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to create their own specific views. These, too, are available to other stakeholders in the business, like upper management, HR, or Compliance Officers (with necessary restrictions and/or anonymizations in place). Instead of a closed loop of a monthly cycle, the information is right there, in dashboards that are as broad-brush or granular as required. Automation can be as proactive as required too, merely flagging possible anomalies, or correcting them without supervision. Most ADP users want technology to do just the menial tasks: “It’s like, ‘How do we help you do your laundry and your dishes so that you can do the analysis?’ We help you ask: Do you have the right pay frameworks? Are you doing all the things to assess pay equality? Are you doing all the things that are value- add?” Judy said. The ‘Next Generation’ July 1st this year sees ADP release the next iteration of the Payroll platform, as yet unnamed at the time of writing. Without giving away too many details, it’s noteworthy that ADP Payroll is built in a modular framework based on the concept of mini apps. Therefore, you can expect a rapidly expanding
portfolio of more modules that build out functionality as users require.
“The back end is future-proofed, and its cloud-hosted basis allows us to be agile. From a Payroll practitioner’s place, there will be access to new features as and when they appear.” Once Payroll professionals escape much of the time-consuming intricacies of the traditional, locked-in pay cycle, the organization can begin to work towards core objectives with employee pay as another string to their strategic bow. Offerings like early pay release, small loans, savings schemes, charity funding, and employee pay mobile apps all become possible. This is the type of creative thinking that brings significant benefit to the business, something that simply isn’t possible if well-paid professionals must spend time navigating through manual calculations and multiple spreadsheets every month.
Author: Joe Green
Joe Green is a technology journalist at Tech Wire Asia, based in Bristol, UK. He has been in the tech industry since 2000 and covers topics including networking, open-source software, artificial intelligence, data security, fintech and cloud computing. Joe’s expertise also extends to analysing trends and innovations in HR technology and workforce management.
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