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Payroll giant ADP scoops up Employease

Payroll giant ADP scoops up EmployeaseAttendnace & Payroll ManagementTime Attendance & Payroll SWhttp://www.lenvica.in

Tags: payroll solutions, Operational accounting, payroll, Payroll company, Employease, Automatic Data Processing Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?

The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?Hype is not necessaryCustomers are not turning to SaaS for the financial merits of cheaper software licensing. The cost of the software is about the same as traditional software, it is the cost of maintaining the software and the hardware that...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Tools & Techniques, IT Services, Service-now.com, SaaS Model, software-as-a-service, software

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Salesforce quarter on target

Salesforce quarter on targetIs Salesforce.com the new ADP ... or the next Datapoint?This headline recently appeared in several places across the Web:"Salesforce.com Passes $1 Billion Annual Revenue Mark"THIS IS NOT TRUE. I don't know whether this material misstatement arose from media manipulation or an honest mistake, but it's genesis...

Tags: Sales force management, payroll solutions, Salesforce.com Inc., Datapoint, Automatic Data Processing Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-24

Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service

Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a serviceDeferred revenues?I don't buy the deferred revenue argument. It doesn't make sense. If anything, having larger enterprise deals helps SFdC because it means the running Q's have guaranteed levels of income. Checking the last couple of Q's, there's no real change in deferreds...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, cloud computing, Operational accounting, Salesforce.com Inc., SFdC, PaaS, revenue, sales, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

World's Largest Processor of Shareholder Communications Saves $150K in the First Quarter

Until recently, ADP relied on a paper-driven, ISO 9002-certified manual process to track the inflow of prepared pallets through to final shipping. Through careful analysis of its internal procedures, ADP management found that the company spent significant time and money manually tracking orders and locating products received in its shipping...

Tags: Shareholder, Processor, HighJump Software Inc., Automatic Data Processing Inc., Payroll Solutions

Case studies 2008-05-04

Intuit enters the PaaS wars

Intuit enters the PaaS warsGood move Quicken...Where's ADP?Phil: Great article on Quicken, and I agree that Intuit is an intriguing and formidable PaaS contender considering their customer base and experience. It will be interesting to see the creativity that Intuit's PaaS offering may foster to increase underlying value for its...

Tags: PaaS, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Intuit Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-28

ADP sees incentive for SaaS

ADP sees incentive for SaaSSaaS and outsourcersSaaS firms and outsourcing companies will converge , just as Media and Software companies are converging.check out http://www.gandalf-lab.com/blog/2007/06/software-as-service-and-it-consulting.htmllook at the note at the bottom about ADP

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Outsourcing, software-as-a-service, Automatic Data Processing Inc., incentive

Discussion threads 2007-11-05

ADP sees incentive for SaaS

Payroll and employee services giant ADP announced an interesting new partnership today, teaming up with on-demand vendor Centive to offer its sales incentive management application to customers of ADP's national accounts division â€" those with 1000 employees or more. It's interesting for three reasons: the move reinforces...

Tags: Incentive, Software-as-a-service, Partnership, On-demand, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Business Structures, Software As A Service (SaaS), Finance, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Hosted VoIP and Data for More Than 25 000 Dealerships in North America

ADP Network Solutions, part of ADP Dealer Services provides integrated voice and data computing solutions to more than 25,000 auto, truck, motorcycle, marine and recreational vehicle dealers throughout North America. The company wanted to fulfill network integration between Rodopi billing and provisioning system and ADP's existing service order and activation...

Tags: VoIP, Dealership, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Rodopi Software, Payroll Solutions

Case studies 2007-10-03

Machiavelli's approach to the 'new' IT

I'm indebted to David Chassels of Procession for this quote from Niccolo Machiavelli:Nothing is more difficult than to introduce a new order, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the newAnd...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, SAP AG, Earnings, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Machiavelli, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-08-25

ADP Leverages IBM Business Service Management (BSM) Solutions to Keep Corporate Payrolls Humming

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. ADP is the market leader providing a wide range of employer-focused business process management services that require extensive processing, recordkeeping, technology, and best practices. There were several business initiatives and trends causing many customer problems and placing additional pressure on the Enterprise Systems Management & Monitoring...

Tags: Service Management, Business Service Management, Payroll, Automatic Data Processing Inc., IBM Corp., Operational Planning, Payroll Solutions, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, It Operations

Case studies 2007-08-09

ADP 1.3b (Windows)

Astanda Directory Project is a directory, search engine, and spider/crawler software. Your own little breed of DMOZ and Google. ADP is the only software in its class ever to be written in PHP with MySQL database support. Supports virtually unlimited amount of links and pages. Powered by Smarty template...

Tags: MySQL, Microsoft Windows, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Astanda, Astanda Directory Project, Payroll Solutions, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2007-01-03

SaaS doesn't matter

Thomas Otter, an Enterprise Irregulars blogger who works for SAP, complains that SaaS has been arbitrarily defined by a purist cult who refuse to admit that, as he puts it, "SaaS is simply the latest evolution of the bureau." Nick Carr, author of the contention that IT doesnt matter,...

Tags: Saas, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Web 2.0, Architecture, Business applications, software

Blog posts 2006-11-30

The great SaaS debate

The blogosphere isnt exactly aflame conversing about a canonical definition for software-as-a-service, but some good debate has been sparked. David Terrar wraps up the discussion with contributions from Thomas Otter, Nick Carr, Dennis Howlett and Vinnie Mirchandani, and then presents five questions as an SaaS litmus test:1. Is the software...

Tags: software, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Saas, General, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Web Technology

Blog posts 2006-11-30

ADP buys VirtualEdge, Kenexa nabs BrassRing

The billion-dollar SaaS sector of HR and payroll became a little less fragmented this month after two of the larger players each made significant acquisitions in the talent management arena. ADP last week announced it completed the acquisition of VirtualEdge, an on-demand provider of enterprise talent management solutions...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Mergers & Acquisitions, Automatic Data Processing Inc., VirtualEdge, software-as-a-service, acquisition, BrassRing, Kenexa, talent, talent management

Blog posts 2006-10-18

ADP buys Employease: on-demand completes the circle

For more than half a century, ADP has been delivering automated payroll processing as a service. For over a decade, Employease has been one of the leading pioneers of automated business applications as a service, specializing in employee administration. So yesterday's acquisition of Employease by ADP completes a circle, fusing...

Tags: Automatic Data Processing Inc.

Blog posts 2006-08-18

Payroll giant ADP scoops up Employease

Providing another sign--in addition to the recent huge quarter that Salesforce.com just had--that software-as-a-service is gaining traction, $9 billion ADP (Automated Data Processing, Inc.) announced that is acquiring Employease, a 10-year-old company that provides SaaS HR, payroll and benefits services for 1,500 clients, with more than one million client records...

Tags: Automatic Data Processing Inc., Employease

Blog posts 2006-08-17

ADP Securities Industry Software Chooses BMC to Deliver the Infrastructure Availability and Reliability Needed to Attain ISO 9001 Certification

ADP Securities Industry Software (ADP/SIS) provides IT services to regional securities brokerage firms located across the United States. Speed, accuracy, and reliability are essential in the financial services industry, where a delay of even a few seconds in completing a transaction could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. ADP/SIS is...

Tags: Software, BMC Software Inc., Certification, ISO 9001, Automatic Data Processing Inc., SiS, ADP Securities Industry Software, Payroll Solutions, It Management, It service Management

Case studies

ADP Anticipates Over 100% Return on Windows 2000 Server Upgrade for ADP BrokerView

Using a REJ analysis - audited by Giga Information Group - the Brokerage Services Group in Automatic Data Processing ADP anticipates a 102% Internal Rate of Return IRR by upgrading the ADP BrokerView platform to Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Primary business benefits include a 33% improvement in time-to-market, significantly reduced...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Server, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Payroll Solutions, Microsoft Windows 2000, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Case studies

Additional Resources

What's the biggest risk with external Web services?

It's not security; and I'll get to that in a moment. A new survey specific to the insurance industry finds that 90 percent of carriers have adopted some form of Web services within their information technology architecture, and 58 percent of those have adopted the industry-specific ACORD (Association for Cooperative...

Tags: risk, XML, Web service

Blog posts 2006-01-25