Free Sage HRMS Webinars and Online Training

As a Sage HRMS customer, you already have access to Sage Payroll Tax Forms and eFiling by Aatrix. That means you can save both time and money by doing away with manual reports - instead your HR staff will be able to automatically complete, review, and edit reports onscreen and then file them electronically in minutes.  Attend this webinar to learn how you can start using it today!

This webinar will cover the following:

• Introduction to Aatrix
• Overview of account setup and functionality on Aatrix eFill including company profile, alerts etc.
• How to review, edit and eFile State and Federal forms
• Review of the W-2 filing process
• Discussion of Year-End Forms and Simplifying the W-2 Process (December 10 Webinar Only)

Sage has partnered with BenefitMall, a leading provider of employer services, benefits, and compliance information, in order to deliver you a presentation on the ins and outs of the ACA's employer reporting requirements. During the presentation we'll cover where we are today, what's important now, 2015 rates, private market renewals, shop exchanges, the employer mandate, reporting requirements, and a mid-term election preview. You can't afford to miss out.

This webinar will show the Sage HRMS Payroll user how to gain the most from the product with its design and feature set. Whether a seasoned professional or a new user there are always new things to learn to make the process smoother and more efficient. Helpful tips will include, but are not limited to the following:

• How to edit and reuse TimeCards for quick processing
• Options for use during Open Payroll synchronization
• Reporting capabilities from start to finish to ensure balanced pay runs
• Exporting and Importing functionality
• Setting up a new earning, deduction or tax
• Utilizing cost centers to auto update your GL for Payroll reporting

Attend SWK’s free webinar, “How to Manage Your HR and Payroll Documents,” to learn how Electronic Document Management (EDM) can help your business reclaim money and time.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

• Why you need electronic document management
• What you should look for in an EDM system
• How electronic document reduces errors
• EDM processing 101
• The ROI of electronic document management

See how LightWork Talent Management transforms the overwhelming task of managing employees into an indispensable business strategy.

With LightWork, it’s easy to identify strengths and areas for improvement in your workforce as well as align employees and groups with goals to optimize your company for success. Learn how its easily modified appraisals and criteria templates can help you provide valuable feedback to your employees in a thoughtful and efficient way.

In this webinar, our consultant will cover the following topics to better allow you to customize and utilize your Sage HRMS:

• Toolkit versus Advanced Toolkit
• Single and Multi-record Details
• Types of Details
• User-Defined Code Tables
• Create a Blank Detail
• Adding Fields
• Modifying the Detail
• Examples

In this webinar, you will learn how to download and apply updates to Sage HRMS and Abra Suite.  You will be provided information on how you are alerted of version changes, where to access them and the importance of regular updates to keep your product current.

Dresser & Associates will help you understand the reporting differences of the ACA, recognize reporting requirements, know how each form is used, and find out how Sage is addressing ACA reporting with My Workforce Analyzer. After attending this webinar, you will:

• Understand the reporting differences between fully insured and self insured healthcare programs.
• Recognize reporting requirements for Applicable Large Employers (ALE).
• Know how each form (1095-A, 1094-B, 1095-B, 1094-C, 1095-C) is used.
• Find out how Sage is Addressing ACA reporting with My Workforce Analyzer.

What will be covered in this webinar:

1. General information about Standard Reports, how to use the general page, standard criteria and specific criteria to run the reports.
2. Custom Criteria Builder and Table – how to build an expression just using hrpersnl (Employee Master file fields) and save to the Criteria Table
3. How to start a custom criteria using the builder and changing the expression to meet our needs
4. How to use the custom criteria to create expressions using other tables in the Visual FoxPro Expression Builder.  Examples will be an expression to pull just current benefits in the benefit reports and an expression to pull point in time information for head counts.

Workflow Management is an important component of a business for a variety of reasons and can provide many advantages, such as improved efficiency, standardization of working methods, and streamlining responsibilities.  In addition, an available integration with Adobe® EchoSign® can further simplify your process by incorporating editable W-4 and I-9 forms so you are easily able to capture an employee signature. 

Topics will include:

Once again, Sage is working with BenefitMall to bring you another presentation on the Affordable Care Act and your obligations. Senior Vice President of Government and Carrier Relations, Michael Gomes, will discuss the key issues of the ACA and how they will affect your business through the end of 2015 and into 2016.

More specifically, the webcast will cover the following topics:
• A Recap of 2014 and what's happened so far in 2015
• The ACA's 5th anniversary
• The Top 2015 issues to watch and their importance
• The Employer Mandate
• Employer and employee reporting requirements
• ACA subsidies and taxes
• The relevancy of employer sponsored coverage

Attend and ensure your knowledgeable and ready to tackle your ACA obligations with confidence.

The process will entail pay schedule configuration, package duplication and benefit processing with and without rollover mappings. Please see your account manager for any additional questions or inquiries.

Firing an employee can be confusing and stressful.

Avoid the pitfalls of the employee termination process with the help of nationally recognized HR Law expert, Jonathan Segal. Dresser & Associates is pleased to offer this Hyrell-hosted webinar.

Dresser & Associates invites you to join Hyrell on Tuesday, July 21st at 3:00 pm EST/ Noon PST for an in-depth 30 minute discussion on the employee termination process and find out how to make the best decisions for the future of your business.

There are numerous hiring and location job tax credits and incentives available to companies today. These credits help offset your costs as they can help lower your effective tax note.

During this webinar, you will gain a solid understanding of the various tax credits and incentives that exist and benefits associated with them.

Effective human resources management is a key source of competitive advantage for organizations. Today’s corporate landscape of mobile teams, work/life balance, and legislative compliance makes managing this important function even more difficult.

Leveraging HR technology is essential for supporting this extremely important organizational function. According to research, companies that adopt sophisticated HR technology tools outperform those that do not. Technology offers operational efficiencies at all levels, and provides insight and metrics on long term business strategies. In this session, you will:

• Understand why HR Technology is a business imperative.

• Learn how to manage and report on the right data to obtain a competitive advantage.

• Identify ways that HR Technology can be leveraged to enhance communication, collaboration, and workflow in an organization.

The holiday season can be the most wonderful time of the year... unless you are an employer. Join HR law expert, Jonathan Segal, and Hyrell’s Co-Founder, Patrick Clark, for a 30 minute webinar on how to ring in the holidays with cheer (while avoiding legal woes)

As organizations look for more ways to increase productivity and profitability, human resources departments are being asked to provide more strategic input to executives. Doing so requires tools that improve access to timely, accurate information for enhanced business decision making. If you don’t have a human resource management system (HRMS), HR can end up spending too much time on repetitive day-to-day tasks like paperwork while struggling to deliver meaningful workforce insights.

The right HR management software can help the HR team increase control over employee data, optimize productivity, and take employee engagement to the next level, so you can deliver the future workforce your organization needs to succeed.

Learn more during this live presentation.

Designed to give you the information you need when you must have it

Whether you have a Human Resources (HR) support function made up of one individual professional, many or none, you may find that your resources may not meet the informational or support requirement that you or your organization may have at any given time. Look no further than the HR Resource Center. This service is hosted by the Neponset Valley Consulting Group for Dresser & Associates customers seeking expert attention to supplement their HR functions.

This session will provide a thorough overview of the services that the HR Resource Center provides, including:

• Common types of needs
  • Employee related
  • Policy related
  • Compliance related
  • Document review
• Resolution options
• Expert methodology and capabilities
• Customer value
• Sample questions and support resolutions

Assess the Effectiveness of Your Organization's HR Processes

Assessing the effectiveness of your organization's HR Processes is crucial to ensuring a return on investment in its human assets. Why? Your processes have a direct impact on managers and employees' ability to contribute to your organization. Without properly leveraging your people, your organization will not fully realize its strategic business objectives. A HR Assessment is intended to raise red flags and assist in identifying opportunities for improvement.

Today's volatile and ever-changing business environment continues to put significant pressure on employees – add it to long hours, perceived low pay, and potential issues with other employees and you could get the “perfect storm” for lawsuits or government audits. Hosted by HR gurus from the Neponset Valley Consulting Group, this session thoroughly covers:

• Today's business environment
  • Costs associated with lawsuits
  • US Government's role in employment law
• Differences between an Audit and Assessment
• HR Assessments
  • Purpose of a HR Assessment
  • What are the benefits
  • When should you do it
• 10 most common mistakes companies make that require HR Assessment practices

By the end of attending this session, you should be able to identify areas where HR flaws occur as well as get started on conducting an HR Assessment for your company.

Connecting, communicating, and collaborating are the driving forces behind social media – are you taking the wheel?

These objectives will provide ways to learn how your HR department can steer the social media revolution in an organization:

• Introduction to Social Media
• How to leverage the Social Universe
• Building a Social media Strategy
• Web 2.0 tools to use
• World Class examples

This session will cover:

• Major social media fears and myths
• Popular social media platforms and their best uses in corporate settings
• Social media business uses
  • Evolution of recruiting
  • Reasons to recruit socially
  • Your social media strategy
• A brief guide to tailoring and implementing a Social Media Policy for your organization
• World class examples of corporations and social media

This educational session will help you keep abreast on the ever-evolving social media universe.

Many slogans and top-lines have been applied to Sage KnowledgeSync; the one that seems to have adopted the most wide-spread usage and acceptance is "Alerts and Workflow". Recently, Sage has adopted this name to title the product and KnowledgeSync is now referred to as Sage Alerts and Workflow. It's simple, descriptive, and lacking in the usual high-tech jargon and acronyms. Other tag lines that have been used include:

• "Alerts on steroids"
• "A smoke detector for your data"
• "The right information to the right people at the right time"
• "It's what you don't know that will hurt you"

Sage Alerts and Workflow is "Business Activity Monitoring" and this webinar will illustrate how you can use it beyond your wildest dreams, in ways that can improve your business processes to save money, increase revenue, and/or improve cash flow.

Alerts - most of our customers had some form of alerts with their CRM or other systems. Sage Alerts and Workflow exploded their version of what an alerts and workflow solution can really do. Consider the following scenarios:

• When a new sales order is placed, Sage Alerts and Workflow automatically generates the customer's invoice in PDF format and emails it to them and to their sales representative.
• At month-end, Sage Alerts and Workflow calculates each customer's purchases and compares it to the customer's average monthly sales. If the difference is over 25%, the customer's salesperson is notified.

Are those "alerts"? You bet they are.

Sage Alerts and Workflow uniquely combine B-1 strength data analysis with alerts, automatic document and report distribution, and workflow capabilities.

Among the questions our customers asked and were answered by Sage Alerts and Workflow:

• In your daily business activities, have you ever felt like saying "If only we had known…"?
• Do you spend time running reports or using analytical tools to look for "exceptions" in your daily transactions?
• Does your organization have mobile or remote staff that needs to be kept informed regardless of time, location, or communication device?
• Would it be helpful to automate some of your workflow processes - such as "if stock drops below 'x', automatically create a purchase order for vendor 'y'"?
• Would it be useful to have a single solution that could monitor and respond to conditions in all your business applications?

Join our consultants for an informational webinar so that you can better understand what the Sage Alerts and Workflow module has to offer to your Sage HRMS solution and your other business applications.

As you are already aware, employees are required to report the actual cost of virtually all health coverage provided to employees on Form W-2 for the 2012 calendar year (Form W-2 is issued in January 2013).

Dresser & Associates is conducting the following webinars to outline our strategy to help our customers meet this federal requirement. In addition to the webinar, Dresser & Associates has created a webpage which will have links and other pertinent information concerning this new W-2 report requirement.

In your daily HR activities, have you ever said, "If only we had known…" about such things as excessive overtime, expiring certifications, or employee pay rate changes? If so, you can avoid doing so in the future by becoming a "data driven" HR organization. Attend this live webcast and learn how you can become a data-driven HR organization and provide a higher level of service to your organization.

Every HR organization deals with surprises and "exceptions" on a daily basis. But most HR organizations waste valuable time either searching out this information or reacting to it after the fact. Making your HR organization "data-driven" enables your critical HR information to be delivered to you--automatically--when and where you need it.

In this live webcast, learn…

• The eight HR "data-driven" conditions you can use to automatically monitor your HR data for critical, time-sensitive information.
• How your HR data can "tap you on the shoulder" to help you more effectively and efficiently manage your HR activities.
• The impact on HR between organizations that are data-driven and those that are not.

Sage KnowledgeSync Alerts and Workflow gives a voice to your HR data, enabling you to make more intelligent and timely HR decisions.

Systems crash, data gets lost, and HR professionals are pulling their hair out to get things back up and running. Luckily, annual support renewals come in handy with a free phone call to Sage Tech Support. This webinar is a “pep talk” meant to prepare you with all the right questions to ask before and during your call, including:

• Weeding out possible technical issues with your IT department
• Diagnosing the problem at certain steps or stages of processes
• Asking appropriate questions to receive the most detailed answer
• How to escalate your problem to support module experts

Attending this session will leave you confident and comfortable addressing your issue with the Sage Support Team.

Millions of dollars are lost every year due to lapses in data security and payroll processes. Understand the importance of monitoring users and groups and efficiently using Sage HRMS Alerts, enabling immediate response and reaction.

This session will provide helpful information for:

• Managing Sage HRMS Alerts to monitor for databases changes to group and user security
  • Uncovering who/what information changed
  • Send notifications to important executives
  • Enabling fast action to correct changes
• Creating and using effective queries and tables to monitor employee changes to sensitive data
• Double checking payroll processes
• Monitoring for unauthorized pay changes in HR

Protecting data is vital to maintaining secure business processes. Learn how to set up your Sage HRMS security system for extensive, flexible, and easy-to-use data protection. Detailing the value of Group Security, this session will cover:

• An introduction to security groups
• Assigning member and group rights
• Managing and maintaining security groups
• A live example of utilizing Group Security
  • Confirming settings
  • Modifying group levels
  • Using Crystal Reports for Ad Hoc Reporting Security
  • Troubleshooting
  • Security testing

Insights on data dictionaries, initialization files, and fixfile.exe will also be addressed.

Security levels – when you (as the system administrator) set up security for a group, you can establish access rights at the following levels:

• Employer
• Product
• Activity
• Task
• Step
• Field

Being an effective HR department involves staying up-to-date and on top of all employee information, forms, and procedures. It is crucial to remember that maintaining your data is just as important as its initial entry into the system.

Session Agenda:

• Data Security- protecting your data
  • Why is it important?
  • Security Audit
  • Steps to secure the data
• Audit Trail
  • Business management software
  • Audits and alerts
• System Maintenance
  • Why reform indexes?
  • Why optimize databases?
  • Data audit and clean-up
  • Additional processes
• Mass updates
  • Backing up
  • Running reports
  • Verifying records

This live, one-hour webcast will introduce employers to data that highlights the value of wellness programs, as well as report on a variety of options for the small to mid-sized budget conscious businesses.

It has been proven statistically that companies with effective wellness programs experience less absenteeism, more engaged employees, and improved productivity. But with trimmed budgets and commitments to doing more with less, where can financially conscious businesses find cost effective programs to meet their long-term goals?

Participants will learn:

• The benefits of effective wellness programs as an approach to employee health
• How to create value in wellness programs
• A strategy for implementing a wellness program

Who Should Attend:

• Human Resource professionals responsible for performance management and organizational development
• Business professionals responsible for managing and evaluating performance of employees

HR Recertification Credits: This webcast has been approved for 1.00 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (www.hrci.org).

Certificates of completion will be provided upon request only to individually registered attendees. Attendance for the full webcast hour is required to receive recertification credits (partial credits cannot be provided). Groups of people participating in the webcast together must be registered and attend the webcast individually to receive certificates. Certificates will be sent via email to registered attendees in PDF form within 30 days of validated attendance. If you have additional questions, please email us at tncag.sioa_inr@megse.

Learn the ins and outs of employee attendance tracking and reporting with the guidance of a certified Sage consultant. In this hour long session, you will learn:

• Overview of Sage HRMS Attendance
  • Tracking PTO
  • Using Sage HRMS Link to use with Sage HRMS or Sage Payroll
  • Allowing Accruals
• How to accrue time properly
• Attendance details
  • Summary
  • Transaction
• Create attendance reports
  • Employees currently on FMLA
  • Employees due to return from FMLA
  • Employees due for medical recertification
  • Employees YTD Details/Summary
• Integrating Attendance with Sage Payroll
  • Attendance and payroll accrual detail in sync
  • Presented to timesheet entry person
  • Presented on check
  • Payroll updates absence transactions
  • Payroll triggers accrual

Centralized data, time and attendance management, benefits enrollment, applicant tracking and management, tax reporting, government benefits reporting, and the list goes on… All these functions can be managed from your computer, which will allow you to reduce errors and improve data quality. Additionally, by completing them electronically, you are increasing your ability to provide timely reports in meeting stringent government compliance requirements.

The costs for not having an effective, quality based response system like this can be enormous. This one-hour live webcast will compare and contrast the benefits of a paperless human resources system vs. an automated compliance program.

Participants will learn:

• The key attributes of an effective compliance program for the entire business.
• How to develop an effective HR compliance tracking system.
• Some tips are developing your proposal for e-compliance management.

Who Should Attend:

Attendees should include Human Resource managers and business professionals in the U.S. who desire to learn more about the pros and cons of a paperless HR department and automated compliance programs.

HR Recertification Credits:

This webcast has been approved for 1.00 recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (www.hrci.org).

Certificates of completion will be provided upon request only to individually registered attendees. Attendance for the full webcast hour is required to receive recertification credits (partial credits cannot be provided). Groups of people participating in the webcast together must be registered and attend the webcast individually to receive certificates. Certificates will be sent via email to registered attendees in PDF form within 30 days of validated attendance. If you have additional questions, please email Sage at es_training@sage.com.

Presenter's Biography:

Mary Anne Osborne, SPHR - With over 30 years of experience in the HR field, Mary Anne is well prepared to help businesses find solutions to their most troubling HR-related dilemmas. Her HR experiences have elevated her from HR Representative to the VP level in a multi-state healthcare industry leader before beginning her own consulting business. Along the way she spent time honing her skills in employee relations, staffing, EEOC, organizational development, compensation, and training in the telecommunications, financial, automotive, higher education, and healthcare industries.

Do you need to create customized reports but don't feel comfortable with your Crystal Report writing skills? Sage HRMS Secure Query is a desktop reporting tool that comes automatically with your Sage HRMS application that enables you to quickly and easily get the information you need.

Attend this webinar to explore the usability and benefits of using the Sage HRMS Secure Query application. In this live one-hour webinar, one of our certified Sage consultants will cover:

• The differences and benefits of the various Sage reporting tools
• Advantages and disadvantages of Sage HRMS Secure Query
• Ad hoc reporting security
• Group security
• A step-by-step creation of a query
• Exporting queries
• Other query examples

Sage HRMS Payroll provides a comprehensive and flexible solution that includes the payroll functionality needed to process payroll accurately and efficiently every time. With Sage HRMS Payroll and Sage ERP, companies can further maximize their operations, insight, and competitive advantage to stay ahead of the pack.

Whether you are already using payroll with Sage or are considering moving your payroll in house, this session will provide an overview of the powerful module Sage HRMS Payroll. Join us to see how to reduce your payroll expenses and improve accuracy while increasing your payroll visibility and reporting within the company.

Conflict is a leading cause of employee and management turnover, resulting in huge expense for retraining, rehiring, and ultimately re-staffing. Conflict also leads to unemployment claims or severance package payments. When people work together, different values, personality and communication styles, and cultural differences are likely to clash. When they do in an unhealthy way, company losses occur.

Preserving those relationships, negotiating resolution when possible, can mean dollars saved for the organization. With the help of a neutral third party or a trained staff, disputed issues and solution options can be effectively identified and solved. Long term solutions benefit all. A confidential avenue of conflict management helps to reduce conflict and save people, business, and dollars. This live, one-hour webcast will introduce participants to the concepts critical to developing negotiation strategies for settling workplace disputes.

Participants will learn:

• What creates conflict in the workplace.
• What complicates conversations between employees.
• Why formal mentoring of employees may not be enough.
• How to make it easy and comfortable for employees to provide feedback.

Who Should Attend:

• Human Resource professionals responsible for staffing/recruitment, employee assistance personnel, and organizational development professionals.
• Business professionals responsible for fiscal and organizational decision-making related to hiring, developing, and retaining employees.

HR Recertification Credits:

This webcast has been approved for 1.00 recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (www.hrci.org).

Certificates of completion will be provided upon request only to individually registered attendees. Attendance for the full webcast hour is required to receive recertification credits (partial credits cannot be provided). Groups of people participating in the webcast together must be registered and attend the webcast individually to receive certificates. Certificates will be sent via email to registered attendees in PDF form within 30 days of validated attendance.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 require that employers report the cost of group health plan coverage to their employees annually on their W-2s. This webinar will ensure that you are ready for this new change and will provide an opportunity to discuss any questions or concerns.

It will include, but is not limited to, the following:

• Review the new Federal requirements and discuss your company's need to report this year's benefits on employee W-2s.
• Learn how to prepare employee data and properly set up rules in the Sage HRMS software in order to gather the correct information.
• Analyze which benefits costs are covered and which costs are not covered under the new law; including COBRA.
• Demonstrate how to track the values for qualifying benefits in HR and/or Payroll; including multiple options for compliance on W-2 employee totals.
• Demonstrate the correct procedures to follow at year-end and the reporting needed to ensure accuracy.
• Discuss the penalties for non-compliance.
• If using another software package for payroll, how to use Sage HRMS to assist with benefits costs.

Join Harold Ford, SPHR, Regional HRMS Manager with Dresser & Associates, as he navigates you through the benefits of Sage Employer Resources. Learn how to use this valuable asset to your advantage and increase your effectiveness on the job.

Sage Employer Resources is the award-winning online library that grants you access to thousands of pages of human resources and benefits-related content and tools to help your HR department run not only more successfully, but also strategically.

Sage Business Care - Sage HRMS software assurance and support plans maximize your investment by providing you with an impressive selection of practical benefits. In addition to providing information about Sage Employer Resources, Harold will review some of the other features of Sage's Support Plans, such as:

• Sage Source
• Priority access to a Sage HRMS dedicated support team
• Annual System Check
• Sage Knowledgebase 24/7 Access
• Quarterly Support Tips and Tricks live webcast
• Live chat
• And much more

Join us for this webinar on the Sage HRMS Employee Self Service (ESS) Module. ESS helps you automate your company's business processes and maximize your organization's ROEI. With ESS, HR empowers employees with ownership of their personal information so they can view and update certain fields without needing help with routine inquiries. Automated workflow and customizable features enable employees and supervisors to manage time-off requests, benefits changes, job details, and training history–anytime, anyplace over the Internet or company intranet.

As our workforce continues to change, it’s more important than ever to achieve work life balance to succeed both professionally and personally. Sage Source allows you to streamline business processes and offer employees access to valuable online business tools and benefits at no additional cost as part of your Sage Business Care. Requiring no implementation or IT administration, the intelligent, customizable online interface easily leverages existing Sage HRMS data and combines it with complimentary services from third-party solution providers.

Join this live webcast where you will get a comprehensive look into this powerful tool, discover how your data is connected between Sage HRMS and Sage Source, and you’ll learn about the incredible services and gadgets that will free up time, save money, and empower employees at every level of the organization.

Here are a few of the topics we will present during the webcast:

• What is Sage Source?
• Product Demo
• Why should I use Sage Source?
• What services are available?
• How is data connected to Sage Source?
• Who gets Sage Source?
• ESS and Sage Source
• Get started with Sage Source!

A procedure guide is invaluable to your organization due to the fact that all workplaces have unique processes and policies. In this webinar we will show you how to create procedure manuals to ensure that the correct set of rules are followed in your Sage HRMS products. This can also help with internal auditing, assigning responsibility for employee tasks, identifying exceptions, and making sure that the software is consistently and properly used.

Sage Abra OrgPlus helps HR Administrators to quickly see the current organizational structure to assist in day to day decision making. Our webinar will show you how to create organizational charts using your company's current data, as well as how to customize them to meet your specific needs. We will do a walkthrough of the process of creating Org Charts based on an Sage Abra HRMS database in real time to show you how easy it is to compile, export and create.

During the webinar we will show you:

• How to automatically create organizational charts and dynamically format your data for regular updates
• How to publish your charts and share them online with other users
• Show step by step how to export your date from Sage
• Explain how easy it is to customize charts with your own templates
• Question and Answers on how it can work in your organization

Discover how you can take control of your time and attendance data with Sage Time and Attendance by Insperity. Sage Time and Attendance offers web-based electronic time collection, automated calculations for work and leave time, Employee/Manager self-service, scheduling, time off requests and calendaring, electronic approvals, workflows, and much more!

Learn about our easy-to-use, personalized, web-based workspace designed to provide services and benefits exclusively to Sage customers and their employees.

Isn't onboarding just another term for new hire orientation? Successful, competitive businesses know that onboarding is much, much more. Effective onboarding is a culture that begins with recruitment and continues throughout employment. Onboarding is a toolbox for increasing return on investment in that expensive new talent while continuing to work with that employee throughout their life cycle with the company.

Many key provisions of health care reform, including the much publicized employer mandate, go into effect on January 1, 2014. After three years of planning for these rules, the time for implementing compliance programs is now. This webinar, presented by Kelly Benefit Strategies, will discuss the state of health care reform implementation, including the steps that employer plan sponsors need to be taking today to ensure they remain compliant.

There are over six million businesses in the U.S. trying to understand the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (PPACA). These employers are looking to their trusted advisors (benefit brokers and CPAs) and support services (payroll providers) for assistance in understanding what strategies to pursue in order to minimize health care reform's impact on them and their employees.

The recently announced delay in the employer mandate is not a reprieve but rather an opportunity to plan ahead. Employers and their trusted advisors should take this time and implement strategic changes that can minimize not only the financial impact of health care reform, but also the organizational impact caused by the changes themselves.

Key points of this webinar:

• We will take a deeper look at how proposals by both parties will shape the scope of ACA this year and beyond.
• You will gain a better understanding of the impact of the 2014 open enrollment and what you can expect in 2015
• You will learn how business owners need to prepare for what's to come in 2015

Presenter: Michael Gomes is the Senior Vice President of Government & Carrier Relations for BenefitMall. A veteran of the insurance industry, Gomes brings more than 25 years of experience and expertise in the area of government and regulatory affairs.

The adoption of social technologies in the workplace has been identified as a trend with the largest potential impact for improving employee engagement and productivity. However, to date companies have struggled to understand the universe of social technologies and how they integrate with traditional workforce management. This session will show how social technologies can be used by Human Resources to increase employee engagement, enhance business process and add strategic value to an organization.

From the offer letter, along the work-life continuum to platinum performer, building your business with employees who are building a career – is a winning combination. This free one hour webcast will introduce you to strategies for creating that winning combination, from the conservative to the outlandish. You can pick which works best for you.

We'll demonstrate how having clear career strategies for your employees goes hand in glove with having clear growth strategies for your business. Together, these strategies can build competitive business practices and promote advancement for all aspects of the business including employees.

If you are considering migrating your system from Abra Suite to Sage HRMS, you will want to attend this webinar. We will be covering topics including: system requirements, using the Upsize Wizard, migration of payroll data from Abra Suite to HRMS, and differences between Abra Suite and Sage HRMS payroll. Additionally, we will overview differences using Crystal with Sage HRMS.

This webinar is only for clients who have the Employee-Self-Service module. View Builder is a query tool to create dashboard-like reports and place them on Employee-Self-Service. The session will cover the following:

1. Roles for View Builder
2. Look at views that come with the system
3. Learn how to build a new view or edit an existing one using the steps of Format View, Select Fields, Group & Sort, Define Output, Set Filter
4. How to add the views to the ESS menu
5. IQY file – what is it?

BenefitMall offers outsourced payroll which includes standard features, such as employee payroll data viewing and maintenance, payroll processing, reporting tools, payroll services, and employee self-service. Find the best solution for your needs with the PC-based PayLoad or the web-based PayrollOnline. Both solutions integrate seamlessly with Sage HRMS.

With the pressure that comes with payroll data entry and calculations, the ever-changing tax laws, the complexities of state and local jurisdictions and quarterly and annual tax returns, more and more business are choosing to outsource their payroll. Attend this informational webinar to get an overview of all the features and learn how your business can start benefiting from using outsourced payroll!

Read more information on BenefitMall Outsourced Payroll

As most Sage HRMS users migrate to version 9.1 or SQL 2012, their HRMS solution consists of what is referred to as the "Sage HRMS Core".

What is included in the HRMS Core Bundle?

• Sage HRMS
• Attendance
• Toolkit
• Link

This is a very feature-rich offering and provides a lot of versatility in assisting you meet your workflow needs. (If you are not sure if you have the HRMS Core, call your Dresser & Associates Account Executive.

These free webinars will discuss ways to utilize the four modules that from the Sage HRMS Core.

In addition to current job and pay information, you can track:

• Salary and performance reviews
• Benefits administration
• Emergency contact information
• Employee education, training, and certifications
• Dependent information
• OSHA and OHS information, and workers compensation claims
• Attachments and Notes: Job descriptions, evaluation forms, 1-9 and license documentation

Time Off (formerly Attendance)

• Generate management reports and analyses to quickly detect problems with employees or within departments
• Manage an unlimited number of attendance plans including regular paid absences such as vacation, personal leave, and illness
• Maintain separate, date-sensitive accounting for each attendance plan for fiscal, calendar, and anniversary accrual years.
• Record absences such as jury duty, medical leave, bereavement, and other compensatory or leave time
• Track year-to-date hours available versus year-to-date hours taken
• Provide an instant, year-to-date snapshot of employee attendance that can help answer employees’ questions
• Track unpaid leaves and unexcused absences by employee, department, and day of the week
• Carry over unused time into the next accrual year and track the maximum carryover hours over the course of one year or a lifetime
• Track federal and State FMLA leaves with rolling twelve-month look back

Link

• Import ASCII files from other applications (human resources, applicant tracking, payroll, attendance, training, or any spreadsheet application) into your Sage HRMS databases.
• This data can be for new employees or additional data for employees already maintained by Sage HRMS, including skills, PTO transactions or custom screen data
• Import data from your ADP Payroll System directly into Sage HRMS databases
• Export information from your Sage Abra SQL HRMS databases to ASCII files, modify in Excel or other applications and re-import and automatically create history
• Export data from your Sage Abra SQL HRMS databases to ADP PC

Customization

• Design custom pages to hold specialized information Sage HRMS does not store elsewhere. For example, you might decide to maintain information regarding employee car assignments, credit cards, or security clearance.
• Set up custom code tables for use with your custom pages to speed, simplify, and validate data entry and to ensure consistency
• Develop your own selection criteria with the Criteria Builder for use with standard reports.
• Establish system security levels to determine which data entry personnel can view, access, or update human resource data
• Utilize user-defined fields (UDF) to store miscellaneous information Sage HRMS does not store elsewhere and report on UDFs using Secure Query
• Add Crystal reports to standard report menus, eliminating the need to have Crystal Reports installed on every work station
• Add icons for custom screen
• Rebuild screens with custom fields: Demographics, pay, job, and status
• Add or reorder tasks in workflows like Add New Hire or Termination

Learn how Sage HRMS can make HR more strategic and solve your HR and payroll challenges with integrated solutions including HR, payroll, benefits, training, recruiting, compliance, and talent management.

Sage HRMS offers a flexible design and modular features to meet the needs of small and midsized companies. Attend this webcast to learn how Sage HRMS can help you more efficiently manage your workforce:

• Simplify benefits administration
• Ensure compliance
• Accurately manage attendance plans
• Streamline the recruiting process
• Allow employees to access personal information and enroll in benefits

Learn how to maintain the integrity of your data with system maintenance, back-up, and security. The session objectives are to optimize, customize, and be prepared for any issue that may arise and threaten your Sage HRMS solution.

This webinar will address:

• How to keep your Sage HRMS data folder clean
• System maintenance
  • Optimizing and reforming databases
  • Re-indexing databases
  • Time frames for maintenance
• Archiving data
  • Archiving terminated employees
• Set-up and configuration
  • Modifying the navigation pane
  • Adding Crystal Reports to report menus
  • Removing unused items
• System backups
  • What, when, and how to perform backups
  • Internal and external backups
• Proactive Security
  • Keeping processes moving forward
  • Recovering data anytime and everywhere
• Data Encryption
• Live crisis: What to do when your payroll "goes down"
• Recommendations

Many employers are quickly realizing the benefits of offering their employees electronic payroll paycards, including convenience, cost-savings, security, and a higher retention rate. The Wright Express rapid! PayCard works the same as a direct deposit transaction so there is no software to install and no hardware to purchase. Find out how easy it is to enroll for the rapid! PayCard by attending this webinar.

• Why paycards?
  • Unbanked
  • Underbanked
• ePayroll benefits
  • Reduce corporate costs and improve efficiency
  • Improve corporate environmental responsibility
  • Provide a true benefit and reduce costs for employees forced to live in a cash environment
• Potential employer cost savings and productivity improvements
• What a successful paycard program includes

In this one-hour session, a Dresser & Associates' Sage certified consultant will guide you step by step in creating and maintaining employee benefit records.

This session provides extensive benefit administration examples, including:

• Creating a benefit plan
  • Creating a rate table
  • Creating payroll deductions and linking deductions to plans
  • Enrolling employees and dependents
• Adding and maintaining Employees
• Rate changes (ex: Renewal)
• Interactions with Sage HRMS payroll
• Enterprise level benefit settings

Whether you have recently completed an annual open enrollment, or are planning one now, you need to know the secret that will eliminate much of the pain during your next open enrollment and throughout the year… automating benefit enrollment reporting with electronic carrier connections through Sage HRMS Benefits Messenger!

Who should attend: HR executives, benefits managers and anyone with a vested interest in delivering your annual open enrollment successfully, reducing benefit costs and improving the employee experience.

In this Sage HRMS Benefits Messenger Webcast with demo, you will learn:

• The basics of electronic carrier enrollment reporting
• The value of using electronic carrier connections in your open enrollment process
• The five proven year-round benefits of using electronic carrier connections
• The key capabilities of Sage HRMS Benefits Messenger

In this webinar, our consultant will cover the following topics to better allow you to customize and utilize your Sage HRMS:

• Toolkit versus Advanced Toolkit
• Single and Multi-record Details
• Types of Details
• User-Defined Code Tables
• Create a Blank Detail
• Adding Fields
• Modifying the Detail
• Examples

Businesses are still reeling as a result of many of the changes from 2012, especially as they concern compensation and benefits administration. In this live, one-hour webcast, we'll discuss the conservative to the outlandish trends in compensation management while attempting to provide answers to your compensation questions as well as review the latest and the anticipated federal laws and regulations.

Join our consultant as he shows you how to prepare your Sage HRMS system for yearly Open Enrollment, as well as yearly qualifying Life Events. You will learn processes to help ensure a fast and safe Open Enrollment. This webinar will include information for Payroll and HR users, as well as the procedure for deploying it to your employees using the Employee Self Service module.

Many employers are quickly realizing the benefits of offering their employees electronic payroll paycards, including convenience, cost-savings, security, and a higher retention rate. The Sage Payroll PayCard works the same as a direct deposit transaction so there is no software to install and no hardware to purchase. Find out how easy it is to enroll in the Sage Payroll PayCard by attending this webcast.

Please note: The content of this webcast is relevant for businesses in the U.S. only.

Sage Abra Suite customers should join us to hear about the exciting new release of Sage Abra Suite v9.2 and why Sage Abra Suite customers should upgrade to this newest version today!

Design your Sage HRMS solution to look and feel how you work. Customize and optimize your Sage HRMS solution with the help of tips and tricks our certified Sage consultants have discovered.

Session Agenda:

• How to personalize your Sage HRMS desktop
  • Customize navigation pane
  • Add custom menus
  • Add custom detail icons
• How to make reports run faster
  • Restructure Crystal Reports
  • Archive old employees to shrink active records
  • Delete payroll records to speed up reports
• Analysis-Query-Reports: Using the best report for the best function
  • Secure Query - customer created
  • Standard reports - over 200 standard reports
  • Crystal Reports - over 150 reports ship with Sage HRMS
• How to add Crystal reports to your Sage HRMS Activity Center
• New toolkit tips
  • Customize new hire processes
  • Customize termination processes
  • Rearrange any menu
• ACA Compliance and Reporting

Business environments, business strategies, even business focus are changing as companies charge further into the 21st century. Whether you are considering changing your current software platform or are putting together your first RFP for an HRMS system, new procedures, compliance requirements and business strategies will affect your decision making when it comes to your paperless HR department.

What do you want to accomplish: create recruiting strategies to meet the demands of an aggressive recruiting plan; improve organizational communications; build a dynamic compliance strategy or integrate your employee performance evaluation program with technology?

Overcome your fear of change and build your knowledge for improving effectiveness and efficiency by attending this free one hour webcast on decision making strategies for finding, purchasing and implementing the HRMS system best suited to your business needs.

Join us to learn how Sage Wage and Tax eFiling by Aatrix can solve payroll reporting challenges, avoid fines, and increase your level of service to your employees even after they have left your organization. From monthly Pennsylvania reporting to year end W2s, Sage takes the pain out of tax and wage reporting with easy to understand forms that guide you towards completion and electronic filing.

Whether you wish to go paperless with your Federal and State W2s using Sage W2 eFiling service powered by Aatrix or have someone else handle the postage, envelope stuffing and more, Sage Abra Suite now delivers the tools necessary to eliminate your year end pain. Join us and learn about the simplicity of eFiling W2s for both Federal and State W2s.

Solving the generational and family needs gaps for benefits managers is no easy task, especially since benefits costs are one of the largest items in HR's budget. How a company manages getting the highest ROI for itself and its employees involves demographic knowledge, creativity and a willingness to sometimes take the road less travelled.

This free one hour webcast will take a look behind the scenes at research data, evaluating what's on the horizon in the benefits business and provide a guideline for evaluating and developing your benefits program. Additionally, we'll speak about Health Care Reform (PPACA) and how to evaluate its impact on your company.

Tune in to learn how to best use your benefit dollars to the benefit of your employee population and your company's bottom line.

During this informative webcast we will explain the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), what it means for you, and the solutions available from Sage to help you make the right decisions to ensure your compliance.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which is no doubt the most significant regulatory overhaul of the U.S. Healthcare System since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, will affect nearly all employers. This informative webcast led by a compliance expert will provide you with the knowledge and guidance you’ll need to be prepared for the changes you can expect in 2013 and 2014 and beyond.

This webinar will help you learn more about Health Care Reform, its impact on your business & employees, and how to best communicate it to your employees.

Employees are already starting to ask employers:

• What are the Marketplace plans going to be and how much will they cost?
• Is Marketplace coverage going to be better than what my employer is offering?
• Am I eligible for a subsidy? Can I go off my plan if I want Marketplace coverage?

The webinar will help you explain:

• The Health Insurance Marketplace to employees
• How your group health plans compare to the Marketplace
• How subsidies work and if your employees are eligible
• Penalties for 2014 and beyond

This webinar will provide information concerning the version enhancements and provide you the opportunity to ask a Dresser & Associates consultant questions.

Enhancements:

• Dynamic new Employee Find
• Additional fields for tracking employee information
• New Custom Detail Applications for menus
• Activity Center replaced with new Task and Process Menu
• Correction to many Standard Reports
• New Innovations in Time Off Set up
• New ESS Features

See how LightWork Talent Management software can help you develop a strategy for employee and company wide growth. In addition to managing the employee appraisal process, LightWork Talent Management allows you to set goals, keep employee journals, and visually track employee and organizational progress over time.

Senior Vice President of Government and Carrier Relations, Michael Gomes, will discuss the key issues of the ACA and how they will affect your business in 2015. More specifically, the webcast will cover the following topics: • A Recap of 2014 • The ACA's 5th Anniversary • The Top 2015 Issues to Watch • The Employer Mandate • Employer and Employee Reporting Requirements • ACA Subsidies and Taxes • The Relevancy of Employer Sponsored Coverage Attend and ensure your knowledgeable and ready to tackle your ACA obligations with confidence.

Learn more about your responsibilities as they relate to ACA compliance and find out how Sage can help. Track the information needed for 1094-C and 1095-C reporting and monitor your employees’ hours of service so you can make informed decisions about healthcare and the requirements of the ACA. Join this webcast to learn more about the newest version of My Workforce Analyzer. In this webcast you'll learn:

• Address 1094-C and 1095-C reporting for January, 2016.

• Handle ACA requirements if you are self-insured.

• Use the available Sage tools to meet your ACA demands.

• Create Online Dashboards of your workforce to view ACA related information, make decisions, and more. 

Join Brian Magargle, an employee benefits and ERISA attorney with Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP, for the most recent trends and developments under the Affordable Care Act.

We'll have a quick overview of the law itself and then discuss the employer penalty provisions, how to handle changes in status for employees, coverage reporting and documentation issues, the upcoming automatic enrollment and nondiscrimination rules, and more.

Brian will present an overview of these issues and take your questions.

A 60-minute webinar that will review how to build workflows with prefilled forms and electronic signatures.

Topics will include:

-  Full configuration of an onboarding workflow

-  Surveys and prefilled forms

-  Adobe® EchoSign® and PDF manipulation

-  Onboarding workflows through the employee's point of view

With the release of Sage HRMS 2016, you'll find new and improved features you, our customers, have requested in a modern HRMS.

Register for a live webcast to learn more about the highlights of this release, including:

• An improved interface providing easier navigation between Sage HRMS and Sage Employee Self Service (Sage ESS)*
• Single sign-on functionality so you can log on once with access to both Sage HRMS and Sage ESS
• The ability to log on to Sage ESS as a specific employee (controlled by security settings)
• Connected services to easily access solutions added on to your core HR program
• Enhanced photo importing capabilities and document storage in Sage HRMS
• Support for the provisions of the Affordable Care Act that allow you to generate ready-to-file forms 1094-C and 1095-C
from within your HR or payroll program

You won't want to miss it! Sage HRMS 2016 - New look, new functionality.

Have you outgrown the Excel file you currently use to track employee training? Need to manage tuition reimbursement? Have you been tasked with deploying training to your employees?

See how Cyber Train can help you track employee training better and more efficiently. With Cyber Train you can not only create job and organization based requirements, but can also accurately track training history and credentials for your employees. Cyber Train also allows you to build your own course catalog, deploy training (on-demand, web-based and classroom), test and survey employees and manage what needs to be taken along with the history of what was taken.

Automate your performance appraisal process while going paperless with Sage HRMS HR Actions® by Delphia Consulting. Managers and employees can collaborate to complete web-based performance review forms that are routed for approval based on your business rules. Attend this live webcast and learn how with section-based scoring, rich formatting, intelligent fields, and one-click updates to Sage HRMS, self-service has never been easier!

Sage HRMS HR Actions® by Delphia Consulting is a new solution that simplifies the performance appraisal process. Interactive web-based forms replace paper forms, are easy to use, and result in submitted forms that are complete, accurate, and secure. Automate the routing, approval, and notification process of employee actions.

Attend this webcast to learn how Sage HRMS HR Actions can help you more efficiently:

Accelerate HR and Payroll transactional processing throughout the employment lifecycle

• Eliminate paper forms, including performance appraisal forms.
• Updated forms are immediately available to the organization.
• Electronic routing and approval of forms speeds the service delivery process.

Eliminate data entry from paper forms into Sage HRMS

• Once approved, one-click updates to Sage HRMS eliminate data entry from paper forms.

Provide managers with timely and accurate information

• Provide managers with online access to direct and skip-level reports personnel files, including completed forms and attachments.

Reduce HR's dependence on IT support

• HR can define and build dynamic web-based forms and routing rules without any programming skills.

Enforce company policy while minimizing errors

• Forms are easy to complete, with fields that only display valid choices.
• Specify what fields must be completed for a form to move through the approval process.
• Forms are routed for approval based on business rules you define in a point-and-click environment.

Monitor and control forms throughout the entire routing process

• A real-time dashboard lets you see the status of every form being routed throughout the organization.
• Control the flow of a form--stop it, skip an approver, or push it through the approval process.

Integrated Talent Management bridges the gap between employee development and performance to enable substantial improvement in organizational capability. Attend this webcast and learn how Sage HRMS Talent Management by Cornerstone OnDemand can help you attract and retain the right talent.

Business success in any economy requires that organizations have the right workforce in place--right in terms of size, skills, location, motivation, and price. Given the complexity organizations face internally and externally, the right choices to achieve that success are no longer obvious, and targeted, integrated talent strategies are crucial.

Employers are in a period of unprecedented challenge when it comes to attracting and retaining the right talent--including rapid economic change, the aging workforce, budgetary constraints, skills shortages, generational adjustments, contingent workers, and technology advancements.

Join this live webcast and learn how to maximize the productivity of your workforce by making Integrated Talent Management a strategic solution in your organization. Integrated Talent Management bridges the gap between employee development and performance to enable substantial improvement in organizational capability.

During this presentation we will discuss:

• What is Talent Management and why is it important?
• Trends and challenges in Talent Management
• The benefit of Integrated Talent Management
• Client success stories and best practices surrounding talent management
• A demonstration of Sage HRMS Talent Management by Cornerstone OnDemand--the technology behind the solution

Sage HRMS Train is a powerful training management tool that enables you to meet all your employer’s training administration needs, from the simple to the sophisticated. This webinar provides a thorough overview to prepare you for tracking job training requirements to analyzing training costs.

Become familiar with managing courses, programs, certifications, and requirements for all employees in addition to:

• Overview of features
  • Create requirements
  • Track courses, certifications and programs
  • Document training content for quality compliance
  • Analyze training costs
  • Link to Sage HRMS skills detail
• Code table setup
  • Course type
  • Instructors
  • Training location
  • Priority
  • Class rating
  • Instructor rating
• Establish Training Requirements
  • By job code
  • By employee group (organization level, type, custom criteria, random, etc.)
  • Individually
• Managing classes
• Reporting
• Questions

Why are some companies thriving while others struggle to stay in business? What is the distinctive difference between a good company and a truly great company? The answers to these questions can only be found when looking at what defines the company: its people. In his live, one-hour webcast, we'll discuss new trends in the workforce that affect employee engagement and how good management skills, paired with an understanding of culture, cooperation, and communication can be the right prescription for fiscal success and future growth.

If reports are taking over 15 minutes to run and simple HR system tasks are slowing down it may be time to consider archiving your HRMS data. By attending this session you will learn which critical HR data you should keep handy for current reports and which information can be stored away for emergency use.

Session Agenda:

• What is archiving?
• Why should I archive?
• Is it easy and what are my options?
• "Don't delete, just make it neat!"

This session will teach you how to:

• Clean your systems of old files to run faster
• Control your archiving processes
• Optimize databases
• Create an archive server/database

Learn about Sage HRMS/Crystal Reports by taking part in the creation of a Crystal report online. Your instructor will demonstrate how to create a report from start to finish and attendees receive a copy of the report.

This session is geared to the novice who has never worked with Crystal Reports as well as those who would like to "re-visit" Crystal's capabilities. The session will cover:

• Database Structure
• Using Data Dictionaries
• Report Creation Steps including selecting records, object properties and adding summary information to the report
• Special Fields
• Using Crystal features such as Highlighting Expert
• Saving, Printing and Exporting the report

This is a Crystal capability you may not have thought of before. This free online session will enable you to learn more about Sage HRMS/Crystal Reports and how to create a letter using Crystal. A report/letter will be created from start to finish and all attendees will receive a copy of the completed letter.

This session is geared to anyone who has a basic understanding of Crystal Reports. The session will cover:

• Modifying the Design of the Report to format into a letter format
• Using the Record Selection Expert to pinpoint who should receive your letter
• How to Imbed a Field into your letter's Text
• Using Formulas in your Letter

Learn about Sage HRMS/Crystal Reports by taking part in the creation of an intermediate level Crystal Report online. Your instructor will demonstrate how to create a report from start to finish and attendees receive a copy of the report.

This session is geared to those who have worked a bit with Crystal Reports as well as those who would like to see "what else" Crystal can do for them. The session will cover:

• Creating a report with multiple databases
• The Power of Groupings
• Creating Formulas
• Using Parameters in your Reports
• Running Total Fields
• Conditionally Suppress Report Fields
• Suppress or Conditionally Suppress Report Sections

Learn more about the functions that are available in Crystal to use when creating formulas and reports. Formula creation will be demonstrated and all attendees will receive a list of Crystal Functions.

One of the keys to Employee Satisfaction is an understanding of the total compensation they receive from you. In this session we will explore how you can use your existing Sage HRMS modules to create effective and eye-catching Benefit Statements. Using Crystal Reports as our development tool, we will look at several examples of Benefits/Total Compensation Statements including:

• Personalizing statements using Sage HRMS data
• Effective use of graphs including pie, bar, and dashboards
• Importing descriptions and other text-based data into a benefit statement
• Use payroll data to show employer matches (and what if payroll is outsourced?)
• Using attendance to show the value of time taken and PTO accrued
• Include training reimbursements and other Train data
• Combining Sage HRMS and non-Sage HRMS data: Tips and Tricks
• Printing options

This introduction to Sage HRMS HR Actions® by Delphia Consulting demonstrates how employees, managers, and administrators can easily submit web-based forms for any HR transaction, including status change forms and performance appraisals. Join us to see how validated forms are routed for approval based upon your business rules and how approved forms update Sage HRMS with the click of a mouse. Web self-service has never been easier!

Sage HRMS HR Actions® is a new solution that simplifies the employee data change and performance appraisal processes. Interactive web-based forms replace paper forms, are easy to use, and result in submitted actions that are complete, accurate, and secure. Automate the routing, approval, and notification process of employee actions.

Attend this webcast to learn how Sage HRMS HR Actions can help you more efficiently:

Accelerate HR and payroll transactional processing throughout the employment lifecycle

• Eliminate paper forms, including performance review forms.
• Updated forms are immediately available to the organization.
• Electronic routing and approval of forms speeds the service delivery process.

Eliminate data entry from paper forms into Sage HRMS

• Once approved, one-click updates to Sage HRMS eliminate data entry from paper forms.

Provide managers with timely and accurate information

• Provide managers with online access to direct and skip-level reports personnel files, including completed forms and attachments.

Reduce HR's dependence on IT support

• HR can define and build dynamic web-based forms and routing rules without any programming skills.

Enforce company policy while minimizing errors

• Forms are easy to complete, with fields that only display valid choices.
• Specify what fields must be completed for a form to move through the approval process.
• Forms are routed for approval based on business rules you define in a point-and-click environment.

Monitor and control forms throughout the entire routing process

• A real-time dashboard lets you see the status of every form being routed throughout the organization.
• Control the flow of a form--stop it, skip an approver, or push it through the approval process.

Transform your organization by going paperless with Sage HRMS HR Actions® by Delphia Consulting. Managers and employees can complete web-based forms spanning the entire employee lifecycle that are routed electronically for approval based on your business rules. Attend this live webcast and see why with Sage HRMS HR Actions, self-service has never been easier!

Sage HRMS HR Actions® by Delphia Consulting is a new solution that transforms how you deliver HR and Payroll services by letting you create, route, and approve forms that span the entire employee lifecycle, including pay change requests, transfers, and performance appraisal! Interactive web-based forms replace paper forms, are easy to use, and result in submitted forms that are complete, accurate, and secure.

Attend this webcast to learn how Sage HRMS HR Actions can help you more efficiently:

• Accelerate HR and Payroll transactional processing throughout the employment lifecycle
  • Eliminate paper forms, including performance appraisal forms.
  • Updated forms are immediately available to the organization.
  • Electronic routing and approval of forms speeds the service delivery process.
• Eliminate data entry from paper forms into Sage HRMS
  • Once approved, one-click updates to Sage HRMS eliminate data entry from paper forms.
• Provide manager with timely and accurate information
  • Provide managers with online access to direct and skip-level reports personnel files, including completed forms and attachments.
• Reduce HR's dependence on IT support
  • HR can define and build dynamic web-based forms and routing rules without any programming skills.
• Enforce company policy while minimizing errors
  • Forms are easy to complete, with fields that only display valid choices.
  • Specify what fields must be completed for a form to move through the approval process.
  • Forms are routed for approval based on business rules you define in a point-and-click environment.
• Monitor and control forms throughout the entire routing process
  • A real-time dashboard lets you see the status of every form being routed throughout the organization.
  • Control the flow of a form--stop it, skip an approver, or push it through the approval process.

Paper and manual processes are a performance drag your organization can quickly address. Attend this webinar and see how ACOM's affordable quick-start document management bundles can provide the efficiency boost and cost savings you need to deliver to your organization.

• More productivity from fewer employees; in some functions over 400% more!
• Require less office space with fewer file cabinets
• Focus on strategy and less manual tasks
• More profit margin with fewer missed discounts
• Greater control with fewer unseen liabilities
• Increase time efficiency with fewer missing or lost documents with instant access
• Tighten security with fewer exposed documents and an audit trail

For Human Resources, it is of strategic importance to have effective management tools for maintaining compliance and employee morale all the while efficiently and effectively controlling costs. To dramatically improve performance in those areas, automation is the key. This live, one hour webcast will review the status quo in HR and provide a blueprint on how to prepare and defend a proposal for automating the administrative functions within HR.

Confused by the changes that are being made to your Alerts module or want to find out how this powerful tool can save you time and money? Attend this free, two part webinar series and join our consultant Mark Boutilier as he walks you through the benefits of this module that can detect critical HR business conditions and then trigger alerts via email, cell phone, pager, fax, dashboard, Instant Message, or Twitter.

Alerts may include relevant forms, documents, and reports, and workflow can update Sage HRMS (and other business systems) with the results. It can also monitor business conditions from other business applications (including the content of incoming email) so that you can offer customers a true, enterprise-wide alerts and workflow solution.

In the second part of this series, join Mark Boutilier has he shows you how to set up, edit, and monitor Alerts. He will dive into the details and provide guidance for you to set up alerts to fit your specific organization and business needs. The possibilities are truly endless!

In this webinar you will learn how to give your data a voice that will tell you about the potential problems and opportunities that your employees face. A voice that speaks for you when you're too busy with all of your other responsibilities and will paperlessly automate and streamline your HR and Payroll processes. The alerts are fully customizable and configurable to your unique business needs and will save you time, stress, and prevent costly mistakes.

Sage Alerts & Workflow will:

• Reduce On-Boarding Downtime
• Let's You Know What Hasn't Been Done
• Ensures Up-To-Date Training & Certifications
• Reports on Erroneous Employee Information
• And much more!

Learn about creating Crystal Reports from the SQL version of Sage HRMS online.

This session is geared to experienced Crystal users. The session will cover:

• Database Structure
• Report Creation Steps including selecting records, object properties and adding summary information to the report
• Special Fields
• Saving, Printing and Exporting the report

In this session, you will learn how to create a report to make file folder labels with the employee's name, employee ID and hire date using the Mailing Label Wizard. How to use the Report Wizard will also be covered. You will learn how to create a report and instantly turn it into a chart with a supporting data report as well as how to label the chart's axis and hide or show supporting data.

Expressions are an important component in utilizing the capabilities of Sage HRMS to its fullest. Expressions allow you to filter records for standard reports or queries, define items for mass updates, and fine tune security groups. This session will explain the utility of expressions in Sage HRMS, and will walk through a variety of expressions and compound expressions.

Save time and resources by using your secret assistant to do the work for you. We will show how you update employees with information via email, remind supervisors of upcoming reviews, and automate reporting across departments. Free up more time to concentrate on projects by automating your workflow with Sage Alerts and Workflow. Additionally, we will review the creation of queries, how to create the events, and the procedure for scheduling your unique Alerts.

Cross tab reports are used to create a report that has columns and rows similar to an Excel spreadsheet and exports nicely to Excel.

In this session, you will learn how to create the report choosing your database, fields to include in the columns and rows and summaries and how to export it to Excel.

Online Recruiting and Hiring Systems can help small and medium sized businesses run a more efficient hiring process, cut recruiting costs and ultimately help hire better qualified employees.

This webinar will provide you with the information and tools to help you with the process of purchasing an online recruiting platform - from setting goals, to comparing vendors, to preparing for implementation and future success. (All attendees will receive a Vendor Comparison Guide)

The right employee is critical to your success, but how can you find those candidates who stand apart and really make a difference?

Don’t let the best candidates slip away to competitors. This webinar shows you how to start improving your hiring and recruiting process so you can find top talent now and outpace the competition.  (All participants will receive the whitepaper “5 Tips For Hiring Rock Star Employees”)

Interviews are a crucial step in the hiring process, but are you really using them to your advantage?  Asking the right questions will ensure you have the information you need to make the best hiring decision but your interview questions must go beyond the standard questions most job candidates have learned to expect.

While typical interview questions like, “What are your career goals?” and “What are your biggest strengths and weaknesses?” are still important, this webinar will identify other questions you should ask to get valuable insight on your candidates.  (All participants will receive “100 Questions You Didn’t Think To Ask” for a list of thought-provoking questions to include in your next round of interviews.

Having trouble managing your recruiting effort? Still using paper, Outlook^®, and Excel^® without a full applicant tracking system? Come learn how you can update and automate your recruiting processes with the use of an integrated, highly configurable software solution.

Are you flooded with applications and resumes for your open positions? Need a reliable system to help you quickly sort out the resumes best suited for your needs?

Come see how you can automate your recruiting processes with Sage HRMS Cyber Recruiter^® by Visibility Software, an in-house or hosted, web-based, paperless, process-oriented, multi-role recruiting solution. Sage HRMS Cyber Recruiter can link to your company's career website and post openings along with gathering applicant information. The system will help you through all of the recruiting processes (creating requisitions, approvals, evaluating applicants, routing, interviewing, and offer letters). Sage HRMS Cyber Recruiter fully integrates with both Sage HRMS and Sage Employee Self-Service (Sage ESS).

In the course of this webcast we will give you the power to broaden your applicant base and increase efficiency with time-saving tools that let you:

• Create new job requisitions from scratch or use a customized template and automatically email them to the designated approvers.
• Cast a wider net online by automatically posting approved jobs to the intranet and your company's public career center.
• Ensure more qualified candidates with online application filtering and the ability to search your applicant database by specific position criteria.
• Automate and simplify the candidate interview process with built-in online workflows.
• Make recruiting easier, more efficient, and stay compliant.
• And more!

Take your company's online recruiting strategy to the next level!

Why are so many companies unknowingly hiring criminals?

Conducting background screenings can sometimes just scratch the surface of a potential employee's past. Hosted by expert background screening provider, Zaeplex, this webinar will demonstrate uncovering criminal history and keeping your organization free of risk.

This session will discuss:

• Classifying misdemeanors, felonies, and crimes at a nationwide and statewide level
• Frequently missing data from searches
  • Domestic disturbances
  • Sex offender data
  • Shoplifting
• Drug testing
• Motor vehicle record history
• Real case studies
• Helpful hints to stay compliant, fair, and balanced

Recruiting isn't just about putting a warm body in an opened requisition any more. Management expects recruiters to find the best talent, for the best price in an optimum time frame. Social media, software, even old fashioned cold calling has each their own advantages and disadvantages so which mode will work best for your company?

This free one hour webcast will explore the highs and lows of technology as a recruiting strategy side by side with new old-fashioned techniques. Whether you are in recruiting mode or seeking ideas for recruiting strategies, you will learn the benefits of a combination strategy for finding the best performers in the competitive recruiting business.

Hyrell is a cloud-based recruiting solution that lets you easily find, qualify, and hire the best applicants for your specific needs. Each open position is automatically posted to multiple Internet job boards and all applicant traffic is directed right into your branded system. Applicants are immediately scored, ranked and sorted — allowing you to focus on only the most qualified candidates.

This webinar will serve as an overview of the Hyrell Online Hiring System, its high level features and discuss how it can help improve your hiring processes.

Compliance--the very thought of implementing an HR "compliance system" typically strikes terror in the minds of HR managers and IT professionals alike. Attend this live webcast and learn what an HR best practice compliance system consists of, its benefits to your HR organization, and how to achieve it cost-effectively.

The amount of time and money required for an HR organization to adopt a system of "best practice" HR compliance rules can be considerable. And yet most--if not all--HR organizations will readily admit that the concept of compliance and operating by a set of best business practices within their HR departments can yield significant benefits.

Attend this live webcast and learn…

• Why an HR organization should strive to become compliant (and the resulting benefits).
• Why historical efforts at compliancy are so costly and resource intensive.
• How HR organizations can achieve compliancy in a cost-effective manner.

Familiarize yourself on the legal changes that have been going on with regard to unions, quickie elections, the stacking of the NLRB and other changing topics.

Be up-to-date with the ever-changing world of employment law. A comprehensive legal update including FMLA, ADA, Title VII and the NLRA.

This live webcast is designed to help HR professionals and organizational managers comply with the twists and turns of federal and state mandated leave programs including State Worker's Compensation programs, FMLA, USERRA, ADA, and ADAA. This program has been submitted to the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) for review.

Who's joking now? Harassment in the workplace is still a hot ticket item. Managers need to know what they can and cannot overlook.

Compliance, it's still considered by many human resource professionals as a dirty little word, and now SHRM identifies compliance as an HR discipline right up there with staffing, compensation, and employee relations. This live, one-hour webcast will provide an overview of critical compliance issues for 2013 and beyond. In addition, this webcast will evaluate options for helping to ensure participants can meet regulatory demands.

The federal agencies have stepped up enforcement and the EEOC has developed a strategic action plan with their priorities for the coming years. This initiative may change your practices concerning hiring, how and when you accommodate disabilities and your employee leave policies. This presentation will include the latest court decisions, regulations and also include a brief review of the latest on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obama care).

Today's human resources professionals need to be very careful to ensure their organizations remain compliant with the government. With workers demanding ever increasing wages, the increased use of technology in today's workforce, and Congress' conflict with the President over NLRB appointments it's a new Bermuda Triangle for the Human Resources department.

This free one hour webcast will explore the ramifications of the current actions by the NLRB and Congress and how employers can keep themselves compliant. Additionally, we'll review recent NLRB decisions regarding technology and will provide guidance on how best to build your policies, procedures, and handbooks in light of these changes.

We'll also review effective labor relations techniques for keeping the dialogue going between management and employees. Included will be some training tips for managers on what, when and how to communicate with their employees.

This webinar will provide practical new material designed to provide a one-stop guide for implementing the new regulations and related requirements. The webinar will include key "take-away" task lists for HR practitioners. Contractors will be given practical advice in how to comply with the new regulatory requirements. As the March 24 effective date for the new regulations quickly approaches it is critical that contractors are able to stay on top of the most recent information on the regulations that OFCCP is providing, including the latest on the government-mandated forms that must be used when asking individuals to identify whether they have disabilities.