Raising SaaS OnBoarding Solution and Dominant PeopleSoft HR

2010 seems to mark a new begining in both the IT Services and F1 Racing. Cool,.. we are awaiting the growth in SaaS, SOA,… and some great adrenaline rush as Schumacher returns.. For People who still believe that PeopleSoft is leading the HR Services market, Lets remind them of the advent of Kronos Workforce (Application Service Provider), KMS XpressHR (Software as a Service – SaaS Solution), Open Text Recruiting Management Solution for Microsoft Sharepoint 10.0 driven by the Enterprise Content Management Solution like Livelink and Document Center respectively. The Clientele are really happy to spend for what they use unlike the age old model of fixed pricing.

Let’s see how KMS OnBoarding XpressHR SaaS Solution attracts the clientele with their functions when compared to Peoplesoft,

• In PeopleSoft, the SSN entered while adding a new person to the system is not validated or verified with the Department of Homeland Security or Social Security Administration(SSA). This had enabled Clientele to incorporate the XpressHR product for onboarding which constitutes the e-Verify Functionality.
• In PeopleSoft, the unavailability of the features like e-Signature & Digital content management in HR had enabled XpressHR to provide 100% Compliance with the State & Federal data related to the pre-hire process within an organization.
• SaaS based Onboarding Process & Document Center Model would enable clientele to leverage the increased ROI.
• Implementation effort seems to be less with the use of web services.

It’s these few aspects which drive the present day software investments, As posted in Service Oriented Computing Platform for Shared Services Model , the service providers whose verticle solutions(XpressHR) which are built on horizontal solutions (ECM) are undoubtedly growing 

Kronos Data Collection Manager – DCM

Be it a Software Industry or Hardware Industry, wherever there is a considerable amount of workforce involved, Time and Attendance plays an important role. Especially, the automation of the time and attendance process. Its the Kronos Workforce Timekeeper that tops the list on the day of chequered flag. Lets see how Kronos does it ,..

Having known that Kronos Workforce Timekeeper is used for processing the time and attendance Data of the workforce in an organization, Lets concentrate on the “Data Collection Manager” of kronos. DCM is a set of applications that enables the interaction between data collection devices or clocks and a host application like kronos workforce timekeeper.

DCM constitutes the

• Communication Monitor,
• Device Manager,
• Device Work Rules,
• Event Manager, and
• Sentinel Service applications.

Communication Monitor: When an employee swipes in the access card to enter his/her workplace, the exact time is captured/collected in a collection device such as clocks, biometric devices,.. The collected information needs to reach the host application for further processing, If there is a data flow error or when a collection device is down, then we use the communication monitor to test device communications and its transactions.

Device Manager: is used to check the status of the collection devices and to configure the device firmware. Start and Stop services of the data collection devices is one of the frequently used features of the device manager during the configuration and re-initialization of the device.

Lets see more about pay rule, work rule, their associations and few interesting facts about event manager and sentinel service in the next post.

**DCM – Data Collection Manager
**DCD – Data Collection Devices

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Peoplesoft Time and Labor Vs Kronos Workforce Timekeeper Part II

Peoplesoft Time and Labor Vs Kronos Workforce TimeKeeper
Kronos Workforce Timekeeper
The process of making historical edits using Timekeeper 5.0 is much the same as it was in Timekeeper 3.4.
Add Historical Amount (formerly “New Historical Amount” in TK v3.4)
Required fields (note these in the screenshot below):

• Historical Date (formerly “Apply to Date” in TK v3.4)
• Pay Code
• Amount (hh:mm)
• Include in Totals for Effective Date (formerly “Add to selected timeframe” in TK v3.4) Selecting this option ensures the information is sent to payroll for processing and payment.
• Impact Accruals

Peoplesoft Time and Labor: Adjustments to Payable Time
We may need to make an adjustment to payable time that has already been paid by Payroll. This type of adjustment is called a Record Only Adjustment and is made using the Adjust Paid Time page. When you make an adjustment of this type, it is for record keeping purposes only. The time you add / adjust is not processed by Time and Labor nor is the time sent to payroll.

Using the Adjust Paid Time page, one can add / delete time, or change existing payable time that has already been processed by the payroll system and has a payable status of Distributed. All the time reporting fields appear on the Adjust Paid Time page for editing. You can change any field except the Payable Status, and TRC Type fields. After you make adjustments using this page, the system does not process the time further. It does not run it through Time Administration or send the time to payroll. Time and Labor does publish the payable time to your Project Costing application.

For further details please refer the People soft People books.

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