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Small and mid-size companies that use the cloud spend 40 percent less on the need for a fulltime IT person. Deploying a time and attendance solution to the cloud is much faster and don’t need as much of an investment in upgrading infrastructure and as a result, this frees up expenses that would otherwise, be used for upgrading server licenses-thus making more capital available to support business growth.

3 Great Reasons To Move Your Employee Time Tracking To The Cloud

So, if you happen to be one of those companies that are still sitting on the fence, when it comes to embracing the cloud, here are some compelling reasons to take note.

  1. The Cloud is simple to use: A cloud-based time and attendance is easier to implement, and use when compared to the traditional on-premise solutions. With a cloud-based time and attendance– commonly referred to as software-as-a-service (SaaS) – you only pay for what you use. For example, a large hotel chain will have a high number of employees during the summer months, as this tends to be the busiest time of the year for that industry – but during the fall and winter months, those numbers will decrease. A company using ATS TimeWork OnDemand can scale easily, thus paying for only the employees who are working during this slow period.
  1. Mobile: With a application like ATS TimeWork OnDemand employee self-service (ESS),  a company can now give its employees the ability to request time-off, switch shifts and review hours worked at anytime, from anywhere instead of using paper time cards or spreadsheets. In the cloud, employees only need an Internet connection and they can tap into the power of mobility.
  1. Efficient and compliant: A growing body of evidence highlights the efficiencies and return on investment (ROI) that many businesses are experiencing by moving to the cloud.  Companies are required to comply with ever changing payroll and other workforce related rules- a cloud-based time and attendance like ATS TimeWork OnDemand can help businesses keep with these rules and other compliance matters, while driving business growth.

To learn about ATS Cloud-Based Time and Attendance, go to our website. You can download brochures, pre-recorded demonstrations or register for one of our bi-monthly webinars.

Techopedia describes disruptive technology this way; “Disruptive technology refers to any enhanced or completely new technology that replaces and disrupts an existing technology, rendering it obsolete. It is designed to succeed similar technology that is already in use. Disruptive technology applies to hardware, software, networks and combined technologies”.

Here are a short list of some things that could be considered that are either obsolete or taking traditional industries by storm:

  1. Fax machines-scanning a document and then emailing a document is a cheaper and quicker alternative to faxing.
  2. Landlines (they are slowly being replaced by VOIP and smart phones)
  3. VHS tapes and DVDs.
  4. Video rental stores-they have been replaced by Software-As-A-Service (SAAS) or as commonly referred to “cloud computing” service.
  5. Music CDs- iTunes and Spotify are two cloud-based music streaming services that have replaced them.
  6. Traditional taxi cabs- They are being forced to change with the times and up their game with services like Uber.
  7. Hotels/Lodging Industry-The arrival of Airbnb has given notice to the hotel operators around the world.

In a post titled “12 Disruptive Technologies That Have the Potential to Change Your Business” by Eric Sherman for Inc.com we selected five out of the list, all of which has already disrupted the way in which business operates. In no particular order, they include:

“Internet of Things–With sensors on devices, clothing, machinery, and virtually anything else you can think of, all using wireless and near-field communications to communicate with networks and the rest of the Internet, there will be major impacts on business process optimization, manufacturing, natural resource use, utilities, energy delivery, and remote healthcare.

Cloud–Cloud technology can provide centralized computing resources to serve many users, whether internally in a company or through a third-party service. More efficient use of resources will put pressure on the computer and IT industries, as more work is done by fewer machines and people. At the same time, cloud can offer software and computing services that let businesses run more efficiently and enable many technology entrepreneurs to get the resources they need far more economically than by building their own systems.

Advanced robotics–Exoskeletons, artificial and enhanced sight and hearing, remote physical manipulation, and artificial intelligence will make changes in manufacturing, healthcare and surgery, such basic service activities as food preparation and cleaning, and consumer use.

3D printing–Whether high-profile use in producing individual guns or research that could allow devices to literally make meals, 3D printing is rapidly gaining prominence. Printers could change the way companies make almost anything through distributed manufacturing, enable consumers to make products themselves, or create tissues and organs for transplanting.

Advanced materials–Materials science has been an important area that many people have ignored. But modern plastics, specialized automotive steel, and semiconductors are just three areas where it has been important. The influence will only expand as such technologies as graphene, carbon nanotubes, nanoparticles, and memory and self-healing materials affect energy storage, computer displays, enhanced chemicals and catalysts, consumer electronics, medicine, and many types of manufacturing.

These changes and others will continue into the future. Companies who choose to stick to all things traditional are likely the ones who will be blindsided as these changes occur.

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Today’s Businesses Must Adapt To Disruptive Technology

The adoption of cloud software is increasing and is on pace to surpass all previous forecasts. In other words, it is here to stay — and is showing no signs of abating. According to Gartner prognosticators the software-as-a-service (SaaS), in which companies offer software that was designed to run in the cloud will grow about 20 percent by the end of 2016.

Today’s time and attendance decision makers, even the ones that were somewhat uncertain about the benefits of the cloud are giving it a second thought.  Cloud software provides tremendous benefits to applications as basic as accounting systems to cutting-edge solutions like time and attendance.

As more businesses continue to shift to the cloud, they are also selecting a vendor that will ultimately help them streamline costs and, at the same time increase productivity. And while the cloud, offers businesses numerous benefits, one key opportunity for today’s executives, when using these cloud computing technology is having the power of choice with this emerging technology.

ATS Cloud Time and Attendance offers what every business wants: the ability to obtain information in real-time. And, with ATS Cloud Time and Attendance cloud pay-as-you-go model, that means a low initial investment is all that is required to get going, and that includes all the trimmings, like yearly updates, thus enabling customers to take advantage of innovations delivered with the upgrade.

The Evolution and Benefits of Software As-A- Service

In conclusion, the cloud has become a new engine for innovation, and competitiveness. Its ability to improve collaboration, communication and cost-cutting is providing an ever-expanding silver lining for operations across every business sector.

To learn more about ATS Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) solutions, go to our website. You can also download a demonstration or call: 866.294.2467.

 

Disruptive Technology Is The Future For Growing Businesses

February 18th, 2015 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Labour Analytics | Leave Management | Time Management Solutions | Web-Based Time and Attendance | Workforce Management Solutions - (Comments Off on Disruptive Technology Is The Future For Growing Businesses)

At a recent meeting between ATS professional services team members and executive managers of a Midwestern U.S., 500 employee food manufacturing plant, who also happens to be an existing customer of ATS-the discussion centered on the company’s growth plans to add locations in a few more states and some provinces in Canada over the next 18 months. One of ATS professional services team member suggested that the customer migrate to our cloud-based time and attendance system to leverage its business growth potential. Cloud computing is disruptive and has no boundaries, two elements that should be embraced by organizations.

A recent report by IDC, reads in part, “The cloud has changed the fundamental nature of computing and how business gets done and it will continue to do so through 2020. In fact, IDC predicts that by 2020 clouds will stop being referred to as “public” and “private” and ultimately they will stop being called clouds altogether. It is simply the new way business is done and IT is provisioned. IDC research also shows that the global cloud infrastructure is super-scaling and becoming the launch pad for infrastructure innovation and as a result, hardware vendors’ innovations are shifting to “cloud first”.

And in an economic climate, that is still struggling with; effects from 2008’s recession, continued job losses and, where shareholders expect a rapid return on investment from IT and other related expenditures, the report goes on to say; “IDC is seeing organizations leverage cloud services as a foundation element in this strategy and layering on advanced analytics, collaboration capabilities and new technologies to drive rich customer experience, speed to market in of new products/services, creative digital marketing, mobile commerce and optimization of operational efficiencies amongst others.”

Disruptive Technology Is The Future For Growing Businesses

If your company is one of those growing businesses, and if you decide to migrate to the cloud, you will gain:

Unprecedented Flexibility — ATS provides its customers with the freedom to choose the timing of their Attendance ONDemand time and attendance upgrade. Just imagine having your software match the needs of your organization through release updates.

The Power of ATS Cloud Computing Database Migration — ATS Software-As-A-Service platform enables organizations to migrate their on-premises data effortlessly to our platform without concerns of sacrificing control or flexibility.

24×7, 365 Days A Year Of Access—ATS customers can leverage a cloud-based environment to get instant access to attendance, on-the-spot analytics and address leave management challenges, all on your smart phone, tablet PC or workstation from anywhere. Now that’s the modern way of business management.

As a leader of cloud-based workforce management solution, companies depend on ATS Time Attendance OnDemand to run mission-critical business processes globally and in the cloud. ATS cloud-based time and attendance lower IT costs, while increasing productivity, as the adoption of the cloud services is accelerating around the world.

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Disruptive Technology Is The Future For Growing Businesses

Get Growing – With ATS Scalable Business Software

February 4th, 2015 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Absence Management | Benefit Accruals | Business Intelligence | Cloud Time and Attendance | Employee Time Attendance - (Comments Off on Get Growing – With ATS Scalable Business Software)

ATS Time and Attendance solution is packaged with easy-to-use functionality that readily addressed the business challenges of today’s diverse industries. ATS TimeWork On-Demand requires limited IT resources and shorter implementation time-line.  For growing and established businesses, that means a rapid return on investment (ROI), and lower total cost of ownership. ATS TimeWork robust employee scheduling capabilities provide the latest in on demand data, but enabling you to achieve operational excellence and maximum profitability.

ATS TimeWork helps you improve the process of payroll and, at the same time and meet customer demand more quickly. ATS TimeWork Time and Attendance enables you to:

  • Generate employee schedules quickly and efficiently, including manual calculation of breaks dynamically controlled through work and payroll policies.
  • View in real-time how much time an employees spend on particular task and obtain up-to-the-minute access to pay adjustments and time edit card approvals.
  • Grant employees access to check their hours, schedules, request time-off and view accrual balances through our employee self-service dashboard.
  • Utilize geolocation functionality module for remote employees and contractors through the ATS time and attendance. Through the use of our geofencing capability organization can reduce and eliminate potential time and attendance theft by their mobile employees.
  • Real-time data helps managers make informed decisions by identifying attendance patterns to effect on-the-spot decisions. ATS time and attendance helps you to drill down into workforce data to identify and solve problems.

ATS TimeWork is available as Software as a Service (SaaS) hosted and subscription models. This provides businesses with the choice on how deploy and manage ATS TimeWork Time and Attendance.  With ATS cloud-based solution, organizations gain access to the same functionality available in an on-premises software, with the flexibility of on-demand access from one of North America’s leading workforce management companies.

In conclusion, ATS TimeWork On-Demand is flexible enough to let you shape your workforce management solution experience. You gain a best-in-class solution with powerful analytics and easy-to-use solution that works the way you do.

To learn more, download a demonstration. You can also contact us at 1.866.294.2467.

Get Growing – With ATS Scalable Business Software

Software as a service (SaaS) or cloud-based (as it’s also referred to) time and attendance is on par with today’s transformative technology. It was just a few years ago that many companies were deploying customer relationship management applications (CRM), payroll and HR software on servers. And, while some still do, SaaS has simply disrupted the traditional method of deploying business management software.

Why Cloud-Based Software Instead Of On-Premises?

Here are some of benefits that our customers have gained by deploying ATS SaaS time and attendance:

Cost- ATS SaaS time and attendance is a ‘pay as you go’ which means you only for services that you need. If you are looking to implement a brand new time and attendance solution – it can be summed up as an operational expense whereas on-premises would be considered a capital cost. The scalability of ATS time and attendance is designed to give our customers a clear idea of what their monthly costs will be. This allows for much more accurate budgeting.

Data integration-ATS SaaS time and attendance was designed to allow application programming interface (API) connections to talent management, job costing, human resources software, ERP, and CRM applications. No more keying employee hours, labour and job codes manually in to an accounting or payroll software. After all, who wants to anyway?

Deployment- Implementation that takes years still exists in the world of on-premises software, although that can mitigated in companies that have a project leader. If the implementation of your time and attendance requires the purchase of a sizeable investment in a server, you are better off, with the SaaS option.

We realize that every company is unique, and in some cases, a cloud-based solution may simply not work in your business environment. That being said, when you consider the advantages, we think it’s worth serious consideration. To learn more or to download the full copy of “cloud-based time and attendance vs. on-premises” contact us.

On-Premises VS Cloud-Based Time and Attendance

 

 

There is no denying that cloud-based services have proliferated the market in a way some of its detractors thought would not be possible and while, there are still some doubters that number is slowly diminishing. A recent study by IDC states, in part, “the growing focus on cloud services as a business innovation platform will help to drive spending on public IT cloud services to new levels throughout the forecast period. By 2017, IDC expects public IT cloud services will drive 17% of IT product spending and nearly half of all growth across five technology categories: applications, system infrastructure software, platform as a service (PaaS), servers, and basic storage. Software as a service (SaaS) will remain the largest public IT cloud services category throughout the forecast, capturing 59.7% of revenues in 2017. The fastest growing categories will be PaaS and Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), with CAGRs of 29.7% and 27.2%, respectively.”

Just a few years ago some businesses were a little wary cloud-based solutions and how it could positively impact their organizations. However, most recently, many of those same businesses have come to the realization that, in addition, to cost savings, the adopting of a cloud-based solution also brings with it innovation and scalability.

Now does this mean companies will run en masse and deploy a cloud-based time and attendance system? Probably not, however, the growing number of requests we receive on a daily basis about ATS cloud-based workforce management solution lends credence to cloud technology’s popularity. And, the feedback we have been receiving from some of our current customers-who were previously using a paper-based or some antiquated punch clock system solidifies that an ATS software-as-a-service is the wave of the future.

So why now and more importantly, what’s driving the demand for cloud technology? Among other things, today’s companies want to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a time and attendance system and, have access to a broad range of powerful benefits, with an eye on gaining a competitive advantage in an ever changing global economy. To learn more, you can download a demonstration.

 

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Using The Right Analytics Can Increase Your Company’s Profits

September 18th, 2014 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Business Intelligence | SaaS Time and Attendance | Time and Attendance Blog, Workforce Management Software - (Comments Off on Using The Right Analytics Can Increase Your Company’s Profits)

In the last several years many organizations have been adopting analytics to propel growth and manage regulatory compliance. In fact, most of North America’s major sports leagues, from the NHL, MLB, NBA and NFL are all using versions of predictive analytics and business intelligence to gather, track and extrapolate the right amount of data to make smarter decisions and improve business outcomes. Now you can call it “jumping on the band wagon” if you will, but in addition, to major league sports many mid and large enterprise-wide businesses are quickly adopting the practice. After all, if analytics gives you instant visibility into your business performance and drive better business outcomes–using a set of capabilities for reporting and forecasting, why not use it?

With ATS Workforce Analytics, you can:

Maximize productivity and profitability across every department. From plant operations to product accounting, payroll, human resources and more, ATS workforce analytics enable businesses to make significant improvements in real time.

Capture employee data in real-time to make better decisions about their attendance and improve operational performance. From attracting top talent, to accurate budgeting and forecasting with a powerful scheduling tool which will lead to improving employee satisfaction. ATS workforce analytics empower organizations to align business metrics with strategic business goals.

Enable your entire business with ATS best-of-breed business intelligence and, workforce management software that’s designed and packaged for mid and enterprise-wide organizations, making it easier to track employee time, manage and maintain payroll and propel business growth.

ATS Workforce Analytics built on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform gives you the tools so your business can analyze the right data and make better decisions. ATS Workforce Analytics is predicated on historical and up-to-the-minute information alongside current data, with intuitive screens to quickly move from insight to decision—all in one robust dashboard.

To learn more, join a free webinar or go to our website.

Using The Right Analytics Can Increase Your Company's Profits

Regardless of what type of company you run and in which industry, businesses are run by people. Forward-thinking organizations empower their people to utilize technology to automate and streamline your business processes.

ATS time and labour provides organizations with a unified and scalable workforce management solution, complete with operational functionality, intuitive reporting. ATS time and attendance connects multi-sites, departments and regions all on a single platform.

With ATS TimeWork you get increased productivity, reduced downtime and an overall improvement in your business. The integrated workforce management solution can run your entire enterprise – benefit accruals, employee self-service, employee scheduling, workforce planning, and employee time capture allowing you to do the following:

Reduce your initial investment
ATS Cloud-Based Time and attendance helps reduce your startup costs by avoiding software and hardware purchases. Streamline your business process by utilizing ATS implementation team.  ATS Cloud-Based time and attendance software architecture is designed from the ground up for maximum network performance, which can mean better application availability than traditional on-premises time and attendance systems.

Rapid deployment
ATS Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) Cloud-Based Time and Attendance solutions offer faster deployment. This affordable, scalable package includes preconfigured software and implementation services to get you up and running in a matter of weeks. And with a defined project scope and predictable cost, there are no surprises.

Flexible payment plans to stay on budget
ATS Financial Services software supports your business with low and predictable costs that scale with actual use of your solution. Cover the total cost of your time and attendance solution for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with affordable financing options. Companies can bundle their time and attendance software, time clocks, and services – into fixed or variable monthly payments, with no hidden fees.

Integrate to Human Capital Management (HCM), Payroll, ERP and HR Applications
ATS TimeWork allows for integration to other applications eliminates manual data reentry between different functional areas, saving time and reducing the risk of mistakes. ATS time and attendance solutions include features that are designed to maximize productivity and ease of use.

Add modules as your business grows
ATS workforce management solutions offer scalability that fits to your organization’s exact needs and can be adjusted as your needs change. To support your business growth, ATS unified time and attendance management solution contains inherent flexibility to adapt as requirements change. With built-in support for best practices, our industry-specific employee time and attendance system is designed for companies seeking to integrate processes company-wide.

ATS cloud-based time and attendance system is easy to scale, giving you the flexibility to add more users as your business grows.

To learn more about deploying a cloud-based time and attendance solution, go to our website and download a demo. You can also check us out on LinkedIn, Google Plus or join the conversation on Twitter.

Dedicated to the improvement of workforce productivity

Tired of struggling with an aging time and attendance systems, fragmented reporting, and never-ending maintenance contracts? Switching to ATS web-based solution enables companies to lower costs, streamline key business processes, boost productivity and be more competitive.

ATS TimeWork lets you manage your business end-to-end with one integrated application—from employee time capture, payroll, labour tracking, attendance management, ERP integration and workforce management. No more wasting time on a software application that does not meet your needs or being forced to pay for frequent software upgrades.

Access Your Data Anytime, Anywhere 24/7- As a cloud application, ATS TimeWork can be accessed anytime and anywhere in the world. Because this is a cloud application, you don’t have to worry about having a large IT staff or on-premise upgrades. Every time a user logs in, they are working on the most updated version of the software. It’s completely configurable, with the ability to implement features on-demand, as you need them.

Grow Your Business- ATS hosted time and attendance provides built-in functionality that to improve business operations.  This state-of-the-art time and attendance system is web-based and is hosted by ATS in a secure environment.

Move from Disparate Packages to One Integrated System- ATS Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) supports your entire company with one system, eliminating redundant data entry including time, cost and errors associated with using a manual time tracking solution. ATS TimeWork is a comprehensive web-based solution that gives businesses a clear, complete snapshot of their company.

ATS cloud based time and attendance gives you access to innovative new technologies that deliver competitive advantage in a complex and changing world.

To learn more, go to our website. You can also join the conversation with through our LinkedIn User Group or through Twitter.

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