Softworks is proud to announce their Time and Attendance/Flexitime and Workforce Scheduling Solutions

have been awarded Best Payroll Support Technology of the Year as part of the prestigious Pay Magazine Awards.

The annual event, hosted by Pay Magazine in association with Northgate HR Awards, celebrates individual, team and company achievements in the payroll industry. The event, in its 11 th year took place on the 14 th November 2005 at the Park Lane Hotel, London, and was attended by over 450 high profile guests from every top industry and payroll sector. The awards recognise high achievers in the payroll sector, as well as the best payroll support products and services. In total 25 industry leaders entered for the Best Payroll Support Technology of the Year Award from both the UK and Ireland.

Ken Gibson, Publisher of Pay Magazine comments:“Pay Magazine has always sought to raise the profile of the payroll profession, and the quality of the entries this year show that it is attracting and rewarding the best in business. All the winners demonstrated a high level of excellence in their field, and Pay Magazine and Northgate HR are proud to recognise their achievement.”

Andrew Ferguson, Softworks UK who accepted the award on behalf of the company said, “I am delighted that Softworks workforce optimisation solutions have won this prestigious award. Pay Magazine is a hugely respected and influential magazine and evidently has become one of the most important indictors of excellence in payroll business practice and software solutions. Competition in this year’s Payroll Support Technology category was extremely diverse and competitive so we are delighted to have won this award.”

Andrew added,”In spite of winning this prestigious award, I believe true testament to the strength of our solutions come from the business benefits our customers achieve on a day-to-day basis.

Our efforts in offering an integrated solution with all Payroll and HR systems pays testament to the continued growth in our extensive customer base. I would therefore like to thank all of our customers for their continued support, especially in our submission for these awards.”

The integration of Time and Attendance/Workforce Scheduling with Payroll and HR software is essential to a successful organisation. Softworks has standard interfaces for the following Payroll and HR systems; PS2000, ADP, SAGE, WISPAY, FRONTIER, GRAMPION, GRAMPION/OPENPAY, CMG, MOREPAY, UNIPAY, INTELLIGO, CERIDIAN, PAYPOINT, INFINIUM, NORTHGATE, CORE, PEGASUS, ICS COMPUTING, QUANTUM, SELIMA, SAP, ORACLE, PEOPLESOFT, SNOW DROP AND ASR, as well as all payroll bureau providers.

Softworks have integrated their solutions with a large variety of systems from bespoke applications used by organisations in-house through to commercial software. The most typical links are with Payroll and HR systems. In both cases, Softworks has flexible links available that are configurable to the vast majority of systems. Specialised cases can be accommodated with a tailored solution.

Softworks is the specialist in computerised Attendance Management systems. Through a policy of employing highly qualified and experienced staff has enabled us to produce the most feature rich and technologically advanced solutions available for the multi-user PC and web based environments.

Andrew Ferguson, Managing Director of Softworks, added , “I am absolutely thrilled Softworks have won Best Payroll Support Technology of the Year. It makes all our hard work and dedication to providing a best-of-breed solution that fulfils all customer requirements even more worthwhile. It also makes our business case that integrating our workforce optimisation solutions with payroll can improve processes, reduce errors and eliminate manual time sheet entries even more palpable. Lastly, we also owe a lot of thanks to our customers and business partners for their constant input and support,” concluded Andrew.

What our customers have to say… ADP recommended Softworks to Alienware as the best T&A system to streamline the payroll process as information could be easily integrated. “It was great to get a recommendation like this and we felt confident that ClockWise could meet all our requirements,”said Joe Treacy, EMEA Vice President of Alienware.

“By changing to Softworks it has allowed us to link Time & Attendance software to our Northgate payroll due to a full audit trail being included in the package.

It will also give us the option of linking to the HR database thus taking full advantage of employee real-time data such as telephone numbers for call out, addresses for employee mail shots and what skills an individual has obtained”says Nigel Statham-Lee of Abbey Corrugated, Bedfordshire.