Monterey Park, Calif., January 31, 2006
NOVAtime, (www.novatime.com), an industry leader in providing organizations with state-of-the-art time and attendance solutions that is fully integrated with various time clocks and data collection terminals announced successful deployment of its payroll interface with direct data exchange with Intuits QuickBooks? 2006 Pro, QuickBooks? Premier Edition, and QuickBooks? Enterprise Solutions. NOVAtimes latest release of the payroll interface allows direct seamless, do-it-yourself data conversion with QuickBooks? Pro, Premier and Enterprise, which provides small businesses a total punch to paycheck solution. This exchange of critical data, such as employee name, pay rates and departments will help small businesses who use both products to manage their business more efficiently - saving them valuable time, money, and resources.NOVAtime offers solutions to organizations of all sizes. We believe the data exchange with QuickBooks? provides small business owners a simple to use interface that allows them to spend more time focusing on their core competencies, and less time tracking employee hours and processing payroll, said Brian Rice, NOVAtimes Director of Sales and leading time and attendance expert.NOVAtime also supports the QuickBooks? Enterprise editions, versions 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0. NOVAtime has been a member of the Intuit Developer Network since 2002 and has many QuickBooks? customers taking advantage of this data exchange with QuickBooks? Pro and Premier Editions, ranging from 2002 through 2005.
We have found tremendous value in being involved with the Intuit Developer Network and are ecstatic to offer a data exchange with the QuickBooks? 2006 editions of Pro and Premier, states Frank Su, NOVAtimes President.NOVAtimes data exchange with QuickBooks? allows businesses to share their employee hours with QuickBooks? payroll, eliminating the need to manually key the hours. Automation eliminates the error prone task of calculating employee hours and can reduce payroll preparation time substantially. The sharing of data between applications such as NOVAtime and the QuickBooks? Financial Management Software products helps small businesses avoid having to manually enter the same data in both applications, which takes a lot of time and can result in data entry errors, said Ed Schaffer, business leader of the Intuit Developer Network. NOVAtime is a perfect example of how Intuit Developer Network members are successfully using the QuickBooks? SDK to bring valuable applications to Intuits small business customers. The Intuit Developer Network will continue to help members like NOVAtime to address small businesses needs for easy-to-use products that are integrated and customized for their specific business requirements.About NOVAtime Technology, Inc.NOVAtime is a leading developer of time and attendance and workforce management solutions based in Monterey Park, CA.
NOVAtime provides organizations with tools to help them better manage their human capital and add to their bottom line. NOVAtime is dedicated to providing dynamic, scaleable, and high quality workforce management solutions. NOVAtime is a member of the Intuit Developer Network.
For more information on NOVAtime, please visit www.novatime.com, or call 877-486-6682.
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SaaS Model Does Heavy Lifting For Payroll Service Bureaus ... Collecting, Processing, and Storing Labor-Related Data!
Bridgewater, NJ (ContentDesk) March 8, 2006 -- WebApps, Inc., a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), partners with Payroll Service Bureaus and Human Resource Outsourcing Firms throughout the United States.
Through a private-label model, service providers support a wide array of clients under a single code base.
In addition to the applications themselves, time and attendance, employee scheduling, benefit tracking, and related modules, numerous back-office tools help streamline operations.
As part of its most recent software release, two new features offer the ability to remotely manage and diagnose data collection terminals and automate the process of synchronizing data between various Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), including time and attendance.
These recent enhancements have even further reduced the technical expertise required by our partners, states Rudy Roca, Product Manager with WebApps.
The beauty of the delivery...
SaaS Model Does Heavy Lifting For Payroll Service Bureaus ... Collecting, Processing, and Storing Labor-Related Data!
Outsourcing
Can your business benefit? Depending on the project, outsourcing can sometimes be a very cost-effective business decision. Sure, we can all accomplish some of it in-house, but can we do it all, and do it well? Would it surprise you to know that Compaq Computer? outsources? How about Underwriters Laboratories?? Gateway Computers?? Yes, even the Chicagoland Area Chamber of Commerce?! I was involved with projects involving each one of these companies. They all outsourced specific portions of their projects. Even Hyperformance Media out-sources specific project requirements! Every business does not know every other business. What I mean is, your business can not know everything there is to know about printing (for example).
Therefore, in certain situations, it would benefit your company to outsource this service to some printing specialists. It could save you time, money, and benefits, leaving your employees their time to continue to do what they do best, their job - with minimum...
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PDS, an award-winning developer of web-based human resource and payroll systems, today announced that it has signed agreements with three new customers implementing Vista, its HR, payroll and benefits solution.
FCStone Group, Inc. of West Des Moines, Iowa, a recognized innovator in commodity risk intelligence, Sifton Properties Limited, London Ontario's premier builder of fine homes and supplier of rental accommodations, and Tendercare, Michigan's #1 provider of diversified long-term care services, join PDS' extensive list of Vista Human Resource Management System (HRMS) clients.
"Service bureaus were not providing the functionality that ourgrowing company needed, so we began investigating in-house solutions," said Kathy Holmes, HR manager of FCStone, LLC.
"We looked at the top HR and payroll solutions and PDS was the best fit for our requirements.
Our IT department liked the Vista platform and the functionality of the system.
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Many time clocks even add the time worked, making payroll calculations easier. A new addition to the time clock family is time recording software that can be installed on a personal computer. Time recording software allows your employees to clock in through a computer. The time is automatically added up and it is easy for employees to clock in and out.Digital electronic time clocks are the newest style of time clock available on the market. These time clocks...
Keeping Track of Employee Time Has Never Been Easier
Time and Attendance Solutions Still in Demand
Hunt Valley, MD (ContentDesk) July 12, 2006 -- A recent survey conducted by Wise Consulting Associates, of Hunt Valley, MD, found that Workforce Management (Time & Attendance) is still a critical issue for many organizations.
The survey was conducted prior to the American Payroll Associations 24th annual Congress, which was held this May in Orlando, FL.
Responses were received from organizations ranging in size from several hundred employees to over 10,000 employees, with 80% having over 1,000 employees.Nearly 25% of organizations surveyed do not have a Time & Attendance solution, and an additional 9% are using custom developed (in-house) or spreadsheet based systems.
Heide Dolan, Practice Manager for Time & Labor Management at Wise Consulting says that many HR and Payroll leaders are facing internal pressures to more effectively manage labor costs and drive efficiencies in their organizations.
Of the organizations we work with, we find some of the...
Ascentis' HROffice Chosen as HR Component to Execupay's New Mid-Market Payroll Solution
Ascentis' HROffice has been named as Execupay's high-end human resources "companion" to its new mid-market payroll solution, PlatinumPay.net. The single source platform provides companies with a 100% web-accessible and SQL-based payroll, HR and benefits management solution.
Execupay's president, Gerald Stowers says, "We chose HROffice as our HR companion for PlatinumPay.net because of its synergized technologies, ease-of-use, and comprehensive functionality. Now, Execupay's payroll service bureaus are positioned to gain the competitive edge and effectively compete with the big players in today's payroll marketplace." Mike Hayes, vice president of sales and marketing at Ascentis continues, "As Execupay's preferred HR and benefits management partner, this is a unique channel distribution opportunity for us and one that secures our mid-market vision to offer a single source solution of HR, benefits and payroll through our channel partners."????????
Lorri Cochrane, president...