Generational Diplomacy: Appreciating & Utilizing Our Differences

Ever wonder what the major differences between generations in the workplace are? Having trouble communicating to someone younger or older than you? Not sure what to expect from the diverse group of employees in your company?

Check out this chart, made by Judi Clements from her May 21st webinar, “Generational Diplomacy: Appreciating & Utilizing Our Differences.” It might give you a few pointers on what to look for!

Check out the 2013 Ascentis Webinar Directory to watch webinars from 2013 all over again, download the slides from the presentations, and sign up for future webinars!

Make it a great day,

– Mike

Health Care Reform: Are You “Ready to Pay or Play?”

Even though most employers won’t face the “pay or play” decision until early next year, if there is any doubt in your mind that you are a “large employer” of 50 employees or more, the record-keeping you need to be doing is right now!

Additionally, the absolute “drop-dead” date for starting to track hours to construct a look-back period for variable schedule hourly employees, under most circumstances, is July 1, 2013 – fast approaching! We need to be doing this for two reasons: (a.) to calculate FTEs if you have any doubt as to whether you’ll reach large employer status during 2013, and (b.) assuming that you determine that you ARE a large employer (of 50 employees or more), to determine for each variable hour employee whether you’ll be required to offer them health insurance beginning in 2014.

Decision Tree Summary: Will You Pay a Penalty in 2014?

Ascentis can help! Ascentis’ May 2013 Health Care Reform Master Class is dedicated to the reporting “building blocks” you need to understand to make the best “pay or play” decision for your organization. Included within the session will be such topics as:

Determining large employer status
Estimating penalties that might apply to your company
Variable hour employees: what to count, what to exclude, and when to do it
How to treat leaves of absence and other breaks in service
Special rules for special industries

Click here to view the on-demand class, or here to download the one-page health care reform bulletin on “hours counting and eligibility.”

Does Your Open Enrollment Process Leave You Feeling Frustrated and Overwhelmed?

Learn the Secret to an Easy Enrollment and a Paperless Process

The amount of paperwork generated in traditional benefits enrollment is staggering. From distributing plan information and provider directories to collecting and verifying enrollment forms — the process can be overwhelming to an HR department that also has other, ongoing responsibilities.

Ascentis Employee Self Service (ESS) allows you to conduct enrollment online, thus eliminating the cumbersome and inaccurate paper process. Through online open enrollment, employees are connected to their benefit options. Upon HR approval, enrollment elections are applied to employee records and employees automatically receive an e-mail detailing their choices. Ascentis Carrier Connect electronically transmits the information to the appropriate providers.

The easiest, most comprehensive benefits management solution

Take a closer look at Ascentis ESS and see for yourself how easy it is to use, and how much time it will save your HR staff. Employees will love how much faster they can see the information they need, and increase the value your employees see in the benefits of working for you. HR managers will save time and money, and will be able to devote more resources to strategic planning instead of tedious data maintenance tasks.

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Get more information about Ascentis ESS and request a free, no obligation quote or just click here to read more about our human resources, payroll, recruiting, time and attendance, self-service and benefits management software solutions.

Or just give us a call at 800.229.2713 x7. We’re here to help you with any questions or to set up a custom demonstration built around your specific needs.

Announcing Ascentis HCM for NetSuite

Ascentis HCM Announces Ascentis HCM SuiteApp for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud Computing Platform

New SuiteApp Automates Human Resources and Payroll Processes

NetSuite SuiteWorld 2013, San Jose, Calif. and Bellevue, Wash. – May 15 2013 – Ascentis Corporation, a market leader in human capital management (HCM) solutions, announced today the Ascentis HCM SuiteApp, built using NetSuite’s SuiteCloud Computing Platform. The Ascentis HCM SuiteApp automates HR and payroll processes while reducing costs and providing meaningful insight into organizational trends. The new SuiteApp ensures synchronization of critical data elements such as employee demographic information and payroll journal entries between Ascentis HCM and NetSuite, while providing a single sign-on and single point of data entry to ensure up-to-date, reportable, accurate information. NetSuite customers gain access to applicant tracking and onboarding, robust benefits administration, time and attendance, and real-time, online payroll processing services.

“For our customers who desire a comprehensive HCM system integrated with their NetSuite platform, Ascentis provides a great solution,” said Guido Haarmans, NetSuite vice president of business development for technology partners. “This partnership makes it easier for our customers to become more strategic in their employee-management decisions, while increasing the overall value they get out of their business management systems.”

Working with NetSuite

The new SuiteApp for NetSuite addresses the growing demand from the marketplace to seamlessly manage employee data in one platform solution that connects all aspects of their business processes. The integration offers NetSuite customers a host of powerful HCM benefits and capabilities including:

Making HR teams more effective by framing data, actions, and analytics into the context of organizational strategy and objectives that can be achieved by monitoring key metrics.
Improving information accuracy, integrity and security by eliminating dual data entry and exposure to error.
Managing always-changing and updating HR and payroll compliance laws and regulations by supporting compliance automation with powerful reporting and analytic capabilities.
Automating the hiring and onboarding processes through branded candidate portals, social media sharing tools and RSS feeds.
The ability to send benefits enrollment information electronically to insurance carriers, eliminating billing errors and undetected overpayments.
Automating transactional processes that can increase productivity, reduce labor costs and make HR and payroll departments more efficient.
Real-time payroll processing and instantaneous auditing that can reduce payroll processing time by as much as 30%.
Timekeeping management that eliminates the manual collection of and calculation of timecards, and ensures wage-and-hour law compliance.
World-class customer service that features dedicated support reps.

“Ascentis is very proud to be working closely with NetSuite,” said DJ Chhabra, Ascentis CEO. “This partnership gives NetSuite customers access to a robust HRIS and payroll solution that can help them manage their workforce more efficiently and strategically. We’re thrilled to be able to work closely with an industry leader who provides world-class business software solutions, and is very responsive to the needs of their client base.”

For more information about the integrated solution, please visit http://www.suiteapp.com.

About SuiteCloud

NetSuite’s SuiteCloud is a comprehensive offering of cloud-based products, development tools and services designed to help customers and commercial software developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits of cloud computing. Based on NetSuite, the industry’s leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, SuiteCloud enables customers to run their core business operations in the cloud, and software developers to target new markets quickly with newly-created mission-critical applications built on top of mature and proven business processes. The complete SuiteCloud offering includes NetSuite’s multi-tenant, always-on SaaS infrastructure; the NetSuite Business Suite of applications (Accounting/ERP, CRM and Ecommerce); and the NS-BOS Development Platform.

The SuiteCloud Developer Network (SDN) is a comprehensive developer program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) who build apps for SuiteCloud. All available SuiteApps are listed on SuiteApp.com, a single-source online marketplace where NetSuite customers can find applications to meet specific business process or industry-specific needs. For more information on SuiteCloud and the SDN program, please visit: http://www.netsuite.com/developers.

About Ascentis

Ascentis, backed by Palm Ventures, LLC and Catalyst Investors, offers easy-to-use workforce management HRIS, online payroll and timekeeping solutions that support greater business efficiency and accuracy. Ascentis technology automates critical processes such as full scale benefits management, compliance, online open enrollment, time and attendance, real-time payroll processing, tax filing, applicant tracking, employee and manager self-service and reporting. One point of data entry means employee information is accurate, up-to-date and reportable. Electronic submission of information to insurance carriers eliminates errors and supports a paperless open enrollment process. Ascentis offers world-class customer service and continues to add software offerings to its portfolio of workforce and human capital management solutions.

For more information about Ascentis, send media inquiries to marketing@ascentis.com or contact Heather Bansemer

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