ADP hosts Second Annual CSS user conference; attendance reflects growing customer base for on-site HR software.Processing Inc. (ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing. (2) (Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Roseland, NJ, www.adp. ) -- the country's largest provider of fully-integrated human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , benefits and payroll solutions -- today kicks off its Second Annual Users Conference for its Client Server Series (CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets. (2) (Content Scrambling System) The copy protection system applied to DVDs, which uses a 40-bit key to encrypt the movie. ). More than 150 people are expected to attend the three-day conference, representing 60 of the more than 110 clients under contract for the CSS Human Resource Management System, which first shipped in 1993. Representatives from 17 CSS Strategic Alliance Partners -- including IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Oracle and Hewlett Packard -- will also attend the conference and take part in the first Partners' Showcase. This year's meeting at Atlanta's Hotel Nikko offers more than 30 sessions in four areas: benefits, payroll, technical and general sessions. Executives from TALX, Edify ed·i·fy tr.v. ed·i·fied, ed·i·fy·ing, ed·i·fies To instruct especially so as to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement. , Computron and Recognition will take part in a panel discussion on workflow. CSS clients, Tektronix and Star Enterprise, will discuss Employee Self Service. Clients Curtis 1000, Sheldahl and Gunderson will be on an end-user training panel. And clients Corporate Express and Dunkin' Donuts will offer tips on working with consultants. Other sessions will focus on how HR and payroll professionals can use the Internet and how CSS clients are using Lotus Notes to communicate. ADP will preview enhancements planned for CSS Release 7.0 and review the new features in the current version, Release 6.1, including Autolink, a new proprietary connection providing seamless Windows-based integration with ADP's service payroll and other value-added services. ADP's growing customer community for CSS now consists of more than 110 organizations in nearly every industry and geographic region in the U.S., including many Fortune 1000-sized companies. Other clients include United Technologies, Pratt Whitney and J. Crew. CSS is the fourth in ADP's line of HRMS HRMS Human Resource Management System HRMS High Resolution Microwave Survey (SETI, Project Phoenix) HRMS High Resolution Mass Spectroscopy HRMS High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy HRMS Human Resources Management Specialist software solutions currently used by more than 5,000 companies to manage their employees. It is now in production on Gupta and Oracle database platforms, running on Intel hardware, the IBM RS/6000, and the HP 9000. ADP Inc. ADP provides computerized transaction processing, data communications, software and information services See Information Systems. to more than 350,000 clients in virtually every business and industry. The company, founded in 1949, had nearly $2.9 billion in annual revenue in fiscal 1995. In addition to a complete line of employer services, ADP provides market data and back-office services to the brokerage and financial communities, industry-specific services to auto and truck dealerships, and automated car collision repair and estimating. -0- Lotus Notes is a registered trademark of Lotus Corp. Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows and Windows 95 are trademarks of the Microsoft Corp. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: ADP, Atlanta Angela Burkardt, 770/612-6727 or Levin-Russo Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Lois Levin, 212/532-1742 |
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