Human Resources and Payroll

The following is a list of the major Human Resource Management & Payroll solutions in the marketplace as of May, 2004:

Administrative Solutions, LLC	Advanced Computer Consultants, Inc
Advanced Information Management	Advanced Personnel Systems
Again Technologies, Inc.	Allied Technological Laboratories (ATL)
Apex BAM Human Resources Software	Apptricity
Aptium	Ascentis Software
ASM Futura	Atlas Business Solutions, Inc.
Austin-Hayne Corporation	Auxillium West
Benefit Software Inc	BenefitAmerica
BenSoft	Best Software
Biddle & Associates, Inc.	BLR
BLR: HR Training Presentations	Boniva Software
Bonnecaze, McLeroy & Harrison, Inc.	Brain Bank
BrassRing.com: HR Software	Bridgeware Systems, Inc.
Business Decisions, Inc.	CBM Technologies, Inc.
CDG & Associates, Inc.	Center for Internal Change: Carlson Learning Products
Cezanne Software Inc.	Chris Collins, Inc.
Clayton Wallis Company, The	CMG Consulting, Inc.
COBRA Solutions, Inc.	Code Consulting And Development
CompanyDNA	CompModeler
Computer Related Services	Computerease Limited
Conover Company, The	Corbel
Corporate Directory Services	Criterion Incorporated
Cyberaid Limited	Cyborg Systems
Damanex (Australia) Pty Ltd	Decision Point Data
Delta Data Software, Inc	Deltasync Technologies
Deploy Solutions	Dovetail Group, The
Dresser & Associates, Inc.	Eddon Corporation
eePulse, Inc.	Employease Benefits Web
Employee Handbook Store	EmployeeConnect
Empower International	Entraspan, Inc.
Enwisen, Inc.	ERIC Systems, Inc.
Escape Technology	Everest Software Corp
EWI Organization Chart	Extensity, Inc. (2)
Foundation Technologies, Inc.	Frontier Software
Genesys Software Systems, Inc.	Gerst Software and AAP Services
Gyrus Systems	Hagel & Company
Halogen Software	HR Press
HR Smart	HR Technologies
HR-Computing	HRM Software Limited
HRSoft, LLC.	Hrtrack Professional
Human Resource Information Solutions, Inc.	Human Resource MicroSystems
Humanic Design	Icarian
IME Software Solutions	InfoDream Corporation
Information House, Inc.	InPower
Inscape Publishing	Insideye
Integral Systems	InterAct, Inc.
Interactive Employment Training, Inc. (IET)	iOM
JamLogic Software, Inc.	JobMark.com
Jobvertise	KCS Management Systems plc
KnowledgePoint	KnowledgeSoft, Inc.
KP Time Management System	LifeMap Communications, Inc.
Manpower Software	Mariner7
META4	Micro-Assessments
Midrange Software, Inc.	Miller Group
MindSolve Technologies	Mountain View Software
Multi-Data Computer Service Bureau	Nardoni Strategic Solutions
National Business Research Institute	Neller Software
Nerds Software	Nicheware, Inc.
NOAH Software	NuView Systems, Inc.
Nuvosoft	Office Tool.com
Optimum Solutions, Inc.	OrgPlus
P+W Software	PDS
Pensionportal.com	PeopleTrak HRMS
PerDATUM, Inc.	PerfectSoftware
PersonaWare	Pilat Technologies International (2)
ProAct Technologies	Productivity Partners
Psi Systems	PWA Personnel Systems
RATA Associates	Really Useful Technology
RecruitEx	Resource Management Software
RISC, Inc.	RKI Community
S. Reynolds Associates, Inc.	Safetyscape Corporation
Scientia Ltd.	Seclon Logic, Inc.
SelectMinds	Selven Group plc
Simera	Simpatix
SkillCheck, Inc.	SkillSet Software, Inc
SkillView Technologies	Small Business Employee Handbook
SnapHire	soft-Q.com
Softscape Incorporated	Software Marketing Solutions
Software Plus, Inc	Software Solutions, Inc.
Software Techniques Inc.	SonicRecruit
Spectrum Human Resource Systems	Staffing Technologies, Inc.
StaffSoft Corp.	StarGarden
Succession Wizard	Sundial Time Systems
TALX (Nasdaq:TALXE)	Technical Differences, Inc.
Teleplex Systems	Tesseract Technology
Thesaurus Software Ltd.	Time Domain
TimePage.com	TimeTrak Systems Canada
TimeVision	TimeVision’s Org Chart Build
Training I	Trak-It Solutions
Travis Software Corp	TraxStar Technologies
Trillium Software, Inc.	Tropics Software Technologies
TUT Services, Inc.	Ultimate Software (Nasdaq:ULTI)
UniComp Solutions	Universal Products and Service Corp
Vantage Point Software [SPONSOR]	VeriFacts Services
VIS Development Corporation (1)	Visibility Software
Visual Recruitment	Vitae International
WCB Pro	Web Attendance.com
WebDESK, LLC	Who’s Bill?
Working Bytes	Working Concepts, Inc
Workstream (Nasdaq:WSTM)	WorkWise
XperteX, L.L.C.	Your Employment Risk Solutions, Inc
Zapper Services

 

Abra Suite

Abra Suite claims to be the industry-leading integrated software solution for human resources and payroll management that is well suited for organizations with 500 to 50,000 employees. The Abra Suite features the following two main components:

·         Abra HR
·         Abra Payroll

In addition to these main components, Abra Suite offers the following additional modules:

·         Abra Recruiting Solution
·         Abra Attendance
·         Abra Train  
·         Abra OrgPlus
·         Abra Alerts
·         Abra Employee Self-Service

Pricing for Abra Recruiting Solution, which includes resume scanning and optical character recognition capabilities, begins at $1,995.

Roles Based Self –Service

Abra Enterprise’s roles-based functionality allows managers, employees and administrators to view information tailored to their particular role in the company. For example, employees and managers can perform the following tasks online:

• Access and modify employee personal information
• Access employee directory and organizational charts
• Read about and enroll in benefit plans
• Enter time sheet data
• Enter payroll information, including direct deposit elections
• View payroll stubs
• Access vacation and other leave plan balances

Point-In-Time

Abra Enterprise allows you to view the past, present, and future of your organization with Point-in-Time. This feature lets you stamp an entry with a date and time to create a data trail. You can access historical views, generate “snapshot” reports or perform trends analysis. You could also set effective dating for future events, such as 401(k) enrollment.

Security

With Abra Enterprise, you can selectively restrict access through these three levels of security as follows:

• Control access to each screen by users and groups
• Define the type of security to key application tables
• Establish security at both the database and application levels

Reporting

Abra Enterprise includes over 100 standard reports. In addition, a custom report writer lets you create reports to suit your particular needs and publish in a variety of formats, including HTML.

Payroll Features

In addition to the standard payroll functions you would expect to find, Abra Enterprise provides several advanced payroll functions as follows:

• Built-in On-line Analytic Processing (OLAP) capability via Microsoft Office 2000 and SQL Server 7.0.
• Reporting Dynamic HTML Web-based reports that allow online drill-down from summary data to detail. Payroll Calendar ensures accurate payroll period reporting.
• User-modifiable check design via Crystal Reports Designer; on-line payroll calendar.
• Gross-up and on-demand checks; common paymaster support, position-based payroll set-up.

 

 

Organizational Features

Abra Enterprise offers multiple parallel organizational structures – such as finance, operations, and location. This means you can generate reports that make sense to your organization such as a compensation report by accounting structure or a management report by management structure.

Kronos Partnership

Best Software, Inc., and Kronos have formed a partnership to offer customers an integrated interface between Abra Enterprise and Kronos’ frontline labor management solutions to provide data collection and time and attendance capabilities. “Kronos’ time and attendance solution is widely used by many of the mid-market organizations. Waltham, Mass.-based Kronos claims to be the world’s #1 provider of this type of solution with over 50 percent market share.

 

 

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