Carolina Power & Light selects NexGen SI to Web-enable corporate human resource applications.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 1997--NexGen SI, a global professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. and software firm, has been selected by Carolina Power & Light (CP&L) to provide interactive intranet accessibility to the company's human resource and financial information. NexGen SI has developed a set of client/server Web objects that will Web-enable CP&L's existing PeopleSoft human resource applications. The project, called PeopleNet, will connect CP&L's 100 locations throughout North and South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. . PeopleNet will allow employees to access, review and update benefits, payroll and 401(k) information from any location day or night. Using this self-service approach, workers can access employee and company data via an intranet through the use of a standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . "NexGen SI has provided us with an integrated solution that benefits everyone in our organization regardless of their location," said Don Tew, CP&L senior project manager. "By Web-enabling our human resource data, we've empowered CP&L employees to manage their own information. Now our human resource staff can focus on advising workers regarding their benefits and investments and spend less time on administrative tasks." Under the terms of the contract, NexGen SI will incorporate four key modules: employee self-service, manager self-service, job posting workflow and annual merit salary increase workflow. These features will allow CP&L's 7,000 employees, managers and supervisors to quickly access and manage information currently located on the company's enterprisewide network. "Web-enabling human resource and payroll functions is an ideal solution for companies like CP&L that are looking to streamline operations and decrease administrative overhead," said Don Ganguly, NexGen SI's executive vice president. "The PeopleNet application will allow CP&L to efficiently manage the company's existing personnel and information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. while reducing costs. In addition, CP&L's employees will also benefit from the fast and open communication that the company is now able to provide." About CP&L With headquarters in Raleigh, N.C., CP&L is a publicly held utility company that supplies electric service to more than 1 million customers in North and South Carolina. About NexGen SI Listed in 1996 as one of Inc. Magazine's "Fastest-Growing Private Companies," NexGen SI is a global professional services and software manufacturer with offices in Irvine, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Atlanta and Bombay. The company specializes in products and services for organizations transitioning data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a technologies to open architectures and client/server systems. The Inc. 500 company is a leading application developer of relational and object-oriented programming object-oriented programming, a modular approach to computer program (software) design. Each module, or object, combines data and procedures (sequences of instructions) that act on the data; in traditional, or procedural, programming the data are separated from the technologies with an extensive client/server practice based on leading programming development tools in the data warehouse and Internet/intranet market segments. NexGen SI's customer base includes major companies such as AT&T, Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. , Coca Cola Noun 1. Coca Cola - Coca Cola is a trademarked cola Coke cola, dope - carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States) , Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. and Value Behavorial Health. The firm provides software development services, systems integration and platform transitioning services for a variety of key organizational functions, including customer service, financial and human resources. Further information about NexGen SI can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.nexgensi.com or by calling 800/6NEXGEN. The company's worldwide headquarters are located at 30 Corporate Park Plaza, Suite 410, Irvine, Calif. 92606. CONTACT: NexGen SI, Irvine Ashu Varma, 714/476-4097 avarma@nexgensi.com or Comm Strategies Laurie Nalezny, 714/753-9292 75567.733@compuserve.com |
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