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Sage HRMS 2016 Now Available

October 9, 2015 by Wayne Schulz

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Sage today announced the general availability of Sage HRMS 2016.

New features include:

  • Simplified user interface with new look and feel
  • Support for Affordable Care Act reporting requirements
  • Easier navigation and single sign-on functionality so you can log on once with access to both Sage HRMS and Sage Employee Self Service (ESS)
  • The ability to log on to Sage ESS as a specific employee (controlled by security settings)
  • Enhanced photo importing capabilities and document storage in Sage HRMS
  • Connected services to easily access solutions added on to your core HR program
  • Information at a glance

 

The “What’s new in Sage HRMS 2016” feature sheet provides a more detailed look at the benefits your customers will enjoy with Sage HRMS 2016.

Filed Under: Abra, Sage HRMS, slider Tagged With: sage hrms

Sage Common Payroll Announced For MAS200 SQL, MAS500, ABRA, ERP X3 and ACCPAC

October 22, 2010 by Wayne Schulz

Sage today made official that they’ll be rolling out a common payroll based on their SData communication protocol. This common payroll fills a hole in the Sage MAS 200 SQL release (due November 2010) where legacy (non 4.x standard modules which include payroll) cannot be used with the MAS 200 SQL release.

By creating a common payroll solution Sage hopes to cut down development costs that are soaring as the government continues to change employer tax laws. Each change in tax law requires Sage to update payroll (usually at the very end of the year when everyone is busiest), test the changes, and quickly distribute those upgrades to end users.

Under the Sage Common Payroll initiative the ACCPAC SQL Payroll will be used by at least four Sage products (ABRA SQL v10.1, MAS500 v7.3, ERP X3 v6.1, MAS200 SQL 4.45).

Integration levels will vary depending upon product with only Accpac and ABRA receiving level 3 or very robust integration.

Here’s Sage’s Official Announcement:

Common Payroll is the Sage ERP Accpac payroll module which has been enhanced to become a best-of-breed SQL Server-based payroll that can serve the needs of many of our Sage North America customers. With over 4000 payroll customers in the US and Canada, the Sage ERP Accpac payroll module has a strong track record of providing value to small and medium sized businesses.

Using Sage ERP Accpac payroll as the foundation and the new common sData communication protocol to facilitate connectivity, the new Common Payroll module will offer the tightest level of integration possible between payroll and all of our ERP solutions.

How will a Common Payroll support Sage’s strategy to maximize our assets and reduce redundancies? One example lies in the hundreds of new tax changes that are mandated each year. In 2009 there were more than 200 changes released and that number is expected to increase in 2010. To keep on top of these changes, Sage spends a great deal of money each year to maintain our 12 unique payroll modules, and in some cases, multiple versions for each product. Imagine how much we could accomplish by removing this redundancy of effort, provide the updates in a form that could be used by all our products, and instead leverage our resources to provide customers with greater value, such as new connected services. And because the payroll-related connected services such employee benefit services would only need to be developed once, it would mean they could be made available immediately to all our customers with little to no incremental effort required by individual product teams.

The Common Payroll initiative also supports our goal for providing an Extraordinary Customer Experience as we focus our efforts on developing a single best-of-breed solution that surpasses the functionality and ease of use found in our current payroll modules. This new, unified payroll module will not only scale as a business grows, but if a customer needs to upgrade to another Sage ERP (enterprise resource planning) product, the payroll data will seamlessly migrate.

Common Payroll integration will soon be on the roadmaps for many of our other products, so stay tuned for details. You can rest assured that the native payroll module will continue to be enhanced, sold and supported for those products where it doesn’t make sense to adopt a common payroll.

The Common Payroll integration is an important step toward achieving our objectives and providing your clients with greater value. Projects like Common Payroll not only generate substantial savings and leverage best practices, but enable us to deliver a common experience to our mutual clients.

Filed Under: Abra, mas200, Sage 100 ERP, Sage 500 ERP, Sage software, schulz consulting, Technology Tagged With: common, payroll, sage, sql

Sage Insights 2010 Highlight Video

May 24, 2010 by Wayne Schulz

The Abra Guy, otherwise known to his family as Shawn Parsons, has posted a nice 5 minute video that highlights some of the happenings at the recently held Sage Software Insights 2010 conference.

This four day event was held in Denver Colorado from May 17 to 20, 2010 and brought together 1,000 Sage business partners from across the country.

This video nicely captures the atmosphere of Sage Insights and provides a glimpse of what attending the conference is like.

Via: The Abra Guy and CMS – Cost Management Services

Filed Under: Abra Tagged With: Sage Insights 2010

Sage Abra Procedure Manuals

February 25, 2009 by Wayne Schulz

Sage Abra procedure manuals seem like a great idea to me.  The guides document the steps your staff should be following in daily operations. They also serve as an Abra training guide for new employees in your human resources department who may start to use Abra.

End users are constantly asking for “best procedures”. There’s a natural curiosity with most of my customers to compare their current policies with those of similar companies. Using this type of material is a great way to introduce some standardization. Many auditors also request a list of frequently performed procedures as part of the year end audit and these guides can be a huge time saver in satisfying that audit requirement.

When I first started working with Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 back in 1986 at Cole, Frago, Cusick and Chestler we purchased several pre-written training guides and they served as great supplements to the Sage product manuals themselves.

These guides are only sold through your friendly Abra reseller –  if you’re interested you’ll have to give them a call.

I’m in the process of asking for a few sample pages from the procedure guides. If I’m able to receive any I’ll be sure to post a copy so you can review them online.

Filed Under: Abra Tagged With: Abra, abra procedure manual, abra training guide, human resources, sage, Wayne Schulz

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