SaaS.com's Workforce Management Solutions Aid in Economic Crisis
Recovery
BRANCHBURG, N.J. – January 6, 2009 – WebApps, Inc. a.k.a. SaaS.com
(www.SaaS.com), a leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) with a
major push in workforce management solutions, intends to provide its
solutions as an aid to organizations struggling to overcome the economic
climate throughout 2009. In a recent Forrester study entitled, "Trends 2009:
Human Resource Management (HRM)," Paul D. Hamerman and Zach Thomas
report that organizations are attempting to cope with or recover from the
current economic climate by focusing heavily on implementing HRM
technology solutions as an alternative to laying off employees. One
organization offering an option is SaaS.com, whose workforce management
solutions help streamline operations and increase productivity, ultimately
reducing internal costs and boosting revenue.
Hamerman and Thomas recognize, "It's no surprise that personnel-related
costs are in the crosshairs of any cost-cutting program, since these costs
represent more than 35% of annual operating expenses," however the two
suggest being weary off hidden associated costs. "These measures dampen
employee morale, slow new product rollouts, hasten departures of higher-
performing talent, and potentially reduce customer service levels," Hamerman
and Thomas explain.
For those reasons, rather than eliminating a percentage of its workforce,
organizations can implement solutions to manage them more efficiently. The
American Payroll Association (APA) reports that the average weekly "theft" of
time (i.e. long lunches and breaks, early departures, tardiness, etc.) is four
hours and five minutes per employee per pay period. Research also indicates
that the error range associated with manual time card entry and computation
typically lies between one and eight percent of gross annual payroll (GAP).
SaaS.com's solutions enable employers to eliminate "time theft" with a time
and attendance module that automates the time collection process, and
allows for accurate tracking of attendance behavior and productivity,
resulting in better visibility over employee hours. The technology effectively
allows managers and employees to focus on revenue generating activities, as
opposed to tedious, administrative tasks.
Additional advantages of SaaS.com's solutions are a pay-as-you-go model
and the ability to reduce IT spending. In another article entitled, "Software
For The Recession," Doug Harr writes, "During a downturn, being locked in is a
heavy load to bear, especially in terms of your IT budget and your company's
overall fiscal health." Harr praises a SaaS-based application as opposed to
an on-premise because there is no longer a requirement to be
financially "locked in" with a pay-as-you-go basis.
Being that SaaS.com provides maintenance and conducts frequent updates or
enhancements to its solutions, organizations are not required to increase IT
spending for implementation or software management. Favoring SaaS over on-
premise solutions, Harr continued, "This would mean that in the long term, our
IT budget would be in much better shape to ride out the never-ending ups
and downs of the economy."
About SaaS.com
Formed in 2001, SaaS.com helps companies deliver both internal and
consumer-facing applications as a service that are more intuitive, easier to
deploy, and offer lower total cost of ownership. Two distinct business lines
include a pre-existing set of Human Resource centric applications that are
offered under a private-label model and a pure multi-application, multi-tenant
delivery platform that can be coupled with industry-specific business logic
and proprietary data to be delivered as a complete SaaS solution - -
www.SaaS.com.
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