

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