Requisition Materials for Employees Before You Know Who They Are

I describe our products to people several times a week, and some of the unique things we do seem like such common sense that I’m amazed that anyone could consider them unique.  In this case it was our employee materials requisitioning system, SSR (which stands for “Staff Service Request”).  Assuming you’re wondering, our SSR system [...]

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Emerald Software is Finalist for 2 AeA Awards

Emerald Software of Alpharetta was selected as a finalst for 2 AeA Spirit of Endeavor awards.

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Case Study - Competency Management at Memorial Hospital Gulfport

A Case Study discussing how Emerald Software helped the largest inpatient healthcare facility in south Mississippi implement a comprehensive competency management system, prepare for Joint Commission compliance auditing, and lay the foundations for a completely paperless human resources department.

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Paperless Onboarding - State Tax Forms

Let’s rewind the clock back a few years and recall those ancient days of paper intensive processes. It’s the first day of work and your new employee has just been instructed to head over to the HR Department to complete forms, forms, and more forms. Suddenly, you have the Federal Tax Form, [...]

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Requisitioning the Right Way: Staff Service Request

During the past 10 years I’ve spent in Human Capital management, I’ve noticed that most companies do a less than satisfactory job of requisitioning items for a new hire by their first day of employment. Most of these same companies rely on manual processes to ensure that all of the requisitioned items are ready [...]

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Article - Employee Onboarding: An HR Technology Seeking a Definition

An article written by our company President, Chuck Ros, and Director of Professional Services, Jay Torrence. This article will answer all your questions about onboarding,why you might need it, and makes some specific recommendations about how to approach an onboarding implementation.

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Emerald Software Announces Outreach Program

Emerald Software of Alpharetta announces its Emerald Outreach program offering gift-in-kind technology for children's healthcare organizations.

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Case Study - Onboarding at a large REIT

A Case Study discussing the success of a large Chicago REIT implementing the AllegroHR solution.

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Article - CEO to CEO: Why You Need An Onboarding System

In this article written by our company President, Chuck Ros, CEOs will learn the business values of onboarding systems, why and when they should be implemented, and get specific recommendations on approaching a new employee onboarding system.

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Early Bird Registration Ends Soon for Global Partnering & Integration Summit!

The Global Partnering and Integration Summit's early bird registration ends July 31, so Register Today to save up to $150. The Summit is being held at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Chicago on October 13-14, 2008. The HR Technology ® Conference is located in Chicago immediately following HR-XML’s Global Partnering & Integration Summit. The two complementary [...]

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Article - Using Microsoft SharePoint for Acculturation Onboarding

An article written by our company Vice President of Product Management, Jeff Hayden. This article explores how Microsoft's popular SharePoint portal server (both SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) can be used to implement a complete onboarding portal that achieves acculturation and socialization goals.

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Acculturation Onboarding: Immerse (part 3 of 3)

The end of year has turned out to be surprisingly busy for us (despite the doom and gloom of the media and all the talk about the “Great Recession”), so my apologies first for this blog–the 3rd in my 3 part series on acculturation–taking so long.   Since part 2 I’ve been to Europe to visit [...]

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Follow-Up:Streamlining Testing, Trading Partner Integration, and Certification

For those that missed our most recent Webinar, you can find a recording embedded below. Some of the video qualityisn’t great, but the sound is quite clear. As the Webinar explains, HR-XML's forthcoming Version 3.0 release is informed by almost 10 years of industry contributions and is architecturally more consistent and robust than ever before. [...]

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Emerald Software Announces Promotions

Emerald Software of Alpharetta, announces today the promotion of two Vice Presidents

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Case Study - Onboarding at RPM Dominos Pizza

A Case Study discussing how Emerald Software helped the largest franchisee of Dominos Pizza eliminate errors and incomplete new hire forms by automating their Onboarding.

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Case Study - Onboarding at Noodles & Company Restaurant Chain

A Case Study discussing the success of implementing our automated Onboarding system at a fast growing multi-unit restaurant chain.

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Top 10 Reasons for Onboarding

Recently, I started watching a 1987 Classic NBA game between the Atlanta Hawks and Boston Celtics. Being  the  long time Georgia native that I am, it dawned on me that some things never change.   The Hawks lost in 1987 and 21 years later, they are still losing to the Celtics!   I wonder how many of you that [...]

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Article - Managing Workforce Change with Personnel Action Notices (PAN) and BPM

An article written by our company President, Chuck Ros, that describes how to implement workforce and personnel change management using Emerald Software's PAN (Personnel Action Notices) application.

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Acculturation Onboarding: Engage (part 2 of 3)

In "New Employee Acculturation: Measure, Engage, Immerse" (link to article on hr.com),  Jay Torrence and I establish the 3 aspects of an acculturation onboarding system: measure, engage, and immerse.   In this 2nd of 3 blogs I’m going to dive more into the “engage” aspect of acculturation.   Forgive me a moment of complete geekness as I admit [...]

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A New Philosophy on Doing Business

Armed with information from my friends at Forrester Research,  I’ve spent much of this year  researching marketing and sales processes and, as a result, revising our own processes at Emerald Software.   Much of what I learned and applied came from the book, “Groundswell” by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff.   The subtitle summarizes  the book  well: “Winning in a world [...]

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