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January 21st, 2015

3 Things You Need to Know About an Integration vs Interface

When searching for a software solution, you have probably come across the words “integration” and “interface”. You might be asking yourself, “What do they mean? Are they interchangeable?” Both terms describe how a software solution will share data with other software. There are big differences between the two and that distinction introduces different risks and…

January 8th, 2015

How Different is the Employee Contractor Relationship in Canada vs. the US?

The biggest reason to define the difference between employee and a contractor is for tax purposes, to ensure contributions and income withholding comply with employment standards. The definition of employee or contractor can make a big difference tax-wise so it’s important to not only know the differences, but classify the relationship correctly. It can get…

October 8th, 2014

What is workforce management?

In business, there always seems to be those words that everyone uses but nobody explains, from buzzwords like “synergy” to concepts like “the cloud”. Workforce management is a little like this – because there are so many types of workplaces, this term is used in a variety of ways. If you do a quick search…

September 15th, 2014

Where are you allocating the company’s people costs? Use dimensions to find out

What is a dimension? To help understand what a dimension is, it is good to first have an understanding of analytical cubes. An analytical cube is multidimensional database optimized for online analytical processing (OLAP) that provides advanced business analytics. Instead of storing information in a relational database where information is stored in flat, two-dimensional tables…

September 3rd, 2014

Making Payroll Calculations Faster and Reporting Easier with Accumulators

It’s almost time for payroll. That means it’s time to calculate all the pre-tax deductions, new leave entitlements, and allowance earnings for each employee. Have any annual maximums been reached for contributions? Going back to find all the records, then calculating totals for each deduction and employee means you could be working late today. Luckily,…

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April 1st, 2016

This year, Microsoft is changing it up with the introduction of Envision, a new conference tailored for business leaders in operations, finance, sales, marketing and IT. Envision will replace Convergence as the go-to conference for business leaders and will provide emphasis on 8 industries: Manufacturing and resources Retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) Financial services…

January 14th, 2016

Compensation can be challenging and time-consuming to administer. There are so many different ways to calculate a person’s compensation whether it’s fixed, variable, a mix of both, involves pay grids, salary bands, or involves stock options. That’s still before taxes, benefits, deductions, allowances and overtime are applied. There is so much that goes into coming…

December 3rd, 2015

Using position management to manage your workforce is not just for organizations with employees working multiple positions, but can be applicable and beneficial to any organization. Position management is a type of relationship between positions, jobs, employees and the organizational structure. A position is seen as an empty chair that inherits and maintains job information…