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1Kronos Confidential
Workforce Central 6.0
Southern California User Group
October 19th, 2007
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Workforce Central 6 Headlines
1. New User Interface
2. New Dynamic Reporting
3. Extended Multinational & International Capabilities for a Global Workforce
4. Intelligent Scheduling Enhancements
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User Interface
Workforce Central 6-- The Easiest to Use Workforce Central Ever
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Workforce Central 6 – New User Interface
• Ease of use & personalization– Improved navigation & operation (navigation profile)
– More screen “real estate”
– View personalization features
• “Theming” feature provides customizable look and feel– Change color scheme, add your logo to better blend with your
corporate environment
• New, yet very “familiar” layout to users– Minimizes training requirements
• Intuitive layout increases ease-of-use
• Sleek user interface optimizes users’ time
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Where are we today?
Interface: Timecard
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Where are we today?
Interface: Timecard
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Interface – Set up
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Interface – Set up
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Workforce Central 6 Reporting
Dynamic Reporting for Faster Access to Critical Workforce Data
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Workforce Central 6 - Reporting
• The most robust Kronos reporting functionality ever:
– Drilldown
• Reports are no longer just static documents! Are now dynamic.
• Drill down right from the report for faster, focused data & report access - no need to run a separate report
– Charting & graphing support
• Integrated charting & graphing support provides additional context and representations of critical comparison data
– Data export
• Export data to Excel, PDF and other formats for limitless ad hoc reporting - directly from report view
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4 Reporting Deployment Options
• Basic– Microsoft Report Definition Language Client (RDLC) “out of the box”
– Replaced Crystal Reports runtime engine for default reports
• Advanced – Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
• Legacy– Crystal Reports Runtime Engine
– Allows your custom crystal reports to run without issue in WFC 6
• Third Party Reporting Engine – Business Objects, Cognos, etc.
– Allows clients to leverage third party reporting engines
– Delivered via Kronos Services Engagement
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Reporting: Current World
No Export
Limited Formattin
gNo Graphics!
No Drill Down
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New World
Export
Great Formatting Flexibility
Drill Down
Charting Support
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Advanced World – Direct Excel Optimized Output
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Direct Excel Export
Modern Report Viewer
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Workforce Central 6 Global & Multinational Enhancements
Designed by Global Experts for the Way You Do Business Locally
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Global & Multinational Enhancements
• Extended Language Support
– Unicode & Chinese now directly supported
• Enhanced Regional Administration and Display Options
– Automatic formatting of numbers, dates, and currencies based on locale
– Phonetic & Romanized Employee Name Genie Columns
• Regional Configuration Access Management
• Regional Holiday Support
• Regional Accruals Enhancements
– Lost Time and Bradford factor
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Unicode & Chinese Language Support
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Workforce Central 6 Scheduling
Most Compelling Kronos Workforce Scheduling Solution Ever
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Significant Usability Enhancements
• Action Palate– In the planner, the user can select an action and apply it with one-
click to any day and any employee that is opened – streamlining schedule creation
• Enhanced Schedule Assistant & Call List– Integrated priority based filtering
• Mouse-over info, Free text comments, Highlights– Configured for the way managers want to schedule
• Schedule groups– Allows the assignment of employees to groups in the planner
Easier to use, allowing managers to spend less time administrating schedules and more time on other top priorities
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Workforce Central 6 - Scheduling
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“One Click” Scheduling for Healthcare and Manufacturing
• Healthcare
– “One click scheduling” introduced to automate the creation of the optimal schedule for healthcare organizations
• Certifications, compliance automatically accounted
• Manufacturing & Unionized Workforces
– Automatically generates an optimal schedule for complex unionized workforces
• Seniority & bumping rules, shift preferences factored into allocation
– Manufacturers and other companies with unionized workforces can increase employee satisfaction and reduce union grievances
• Managers spend less time administering schedules and more time on higher value priorities
• Better schedules result in happier employees that are more productive and stay longer
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Workforce Central 6 Workforce TimekeeperAbsence Management
The Most Comprehensive Solution Available
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Timekeeping & Accruals
Time Stamp Restrictions – Now restrict Timestamp entry to within a scheduled start and/or stop time margin, via
Java or HTML client, and Quick Timestamp entry
• Navigation Profile– Can be set to default to ‘reports’ instead of genies
• Delegate Authority
– Process Manager function now follows delegate
• Free Form Comments (Notes)– Anyone with access to comments also has access to notes
• Day-Based Accruals Enhanced Support – Day-based accruals information available in DD.dd format everywhere seen in the
system; day-based pay code edits will also be supported
• Greater flexibility and granularity of timekeeping & accruals data
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Absence Management
•Workforce Leave– Entry of leave time from schedule or timecard
• Direct integration, streamlining use of the application
– Leave admin field
• Process Manager templates can be sent to Leave admin
– Unlimited user-defined data fields and validation
• Added flexibility and reduced implementation time for integration
– Document status audit trail
• Maintains an audit trail of “document status” changes to adhere to compliance and security requirements
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Absence Management
• Workforce Attendance :– Same day pattern
• Capture and flag special attendance incidents such as calls in on a weekend day, or day after a major holiday
– Formula policy support• Can calculate such things as attendance rates, absenteeism rates,
etc
– Lost Time & Bradford Factor• Gain insight into productivity and profitability from attendance &
absence rates
– Better auto-generated document formatting
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One-Step Upgrade from Version 4.x or 5.x to 6.0
3.x
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Your New “Upgrade Center”
• What is the Upgrade Center?– A new, online “always available” resource for Kronos customers!
– Created to provide answers to the questions you may have regarding upgrading and links to get more information to make upgrading easier than ever. We can help you:
• Explore your upgrade options
• Capture return on investment data to justify an upgrade
• Get the training you need
• Quantify the time, resources, and costs to upgrade
• Perform the upgrade on schedule and in budget
• Where is the Upgrade Center?– The Upgrade Center is located in the products section of the
Customer Portal (access via customer.Kronos.com).
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The Upgrade Page