Title: Workforce Central 6.0
1Workforce Central 6.0
- Southern California User Group
- October 19th, 2007
2Workforce Central 6 Headlines
- New User Interface
- New Dynamic Reporting
- Extended Multinational International
Capabilities for a Global Workforce - Intelligent Scheduling Enhancements
3User Interface
- Workforce Central 6-- The Easiest to Use
Workforce Central Ever
4Workforce Central 6 New User Interface
- Ease of use personalization
- Improved navigation operation (navigation
profile) - More screen real estate
- View personalization features
- Theming feature provides customizable look and
feel - Change color scheme, add your logo to better
blend with your corporate environment - New, yet very familiar layout to users
- Minimizes training requirements
- Intuitive layout increases ease-of-use
- Sleek user interface optimizes users time
5Interface Timecard
Where are we today?
6Interface Timecard
Where are we today?
7Interface Set up
8Interface Set up
9Workforce Central 6 Reporting
- Dynamic Reporting for Faster Access to Critical
Workforce Data
10Workforce Central 6 - Reporting
- The most robust Kronos reporting functionality
ever - Drilldown
- Reports are no longer just static documents! Are
now dynamic. - Drill down right from the report for faster,
focused data report access - no need to run a
separate report - Charting graphing support
- Integrated charting graphing support provides
additional context and representations of
critical comparison data - Data export
- Export data to Excel, PDF and other formats for
limitless ad hoc reporting - directly from report
view
114 Reporting Deployment Options
- Basic
- Microsoft Report Definition Language Client
(RDLC) out of the box - Replaced Crystal Reports runtime engine for
default reports - Advanced
- Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
- Legacy
- Crystal Reports Runtime Engine
- Allows your custom crystal reports to run without
issue in WFC 6 - Third Party Reporting Engine
- Business Objects, Cognos, etc.
- Allows clients to leverage third party reporting
engines - Delivered via Kronos Services Engagement
12Reporting Current World
No Export
No Drill Down
Limited Formatting
No Graphics!
13New World
Export
Drill Down
Charting Support
Great Formatting Flexibility
14Advanced World Direct Excel Optimized Output
Direct Excel Export
Modern Report Viewer
14
15Workforce Central 6 Global Multinational
Enhancements
- Designed by Global Experts for the Way You Do
Business Locally
16Global Multinational Enhancements
- Extended Language Support
- Unicode Chinese now directly supported
- Enhanced Regional Administration and Display
Options - Automatic formatting of numbers, dates, and
currencies based on locale - Phonetic Romanized Employee Name Genie Columns
- Regional Configuration Access Management
- Regional Holiday Support
- Regional Accruals Enhancements
- Lost Time and Bradford factor
17Unicode Chinese Language Support
18Workforce Central 6 Scheduling
- Most Compelling Kronos Workforce Scheduling
Solution Ever
19Significant Usability Enhancements
- Action Palate
- In the planner, the user can select an action and
apply it with one-click to any day and any
employee that is opened streamlining schedule
creation - Enhanced Schedule Assistant Call List
- Integrated priority based filtering
- Mouse-over info, Free text comments, Highlights
- Configured for the way managers want to schedule
- Schedule groups
- Allows the assignment of employees to groups in
the planner
Easier to use, allowing managers to spend less
time administrating schedules and more time on
other top priorities
20Workforce Central 6 - Scheduling
21One Click Scheduling for Healthcare and
Manufacturing
- Healthcare
- One click scheduling introduced to automate the
creation of the optimal schedule for healthcare
organizations - Certifications, compliance automatically
accounted - Manufacturing Unionized Workforces
- Automatically generates an optimal schedule for
complex unionized workforces - Seniority bumping rules, shift preferences
factored into allocation - Manufacturers and other companies with unionized
workforces can increase employee satisfaction and
reduce union grievances
- Managers spend less time administering schedules
and more time on higher value priorities - Better schedules result in happier employees that
are more productive and stay longer
22Workforce Central 6 Workforce TimekeeperAbsence
Management
- The Most Comprehensive Solution Available
23Timekeeping Accruals
- Time Stamp Restrictions
- Now restrict Timestamp entry to within a
scheduled start and/or stop time margin, via Java
or HTML client, and Quick Timestamp entry - Navigation Profile
- Can be set to default to reports instead of
genies - Delegate Authority
- Process Manager function now follows delegate
- Free Form Comments (Notes)
- Anyone with access to comments also has access to
notes - Day-Based Accruals Enhanced Support
- Day-based accruals information available in DD.dd
format everywhere seen in the system day-based
pay code edits will also be supported
- Greater flexibility and granularity of
timekeeping accruals data
24Absence Management
- Workforce Leave
- Entry of leave time from schedule or timecard
- Direct integration, streamlining use of the
application - Leave admin field
- Process Manager templates can be sent to Leave
admin - Unlimited user-defined data fields and validation
- Added flexibility and reduced implementation time
for integration - Document status audit trail
- Maintains an audit trail of document status
changes to adhere to compliance and security
requirements
25Absence Management
- Workforce Attendance
- Same day pattern
- Capture and flag special attendance incidents
such as calls in on a weekend day, or day after a
major holiday - Formula policy support
- Can calculate such things as attendance rates,
absenteeism rates, etc - Lost Time Bradford Factor
- Gain insight into productivity and profitability
from attendance absence rates - Better auto-generated document formatting
26One-Step Upgrade from Version 4.x or 5.x to 6.0
3.x
27Your New Upgrade Center
- What is the Upgrade Center?
- A new, online always available resource for
Kronos customers! - Created to provide answers to the questions you
may have regarding upgrading and links to get
more information to make upgrading easier than
ever. We can help you - Explore your upgrade options
- Capture return on investment data to justify an
upgrade - Get the training you need
- Quantify the time, resources, and costs to
upgrade - Perform the upgrade on schedule and in budget
- Where is the Upgrade Center?
- The Upgrade Center is located in the products
section of the Customer Portal (access via
customer.Kronos.com).
28The Upgrade Page