Aligning HR and business strategy, outsourcing ROI based HR processes and successful human capital management, are amongst the key issues affecting HR and payroll professionals to emerge from last week’s Softworld HR & Payroll event, which took place from 3 - 4 March 2004 at the Grand Hall, Olympia, London.
2,081 HR and payroll professionals(1) attended the event last week to learn more about these hot topics, as identified by leading independent consultants and experts such as SAKS Consulting, PA Consulting, Towers Perrin, the Association of Online Recruiters and GEE Publishing who all hosted masterclass sessions during the event. The National Assembly for Wales and Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough Council also shared their experiences of implementing new systems, detailing the problems faced, and successes achieved.
Softworld HR & Payroll also featured an exhibition of around 75 leading suppliers of software solutions. On the showfloor, around half of exhibiting companies showcased new products and services, or made new announcements, these included:
CedAr announced the launch of CedAr Personnel, a new web-delivered integrated human resources and payroll system that interfaces seamlessly into CedAr eFinancials Version 3.2 and CedAr e5 Release 5.0.
Intellect unveiled the latest version of its Workforce HR and Personnel Management software, offering integrated fleet management, new functionality for easy departmental restructuring, and a set of new tools deisgned to streamine and automate letter production.
ISGUS International announced the launch of its new 3rd generation addition to the Zeus product family to complement the already successful Zeus Pro and Zeus Compact range of PC based time management systems.
Multitime Systems unveiled new research which revealed that employees will reciprocate positively once management takes recognition of their life challenges, through flexible working arrangements. In accordance with this, the company also showed its VisionTimeWeb, the interactive self-service time recording and HR records system.
Northgate Information Solutions announced at Softworld that it has signed contracts worth 2.3 million for ResourceLink, its fully integrated and web-enabled HR solution.
PeopleSoft UK Ltd demonstrated the real value of Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions in a series of free seminars, presented in conjunction with Cedar Consulting, a PeopleSoft partner. The company also announced new research which revealed that performance management in the UK is still concentrated at an individual level, despite industry claims that personal appraisals are driven by organisational objectives.
Upstairs in the BPPM event, AliceStreet launched its new product, the AliceStreet Conference Center, a unique new software product enabling true interpersonal communication and organisational cohesiveness within today’s distributed businesses.
This year’s event was co-located with the Softworld Accounting & Finance and Business Performance and Project Management (BPPM) events for the first time, and also took place in a new location (previously having run at East London’s ExCeL centre).
The next Softworld HR & Payroll event takes place from 20 - 21 October 2004 at the NEC, Birmingham, for more information please visit: www.softworld.co.uk/hrp. The online event, Softworld HR & Payroll Online runs throughout the year and can be viewed at:
Industry experts gather at Softworld to discuss key HR issues
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