HRIS, Timecard, and Training Software

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You might want to check out PeopleTrak. We purchased it about 5 years ago and our HR Mgr. is pretty happy with it.
It does integrate with Vantage, but although we used it to upload employee data to begin with, we have kept it separate since the initial load.
It does various tracking and also has quite a few built in forms/reports that can be modified to your business.

Julie
Mercury Minnesota Inc.

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian W. Spolarich
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 1:50 PM
Subject: [Vantage] HRIS, Timecard, and Training Software


What are folks using to manage their employee HR-related data? We're
not using Vantage payroll, but we will soon start to use MES to track
hourly labor for direct employees. Our salaried folks do weekly or
monthly timecards (depending on the site) by hand, including reporting
project-related time. But we don't have a central HR database and we'd
like something that would help us manage training-related processes for
ISO certification.

Open4 does all of that and plugs into Vantage payroll (not useful to
us) but its expensive.

Are there better/cheaper options? Vantage integration isn't important
to me, but feature coverage, ease of use, and cost are.

-bws

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Brian W. Spolarich ~ Manager, Information Services ~ Advanced Photonix /
Picometrix

bspolarich@...
<mailto:bspolarich@...> ~ 734-864-5618 ~
www.advancedphotonix.com <http://www.advancedphotonix.com>

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What are folks using to manage their employee HR-related data? We're
not using Vantage payroll, but we will soon start to use MES to track
hourly labor for direct employees. Our salaried folks do weekly or
monthly timecards (depending on the site) by hand, including reporting
project-related time. But we don't have a central HR database and we'd
like something that would help us manage training-related processes for
ISO certification.



Open4 does all of that and plugs into Vantage payroll (not useful to
us) but its expensive.



Are there better/cheaper options? Vantage integration isn't important
to me, but feature coverage, ease of use, and cost are.



-bws



--

Brian W. Spolarich ~ Manager, Information Services ~ Advanced Photonix /
Picometrix

bspolarich@...
<mailto:bspolarich@...> ~ 734-864-5618 ~
www.advancedphotonix.com <http://www.advancedphotonix.com>





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I have been trying to find an inexpensive product just to use for vacation
tracking and request approval and have had no luck.

However, there is an OpenSource product I came accross called OrangeHRM that
is web based running on MySQL and Apache that may give you what you are
looking for, I liked it overall, but it was just too much for small set of
features we were looking for.

http://www.orangehrm.com/


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian W. Spolarich " <bspolarich@...>
To: <vantage@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:50 PM
Subject: [Vantage] HRIS, Timecard, and Training Software


> What are folks using to manage their employee HR-related data? We're
> not using Vantage payroll, but we will soon start to use MES to track
> hourly labor for direct employees. Our salaried folks do weekly or
> monthly timecards (depending on the site) by hand, including reporting
> project-related time. But we don't have a central HR database and we'd
> like something that would help us manage training-related processes for
> ISO certification.
>
>
>
> Open4 does all of that and plugs into Vantage payroll (not useful to
> us) but its expensive.
>
>
>
> Are there better/cheaper options? Vantage integration isn't important
> to me, but feature coverage, ease of use, and cost are.
>
>
>
> -bws
>
>
>
> --
>
> Brian W. Spolarich ~ Manager, Information Services ~ Advanced Photonix /
> Picometrix
>
> bspolarich@...
> <mailto:bspolarich@...> ~ 734-864-5618 ~
> www.advancedphotonix.com <http://www.advancedphotonix.com>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must
> have already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
> (1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
> Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
> (2) To search through old msg's goto:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
> (3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/linksYahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
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I just downloaded and installed OrangeHRM. I don't see much in the
way of a training tracking module which is why I started looking more
broadly.



--

Brian W. Spolarich ~ Manager, Information Services ~ Advanced Photonix /
Picometrix

bspolarich@... ~ 734-864-5618 ~
www.advancedphotonix.com



From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Ned
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:59 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] HRIS, Timecard, and Training Software



I have been trying to find an inexpensive product just to use for
vacation
tracking and request approval and have had no luck.

However, there is an OpenSource product I came accross called OrangeHRM
that
is web based running on MySQL and Apache that may give you what you are
looking for, I liked it overall, but it was just too much for small set
of
features we were looking for.

http://www.orangehrm.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian W. Spolarich " <bspolarich@...
<mailto:bspolarich%40advancedphotonix.com> >
To: <vantage@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> >
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:50 PM
Subject: [Vantage] HRIS, Timecard, and Training Software

> What are folks using to manage their employee HR-related data? We're
> not using Vantage payroll, but we will soon start to use MES to track
> hourly labor for direct employees. Our salaried folks do weekly or
> monthly timecards (depending on the site) by hand, including reporting
> project-related time. But we don't have a central HR database and we'd
> like something that would help us manage training-related processes
for
> ISO certification.
>
>
>
> Open4 does all of that and plugs into Vantage payroll (not useful to
> us) but its expensive.
>
>
>
> Are there better/cheaper options? Vantage integration isn't important
> to me, but feature coverage, ease of use, and cost are.
>
>
>
> -bws
>
>
>
> --
>
> Brian W. Spolarich ~ Manager, Information Services ~ Advanced Photonix
/
> Picometrix
>
> bspolarich@...
<mailto:bspolarich%40advancedphotonix.com>
> <mailto:bspolarich@...
<mailto:bspolarich%40advancedphotonix.com> > ~ 734-864-5618 ~
> www.advancedphotonix.com <http://www.advancedphotonix.com>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must
> have already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access.
)
> (1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder
and
> Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/>
> (2) To search through old msg's goto:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
> (3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/linksYahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>





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