Ceridian Employer Services and Humanic Design Corporation form strategic alliance.MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1997-- --Ceridian Employer Services to Sell Humanic 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 Solution Ceridian Employer Services and Humanic Design Corporation announced a strategic alliance that combines Ceridian's leading payroll and tax filing capabilities with Humanic's proven, client/server Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) software. Customers benefit from a solution that allows them to maintain control and a single set of records on both human resource (HR) and payroll information. With the system's open architecture and open set of development tools, customers can easily incorporate leading-edge technologies, such as employee self-service, workflow, interactive voice response (IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. ), and imaging and scanning capabilities. "This new alliance allows Ceridian to offer its customers an HR/payroll solution that contains an excellent, scalable client/server front end, fully supported and maintained by Ceridian," said Sandy Becker George Sandford Becker (February 19,1922 – April 9, 1996) went professionally by Sandy Becker , was a television announcer, actor and comedian best known for having hosted several popular children's programs in New York City. , vice president of marketing for Ceridian Employer Services. "The Ceridian/Humanic alliance creates a package of products and services that addresses the needs of HR management for faster, better information and productivity improvement, and for the integration of HR and payroll systems in an open, networked environment. "This solution will be of particular value to Ceridian's prime market segment, which includes companies that have between 1,000 and 10,000 employees, and to its select market segment, which includes companies with 10,000 or more employees." Becker added that Ceridian plans to train over 200 members of its sales force to offer the Humanic solution. Frank Cancro, president of Humanic Design Corporation, states: "The alliance makes it possible for Humanic to offer the capabilities of a leading payroll provider to customers, enabling us to provide a truly industrial-strength HR and payroll solution. Ceridian customers will now be able to benefit from the most powerful, stable and advanced client/server HRMS technology available." Cancro also added, "We are particularly enthusiastic about having the full strength of Ceridian's sales and marketing capabilities behind us." Based on Oracle's development environment, Humanic's HRMS product offering features an easy-to-use GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. and superior reporting tools. The package includes applications for basic HR, as well as applicant tracking, flex-benefits administration and wage and compensation modeling. Humanic was among the first HRMS providers to implement use of a relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. for HR applications, offering users unsurpassed portability and connectivity and ease of implementation. Humanic's HRMS runs on virtually every hardware platform and operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . ABOUT CERIDIAN In the human resource arena, Ceridian serves more than 40,000 customers, including 40 percent of the Fortune 1000 and 30 percent of the Fortune 100, with broad, integrated solutions. Ceridian offers customers both outsourcing and in-house solutions for their growing human resource needs. Its products include human resource information systems, payroll processing and tax filing services, skills management software, time-accounting solutions, work-life effectiveness programs, decision-support applications, training and other services. For more information about Ceridian Employer Services, its Web site address is http://ces.ceridian.com/. Ceridian Corporation (http://www.ceridian.com) is a leading information services See Information Systems. and defense electronics company that serves the human resource, electronic media, transportation, gaming and government markets. Its information services segment includes Comdata, a group of human resource businesses and the Arbitron Company. Ceridian's defense electronics business is Computing computing - computer Devices International. ABOUT HUMANIC Humanic Design Corporation was founded in 1982 and is based in Mahwah, N.J. The company is dedicated exclusively to HR software and related services. The broad mission of Humanic is to help organizations manage their 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. more effectively through the use of advanced information technology. Humanic has hundreds of customers throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada and Europe. Its customers include Motorola Paging Products, Ben & Jerry's, Cambridge Technology Partners, United States Cellular Corporation, and Santa Cruz Operation See SCO. Santa Cruz Operation - (SCO) A supplier of Unix systems for Intel microprocessors. They supply Xenix and Open Desktop. Founded in 1979, SCO became a public company in May, 1993 and trades on the Nasdaq National Market System under the symbol SCOC. . CONTACT: Keith Peterson Alan Keith Peterson was born 2 February 1956 in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada and lives in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Peterson is currently the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the electoral district of Cambridge Bay having won the seat in the 2004 Nunavut election. , 612/853-4146 Jennifer Dugan, 612/853-5623 Ceridian Employer Services |
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