CASE STUDIES and VIDEO INTERVIEWS

Company: Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group
Industry: Hospitality

Summary: Since 1998, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group has been a client of Ascentis Payroll. Ascentis has helped them eliminate time-consuming manual processes and any potential errors in their payroll system. The Ascentis implementation team made the process easy and no deadlines slipped. Mandarin has found Ascentis customer support to be exceptional and always "goes the extra mile" to make sure any issues are taken care of immediately.  

Company: Francis Ford Coppola Presents
Industry: Food and Beverage

Summary: Francis Ford Copploa Presents saves substantial time on 401(k) correspondence using the Ascentis Employee Correspondence Wizard. FFCP also enjoys the intuitive ease-of-use Ascentis interface, and discusses the easy implementation of their HR and payroll system. As a result of using Ascentis solutions, they are much more productive as a department. The ability to customize reports on the fly is one functionality that is credited with productivity increases.

Company: CALIBRE - PDF Case Study

Industry: Technology
Summary: CALIBRE synchronizes Ascentis HR with ADP PC Payroll for Windows which has reduced payroll errors by more than 90%. Because Ascentis HR is so easy to use, company-wide adoption of Ascentis HR Employee Self-Service has been a great success. Ascentis HR has also lowered overhead costs.

Company: Bare Escentuals
Industry: Retail
Summary: Bare Escentuals® has been a client of Ascentis Payroll since 2008. Bare Escentuals enjoys unparalleled service and help from Ascentis, especially around tax issues. Bare Escentuals uses PeopleSoft® for their HRIS, and multiple 3rd party time-keeping systems. Ascentis Payroll imports data from all these systems into payroll, and processes the information accurately.

Company: Sutter Home Winery
Industry: Food & Beverage
Summary: With Ascentis Payroll, Sutter Home Winery processes payroll for 660 employees in less than 24 hours with 100% accuracy.

Company: Morrison & Foerster.
Industry: Legal
Summary: Legal services firm Morrison & Foerster has been using Ascentis Payroll since 1985, and implemented Ascentis Employee Self-Service in 2007. The firm enjoys superior service, product ease-of-use and powerful customization functionality by designing unique solutions with the Ascentis development team.

Company: Ghirardelli
Industry: Manufacturing / Retail
Summary: Ascentis Payroll provides world-class, responsive customer service to Ghirardelli Chocolate Company. The implementation of employee self-service has increased employee satisfaction and empowered employees to manage their payroll information.

Company: Area Agency on Aging
Industry: Non-profit
Summary: Ohio non-profit uses Ascentis HR to reduce waste and increase efficiency. Ascentis solutions virtually eliminate paper-based enrollment processes that create cumbersome forms and allow errors to be inadvertently introduced into the process. With employee self-service, employee satisfaction is increased, while Carrier Connect electronically transfers benefits selections accurately and securely to insurance carriers. The Agency integrates Ascentis HR with Microsoft Dynamics SL, their accounting system.

Company: Cancun Resort
Industry: Hospitality
Summary: Cancun Resort relies on Ascentis HR to grow with the company and enjoys the easy-to-use functionality and customization features.

Company: Community of Christ
Industry: Social Services
Summary: With Ascentis HR, Community of Christ can connect worldwide employees with Employee Self-Service. Open enrollment is now automated, which has allowed the HR department to reduce headcount and allocate the non-profit budget to other departments to further their mission.

Company: JULIE
Industry: Non-profit
Summary: JULIE was using paper-based files and multiple databases to retrieve basic HR information. A manual open enrollment process was inefficient and very time and resource consuming. Ascentis Hosted HR put data at their fingertips and completely streamlined their leave management and COBRA processes. JULIE also customized their system to track company assets, such as computers. By automating HR processes, the HR manager has time for more strategic initiatives.

Company: Mona Electric Group, Inc.
Industry: Utilities
Summary: Mona Electric combines data from multiple databases (Excel, Access, etc.) to integrate HR and payroll management, and uses Applicant Manager extensively. The company uses Microsoft® Dynamics™ SL (formerly Solomon).

Company: Sunshine Terrace Foundation
Industry: Healthcare
Summary: The Foundation's original "homegrown" system to automate HR tasks cost the company exceeding amounts of time and money. Ascentis HR now saves Sunshine Terrace $100,000 per year in labor-intensive HR database management. Ease of reporting and regulatory requirements were also an important factor.