WESTON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ultimate Software (Nasdaq:ULTI), a leading provider of end-to-end strategic human resources, payroll, and talent management solutions, today announced that many large healthcare organizations—including the University of Louisville Hospital with approximately 2,800 employees, Excela Health with approximately 5,000 employees, and Northside Hospital with 7,500 employees—are experiencing organization-wide benefits, such as time savings, improvements in internal efficiencies, and enhanced reporting, as a result of using the UltiPro human capital management (HCM) solution.
Healthcare organizations must typically contend with complex compensation and staffing demands, intense reporting and compliance requirements, and the constant battle to control administrative costs because they devote a large portion of their budgets to manpower-related expenses.
Employing UltiPro for human capital management is particularly effective in combating these challenges by helping healthcare organizations:
The University of Louisville Hospital has enjoyed substantially increased efficiencies and time savings since deploying UltiPro in 2001. “UltiPro’s Web tools have helped us significantly streamline tactical work. For instance, with UltiPro’s benefits enrollment feature, we have eliminated two weeks of data entry. This gives us time to devote to more strategic projects, such as recruiting and retaining the best people,” said Jamie Long, benefits manager at University of Louisville Hospital. “With UltiPro, we can take advantage of strategic benefits without needing IT staff to support the solution because we opted for UltiPro as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). SaaS allows our IT team to focus on other mission-critical technology projects, which is very important to healthcare organizations like us.”
Excela Health, with three hospitals in different locations and 5,000 employees, has seen hospital-wide benefits from the improved communications and Web self-service that UltiPro delivers to every level of the organization. “After a smooth and efficient implementation, UltiPro has helped unify our dispersed workforce and diverse HR processes with self-service for managers and employees, benefits enrollment tools, and recruiting functionality,” said Rebecca Colucci, senior HRIS analyst at Excela Health. “The system is so user-friendly that even employees who are unaccustomed to computers are comfortable with it.”
Northside Hospital, an UltiPro customer since 2007, has found both UltiPro, and its reporting tools in particular, intuitive and easy to use. The company had been using an accounting system for healthcare organizations for its payroll. However, this system didn’t provide the integrated HCM metrics that the Atlanta-based hospital needed to stay on top of workforce trends.
“Because UltiPro unifies our human resource, payroll, and recruitment information, reporting is more accurate,” said Alan Fountain, HRIS compensation/HRIS manager for Northside Hospital. “With our previous solution, it was hard extracting data because we had to know SQL to create reports. UltiPro is much easier to use than the other solutions I’ve used—especially the reporting.”
“Healthcare organizations devote a tremendous amount of resources to human capital management. It is especially critical in today’s environment to consolidate workforce data, streamline as many processes as possible, and maintain or reduce administrative HR costs,” said Greg Swick, chief sales officer for Ultimate Software. “With UltiPro, these organizations get a unified solution that meets all HR needs, providing the flexibility to change and update information easily as strategies evolve. The result is that healthcare companies can be better equipped to stay competitive during challenging times.”
About Ultimate Software
A leading provider of end-to-end strategic human resources, payroll, and talent management solutions, Ultimate markets its award-winning UltiPro products as on-demand services through software-as-a-service (SaaS) and as on-premise software. Based in Weston, FL, the Company employs more than 900 professionals who are focused on developing the highest quality products and services. In 2008, Ultimate was the first HR/payroll SaaS provider to be audited and awarded the ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Certification for security management, was named the #1 “Best Product Development Team” in the nation by the American Business Awards, and was ranked the #1 best medium-size company to work for in America by the Great Place to Work® Institute. Ultimate has more than 1,700 customers representing diverse industries, including such organizations as The Container Store, Elizabeth Arden, Major League Baseball, The New York Yankees Baseball Team, Nintendo of America, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, and Sony Music Entertainment. More information on Ultimate’s products and services can be found at www.ultimatesoftware.com.
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