Health Services Organization Achieves Rapid Results with Ultimate Software's Core UltiPro and Recruitment.

WESTON, Fla. -- Ultimate Software (Nasdaq:ULTI), a leading provider of end-to-end strategic human resources, payroll, and talent management solutions, announced today that AthletiCo, a Chicago-based leader in outpatient orthopedic rehabilitation, has experienced numerous efficiencies and service improvements since going "live" on Ultimate Software's core UltiPro and UltiPro Recruitment delivered through Ultimate Software's on-demand model, Intersourcing. AthletiCo also purchased UltiPro Performance Management and UltiPro Time and Attendance, with a rollout planned for later in 2008.

Before the fall 2007 implementation of core UltiPro and UltiPro Recruitment, AthletiCo was using a business process outsourcer. Leadership realized that the organization needed the power of recruitment-through-retirement functionality without the responsibility of managing the software. To better manage planned growth while controlling costs, they chose Intersourcing for its inclusive IT services and UltiPro for its breadth of feature-sets designed to create efficiencies and add value to human capital management processes, such as talent acquisition.

Using UltiPro Recruitment, AthletiCo has already transformed its hiring and applicant tracking procedures from a burdensome manual process to one that is automated using built-in workflow. UltiPro Recruitment allows human resources team members to quickly screen viable candidates and route applications submitted online to hiring managers, as well as others involved in the process, and each person can make comments that the others can view. UltiPro Recruitment enables managers, recruiters, and HR staff to track and oversee the entire process over the Internet to reduce the length of the recruiting cycle, save significant time, and minimize overall recruitment and hiring costs.

"With UltiPro Recruitment, we can post and fill vacancies faster than ever before and our HR staff is freed from devoting time to tasks like cutting and pasting candidate resume details in emails for managers," said Kathy Yates, payroll manager for AthletiCo. "We have six people to handle the entire gamut of human resources, payroll, and benefits for approximately 1,000 employees in dozens of locations. By using UltiPro to streamline manual processes like recruitment, everyone benefits."

AthletiCo has also freed the HR/payroll team from the paper-intensive benefits open enrollment process. Employees completed their first online open enrollment last year, and new hires are using the solution as they join the organization to make their individual benefits choices.

"Benefits enrollment is one of the most tactical and time-consuming processes that HR faces when it's conducted manually since it involves a lot of data entry," said Yates. "With UltiPro, employees make their own updates from home or office, and we can automatically generate a file for the benefit providers without having to decipher hand-written forms."

UltiPro's portal feature-sets empower employees to view and modify their own personal information and let managers access and update specifics about their teams. Changes can be routed to approvers or to those who just need to be "in the know." According to Yates, self-service is proving to be very valuable especially at this time of year when employees are preparing their taxes and planning for the year ahead.

"We have had such positive feedback from our employees about UltiPro's self-service. They can see everything important to them and love it," said Yates. "When we chose Ultimate Software, we wanted a solution with functionality that would take us into the next level technologically. We've achieved that and look forward to growth with Ultimate Software as our HR business partner."

"UltiPro's holistic approach to developing HR solutions and its convenient software-as-a-service model, Intersourcing, provide businesses with the tools they need to make employee management more effective, efficient, and strategic," said Greg Swick, chief sales officer for Ultimate Software. "We especially like working with AthletiCo as they see the business value of more strategic solutions and are proactive about implementing multiple UltiPro solutions and motivating their people to use them."

About Ultimate Software

A leading provider of end-to-end strategic human resources, payroll, and talent management solutions, Ultimate Software markets its award-winning UltiPro products as on-demand services through its software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, Intersourcing, and as licensed software. Based in Weston, FL, the Company employs approximately 800 professionals who are focused on developing the highest quality products and services. In January 2008, Ultimate Software was the first HR/payroll SaaS provider to be audited and awarded the ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Certification for security management. The Company's internal technology team won a first place award for its management of Intersourcing from the American Business Awards in 2007, and its customer service team won two first-place awards for service excellence in 2006, one from the Service & Support Professionals Association and another from the American Business Awards. Ultimate Software was ranked #3 on the 2006 and 2007 lists of the Best Medium-Sized Companies to Work For in America by the Great Place to Work Institute, and has approximately 1,600 customers representing diverse industries, including such organizations as The Container Store, Elizabeth Arden, Major League Baseball, The New York Yankees Baseball Team, Nintendo of America, Ruth's Chris Steak House, and Sony BMG Entertainment. More information on Ultimate Software's products and services can be found at www.ultimatesoftware.com.

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