W., Suite 300 St. Petersburg, FL, 33702 USA Sage Software Launches Online Sage Payroll Services for Sage Accpac ERP IRVINE, Calif. – April 3, 2006 – Sage Software announced today the availability of Sage Payroll Services for its award-winning Sage Accpac ERP business management system. Sage Payroll Services provides outsourced, online U.S. payroll for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). The service works with any accounting system, and offers the added advantage of instant integration with Sage Abra HRMS, Peachtree by Sage, Sage MAS 90 ERP and MAS 200 ERP, and now Sage Accpac ERP versions 5.3 and 5.4, enabling SMBs to save time and reduce potential errors by using a flexible and affordable Sage Software outsourced payroll solution. The new integration with Sage Accpac ERP extends the Sage Software promise of providing SMBs with a choice in business management applications, making outsourced payroll for Sage Accpac available via Sage Payroll Services, in addition to the existing on-premises payroll module for Sage Accpac ERP. “Sage Payroll Services is a great option for Sage Accpac ERP clients who prefer a turnkey payroll service while still having the freedom to choose an on-premises payroll system,” said John Foster, president of Xenex Seattle Inc., a Sage Accpac ERP business partner. “Using Sage Payroll Services along with Sage Accpac ERP, mid-sized businesses can manage all aspects of their payroll processing with the company they already entrust with the rest of their financial management.” Sage Accpac ERP is an award-winning business management system that integrates with a host of other end-to-end business management solutions, including customer relationship management (CRM), human resources (HR), and warehouse management. Built on a true Web-native architecture and offered within the framework of Sage Online Services, Sage Payroll Services handles even complex payroll and tax compliance needs with 24/7 access and real-time reporting on demand, while: o costing approximately 20 percent less than similar outsourced payroll service offerings from many other vendors, such as ADP and Paychex; o requiring only an Internet connection to access; o offering direct deposit for multiple employee accounts; and o providing outsourced or on-demand check printing from the desktop. “Sage Accpac ERP clients now have another key business management tool at their disposal,” said Craig Downing, Sage Software vice president and general manager for Sage Accpac. “Sage Payroll Services further extends the end-to-end functionality of Sage Accpac ERP, providing our clients with greater choice through an additional payroll option that will reduce administrative downtime and help increase their productivity, while also giving them peace of mind knowing their payroll is being maintained accurately and efficiently.” For additional information and pricing on Sage Payroll Services for Sage Accpac ERP clients, call 866-271-6054; or visit http://www.sagepayservices.com . About Sage Software Sage Software offers leading business management software and services that support the needs, challenges and dreams of more than 2.5 million small and mid-sized business customers in North America. Its parent company, The Sage Group plc (London: SGE.L), supports 4.7 million customers worldwide.
NuView Systems Acquires Cort Payroll Software to Strengthen its Strategic Human Resource Management Platform
Every year I spend hours trying to gather all of my payment records to manually create a 1099. I love the time savings and convenience ZenPayroll provides, and my contractors love getting paid through direct deposit, said Ryan Dawkins, President of Project Sport, a San Francisco-based sports marketing and event management company. Everything is handled in one place and automatically recorded for me at the end of the year. Payroll couldnt get any easier! Businesses are required to file Form 1099 with the IRS at the end of the year for any contractor who received more than $600 in wages from the employer. The contractor is also entitled to receive a copy for income tax reporting purposes. While many small businesses are working with independent contractors – there are more than 43 million contractors in the US alone, nearly one-third of the workforce, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) – employers are overwhelmed with the complexities of tracking and reporting their wages. Whether its forgetting to file Form 1099 altogether, incorrectly reporting wages, or making filing errors with the government, sizable penalties can result. One Chicago-area housing contractor that failed to keep proper records and incorrectly classified 18 workers as contractors faced civil penalties of $327,000, plus $1,500 for poor recordkeeping. The nature of work is changing given the decline of lifetime employment. People often have several jobs at one time and many companies employ contractors as a part of running their business, said Joshua Reeves, CEO and co-founder of ZenPayroll.
Online payroll system adds contractor management features
To keep pace with fast growth and the requirements of being a public company, ServiceSource needed an enterprise system that could easily scale, adapt quickly to changes, standardize business processes across the globe, and provide greater transparency into the organization. With Workday, all company locations are now using the same processes while meeting local requirements for compliance. And, with one system of record, all departments are working with consistent HR, financial, and payroll data, driving greater efficiencies and increasing worker productivity. HR and Finance Shift From Tactical to Strategic With built-in analytics capabilities and automated workflows, Workday’s unified system has enabled ServiceSource to simplify administrative processes, such as business process routing and approvals, to focus more on analyzing data for strategy and problem solving. These analytics capabilities are empowering finance professionals to focus more on activities that move the company forward, such as analyzing revenue and spend for insights into profitability and areas for cost savings, instead of tactical tasks such as confirming transactions with other departments. Faster and Easier SOX Compliance in the Workday Cloud Prior to deploying Workday, ServiceSource was supported by multiple systems, with a reliance on paper-based and offline documentation, and needed a new way to support more strenuous reporting and governance standards to ensure compliance with SOX demands by the end of 2012. One of the main drivers for selecting Workday was its built-in business process framework, which automatically documents processes and records changes via the audit history. With these automated capabilities, ServiceSource was able to speed up its self-assessment process, comply with greater ease, and ensure accuracy, while receiving a clean audit report on its internal controls.
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The environmental cost to produce, process and dispose of this paper is equivalent to 48 pounds of carbon gases and more than 2,080 gallons of water. And, the hard cost expenses for paper, checks, toner, postage and other supplies averages close to $500. Additionally, the company says, if the employee drives five miles to the bank every week to cash or deposit a check, thats 2,600 miles per year. This equates to more than 1.3 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions of carbon dioxide, according to the EPA, as well as a cost to the employees of more than $500 for gasoline. US Department of Labor and EPA figures show that paper use by business has increased more than six-fold over the last 50 years, Payroll On A Budget says. In addition to being a more environmentally friendly system, Internet payroll is more secure and helps avoid check fraud, says Charles J. Read, CPA, president of Payroll On A Budget. Going paperless and reducing packaging are easy sustainability wins for companies, according to January research by the Network for Business Sustainability.
Paperless Payroll System Saves Money, Cuts GHGs
2 /– In a direct response to the growing trend of shifting human resource (HR) and payroll functions from disjointed point solutions to a fully integrated application, NuView Systems – developer of the award winning NuViewHR product suite – today announced that is has completed the acquisition of Cort Software, a leading provider of enterprise payroll systems and developer of Cort HCM and Cort 1099R. Having payroll and human capital management (HCM) functions integrated in a singular platform enables organizations to combine critical enterprise data from both source systems which improves data integrity, consolidates and enhances reporting capabilities and reduces costs. As a result of the acquisition, NuView will gain a new office on the West Coast and will increase its customer roster to over three hundred clients. Madison Park Group acted as NuView’s financial advisor in this transaction and financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. “The acquisition of Cort Software and its user-configurable payroll solutions adds a critical component to NuViewHR’s highly modular product suite,” said Shafiq Lokhandwala, CEO of NuView Systems, Inc. “By integrating Cort’s proven payroll processing solution with NuView’s strategic HR platform, clients of both companies will benefit by having a single vendor manage their entire HCM software needs. This acquisition clearly demonstrates our continued efforts to support the evolution of HR from a cost center to a key component of a company’s ongoing success, and its recognition as a contributor to the corporate bottom-line.” With Cort’s payroll software as a part of the NuViewHR product suite, organizations now have the capacity to tightly integrate critical enterprise data from both HR and payroll. This collaboration of business intelligence reflects the changing dynamics of the human resources discipline. By combining the two functions across the enterprise, HR executives will have more exposure under the corporate umbrella and C-level executives will have better control and more accurate reporting of the organization’s two highest corporate expenses: salary and benefits. “Organizations now recognize the need to put critical employee information in one centralized location and move away from multiple applications if they want to streamline their operations and treat their HR departments as strategic information sources,” said Joseph Pickler, Vice President of Business Development, NuView Systems, Inc. “This acquisition is important as it helps organizations create consolidated HR views of their employees in order to better align costs with over-all work performance.” About NuView Systems, Inc NuView Systems provides an award-winning Human Resource Management System (HRMS) to global companies who have a strategic HR vision, and who view technology as the method to carry out that vision. Founded in 1994, NuViewHR leverages technology to manage people, process & strategy across the enterprise. A web-native human resource platform, NuViewHR empowers organizations to improve strategic business processes, create efficient workflows, and adhere to compliance reporting. NuView’s complete product suite allows organizations to integrate all of the major HR components via a secure, role-based platform that easily distributes relevant information to Managers and Staff via personalized Employee Self-Service portals.
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