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Salt Lake City, UT — December 15, 2005

Headquartered in West Springfield, Mass., Aspen Square owns and manages over 100 residential and commercial properties throughout the country containing approximately 19,000 units. Many of the company’s 1,200+ salaried and hourly employees work at several properties each day—and sometimes on multiple projects at each property—creating literally thousands of time-related transactions per day.

For over 46 years, Aspen Square had used the same basic method to track time and work completed: employees manually completed a physical time card, the cards were gathered, and then the information was shipped from the properties back to the main office. This method was rife with opportunities for mistakes, not to mention a paperwork nightmare.

Aspen Square recognized the need to move from a paper-based tracking system to an electronic solution. Management, along with company CIO Jason Lindwall, put together a team to evaluate and recommend potential solutions. The team was charged with finding a vendor that could automate the company’s complex time tracking process, and help streamline overall operations.

Although the Aspen Square team wanted to automate as much and as quickly as possible, they also faced the very real challenge of employee buy-in. Most of the employees at Aspen Square are cleaners, landscapers and general maintenance workers with little or no technology training. And because most Aspen Square employees spend only about 10 percent of their time at their desks each day and the other 90 percent in the trenches, they needed a system that was both easy to use, and fast.

The team began to research potential time and attendance solutions. In addition to ease-of-use, they also looked for an application with flexibility in both the type of information it could track and the way employees entered their time. And, they wanted a web-based application tied to a strong, central data center so the company could have faster and more reliable access to system-wide information.

The team went first to the large time and attendance providers, including Kronos, ADP, Ceridian and others. Most of what they found was much more complicated—from both an end-user and features perspective—than Aspen Square needed or wanted.

During their search, team members came across Qqest’s website. They contacted the company and were immediately connected with Dan Higbee, director of the company’s Premier Division.

Higbee, who had just joined Qqest from another large time and attendance vendor, quickly went to work identifying a solution that would address all of Aspen Square’s needs.

“Although we are a mid-sized company, Dan treated us like we were his biggest customer,” said Lindwall. “He knew exactly what we needed.”

With Higbee’s help, Aspen Square selected Qqest’s TimeForce product to track time and attendance activities for Aspen’s employees nationwide.

In addition, Higbee and the Qqest implementation team were able to customize the software to track maintenance and service activities, which allows Aspen Square to chart real costs for each activity.

Aspen Square rolled out the first stage of the application to employees at the home office, who then traveled out into the field to teach other employees how to use the new system. “We got everyone at the home office on board first, we built champions,” said Lindwall. “Then they went out into the field and taught other employees.”

In the beginning, all employees used web-based clocks. However, the IT team discovered that with up to 12 employees keying into the virtual clock at the same time, the process was too time consuming. Aspen Square worked with Qqest to achieve an ideal ratio of approximately 1:1 physical clocks versus web-based clocks, “With TimeForce, we can have multiple data entry methods,” said Lindwall. “This flexibility has been crucial in achieving the quick-and-easy process we need company-wide.”

TimeForce gives Aspen Square the ability to more accurately track employee time and make staffing adjustments when necessary. “This feature alone has resulted in a huge cost reduction in overtime pay due to more efficient scheduling,” said Lindwall.

One of the most dramatic results has been the decrease in the time it takes to process payroll. Before TimeForce, it took five full-time Aspen Square employees three days to process 1,200 timecards. With TimeForce, which seamlessly integrates with Aspen Square’s ADP payroll system, this process has been reduced by half to just 1.5 days. Not only has the time saved cut the overall cost of processing payroll, but it has also resulted in some unanticipated benefits. Aspen Square’s shipping costs have decreased by two to three percent because most time and attendance data is submitted electronically instead of being sent on paper through the mail.

Thanks to the new automated process, managers have a much better handle on actual costs. Also, both time and project tracking, and payroll processing are much more precise and accurate. TimeForce gives Aspen Square the ability to create customized reports for just about any information they need.

Aspen Square is also seeing a big impact on morale and employee performance. With the previous paper-based system, the company’s payroll staff barely made the deadline each week. Not only did this situation put enormous stress on employees, it prevented them from spending time on much more important duties.

With TimeForce, productivity and morale at Aspen Square are on the rise, employees are under less stress, and there is a much lower turnover rate. Employees have more time to answer questions and take on new duties, including benefits management. In fact, since implementing TimeForce, Aspen Square has been able to increase employee benefits and add a program manager by shifting staff from payroll to benefits—all without hiring additional staff or increasing costs.

“Qqest’s TimeForce has been the ideal solution for us,” said Lindwall. “The implementation process has been smooth, and because there are no transactional fees, we don’t feel like we’re getting nickeled-and-dimed to death. But more importantly, TimeForce has created real change within Aspen that helps us work better and smarter. It’s not every day that you see a piece of software have this kind of impact.”

About Qqest Software -

Headquartered, in Salt Lake City, UT, Qqest is the market and technology leader in time and attendance solutions for organizations employing as little as 5 or as many as 50,000 employees. Qqest’s TimeForce product, an intuitive, rules-based time and attendance application, empowers clients of all sizes, industries and technological infrastructure, to efficiently manage and control the most complex timekeeping needs and seamlessly transmit that information to payroll or human resource information systems. Qqest has over 35,000 clients, comprised of manufacturers, financial institutions, retail, government entities, healthcare professional services and hospitality.

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Employees being absent can be of significant financial cost to businesses according to the latest research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) who estimate that sickness absence costs a company £692 per member of staff per year and approximately 7.4 working days per year, per individual.

Employees may be absent for a variety of reasons such as short or long term sickness, persistent lateness, paternity/maternity leave, time off for public duties or educational leave.

A key element in maintaining a business, is keeping on top of such absence by effectively monitoring and measuring it. It is prudent for a business to collect absence data and use it to correlate any reoccurring patterns such as periods of increased workload causing time off. There are quantitative ways to measure time off, including the lost time rate, frequency rate and Bradford factor. However, maintaining and recording such absences are time consuming and may take focus off the business generation side of the company.

As such, utilising absence management solutions offer a productive, safe and reliable way to record staff absences. Many companies offer web based management solutions that offer advice on improving workforce productivity and how to comply with the ever changing employment policies and laws. Most importantly, such solutions save time for a company’s HR team or administrator with regards to checking time sheets and collating personnel data. It allows senior staff to track their employees working hours, making sure that they are not working above regulations or indeed shirking their responsibilities.

Absence management solutions can also stop time consuming enquiries about holidays, personal or tax details, giving a one stop solution to all HR queries. Any data is easily tracked and leaves sturdy audit trail histories to give a company reassurance.

Perhaps such a solution’s best feature is that it can help to alleviate any possible annual leave excesses or absence issues and can help to understand why such issues arise and how to address them.

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Jupiter, Fla. — November 4, 2007

Jack Crooks takes a look at the slumping housing market and the ongoing credit crunch. Mr. Crooks explains how inflation and the falling dollar are correlated.

The slumping housing market and the ongoing credit crunch have been a major thorn-in-the-side for the U.S. economy for many months, and conditions could get worse.

Third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) rose 3.9%, exceeding estimates and outpacing the prior period’s rate of growth. And ADP, the payroll processing company, reported the U.S. economy added 106,000 jobs in October, following strong upwards revisions in prior months. The GDP figure and the ADP report are a departure from the weak growth expectations we keep hearing about.

This data further calls into question the Fed’s latest decision to cut rates again. Bernanke is threatening to further break an already-battered greenback and send inflation soaring higher. On Wednesday, Bernanke and his crew made another big decision to cut both the fed funds and the discount rate by another quarter point.

Meanwhile, core inflation is totally different than real world inflation.

Crude oil is hitting new record highs on a regular basis. It pushed above $ 96 per barrel this week and is making a beeline toward the $ 100 mark. Analysts are saying consumers can handle $ 90+ crude prices without taking a severe hit. Remember, crude oil fuels the entire U.S. economy, so rising prices will eventually find their way into the cost of all kinds of other goods and services farther down the chain.

It’s not just oil, either. Food prices have been on the same one-way elevator; they keep going up and up. No matter what way the Fed wants to spin it, inflation is happening in key commodities that we use every day. And it’s the result of too much money and credit floating around the system, which is driving up prices.

Paul Volcker stepped in as Federal Reserve Chairman in 1979. He was faced with a tough task, and he had only one legitimate solution. But he had the guts to take action. Mr. Volcker enacted a policy of tough love. He pushed interest rates sharply higher. By January 1981, the Fed Funds rate had risen to a whopping 20%.

That kind of shock forced the U.S. economy straight into a recession. What Volcker understood, and what most people fail to realize, is that a recession is not necessarily a bad thing; it’s the market’s way of cleansing an economy. In the end, Volcker’s gutsy, decisive action was just what the doctor ordered. It broke the back of inflation and saved the dollar from ruin.

The bottom line is that the current Fed is letting the music play and risking a world of hurt for all investors. Just because “core inflation” isn’t rearing its ugly head, today’s Federal Reserve is doing everything it can to fend off the economy’s natural cleansing cycle.

But the longer they put off paying the piper, the greater the chance inflation will heat up. The rest of the world knows this. And that’s why investors are running as fast as they can out of the dollar. They have no other choice. Nobody wants to be left holding the bag. The smart money is exchanging dollars for stuff with real value.

“Moreover, the true definition of inflation is not some hand-picked basket of goods. Inflation is a decline in the purchasing power of your currency. And hopefully, Fed Chairman Bernanke takes a page from former Fed Chairman Volcker’s book and decides it’s time to unleash some tough love on the U.S. economy,” exclaims Mr. Crooks.

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About Jack Crooks & Money and Markets

John (Jack) Crooks is the founder and president of Black Swan Capital, an independent advisory firm specializing in foreign exchange and currency markets investing for retail and institutional clients. A seasoned financial advisory with nearly 20 years of investment experience, Mr. Crooks uses both quantitative and qualitative approaches to determine the fundamental driving force(s) behind the movement of the currency, capital, and commodities markets. He is the editor of Weiss Research’s latest investment offerings, World Currency Alert and World Currency Options, which were launched in August 2007.

Mr. Crooks also founded Ross International Asset Management, a discretionary money management firm specializing in global stock, bond, and currency asset management for retail clients. Previously, he was general manager of Plexus Trading, where he specialized in currency futures and commodities trading. During his successful career, Mr. Crooks served as chief currency and futures strategist of M2 Futures Inc., an investment boutique headquartered in Chicago, as well as vice president of Global Strategic Research for an international investment boutique, where he was responsible for providing daily advice and global strategy analysis.

Prior to entering the investment arena, Mr. Crooks held various corporate finance positions. He has written extensively on the subject of global currencies and international economics and has been published in Asian Times, Futures Magazine, Barron’s, Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswire, and across many financial websites. He has also appeared on Bloomberg TV and CNBC.

Mr. Crooks holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Florida State University and a master’s in business administration from the University of North Texas.

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An effective absence management system is just one way which businesses can reduce the cost of employee absenteeism.

Last year, time away from work cost the UK economy £17.3 billion, according to the Chartered Institute of Professional Development. To minimise the cost that absenteeism has on your business, the first step is to assess whether you have a problem with employee absence.

The first thing to do is collect data on individual levels of employee absence in your business. This should be done regularly, rigorously, and reviewed often so that any obvious trends in absence can be identified.

You can measure levels of individual absenteeism in terms of time lost. To do this you divide the total number of hours absent by the total number of hours expected to work, and multiply it by 100. This will give you a percentage of the time an employee has been away from work.

The best way to establish whether your staff are away from work more or less than they should be is to compare this figure to similar businesses. By benchmarking against businesses in a similar sector, you should be able to see if your employees are absent more or less frequently than expected.

It’s important to remember that benchmarking is only indicative and should be exercised with caution, because every business, working environment and employee is different.

If analysing levels of employee absence suggests that staff are away from work more often than expected, it may be time to re-assess your absence management system.

In large businesses, monitoring and benchmarking levels of absenteeism can be costly in terms of time. Smaller businesses who don’t have an HR team often don’t have the resources to do this in house.

Keeping on top of employee absenteeism is vital to prevent damage to your bottom line, but so is delivering your business. A popular option with businesses is implementing an absence management system that can do this for you. It will allow you and your team to concentrate on delivering work, instead of spending valuable time recording and analysing data, so your business can continue to grow without the damaging effect of excessive employee absenteeism.

Redmond, WA — September 8, 2005

Microsoft Corp. today announced general availability and promotional pricing for Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 and Office Small Business Management Edition 2006, two new Microsoft Office offerings designed to enable small businesses to manage all of their sales, marketing and financial processes within the familiar, easy-to-use Office environment. With strong support from original equipment manufactures (OEMs), retailers, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and service providers, these new solutions are evidence of the continuation of Microsoft’s commitment to delivering integrated solutions specifically developed to help small businesses start, grow and thrive.

“These solutions have been built from the ground up to support the ways that small businesses actually work, and to be simple for employees to implement and use,” said Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft. “Together with our partners, we’re proud to deliver new innovations that give small businesses better ways to be productive and successful.”

Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 is a full-featured financial software that is available as a stand alone offering or as part of Office Small Business Management Edition 2006 which also includes, Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 with Business Contact Manager Update as well as Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Office Excel® 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003, Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 and Microsoft Office Access 2003.

Nearly 4,800 U.S. small businesses took part in the beta testing of Small Business Accounting and saw positive results around ease of use and integration. “First and foremost Small Business Accounting 2006 and Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager is incredibly easy to use and has fundamentally improved how we manage our business by allowing us to integrate all our customer data in one view – including our financial history and interaction records,” said Chris Schatte, owner of Texoma Home and Garden, one small business beta customer. “More accurate bookkeeping also has contributed to better cash flow and higher profits. We have automated invoice creation, improved inventory management, streamlined billing of our services, and increased visibility into the business— plus I can go home, on average, two hours earlier in the day.”

Customers and accountants have requested 50,000 trial copies of Small Business Accounting, making it one of the most anticipated Microsoft small business solutions ever. Based upon customer, accounting professionals and partner feedback since the beta release, Microsoft also is providing new features for Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006 that let users memorize frequently entered transactions, which can be saved as templates for reuse, manage payroll manually using an integrated Excel solution, backup the company’s database to share with an accountant or other consultant and create profit and loss statements by class or business segment.

Strong Partnerships, Strong Solutions

Today’s release of the Microsoft Office edition for small business management and small business accounting is accompanied by a number of new and ongoing partnerships. Small businesses can expect to purchase these new solutions where and how they would normally buy technology, thanks to efforts underway with OEMs and retailers. New partnerships with leading distributors and retailers include:

Dell PCs Loaded with Microsoft Office Editions for Small Business. As a marquee OEM partner for Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006, Dell will offer the software pre-installed on selected Dell small business computing systems, including Dimension desktops and Inspiron notebooks.

Well-Known Office Channels to Distribute Office Small Business Solutions. Gateway Corp will include Small Business Accounting in its new series of small business PCs offered through GateWay.com. HP Compaq desktops, notebooks and tablet computers will be available with Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 in all of HP’s reseller and distributor channels later this fall. Additionally more than 65,000 value added resellers (VARs) and System Builders have received Office Small Business Accounting.

Leading Retailers Partner to Distribute Office Small Business Solutions. Microsoft has entered into agreements with leading retailers including CompUSA, Staples, Office Depot, Amazon.com, OfficeMax®, and Best Buy Co., Inc. to promote the new editions of Office Small Business Management and Small Business Accounting. As a result, the products will be distributed in over 5,000 U.S. retail outlets.

Microsoft Small Business Accounting has also seen strong momentum within the accounting professional community and amongst ISVs. A significant number of accountants have already signed up for the Microsoft Accountants’ Network, a community designed specifically for accounting professionals to help them expand their business by supporting their critical role in helping small businesses meet their financial management needs. Microsoft is also working with ISVs to further extend the capabilities and benefits of these new Office products to address the industry- or process-specific needs of small-business customers. Currently more than 75 different ISV applications have been designed to integrate with the new Office small business solutions and are either available or in the final stages of development. Additionally, nearly 20,000 copies of the Software Development Kit for Office Small Business Accounting 2006 have been downloaded from the Microsoft Web site.

Additionally, to further extend the capabilities of Small Business Accounting, Microsoft is partnering with the following industry leaders to incorporate rich services to help small businesses automate critical business processes including payroll, taxes, banking and credit card processing.

ADP Provides Integrated Payroll and Tax Processing Services. ADP® Small Business Services (ADP, Inc.) has delivered a do-it-yourself, low-cost solution for small businesses that seek full control over their payroll processing and tax filing. Specifically developed for Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006, this new ADP software solution is simple to set-up and use, yet robust enough to calculate federal, state and local taxes. Users also have the option to upgrade to ADP Total Payroll, a full-service payroll processing solution. The software seamlessly integrates with Small Business Accounting, providing for quick and efficient completion of financial tasks, reducing the chance of errors and helping to ensure compliance.

Credit Card Processing Offered Through Select Providers. Microsoft is collaborating with premier providers including Chase Merchant Services, L.L.C. to offer processing of credit and debit card payments from within Office Small Business Accounting. The credit-card processing capabilities can help small businesses increase revenue by accepting phone orders and reaching new customers who prefer to pay by credit card. Small businesses can reduce costs through preferred card-processing rates as well as by eliminating the need for a separate card-processing terminal or telephone line. Additionally, it saves time and reduces data entry by capturing credit- and debit-card transactions directly within Office Small Business Accounting.

Digital Insight and Checkfree Facilitate Integration with Financial Institutions.

Digital Insight Corp is the leading online banking provider and CheckFree Corporation is the leading provider of electronic billing and payment processing services to financial institutions. Both companies have certified Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006 for online banking using Direct Connect, the premier standard for online banking connectivity. This certification enables small business clients at participating financial institutions to save valuable time by downloading transactions and paying their bills electronically via Office Small Business Accounting 2006.

Compatible Checks, Forms, and Other Supplies Offered by Deluxe Small Business Services. As the nation’s leading check printer, Deluxe offers small businesses compatible business checks, forms, envelopes and related printed products designed specifically for use with Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006. Links within the software help guide customers to a private-labeled website (http://www.mschecksandforms.com) where they can easily order a comprehensive selection of Deluxe products in the formats and styles that best meet their needs.

Tax Services with Creative Solutions Incorporated and Taxsoftware.com. Creative Solutions, a provider of the broadest line of seamlessly integrated tax write up software, plans to offer integration between its software and Small Business Accounting to enable accountants to import data from Small Business Accounting directly into Creative Solutions. Taxsoftware.com is an online provider of tax software services, which provides calculations, printing, and e-filing. It has developed integration with Small Business Accounting that enables users to import Small Business Accounting data, and e-file directly with the IRS and state tax agencies. Taxsoftware.com can be used by any small businesses, on a pay-per-return basis, or as an e-services account for paid preparers.

Pricing

Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 is available in the United States at a suggested retail price of U.S. $ 149 (after a $ 30 mail-in rebate offer). ADP Payroll for Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting is available for $ 169 per year. Microsoft Small Business Management Edition 2006 is available in the United States at a suggested retail price of US$ 569 or as an upgrade for existing Microsoft Office customers at US$ 399 (both after a $ 100 mail-in rebate). Customers can go to http://www. Office.microsoft.com/sba to learn more.

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Did you know that one third of candidates falsify their employment history?

Recruiting is an expensive and time consuming process. If you hire the wrong person, you’ll have to go through the process again until you find the right candidate. It can cost over £5,000 to recruit into a vacant position.

We know that people aren’t completely honest, all of the time. If you’re shocked that three in ten people are willing to lie about their employment history, you’ll probably be more surprised to learn that almost a quarter of candidates have used aliases or alternative names on job applications! Perhaps even worse, 10% of candidates fabricate credential qualifications and the same amount exaggerates their educational experience.

So how do you find out who is telling the truth?

It’s not as simple as inviting someone to an interview and questioning them; if someone is bold enough to lie on their CV, the chances are they’ve practised how to repeat the lie convincingly.

It requires a lot of research to perform employment screening of potential candidates. If you’re recruiting for a vacant position, it would be fair to assume that people have to work harder to take up the flack of an empty post. Getting someone within the organisation to try to research each candidate is not the most effective way to do so. Not every business has the luxury of a large HR department, and those that do have enough work already without being burdened with the task of conducting background checks on every applicant.

There are companies that offer a background check service, who already have access to relevant sources of information and know the best places to research. You could check candidates’ identity, such as their address or date of birth and even their credit status. You could also validate the information given, look into whether they have omitted information about a criminal past, or check they have the legal right to work in the country.

You need to make sure that the person you’re considering employing really is who they claim to be. It’s hard to build a solid team of employees if the trust isn’t there – a background check will flag up who you can and who you can’t trust.

Sickness and absence management is essential for a business, because sick days cost the UK economy as much as £17bn every year. If the staff isn’t in a business, it can’t run effectively. However, what’s more damaging in the long-term is the effect on morale if the same people are consistently off sick.

As a result, any absences need to be closely monitored to ensure the same people aren’t consistently taking time off, and reward those who persistently come in.

In 2009 employees in Britain took 180 million sick days. It sounds like a lot, but it’s actually the lowest figure recorded since 1987. However, it averages out to be 6.4 sick days for every employee, and that is certainly more than most businesses would be content with.

Research suggested that as many as 27 million sick days every year aren’t genuine, and cost the economy £2.5bn a year.

Large businesses need to focus on their absence management more than smaller firms, because absence is greater in the bigger companies. Absence management software can track absence closely, and provide notes on a person’s absence to help take it into account when appraising performance.

Often the people who take a lot of time off are talked about, and receive a lot of attention. One way of negating this, and flipping the focus from negativity to positivity, is to praise those who come to work more than their peers. This isn’t done by many organisations, but rewarding people for such achievements can boost morale. However, a company must ensure they don’t pressure or encourage people to come in when they are unwell, because if they infect others at work with their illness, the company stands to lose significantly more than they would if that member of staff had stayed at home.

A high quality absence management system will be able to track attendance and absence accurately and efficiently and will be a real asset to any business struggling with staff taking sick days.

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Storyteller Theatres, Mesa Industries, and ReadyStart Select PerfectSoftware’s PERFECT HCM for their HRMS and Payroll Needs

Norwalk, CT — February 2, 2011

PerfectSoftware, a leading provider of comprehensive, integrated and flexible human resource and payroll solutions announced today that Storyteller Theatres, Mesa Industries, and ReadyStart have all selected PerfectSoftware’s Human Capital Management Suite software for their HRMS and payroll needs.

Storyteller Theatres, Inc.

Storyteller Theatres is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and operates 10 theatres featuring 69 screens throughout New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Wyoming. The company’s theatres are located in secondary and tertiary markets where the current population is under 100,000 but rapidly growing.

When Storyteller Theatres began its search for software to meet their needs, PerfectSoftware was a natural first choice according to Vice President and General Manager Tom Becker. “We had used products from PerfectSoftware while we were part of TransLux, so we were familiar with the company. One reason we purchased Perfect HCM was based on PerfectSoftware’s reputation. We know the company has staying power and will be around for a long time. The most important reason we chose Perfect HCM, though, was that PerfectSoftware was able to tailor a package to meet our exact needs.”

Becker went on to say that the Perfect HCM software allows managers at Storyteller Theatres to “access certain aspects of the system that they need without going to an administrator, which cuts down on the time spent going from person to person to get a piece of information. A manager can access what they need on their own. Our theatres are open seven days a week and the new Perfect HCM system allows managers to access information when they need it without having to wait for a regular Monday to Friday schedule.”

Mesa Industries

Founded in 1990, Mesa Industries focuses on the consistent production of high-quality colorant and additive packages to meet their customer’s end-use requirements. With plants in Arizona and Arkansas, Mesa Industries offers quick turnaround times that can efficiently supply their customers wherever they are located.

With the company seeing continued growth and expansion into three states, Human Resources Manager Kim Floyd noted that their old system of using Excel to track HRMS information and using ADP for payroll was not working. “I needed the ability to become more accurate and efficient, and ADP was unwilling to customize to our needs.”

For Floyd, it was the flexibility offered by PerfectSoftware’s Perfect HCM that made her final decision. “The flexibility of being able to choose which module we needed versus having to purchase ‘whole’ programs that were more than we needed was very important.” Floyd is impressed with what the software has to offer for Mesa Industries saying, “Since this is the first HRMS that we have had, there are several benefits. Employee Self-Service is going to save HR time and also help the employees become more engaged in their piece of the company.”

ReadyStart

ReadyStart is a non-profit organization that invests its resources to ensure that all children who reside in Collin, Denton, and Wise Counties in Texas are prepared to start school fully ready to learn. It focuses its efforts on the first five years of life because they are critically important to a child’s success in school and later life.

Becky Hannah, Administrative Assistant at ReadyStart, notes that the company did not have an HRMS system in place before purchasing Human Capital Management Software from PerfectSoftware. “Everything [we had] was on paper. When something needed to be changed we had to track down everyone, and make sure everyone involved in the process knew about the changes. We were looking for consistency, and we knew we needed to have everything in one place.”

ReadyStart researched several software companies before deciding to go with Perfect HCM. “We Googled providers and had Webinars with several [of them],” said Hannah. “We took all the information and costs into consideration. Being a non-profit organization, our bottom-line was the price — we had to find something within an approved budget that would satisfy our needs. Perfect HCM was the best option for us. We also liked the reporting capability that PerfectSoftware offered.”

Hannah sees many benefits to come with Perfect HCM. “Having the HRMS in place will allow everyone to have access to updates at the same time. This system will also cut down on human errors and make changes and updates smoother across the agency.”

About PERFECT Human Capital Management (HCM) Suite and PerfectSoftware

PerfectSoftware’s HCM Suite allows businesses and organizations to manage a broad range of human resource functions more effectively and efficiently, within a single system. Delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), the suite is highly configurable, modular, and spans the entire employee life-cycle including Applicant Tracking, Human Resource Management System (HRMS), Payroll, Performance Management, Time & Attendance, Benefit Election & Enrollment, Salary Planning and Administration, Position Control, Employee Self-Service, COBRA Management, Alerts and Ad Hoc Reporting.

It also includes single sign-on access, intuitive user interface and workflows, robust reporting and analytics, and SAS 70 Type II certified data storage. But the best thing about Perfect HCM is that it’s completely customizable for your company’s needs. No more buying products you don’t need and will never use.

For more than 25 years, PerfectSoftware has been a leading provider of human resource and payroll solutions for managing a company’s most valuable asset — human capital. For more information on PerfectSoftware and Perfect HCM, visit the company’s website at http://www.perfectsoftware.com.

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An efficient time and attendance system can ultimately help your business in many ways by being able to properly manage and monitor your manpower therefore allowing you to fully utilise their full potential for the growth of your business.

A time and attendance system is an effective and reliable web based time and labour management solution that offers a unique solution in delivering improvements in workforce productivity, payroll accuracy, compliance with employment laws such as the European Working Time Directive, and increase speed.

It allows you to take advantage of cost savings in terms of labour as well as overall operational costs. And aside from all these benefits, a time and attendance system allows your business to:

Reduce Absenteeism

• Allows you to address damaging lost time productivity

• Reduce annual leave excesses and other absence issues

Avoid potential costly compliance violation

• Enables compliance with UK Employment law and European Working Time Directive • Provides your company strong audit trail histories which in turn provides complete peace of mind

Increase payroll preparation efficiency and accuracy since:

• It automatically calculates hours worked by your employees

• It can be easily integrated to your HR solutions and processes

• Reduces time spent capturing, chasing, correcting, and collating of timesheets

Maximise productivity and efficiency of the workforce through empowerment:

• It eliminates time consuming queries about holidays requests, personal details with employee self service, and schedule monitoring.

• Enables managers to track and analyse the working time of employees in line with their performance

• Improves schedule management that enables appropriate staffing levels An organised and automated system is one of the key factors in the smooth running of any businesses and allows effective implementation of processes. Therefore, a time and attendance system is necessary to ensure that you as an employer get the best out of your workforce. After all, human capital is the number one asset of any organisation, so it is imperative to monitor them accordingly.

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Outsourcing is becoming a more common way of streamlining a business and making it run more efficiently, as well as making considerable cost savings. The term ‘outsourcing’ refers to subcontracting areas of a business to an external provider. Most popular with multinational corporations or large national companies, outsourcing involves drawing up a contract for services from the external party, who are under obligation to fulfil specific projects or duties.

Outsourcing is most common in HR, tax, manufacturing and information services, but almost every area of today’s business can be outsourced. Some companies even use call answering services, negating the need for reception services. Perhaps the fastest growing area of employing external services is in the personnel or human resources sector. payroll outsourcing prevents companies from spending vital business hours on generating payslips and payroll receipts, as well as stopping the need for companies to utilise specialist payroll software.

Perhaps the strongest argument for outsourcing is the considerable cost savings that can be achieved. Outsourcing services to a company, like payroll outsourcing services, that is a specialist in their field can also provide greater cost control over the outsourced service and increased efficiency. An external company that is an expert in their industry can also provide a high level of focus and detail on the outsourced area, highlighting any areas that could benefit from changes. Their knowledge on a chosen business field could be far superior to any skills that the outsourcer has, providing more expertise for a business.

Accountability is a big part of the relationship between the external provider and the company – as such, the outsourcer expects a high level of service and complete transparency. The external provider should be keen to keep business, so will devote time and attention into making sure that business is conducted in a professional and successful manner.

Unlike permanent staff, payroll outsourcing companies are working to contract – if this contract is not fulfilled then a company has the right to seek legal advice or terminate the relationship swiftly, rather than going through lengthy HR procedures.

Whatever your business field, outsourcing can provide a clear, cost effective and expert way to drive your business forward – something which in the current economic climate, is more important than ever.

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