Human Resources: Law Firm Achieves Efficiencies withUltimate Software's Intersourcing

    WESTON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2007--Ultimate Software
(Nasdaq:ULTI), a leading provider of end-to-end strategic human
resources, payroll, and talent management solutions, announced today
that Steefel, Levitt & Weiss, a nationally recognized law firm with
offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles, is experiencing business
benefits as a result of Intersourcing's IT services, secure data
center, Web functionality, and reporting tools.

    In 2003, Steefel's human resources and payroll team realized that
they needed to dig out from underneath the piles of paperwork in their
offices. Using a service bureau for its payroll, the law firm's
employee management processes were primarily paper-based, including
PTO requests, address changes, and compensation changes, and the forms
could take days to route from employee to manager and finally to human
resources or payroll. Occasionally, some documents were temporarily
misplaced, creating confusion and delays. With such an abundance of
paper, ensuring data accuracy was difficult. Subsequently, the company
decided to find an integrated solution to handle its end-to-end HR,
talent management, and payroll needs.

    During the search, the project team realized that Steefel's IT
team was already committed to other projects, and a project of this
scope would take significant resources to implement, while human
resources and payroll were not prepared to handle the upkeep either.
Because Intersourcing includes UltiPro's functionality along with a
comprehensive set of IT services for hosting the solution, Steefel
selected Ultimate Software's Intersourcing in 2004.

    "The crux of our problem was that we needed to move away from
paper to electronic media, but we didn't have excess IT resources to
dedicate to the project," said Larry Davick, project manager, Steefel,
Levitt & Weiss. "Fortunately Ultimate Software's Intersourcing
addressed both issues."

    Steefel was also attracted to Intersourcing because Ultimate
Software houses Intersourcing customer information in a hardened data
center, fortified to handle disasters, power outages, or other
problems that could affect business continuity. Steefel did not have a
formal disaster recovery plan in place, so Intersourcing's secure
environment provided the organization with a level of confidence that
its employee data was safe and secure.

    "Two of our offices are located in high-rise buildings near
earthquake faults, so the possibility of a business interruption
caused by Mother Nature was worrisome to us before Intersourcing. The
added security and business continuity benefits of Intersourcing are
huge," said Davick. "As an added precaution, Ultimate Software sends
us weekly data backups on DVD that we could populate to another server
if we ever have the need."

    With the on-demand offering, Ultimate Software is responsible for
the bandwidth needed to operate the UltiPro portal, so Steefel gave
its employees access to their own data using the Internet to connect
with UltiPro's self-service features. Organizations that use
Intersourcing can easily give both managers and employees
security-protected rights to whatever company-related, staff or
personal information that the organization determines is appropriate.

    "When we introduced UltiPro's self-service, our employees had a
lot of questions; after the second pay period, however, the number of
questions trickled to a drip," said Davick. "Employees noticed errors
in their personnel records that had existed for a long time, but, with
UltiPro, those mistakes could be quickly corrected. With UltiPro's
self-service, our employees are taking ownership of their own personal
data to ensure accuracy. It's all happening without the expense or
hassles associated with paper."

    Steefel has also reduced its reliance on paper with Ultimate
Software's library of more than 600 standard and customizable reports.
Davick and the rest of the HR/payroll team can generate daily,
compliance, and business intelligence reports focused on a particular
office, individual, or the entire company.

    "As a result of UltiPro, many paper spreadsheets and word
processing documents we used to track information have become
irrelevant. Reporting capabilities that were not possible before are
now common. Headcount, EEO, and OSHA reports are built into UltiPro
and available quickly and electronically in real-time," said Davick.
"UltiPro was a very big win for the entire firm."

    "The big differences between UltiPro's software-as-a service
Intersourcing solution and a payroll service bureau are control and
complete access to employee-related functionality and unlimited
reporting. Executives and managers of businesses subscribing to
Intersourcing have direct online access to hundreds of reports that
pull real-time data from their database instantly, and administrators
can follow their own schedules for processing," said Greg Swick,
Ultimate Software's senior vice president of sales.

    About Ultimate Software

    A leading provider of end-to-end strategic human resources,
payroll, and talent management solutions, Ultimate Software markets
its award-winning UltiPro products as licensed software and as
on-demand services through Intersourcing. Employing approximately 650
professionals who are focused on developing the highest quality
products and services, Ultimate Software was identified as a Leader in
Forrester Research Inc.'s 2006 U.S. Midmarket HR solutions Wave
ranking. Ultimate Software was also named the 2005 Payroll Provider of
the Year by the Human Resources Outsourcing Association and ranked #3
on the 2006 Top 25 Best Medium-Sized Companies to Work for in America
list by the Great Place to Work Institute. Also in 2006, Ultimate
Software won two customer service awards, one from American Business
Awards as the Best Customer Service Organization and the other a
first-place SSPA STAR Award from Service & Support Professionals
Association. Ultimate Software customers represent diverse industries
and include such organizations as The Container Store, Elizabeth
Arden, The Florida Marlins Baseball Team, The New York Yankees
Baseball Team, Nintendo of America, Ruth's Chris Steak House, and
SkyWest Airlines. More information on Ultimate Software's products and
services can be found at www.ultimatesoftware.com.

    UltiPro and Intersourcing are registered trademarks of The
Ultimate Software Group, Inc. All other trademarks referenced are the
property of their respective owners.

Darlene Marcroft, 954-331-7444
darlene_marcroft[at]ultimatesoftware.com
Ultimate Software
For Sales Information: 800-432-1729
Web site: www.ultimatesoftware.com