Workforce Modelling and Intelligence

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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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Application Service Provider Vs Software As A Service (ASP Vs SAAS)

The traditional Application Service Provider – ASP Model is overrun by the upcoming Software as a service SaaS Model. Whether it is a deployment, upgrade or maintenence project – the onshore offshore model present in leading indian software companies were growing with a lot of money inflow as a result of ASP model. But In the present scenario, the companies like salesforce, workday are providing the software on demand services with client specific customizations based on the SAAS model also. In SaaS the customer pays for the services offered by the company/vendor and the cost involved in maintaining the application in their inhouse is not necessary.
Eventhough there is a cost reduction for customers who go for software as a service model, the rise of open source components that are available in the market makes this tough. And moreover for customers who require a lot of customizations, the ASP model is still leading the chart.
Whatever the changes are,.. It seems that in the near future the world leaders in software industry will be the ones who are operating based on the demands,..based on the software as a service model.

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Rise of Data Transformation Services – DTS Packages

Interoperability and communication between applications plays a vital role in today’s emerging business needs.One such component which helps the business to transfer data between different system is the Data Transformation Service Packages famously known as DTS packages.This pasage will cover the differences between SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 with respect to the DTS Packages.Enterprise Manager of the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 provides an inbuilt menu within its IDE and the dts packages are accessed using the SQL Server 2000 DTS Designer IDE.

The DTS Designer 2000 allows us to perform the following tasks over a package such as 1. Designing 2. Executing and 3.Scheduling.

In SQL Server 2005, the DTS packages cannot be accessed the same way as we use to access it in SQL Server 2000. The reason being the advent of Microsoft SQL Server Integeration Services (SSIS) in the 2005 version. The two main IDE of the SQL Server 2005 are

• SQL Server Management Studio, and
• SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio.

Unlike the DTS Designer 2000 that was used to access the DTS Packages, the SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio supports the packages with its SSIS. Microsoft also provides a backward compatibility method of accessing the DTS Packages that were created in SQL Server 2000. Even after the migration of the database from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005, the DTS Packages which were originally created in the SQL Server 2000 environment can also be migrated to the 2005 Server. Since the DTS Packages are Server specific, by 1. opening the SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager and by 2. accessing the SQL Server Management Studio, the DTS Packages can be opened by DTS Designer 2000 through the SQL Server 2005 environment.

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Learning Management System drives a Company’s Growth

It was Lewis Hamilton – the young player in the formula one championship who managed a tough fought win against other players in the recently held Hungarian F1 Grand Prix. Looking back into his performance, there are a lot of features that had made him to win the race. Similarily, young players in the corporate world are growing at a pace of 200% when compared to their counterparts. There are a lot of influential aspects for a company’s growth, one being their talent of maintaining the talent pool and the other by nurturing their talent pool. Yes,…It is achieved by Training, Knowledge Sharing, Mentoring, and Self-Learning by their employees. One of the aspects that drives these activities is the Learning Management System that the company uses. It’s the LMS (acronym for Learning Management System) that drives the growth of an organisation.

Lets have a look at the Docent Enterprise Suite which was rated as the leader in the Learning Management System by Gartner a couple of years ago. The suite comprises of Learning Management System – LMS, Content Delivery System – CDS, Authoring Tool – Docent Outliner,..to take care of the learning activity as well as the performance evaluation of a particular or group of people within an organisation.

Friends, I have just given a gist about the Docent – Learning Managment System. Leave me your queries as a comment to continue further discussion about the system

Archive Checkered Flag: Why Optim wins the Data Archival Race ?

Last week, I had been to a get-together wherein my friends had arranged for a meeting. People from different technology backgrounds were amongst the young energetic crowd. I remember discussing about some of the technical aspects in the present corporate world. One of the discussion was about archiving data : There was a wide misconception that performing database backups were referred to as data archival,… Infact that’s only one of the true factors. Moving on to the reasons behind archival is not only the need for a backup but for improving the performance.

As a first step people tend to move towards database optimization (Rule based or Cost Based), even then if there is no improvement in the database performance – Data Archival is the only solution.Having decided to go for database archival, there are a lot of products / Tools available in the market.

One of such Tools is the Princeton Softec’s Optim – Data Archival Tool. The Tool attracts the users with one of its four best processes – the Restore Process. Not all data archival tool concentrates in restoring the original data after the data archive. Optim has a feature of restoring the original data that was archived even before couple of years.And also even when the datamodel changes, archived data can be restored. Even if the archived data is corrupted the original data is restorable.Having known about Optim’s unique feature.Let me provide its brief overview.

Optim constitutes of four basic processes,

1. Archive Process
2. Delete Process
3. Restore Process
4. Browse Utility

Archival of data can be performed on any of the modules of Peoplesoft. Some of the reasons which urge the Peoplesoft users to move to data archival are

• Frustration of business users trying to complete the on-line Peoplsoft functions.
• Employees unable to access pay cheque information.
• Peoplesoft Payroll users unable to enter required employee data information in order to meet timeliness                                                                                          

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Race to Victory

In the world of Formula One Racing, ‘Pit Stop’ is a common term. During the race day and pit stops, One could see almost all the components of the car being maintained/changed by the crew . Ranging from the nuts and bolts to the engine, everything is under quick and fast maintenance. Similarily, in the corporate world – each and every company acts as a race car and to improve their performance and to grow quicker: they are in need of such Pit Stop Crew. In the real-time, it would contain a variety of software products that supports their Company Resources which consists their Human Resources, Material Resources, Financial Resources, etc.. To be specific products like Peoplesoft, SAP, Kronos, OrgPlus, SumTotal, Docent, Optim, and IDE’s like Application Designer, Docent Outliner, Business Intelligence Development Studio, JBuilder, NetBeans are widely used. Lets see what makes the companies to choose a product and how it plays a unique role in enhancing the overall companies performance. We will also come across the differences and unique features of the products that urges the companies to use it. Pit Stop will cover the product specific comparisons, Technology specific advantages, and finally the service oriented architecture. 
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Peoplesoft Time and Labor Vs Kronos Workforce TimeKeeper

Couple of weeks back, the google news portal was crawling in almost many a news source pages about Kronos and its upperhand than that of the renowned Peoplesoft’s Time and Labour Module. I was surprised to see the once market leader in Human Resources is being overthrown by the Kronos Workforce Central Suite. Yes, the reason being ,.. Kronos had worked hardly in identifying the end user’s concerns and various other problems that they were facing with Peoplesoft. For example : The Time and Labour module contains a feature in which the employee work hours are being tracked and fed back into the Payroll module for the Pay Calculations and Pay Cheque creations. Its found that ” after the fact / historical changes “ was not possible to follow with Peoplesoft whereas Kronos Workforce Time Keeper module supports the same. Many a peoplesoft clients are retaining their payroll in peoplesoft and are moving towards the product kronos for one of this reason.
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